Over the last four days the people of Iran has protested against the election fraud in which the Reform candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi claimed that fraud was involved. In which the Iranian government says that the imbuement Mahmond Ahamdinejad won the election.
Now over seventy percent of Iran is under 30 years old. The young person of Iran represents the need for change, rights for people, to be a part of the world and to have a true democracy. In short they are pro-western. However you still have an Iran in which run by the religious establishment by the clerics since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. In which the people kicked out the Shah of Iran, took the over the American Embassy in Tehran and put in place the Ayatollah Khomeini as its new leader. This is a clash of two cultures.
In these elections you have the reform candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi, who wants to put Iran with a new relationship with the America and the Western world. Which is a new Iran that can help with the new global issues such as the stop of nuclear weapons, poverty, the environment, the end of genocides and world peace. Giving Iran a chance on having a democracy. However with the government of Mahmond Ahamdinejad it would be much of the same. An Iran in which can’t help the world combating these issues.
The students of Iran are using new social websites such as Twitter and Facebook to tell what’s going on in Iran. Plus the blogs are now playing a role in this new media. In which computers are now the new source of news. Due to the crackdown in media in Iran no Western journalist can’t report from Iran about the election as of Sunday; that includes Richard Engel the NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent and CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
What does that means for us in America? Well we all are witnesses in the rise of the young people in Iran. This is a nation that’s wants to turn the page on its relationship with the West and to bring democracy back to Iran. President Obama is handling the election crisis in Iran very well. The last that that America wants to do is side with one candidate. In which you will give the hard-liners in Iran a legal reason to crackdown on these protest. Also is would just fan the flames of Anti-American point of view. So I say let the Iranian people pick their own fate or self-determination if you well. The last time we interfere the CIA overthrow Mohammad Mosaddeq who was democratically elected in Iran and we place the Shah of Iran in 1953. In which in 1979 would cause the Iranian Revolution. We should remain in the sidelines until we hear the results of the election. That is the best thing and correct thing for America, the West and the world at large.
