I'm ashamed and embarrassed to be the same species as Bolton, Lieberman and Giuliani.

Quoting Henry Miller from "Air-Conditioned Nightmare", "America, you'll be the death of the world".
Tony Vodvarka

Thanks a million, Glenn Greenwald, for exposing the sheer hypocrisy of the Iran-bombing set who now voices its alleged concern for the Iranians! These people are unspeakable monstrosities.

Thank you, also, for the opening sentence of your article, which exposes an even larger set of prejudiced and prejudicial individuals:

"I'm going to leave the debate about whether Iran's election was "stolen" and the domestic implications within Iran to people who actually know what they're talking about (which is a very small subset of the class purporting to possess such knowledge)."

Podhoretz should assuredly be included in the species known as Pond Scum.

sy hersh reported last year that special ops had been sent into iran with fistfulls of cash and weapons

they were giving it to any lunatic who they thought might raise an inserrection within iran

this is an international war crime - hey but in the torturing uited states - who cares

one wonders how many of todays's protesters are in fact on the cia payroll

this is a replay of the 1953 coup against another democraticlly elected iranian government - that of mohammed mosedeq

from wiki:

"The 1953 Iranian coup d’état deposed the democratically-elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq.[1][2][3]

"The prime minister and his nationalist supporters in parliament roused Britain's ire when they nationalised the oil industry in 1951, which had previously been exclusively controlled by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Mossadegh argued that Iran should begin profiting from its vast oil reserves," Dan De Luce wrote in The Guardian.

"Britain accused (Mosaddeq) of violating the company's legal rights and orchestrated a worldwide boycott of Iran's oil that plunged the country into financial crisis. The British government tried to enlist the Americans in planning a coup, an idea originally rebuffed by President Truman. But when Dwight Eisenhower took over the White House, cold war ideologues - determined to prevent the possibility of a Soviet takeover - ordered the CIA to embark on its first covert operation against a foreign government." [4]

The coup was organized by the United States' CIA and the United Kingdom's MI6, two spy agencies that aided royalists and mutinous Iranian army officers.[5]

CIA officer Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. carried out the operation planned by CIA agent Donald Wilber.[6] One version of the CIA history, written by Wilber, referred to the operation as TPAJAX.[7][8]

During the coup, Roosevelt and Wilber bribed Iranian government officials, reporters, and businessmen.[9] The deposed Iranian leader, Mossadegh, was taken to jail and Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi named himself prime minister in the new, pro-western government. The British and American spy agencies returned the monarchy to Iran by installing the pro-western Mohammed Reza Pahlevi on the throne where his brutal rule lasted 26 years. The story is detailed in Stephen Kinzer's All the Shah's Men : An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. Pahlevi was overthrown in 1979.[10]

The overthrow of Iran's elected government in 1953 ensured Western control of Iran's petroleum resources and prevented the Soviet Union from competing for Iranian oil"

Don't forget the mosque in Iran that was blown up just last week, right across the border from Pakistan.
And we can go back to the 1988 shooting down of the Iranian airliner, killing 290, including 66 children, an act for which the Captain of the USS Vincennes received the Legion of Merit.
The USA has never stopped bombing Iran. It's just done as secretly as possible.

If the "bomb Iran" contingent is vociferously defending Moussavi, that in itself is a strong indication that he's our corporate man in Iran. If the Iranian voters are anything like American voters, it's likely that many of Moussavi's supporters have let themselves be manipulated by a self-interested charlatan. They may have noble goals, but there's no reason to believe that they're any less gullible than American voters.

I thought Greenwald was going to say something a little bit different. If McCain had been elected, it would have been very favorable to Ahmadinejead being re-elected. If the people of Iran are afraid of the United States, then they are more likely to back the candidate with the more aggressive (and more anti-American) foreign policy rhetoric. I can picture a campaign ad showing US president McCain singing "Bomb Bomb Iran".

I think that Obama being elected after campaigning on opening up dialogue with Iran (which was a strong contrast to McCain) had an impact on the younger generation of Iranians. It makes it harder for Ahmadinejead to cast the United States as evil and unworthy of negotiations with Obama in office. His much criticized speech in Cairo probably helped too. On the same note, it probably would have helped had Livni been elected over Netanyahu in Israel.

Don't worry, I understand that it is my duty as a "progressive" thinker to hate Barack. I am just making a point who feel that it is better to have McCain elected but not succumb to lesser-evilism.

I don't know if these elections were stolen or not. I tend to think NOT because 1)I know I don't have a full internal picture of Iran, so I think it's possible the population like the declared winner. 2)In the meantime, as others here have noted, it seems to be the bomb Iran faction chickenhawks who are ssooo concerned about the stolen elections of these brown people. What about the stolen elections of the brown people directly south of us? Mexico's fiasco merited a couple of peeps on the evening news and hasn't been mentioned since. Very telling.

Great article.

Let's see -- A close election and a ruling body rules that the right-winger wins. Hey, they're more like us than we care to believe!! Talk about inconvenient truth...

camus13

First we whould google Moussavi and Iran contra....very interesting.

Second, Iran election results aside for the moment, I really can't recall millions of American on the streets after Bush stole two election 00 and 04.

We did the "Oh gosh, that they way it goes."

BTW, Jeb wants his voting machines returned to Flarduh by 2010, Ahmadinejad.

"the linchpin of our militarism"

Whos militarism? It's the elites' militarism, not the people's. Mr. Greenwald needs to help we the people drive a proper wedge between ourselves and the elites. Neither do the people own the public debt! When the foreign creditors foreclose the USA, we're pointing them toward the elites' offshore bank accounts.

I'm still worried about the missing nuclear armed cruise missile. A black op in the making?

Bla bla bla; I could say plenty in this comment, but will simply say, especially now that it's two days, or three days, after this article was posted, that I appreciate this article by Glenn Greenwald. The "bla bla bla" opener is with respect to what I could have written; not with respect to Glenn Greenwald's article.

I have not forgotten about the Iranian factions in the U.S. and Canada supporting war on Iran over recent enough years. They, like Zionists demonstrating on U.S. and Canadian streets in support of hellishly criminal Israeli government; they all make me sick.

We should all meet face-to-face. Throw in the KKK, ... too. Let's have a "festive", energetic face-to-face encounter.

I have my Herman Survival boots on; because the left boot of my hiking boots is too small now and I have nothing else, so have to wear these Hermans (for winter during summer, but, hey, the situation could be worse).

In any case, I'm tired of all of the pro-violence people demonstrating on streets of the USA and Canada. I'm really disgusted by that ... crap.

So it's good that someone as read as Glenn Greenwald, besides the good piece by Chris Floyd, who's written about ex-PM Mousavi's past oppressiveness worse than under President Ahmadinejad, has reminded us of these pro-war on Iran persons original of Iran, but living in the U.S. (and while the same applies with their similars in Canada, I'll again add).

I figured there was something questionable about Mousavi and Chris Floyd provided on this; and perhaps, hopefully, other people also did, but the history should be verifiable anyway. And Glenn Greenwald has brought up the point that I mentioned over the past recent days, about Iranians in the U.S. who supported the threat of war on Iran, were cheerleading for this. Only very insane, criminally insane people could do that.