YouTube offers an interesting phenomenon ~ that of being able to go back in time using the anthropology of media to pull from the archives and understand anew. In this case, Ahmadinejad sat down with an American journalist. Although edited out from the official broadcast, here Ahmadi exerts his incredible feelings of the need for Palestinians to be able to express themselves and participate fully in democracy. In these first few days after the election, many Iranians began to question why Ahmadinejad so fully supports Arab democratic participation and was so keen on stopping it in his own country. Beginning on this day, Tuesday, seven weeks ago in Iran on June 16th, for the next three days would be some of the largest and most peaceful marches seen in Tehran (the Saturday, Sunday and Monday protests and marches were all meet with violence by the regime).
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
AN ASIDE TO A PRELUDE: Ahmadinejad Supports Democracy, albeit outside of Iran
YouTube offers an interesting phenomenon ~ that of being able to go back in time using the anthropology of media to pull from the archives and understand anew. In this case, Ahmadinejad sat down with an American journalist. Although edited out from the official broadcast, here Ahmadi exerts his incredible feelings of the need for Palestinians to be able to express themselves and participate fully in democracy. In these first few days after the election, many Iranians began to question why Ahmadinejad so fully supports Arab democratic participation and was so keen on stopping it in his own country. Beginning on this day, Tuesday, seven weeks ago in Iran on June 16th, for the next three days would be some of the largest and most peaceful marches seen in Tehran (the Saturday, Sunday and Monday protests and marches were all meet with violence by the regime).
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