Paris: Award-winning Iranian film-maker Bahman Ghobadi, in Paris after being released from jail, yesterday urged the world to come out in support of the country’s young protesters.
“Iran’s youth has spilled onto the streets because its basic rights are being denied,” said Ghobadi who won a prestige award at the Cannes film festival in May for his latest movie, “Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats”—a docu-fiction about Tehran’s underground rap and rock scene.
“I cry out in this film and I represent all the young people who cry out in Iran for their rights, that is why there is such a revolt on the streets,” he said.
“We merit better than this. That’s why now that they’re in the street, they won’t go back. The international community must back the movement.”
ASHARQ ALAWSAT (LONDON) : Iran: Protests to Continue Until Ahmadinejad is Dismissed
THE ARAB PRESS WOULDN'T BE BRINGING THIS TYPE OF COVERAGE TO THEIR PUBLIC IF THEY DIDN'T SUPPORT THE REBELLION.Sources close to reformist candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi and former Iranian President Mohamed Khatami have stated to Asharq Al-Awsat that Moussavi's team do not accept the election results or the statement issued on Monday by the Guardian Council and will therefore continue to address the election results and the "theft of the Iranian vote."
The sources added that the leadership of the Reformist movement, Moussavi, [Mohamed] Khatami, and [Mehdi] Karrubi, along with Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, Hashemi Rafsanjani, are moving closer to the option of "open civil protests and the continuation of demonstrations" until "the removal of the illegitimate government."
THIS IS ANOTHER REASON WHY WE SHOULD BE BACKING THE REBELLION MORE AGGRESSIVELY: IT WILL HELP BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST.
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