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  Date / Time: 6/17/2009 11:23 PM UTC

  Iranians Betrayed by Obama Administration
  

  By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size
  
  More than 1.5 million protesters took to the streets of Tehran on Monday, marking the largest anti-regime demonstration Iran has seen since the final days of the shah in early 1979.
  
  Seven people were killed by anti-riot police and roving bands of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supporters. Many of those supporters shielded their faces from surveillance videos that plainclothes police were shooting.
  
  The protesters included some unlikely participants: 16 Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officers pledged to join the people’s movement, according to initial reports from Tehran. That signaled that the once-solid support of the guard corps for Ahmadinejad is beginning to crack.
  
  The 16 officers were arrested after meeting secretly with top regular army officers on Monday night.
  
  Many of the older men and women who took to the streets also demonstrated to bring down the shah 30 years ago, wrote Kaveh Mohseni, who publishes the French-language Web site, Iran-Resist.
  
  Now, “people are waiting for international support,” Mohseni wrote.
  
  That support wasn’t coming — at least not from President Barack Obama's administration in Washington.
  
  "It is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran's leaders will be. We respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran," Obama said during the weekend.
  
  He reiterated his long-held position that his administration wants to pursue a "tough, direct" dialogue with Tehran.
  
  For many Iranians, Obama’s words were reminiscent of President Bill Clinton, who washed his hands when reporters asked him on July 9, 1999, whether the United States would come to the aid of Iranian students who were revolting in 18 cities across Iran.
  
  
  Read the full story here:
  http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/iran_election_protest/2009/06/16/225615.html
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