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Otto dipendenti dell’ambasciata britannica sono stati arrestati a Teheran con l’accusa di aver partecipato alle proteste di questi giorni. Ahmadinejad rilancia, di fronte ai media nazionali, la matrice occidentale alla base della sommossa. Sull’altra sponda dell’oceano la stampa americana, e in particolare Jack Kelly dalle colonne del Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, mostra per la prima volta una certa perplessità nei confronti delle capacità di leadership di Obama. Con valide argomentazioni.
«There are arguments for negotiating with brutal regimes. But to socialize with the butchers while they are killing their own people is obscene. (After a day of criticism, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday, “Those invitations no longer will be extended.”) At least some protesters in Iran think Mr. Obama’s equivocation is a tacit endorsement of the regime. “The people of Iran will not forgive Barack Obama for siding with the evil regime,” Kianoosh Sanjari, an exiled student protest leader, said in an interview last week. […] “Obama likes to execute long-range strategies but suffers from cognitive dissonance when new facts render them inappropriate,” Mr. Barone said».
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