In America people have the right to protest and the goverment does not intefer with that right unless get violent and they would not fire live ammunition into a crowd to kill. Tear gas, rubber bullets maybe, but not lethal force. The people have a God given right to be heard and the government of Iran does not want the world to know what is really going on. This was an innocent 16 year old child who was doing nothing violent.
My dear Brother
I'm afraid your memory failed to mentioned the Firing and Killing of US Students protesting against the war in Vietnam. If i remember well it was at Kent University. You might like to check to archives which count the US citizens being shot and killed demonstrating against the War in Vietnam.
Look at the Death Penalty Rate in the US, Texas, and compare it with Iran.
The Aids Program in Iran pays for all antiviral medication, also including Gender Change Operations. Look at the AIDS rate in Washington DC among Blacks, comparable only with some African Countries.
We should also be careful not to fall in the trap of prefabricated slogans like Iran denying the Holocaust. The Jewish Community in Iran is the largest in the Middle East, ca. 30.000 members. They have one seat in the Iranian Parliament. Ahmedinajad only said that Israel with its more than 40 years of occupations and suppression of Palestine and ignoring all UN resolutions will one day disappear from the map.
Ayatollah Khomeini declared the Nuclear Program which was initiated by the
US and Germany useless and condemned the construction and usage of Atomic Weapons as unislamic in a Fatwa.
Do you sincerely believe that the Iranians with one Atomic Weapon like a Hiroshima type bomb, would be an existential threat to Israel which possesses an arsenal of at least 150 nuclear devices with supreme delivery vehicles, cruise missiles, MIRVS etc. Iranians have never attacked any neighbor Country but where object of Soviet Occupation, British and US interference in the last 100 years.
Whether Sunni or Shia, that is not the Question. Look at the map and You will see that in each of the neighbor Countries are US bases.
I also find the pictures and Videos coming out from Iran very disturbing but we as Muslims should never forget that it is the very first time in the History of Islam that a country tries to develop an Islamic REPUBLIC.
I wish all the people so concerned about the violation of Human Right's would also demonstrate in front of certain Islamic Countries Embassies which do not even allow women to drive a car nor to leave the house alone, not to mention voting rights..
Or would demonstrate for the Rights of our Sisters to study and leave Analphabetism behind. IN many Islamic Countries the illiteracy rate among women is more than 60%. In Iran we have a female Vice President, the rate of female Students at Iranian Universities is higher than 50%.
Let our Iranian Brothers sort out their enormous problems without interference from abroad. I