Considerations

I won­der if the Iran­ian offi­cials said these state­ments with a straight face:

Iran sum­mons the Ital­ian Ambas­sador to Tehran Alberto Bradanini in protest against the vio­lent sup­pres­sion of anti-G8 protesters.

Bradanini was sum­moned to the Iran­ian For­eign Min­istry on Fri­day to hear Tehran’s con­cerns about the “vio­lent sup­pres­sion of justice-seeking pro­test­ers by the Ital­ian police.”

A For­eign Min­istry state­ment included Iran’s “strong con­dem­na­tion” of the “sup­pres­sive actions…which are clear breaches of civil free­doms and fun­da­men­tals of democracy.”

Iran’s police and secu­rity mili­tias vio­lently sup­pressed justice-seeking pro­test­ers there. Iran rou­tinely breaches the civil free­doms of its peo­ple, and the coun­try is a sham demomoc­racy.

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