Iran Video Comments

Yesterday we watched a video/documentary on what happend a few years ago in Iran.  The main focus of the documentary was on the death of a 26 year old girl named Neda who was killed in a peaceful protest by the makeshift police force, the Basiji, who were present in Iran at the time of the protests.  Following the story of Neda's day, we saw exactly what was happening at the time of the protests - much of which was pretty gruesome.  The video itself showed multiple deaths straight up - no blurring or anything.  I had to look away for those parts.  But the more interesting parts of the video were the ones relating to the government and what it did to cause the protesting and what it did to stop it.  The part that most grabbed my attention was learning about the voting and the results.  It appeared that everybody who could possibly vote wanted to and tried to.  People were so incredibly excited to have a new president that they even brought their own pens in case of a pen scandal.  But then when the votes were counted, Ahmedinejad's votes towered over the other two candidates'.  And the results were released even before some of the voting booths had closed, making EVERYBODY very suspicious of how exactly the counting process happened or if it happened at all.  The entire possibility of a government deceiving its citizens is completely foreign to me since we live in a country were something like that would never happen.  I think that, at this point, it becomes the responsibility of the rest of the world to intervine and make things right in this country.  They don't really have a good excuse since Iran didn't do a very good job of keeping information inside the country.  And if this country is stuck in an unfair government, they at least need a new leader to sort things out.  If that doesn't happen, they may be stuck in repeat on bad leaders

Sorry if these blogs don't follow a very linear pattern - It's just my thoughts as they come out of my mouth and I don't think it's necessary to go back and edit them.  Unless you would like me to  - just let me know.