More Iran Links

Via Jams in comments, a piece by Mohsen Makhmalbaf on the Guardian‘s Comment is Free blog: I speak for Mousavi. And Iran. He says the demonstrations will continue.

Juan Cole with a post by an anonymous Iranian writing about being in the demonstration: “I’m Listening to all my Favorite Music; Maybe Tomorrow I will be Among those Killed”.

Also at Dr. Cole’s, a Jonathan Lyons piece on how Khamenei’s Past Power Play against the Clerics May Weaken him Now in Confronting the Reformers.

CNN says that Google starts translating Persian to support the protesters and get their message out.

The CBC writes that Canada will not ‘stay out’ of Iranian politics: Cannon

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Canada will not remain silent on the political situation in Iran after Tehran added Canada to a list of countries that it says is meddling in its internal affairs.

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Canada’s chargé d’affaires in Tehran to a meeting on Thursday, reportedly complaining that Canada has been spouting meddlesome comments and decrying media coverage of the outcome of Friday’s presidential election that showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad winning by a 2-to-1 margin.

“He was told the same thing that every other chargé has been told: ‘Stay out of our politics,'” Cannon told CBC News. “And we will not. We will continue to promote democracy. We will continue to challenge Iran on human rights.”

Mr. Cannon seems a bit annoyed at Canada being listed as the “Almost Great Satan” by the Iranians for noticing that Iran exists and has problems.

The US is still the “Great Satan”, but the UK has achieved the status of the “Greater Satan”.

For anyone on the fence regarding the sanity of Khamenei, Dr. Cole has an English translation of today’s speech in which, near the end, he invokes the Branch Davidian stand off in Waco as an example of US violations of civil rights. It’s not like US history has a shortage of problems, so picking this “example” is more than passing strange.