White House Provides Persian/Arabic Translations of President’s Remarks on Iran

Setting Obama draws line in the sand to the worlds dicatators invited to the white house for the 4th of July! He did claim do not cross that line but Km Jong Il is not "charmed by the one" and decided that it would be such a more spectacular show with his form of "fireworks" aimed at Hawaii (stinks for me that I happen to live in Kihei Maui) while Obama awaits the 4ht of July Ahmedinajhad has his anti-protestesters do what they do best and kill innocent protesters on the street, what is Obama saying now I"m really not pleased so I'm tellin, but that doesnt scare Kim Jong Il and he decides to give Hawaii a blaze of glory extrodinaire! Come on folks!!!
The charade has got to stop, Obama needs to step down and let someone with experience take over (like Romney, who has ran a businesses beautifully and Governed a state as well, before there is no America left. What is Obama sorry about anyway? Thanks but no thanks Oprah, we want a refund on this dud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SJ, I at least give you credit for commenting on the subject of this post, rather than following most of the others in bickering about unrelated nonsense. But I find your statement deeply offensive. Actually, many of the protesters did march in silence. And Neda, to take the most obvious example, was not doing anything menacing or dangerous, and was certainly not throwing rocks at police, when she was gunned down in the street. A moral leader of the free world (yes, I still think of the US President as the leader of the free world, so sue me) can not "stay out of it" in the way you suggest. I appreciate the president's firm words of criticism for the actions of the Iranian leadership against the protesters who have every right to speak out about their grievances.

Maybe I must be watching the wrong protest in Iran because I sure did not see anyone marching in silence, nor did I see anything peaceful.

When you toss rocks at the police I really don't think these protester expect the police not to retaliate.

As much as I understand Obama's position in this I would expect him to the honest in his take, these protester are not all that innocent Mr. President so please stay out of this.

The right wing posters on here are so shocked President Obama is actually attempting to deliver on most of his campaign promises - they have to refer back to something in his far gone days as a state senator and the much misinterpreted and misrepresented 'present'.

Anyone know the Farsi word for "present'?

"paul please tell me you sent money to Orly Taitz, correspondence school lawyer/dentist."

No, it was even worse. I gave all my money to the local chapter of Acorn and when I went to ask for it back, there was a new sign on the door that said Community Organizers International, so I looked in the window and all I could see was some guy rolling on the floor and laughing....with a computer in front of him buried in broken pills and post-its with notes from Rules for Radicals stuck all over the sides.

It almost seemed shady.

paul please tell me you sent money to Orly Taitz, correspondence school lawyer/dentist.

"ryan c ....Please cite your source for your 100,000 killed Iraqi civilians at the hands of the Bush Administration..."

100,000 is a conservative estimate of civilians killed during our invasion as the result of violent action.

Its close to what the Iraqi gov't has claimed as well as Iraq Body Count.

It is lower than the UN estimate or the Lancet study.

ryan c ....Please cite your source for your 100,000 killed Iraqi civilians at the hands of the Bush Administration...

paul . . ..

well you obviously have a personal political agenda to smear the President when you say things like 'he fiendishly hides in dark places".

The President has been quite open about his (rare) cigarettes. He is not proud of his smoking, but he openly admits it and how he wrestles with it.

He has stated he does not smoke in front of his children or his family and for good reason.

I think you're playing the creep, for what you're attempting to project onto the President.

Smearing is so transparent.

"Next time break the pill in half."

Good tip. Now does that cause you to roll on the floor laughing constantly or is that to stop the rolling and laughing?

I applaud the statement the president made today and the transmission of it in Farsi. But I admit to being a tad mystified as to why it was also translated into Arabic in particular. Why Arabic rather than, say, Pashto, Turkish, Turkmen, or Urdo, the languages of other neighbors of Iran? Maybe Hindi or French or Russian?

Iran is not an Arabic country. Its people do not speak Arabic and are not ethnically Arabic. There are long-standing rivalries between many Arabic countries and Iran dating back, literally, centuries. If the Arabic is provided as an outreach to Muslims, it should be noted that the largest Muslim countries in the world are not Arab, either. They are Asian-- Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh. I don't understand the emphasis on spreading this message to the Arab world, unless, like Bush before him, Obama has decided to champion democratic reforms in those countries and wants to suggest reformers in places like, say, Saudi Arabia or Syria follow the example of the people of Iran. But somehow I don't think that's what he's doing.

"So either Obama is just sneaky, as you said earlier, and so cunning and creepily secretive that he fiendishly hides in little dark places with his secret shame/current drug of choice as you theorize.."

Next time break the pill in half.

paul . .. .

"they want to boost his image"

I very much doubt it.

Surely it's possible President Obama's rare cigarettes have been accomplished where the media can't see or photograph him.

I find that far more believable than some kind of impenetrable conspiracy in which ALL media have conspired.

You really think FOX or the right wing media would agree to this?

I think President Obama smokes so rarely, and does it discreetly so that nobody captures and abuses that image.

"As for my statement, just an observation of total hypocrisy..You, as an individual, either stand up for human rights or you don't"

Killing 100,000 Iraqi civilians was not standing up for human rights.

It was overreaction to show how tough the Bush admin was after getting caught with their pants down on 9/11.

"ROFLMAO!

You may not be aware but in the last 60 years there has been an explosion of two medium, television and the internet.

In fact, you're using 1 of them right now. "

Your point being what?

My point is that the media chose not to show him in his wheelchair...so it was never seen. That is about as directly analogous to Obama's smoking as you can get. It's not as if we're even debating whether he smokes or not...he does.

So either Obama is just sneaky, as you said earlier, and so cunning and creepily secretive that he fiendishly hides in little dark places with his secret shame/current drug of choice as you theorize...or as I theorize, the media chooses not to show images of him smoking openly in normal places where others go to smoke because they want to boost his image.

Ryan C "Saddam Hussen wasn't killing and torturing his people when we invaded." You are kidding right???? As for my statement, just an observation of total hypocrisy..You, as an individual, either stand up for human rights or you don't...picking and choosing your battles based on your political party agenda is just a form of hypocrisy...

Parallex_View . . . .

Unfortunately when Bush tried to 'do something' about rights abuses in Iraq, he killed tens of thousands of Iraqis including many civilians - AND - he brought about the deaths of thousands of American military personnel. Many thousands and thousands more were injured or maimed.

The deaths and maimings in Iraq continue today adding up to rates that far surpasses anything Hussein did.

Strange that previous Republican administration had been quite willing to cut arms deals with Hussein. It's the morality of convenience.

"therefore we must do something as opposed to Saddam Hussein who was killing and torturing his people and when Bush did something about"

Except Saddam wasn't killing and torturing his own people when we invaded.

As disgusting as his human rights records is, most of his atrocities occurred a decade ago if not longer.

To claim human rights as the main reason we invaded Iraq is the height of historical revisionism.

The premise for invading Iraq was that they were a direct threat because of terrorist ties and WMDS, both which were vastly overstated.

"So you either stand up for human rights and democracy or you ignore human right abuses and invite the abuser over for a 4th of July BBQ."

So was Reagan standing up for human rights when he supported Saddam and encouraged him to wage war on the Iranians killing a million of them?

"Are you familiar with FDR's wheelchair, Mr. C?"

ROFLMAO!

You may not be aware but in the last 60 years there has been an explosion of two medium, television and the internet.

In fact, you're using 1 of them right now.