Something Is Rotten In Vickmark

We live in a strange world where you have to read a blog by some guy on the internets, rather than a great Western newspaper, to be informed about rebellion inside Iran.

Not to get the details or some nuance. To be informed at all about riots, uprisings, apparent state-sponsored murders, cell-phone network shutdowns, student protest arrests.... to even know this is taking place, do not bother with The Washington Post. The Post's Karl Vick is too busy writing love letters to the Holocaust-denying president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to bother with such trifles.

Here, ordinary people marvel at how their president comes across as someone in touch, as populist candidate turned caring incumbent...

Oh wait, that's unfair. Vick notes:

Iran remains Iran, of course. Controls on the press are firmer than ever, and the April arrest of Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher without a strong reputation for political activism, has both mystified and unsettled elements of Tehran's professional class.

Okay then, got it covered. Whew.

Yesterday Vick wrote Iran To Make Offer By Six Powers Public. Today we have Iran's Religious Leader Renews Anti-U.S. Rhetoric on A10:

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei unleashed a flurry of broadsides Sunday at the United States and other countries confronting his government over its nuclear program, saying that suggestions of a consensus against Iran were "a lie."

"There is no consensus against Iran. This is a lie by the U.S. and a few other U.S. supporters," Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, said in a speech. "Some 116 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement supported Iran's brave achievements in nuclear technology. The consensus is among a few monopolist countries. Their consensus is of no value."

Khamenei, marking the anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death 17 years ago, echoed the themes on which his predecessor zzzzzzzzz

Sorry, what were you saying? I was dreaming about happy children flying kites.

Now if you're going all negative on me, run off to the likes of Gateway Pundit:

Protestors Torch Buildings in Iran, Campus Protests Continue
This Time Protestors Riot in Iran Over a Cockroach Cartoon
Iranian University Students Protest Against the Mullacracy
Tehran Universities Erupt in Violence Overnight
Ethnic Rage Swells in Iran, Revolts Break Out, Deaths Reported
Regime Commands & Hezbollah Thugs Pound Iranian Protesters
Iranian Student Protestors Released, Media Blackout Continues
More Iranian Protest Deaths Reported, Turkmen Join Ethnic Azeris
Despite Martial Law, 10,000 Protest in Tabriz, Iran

I mean you can read Michael Ledeen or Wizbang if you like but otherwise don't harsh my mellow.