At any cost.
Any cost.
“Khamenei vows no retreat on Iran election result,” by Zahra Hosseinian and Hossein Jaseb for Reuters, June 24 (thanks to James):
TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Wednesday that a disputed election result would stand, despite street protests that Iranian officials say Britain and the United States have incited.
(EDITORS’ NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.)
“I had insisted and will insist on implementing the law on the election issue,” Khamenei said. “Neither the establishment nor the nation will yield to pressure at any cost.”
And of course, it is all the fault of the West. Could discontent have spread because the mullahs have made the country once again into an oppressive Sharia pesthole? Of course not. It must be the Zionists!
Now that police and religious militia have regained apparent control of the streets after the biggest anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran’s hardline leadership is blaming the discontent on foreign powers.
“Britain, America and the Zionist regime (Israel) were behind the recent unrest in Tehran,” Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.