Political Football

They remain wary of what they see as imperialistic tendencies in other parts of the world, such as Iraq. About 80 people marched Friday under a banner reading, “Genocidal Killer, Out of Latin America!” at the site of the Bush-Vazquez meeting.

Fascinating CNN! Probably goes in Breaking News, right? (They also provided a video clip of the “about 80″ protesters)

… because this is important stuff, eh?

however –

Did we even HEAR about 10,000 (some sites report as high as 50,000) Teachers protesting in IRAN last week? They were protesting the removal of 1,500 Teachers for political reasons.

Iranian authorities are openly worried about the wave of protests also by workers in other professional sectors.

In an editorial on its mouthpiece, the magazine ‘Sobhe Sadegh’, the Revolutionary Guard Pasdaran wrote that “apparently someone is exploiting social discontent to undermine society and cause a crisis.” According to the Pasdaran, “the teachers’ protests, the strikes by labour workers, the students’ dissent along with international pressure on the nuclear issue, the explosions in Baluchistan [recent violence in the southeast province blamed on separatist groups], ethnic strife, allegations of government in-fighting and the news of an alleged illness of [Iran's supreme leader Ali] Khamenei are all part of a strategy to hit the Islamic Republic.