The West should stop criticising Iran's election and "respect the result", controversial MP George Galloway has claimed.

The MP for Bethnal Green and Bow insisted there was no evidence the elections had been fixed, as Iranian riot police battled protestors in Tehran.

Iranian riot police fired tear gas to break up a rally in the centre of the nation's capital, as demonstrations against the re-election of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continued.

Mr Galloway, the RESPECT MP, also called for protestors to be allowed to express their opinions, in his blog for Scottish newspaper The Daily Record.

He wrote: "Can we just look at the facts here, which sadly get in the way of a good story?

"We do not have one iota of evidence that the Iranian election was fiddled.

"Until we do, we should respect the result.

"As we should the rights of the Tehran protesters to demonstrate peacefully on the streets without being shot or beaten up by government militias or soldiers."

Mr Galloway hosts a weekly programme for a television station owned by the Iranian government.

The MP was accused of being an apologist for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein when the pair met in 1994, and Mr Galloway was filmed telling him: "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability."

He insisted, in a court hearing in 2004, that he was referring to the Iraqi people and not to the Iraqi dictator personally.

An analysis of the disputed election results by a British think-tank has concluded that some of the reported results were "highly implausible".

The study, by the Chatham House think-tank and St Andrew's University, also found that a turnout of more than 100 per cent was recorded in some provinces.

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Pouyan Jahani said:

... The Iranian people could have found a friend in Galloway. He should be ashamed of what he said. The Iranian regime is Killing us in the streets of Tehran.

June 23, 2009

ADL supporter said:

... For the real story about George Galloway and his support for Hamas, check out http://contemporaryantisemitis...cause.html - a great resource.

June 24, 2009

Mohammad said:

... Do I read this right? You're actually supporting the murderers on the streets of Iran? Are you the same Galloway that I applauded for and cried for when you couldn't come to Canada and give a speech in support of the plight of the Palestinians? Are politics so important to you that you are willing to close your eyes to the atrocities committed by the regime in Iran. I hope it is not because you're afraid to lose your spot on PressTV. Mr. Galloway, I'm saddened by your comments. They have shut down all means of communication in Iran. They are shooting at defenseless people on the streets. They have shut down all the opposition newspapers and means of communication. They have arrested and presumably tortured thousands of people. And you still support this regime? I'm embarrased and saddened for you. Look at all these Iranians all over the world from all political stripes who are outraged at this coup d'etat. Do you know more than them? Do you know more than us?

June 26, 2009

BONNIE said:

... "We do not have one iota of evidence that the Iranian election was fiddled. "Until we do, we should respect the result. "As we should the rights of the Tehran protesters to demonstrate peacefully on the streets without being shot or beaten up by government militias or soldiers Galloway is right that we do Not have any evidence. Also he says "until we do" we should respect the result. I certainly go along with that I think trying to make an issue of the said comment is quiet remarkable considering we do not Know all we have is what the media would like us to know does anyone remember that we were only thirty minutes from a nuclear attack now over a million people dead and damaged for life we all know we went to war on a pack of lies.. Love him of Hate him but Galloway always has a way of proving he is right and the rest all wrong. And knowing that he always talks truths and as it is. Not like some of the other puppets sitting in the benches in parliament And I definitely do not think that he would be dictated to from a TV station because there are queues of TV and Radio stations ready to snap him

June 26, 2009

brian said:

... colour revolutions work by the gandhian tactic of forcing a violent response from the state: 'Three years ago, and not long after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ackerman, along with Ramin Ahmadi, co-founder of the US State Department-funded Iran Human Rights Document Center [6], sketched out a scenario of Iranians using civil disobedience to topple the Iranian government. ' http://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/the-role-and-aims-of-us-democracy-promotion-in-the-attempted-color-revolution-in-iran/ In a January 6, 2006 International Herald Tribune article, prophetically titled “Iran’s future? Watch the streets,” the pair complained that Ahmadinejad promised “to redistribute wealth to the poor and curb capitalists,” and described the new president’s electoral victory as plunging Iranian “society into a mood of despair.” Iranian society hadn’t plunged into despair, at least the large majority that elected Ahmadinejad hadn’t. Instead, it was the losers, “Iran’s parliamentary reformists” and the wealthy, Western-educated Iranians they represented, who were in despair. In Ackerman’s and Ahmadi’s view, this stratum, a budding comprador class, was equal to Iranian society as a whole, rather than a minority whose interests were about to be curbed by the newly elected president

July 13, 2009

brian said:

... mohammad: 'Do I read this right? You're actually supporting the murderers on the streets of Iran?' ever hear of colour revolutions? read my post above...and beware of being a tool for persons behind the scenes...using gandhi for right wing reasons.

July 13, 2009

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