Dear Ayatollah Khatami…
At Friday prayers at Tehran University, a senior cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, referred to the demonstrators as rioters and declared, “I want the judiciary to punish leading rioters firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson.”
Reuters quoted him as saying that demonstrators should be tried for waging war against God. The punishment for such offenses under Islamic law is death, Reuters said.
The cleric’s remarks represented a significant hardening of official rhetoric as the authorities confronted the biggest political challenge since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Yet. because Ayatollah Khatami is not regarded as a high-profile figure, it was not clear how much weight his words carried.
However, he is a member of the influential Assembly of Experts and his threats seemed likely to further intimidate protesters whose presence on the streets has dwindled in the face of large numbers of police officers and Basij militias.
Dear Ayatollah Khatami:
You and your colleagues are not God. You’re men.
And with that in mind, I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you to go fuck yourself in the dickhole with a pickle fork, and to express my sincere wish that when you and your colleagues are toppled, that the people your thugs have been killing in the streets return the service in triplicate.
Sincerely,
Brendan Skwire
PS: Please tell your unelected president that I had refried beans for dinner last night, and I encourage him to lick my asshole. Or my shoe, whichever’s more offensive.
