There are at least 19 confirmed fatalities in Iran and as many as 150 unconfirmed (per CNN). Here is Obama’s response:
The White House said the president had been monitoring the situation during the day, meeting repeatedly with senior advisers. But the statement largely echoed the president’s measured response since the election crisis began a week ago.
“The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching,” the president’s statement said. “The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.”
The president has not yet said whether he thinks the election was stolen but he hinted at that with a reference to “truth” in the later part of his statement.
“Martin Luther King once said — ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.’ I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness,” the president said.
The ‘truth’ being, of course, that the Iranian government stole an election and is now slaughtering people in the street like dogs.
