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Obviously, all of us have been watching the news from Iran. And I want to start by being very clear that it is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be, that we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran, which sometimes — the United States can be a handy political football, or discussions with the United States [can be]. Having said all that, I am deeply troubled by the violence I have been seeing on television. I think that the democratic process, free speech, the ability of people to peacefully dissent, all those are universal values, and need to be respected. And whenever I see violence perpetrated on people who are peacefully dissenting, and whenever the American people see that, I think they are rightfully troubled.

My understanding is that the Iranian government says they are going to look into irregularities that have taken place.  We weren’t on the ground, we did not have observers there, we did not have international observers on hand, so I can’t state definitively one way or another what happened with respect to the election. But what I can say is that there appears to be a sense on the part of people who were so hopeful and so engaged and so committed to democracy who now feel betrayed. And I think it’s important moving forward whatever investigations take place are done in a way that is not resulting in bloodshed and is not resulting in people being stifled in expressing their views.

Now with respect to the United States and our interactions with Iran: I have always believed that as odious as I consider some of the statement of Ahmadinejad, as deep as some of the differences that exist between the United States and Iran on a range of core issues, that the use oftough, hard-headed diplomacy, diplomacy with no illusions, about Iran and the nature of the differences between our two countries is critical when it comes to pursuing a core set of our national security interests, specifically making sure that we are not seeing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East triggered by Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, making sure that Iran’s not exporting terrorist activity. Those are core interests not just to the United States but to a peaceful world in general. We will continue to pursue a tough, direct dialogue between our two countries, and we’ll see where it takes us.

But even as we do so, I think it would be wrong for me to stay silent about what we’ve seen on the television over the last few days. And what I would say to the people who put so much hope and energy and optimism into the political process, I would say to them that the world is watching and is inspired by their participation, regardless of what the ultimate outcome of the election was. And they should know the world is watching, and particularly to the youth of Iran, I want them to know that we in the United States do not want to make any decisions for the Iranians, but we do believe that the Iranian people and their voices should be heard and respected.

A revolution is happening in Iran. What is a revolution? I have got a simple answer. A colourful voice raised to support liberty. In thisc ase, GREEN has been chosen. Yellow was chosen in another occasions as well not long ago. We are in touch with @persiankiwi by means of twitter. He/she is risking her/his life in Teheran. Intermittent On & Off-line The point is joining to her/his struggle.

En Irán se está produciendo una revolución. ¿Y qué es una revolución? Mi respuesta es simple. Una voz multicolor alzada en favor de la libertad. En este caso se ha elegido el verde. Otros elegimos el amarillo hace pocas fechas. Pues bien hemos entrado en contacto con @persiankiwi. Está en Teherán jugándose la vida. On y off line de forma intermitente. Se trata de sumarse a su lucha:

1. Pon tu Avatar en verde. Turn your avatar into green
2. Date de alta en el grupo de facebook  Llevemos a@persiankiwi a casa . Join Lets take @persiankiwi home
3. Hazte seguidor en twitter de @persiankiwi . Follow @persiankiwi in twitter
4. RT @persiankiwi
5. Sigue el hashtag #IranElection. Follow #IranElection
6. RT las informaciones que encuentres interesantes en #IranElection. RT info and media from #IranElection
7. Copia este post en tu Blog. Copy this post in your Blog
8. Twittea con el hashtag #IranElection e #IranElectionSpain. Twitt with #IranElection
9. Sigamos la revolución 24 horas al día. Follow the revolution 24 hours

Es una pequeño esfuerzo, pero a veces la suma de pequeños esfuerzos se traducen en grandes conquistas. Conquer fredom!