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"Interdire des idées ne les a jamais fait disparaître" a dit Barack Obama à l'attention du gouvernement iranien dans un discours (*) sur le site de la Maison blanche du 20 juin dans lequel il appelle le gouvernement "à mettre fin aux violences et aux actions injustes contre son peuple. 

"The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching" Il y souligne que les Iraniens jugeront en définitive les actions de leur propre gouvernement et  cite Martin Luther King : “l’arc moral”, une courbe longue, mais “qui penche toujours vers la justice”. 

Tiré de "Iran. Obama cite MLK et les blogueurs ne désemparent pas" - http://americana.blog.lemonde.fr


(*)  (White House - 20 juin) "The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights. 

As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.

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."