Andrew Sullivan reports:
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett and Seyed Mohammad Marandi defend the Iranian election results once again. This paragraph stands out:
[T]he Iranian government responded to the post-June 12 protests in a manner consistent with its own constitutional procedures — and with far less bloodshed than when the Chinese government suppressed the Tiananmen Square protesters in 1989.
Clive Crook, who defends the Leveretts – wrongly in my opinion – on other accounts, writes:
Good Lord. Does that make the shooting of unarmed protesters all right? No doubt one could say that the Soviet Union's response to dissent was lawful in the same way.
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