Obama Sent Letter to Khamenei Before Election

I bet it had a huge red lip stick kiss on the envelope.

Prior to this month’s disputed presidential election in Iran, the Obama administration sent a letter to the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling for an improvement in relations, according to interviews and the leader himself.

Ayatollah Khamenei confirmed the letter toward the end of a lengthy sermon last week, in which he accused the United States of fomenting protests in his country in the aftermath of the disputed June 12 presidential election.

U.S. officials declined to discuss the letter on Tuesday, a day in which President Obama gave his strongest condemnation yet of the Iranian crackdown against protesters.

An Iranian with knowledge of the overture, however, told The Washington Times that the letter was sent between May 4 and May 10 and laid out the prospect of “cooperation in regional and bilateral relations” and a resolution of the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.

Khamenei responds to Obama’s love letter:

……”On the one hand, they [the Obama administration] write a letter to us to express their respect for the Islamic Republic and for re-establishment of ties, and on the other hand they make these remarks. Which one of these remarks are we supposed to believe? Inside the country, their agents were activated. Vandalism started. Sabotaging and setting fires on the streets started. Some shops were looted. They wanted to create chaos. Public security was violated. The violators are not the public or the supporters of the candidates. They are the ill-wishers, mercenaries and agents of the Western intelligence services and the Zionists.”
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/24/us-contacted-irans-ayatollah-before-election/

Andy McCarthey at NRO weighs in on Obama’s Iran clusterfuck:

The fact is that, as a man of the hard Left, Obama is more comfortable with a totalitarian Islamic regime than he would be with a free Iranian society. In this he is no different from his allies like the Congressional Black Caucus and Bill Ayers, who have shown themselves perfectly comfortable with Castro and Chàvez. Indeed, he is the product of a hard-Left tradition that apologized for Stalin and was more comfortable with the Soviets than the anti-Communists (and that, in Soros parlance, saw George Bush as a bigger terrorist than bin Laden).
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTM0NTQ2OTdlZTNjNTJjYjgxNzFkN2JkOGE3YTgxZjM=

‘Negotiate without preconditions’: Check.
Endorsed by Mahmoud during the 2008 campaign: Check.
Ingratiating himself (on our behalf) to the world’s malefactors: Check.
Making the world less safe for democracy: Check.

Meanwhile, the bloodbath continues in Iran against the people who want human rights after decades of repression. Sadly, the Iranian protesters are looking for leadership and encouragement from a limp-wristed socialist who has no intention of “meddling” for the cause of freedom.

Congratulations, B. Hussein. You’re doing the Islamofascists work for them.