Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday expressed outrage at what he said was "unimaginable" repression in Libya, urging world leaders to listen to their people.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday expressed outrage at what
he said was "unimaginable" repression in
Libya
, urging
world leaders to listen to their people.
"It is unimaginable that someone is killing his citizens, bombarding his
citizens," Ahmadinejad said on state television when asked about the
situation in
Libya
.
"How can officers be ordered to use bullets from machine guns, tanks and
guns against their own citizens?"
"This is unacceptable. Let the people speak, be free, decide to express
their will. Do not resist the will of the people," he said as he told
world leaders to "listen, hear and talk" to their people.
A popular uprising against Moammar Gadhafi's regime in
Libya
erupted Feb. 15, after the rulers of neighboring
Tunisia
and
Egypt
were
ousted in similar revolts.
Iran
itself was rocked for several months by repeated protests against Ahmadinejad's
controversial re-election in June 2009.
The demonstrations in the aftermath of that vote were brutally crushed by
Iranian authorities, leaving dozens of people killed, scores wounded and
thousands arrested.
Several intellectuals, journalists, activists, artists, lawyers and reformists
ha
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