But only if those enemies dare to "meddle" by condemning the regime's brutal crackdown! It's almost as if he took several of Obama's "we should appease Iran" speeches, pulled out the sentences, rearranged them, and announced "why yes, you should appease us."

Convenient, that:

Meanwhile, the Islamic clerical leadership is showing its determination to keep control. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday issued a sharp warning to Western nations not to criticize Iran over its crackdown, saying relations will suffer if they are seen as "meddling." Iranians, he said, would "unite against their enemies into one fist." His warning appeared to be directed at world powers gathering at the G8 summit in Rome this week, who are to consider a coordinated response to Iran's turmoil.

In other news, the EU condemned the Iranian military dictatorship for the vaguely primitive retributive hanging campaign that the IRG is on:

The European Union on Sunday denounced Iran for a recent spate of executions, highlighting Saturday's hanging of 20 drug traffickers. The rebuke, issued by Sweden days after assuming the EU's rotating six-month presidency, comes as the 27-nation bloc searches for a unified response to Tehran following its post-election crackdown and detention of British embassy staff. "The Presidency strongly condemns the executions in Iran during the past few days, in particular the execution of 20 persons in Iran on 4 July," Sweden said in the statement, adding Iran should abolish the death penalty entirely.

In case you're under any illusions, those "drug dealers" weren't really drug dealers. The regime had already announced that some of the arrested protesters "will not be released." This was the next step.

The EU's condemnation, by the by, makes it the second diplomatic slapdown they've given Iran in the last few days. The first was that public threat to withdraw all the EU's ambassadors. The Obama administration, meanwhile, still can't bring itself to say that the Iranian regime is illegitimate.

Because we don't meddle.

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