What do Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and a general from the oppressive Iranian Revolutionary Guard have in common? Why, they both stand with the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Reuters has the quote from Chavez:
Not surprisingly, Chavez expressed solidarity with American activists who have been staging rallies and marches against what they view as corporate greed by Wall Street.
The U.S. protests, which began last month in New York and have spread to Tampa, Florida, Seattle and other cities, have mostly been peaceful but sometimes resulted in confrontations. Dozens were arrested and police used pepper spray in New York earlier this week.
“This movement of popular outrage is expanding to 10 cities and the repression is horrible, I don’t know how many are in prison now,” Chavez said in comments at a political meeting in his Caracas presidential palace shown on state TV.
Chavez, who runs for re-election in a year’s time and traditionally ramps up his anti-capitalist rhetoric to try and rally supporters before a vote, also let rip at Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who referred to the “malign socialism” of Cuba and Venezuela in a speech on Friday.“He’s been attacking Venezuela and Cuba, and talking about the malign government of Hugo Chavez. And he has the arrogance to say that God created the United States so the United States can rule the world,” Chavez said.
And from the AP, we find the Iranians are also down with the OWS crowd. A general called it the “American Spring.”
An Iranian military commander said Sunday that the protests spreading from New York’s Wall Street to other U.S. cities are the beginning of an “American Spring,” likening them to the uprisings that toppled Arab autocrats in the Middle East.
Gen. Masoud Jazayeri of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said the protests against corporate greed and the gap between rich and poor are a revolution in the making that will topple what he called the Western capitalist system.
He ought to be calling it the “American Fall” because if this gang gets their way it will be mean the fall of the United States.
I could be wrong, but I don’t recall Hugo Chavez or the Iranians praising the tea party movement.
Update: The Sundries Shack linked – thanks!
Tags: Hugo Chavez, Iran, Occupy Wall Street, Revolutionary Guard
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