Seeking a Single Standard

WH calls out Tehran for praising demonstrations in Egypt of the kind it rejects at home.

Office of the Press Secretary

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 12, 2011

Statement by National Security Advisor Tom Donilon on Iran

By announcing that they will not allow opposition protests, the Iranian government has declared illegal for Iranians what it claimed was noble for Egyptians. We call on the government of Iran to allow the Iranian people the universal right to peacefully assemble, demonstrate and communicate that's being exercised in Cairo.

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