Nobel Human Rights Lawyer gets medal taken away

November 27, 4:07 PMBucks County Conservative ExaminerDoreen Alli Linder

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July 9, 2009 file photo, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, center
(AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta, File)

According to www.drudgereport.com Iranian authorities have seixed humas rights activist Ms. Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal.  Yesterday while Americans were enjoying their Thanksgiving meals, the Iranian government is starting to come down hard on dissenters.  This was the first medal to be confiscated in Nobel's 108 year-old history.

Ebadi won the prize in 2003 for promoting democracy and has long faced ridicule from government authorities for it including threats acgainst her family and a raid on her office last year.  The seizure of the prize was an effort to make an example of Ms Ebadi to government dissenters.  The US should come down hard on this type of behavior and the President Obama should harshly condemn Iran for it's actions.

The Philadephia Buzz Examiner's statements ring true in his article, "What is Bibi waiting for?"  Something has got to be done about Iran's actions and if the US is not going to handle it then let their enemy Israel take care of them. This would be the time to do it.  Things in Iran according to his are only getting worse.