[Christian Science Monitor] Editorial - The UN General Assembly this week voted its "deep concern" over escalating atrocities in Iran, such as stoning, repression of female dissidents, and persecution of human rights defenders. Executions - many of them in public - are up at least 19% over last year. At universities, dozens of students and teachers who are too liberal or speak out against the regime have been arrested or silenced. The hard evidence is that Iran's people are alienated from their government and tired of nearly three decades of "revolution" with little to show for it. They also resent the reckless, wasteful spending of billions of dollars in oil revenues. When he was elected in 2005, Ahmadinejad promised to put "the oil money on people's dinner tables." Instead, inflation is about 20%, matched by a similar rate in unemployment.
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