What is happening to Iran also happened to Kenya a year ago, and I can only imagine of the tension and unease that the people of Iran have to contend with right now.

When all what was happening to Kenya came to an end the country was left nursing serious injuries whose scars will remain forever. The country’s much achieved progress was brought to its knees and innocent Kenyans bore the brunt of all the violence that the country soaked itself into.

And as much as Kenya was guided towards a resolution, the will had to be from the warring leaders who agreed to form a coalition government that saved the country from falling into anarchy.

At the moment the US president Obama is under intense pressure to declare his stand on what is happening in Iran and those calling for his word seem to have made a choice- they want Obama to condemn the Iranian government but how is this going to help?

Leaders should instead be calling on the aggrieved parties to follow the right procedure in seeking justice however painful it is. Demonstration and protests will only cause more harm and going by what the Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamene said, bloodshed is imminent.

He even went to say that the opposition leaders who failed to halt the protests “would be responsible for bloodshed and chaos.”
The tough words seemed to dash hopes for a peaceful solution to what defeated candidates and protesters call a fraudulent election, plunging Iran into its gravest crisis since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.