28 December 2009: Barack Obama's speech on protests in Iran in English and Persian

Barack Obama condemned the recent violence in Iran today, as can be seen in this video:



I've also broken the speech down sentence by sentence with its equivalent in Persian. The transcript in English can be seen here, and Persian here.

In the meantime, authorities in Iran are trying to prevent funerals of slain protesters from taking place by holding the bodies. *rolls eyes*