Iran’s conservative daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami (considered a mouthpiece for “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei) says that Iranian liberals calling for democracy, reform, and human rights are fighting against Islam itself.

“Today, those [in Iran] who spread slogans such as reform, liberty, political development, democracy, [and] human rights… are fighting [the] religion [of Islam], and… with their demonic and colonialist theories, [they] call for separation of religion and state or support people who pursue these principles. They must realize that they are moving in the opposite direction from the path of Imam [Khomeini], and, as the Imam said, ‘Maybe these people do not realize that the words against religion and against Islamic values that come from their mouths are the same words coming from the mouths of people like Bush, Sharon, Jack Straw, and others in power in the dictatorial colonialist regimes.”

(Note: any country that has a “Supreme Leader” is probably not all that concerned with human rights to start with.)