Germany has already called on Saudi Arabia to mend ties with Iran, and denounced it for its financing of Wahhabi mosques in Europe.
The big tradeoff, and the one that has Progressives seriously weighing the plan, instead of immediately denouncing it (for the lack of a public option), is allowing some people to "buy in" to Medicare early.
Hojjatieh was apparently at polar-opposite to Khomeini's notion of clerical rule, but once the group dissolved after Khomeini denounced it in the aftermath of the Revolution, many of its members became staunch supporters of velayat-e faghih and held leading positions in the Islamic Republic.
Cardinal Jorge Urosa, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Caracas, denounced it as "a kind of chicken soup, a tossed salad, something that will not have any internal coherence".
Though it would give the government sweeping powers to crush any secessionist movement and enshrine Buddhism in "the foremost place," the monks who protested at the gates of Parliament denounced it is a betrayal of the nation.
A moral watchdog (The Cartel d'Action Sociale et Morale, which was responsible for getting Henry Miller's work banned in France) denounced it, generating lots of sales-fuelling publicity.
Wright also writes of heroes and heroines in a more minor, but still impressive, key, like Noha al Zeiny, a leading official in the prosecutor's office of the Egyptian Ministry of Justice, who was so disgusted by blatant official ballot rigging in an election she was supervising that she publicly denounced it in one of the few Cairo newspapers that dared to print her testimony.
Obama administration officials have denounced it amid concerns of racial profiling.
One critic denounced it as "a monstrosity of a book", and suggested that its vast range of reference and style amounts to little more than heavy-handed pastiche.
In Athens, by contrast, the Hilton so dominated the view from the Parthenon that the architectural historian Vincent Scully Jr. denounced it as an act of vandalism after its opening in 1963.
