An American-style cafe in Tehran, shows a comparatively relaxed dress code and mixing of sexes, but the election of an Islamic hardliner as the country's new president suggests greater openness in Iranian society will be slow in coming.
Posted on 07/03/2005 7:20:48 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
At Friday prayers this week, Hashemi Rafsanjani appeared for the first time since his defeat and announced: "we have serious problems and we're faced with serious danger." His statement came amid the excited speculation about the part Ahmadinejad played in the U.S. hostage taking, and the hoopla surrounding Iran's head of parliament's first visit to Belgium and a cancelled reception. It seems Scott Ritter was right when he said recently: "The war against the Islamic Republic has begun."
Western Media Against Iran
In the nine days since the annoucement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the sixth president of the Islamic Republic, major world media have tried to paint a picture of Iran reminiscent of the early days of the Revolution. With references and quotes to Ahmadinejad inaugurating "a second Islamic revolution" and "establishing an Islamic administration," they have tried to create a harsh and extremist image of Iran.
Building Cases Against Ahamadinejad
Two cases are being built against Iran's president-elect in the international courts of opinion. The first involves Ahmadinejad's role in the U.S. hostage crisis. In recent days some former hostages have pointed to Ahmadinejad as one of their interrogators. These charges were immediately and strongly denied by Iranians who were themselves involved, but that didn't stop the Western media from repeatedly showing footage of the hostage situation and believing the hostages' side of the story. Iranian analysts say, "the U.S. was looking for an excuse and it seems they may have found one."
3. New Charges
Before this first case against Mr. Ahmadinejad had been put to rest, another one started. A member of Europe's Green party has plans to ask the judge to issue orders for the immediate arrest of Mr. Ahmadinejad based on information about his role in the political assassinations of Kurdish democratic leaders that took place in Austria.
4. America's New
The U.S. called the Iranian elections undemocratic and declared the election of Ahmadinejad a joke, and it also published a letter written by imprisoned dissident writer Akbar Ganji and demanded his immediate and unconditional release. The U.S also recently issued a law banning Americans from doing business with eight entities, four of them Iranian, stating that the entities are suspected of supporting activities that they shouldn't support. Moreover, the U.S. congress reintroduced a resolution supported by three hundred of it's members in "support of freeing Iran." The resolution referred to the Islamic regime as an enemy of the American people and and charged Iran with seeking to obtain weapons of mass destruction.
5. Europe's Corroboration
The day after the elections, Germany's foreign minister visited George W. Bush and following the visit issued a strongly worded statement to Iran - the first of its kind. Recently Europeans held a conference on Iran where critics voiced various concerns. In addition, the British government announced that human rights in Iran are one the E.U.'s highest priorities. Perhaps it was this atmosphere that rendered Mr. Hadad's (Iran's head of parliament) visit to Belgium an unmitigated flop.
Are these actions by the U.S. and Europe what Mr. Rafsanjani is referring to when he says that Iran is in danger or does he have other information as well?
Most of the hostage takers are now in jail or out of power cycle!
The Iranians are tired of being treated like children. The women in particular. The people are tired of their Persian heritage being ignored as the powers that be force Arab culture upon them. And above all, they want freedom.
The days of the Islamic Revolution are numbered.
The Administration will sit on that information as long as possible, because publicly admitting it will require that action be taken.
What action can they take? They can keep him from entering the country, but that's about it.
oh, except for the president that is.
But as far as I know, Iran has never apologized, made ammends. Or did I miss something? I mean, I'm glad to know the hostage-takers aren't exactly prospering but why doesn't the regime consider them heroes?
The regime needs an external enemy to scare its own people and rule them!
Maybe not in the National Anthem of Iran, but certainly in the slogans sung and shouted from 1979 to recent times.
It seems whenever a camera came out, there was a demonstration. People shouting Marg Bar Amrika!
Khomenie telling everyone the US was the great Satan.
It is literally only in the last 4 or 5 years that I heard anything different. The internet has opened a lot of eyes.
But the hard liners still shout those slogans.
:)
They put that terrorist into office (nocice, I didn't say elected) and they think we're going to sit back and say, ho-hum?
http://rescueattempt.tripod.com/id28.html
trying to update it, might load slow
The regime stages fake protests!
An American-style cafe in Tehran, shows a comparatively relaxed dress code and mixing of sexes, but the election of an Islamic hardliner as the country's new president suggests greater openness in Iranian society will be slow in coming.
I know, it is a great place to meet girls!
Someone once told me that! :)
lol
Countdown to Crisis
by Kenneth R. Timmerman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400053684/adailybriefio-20/103-6746282-2722236?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1
Or dead....thankfully...
Some of them died in war with Iraq and few of them were executed by the regime later in the 1980s!
The plate is pretty full for the US Military.
Hope there will be no military conflict!
Wait till the liberals see the ladies smoking cigarettes. Then, there will be WAR.
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