Posted on 07/23/2010 5:02:14 AM PDT by nuconvert
Crucial signs that freedom is not only possible but imminent.
The Iranian Revolution of 1979 began with Ayatollah Khomeini promising Iranians full freedom and a government by the people and for the people. In his speeches leading up to the Revolution, the Ayatollah proclaimed that, "A nation that doesn't have freedom does not have civilization. A civilized nation is one that is free." He also said that, "There should be freedom of the press and people should have the right to their opinion" and "In our government, clergy will not govern but help you with your spirituality. In our government, women will be free, and officials can be publicly criticized."
People, joyful of his positive messages, turned their backs on the Shah--who had brought them peace, respect, and luxury--in the hope of the political freedom that was nonexistent during the Shah. Sadly, this joy quickly turned to horror. Instead of the freedom he'd promised, Khomeini snatched back the liberties women had begun to gain under the Shah, reducing them to second-class citizens without the right to inheritance, child custody and divorce. Khomeini and his cohorts forced women to wear the Islamic hijab--whipping them if they didn't--and reverted to stoning woman for adultery. The Islamic regime claimed that anyone speaking against them was mohareb, an enemy of God. Because the regime purported to be representatives of God on Earth, they ordered the execution of all opposition. Teenage girls were raped before their deaths because the regime felt this would prevent them from going to heaven. Boys were rounded up and hanged from cranes.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
People are suffering more which is unifying the call for the end of the regime.
No one lives in freedom where Islam is present.
Iran would have to expunge that Arab cult posing as a religion if it were to actually head to freedom.
......”In our government, clergy will not govern but help you with your spirituality. In our government, women will be free, and officials can be publicly criticized.” Ayatollah Khomeini .....
“If you earn less than $250,000 you taxes will positively not go up” Messiah Obama.
Both were scoundrels and both were liars dedicated to imposing an ideological straight jacket.
The mullahs aren’t going anyplace. I could have gone off a year ago when the army refused to back the mullahs against the demonstrators. When Obama failed to back the rebels the chance of getting rid of Iran’s leadership was lost. They have now rounded up and eliminated those who would back a revolution against them. Something external (getting the crap bombed out of them for example) would need happen to weaken the regime prior to an internal overthrow. With their secret police undamaged any attempt at a rebellion would just be a blood bath.
Khomeini didn’t bring civility, he brought barbarism back !
Islam, the foundation of their existence, trumps all. Wherever there is Islam there are no individual rights, no basic freedoms, no ability for the people to escape the yoke of "governance" in the name of Allah.
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world." Winston Churchill, 1899
I have been hearing/seeing this sort of speculations about imminent change in Iran for years now. It sort of resembles the many years of similar speculation about Cuba. I won’t believe any of it until it has happened.
......”In our government, clergy will not govern but help you with your spirituality. In our government, women will be free, and officials can be publicly criticized.” Ayatollah Khomeini .....
“If you earn less than $250,000 you taxes will positively not go up” Messiah Obama.
Add one more to Messiah Obama: “Under my health care plan, if you like your current health plan, you can keep it.”
"In our government, clergy will not govern but help you with your spirituality by killing you if you do not conform with our "non-governmental" guidance. In our government, women will be free to be severely oppressed and murdered by stoning on the whim of her husband who owns her like a master owns a slave, and officials of the Shah's regime, along with the regime of any infidel can be publicly criticized while being executed by firing squad."
Obama will do all in his power to support the Theocracy in Iran.
Iran and Cuba:
The answer to why we have the second amendment in this country.
Will we seize the opportunity to help give the Iranian people what they truly want?"
But we did nothing last year when the unrest boiled over into the streets, and the feckless crowd in Washington will do nothing this year, either. Obama is truly Jimmy Carter II when it comes to Iran.
No magazine in history has been more wrong about predicting the future than Forbes.
>>>>”Word coming out of Iran is that foreign companies are being hit by the sanctions, causing them to lay off workers, adding to the unemployment numbers.”
I don’t believe in “words” until I see clear outcomes. In this case, the end of the Islamic regime in Iran.
This type of wishful thinking has been going around for years, without any tangible results. And, Yes, it is an Islamic Regime which has been ruling Iran last 31 years - not merely a fascist one (little to do with sanctions or ‘economics’ in Iran).
>>>>”The mullahs aren’t going anyplace.”
Too Right.
The mullahs are NOT going anyplace, unemployment or not, in Iran, etc... They are staying right in Iran. (Many WILL change their ‘clothes & colors’, as necessary now & in the future, as they did some 31 yrs ago as well, and many WILL parade as “Moderate” Moslems.) These characters are part and parcel of the Islamic Iran, and its more recent schooling, taught & obvious culture, particularly in Iran.
In a way, just as the Taliban are part of Afghanistan & will go further, and have already done so, more than Pakistan.
A difference is that the Islamic regime of Iran & their supporters are far less ‘tribal’, much more sophisticated than the Taliban, more embedded in Western countries, and much more in-tune with Western ‘requirements’.
However, the USA will pat herself on the back for temporary ‘negotiations’ & ‘sanctions’. Very brave and temporary remedies indeed, for now & looks good in the Media ...
Actually, I had been thinking HOW Obama, by default, would put different pressures on Iran than his predecessor(s), since 1979.
This is a long term problem for the U.S. and the West. But, ONLY, if they want to tackle it for themselves. They won’t do it for ‘others’.
The Iranian people, on the other hand, should work out how they want to deal with it, and, in time, they will. Too sad that there will have to be so many abominations in the mean time for them in Iran.
“Islam, the foundation of their existence, trumps all”
Islam is not the foundation of Iran’s existence. It is only the foundation of this regime’s existence of 30yrs.
Barack Obama is another evil man.
Neither are stupid or incompetent.
They have both accomplished great destruction of wealth and freedom for the ordinary people of the world.
“Something external (getting the crap bombed out of them for example) would need happen to weaken the regime prior to an internal overthrow”
As things continue to deteriorate and the people become more angry and desperate, they’ll be more likely to welcome outside intervention.
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