Iranian Doctor: ‘There are people drowning in Iran’

Bob McCarty Writes ^ | 12-31-09 | Bob McCarty

[BobMcCartyWrites]

Editor's Note: Originally posted yesterday at Gaze of a Nation, I share it with readers today, unedited, due to the time-sensitive nature of its content.

[BobMcCartyWrites]

Editor's Note: Originally posted yesterday at Gaze of a Nation, I share it with readers today, unedited, due to the time-sensitive nature of its content.

By Arash Hejazi, M.D. Guest Blogger

Hundreds of newspapers have been shut down in Iran; international reporters have been banned; hundreds of Iranian journalists are in prison; internet has almost been shut down; the sophisticated filtering system has blocked the contact of the Iranian people with the world; the police is massacring people in the streets in broad daylight and then blames the violence on the people themselves; the government is giving out lies after lies; all the minority ethnic and religious groups are suffering from the official oppression; prisoners have been tortured, raped, murdered; the Basij militia shoots unarmed civilians in the streets; students have been expelled from the universities because of protesting against tyranny…

While you, people of the world, are celebrating the New Year by embracing your loved ones with joy, while you dance to the Christmas tunes, the young people in Iran are dancing to the macabre music of the bullets and embrace batons and teargas. While you are hugging each other and wishing a happy new year, mothers in Iran are forbidden to shed tears for their children who were brutally murdered by the police trucks running them over. The people of Iran are alone, they are broken, they are tired, but determined to go on.

Do you think this has nothing to do with you? Do you think that you only need to worry about your domestic affairs? Do you think that saying a few words of condemnation will redeem you from your global responsibility towards human rights? Is this the global citizenship you preach?

This is the most dangerous State in the world. Hesitate in acting and you will see how this government, rooted in lies, will destroy your own children. What do you expect? Do you think that a totalitarian regime that does not show mercy to its own children will have pity on your people? Do you think that this beast will stay calm and watch you? Wrong! Hesitate and see.

The people of Iran have spoken with their torn throat and through the last sparkle of life in Neda’s eyes; they have written their vows with their own blood on the pavements in the streets: They want to be global citizens, they resent terrorism, tyranny, lies, wars, nuclear weapons… and they have died the most brutal deaths for speaking out. Why are you watching silently? Do you think you are safe? Do you think that this cancer will be contained inside the borders or Iran? Do you think that the rotten claw of this grim reaper will not reach you? Wrong. Hesitate and see.

It is time to act. There are people drowning in Iran. Do not believe the lies of the Iranian government. This government that denies all these brutalities is the same that denies the Holocaust, that claims that there are no homosexuals in Iran, that Neda Agha Soltan was killed by CIA, MI6 and BBC, and there is freedom of press in Iran.

How to act? We do not want any violence. This government is falling. Just do not support the government. Do not recognise the current government of Iran. Do not negotiate with them – How can any negotiation with someone who tells nothing but lies and is willing to break any promise, be fruitful? Do not be deceived by their lies. Expel the Iranian ambassadors and diplomats. You will lose nothing and will gain everything by supporting the future of Iran. Hesitate, and you will be run over by the evil machines of this rotten government. Hesitate, and you will be weeping over the graves of your own children.

It is time to act. Hesitate, and when you regret your hesitation, it will be too late.

Hat tip: Bill Federer

[cpdiii]

As the people are killed and tortured and worse, our President says nothing. His lack of support for these oppressed people in effect is Direct support for the oppressive murderous regime in Tehran

This hurts the United States and Freedom everywhere. My logic would say that based on his inaction in Iran and also his support of a socialist Marxist ex president of Honduras (legally removed by the Honduran support court for unconstitutional actions) that our president does not believe in freedom and is a committed socialist quasi Marxist. In truth I suspect he is not quasi Marxist but a committed Marxist

[hosepipe]

Evil is as evil does.. The citizens of iran should revolt.. or at least form an underground and kill their gov't employees in their beds....

Might happen in the U.S. soon too.. or should..

[ClearCase_guy]

The Shah of Iran was not a nice man. He used some harsh methods to keep Islamic nutjobs in line. It's true.

However, he was not the most evil man in the world. But Liberals in 1978 made a huge deal out of the atrocities in Iran. Jimmy Carter disliked him intensely and withdrew support. The result was the Iranian revolution and the elevation of the mullahs to positions of power in the Middle East. It's been downhill ever since. Thanks Jimmy!

Now, we know that the mullahs are building nuclear weapons. We know about the urge for freedom in Iran. We know that the mullahs are committing atrocities against people who want a more modern social system. And our president sits and does nothing.

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[Quix]

THANKS.

[Quix]

EXCELLENT ARTICLE, imho.

THANKS MUCH.

[SunkenCiv]

While you, people of the world, are celebrating the New Year by embracing your loved ones with joy, while you dance to the Christmas tunes...

We dance to Christmas tunes?

Thanks hennie pennie.

[justiceseeker93]

Ping!!!

Appeal for help from Iran!

[FARS]

What is “not a nice man” relative to the Shah. YOur opinion is based on what? American Lame Stream Media? Is the Director of the FBI not a nice man if he enforces the law against terror? (forget the current admnistration rules of non-engagement let alone denying terrorism exists).

The Soviet Union and the Iranian Tudeh (Communist) Party HAD been trying for DECADES to get control of Iran and a path to warm waters in the southern waters by destabilizing the Monarchy.

Are you aware of that? If not, try to read up (not from the Carter sponsored press articles and turn to reality). Lots of even-handed writings to use.

Or, would you think that like Obama, who is deliberately detroying America, the Shah should have used kid gloves on the Soviet thugs and ASSASSINS. He tried in courts and then commuted the sentences of the assassins as they had attacked him - not his “we the people”, so he could forgive the former but not the latter crimes.

The Soviets were not nice about how and what they did - nor later were the Khomeini revolution surrogates sent in by the Soviets to destabilize Iran. Should he have not responded to this attack? It consisted of terroriss not politicians trying to establish a political presence.

Even the Tudeh now admit they did not want political freedom for the people ONLY just for themselves and their imported Soviet philosophies!!

cheers,

[ClearCase_guy]

My roommate in college, in 1978-79, was from Iran. He told me about Khomeini (living in Paris at the time). And he told me about the Shah. He supported the Shah, and I did as well. He admitted that the Shah had dangerous people trying to undermine him and had to take tough measures. He supportd those measures, and I supported them as well. My roommate said that Jimmy Carter was creating problems, and I agreed with that as well.

I'm not sure you and I disagree. I meant no disrespect, nor criticism, when I said the Shah was not a nice man. In some situations, trying to be a "nice man" is foolish. I would argue that many of Jimmy Carter's mistakes stemmed from his desperate need to appear to the world as a "nice man". He wasn't, and isn't. The Shah was doing what he had to do. The US was very foolish for withdrawing support.

[FARS]

No harm no foul. Alan and I were in Iran trying to prevent the Soviets taking over Iran via Khomeini and the Marxist Islamist Mojaheddin and Fedayeen so tend to get a bit hot (smile)