The Real Iranian Threat

Iranvajahan/WSJ ^ | July 15, 2006 | ROYA HAKAKIAN

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The Real Iranian Threat

By ROYA HAKAKIAN

July 15, 2006

At long last, some good news from Iran reaches U.S. shores. Akbar Ganji, one of Iran's leading advocates for democratic change, will arrive in the U.S. today. More than his arrival, it is his survival that should count as a small miracle: No one in Iran has so boldly broken political taboos and lived to tell the tale. Mr. Ganji has denounced the country's rulers as members of a fascist regime and, borrowing the famous words that Ayatollah Khomeini used to address the Shah, has said that Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei "must go!" Now, from July 14 to 16, he has called for a three-day hunger strike before the U.N. headquarters in New York City to demand the release of all political prisoners, including the two key figures Mansour Ossanloo and Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoini.

Messrs. Ossanloo and Mousavi Khoini were arrested during two of the most dramatic displays of dissent in Iran's recent history. Last month, several thousand women took to the streets of Tehran protesting their unequal status under a constitution which gives them no right to divorce and deems the value of a woman's testimony in the courtroom as half of a man's. Many demonstrators were rounded up, and Tehran's former parliamentarian Mousavi Khoini, a key supporter, was arrested on site and remains in prison. This year there was also a major strike by Tehran's bus union workers. It shut down transportation in the capital for several days, but was brutally quashed by the regime. The leader of the bus syndicate, Mr. Ossanloo, has been kept in detention without consistent access to his attorneys.

Minorities have come under vehement attack. Last May, several hundred thousand

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"If President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has the audacity to deny the Holocaust, it is because he has successfully managed to deny the ongoing suffering inside his own country."

[R.W.Ratikal]

The real Iranian threat is the same as the threat has always been: choking the Straight of Hormuz and disrupting the world's oil flow.

What Iran's President (unpronounceable) does not seem to know is that to threaten the world's oil flow is to touch a very sensitive nerve in the civilized world.

Industrialized countries simply cannot allow a Third World country, or anyone else, to cut disturb the major source of energy that keeps the wheels of civilization turning.

The man is a fool. Saddam, move over!