Posted on 07/22/2006 7:32:38 PM PDT by freedom44
The red warning flags have been flying high far too long. Since the emergence of the Islamic Republic inside Iran there has been nothing but turbulence throughout the world and since its inception it has had time to propagate and mastermind some of the most evil deeds. The world’s casual approach of doing business as usual with the Islamic Republic for 27 years has come at a grave cost.
And so it begins. Tehran’s arrogance towards the international community and Ahmadinejad’s call to wipe Israel off the map have been the neon writing on the wall. If there is one thing the turbaned tyrants of Tehran have been successful at it has surely been in tactfully playing the diversion game.
Toying with international leaders over its “clandestine” atomic weapons program, denying the Holocaust, orchestrating frantic protests over cartoons and now as it rejects Security Council’s demands and the EU deadline, Tehran’s clerics seem to be trying to evade the threat of consequential sanctions by declaring war on Israel via its ambassador Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah.
Violence is how they came to rule and it is through violence they continue to preserve their dictatorship where the policy of this regime has always been devout to instigating terror both domestically and internationally dominating world politics by supporting, funding and harbouring terrorists. They have provided the pistol and the terrorists have simply pulled the trigger.
Even perhaps more significantly the battlefield in Lebanon will also divert attention from the Mullahs’ heinous domestic issues, from both the international community and also from the Iranian people themselves, a population of almost 70 million who have been suffering their own injustice since the terrorists took power in 1979 with the help of their imported Palestinian fighters who rode around on motorbikes in the streets of Tehran wearing red armbands and harassing women into wearing veils. Since then there has been a growing opposition movement, consisting of students who make up to 70% of the population, the labour force, women’s freedom movement and religious /ethnic minorities. If one does the math, this would incorporate the greater part of the population – and the Achilles heel of the Mullahcracy.
As the people’s hunger for freedom and democracy has given them an appetite for boldness and disobedience against their hijackers, the demonstrations have been escalating weekly, filling cities from Azerbaijan to Baluchestan, shouting slogans such as “We don’t want nuclear energy” and “Forget Palestine-think of us”. Although the regime is cracking down on all anti-government demonstrations, imprisoning, torturing and murdering innocent Iranians it is noteworthy to point out that a few thousand Mullahs, Revolutionary Guards and Basiji have increasingly found controlling the remaining millions of discontented people a growingly strenuous burden.
The clerical regime knows that unless it destroys its political opponents, then they will destroy the regime.
Hence the Holocaust-denying provocateur Ahmadinejad would welcome a war with Israel as he would strategically exploit it to arouse nationalistic and patriotic emotions of the forsaken Iranians with a view to rally them around the Mullahs thus repressing the opposition movement, at the same time taking the heat off its nuclear programme.
Israel may be facing one of its greatest challenges yet. She is surrounded. Encircled by the fearsome foursome, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and the Islamic regime and a weakened Lebanese government, whose democracy would benefit from the exit of Hezbollah, there is no doubt that it will be a formidable challenge.
Meanwhile the Iranian people continue their own challenging battles with the Islamic Republic.
Hope springs eternal. This recent conflict has overshadowed discussions at the G8 Summit and although members have expressed a “common and unified” position, President Bush has acknowledged that the “root causes of this conflict must be removed”.
There is a window of opportunity to thwart Tehran’s trickery and weaken the Mullahs’ stronghold from within thus removing the root causes of the current conflicts.
Regardless of how much the mainstream media has failed to report the true Iranian domestic issues, one must appreciate the Iranian people’s fight for freedom and democracy, thus proportionately making the support for democracy advocates all the more effective in their endeavours as well as eliminating the root cause of terrorism.
In such vulnerable times one must ponder on what this could signify for the future of stability in that region and international security.
Everyone’s eyes are on the Middle East. Hour by hour news agencies and journalists are reporting to the world. The Iranian people can be easily mobilized if they knew that this time they have the full backing of the free world. Whilst Ahmadinejad has been preparing for his Holy war the Iranian people have been preparing for the demise of this Islamic theocracy.
There are methods and resources. The international community is not completely powerless to support this in some other effective and tactical way. An amalgamation of the external pressure working with the internal force of the people would weaken and undermine the clerical government enormously, whilst alleviating Israel’s burden. Despite the Islamic Republic’s efforts to try to stop the spread of information, there still remain other methods of communicating to the people and arousing an atmosphere of opportunity. The leaflets dropped from planes in Beirut proved to be an effective way to connect. The Iranian people have been waiting for those leaflets for freedom, for 27 years. Time is short
Liberation yes but not with large numbers of American boots on the ground.
Their liberty can only come from themselves. We cannot and should not force it upon them.
How about Iran liberates themselves. We did it. They can too. And yes, they'll have to bleed and die for it. Better they do it than we sacrifice our young men's lives for them. That sounds cold and it is. Maybe we should send them guns and train them how to beat the mullahs. That works for me. Like the French did when we were fighting the British. Otherwise the Iranians need to pay their own way - freedom isn't free.
Yep, no US personnel in iran. Nuke 'em or nothing.
I seem to remember similar words being spoken about another country two or three years back. Not so interested in sticking our collective hand in a hornet's nest again.
Iran is the engine that is driving terrorism in the ME. Iran is fomenting problems in Iraq (Al Sadr), funding Hizbollah, Hamas, and has made Assad their b*tch.
I don't think a full scale infantry will be effective, but I do think we need to act quickly and boldy. The chessboard as it is now is unacceptable and bold action must be taken to change it.
We need to do enough to tip the balance of power to enable an Iranian revolution.
Then the Iranians better hurry up and liberate their own country. Let them earn it. The Iraqis have shown they don't deserve the freedom we gave them a chance to win.
I think it's pretty likely that we have people in the country cultivating relationships in the event of an unexpected regime change.
Winning over Iran is the key to ending the nuke issue, the key to peace in the middle east and successfully fighting the WOT.
The current regime must be overthrown.
Time is running out.
We need Iran as an ally again, and attacking them won't do that. We need to help them as we've helped other countries gain their freedom from dictators and we need to start helping them do it now.
I'm fine with removing the Mullah's in Iran, but NO staying to build them an "Islamic Democracy". Go in and remove the regime as a lesson to other enemies of the United States is just fine by me. The Iranians can take over from there, though I think an awful lot of people will be disappointed to discover that perhaps a majority of Iranians are not so unhappy with exactly what they have. Ya, some of the Iranians to include college students hate the ruling clerics, but I'm not so sure that the actual majority of the population feels quite the same.
So ya, destroying the regime may be a good plan, but NO more with this fantasy that Islam is compatible with any democracy we would recognize. If the plan is to build Iran a democracy, I will absolutely oppose it.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Maybe less of a hornets' nest: Iraq was a civil war waiting to happen (Kurds, Sunnis, Shiites) -- Iran more culturally and religiously homogeneous.
Give Iran a kick start....drop a few cruise missiles on the monkey mans and mad mullahs heads...Boooooom.....then let the Iranians take it fom there.,,,,
HISTORY: February 1778 --- As a result of the patriot victory at Saratoga and American diplomatic efforts, France allies itself with the new American government. French financial and military aid will prove critical in winning the war. The Continental Army will learn of the French Alliance in May.
HUMINT: While Iranians are not in a colonial position to declare independence, the Iranian revolution is still afoot. Looking back at the rhetoric of the late seventies and early eighties in Iran… the streets were full of men and women thirsty for freedom. They were openly clashing with the fascists! It's still happening. The initial Iranian version of Saratoga occurred sometime ago and has reoccurred since. It has been an abysmal failure of the West, blind to the inner meaning of these unsettling instabilities. Granted, Iranian expatriates operate inharmoniously and are easily caricatured, (foolishly) by each other and the regime, but their passion for change is irrefutable.
Yes, the West can make great strides to amplify dissident tremors transforming them into a roaring earthquake. In the ensuing turbulence, great generals would emerge to take the fight to the fascist enemy! But could they do it in time? Could they forestall a nuclear armed Iran?
The least Iranian dissidents should do is work in concert with other forces of freedom. Imagine the alternative! Imagine a fight to end the Iranian threat without a chorus of Iranian democrats to set the stage for a lasting freedom in Iran… personally, I imagine …smoke, fire and more pain than these unharmonious Iranian dissidents can fathom today. Sad really…
truth...some may not want to agree...but it's the truth.
On the other hand, we have nothing to show for all the foreign aid we have dribbled away over the years to countries that do not change, Give it another three years and see what the Iraq project looks like then,
"If the plan is to build Iran a democracy, I will absolutely oppose it."
So would the Iranians. They've had freedom and democracy before. It's not Iraq.
Then you must be an idiot
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