Posted on 10/10/2010 6:02:38 AM PDT by nuconvert
Once again the world has let Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad use the propaganda platform he loves most: the speaker’s desk in front of the UN General Assembly in New York. As Frank Sinatra put it: “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.”
American progressives had a dinner party with the self-appointed Iranian president and there was a long queue for interviews with him. Years of the same procedure have still not tired Western leaders and media from detecting “signals for dialogue” somehow hidden in Ahmadinejad’s rambling conspiracy theories and well-known anti- Semitic slanders against the State of Israel.
Iranians living under the mullahs’ dictatorship or in exile are wondering if any insult or threat from the mouths of Ahmadinejad or Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will ever convince the West to abandon its fantasies of a dialogue with the leaders of the Islamic Republic. Israelis might have the same questions. It is time to ask how much the two groups have in common.
Ahmadinejad called the 9/11 attacks a plot to “to save the Zionist regime” and accused Western countries of sacrificing freedom of speech on the “altar of Zionism.”
While it is exactly this anti-Semitism that gains him a global popularity other dictators can only dream of, it does not work in Iran, where he has become the most hated political figure in the country.
After three decades of Islamic theocracy, even some mullahs have lost their faith in the Islamic Republic. Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, once the designated successor of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died under house arrest last year. Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi has been imprisoned since 2006 for advocating the separation of religion and state.
The regime can’t hope to attract domestic support on religious grounds anymore.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
“The turning point was the socalled Kuds day in September 2009, when Iranians massively protested against the regime’s hate show against Israel. They countered the regime’s slogans “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” with chants against the allies of the Islamic Republic, Russia and China, and tore down solidarity banners for Hamas and Hizbullah. The popular rallying cry “No to Gaza, no to Lebanon, my life is for Iran” clearly expressed the refusal of the jihadi expansionism of the regime.”
The Iranian people celebrate George Bush and hate Obama. A Palin presidency will see the Iranian regime fall in 100 days. All the Iranian people need is support from freedom loving people. Tragically the US does not stand for freedom but slavery to the state. Wake up America or it will be here as it is in Iran.
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