Mike Pouraryan
SP Week-End (1/30/2010): Iran's Quest For Law and Order
The Iranian Regime will be beginning ten days of celebrations to mark the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. There is a film festival that showcases films glorifying the Revolution and other activities and festitivies culminating in a big parade in Tehran and other major cities. But, now, things are going to be different.
The key opposition figures, Mehdi Karoubi and Mir Hossein Mossavi, have called for demonstrations during that day. I have written extensively here and in SP's Sister Sites about what has been going on and the belief I have had that the regime will crush all opposition without mercy or regard for human rights. Yet, Karoubi and Moussavi defy arrest and threats on their own personal safety to continue speaking out in spite of the immense cost being paid. The hanging of the two young kids a few days ago was another indication of the desparation of the regime. Yet, pathetic figures like Jannati and others continue to call for more executions and mass trials to protect the "revoulution". Jannati is the Secretary of the Guardian Council that is supposedly one of the key arbiters of the Constitution.
I have written on the militarization of the Islamic Republic. There is no doubt about it now. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp said that they would see to it that no such rallies occur on the annivesary of the Revolution. They want to protect the Revolution. What they fail to understand that the Country and the people matter more than the Revolution.
What I find pathetic is how the vested interests in Iran are basically vying to stay in office for their own economic gain. They do it in the name of the Revolution. Yet, the same people gave up any legitimacy to speak for the ideals of that Revolution when they rigged the elections and in effect handed the country to the Revolutionary Guards.
Any semblance of Democracy in Iran is gone. They will beat the drumbeat of law and order for one thing and one thing only: to gain more money and more power for themselves at the expense of the people on Iran's Main Street. This is as the economy continues to suffer, inflation continues to grow and Iran becomes more isolated. I really like to understand when the regime realizes that this road they're in is the Road to No where.
As this goes on, Israel continues to trump the Iran card and reminding the world about the fact that Iran is today's Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, Israel is getting away with a policy of insuring that the two-state solution that the world has advocated for so long will no longer be viable and that the "realities on the ground" will in fact be forever permanent. The Apartheid by Stealth is something that the World should truly deal with as well. Yet, Iran is proving to be a very convienent distraction and Iran is playing along right into the hands of these guys. By the time the world realizes what has happened, it will be too late. I agree with Robert Fiske when he noted that it is already too late:
Really Long Link (retrieved 1/30/2010)
I wonder if President Obama, Secretary Clinton, Senator Mitchell and General Jones understand that.
The key opposition figures, Mehdi Karoubi and Mir Hossein Mossavi, have called for demonstrations during that day. I have written extensively here and in SP's Sister Sites about what has been going on and the belief I have had that the regime will crush all opposition without mercy or regard for human rights. Yet, Karoubi and Moussavi defy arrest and threats on their own personal safety to continue speaking out in spite of the immense cost being paid. The hanging of the two young kids a few days ago was another indication of the desparation of the regime. Yet, pathetic figures like Jannati and others continue to call for more executions and mass trials to protect the "revoulution". Jannati is the Secretary of the Guardian Council that is supposedly one of the key arbiters of the Constitution.
I have written on the militarization of the Islamic Republic. There is no doubt about it now. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp said that they would see to it that no such rallies occur on the annivesary of the Revolution. They want to protect the Revolution. What they fail to understand that the Country and the people matter more than the Revolution.
What I find pathetic is how the vested interests in Iran are basically vying to stay in office for their own economic gain. They do it in the name of the Revolution. Yet, the same people gave up any legitimacy to speak for the ideals of that Revolution when they rigged the elections and in effect handed the country to the Revolutionary Guards.
Any semblance of Democracy in Iran is gone. They will beat the drumbeat of law and order for one thing and one thing only: to gain more money and more power for themselves at the expense of the people on Iran's Main Street. This is as the economy continues to suffer, inflation continues to grow and Iran becomes more isolated. I really like to understand when the regime realizes that this road they're in is the Road to No where.
As this goes on, Israel continues to trump the Iran card and reminding the world about the fact that Iran is today's Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, Israel is getting away with a policy of insuring that the two-state solution that the world has advocated for so long will no longer be viable and that the "realities on the ground" will in fact be forever permanent. The Apartheid by Stealth is something that the World should truly deal with as well. Yet, Iran is proving to be a very convienent distraction and Iran is playing along right into the hands of these guys. By the time the world realizes what has happened, it will be too late. I agree with Robert Fiske when he noted that it is already too late:
Really Long Link (retrieved 1/30/2010)
I wonder if President Obama, Secretary Clinton, Senator Mitchell and General Jones understand that.
