Iranian People to the U.S.: Recognize Our Existence!
On November 4, the Iranian regime held its national holiday commemorating the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the taking of hostages in 1979. In a stunning rebuke to those who warn that the U.S. must not confront Iran lest it enable the regime to rally nationalist support, the Iranian people reacted to the holiday by making a firm showing of opposition to the regime. The chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” were met with “Death to Russia” and “Death to China,” whom the Iranian people see as the enablers of their oppressors, and “Death to Dictatorship.” The regime knew trouble was brewing and reacted by banning large gatherings and firmly warning against any rallies that weren’t in support of the holiday. The Iranian people, knowing full well the brutality that would come to them, came out in the streets, knowing their blood and lives were a small price to pay for an attempt to change history.
Read the words of one person in Iran who emailed me on November 4. “Today, I can tell you that this is the most unbelievable scene that we have been witnessing since the Qods Day,” he said, referring to the last holiday declared by the regime to show support for its radical agenda that was used by the Iranian people to rally against that same agenda. The person continued, “Everywhere is flooded with suppressive agents and they really beat people and attack them viciously, but there is a strong unity and strong will amongst the people to resist. It seems that everybody knows that to gain our freedom we have to pay the price for it.”
And pay the price they did. YouTube has many videos of women being viciously attacked by the Basiji and other security forces. Cars that honked their horns to express support for the demonstrators were damaged by the batons of the regime’s thugs. It seems from the reports I’ve been receiving that a number of people have been shot, hundreds have been arrested, and probably thousands have been wounded. The security agents fired real bullets as well as plastic bullets with dye so their victims would be marked as they fled. Pepper spray was generously used and Basiji operatives without batons used chains instead. Among those arrested was the mother of Neda Agha Sultan, the young woman whose death was videotaped and put on the Internet, proliferating images that one day will be written as being decisive in ending the regime.
The demonstrations were so large that the security forces broadcasted their radical Islamic speeches on loudspeakers on full volume so as to drown out the noise of the chants. It should also be mentioned that posters of Khamenei were stomped on, that “Death to Khamenei” was spray-painted, and that the chants are becoming more and more aimed at him. This uprising is not about the election or Ahmadinejad per se; it’s about the whole theocratic system of governance.
Those poor people.
They couldn’t have picked a worse time to rise up and ask for our help.
First a lot of people said they didn’t want Obama’s help.
This was/is THEIR fight. I was glad they weren’t demanding his support because they were not going to get it.
Now it looks like they are changing their minds. That’s really too bad.
As America has learned the ONLY person Obama cares about is himself. He is so busy kissing the regimes a$$, how can he be tough with them/support the people?
Liberals over here in America are already severely pissed with Obama over Afganistan/Iraq and all the other things he hasn’t done for them yet.
They are pulling for the regime too. Stability man! Stability!
The Iraninans are going to have to suck it up and go without Obama’s support, simple as that.
He doesn’t care about them.
Ryan Mauro wrote: “President Obama is making a sincere effort to improve the image of the United States in the world”
What nonsense! Obama has only made America look weaker and less reliable.
Honduras? Poland? Czech Republic? Afghanistan?
America only looks better to the likes of Hans Blix.
In the eyes of freedom loving people, Obama has only brought shame upon the United States.
When the Iranian Embassy was overtaken by the radical extremists in the 80′s, there was a picture of the Embassy that made all the newspapers and magazines. It was a crowed outside the Embassy proclaiming victory. In that picture were two American oil riggers from the Midwest who happen to be walking by and stopped to be in the picture. They thought it was just a protest. They did not know the event that had just taken place. How do I know that is true? They showed me the cover of Newsweek. When I asked them why they were not hurt or in fear of their lives they said “the Iranians are not angry with Americans, just our government”. I met them at O’Hare Airport during a flight delay. They were on their way back to Iran.
Iran had a long history of Westernization prior to Khomeini’s return. The people had a respect for Western ideals and democratic forms of government. That is why they hated the Shah so much. Both the Shah and Bush were very similar. Everyone wanted to get rid of them. Interesting enough both were indifferent to their lack of popularity. Now there was a radical element that rejected the western culture in Iran, the Mullahs of the Muslim religion. In the US there is a radical Marxist movement which has also rejected its Western culture roots. They are the Mullahs of academia. Barrack is a disciple of the radical academic left and the Reverend Wright, what an abominable combination.
There is the great similarity between what took place in Iran in the 80′s and what has just happened in the US with the election of Obama last November. Both countries were looking forward to change. Both counties were extremely unhappy with their former leaders. And both had extremists waiting in the wings to assume power. The result for both countries was instant economic chaos, an end to prosperity and the end to any freedom that had been left (they are going to pass laws and bills that nobody wants). Both leaders came with occult like followers and with thugs willing to exert force. School children were given songs to sing praising their leader. Everyone thought great things were going to happen with the election of Obama and with the return of Khomeini. Both countries turned out to be highly disappointed.
The people of Iran should not look to us for anything. We have our own Khomeini in power. If he is indifferent to the shooting of his own soldiers in Texas he is not going to care one bit about the beatings of young men and women in the streets of Tehran.
And does not Michelle look wonderful in a sleeveless dress.
Obama’s response to Iran is just his usual ass-kissing (sorry, no other expression more accurately describes it) to the Islamic world. Obama brings shame & dishonour to his country.
I have so much respect for the Iranian people. God I hope for your success, you deserve so much better that this. After all the dead that young lion who berated the “President” is a true hero.
At a minimum Obama should condemn Russia, Hezbollah and Venezuela for sending security help to the mullahs. Obama has a tin ear to freedom, look at what he is trying here in the US. Freedom and liberty does not have a champion in Obama.
An Orange type revolution in Iran would be the biggest thing since the wall came down. Another thing Obama does not respect.
First, do no harm;
Support withdrawn, midway through
a rebellion is worse than useless;
See Hungary, Cuba, Iraq, etc.
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As i have said before, Obama is a prisoner of his own “progressive” and “multicultural” dogmas. He literally cannot criticize the Iranian theocracy, because to do so contradicts one of the basic tenets of modern-day progressive “thought”; that “Eastern, mystical” beliefs are inherently right and good, and those that openly despise “evil” Western civilization are particularly so.
Also, he is trying (almost desperately) to find a way to “get next” to the Islamists of the world, mainly in the (probably mistaken) belief that if they see us as “non-combatants” in their war against the modern world, they will stop attacking us. At which point he can “declare victory”, much as Nixon did in Vietnam, and bring our military home. (To gut it so he can spend the money on remaking our society instead, of course, just like his idol, Jimmy Carter.)
This “policy” will, I believe, be followed by Obama and his enablers to the bitter end, up to and including throwing Israel “under the bus”, for which read, “Off the back of the sleigh to the wolves”, as in the old Russian boyar custom with peasants in the winter. (Another idea he has borrowed from Carter, who did just that to the Shah, thereby getting us into this mess in the first place.)
Anyone who, like Obama, believes that we can somehow “defuse” Islamist aggression by “accomodation” needs to consider three things;
1. The typical Islamist treatment of fellow Muslims who do not voluntarily join their “jihad” (hint; the word “murder” is applicable);
2. The treatment of the Iranian people by their theocratic regime’ for the last thirty years (hint; the terms “public executions”, “life imprisonment while being tortured” and “occasional mass killings” are all applicable);
and
3. The fact that Khamenei and his fellow theocrats are just that; theocrats, not pragamtists, who are operating on an eschatological worldview and timetable of their own conception, divorced from objective reality (hint; think “willing to start a nuclear war if that’s what it takes to goad the Twelfth [Hidden] Imam into revealing himself”).
Seen in the light of actual reality (as opposed to the “virtual reality” inside the White House these days, which is about at the “Matrix” level), Obama’s behavior is both unwise and ultimately will probably prove catastrophic.
But seen in the Light Of His Own Countenance, nothing else is likely to happen. The Iranian people, sorry to state, cannot look for help, or even recognition, from a President of the United States who is unable to see their country- or, indeed, the rest of the world, or even the rest of the U.S. outside his own office- as it actually is, rather than as simply a blank canvas for him to paint his own Utopian visions upon.
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The only American government which would recognize the existence of the Iranian people who are on the receiving end of man’s inhumanity to man from
the current horde of deformed souls, zombies, and other ilk who have their paws on the levers of power in Teheran, that government is a US government in exile. Because there is another batch of deformed souls, zombies and other ilk who have their paws on the levers of power, and they are inside the Beltway.
Obama told them “No” before. He told them “No” again. What part of “No” do they not understand?
US to the Iranian people: you should never rely on us, the unreliable. You are lucky you’re not our ally. Look at Poland, Afghanistan and Israel. If you are afraid of your mass murdering politicians, don’t look to us, our president is quaking in his boots too.
Stand up for yourselves, good luck and good night.
The people of Iran are very brave, there is no doubt about that.
Yet, they do not see their problem. This uprising and the many more to come are a result of Islam. All leaders under Islam are pretty much the same as the one they have.
When they can finally face the real problem, maybe then, they’ll find freedom.
A challenge to those who think that the US will still have as much clout when the Repubs take control of Capital Hill, as when the US had its greatest amount of power: Why wait until then to get rid of the hordes of deformed souls, zombies, and other assorted ilk inside the Beltway, and their allies on Wall Street and Universities?
There are people demonstrating today in Iran for their freedom. And they want their freedom now, instead of later.
In other words, why encourage Iranians to effect
regime change now, and wait for it in Washington?
For this is a double standard which is being employed.
“Obama told them “No” before. He told them “No” again. What part of “No” do they not understand?”
Apparently the same part that Bush (both of them) Carter, Clinton and Reagan told them.
Make no mistake about it. America owes NOTHING to the Iranian people. They are now reaping what they sowed in 1979. I hope they enjoy it.
Bomb, bomb, bomb,
bomb bomb Iran.
Iran is the fount from which terrorism gushes. Destroy Iran and we will have plugged that fountain. It is to late to end terrorism, but the end of Iran will cut it to a trickle.
Obama could care less about the Iranians who want freedom. He is in total sympathy with the mullahs.
Why would the President side with Mousavi as it was Mousavi who was in opposition to the nuclear deal the Iranian’s had accepted on the 1st of October. While the people on the streets actions are admirable, they are lead by Mousavi. While he may allow more freedoms to the people, he would help in preventing the nuclear program from being resolved. After the leak of the meeting between Israel and Iran and Mousavi announced his opposition to the P5+1 nuclear agreement, all factions in the regime hardened their stance in relation to the deal. In this case President Obama’s caution was well observed, as I could image the media if he had sided openly with the opposition of Mousavi and then had Mousavi scuttle the deal which the P5+1 had put forward and had been accepted by the regime. Apart from that it strategically it makes little difference if the people of Iran gain a small amount of freedom under Mousavi, it is the nuclear issue that is the foremost issue for America. The President made a wise choice, which showed back bone in the face of pressure from what was happening on the streets of Iran, from the US and international media and the Republicans. The Iranian people are being used as puppets by Mousavi as he wishes to gain control of the nuclear program as they have break-out capacity. The ‘reformists’ as they were involved in the program early on see it as their god given right to be in control of. They are fighting about the nuclear program not democracy or freedom. It was decided that the situation was fluid and it would be allowed to play out, the seeds are their for a revolution among the people but they lack the leadership and the social demographic in the social stratification for an overthrown Meir Dagan’s assessment on the post election events proved correct.
13: John birther Sanford: You are a little sick in the head. Obama is too busy destroying our country to worry about another. The people of Iran don’t deserve their government anymore than we deserve ours. Power always ends up in the hands of evil people. That is why our Constitution was written in such way as to prevent the abuse of power by any one branch. Right now our government is working under the Communist Manifesto as it abolishes private property, negates the will of the people and takes over every economic sector of the country. Next watch how the nationalize the American farm.
15. TCMSOLS: What the hell are you talking about? Obama was not asked to support a political candidate. The rest of your dissertation on nucs is pure garbage. Who are you kidding?