Dear Mahmoud
I wrote a letter to President Ahmadinejad, posted on NRO on Monday. I thought you’d want to see it:
I’m writing to you about death, one of your favorite themes. Your adult life has revolved around it. You’re from the Revolutionary Guards, the military organization that was created in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon in the 1970s. The then-incipient Revolutionary Guards were trained there by the expert terrorists of al Fatah, Yasser Arafat’s gang of killers (Sunnis, by the way, as you well know). One day, the camp was bombed by the Israelis, and a considerable number of your men were killed. Later on, the graduates entered Iran, and killed members of the shah’s security forces. Today, Revolutionary Guardsmen crush Iranian dissent at home, and they are on the prowl all over the world, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. So you’ve been around death for 30 years or more. Training for it, training others for it, and participating in it.
You glorify it. You think it’s beautiful. “Art reaches perfection when it portrays the best life and best death,” you’ve said. After all, art tells you how to live. That is the essence of art. Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal than the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those who wish to undermine this principle undermine the foundations of our independence and national security. They undermine the foundation of our eternity.
Interestingly, you talk about “independence” and “national security,” rather than the interests of Islam, or the Muslim community, or even the Shiites, your sect. I’ll come back to this odd language shortly.
You’re a veteran of one of the bloodiest wars of recent times, the Iran-Iraq conflict that probably cost your country more than a million dead and maimed. You extol that sacrifice, as any patriotic Persian would; Iran was invaded by Saddam Hussein’s armies, and the Iranian people defended their country, bravely and desperately.
But your praise of Iranian fighters isn’t limited to men shot down on the battlefield in that bloody war; you celebrate cases of what you call — and extol — “martyrdom.” I call it the deliberate, criminal slaughter of many tens of thousands of young children. Some of those kids were only 12 years old. They were sent across the battlefields into Iraqi territory, as human mine-detectors. They walked across the minefields, and got blown up. The Iraqi soldiers were so horrified that they shouted at the children to stop, to go back. But they didn’t; you’d indoctrinated or hypnotized them, and you wanted them to die. Indeed, you were so certain they would be killed, that these little children were provided with plastic keys that were said to open the gates to paradise.
That’s not martyrdom; that’s mass murder of your own people. You indoctrinated those kids and sent them to their doom. And it didn’t stop with the war. Afterwards, you sent other children to walk across areas you suspected were mined, and many of them were sacrificed in the same way.
This barbarous campaign, of which you are so proud, and which you acclaim as a work of art, produced some particularly gruesome technical problems: according to one of your leading newspapers, many of those children were vaporized by the land mines, while others were blown to pieces, their body parts scattered over the earth. Your religious leaders insisted that everything be done to keep the bodies intact, and so at a certain point the children were sent to the mine fields wrapped tightly in blankets. Instead of charging bravely to eternity, they rolled across the ground. That way, their cadavers were more likely to hold together, and their families could be given the remains, wrapped in a bloody blanket, for burial.
Sending fighters into battles in which their leaders know many, or even most of them, are going to die is hardly new. The Russians did it in the First World War, for example, when the second ranks were not armed, but were told that there would be plenty of weapons available; they could just pry them from the hands of their dead comrades. But your massacre of the innocents is something uniquely dreadful.
Ironically, the notion that Muslims love death, thereby gaining an advantage against their life-loving adversaries, was first directed against your very own country, Iran itself, during the famous battle at Qadisiyya in 636, between the Muslim armies of Caliph Abu Bakr and the Persians. The Caliph sent a message to the Persians, calling upon them to conver t to Islam or pay onerous taxes and accept Muslim rule. Otherwise, he said, “you should know that I have come to you with an army of men that love death, as you love life.” (The Muslims won the battle, which marked the end of the Sassanid dynasty in Persia).
Such language during war is, so to speak, normal, but your deliberate mass sacrifice of your young, along with your ode to martyrdom, is different. It’s what the great Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called “necrophilous” thinking, a pathological love of death.
Unamuno used that word in a face-to-face confrontation at the University of Salamanca, where he was the rector, with the famous Spanish general Millan Astray. The Spanish Civil War had just begun, and the general was celebrated in nationalistic circles for his motto, viva la muerte, Long Live Death. The general was a cripple, and Unamuno noted that the great Spanish writer, Cervantes, was also handicapped, and then he continued, “it pains me to think that General Milan Astray should dictate the pattern of mass psychology. A cripple who lacks the spiritual greatness of a Cervantes is wont to seek ominous relief in causing mutilation around him.” Unamuno denounced “Long Live Death” as a “necrophilous and senseless cry.”
Today, you are in the same position as General Milan Astray. Although you have not been wounded, your celebration of death is as necrophilous as the general’s. This is not a philosophical matter, despite your efforts to elevate it to the stature of aesthetics. It’s a disease, with well-known symptoms and consequences. People like you, who are fascinated by death are terribly destructive, of others and of themselves. You’re a textbook case.
Necrophilia is defined as:
The passionate attraction to all that is dead, decayed, putrid, sickly; it is the passion to transform that which is alive into something unalive; to destroy for the sake of destruction… It is the passion to tear apart living structures.
That is the language you use, especially about the Jews, the Israelis, and the Americans. It’s all about the rot of death, and the stink of death, as when you said that Israel is a “rotten and stinking corpse” that is destined to disappear, and you went on to proclaim that Israel “has reached the end like a dead rat.”
As I say, you’re a textbook case of mental illness. And we’re very well acquainted with the political consequences of your diseased mind. It’s all about fascism.
Fascists like you have always loved death. Hitler’s SS had a death skull on their insignia, and celebrated a brave death. As you say you do. And, like Hitler, you don’t just love death because of its aesthetics. You think that martyrs — suicide bombers, of whom you claim to have recruited some forty thousand, for example — have geopolitical significance. You say that “all independent nations are indebted to martyrs,” and your website modestly claims that the oppressed peoples of the world all love Iran’s leaders, particularly you and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. (That doesn’t sound right at all, by the way. Have you polled the Burmese and the Chinese, or the North Koreans? I haven’t heard them singing your praises, frankly).
But there’s a big difference between you and the Nazi leaders. You, and your fellow Iranian leaders, don’t actually fight. With the exception of your Revolutionary Guards forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, very few Iranians put themselves on the line (and even your foreign legions rarely fight, and when they are captured, they often give us the information we need to defeat you, as we have in Iraq and soon will in Afghanistan). You lure others to die, but you’re not willing to put your own lives on the line. You talk a lot about the “culture of martyrdom,” but in practice it’s not Iranians who blow themselves up. I don’t know of a single case of an Iranian suicide bomber in Iraq or Afghanistan. They’re all Arabs: Saudis, north Africans, and the odd Syrian tossed in for ethnic balance. But not Iranians. All of which tells me that your big talk about martyrdom is phony. Martyrdom is for others — in the current campaign, others you and most other Iranians despise, like the Arabs — but you’re not about to blow yourself up, or send your comrades to blow yourselves up.
You’ve won the status of the world’s leading antisemite, which is not easy, and you’ve lied about it a lot. Indeed, you have denied — on CBS television — hating any religion, which is manifestly false; you’ve been seen on Iranian TV spouting venom against all non-Muslims, with special contempt for Christians and Jews. But, when you are talking to the infidels, you pretend to be tolerant. For a guy who has distinctly medieval convictions — your very literal belief in the imminent return of the Shiite messiah, your beloved Twelfth Imam, and the onset of the End of Days, for example — you’ve certainly mastered some of the nuances of contemporary Western politics. You never chant “death to the Jews!” It’s always “death to Israel!” Or “death to the Zionists!” Or “death to America!”
That’s entirely in keeping with the “new” antisemitism. It’s always about Zionists, or the Israel lobby, or the lackeys of Sharon. But every now and then you just can’t resist, and out it comes. Instead of remembering to say that you respect all monotheistic religions, you tell your followers “We are in the process of a historical war between the World of Arrogance and the Islamic world, and this war has been going on for hundreds of years.” Zionists haven’t been around that long. And your followers aren’t nearly as careful with their language as you are. The Iranian creation, Hezbollah, told us in 1992 that they were engaged in “ an open war until the elimination of Israel and until the death of the last Jew on earth.” And ten years later, the leader of the “Party of God,” Lebanese Sheikh Nasrallah, was quoted by the Lebanon Daily Star, encouraging all the Jews to move to Israel, the better to annihilate them in one blow. “If they all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”
Your senior adviser, Mohammad Ali Ramin (said to be the man behind your infamous Holocaust Denial Conference), says the Jews have been accused of spreading deadly plagues throughout history because “they are very filthy people.” And, almost in the same breath, he added, “So long as Israel exists in the region there will never be peace and security in the Middle East…so the resolution of the Holocaust issue will end in the destruction of Israel.”
That you are engaged in a global campaign to destroy the Jews is evident from your actions as well as your words; Hezbollah and the Iranian regime were joint partners in the bombing of the Jewish Social Center in Buenos Aires in 1994.
There’s obviously a big difference for you between dead Muslims and dead Jews; it’s only your dead that count; ours don’t count as martyrs. This is the point of your infamous diatribes against the very idea of the Holocaust. “ (The Zionists and their agents) have concocted a myth of deprivation and innocence for the Jews of Europe,” you’ve said. “They use this pretext of the innocence of Jews and the suffering of some Jews during the Second World War…” We know all about that line, “the pretext of innocence.” It’s been the trademark of antisemites for centuries.
In short, you’re not what you say you are. You’re a poseur, a fraud, a vulgar chauvinist pretending to be an inspired religious leader. You’ve proclaimed Iran “the most powerful and independent country in the world.” The implication of that silly claim is that the weaker and dependent nations — that is, everyone else in the world — must bend to your will. You’ve said this more than once and in somewhat different ways, as when you said that the Iranian people must prepare themselves to rule the world.
Those statements are very surprising, coming from one of the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Those words put you in direct conflict with the founder, Ayatollah Rohallah Khomeini. On the Air France plane carrying him to Tehran, Khomeini famously proclaimed that nationalism was paganism, that he didn’t give a hoot about Iran, and that his revolution was for all of Islam, not for one country. Indeed, if Iran perished in order to advance the global triumph of Islam, it would be fine with him.
So what’s up with your pagan statement about the glory of Iran? You constantly claim to be the heir to Khomeini, a true believer in the imminent return of the 12th Imam, but as a matter of fact you embrace an heretical doctrine. The 12th Imam is supposed to bring about the global triumph of the Muslim peoples, as Khomeini said. Not Iran. And another thing: you often talk as if global chaos and conflagration were welcome, because it would hasten the Mahdi’s arrival. But Khomeini did not say that, nor did he act as if he believed it. Quite the contrary, in fact: When an Iranian passenger plane was accidentally shot down by an American missile, he didn’t welcome it at all; he surrendered. That American missile ended the Iran-Iraq war.
You’d do well to study the history of your own country, which so far as I know is the only one to have had a Jewish queen — Esther, of the Purim story. The Book of Esther recounts the life and death of one of your direct predecessors, the evil politician Haman, who convinced his ruler, Ahasverous, to order the massacre of the Jews of the Persian Empire. The Book of Esther nicely summarizes what happens to those, like you, who attempt to destroy the Jewish people. Haman and his sons were hanged; then, a few days later, in the fighting he had authorized, some 75,000 Persians were killed by their would-be Jewish victims, and Esther reigned.
It’s your destiny, too.
I don’t know exactly how you will be destroyed. There are many possible scenarios, most of which you’ve undoubtedly contemplated in your reflections on the beauty of death. My own favorite is to turn your own hate upon yourself and your regime, and fulfill your dream of a world without Jews. You don’t want to be contaminated by us, right? Very well, then we’ll seal you off from everyone and everything Jewish. The ultimate embargo: You’ll have no Jewish doctors or lawyers, no access to Jewish hospitals, you’ll be isolated from music or art by Jews, and everything invented by Jews. It’s quite a long list, including chemotherapy, the cure for syphilis, the polio vaccine, blue jeans, oral contraceptives, azathioprine (the first immuno suppressant used in organ transplants), septicemia (treatment for bacterial infections), the Barbie doll, hand-held video cameras, various antibiotics including streptomycin and penicillin, the push-up bra, and, of course, most everything nuclear (sorry about that) including the fission reactor (as you must know, the American atomic bomb began with a letter to President Roosevelt from two Jewish physicists, and the Manhattan Project involved numerous others).
Poetic justice, don’t you think? You’ll be throttled by your own bile.
Why was there no media coverage of the demonstration against Ahmadinejad today?
I saw no NY Times stories and none either on CNN.
Michael:
I think this letter should be personally delivered, by air mail — taped to the front end of a Cruise Missile.
Its a nice piece but Ahmadinejad will just get a big laugh out of it. You site lots of history to make your points. I don’t agree that he is mentally ill, he after all is being very successful pushing his agenda against apparently huge odds. But the odds of him getting thrown out of office due to outside forces are zero and no internal revolution will happen.
The Iranians, after the shah was ousted, accepted the culture of death. In the Iran Iraq war they offered parents about $14K if they sent a son to the war front and he died. They also threw in the usual several dozen virgins etc. Families packed their sons off by the 100 thousands. Do your really believe a population that does that objects to Ahmadinejad?
The Iraqi’s could not muster the courage to depose Sadam after his disastrous war with Iran, his disastrous occupation of Kuwait and the years of terrible living under the sanctions.
Just as the exiled Iraqi dissidents where just noise so are the exiled Iranians.
As long as Ahmadinejad makes no major blunder that brings in an invading army, he will be in power for a very long time.
Gibberish from a moron.
Outstanding article, Mr Ledeen. It cuts through all the petty and stupid contemporary politics and brings it back to the moral center. Ahmadinejad and his cronies are evil, murderous barbarians who need to be annihilated. Oh, and the comment from salvage wasn’t aimed at ML I hope. If so, salvage is a moral cretin.
Michael, it’s good to see that you are wearing the mantle that Emile Zola assumed when he wrote, “J’Accuse”.
Thank goodness there are various ways to deal with man’s inhumanity to man.
Mr. Ledeen, I agree and thank you for your thoughts in your letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Although I doubt he will ever read it. It would be my sincerest desire that we put crazy little Mahmoud on a little origami boat, light it on fire and push him out into the sea and then maybe, he would disappear and be out of all our minds. Rather, he continues to be a big carbuncle on our collective asses.
Mr. Ledeen,
Once again you and your fellow Neocon’s show your true lack of knowledge with respect to international affairs and foreign policy.
This letter if indeed serious, shows your true incompetent and arrogant mentality. I laughed out loud when i read this “letter”. I am an Iranian, and I have no hate or disdain for my President. You will probably try to paint me as a rich government insider, but on the contrary, I am an engineer, educated and trained in Iran. I have a wife and two normal happy kids, and we life in Tehran and have a very regular life. I frequent Europe often for my job’s conferences, or meetings with clients and I am shocked at the ignorance of you and the american people in believing you.
There are no death squads in Iran, there are no such demonstrations or police brutality that you speak of. You sir, have never been to Iran, much less the Iran of today.
Sure we have our problems both domestically and amonng our people, but thats not a sign of our governments collapse or of our governments fall. On the contrary, Iran has been the most stable country in the Middle East the past 30 years because of the people’s support for our regime and government. Might I remind you that our government was ushered in by the people or Iran, and unlike the Shah’s government, we have elections and people that are responsible to us. You may make your bellicose claims and scare people in America, but in reality, the world, and indeed many Iranians laugh at your idiotic remarks and your blatant ignorance of Iran. Please get your sources correct.
Sincerely,
A true Iranian.
The interesting thing about President Ahmadinejad is that by Nazi Germany standards he looks and fits the profile for being Jewish, possible part of the lost tribes from Esthers time in Persian Empire. He looks just like the poster samples from Nazi Germany and so would have been sent to the concentration camps and in time would have been gassed. Seems ironic that is what he wants for Israel today. I wonder what the Revolutionary Ayatollahs would do to him if they confirmed he was Jewish from way back? Would he hang along side all the raped and battered women or with the gay men, or would they stone him? Or in all kindness allow him to migrate to Israel minus all his worldly goods? He has the looks the Nazi sort; the question is does Ahmadinejad have Jewish DNA?
You said what all of us have wanted to say: “As I say, you’re a textbook case of mental illness. And we’re very well acquainted with the political consequences of your diseased mind. It’s all about fascism.” Wonderful piece. Thanks
ML: So say it. And keep saying it.
Sam, you’re a regime agent. Mr. Ledeen doesn’t need to paint you with any thing. I do, as an Iranian. You’re a regime goon and please shut up!
Salvage, you’re a little bitch. Ahmedinejad’s little bitch.
When we wipe Iran, NOT ISRAEL, off the face of the earth, I hope you’re there for the party…
Mr. Sam,
Were you born yesterday?!
Enough said!
Iran is a free and democratic country if you are not one of the following:
1. An editor of a newspaper who writes anything critical about the regime. He gets jailed and his newspaper closed off.
2. A Canadian journalist taking photos in Iran. She gets jailed and her skull gets crushed (that hurts).
3. A pregnant woman working in a barber shop. She gets accused of adultery and meets the firing squad the next morning.
4. Anyone deemed not dressed modestly. He/She gets jailed and possibly beaten.
5. A gay person. Well, he just gets shot. Oh, sorry Ahmadinejad said they don’t have gays in Iran. Must have had already killed them all before his speech.
6. A candidate for the presidency or parliament not approved by the Guardian Counsel. He just gets disqualified to run. Doesn’t get shot or anything.
7. A boy and a girl having launch together. They used to get arrested. I think as long as they don’t hold hand these days they are probably ok.
8. A woman accused of having sex with a man she is not married to. She gets barried in the ground up to her chest and stoned to death. Ironically, a murderer just gets hanged. So, it is more evil to have sex than to kill an innocent person.
9. A woman without a veil. Gets arrested and beaten. It is just not fun without some torture.
10. Born into a Bahai’s faith. They used to gets killed by regime mobs. These days they just get kicked out of school and work place.
11. Anyone daring to organize a demonstration against the regime. One or all of the above!
12. Anyone who is executed but later found innocent. He is proclaimed to be a “Shahid” and moved to the special grave for “Shahids.”
But if you are wealthy enough to afford living there, and are not one of the above, the regime is a great one.
Sam, Sam, Sam! No death squads? Are you death, dumb and stuppid? Or is it just that your beloved government has censored your brain as well?
FYI, here is the link to the article “Dying to Kill” in Zanan Magazine.
M. Nissimov, Y. Mansharof and A. Savyon, “Iranian Women’s Magazine Shut Down for Publishing Investigative Article on Martyrdom Movement,” Memri Inquiry and Analysis Series – No. 439 May 22, 2008, http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA43908
The God of Israel, the One True God, is bringing events together to destroy the “tents of Edom.” Because of their centuries-long enmity against Jews and Christians, God has spoken His Word and it will soon come to pass. I’m afraid many Jews will perish at the hand of the King of the North (Russia) and Persia (Iran), but the house of Muhammed WILL NOT SURVIVE. We need to pray for the salvation of over 1 billion Muslim souls that will indeed perish. Bittersweet to say the least.
Now tell us how you really feel, Mr. Ledeen. LoL.
Great piece! Thank you.
To SAF: It won’t take an army. Ahmadinejad will leave when Khamenei tells him to.
Or when we bomb the majlis while in session & Ahmadinejad is in attendance.
I like this 2nd option.
waste of time (sorry). What happened to the move to indict him for advocating genocide, which would–at the very least–embarass him?
Winston,
And you are who????? I am not a regime agent you imbecile, I am just a normal person with a normal family. People like you that claim to be “Iranian” really put other Iranians to shame. You have no sense of country or people, you are traitor to your people and its a shame.
And explain what “regime agent” means???? i guess agents of the FBI, or CIA are also considered regime agents?? right.
The fact is that the United States cannot stop iran from attaining nuclear power for electricity purposes. That in itself is not illegal. Iran as a signatory to the NPT has the right to develop and use peaceful nuclear energy. if you have a legal basis for your argument please come forward, if not, stop spewing your bs about “regime agents”…hahaha..wow, and then you wonder why people around the world hate the US “regime”.
Mr. Ledeen, thanks as usual for your output.
Sam, re: people hating the USA – Iran is currently the no.1 most hated nation in the world. ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_04_08_globalview.pdf ). Israel, sadly, is second I believe, but then, we already knew that there is a lot of ignorance in the world.
The Islamic regime took Iran, a rapidly-modernising country with a robust economy and a growing middle-class and the respect of the world at the time of the Shah’s reign, and turned it into a loser, pariah state – broken of purpose, ruined of morality – the rule of the cunning-and-hateful-but-ultimately-stupid. The rulers of Iran and their followers are an embarassment, and have brought shame on Iranians present and future. Iran is run by black-hearted crooks and hypocrits whose dictates are enforced by the paid murderers and thugs of the State.
Sam, why is it that most young Iranians are desparate to leave their country? Are they also traitors? Or just sensible? Not everyone has the courage to stand up to the regime, knowing that they and their family will probably pay the price with their freedom and their lives. All regimes based on fear rely on this. Iran, along with China, is the number 1 killer of it’s own people amongst all nations. I am chilled by how easily you call Winston a traitor.
May God help roll back the darkness that has fallen on my country.
Cyrus, the founder of the first Persian Empire, restored the Jewish people, fallen into bondage in Babylon, to their homeland of Israel, and rebuilt the Temple. For this he was honoured.
Perhaps it’s too much to ask Israel to repay the favour by removing from the Iranian people the yoke of the Islamic regime, given the current circumstances.
Do we just wait until such a time that Iran can quietly dispose of its failed Islamic ideology, much like China did with its Communist policy?
At Last! I see the error of my ways. The Iranian Contributor done brushed the scales from my eyes. All these years I foolishly believed the international press were giving the world true and accurate accounts of :
(a) the child-martyr mine-sweeping brigades, made to walk in cheap pyjamas and barefoot before the armed Iranian soldiers to clear paths through Iraqi minefields with their pathetic scrawny bodies;
(b) the arrest, torture, summary trials, and execution of tens of thousands of dissenters, dissidents, communists, unionists, evangelical Christians, insufficiently modest or chaste Muslim females, homosexuals, adulterers, and other conspicuous enemies of the Mullahs;
(c) the accelerating preparations by Iran for war – nuclear weapons development, ballistic missile development, etc.
Obviously, all the photos and videos of public executions and corpses dangling from industrial cranes like chickens on display at the butcher’s — those are all fakes. It’s a vast Jewish conspiracy. Ahmadinejad and friends are really a bunch of sweet blokes I would quite fancy meeting at the pub for a round of tea and cakes and a game of skittles.
Sorry it’s taken so long to wrap my head around that. Now I see, it really is the Mainstream Media who have been lying to us all along. Where to I send away for my Convert-to-the-Persian-Islamic-Death-Cult application?
Nice letter, though it is too bad it’s not in the form of a nuclear missile headed for the Majlis while Nejad is speaking there one day.
Yes, the unfortunate and painful reality though is that our President Bush has joined the “Axis of Fear” on Iran: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,428265,00.html
As long as Iran-appeasers and spineless morons like Condi Rice(who knows next to nothing about foregin policy), and of course the illustrious Bob Gates(yellow Bob) are in charge of our Iran policy, I am afraid Sam is right: Nejad will live to be a 100-years old and win another 2 terms as president.
In fact, why don’t we wish them well on that while Condi is still here and still able to “F” things up with all of our enemies?
I guess this means that there’ll be an Iran invasion/bombing soon… I’ll try to remember to duck&cover. I say this given the recent rhetoric run-up on both sides. I fear the narrow-minded viewpoint of your letter will be implemented as more disastrous Bush administration policy. Bush has four more months to destroy the nation — is that why you say “Faster, Please?”
Is there any reason why you feel such a strong need to get a war started — beginning with the disrespectful tone of your letter. I am in no way a fan of President Ahmadinejad, however, I feel that the actions of this administration (that you’ve spearheaded) will lead to unecessary violence against Israel. For starters, it might be a good idea to understand the source of your hatred much like your attempted psychoanalysis of Pres. Ahmadinejad:
Nobody, not even Jimmy Carter — who dismissed the 1950’s US-lead coup that installed the Shah of Iran as “old history.” — Seems to see our direct role in inspiring Islamic militants. The US has been messing with Iran for over half-a century. Soon after Iran got its first democratically elected government, the US launched a coup from within the US embassy in Tehran that installed the brutal dictator “The Shah of Iran” and we gave him weapons and spy/communication equipment to create a police state. Decades later when Iran finally deposed the shah in a revolution — they thought back to the 1950’s when the US launched an attack against their free and fairly elected government from within the US embassy … From Iran’s perspective, the entire “hostage crisis” was a tactical maneuver to prevent a repeat of what America did in the 50’s — install a brutal dictator and setup a police-state… again! And when Iran’s president starts with the anti-American propaganda … what he says resonates within the country because everybody knew someone who was imprisoned, tortured, disappeared, murdered or raped under US authority, with US weapons, with US spy equipment and radios… by the US-installed puppet dictator. It’s very convenient for the owners of FOX news to forget to report this little detail on why Iran is a problem — it’s a problem because we made it a problem, just like all the other governments we prop up and people we oppress, just so we can drive our SUV’s around and enrich bush’s oill buddies in Texas, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi, and Myanmar.
Please stop messing with the world. It was a much better place before you lot started stirring the pot by helping promote a hatred of Israel in the Arab world — used as “fascist” cover to the kleptocracies that are impoverishing and holding back the people of their nations. That is the source of the “terror masters” — the USA’s own policies that support arab fascist oil regimes to the detriment of their citizens. The opposite dialectic — “war on terror” — is the west’s cover for it’s own kleptocrats, who you so happily represent.
You people don’t even care about Israel other than your own death-march towards “salvation” via “armageddon.” You’re happy to plant parallel-ideologies in both the middle east and the west; ideologies that have no chance of ever meeting in the hopes of kindling a perpetual war. You and the fascist administration’s business and military buddies will be there to collect all the pieces in the fire-sale when the battle(s) are all over. You get your “creative destruction” and the neo-crucaders get their Armageddon.
Got any comments on my recent blog entry:
http://nielsmayer.com/roller/NielsMayer/entry/creative_destruction_at_work_is
Sam, a regime agent can be a normal person with family and a job to attend every day. LOL. I am a traitor to the regime that has occupied Iran since 1979 and am proud of it. The country I used to call Iran is now occupied by the likes of you and your beloved Mullahs. Please don’t lecture us on what country means or doesnt mean. What a fool!