Showing posts with label iran. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Iran: Hope for the Green Revolution


As the situation in Iran deteriorates, we can only hope and wish that a positive outcome will result for this conflicted country: a complete reversal from the dictatorial clutches of its suffocating theocracy.

Recent reports show that the brutal death of 16-year-old Neda Soltani, an innocent bystander who was shot during a street rally, is pushing the Iranian people onto the brink - the brink of a revolution that this region so desperately needs.

Iranians are hungry for democratic reform. They are tired of being dismissed as a rogue state that threatens nuclear destruction by the international community. The Iranians are denouncing their crazed leader President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with shouts of "death to the dicator!", particularly shocking in a nation that brutally supresses free speech and executes individuals for infidelity.

The Iranian leadership scoffed at President Obama's previous overtures for open dialogue, but the images and footage of protests online indicate that the people think otherwise.

We need to continue to support the Iranian people by providing them with today's weapons: access and resources to the Internet, online support groups, blogs, anything that will give them a voice for the rest of the world to hear, the voice that truly represents the real Iran boiling beneath the grip of a Hitlerish madman and his brainwashed minions.

- Anthony Shelley

Image courtesy of Daily News.
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Political Commentary

"Don't Poke the Bear in the Cage, John"
Elliot Jacobsen

The Associated Press reported this tonight:

“Sen. John McCain called Wednesday for the construction of 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030…"

This comes after months and months of propaganda circulating about the nuclear aspirations of Iran. George Bush is slowly building a case with the support of John McCain to support a “hypothetical” invasion of Iran. They defend their upcoming increased pressure by telling the American people they are using “every avenue” of diplomacy.

We all know this is a blatant lie.

George Bush and John McCain have a quite dubious record of accomplishment being anything but diplomatic. The war in Iraq handled poorly, poorly pitched, and the fact it still rages at this hour should be the first warning sign of certain failure of Bush and McCain’s “Cowboy Diplomacy.” This call for 45 nuclear reactors is one more in the many foreign policy failures we have made these past 8 years.

Let us elaborate on the connection here.

Bush’s policy in Iran is that they as a country may not have any nuclear aspirations at all. They may not enrich uranium. They simply need to delete the word nuclear from their collective lexicon. George Bush has been selling the war to Americans as some sort of doomsday event if Iran does harness nuclear energy. We all must remember this speech:



I really do not understand this sort of rhetoric. On one hand, these people speak on diplomacy but on the next breath, speak of a World War III fear tactic. Now with 45 proposed additional power plants that John McCain would like to add to our already 101 currently active nuclear plants, we are telling Iran that we can do whatever we want in nuclear research and the Iranians cannot do anything.

This self-important status has plagued our nation for many years. The unwillingness to see that not every nation is out to get us will cause grief that is even more considerable in the future. Why should we not allow Iran to enrich uranium?

We will have to have it under a strict inspection process from U.N. Weapons inspectors. Iran would be under the biggest microscope the world as ever seen with not any the United States watching them but the World Community.

This would do wonders for us. We would break out of the reputation the Bush Administration created. The World thinks of us an isolationist and warmongers. It would increase willingness to help us both in the ending and with drawl of troops in Iraq.

It would help in this ongoing forgotten war waged in Afghanistan as we could refocus our full effort with a rejuvenated coalition of nations committed to destroying Al-Qaeda and bringing Osama Bin Laden to justice.

I may not be the most knowledgeable political mind there is. That honor in my opinion went to the great late Tim Russert. However, with the rising hostilities between Iran and the United States about the “Nuclear” issue…why would John McCain poke the big bears in the cage and say, “We can build reactors but you can’t? Nah, nah, nah.”

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