theRepublic
01-02-2003, 10:47 AM
http://www.iran-press-service.com/godfather_of_terror_ 1103.htm
LONDON First of January 2003 "A mans ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death" Albert Einstein
No truer words were ever told and the people of Iran are in a gravely "poor way." They have had 24 years of living under the theocratic rule, where the slightest question, challenge, or criticism of the regime constitutes a criminal offence, many times punishable by death.
In the past, Iranians, like those who are now awaiting their deaths because they have been accused of treason or blasphemy, or whatever other charges that this system can formulate, have stood up bravely to challenge the system. Instances after instances, Shiite mollahs in this ancient land have tried to silence the Iranian people in order to sustain their power.
But no matter how many times the Basiji militia are sent to gag them with beatings and arrests, or how many times there are public floggings and executions as an example to the rest; the citizens of Iran are carrying on protesting, rallying and campaigning because their hunger for freedom can never be silenced.
These days the streets of the Iranian cities are filled with demonstrators, protesting and chanting freedom. Only a few days ago thousands of people of all diversities clashed with government forces in Ahvaz, provincial capital city of Khoozestan, which is the heartland of Iran’s oil industry. Thousands of students, government workers, school teachers, factory workers, journalists and even elderly men and women take to the streets, openly voicing their anger at the continued lack of freedom and repression.
Once again in Iran, the unrest is echoed throughout the land as they did 24 years ago.
The people of Iran, 70 per cent of which are under 35 years of age, have become impatient with religious dictatorship, unfulfilled promises, economic hardship, and provoked with living a life without basic fundamental human rights. Yet, the only voice of sympathy we hear is of president George W. Bush of America, but in the absence of a coherent US policy in support of Iranian people.
When Mr Khatami assumed the presidency, there were widespread hopes for a relaxation in the repression. It was thought that he was comparatively at least on the liberal wing. There were many in Iran and the outside world who cherished that hope. Alas, the high hopes have not been realised. Khatami has not been able to break the stronghold of the hard-line mollahs and the past 5 years have told a dismal story.
During his time in government, nearly 100 papers have been shut down, public executions and tortures have been increased. Imprisonment of university students, teachers, journalists and freedom lovers has become commonplace. This reveals the character of the breed of Islam that is ruling Iran today. The policy of this theocratic regime is devoted to instigating terror both domestically and foreign.
Indeed, we have seen time and time again the Islamic Republic as a key player in the terrorist network; namely Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qa’eda and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. More recently, it has even been reported that the bombs were delivered to Jama’ah Islamiyah in Bali, "Indonesia" by Hezbollah operatives who had been trained by experts from the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards.
It is now a common knowledge that for nearly 24 years, the Islamic Republic has been financing, training, equipping and harbouring fundamentalist and terrorist groups in order to distract attention from what is really taking place on its own doorstep.
Before the Islamic revolution of 1979, Iran produced over 6 million barrels of oil per day. Since the gas and oil industry has been politicised, today they are hard pressed to produce just over half that amount. In the meantime, the population has doubled in size. Whilst there is economic hardship, high unemployment, gross depreciation of the Rial (National Iranian currency) and high inflation, the Revolutionary government is pounding its finances to develop weapons of mass destruction, to fuel violence and thus nourishing all elements of instability for their own survival.
The people of Iran need and deserve the support and solidarity of the world community in freeing the country of the current regime and for it to be replaced with a secular government that demands democracy, rejects militant fundamentals and repudiate the concept of a supreme leader "The Godfather of Terror" that rules over other divine law.
LONDON First of January 2003 "A mans ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death" Albert Einstein
No truer words were ever told and the people of Iran are in a gravely "poor way." They have had 24 years of living under the theocratic rule, where the slightest question, challenge, or criticism of the regime constitutes a criminal offence, many times punishable by death.
In the past, Iranians, like those who are now awaiting their deaths because they have been accused of treason or blasphemy, or whatever other charges that this system can formulate, have stood up bravely to challenge the system. Instances after instances, Shiite mollahs in this ancient land have tried to silence the Iranian people in order to sustain their power.
But no matter how many times the Basiji militia are sent to gag them with beatings and arrests, or how many times there are public floggings and executions as an example to the rest; the citizens of Iran are carrying on protesting, rallying and campaigning because their hunger for freedom can never be silenced.
These days the streets of the Iranian cities are filled with demonstrators, protesting and chanting freedom. Only a few days ago thousands of people of all diversities clashed with government forces in Ahvaz, provincial capital city of Khoozestan, which is the heartland of Iran’s oil industry. Thousands of students, government workers, school teachers, factory workers, journalists and even elderly men and women take to the streets, openly voicing their anger at the continued lack of freedom and repression.
Once again in Iran, the unrest is echoed throughout the land as they did 24 years ago.
The people of Iran, 70 per cent of which are under 35 years of age, have become impatient with religious dictatorship, unfulfilled promises, economic hardship, and provoked with living a life without basic fundamental human rights. Yet, the only voice of sympathy we hear is of president George W. Bush of America, but in the absence of a coherent US policy in support of Iranian people.
When Mr Khatami assumed the presidency, there were widespread hopes for a relaxation in the repression. It was thought that he was comparatively at least on the liberal wing. There were many in Iran and the outside world who cherished that hope. Alas, the high hopes have not been realised. Khatami has not been able to break the stronghold of the hard-line mollahs and the past 5 years have told a dismal story.
During his time in government, nearly 100 papers have been shut down, public executions and tortures have been increased. Imprisonment of university students, teachers, journalists and freedom lovers has become commonplace. This reveals the character of the breed of Islam that is ruling Iran today. The policy of this theocratic regime is devoted to instigating terror both domestically and foreign.
Indeed, we have seen time and time again the Islamic Republic as a key player in the terrorist network; namely Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qa’eda and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. More recently, it has even been reported that the bombs were delivered to Jama’ah Islamiyah in Bali, "Indonesia" by Hezbollah operatives who had been trained by experts from the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards.
It is now a common knowledge that for nearly 24 years, the Islamic Republic has been financing, training, equipping and harbouring fundamentalist and terrorist groups in order to distract attention from what is really taking place on its own doorstep.
Before the Islamic revolution of 1979, Iran produced over 6 million barrels of oil per day. Since the gas and oil industry has been politicised, today they are hard pressed to produce just over half that amount. In the meantime, the population has doubled in size. Whilst there is economic hardship, high unemployment, gross depreciation of the Rial (National Iranian currency) and high inflation, the Revolutionary government is pounding its finances to develop weapons of mass destruction, to fuel violence and thus nourishing all elements of instability for their own survival.
The people of Iran need and deserve the support and solidarity of the world community in freeing the country of the current regime and for it to be replaced with a secular government that demands democracy, rejects militant fundamentals and repudiate the concept of a supreme leader "The Godfather of Terror" that rules over other divine law.