Iran: A Brief Look Inside The Insider's

Ayatollah Khomeini said that 60,000 men, women and children were martyred for the cause of revolution. After the revolution, Khomeini had several thousands executed for the cause. During the early eighties Amnesty International documented 2,946 executions for the cause post Iranian Revolution. The anti-regime guerrillas, The Peoples Mujahedin of Iran, have reported several more thousands since. These people executed were Iranians. These people executed were Shia Muslims. The Iranian Cleric have no problem killing Shia Muslims on the slightest pretext. Supporting the Taliban and frustrating US/NATO assistance in Afghanistan and by extension the region will assuage any sense of guilt you assign the Iranian Cleric's. If the Iranian Cleric's disliked Osama and al-Qaeda as much as you want us to believe, and were so taken by the deaths of Shia Muslims at their hands. The Iranian Cleric's would not have allowed Sulaiman Abu Ghaith and so many others to return to Afghanistan. Nor would they  allow Iran to be a safe haven and hold training bases for the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

I would have agreed with you,if  information were not based on propganda literature printed in US and Western newspapers(in fact, toilet papers).Every revolution has always been bloody,including the American revolution.Those who want to bring about a revolution,know its cost in terms of human lives.What to say of revolutions,even military coup is never bloodless.

What is happening in Pakistan?Places of worship,belonging to Shi'ites and Sunnis both, are blown up.It is proxy war going on between Saudi Arabia and Iran,both providing support to fundamentalists of both the sects;Saudi Arabia to Sunnis,Iran to Shi'ites.Iranian establishment may kill Shi'ites at home,but under no circumstance would support anti-Shi'ite elements anywhere.This,I repeat,is a baseless propaganda against Iran.

Haven't you gone through the news item,published couple of weeks back,that two MI6 agents were caught and expelled from Afghanistan for funding the Taliban units.In Dec.,2007 same thing happened,two MI6 agents,Marvyn Patterson and Michael Semple,were deported from Afghanistan for the same reason.Taliban are recipients of funds from various sources,including USA.It is practically next to impossible to discern who is a Taliban agent and who is a CIA agent,both work hands in gloves.Iran comes nowhere in between,except in misleading propaganda launched by US empire and its Western stooges,especially Britain,the running dog of the neo-imperialists.

There's differences of revolutions. Orchestrating a revolution to thwart an oppressive regime only to replace it with a more oppressive regime can not then justify those who died for the sake of any good. Supporting Shia Muslims to kill Sunni Muslims inevitably gets Shia Muslims killed. Supporting Sunni Muslims to kill Shia Muslims inevitably gets Sunni Muslims killed. In effect each sect is fully supporting the death of their own fellow adherents. The reason, which escapes me, as there is no fundamental religious difference.

@thirty-aught-six.I fully agree with you.Return of Shah of Iran and overthrow of Mossadeq in a coup staged by CIA paved way for return of Ayatollah Khumeni,which resulted in establishment of a theocratic state in Iran.The problem is protection of geo-political and economic interests of the neo-empire and erstwhile colonialists by installation of oppressive and brutal puppet regimes.A progressive Mossadeq  would have changed the course of Iranian history;clerics would have never been at the helm of affairs.

The return of Ayatollah was exploited by the Iranian clergy to install a theocracy and it had Ayatollah's backing.The audi-cassettes of Khominie which were released and secretly smuggled into Iran ignited the politico-religious passions and ferver ultimately turning into mass hysteria.Those who wanted a secular Iran,an Iran where state had to distance itself from church lost their voices.

My point is that Mossadeq's overthrow,unintenionally and inadvertently,created those circumstances that Iranians were left with that choice,which West has had to call an evil.And Regan's deal with Khominie on hostage issue too altered the political equations in favour of clergy.Mossadeq's overthrow was the begining,a theocratic Iran is the end,so far.

Tyrants arise out of the freedoms mankind hold dear. All Tyrants hold themselves as the exception to their own dictates. That is the fundamental prejudice of tyranny. The Tyrant and his henchmen never go without as the people dominated by their tyranny are tools to that end. Khomeini fled to Paris, France. The place holder of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", to devise his rise to power of conquest over those very principles of human values. Mossadeq's time clock was already ticking down CIA intervention or not. The seed of Khomeini's thinking was found inside Iran and supported by Iranians. Just as it was for the CIA. Just as Marx was able to find "believers" in Russia, and Mao in China, and Castro in Cuba, and Pinochet in Chile, and Peron in Argentina. It's always nice to have someone to blame but, eventually the real responsibility lies with the people surrendering their values in the promise of getting something for nothing. As proven down through the ages -the promise of something for nothing ends up costing the individual everything.

Neither tyrany nor tyrants arise out of freedoms mankind holds dear.Tyrany and tyrants existed even before such empty phrases like" Liberty,Equality,Fraternity were invented to hoodwink the subjugated and enslaved natives by European colonial powers.Ask an Algerian and he will tell you what these bogus claims of the French mean to him.

"......(T)he yellow and black voices still spoke of our humanism but only to reproach us with our inhumanity..."-Jean Paul Sartre in preface to 'The Wretched of the Earth'.French colonized Algeria to promote what they held dearer to their hearts,beating for Liberty,Equality and Fraternity.But tyranical methods had to be employed,Khomenie chose that land to learn those methods to promote French words which had no meanings for the natives.French tyrany in Algeria arose out of  freedoms which Algerians had to be denied.There are two kinds of freedoms:one for mother country;one for natives.British rule in India never granted democracy to Indians,despite the fact that the Britishers held democracy close to their imperial heart.

"I don't see why to stand by and watch a country go communist due to irresponsibility of its own people"-Henry Kissinger.(how nice Kissinger is blaming people)Watch ticked down for Allende,CIA or no CIA.Watch also ticked down for Patrice Lumumba,Che Guavara.Something went terribly wrong with Lenin,Mao,Castro,Ho Chi Minh and Allende.They all were tyrants,had never attended any school of European and American humanity;followed Marx,not  John Locke,Adam Smith and David Ricardo.

( Liberty, Equality, Fraternity were invented to hoodwink the subjugated and enslaved natives by European colonial powers)  -Actually, these values, among others, were the expressions of the French revolution and not a tool for subjugation but, the exact opposite. One of many rallying cries in the pursuit of a French republic and incorporated into the French Constitution.  India, post independence,  not only adopted democratic governance, they also adopted the British parliamentary system, and have incorporated the French ideals of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, which can be read in the preamble to the Constitution of India. From the preamble of the Algerian Constitution 1996: Having fought and still fighting for freedom and democracy, the Algerian people, by this Constitution, decided to build constitutional institutions based on the participation of any Algerian, man and woman, in the management of public affairs; and on the ability to achieve social Justice, equality and freedom for all. ( Liberty, Equality, Fraternity).

These values were expression of the French revolution,which were meant only for the French,not subjects of the French empire.How the natives were treated by French colonialists,subjects by the British empire in Algeria,India and other colonies is documented history.Apartheid was practised in South Africa by the self-styled upholders of these eternal values,a gift of French revolution to a limited section of the mankind.

Whatever has been incorporated in the Indian constitution is meant for consumption of Indians and international community.How much are these values adhered to,read how Dalits and minorities are treated.

Eradication of ideological colonism is mere wishful thinking.This is the age of capitalism of empire,associated with market driven economy with promotional rewards by the two most notorious institutions,the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.We have moved out of the realm of physical colonialism into another danger zone,that is ideological colonization.If people of a country do not want capitalistic path of development,are not willing to accomodate neo-rober barons because of their irresponsibility,neo-empire doesn't stand by and watch.Ideologies,alien and unsuitable to a country,have to be imposed by effecting regime change through wars.In short,we are moving from one form of babarism to another form.

Capitalism is not an ideology. Capitalism is a economic system by which the means of production and distribution are privately owned. Founded on the principle of private property. And has produced the highest standard of living. The individuals access to capital and right to property generates wealth and is a positive influence on the common good. Like democracy, capitalism is the best of all systems tried.  

Capitalism is not an ideology,so must not be communism;democracy is not an ideology,so is not dictatorship.The former best system of exploitation tried so far,the later brutal dictatorship.Are capitalism and democracy supplementry and complimentry to each other.Why Chinese,the most favoured trading partner of US imperialists,have two systems,capitalism being one of them without having democracy,a hoax and humbug.

Madoff gained capital by robing others of their life time savings.In capitalism few have access to capital,majority to hunger.Since India has chosen capitalistic path of development,adovcated by neo-liberals,the economic disparities have widened and 77 percent of the population is living on less than Rs.20.00($0.38) a day.Although India has more billionaires than Japan.In US majority of couples have to work two jobs or more than 10 hours a day just to make both the ends meet.

The governing power never remains with the slaves,even if they have right to elect their masters.That is why I call democracy a myth we live by.Never form of governments matters,it is governance.

In India,you are qouting official figures,which are always plethora of lies,the situation is so grim that only one who is aware of ground realities.Food grains perished in godowns and starvation deaths were reported which government officials,corrupt to the last drop of the blood,denied.From a pathetic rank of 124(2000) on Human Development Index India fell to 127 in2001.And China had HDI of 81,whereas in 2000 the rank of China was 99.

And what would like to say about thousands of farmers who have committed suicide?The farmers whose land has been grabbed by the government and given to MNCs at a pittance.Do not rely on propaganda,otherwise you will continue to believe that Saddam had WMDs.

Bernie Madoff