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The Iranians Are Revolting

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the most senior cleric in Iran, has again denounced the head-cracking, body-busting, rapine recommendations of cease and desist emanating from the kindly attention of the Basij militia under orders from a far grander ayatollah, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei who has unleashed an internal Armageddon on his own people. The people of Iran have become restive, demonstrating a slow, simmering disregard for theocratic authority, an insistence on Iranian-style democracy.

Such defiance cannot be countenanced. And truth be told, is immensely worrying to the Supreme Leader and his intransigently-fanatical clerical supporters. But are they the real authority in the country now? Some, who consider themselves experts on the political situation in the country hazard their own opinion, that Khamanei has become the tool of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps; radicalized beyond mere servitude to their theocratical masters.

The creed of Islamism has adapted itself to a far more insistent drum beating on behalf of hatred uber alles. Islamofascism now demonstrates fully why it was that the Nazis surrendered to their hysterical hatred of democracy and psyches and physiques inferior to that of the Nordic supreme manifestation of humanity perfected in the Aryan ideal. In the face of the world's denouncement, this country teetering on insolvency unhesitatingly proclaims its intent to build another ten nuclear enrichment facilities.

Just as Nazi Germany steered resources toward its goal of extermination of Jews, unheeding of their under-resourced military. Technology, manpower, planning, conflict-required materials, all were directed toward the completion of the intended Final Solution. Railways needed to move troops and supplies to the war fronts were used instead to ferry starving ghetto-dwellers to death camps. While the Allies bombed Dresden the Nazis Zyklon-B'd the Jews. Pesticides for a pestilence.

Nuclear warheads are Iran's Achilles heel, the Nazis' Final Solution. Each aspired to rule the world. Confident they were unstoppable. Stop them? Who, precisely? The United Nations whose feeble fulminations have inspired sneers from the Supreme Leader and his political lackeys; the combined righteous wrath of the European Union, the United States, doing their best to cudgel Russia and China o- side? Another country situated in the Middle East which, unlike Arab Islam, does not cower before the threat that Iran poses in its unshakable search for domination?

Or the people of Iran who no longer trust, respect and believe what they have been so assiduously taught by an administration anxious to deflect attention from itself, in fomenting fear and distrust of the intentions of the West? A new public, who, though proud of their country's brilliant attainment of nuclear power, may also believe that freedom is another need, one more powerful than nuclear devices? That same people who now rail against the absence of their human rights?

There is momentum, and there is now a real apprehension of that potential from a population among whom the courageous shout from rooftops their abhorrence of the tyrants that oppress them. The Iranian pro-democracy movement instilling the courage of determination in university students feeling the beat of an irreversible tide of change that will overwhelm the fanatic clerics' hold on the administration of the country and topple its president whose corrupt hold on power enrages them.

Foreign journals have been banned, telephone lines disabled and Internet connections irregular, while the government attempts to still the growing desperation among reformists urging their followers to take to the streets in protest. That takes courage in light of the fate meted out to those protesters and reform-minded trouble-makers who have been arrested, tortured, raped, maimed, and murdered. The protesters in the "16 Azar" commemorations have replaced the Shah's atrocities with the much greater ones of the Supreme Leader.

Six months of assiduously denying people their rights post-election. Six months of arrests and intimidation and warnings have simply replaced the street protests with a growing underground increase in the country's irrepressible 'green movement'. Sufficiently emboldened to chant "Death to the dictator", where they had once been groomed to chant "Death to America", and "Death to the Zionists".

There is push-back against security forces. While police wield batons, use tear gas, and electric stun-guns, the students throw stones. Countering institutionalized administrative terror with the resilience of an underground, empowered people-power. A simmering movement for change that the most resolved attempts to quash it will no longer suffice.
Revolution is on its way. We hope it is. There is much to gain, not much to lose.

Replacing the revolting Supreme Leader and his fundamentalist president with a peoples' revolution.

Labels: Middle East, Technology, Traditions, World Crises

posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, December 08, 2009