A Beacon of Hope
"While we were talking with the Europeans in Tehran, we were installing equipment in parts of the nuclear) facility in Isfahan. By creating a calm environment, we were able to complete the work there."
Iranian President Hasan Rouhani; 2004 speech to Supreme Cultural Revolution Council
This is the Muslim way; prevaricate, obfuscate, validate, promise, obsequiousness, insincerity, all to persuade an perceived enmity that all is well; the demands made are respected, will be followed, and with the time gained, covertly carry on with whatever activities concerned one's adversaries, completing them finally under their very unsuspecting noses. Clever ploys these, having nothing whatever to do with honour, and everything to do with craftiness.
Morality, after all, is what one believes it to be. Their morals may be perceived by the West to be pathologically ignoble, but one must 'respect' the differences in culture, heritage, religion, all to the advantage of those who insist that all is relative, and nothing is ever imperatively final, settled, unequivocal, and pure. Ambiguity is the key to co-operation and eventual success. The only absolute.
And so, now that Iran has a president who can face the inconveniently demanding forces of the West with equanimity born of hypocrisy in the willing belief that the unstable Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has moved on, and no longer will the sincere words of the authentic Islamic Republic of Iran ring out disturbingly on the world scene and the fora of the United Nations. All will be well. Moderation has arrived, and along with it the reasonableness of co-operation.
It is convenient to overlook the fact that the Supreme Ayatollah and his cohorts permit only those whom they can trust to support the Iranian Revolutionary goals to run for the honorary role of president of the Republic. The power, needless to say, rests with Ayatollah Khomeini and with the Republican Presidential Guard, complementing one another. As they oppress Iranians and reap the bonanza of corruption enriching themselves despite nasty sanctions.
This is a regime that is drawn to and respects fomenting external violence and conflict on as wide a scale as possible, while at the same time focusing on internal repression of its people. Who are, after all, in the view of the Ayatollahs, incapable of discerning what is best for themselves, and thrive under the jackboot of Islamism.
The regime publicly stones women, hangs homosexuals, imprisons Christians and Baha'i, tortures political opponents. Leaving little doubt in the minds of the undecided. Who prefer in actual fact, not to notice the realities of truth. Moral relativism again.
Hasan Rouhani was formally, officially installed in the presidency less than a week ago, but he assumed the freely-popularly-'elected' presidency-in-waiting as president-elect back in June. In that period of time the state has quite outdone itself in punishing those whose crimes against the imperishably-noble Republic merited death. Through committing no fewer than 100 unfortunates to execution, occasionally as public displays of the grim power of the theocracy.
Hasan Rouhani has spoken repeatedly of a vastly different-than-Ahmadinejad's public face for the 'new' Iran, and it's future relationship with the outside world. Mind, Iran has always been infused with a desire for peace and goodwill among other nations. That the other nations have interpreted Iran's overtures otherwise represents a misfortune of misunderstanding. All that is meant to change for the better as Iran through the sweet auspices of the Grand Ayatollah and his new president, reinvent the country's facade.
President Rouhani served as chairman of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005. How's that for an outsider, a moderate, a man of kindly disposition? He has been an indispensable figure of note and authority within the Iranian Revolutionary Council since the 1960s. And he has been involved in decision-making relative to extending Iran's reach in terrorist activities from South America to Saudi Arabia.
And, more currently, has been authorized to assure Syrian President Bashar al Assad of Iran's deep devotion to his Alawite-ruled Syria. Nothing would serve to sunder that relationship. It is as deep as the ocean. Despite its own travails resulting from international sanctions related to Iran's Nuclear program, the nation has still searched its treasury for the means to support Syria financially, militarily and morally.
Ordering in the process, its auxiliary military unit Hezbollah to abandon its detached position in Lebanon, and to wholesale march into Syria aiding the regime's military with Hezbollah's know-how, weaponry and battlefield skills. President Rouhani basked in the praise rendered him by Hezbollah's Sheikh Nasrallah: "Every fighter who resists for God consider(s) you today a beacon of hope."
Labels: Hezbollah, Hypocrisy, Iran, Nuclear Technology, Sanctions, Syria, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, August 10, 2013
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