HOPE IS STILL ALIVE IN IRAN

Latest news out of Iran today is that the so-called Guardian Council has asked the Supreme Leader – Ali Khamennei – for an extension of five more-days to give its final verdict on the legitimacy of the so-called election in Iran – rigging coup d’état.

While serious questions have been raised over the anymore relevancy of both the leader and the council; for the time-being and in order to avoid any unnecessary lose of lives and damages, the Iranian people may be willing to see their demand has been met. That is the annulment of the coup d’état (election).

The fact of asking for more time - delaying the official declaration of the result - is not a bad sign per se. It implies that some ones somewhere behind the scene are unable to calculate the consequences of standing against the people’s will. And they are right; it takes a genius to work the consequences out. Nonetheless, the Islamic Republic political and the military apparatus must have engaged the intellect of geniuses before any attempt made to have the people’s vote rigged in such scale.

Now that this continuous mess is taking the country and its people to the verge of a dangerous cliff, the latest news keeps the door open.

One can only hope that the coup leader and his associates come to the sense that standing against Iranian people is a suicidal political mission.

Hassan Nasrollah, Terrorists are not allowed in Iran

I was coming home yesterday afternoon. In my car I was listening to the BBC on the radio and there was an interview with a Lebanese journalist, the topic was Iran election.

The journalist was asked about rumors that Islamic Republic has conveyed undisclosed number of Lebanese terrorists - from the terrorist group Hezbollah - to Iran in order to quell the Iranian people protests against the autocratic regime in Iran. “Mollas and Hezbollah are close friends,” he replied. Mollas being a friend of the terrorist group was not news to me; however, the transportation of the terrorists to attack Iranian people in streets of Iranian cities was a shock.

When I got home, I went online and check the BBC news, I could not believe my eyes; Hassan Nasrollah – the Hezbollah leader – has commented about the Iran’s election. “Forty million Iranians have voted for the Spiritual Leader of the Islamic Republic – Ali Khameneei,” he has claimed in his speech the night before in Beirut. I was outraged and disgusted.

How dare you, you little terrorist, to comment about the people of Iran and their country!? If Mollas have been paying you hundreds of millions of dollars of Iranians’ money each year for decades just to use your little terrorist group as leverage against the world; it does not mean that a terrorist, like you, is allowed to talk about Iranian people affairs.

Iranians must slap this little creature so badly that he never ever again dares to butt into their affairs.

Coup Detat In Iran

This week, a little group of military personnel along with their fundamentally religious ideologues have staged a coup d’état against Iranian people in Iran. The group - include the current infamous President Ahmadi Nejad - dared Iranian people when they brazenly rigged their vote in last Friday presidential election in Iran. Since then for the last three to four days millions of Iranian have been in streets all over the country protesting through day and night. They have been under constant threats and attacks by the police and paramilitary forces. The police joined with the paramilitary forces have shot dead 8 protesters so far.

The world community must send a strong message of support for the defenceless Iranian people against these perpetrators in Iran.

An Iranian Cult Called Mojahedin Khalgh (MEK)

More than 3000 Iranian men and women members of a cult - called Mojahedin Khlagh (MEK) - are living in a military garrison - Padegan Ashraf - just 60 kilometres north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Some of them has spent most of their adult life - ranging from 10 to 20 or more years - in the military facility.

The cult first moved to Iraq whilst the 1980s Iran-Iraq war was at its peak. Saddam Hussein - the then Iraqi despot - heavily armed the cult's members and turned them into his little private army. He then used them against their own country's army - Iran - during and beyond the conflict between the two neighbors. By the end of the arm conflict in 1986-7, Saddam had his second Republican Guard at his disposal, however, the differences between this foreign private army and his original Republican Guard was the language and the nationality of the cult members, they spoke Farsi and their nationality was Iranian.

For the next 3 to 4 years, Saddam used the cult to carry out attacks against Iranian cities and the Iran's national interests in a way of tit-for-tat for attacks by the Iraqi Shiite-Kurds minority opposition supported by Iran. However in 1991, the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein had brought about the First Gulf War and that new development was a turning point, an acute and decisive moment in the cult's history which drew up its future.

While the Saddam's classic army had come under heavy attacks from air, sea and land by the coalition forces under the United States leadership to remove Iraqi forces from the Kuwaiti territory, the Iraqi Shiite-Kurd oppressed minority found a power vacuum and an opportunity to undermine Saddam's authority in Iraq. The Iraqi Kurd started rebellions in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq, while the Shiite did the same in the Shiite area of the South. Saddam had no choice but to turn to the cult - his Farsi speakers Republican Guard - for assistance. Saddam asked - ordered - the cult's leader to quash the Shiite-Kurd rebellions.

The cult's leader and his leadership team were facing a precarious choice. On one hand, as the cult's leader - Masood Rajavi - had always uttered, Saddam was "his brother, the cult's landlord, and that the Saddam's despotic regime and the cult were in fact one body." The cult felt responsible to defend and save the despot's regime; its own existence was on line. On the other hand, however, going against the Iraqi Shiite-Kurd minority was a dangerous move with the possible future repercussions. Nevertheless, it is fairly safe to claim that the cult had no choice but to admit to the Saddam's command at the time.

to be continued

FaceBook Has Been Blocked By Ahmadi Nejad

President Ahmadi Nejad of Iran is always consistent to give us something to poke him in the eye. His government has blocked the Iranians' access to facebook since yesterday.

Apparently Mr. Ahmadi Nejad has been worry about the way his opponents were capitalising on the facebook for the purpose of the presidential-election campaign against him. Since yesterday the blockage has outraged the Iranian Young and created a backlash inside the country. They reacted angrily by posting comments all over the Internet.

One only wonders that who are the brains behind such a political blunder. The simple question is that if Mr. Ahmadi Nejad and his colleagues think they can ignore the Iranian Young, their right to use the Internet freely, deny them the right to express and sharing thoughts with their fellow citizens and the outside world; and getaway with that? It seems that Mr. Ahmadi Nejad has shot his own foot.

Iranian Young will respond at the polling booths!

The Belated Release of Roxana Saberi Is Welcomed

Common sense has prevailed and Roxana Saberi, the US-born Iranian journalist, has been freed from custody in Iran.

Since 2003, she has been living and working as a freelance journalist in Iran. However, since January this year - citing some blurry charges by the Iranian authorities - she had been imprisoned in Iran.

Although I personally am a little bit disappointed at the belated freedom of Ms Saberi, nevertheless her release was well overdue and it is welcomed.

Now that the Ms Saberi’s predicament and the political fervor surrounding it are over, we can concentrate on the most important issue for the Iranian people, the country, and the outside world, the 2009 presidential election in Iran. It is a mission which left in the hand of the Iranian people. The mission has three main objectives as follow:

1. It will send a clear message to the outside world that Iranian people are well capable of handling their national political calamity.

2. Iran is a peaceful country and its people are friendly and responsible citizens of the world.

3. They are going to offer the Iranian version of Obama with an unclench fist to shake hand with his American counterpart, President Obama.

YET ANOTHER SHAMEFUL POLITICAL BLUNDER IN IRAN

In our life we sometimes witness such an acute injustice which makes us feel hopelessly useless; that is when we left with no choice but to cry.

I had the feeling yesterday when I read the last telephone conversation Delara Darabi, the poor girl who has been hanged in Iran, had with her mother. “Mother, I can see the hangman’s roping, they are going to execute me, please save me”, said Delara. Imagining the helpless status of the poor girl against those heedless predators around her; I cried hopelessly!

She was not supposed to be hanged for at least the next two months. The head of the Islamic Republic Judiciary had ordered to hold her dead sentence, while her parents try to get the plaintiffs’ consent. In the Iranian legal system, the last resource to spare a convicted person’s life where the plaintiffs are the family members of the victim is their consent.

The prison authorities have acted against the order of the head of the Judiciary. They have also breached the law by not informing her lawyer at least two days prior to the execution.

Thanks to her art works, the Delara’s case had generated such international interest that the more moderates in the political establishment, through the head of the Judiciary, have successfully responded to the international community’s concern.

However, the hardliner in their attempt to sabotage this latest move by the more moderates to have a meaningful communication with the western world sacrificed the poor girl! That was yet another shameful political blunder in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This time, they preyed upon the Delara’s frail body.