Posted on 09/23/2009 5:00:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
Mideast: Most of the world is content to let ordinary Iranians suffer the tyranny of Tehran's soon-to-be nuclear-armed mullahs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, wants them liberated.
From the viewpoint of the average Iranian who yearns for liberties similar to those in the West, the free world doesn't give a fig. Not about him, his family, nor his country.
Iranians have been living under a brutal regime that sends those who call for human rights to torture chambers such as Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. Heroic journalist Akbar Ganji and exiled ex-student protest leader Ahmad Batebi can tell all about the hospitality they've sampled there.
But the Islamofascist regime in Tehran has also spent some three decades in effect daring Israel and the U.S. to attack Iran — especially in recent years with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president.
The U.S. is "the Great Satan" and the Jewish state should be "wiped off the map," according to the mullahs. How much more taunting, accompanied by nuclear weapon ambitions, can the U.S. and Israel take before the bombers are ordered to their targets?
The most powerful and freest nations of the world have been content to imagine that presenting an olive branch at the negotiation table will lead to centrifuges being beaten into plowshares.
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Go Bibi, and go the Iranian people (the real civilians, not the regime in ANY way). People forget the Persians and Jews have historic ties going all the way back to Xerxes and Esther when he (led by God) allowed them to liberate themselves from those who would have annihilated the Jews in the O.T. Exile!
I think that given the chance (just a personal gut) that the actual people of Iran would support Israel, and be against the regime (Mullas-Amidinijad& Co), and their allies in Hammas/Hezbolla/Syria.
Persia, is that where Persian’s come from? Where is that?
Persia is the original name of Iran
guess I needed my /sarc
And Afghanistan and Pakistan. (and a few others)
Reza Shah...the Shah’s (Mo. Reza Pahlavi) dad renamed Persia Iran in 1935 as part of a bid to westernize and revamp the country. A move very much inspired by Turkey’s Ataturk.
Not all Iranians are persians (50%), the other half is a mix of azaris, baluchis, arabs, armenians etc. The Persians (of empire fame) have been the predominant group (econ, culturally etc).
Btw...if Reza Shah’s son had one tenth of his dad’s gumption, the moolahs would not have stood a chance.
My reference was to ancient Persia. Your accurate for modern day Persia/Iran.
my bad...
ahmad is a monkey boy either way.
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