Bits and pieces from recent events with Iran should go a long way in convincing at least a handful of Americans that Iran’s Islamic thugocracy is asking for a beat-down, but fully expecting not to get one. Now, why is that? Because we historically have given every reason for the Islamists in Iran to believe that they can act with impunity and get away with it. And unfortunately, I’m starting to think they might be right.
Americans held hostage; the same old song and dance. Hey, if it’s worked since ‘79! From the New York Post, Iran’s Soros:
Iran charged yesterday that a Washington-based academic arrested in Tehran this month was working for a George Soros-backed organization trying to undermine the Islamic state’s ruling system.
Haleh Esfandiari, the director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Middle East program, was detained on May 8 and taken to Tehran’s Evin Prison, the center and her family previously said.
The United States has condemned the arrest of Esfandiari, a 67-year-old grandmother who has dual U.S. and Iranian citizenship, and said she was among a number of American-Iranians being detained by Tehran.
What’s the fuss all about? The Iranian Bomb, again, reporting care of the New York Post:
The International Atomic Energy Commission has determined that Iran, having solved its technical problems, is enriching uranium at a much faster rate than ever before.
Next stop: weapons-grade material - and a crisis that threatens not only the region, but the global economy as well.
Iran’s ability to produce its own nuclear fuel is what Israel has repeatedly called “the point of no return” - a view all but confirmed by IAEA Director Mohammed ElBaradei.
Now, he said, “it is simply a question of perfecting that knowledge. People will not like to hear it, but that’s a fact.”
The West has demanded that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad halt enrichment - but it shies away from meaningful sanctions.
But forcing Tehran’s hand is something the West must do - sooner, rather than later. Because the global implications of a nuclear Iran are truly staggering.
A nuclear Iran by definition is a threat to the world’s petroleum supply - a development of critical concern not only to the United States and Europe, but to China and Japan, as well.
Israel would be at grave risk, of course.
But so, too, would be America’s strategic relationships with Saudi Arabia and the oil-rich Gulf emirates.
It is probably no coincidence that the White House has now agreed to direct talks with Iran on the Iraq war - despite earlier refusing to sit down without a full suspension of Iran’s nuclear program.
Talks are fine - up to a point.
But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had it right last year, when she noted that, faced with an Iranian nuclear threat, “The United States will be steadfast in defense of our forces, and steadfast in defense of our friends and allies who wish to work together for common security.”
Has that changed, too?
Trouble in “Paradise”? An excerpt from Iran’s Economic Troubles, from the Wall Street Journal:
President Ahmadinejad, however, is determined to impose what looks like a North Korean model on the Iranian economy. He has already dissolved the Syndicate of Iranian Employers (SKI) as a capitalist cabal, and plans to replace it with a government-appointed body. He is also pushing a new Labor Code through the Islamic Majlis (parliament) to replace the existing one written with the help of the International Labor Organization in the 1960s and amended in 1991.
The proposed text abolishes most of the rights won by workers throughout the world as a result of decades of social struggle and political reform. President Ahmadinejad believes that Western-style trade unions and employers’ associations have no place in a proper Islamic society where the state, representing the will of Allah, can keep the “community of the faithful” free of class struggle, a typical affliction of “Infidel” societies.
Mr. Ahmadinejad’s next coup will likely be a major privatization scheme affecting more than 40 public corporations across the country. He has promised to help the employees buy up to 10% of the shares. The rest will go to rich mullahs and Revolutionary Guard officers and their business associates, using low interest loans from state-owned banks. By the time the scheme is ready, however, the Islamic Republic may be facing too deep an economic crisis for anyone–even greedy mullahs and corrupt Revolutionary Guardsmen–to want to invest even a borrowed rial there.
Which is why they want nuclear weapons to extort with and Iraqi oil as their own.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock…
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‘working for a George Soros-backed organization ‘
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
…then these dumb bastards should be on Our side instead of against the US, as soros is the friggin’ LAST person who would be working for US / Western interests!
Soros, Yeah I find that halarious as well. You think they would at least do their homework before they started fabricating the evidence against some poor old gal. I think this Iranian “crackdown” stems from the ABC report on Bush’s secret infiltration into Iran. …… stevereenie
There is little time to correct this situation.
If the world leaders had any guts at all, they would stand up with ONE voice at the upcoming G8 summit in Germany and tell Iran the jig is up.
Tell Iran to retreat to within their own borders, physically, ecomomically and philisophically, pull in their arms of infulence and support of hezhollah, hamas, and all others, verifyably demonstrate your giving up of nuclear ambitions because the “countdown to your own destruction has begun”.
Say it with resolve, say it now. Show them the consequences for all Islamic ambitions around the world. Say it now because it is almost too late.
Now say to the muslims in the west, those who have not assimulated, this warning is for you too. You will be doing the submitting from now on. You will be rooting out the extremists instead of deflecting blame, hanging your hat on the victimization game, instead of being apologists and deceivers,you will become citizens or you will get out.
“There is something profoundly wrong”
“… when opposition to the war in Iraq seems to inspire greater passion than opposition to Islamist extremism. There is something profoundly wrong when there is so much distrust of our intelligence community that some Americans doubt the plain and ominous facts about the threat to us posed by Iran. And there is something profoundly wrong when, in the face of attacks by radical Islam, we think we can find safety and stability by pulling back, by talking to and accommodating our enemies, and abandoning our friends and allies. Some of this wrong-headed thinking about the world is happening because we’re in a political climate where, for many people, when George Bush says ‘yes,’ their reflex reaction is to say ‘no.’ That is unacceptable.” - Sen. Joe Lieberman.
Sorry, I am dreaming today.
Great quote from Lieberman. Putting that one in my random quotes bin on the site.