The organization
StopWarOnIran.org and its circulating
petition of protest against a possible war between the Islamic Republic of
Iran (IRI) regime and the West (see
http://stopwaroniran.org/statement.shtml
), is yet another example of the Pink/Red portion of the constituency
that contributed to the overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1979.
Mr. Ramsey Clark, the former United States Attorney General, who in the
best tradition of American humorist Will Rogers has never met a Leftist or
Communist he didn't like, has re-emerged as a spearhead of this latest
attack upon the Persian Monarchy and the memory of the Shah. Worse yet, Mr.
Clark and his fellow-travelers have maintained a complete silence regarding
the criminal character of the IRI regime, and its continuing assault upon
the human rights of the men, women, and children of Iran--a record which
includes the murder of independent journalists, the assassination of
political dissidents at home and abroad, the systematic denial of the rights
of Iranian women, the routine torture and execution of minors, the
employment of the tenets of Islamic fundamentalist theocracy to destroy the
foundations of a Constitutional Republic rooted in democratic freedom of
_expression, and now the "
election" of Mr. Ahmadinejad last summer as
President--a personal participant in mass murder as an especially zealous
past member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who now struts
his credentials as a Holocaust denier and one committed to "
wiping Israel
off the map."
And the distorted history of the Pahlavi era in Iran presented by
StopWarOnIran.org and its petition cannot be corrected in a single
letter. I would simply refer those interested in the real history of this
era to the Shah's final memoirs in his book,
Answer to History.
Can anyone believe that a fair reading of the history of Iran between 1953
and 1978, whatever its shortcomings and failures, can possibly be compared
to what Islamic fundamentalism has wrought in our Nation for the last 27
years?
But even more important for the luminaries who serve as signatories for this
petition--ranging from
QueerJustice.org to the
Communist
Party, USA of Wisconsin--the following question must be asked:
What would the fate of these Leftists
and Reds be if they resided in the Islamic Republic of the Mullahs?
The alliance of Red (Communist) and Black (Islamic Mullahs)
which overthrew the Shah in 1979 had its primary Marxist component in the
form of the
Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MKO) terrorist organization.
But once the Mullahs were triumphant, what happened to the MKO and its
sympathizers in post-Revolutionary Iran at the hands of the Islamic
theocrats? The answer to this should be a wake-up call to Mr. Clark and his
allies to re-examine their own strategy and motives in giving the Islamic
Republic of Iran (IRI) regime a free pass from the critical standards they
seem to apply exclusively to the Shah's reign--which itself ended at the
hands of a conspiracy of British Petroleum, the Ball/Brezinzski crowd at the
Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg Group in 1978 which ushered in the
reign of terror of Khomeini as a chosen tool of the global corporate
interests Mr. Clark claims to oppose. This last fact is also conveniently
ignored by the other denizens of
StopWarOnIran.org.
Now I freely admit that war between the United States and Iran is frought
with risk and potential tragedy beyond human comprehension, including the
danger of a mushrooming expansion of such a conflict into a 3rd World War. I
also acknowledge that American conservatives like Pat Buchanan and my
friend, Mark Dankof, have also sounded the alarm on the dangers of the use
of a preemptive military policy against Iran.
But it is equally true that
the deterioration of the situation between the West and Iran which might end
in such a cataclysm is the direct result of a collective policy of wholesale
appeasement of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) on the part of Western
governments, mass media, and academics. This is the central truth of the
matter that has now resulted in the present diplomatic standoff and impasse.
And had this policy of appeasement been replaced with one of principled,
unified opposition to the Mullahs and their sick ideology over a period of
many years, the Islamic Republic of Iran would have already been consigned
to the ashheap of history. The people of Iran would be free. The world would
not be faced with the terrible choice of either preemptive war or nuclear
capability in the hands of a cabal of corrupt religious fanatics. There
would be a regime in place in Iran which reaffirms the Monarchy with the
accompanying foundational vision for human rights which characterized Cyrus
the Great and the Achaemenids, along with a freely elected
Majlis and
Prime Minister operating under the 1906 Constitution of Iran.
Finally, do Mr. Ramsey Clark and his ilk want Islamic fundamentalists who
believe in the totalitarian
Doctrine of the Jurisprudent to possess
the capability to manufacture a nuclear weapon? And if such a capability is
attained--and later used--by the Mullahs, will the resulting mass death and
destruction to the innocent of the world not be the primary moral fault of
those who turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the crimes of Islamic
theocracy, and who failed to implement a collective global policy of
economic and political blockade of such a criminal regime by the world's
civilized governments as an alternative to what now seems to be an
inevitable war?
Oh, yes. There is another question on my part. What are the significant
international sources of funding for
StopWarOnIran.org? Arab regimes?
Russia? Communist China? Others? Will they be fairly identified? Or will
they continue to operate in the darkest of shadows as they did 27 years ago?
Shirin Neshat
Sarbazan
P.O.
Box 16166
Beverly Hills, CA 90209
Phone: 310 863 8218
shneshat@aol.com
