Iran's Goal is Middle Eastern Hegemony

[GBU-28]

Iranis even say it themselves, that they will "export the Islamic revolution".

 

[Hiptullha]

MARINA NEMAT

Iran’s regime and IS are two sides of the same medieval coin
MARINA NEMAT

Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Apr. 15 2015, 8:44 AM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Apr. 15 2015, 8:46 AM EDT

Marina Nemat is the author of Prisoner of Tehran and After Tehran.

Dear President Barack Obama and all the leaders of the P5+1:

In August, 2014, Islamic State abducted thousands of Yazidis, monotheists whose beliefs are linked to Zoroastrianism and other ancient Mesopotamian religions. Many of the abductees were women and children. A few hundred of them have been released or escaped, but it’s believed that about 4,000 remain captive. Many women and girls have been gang raped and sold into sex slavery, and some have become pregnant, including a 9-year-old girl who is now in Germany. IS believes Yazidis are heretics, and it published an article in its propaganda magazine, Dabiq, to justify their mistreatment in accordance to theological rulings of early Islam. Some Yazidi men have volunteered to marry the women who have returned violated and traumatized, but the ones who are pregnant have little hope. They are too close to the trauma, constant reminders of unspeakable horrors that most want to forget. Many of the women have resorted to suicide.

Sexual violence in conflict zones is nothing new, and I am no stranger to it. In 1982, I was arrested at the age of 16 in Tehran. I was a student activist born in a Christian family, and I didn’t like the fact that Iran’s revolutionary regime not only did not deliver any political freedoms, but also it took away the personal freedoms of Iranians. We protested, and many of my teenage friends and I were arrested. I was tortured and was forced to convert to Islam and “marry” one of my interrogators under the threat that if I didn’t, my family would be harmed. My so-called husband, Ali, raped me over and over again. I became pregnant at 17, but I miscarried. After 2 years, 2 months, and 12 days in Evin prison, I was released and returned home. My father had already disowned me. My boyfriend, Andre, told me that even if I had come home with a baby in my arms, he would still have wanted to marry me. I was grateful to him. With Andre’s support, I survived, and we made it to Canada. Many of my friends were not so lucky; they are buried in mass graves in Iran.

Do you see the similarities between the experiences of the Yazidi girls and mine? Do any of you have daughters? Do you realize that when you negotiate with Iran about its nuclear capabilities, it is your moral duty as fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, brothers, and sisters to pressure Iran to improve its human rights record? The conditions of Evin and other Iranian prisons have not improved since I was there. The bystander allows atrocities to take place, and no amount of justifying would take the blood off your hands. I’m not asking you to bomb Iran. No. I believe that violence never leads to lasting good; it perpetuates the cycle that turns victims into torturers and torturers into victims. Unlike my captors, I believe in justice according to the rule of secular, democratic laws that refrain disallow shooting first and asking questions later or never, laws that do not allow crimes against humanity, including torture and rape, to be justified for anyreason. If you lift the sanctions against Iran, whether quickly or slowly, you would be releasing billions of dollars of frozen assets to a brutal killing machine that is not fundamentally different from Islamic State. IS hides behind the name of God to gain power, and so does the Islamic Republic of Iran. Both “caliphates” are built on mass graves, rape of women and children, and various other atrocities.

A few days ago, Iranians danced on the streets of Tehran and other cities to celebrate the possibility of a deal between Iran and the United States. Iran’s economy has been suffering because of the sanctions, and money has been tight, so people are desperate for some economic relief. The last time I saw such celebrations in Iran was when the Islamic revolution of 1979 succeeded. It didn’t take long after that for Iran’s revolutionary regime to throw thousands of Iran’s best children into prison and torture, rape, and kill them. Without knowing it, in 1979, Iranians were dancing on the graves of their own children.

Please do not give in to the IRI and do not pour money into its bloodthirsty machine. This will lead to nothing but more devastation. The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend. The IRI and IS are two sides of the same medieval coin.

If Iran is just like ISIS, what are the gulf countries like?
Not only are they discriminatory to non-Muslims and women, they are racist and prejudiced towards Asian expatriates. If Iran makes you wet your pants, Solomon, Saudi Arabia should make you soil your underwear. A combination of two of Israel's greatest nightmares; racism and radicalism.

 

[Solomon2]

...If Iran makes you wet your pants, Solomon, Saudi Arabia should make you soil your underwear. A combination of two of Israel's greatest nightmares; racism and radicalism.

Iran's anti-Zionist rhetoric no longer fools many Arabs but it still fools you and many other Pakistanis. The Yemenis found out the truth the hard way - will that be your excuse, too?

Or do you know the truth and your anti-Zionism is merely a present convenience. Have a care. How can you be sure that you, also, won't join the millions of non-Jews who beg for Israel to confront the Iranian mullahs? If that day comes, and you're so nasty now, why should Israel give you any more consideration that it does the Arabs of the middle east today?

 

[The SiLent crY]

well both iran and ksa r killing Muslims to establish their hegemony in middle east.Both r destroying the true Teachings of Islam.Both dont beleive on Ummah.As i said so many times that they have nothing to do with Islam iran is a Shia state and Ksa is a Sunni state,Both r sectarian states.Both use their sect to grow their infulence in middle east and feel proud on that idioticity.

Ummah was a wet dream in first place . Get over that Ummah BS for lord's sake .

 

[Hiptullha]

Iran's anti-Zionist rhetoric no longer fools many Arabs but it still fools you and many other Pakistanis. The Yemenis found out the truth the hard way - will that be your excuse, too?

Is Iran anti-Zionist or is Israel anti-Iran? Which country has been involved in numerous plots to surround the other, has been responsible for a number of assassinations, has literally shook hands with the devil by forming partnerships with countries like Saudi Arabia to strengthen some of the most brutal, racist, discriminatory organisations in the Middle East and continues to attempt to isolate the other?

How can you be sure that you, also, won't join the millions of non-Jews who beg for Israel to confront the Iranian mullahs?

That day will never come, old boy. Pakistan is nothing like either Israel or Saudi Arabia. I for one, don't have an irrational Iran-phobia and if it comes to a point at which Iran is threatening Pakistan, I won't be begging the United States or the Muslim World or Israel to protect me.

 

[B@KH]

well both iran and ksa r killing Muslims to establish their hegemony in middle east.Both r destroying the true Teachings of Islam.Both dont beleive on Ummah.As i said so many times that they have nothing to do with Islam iran is a Shia state and Ksa is a Sunni state,Both r sectarian states.Both use their sect to grow their infulence in middle east and feel proud on that idioticity.

and this applies to those too who do defence agreements with the killing machines.
Now Pakistan should terminate all defence agreements it did with the wahabi kingdom.

 

[-SINAN-]

You know what kind of guy you are dealing with when he quotes NCRI, a terrorist organization and the most hated group among all Iranians regardless of their political view.

Another hate mongering by main stream media. Too many rubbish materials gathered in one place and is published as an 'article'.

So, is it like some PKK spokesman, giving an interview ?

 

[doppelganger]

Makes sense to me. Iran in the west, Russia in the north, China in the east and India in the south are the natural regional hegemons of Asia. Hegemons which have been and will be increasingly engaged (and plotted against) by current world powers.

 

[Serpentine]

So, is it like some PKK spokesman, giving an interview ?

Actually worse. It's like a terror cult. PKK may have some limited support among Kurds in Turkey, but I'm yet to see one single Iranian who likes this terror cult. Not surprising. Who likes a group that teamed up with Saddam and attacked their own country? A group that launched many terror attacks inside Iran until they were crushed in Iran and Iraq and western countries accepted them with open arms, as expected from those hypocrites. Good terrorists, bad terrorists.

Read this:
Operation Mersad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[coffee_cup]

You know what kind of guy you are dealing with when he quotes NCRI, a terrorist organization and the most hated group among all Iranians regardless of their political view.

Another hate mongering by main stream media. Too many rubbish materials gathered in one place and is published as an 'article'.

I think there is a lesson for Iran in it. Stop fanning sectarianism in other countries and stop supporting the most hated terrorist organisations there.

Else you know, chickens may come back home to roost. I hope Iranians take it seriously and stop meddling in ME and other neighboring countries.

The same goes for stupid house of Saud.

 

[Aepsilons]

@Solomon2 ,


I would beg to differ. One cannot believe the shear vehement anti-Iranian propaganda western media has been spewing in recent weeks. To be honest , how has the Middle East prospered under the other rise of religious fanaticism ? The Muslim Brotherhood that Obama touted and even praised back in 2011 is now an outlawed terrorist organization. Why even today Morsi was given a 20 year sentence.

How has the Arab Spring caused stability? In fact this social phenomenon has led to the destabilization in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and most importantly Syria. And look at the situation in Libya-- unabated terrorist activity from AlQaeda, ISIS ! Same in Tunisia, and the elephant in the room --- ISIS and it's so called "Caliphate". This is an example of unmitigated exportation of Salafist Jihadi Ideology, an ideology that originates from somewhere.

Clearly the quagmire in the region is due to polarization and unabated sectarian strife. But before 2011 such sectarian strife was not seen in the same levels as today.

No, I must disagree with you in this one. Iran must be reintroduced to the family of nations and as she is integrated into the global economy, all these fears you and many other convened citizens have shall be satisfied. As we speak we are seeing a growing partnership with Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and the rest of East Asia. Iran shall be integrated.

Let us dispel these destructive anti-Iranian rhetoric.

 

[scholseys]

The true teachings of Islam are found in the very first copy of the Qu'ran written by Mohammed. Today there are only interpretations of the Qu'ran, no original version of it.

Muhammed (PBUH) did not write the Quran and there are no versions of the holy book or interpretations, just one book.

 

[Aepsilons]

Iran's anti-Zionist rhetoric no longer fools many Arabs but it still fools you and many other Pakistanis. The Yemenis found out the truth the hard way - will that be your excuse, too?

Or do you know the truth and your anti-Zionism is merely a present convenience. Have a care. How can you be sure that you, also, won't join the millions of non-Jews who beg for Israel to confront the Iranian mullahs? If that day comes, and you're so nasty now, why should Israel give you any more consideration that it does the Arabs of the middle east today?

@Solomon2

Sir , I don't understand why the Israeli media singlehandedly focuses on Iran; and Iran's national mandate regarding Israel. Yet what about Lebanon, Iraq, KSA, UAE, Bahrain, Libya, Tunisia, Morroco Et al --- all of which do not recognize Israel and jump at every opportunity to condemn Israel when there is a military operation in Gaza or West Bank. None of these countries that I mentioned even recognize Israel as a state, none of them even have a formal treaty of recognition. In fact it's even common for leaders in these countries to lambast Israel, call upon the termination of Israel. In fact it was Arab countries that warred with Israel, yes?

Iran has never gone to war with Israel. Yet why does Israeli media and politicians single out Iran? What about these other Arab states that don't even recognize Israel's right to exist. Is this not an example of selectivity in the case of Israeli angst towards Iran!?



Regards,

 

[Hussein]

Iranis even say it themselves, that they will "export the Islamic revolution".

it was 30 yo
update your software. Iran changed.

 

[Hasbara Buster]

Any rational human being with half a brain would prefer Iranian hegemony over Israeli-Saudi-Turkish hegemony. What do the latter three have to offer except chaos, terrorism and serving their Western and Zionist masters?