Last week was a really tough week in Iran but an excellent example of life over there.
First, a winter freeze and heavy, deep snowfall paralyzed much of the country, including the capital city.
So what? All countries have bad weather.
So the country with the world's second largest reserves of natural petroleum gas, could not supply gas for cooking nor for heating to most of the country in any quantity that came close to the needs of the people. Mostly none at all!
The infrastructure was there, the natural petroleum gas was absent!
Fuel for vehicles is already rationed and prevents Iranians from driving any distance, one of the aims of the Suppression Forces to control movement within the country. Unless by easily checked and controlled bus, train or airline. (Shades of the Soviet Union? Hitler Germany?)
The shortage brutally hit four of the coldest provinces in the North of Iran - mostly because any available gas piped to those regions was being exported to neighboring Turkomanistan, a former Soviet Republic, for money and some barter, instead of being used to look after the Iranian populace's urgent needs.
When the situation became impossibly desperate, the Mullahs stopped exporting to Western ally, Turkey, to try to relieve some of the disasterous policy they had implemented.
And with $14 BILLION missing from Ahmadi-Nejad's budget accounts and some HALF MILLION destitute street kids and at least 100,000 abandoned women, in danger of freezing to death just in the capital Tehran's streets, with billions more being donated to terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and to Syria to buy Russian arms and destabiize Lebanon and destroy Israel, none of this Turkoman money is being spent on the well-being of Iranians.
In fact, some 500 students at Tehran University protested the poor quality of food in their cafeteria.
When confronted by the Mullah regime's armed and intolerant Suppression Forces, whose only duties lie in snuffing out any sign of dissent or protest, student numbers swelled to some 1,500 and the authorities became violent, beating anyone in range with batons and arresting dozens of them.
For protesting about the quality of their food! Not even the freedom to lodge a NON-political protest is allowed by the Mullahs.
And we want to apply our Western mindsets to deal with them? To negotiate? To plan a "reasoned" future behavior by them? Whom are we kidding? Or are we avoiding the reality of truth?
And yet U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice talks of reconciliation with the Islamic regime. If they stop enriching uranium.
The value of extending temporary global safety only perhaps thus achieved, apparently overrides the value to the USA of the Iranian peoples' well being even if it means the Mullahs remain in power.
Thank goodness the former #3 in the State Dept., Burns, a relentless advocate of prolonged, negotiated appeasement with Iran, has resigned.
Hopefully his replacement - also named Burns - will burn a different policy path - which includes saving the Iranian people, too.
Meanwhile, the Islamic oversight for "qualification" of candidates for parliamentary (Majliss) elections in March 2008, (granting permission to run - in "free" elections) has rejected "only" about a third of the candidates - according to Deputy Interior Minister, Afshar, though this rises to over 2,000 rejections.
Once again the alleged and farcical freedoms inferred by the Mullah claim to democratic "elections" are null and void when candidates get hand picked for pro-regime views and rejected for:
Having or having had a sympathy for the former monarchy or systems in place at that time.
Having a sympathy for any other kind of political system (in other words not "Velayat Faghigh" - rule by theocracy).
Having a sympathy for laws that are disapproved by the Mullah regime. (Anything that gives freedom to the people, something Khomeini openly ridiculed).
For having insufficient fervor for hard line Islam.
For having insufficient fervor for the ruling Mullah leadership members.
For supporting the "wrong" Mullahs like Rafsanjani or Kahroobi or reformists. (Official language avoids names but clearly infers such men).
For lack of sufficient Islamic knowledge. (According to hard line tenets).
For anti-Mullah activity - which can be anything like having a meal with the wrong person, leaving the country without permission, voicing discontent with the status quo, WATCHING a demonstration by others, helping a woman avoid arrest by the morals police, criticizing a member of the Suppression Forces or Revolutionary Guard, etc., etc. - or anything a clerical judge or court decides fits.
NOTE: 194 of those REJECTED are current Members of Parliament serving today! The regime did not like their past votes so they have banned them from running again.
Yes, Western World governments and dhimmis and apologists for this inhumane Mullah regime, free elections and democratic freedom, indeed! My foot!
Dariush Mehrjooi, an expatriate, prominent Persian movie director has just finished a full length film depicting social life in Iran - which the mullahs promptly banned and confiscated. (Now being shown in California and some other venues).
The movie shows the depth of drug addiction in the miserable populace (as high as 30% by many estimates, even 50% by others) and also gives the woman star a much higher level character role than other films about life in Iran.
Good depiction of social reality and worth seeing (Persian language) with rave revues from audiences, including one woman who said this is the first depiction of a woman in Islamic Iran that did not "make my skin crawl".
Also in the news, Russia has delivered the first 11kg of nuclear mateiral to Iran and plans to complete delivery of the rest in February. And Iran has openly told the European Union and the "Five" plus Germany that since the NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) "officially stated" Iran was not making a nuclear bomb, all sanctions are moot and should be cancelled.
And the whole matter should be removed from the United Nations and returned to the (very friendly to them) IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), where top dog El-Baradei has consistently done everything to protect Islamic Iran and delay any strong action against them.
Iran insists that nothing will prevent them from enriching uranium so tell the West to back off and stop wasting their time. They do not listen to criticism anyway, including protests about their having recently executed some17 or so youths (both genders) who had not yet reached the age of 18-years.
In closing, perhaps the least recognized MAJOR danger is the flood of Palestinians who blew up the border wall to Egypt and flooded many, many thousand people over into Egypt.
Here it was to buy supplies that had become in short supply with Israel closing their border with Gaza to try to stop rocket attacks.
The NEXT step to watch for is a flood of Palestinians doing the same and creating a human mini-Tsunami into Israel, where they reach population centers immediately.
This strategy has been a decades old, UNPUBLICIZED major plan the Palestinians have titled "The Second Exodus" but did not have a good entry channel till now(like the Gaza Strip).
The "semi-secret" plan also foresees emptying every refugee camp inside all Arab countries and organizing a HUGE human flood to drive the Israelis into the sea or second Exodus by sheer weight of numbers of UNarmed Palestinians.
(An estimated two to three MILLION warm bodies!)
They rely on Israel not having enough ammunition, let alone the resolve, to mow down that size of incursion. And it would be too close to their own citizenry to use nuclear or bio-weapons of mass destruction.
And they believe Egypt would also be overwhelmed and, moreover, reluctant to take action against these Palestinians.
Wake up Western world and gear up to handle the threat of Islam and terrorism more forcefully than the British Prime Minister did, when apologizing for, appeasing and dealing with the threat of Hitler till it was way too late.
DO NOT REPEAT HISTORY AT ITS WORST! TILL NOW, THAT IS.
Hitler and the Nazis did not cause a fraction of ONE PERCENT of the harm we will endure from Islamic Jihad if not stopped in its tracks.
The deaths of 50 Million people, in that era, will be a drop in the ocean of the global death and misery that will descend on us physically and financially.
Unfortunately the same shortsightedness that led to the Ayatollahs' disastrous sack of Iran is going to lead us down the inevitable path of mayhem and carnage. What it takes is leadership to annihilate the Islamic theocracy and real leadership is in severe shortage.
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