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Maintaining Skepticism and Debunking Mousavi
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Similar to what I’ve been saying all, while democratic revolution is a noble initiative and a cause worth fighting for, we should not to too excited just yet about what’s going on in Iran until we know what they plan to do with that democracy, and if their intention really is a true democracy to begin with or just something different than what they have now.
Case in point: the Palestinians. Everyone jumped the gun in lauding their new democracy, their “free” elections, etc., only to watch as they swept Hamas, one of the most notorious terrorist organizations in the world, into power. And, interestingly enough, they’re still in power because they found that having terms and periodic new elections are just not convenient for them.
So, here we are, cheering on the Iranian revolution. Are we going to make the same mistake? Don’t get me wrong; I do support this revolution and I do hope for the best, but I’m just saying that we shouldn’t be overly optimistic until we know what they plan to set up in place of the mullocracy that they are trying to sweep out.
Distinguished and accomplished journalist, Tom Gross, debunks a very popular misconception regarding Mousavi on his web site. What he writes is:
MOUSAVI IS NEITHER A LIBERAL NOR AN OPPONENT OF THE ISLAMIST STATE.
The “opposition” candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is one of the fathers of Iran’s nuclear program, and was prime minister during the Iran-Iraq war, directing his army to send waves of teenage suicide bombers against Iraqi forces. (He is incidentally a cousin of Ayatollah Khamenei.) He is almost as much a hardliner of the regime as the “victor” President Ahmadinejad is. That is why he was one of just four candidates (out of over 4000 people who applied) allowed by the regime to stand in this stage-managed presidential election.
All four regime-approved candidates have long been involved in the regime’s reign of terror. For example, Mousavi was responsible for ordering the execution of 30,000 Iraqi prisoners.
THE TRUE IRANIAN OPPOSITION IS STILL BEING IGNORED
The BBC and others continue to ignore real opposition to the dictatorship, supported by many of the demonstrators, such as the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political umbrella coalition of five Iranian opposition political organizations, including secular democrats, led by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi from exile in Paris. Several times last week, the Supreme Leader acknowledged this in his public statements. But the Western media has hardly mentioned the NCRI, even though in Paris on Saturday, tens of thousands of its supporters staged the largest ever demonstration by Iranians outside Iran.
As usual, the BBC, the world’s largest news broadcaster, gets so much of its Middle East reporting wrong. This is not a battle between a hard-line reactionary Ahmadinejad and a “moderate reformist” Mousavi. It is a battle between rival factions of a ruthless and dangerous regime.
So, again, just how much will change as a result of this bloody revolution is yet to be determined, but don’t be surprised if most of the changes are internal sociotheological changes that have little to do with their foreign policy, especially regarding nukes and regarding Israel.