Open Letter to NRO

Dear Ms. Lopez, Mr. Lowry... et al at the National Review magazine

I came across this shameful piece by your contributor M. Krikorian on NRO Corner today. [Screen shot of the post]

I'm an Iranian activist living in Canada. Moved to this country in [...] as a political activist since I couldn't operate in Iran any more and for as long as I can remember, I have read the National Review's great material online (at least since 2000-2001). I've been pro-America, Pro-Bush, Pro-US Military, anti-Islam, anti-Iran's regime, and I'd like to say your articles on Iran were illuminating and full of hope at a time when we felt the whole world had left us in the darkness of the jail also known as Iran. But tonight, I am very troubled by this shameful post, especially this statement:

"So, terrible as it is, it's actually in our interest for the Iranian regime to hold on as long as possible, and crack down as brutally as it can, so as to radicalize (i.e., de-Islamize) as much of the population as possible."

How dare you? To hold on to power as long as possible so you get a kick out of it? It shows the ignorance and silliness of the author. It shows the level of naivete of the author and goes to show how little he might know about the Iranian society. As far as I am concerned, the religion of Islam is a dead one in Iran. Hordes of people leave Islam and turn to other sources of spirituality, ie Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Christianity or Baha'i faiths. Is your ignorant author happy that the innocent Iranians are being murdered on a daily basis? Does he not understand that every single day this regime holds to power means a day closer to having a nuclear armed Iran on our hands?

I am totally disgusted by this piece. I've been a paid subscriber to your magazine (on and off since I am a student and live on a budget) since mid 2007. And it's also such a pain to find your magazine in Canada where most bookstores don't carry conservative publications at all. I managed to get my campus bookstore to carry your magazine, hoping that it might wake up some of the brighter idiots there. I've always promoted your magazine as the beacon of superior intellectual thinking and writing among my friends and contacts. Always quoted your stuff on my blog but never expected to read such a lame crappy post on NRO-Corner section. It's an awful thing for him to say:

"it's actually in our [...] crack down as brutally as it can, so as to radicalize (i.e., de-Islamize) as much of the population as possible."

Maybe more people like 'Neda' should die so Mr. Krikorian can get to show us the brutality of Islam and document his hatred for that religion? Why not? It's not his brother or sister that is being beaten and run-over by police in Tehran. Is it? It's completely uncalled for. He's more than welcome to move to Iran and experience it there first hand.

I respect others' views but at this time it is absolutely unacceptable for NRO to publish comments that is definitely going to dishearten your Iranian fans across the globe. It is accurate to say that leftist publications like HuffPo or Daily Kos or Andrew Sullivan might be expected to write such ' hateful nonsense' but I'd have never thought/imagined to read this kind of BS on 'NRO' website. I am shocked, angered and troubled and I am really unable put my anger and frustration in words. I hope you understand me though.

I believe the Iranian activists who put their lives on the line on a daily basis to free Iran and secure the world deserve an apology. Thanks for your attention!

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Update: I decided to go public with this after writing several emails to the editors of NR and on twitter.com. Never received any thing back and decided to post it here.

Profile of a thug

The recent leaked letter that profiles and explains the weird life style of the Iranian regime's leader Khamenei should make for an interesting study within the intelligence community.

Part 2 can be read here.

Read the entire profile here. به فارسی: نسخه فارسی اسرار زندگی خامنه ای گدا

Khamenei's plane ready to take him to Russia if things go bad?

Meaningless Obama

Dr. Krauthammer: “The regime is weakening. This is a hinge in history. Everything in the region will change if the regime is changed. Obama ought to be strong out there in saying it’s an illegitimate government; we stand shoulder to shoulder with the people in the street. When he talks about diplomacy he should be urging our Western allies to that have relations to cut them off. He ought to be going into the UN every forum denouncing it. This is a moment in history and he’s missing it.“

h/t Gateway Pundit

Khamenei is a donkey

One of the slogans heard in Tehran today was this: "Khamenei is a lame donkey, one of his arms is disabled". خامنه ای الاغه، یه دستشم چلاقه

BBC: Anti-regime protests in Tehran. Al-Jazeera: Police clash with Iran protesters.
Three dead and two injured in Tehran. AFP is covering the protests. Al-Arabiya TV has extensive coverage of the unrest. The Iranian regime is on the verge of collapse.

Updated at 5:45AM ET: The number of dead protesters has risen to 5. Reports of gun fire inside the regular Iranian Army Officer Academy are being circulated on twitter.

Updated at 6:15AM ET: Here's Video #1, My friend Azarmehr has more videos --- Another clip from Tehran. Gooya News has several clips. Video: Police cars and vehicles on fire

The protests are absolutely country-wide. Reports have come from major towns and cities such as Amol, Mashad, Isfahan, Shiraz, Babol and Karaj.

Excellent videos and photos from today's riots. Excellent photos from Times of London.

Updated at 8AM ET: It's rumored that Khamenei might have been flown out of Tehran today morning. Updated @ 11:45AM: Mousavi's relative (reportedly his nephew) was killed during the protests today. And people will gather for candle light vigils at 8PM local time to mourn for the dead. Updated @ 7pm: Police begging people not to beat them up: Watch this dramatic footage from Iran. Check these photos. Here's a video where you can hear the sound gun fire in the streets.

Updated @ 8:15pm ET: Finally White House comes out to condemn the regime's violence and says "it stands with the people of Iran". Now, do something and help topple the mullahs.

Official Statement by the Canadian government condemns the regime's use of violence during today's unrest against protesters.

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Remove The Mullahs

Dr. Charles Krauthammer had an outstanding column on Friday regarding Iran:

"Forget about human rights. Assume you care only about the nuclear issue. How to defuse it? Negotiations are going nowhere, and whatever U.N. sanctions we might get will be weak, partial, grudging and late. The only real hope is regime change."

Read the entire piece here.

The venerable Weekly Standard magazine urges 'Regime Change in Iran in 2010':

"In 2009, we tried to engage the Iranian regime. In 2010, let's try to change it."

Look, these are not some wishful empty words or day dreams. The United States is capable of effecting change in Iran as it did in the former Soviet Union bloc in 1980s. The anti-regime protests must be used to our advantage and in this fight, the Iranians are our most effective weapon against the Islamic regime. Go ahead and remove the Mullahs for good.

Christmas Song

Merry Christmas!

Food for thought

Weekly Standard's great piece on Montazeri and his passing.

Preventing nuclear war between Iran and Israel would be more difficult than it ever was to avoid a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union: Here's why.

And apparently the US State Dept has finally waken up by calling Iran a "police state". One wonders where these idiots have been for the past 30 yrs.

Stop Worrying!

Stop worrying about the atomic bomb and help Iranians change the government says author of this piece on The Times of London and I totally agree with him:

"The protest movement is the most promising development in the Middle East in the past quarter of a century. Rather than being viewed as a sideshow, the uprising should be at the core of every policy decision made by Western statesmen on Iran. Western leaders should ask just one question whenever faced with a new set of measures towards Iran: will they help or hurt the Green Movement?"

If only the stupid government bureaucrats in western countries realized the massive potentials of a free Iran at the heart of the middle-east. It's absurdly unfortunate that they don't seem to grasp the reality and what they've done so far has bolstered the regime through these endless nuclear negotiations. The western governments' concern about nuclear weapons in the hands of the current rapist regime in Tehran is truly understandable but there is no chance to disarm this regime by talking to them. It's imperative that the current regime be prevented from having any nuclear weapons capability for the sake of international peace and safety. A brutal regime that doesn't have mercy on its own people, can not be trusted with weapons of mass murder. But the way to achieve this is not through endless negotiations. The only option left to accomplish this goal is to disable the regime forever by empowering the Iranian people in their quest for liberty and democracy. Endless negotiations will do nothing but to create a nuclear armed Iranian regime threatening the whole world and holding all of us hostage.

Dead mullah

I am just told via a friend in Tehran that dissident ayatollah Montazeri has died.

Updated at 2am ET: BBC News has confirmed the news.

UK's Guardian reports that Iranian regime is on alert following the death of Montazeri.

Updated on Tuesday Dec 22nd: Photos showing Hundreds of thousands attended Montazeri's funeral.

WW II Compensation

Our friends at 'Planet Iran' and 'Gateway Pundit' report that 'mental patient in chief' Ahmadinejad has gone on one of his rants in Copenhagen climate summit asking for compensation for the damages inflicted on Iran during the 2nd World War in 1940s:

" ... we are in the right to demand these damages for World War II and I have appointed a group to tabulate the sum total of the compensation due us; shortly, in a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations we will be demanding money due to us. This is justice."

A few things came to my mind reading this lunatic's bullshit: 1- They should ask Hitler for compensation since they share a lot with him in views and behavior, 2- Without the US President Truman's sincere support Azarbaijan and Kurdish provinces of Iran would have been taken away by Joseph Stalin in late 1945. 3- Ahmadinejad should be sent to a psychiatric ward once this regime is toppled and be evaluated for his rare mental problems including his shameful Holocaust denial.

I think I am done ;-)

UAEAF v. IRIAF

Via Foreign Policy magazine.
As someone who knows a bit about the sham that is the current Iranian armed forces, I happen to certainly agree with General Petraeus on this. Once a proud IIAF is now a laughing stock of the whole world.

Bigger Iran Threat

Threats posed by the Iranian rapists ruling that country, are growing on a daily basis and the Obama administration seems to be clueless, powerless and too busy destroying America to deal with the ever growing threat of the genocidal-rapist regime of Tehran.

The recent missile test is simply a signal to the world and especially to the weakened America led by Hussein Obama that there is nothing in the world that can stop them. Of course, the courageous Iranians who have taken on the regime in the streets of its major cities and towns can do what the rest of the world is unable to do: Weakening the regime. Yet, these brave students and citizens are left to fend off for themselves and are desperately in need of covert, overt and public support for their ultimate goal: Regime Change.

There are tactically two options left to deal with these criminals in Iran: 1- 'Military Action', 2- 'Regime Change' them the Soviet Union style. Of course, I don't bet on neither of those options. Why? Because Obama has proven to be a gutless 'present-voter' President so far. Took him more than 3 months to support his own troops in Afghanistan and I wouldn't think he is interested in helping some pesky Iranians. He is not interested in doing what the so-called 'leader of the free world' ought to do when it comes to 'US National Security' which is odd. The chances of solving the Iranian problem through diplomacy and talks are long gone. Let's hope the end of this story won't be horrific for all of us.

Iranian regime releases the pictures of today's missile test.

Stuck in mud

The Persian language news outlets are all abuzz with the news that Iran's regime may arrest and detain 'Iranian reformist leader Mr. Mousavi' any time now. The university campuses across the country have been like a volcano ready to erupt. Blood thirsty leader Khamenei has issued several warnings to the anti-regime protesters demanding they quit their protests and let him be to no avail.

The latest news I received indicated that the city of Tehran is in a garrison like mode and locked down at this time. Mullahs are basically stuck between a rock and a hard place. Whatever they do at this point will further agitate the people: doing nothing will expose them as weak while doing everything (further killing, imprisonment, torture... etc) will anger the Iranian people and may isolate them further around the globe. It must be noted that in the meantime, Mouavi's wife has asked their supporters to come out in case of Mousavi's arrest. She has demanded that the protesters/supporters march from Tehran's Enghelab Sq to Azadi Sq. Mousavi's probable arrest means more and more street protests and regime must be foolish to arrest him (even though I don't doubt their foolish nature). This is where things stand for the regime. They have been stuck in mud since June.

As the Shiite's holy month of Muharram nears, the prospects of further anti-regime protests look greater. Millions of people come out (mostly using the first ten days as an excuse for socializing) to the streets to mourn the 3rd shia Imam killed in 680 AD and the regime is going to be unable to prevent people from mourning what regime has claimed to represent in the past 30 years. The mullahs are vulnerable during these mourning days and things can go wrong for them if they decide to act against mourners. What is the regime going to do about all this? Killing people during those holy days? Acting like Yazid? I am sure the sadistic members of the Iranian regime are willing and capable of acting like that but at what price? They'll lose further support among their very own base if they act against people during the month of Muharram. Any person who is killed by this regime during those so-called 'sacred' days will bring more havoc and hell for the regime. The next few weeks are going to be interesting. Probably a bigger turning point since June for Iranians and the world.

Titanic sinking slowly

The Associated Press quotes the regime's intelligence minister as saying that:

"The recent plot is like an iceberg floating in the ocean. Its larger part is under the water, while a small part of it is visible..."

I think the regime's Titanic has definitely hit the iceberg and cold water is gushing in. The mullahs haven't realized the level of damage inflicted on their ship and they're sinking slowly. Yes, the iceberg that is the Iranian people will sink this regime eventually. It's going to be a long night and many 'Jacks and Roses' will be wasted in this process, unfortunately.

No 'status quo'

Iran's criminal leader Khamenei has been named by a Norwegian institution as 'Dictator of the year' which perfectly fits him and his blood-thirsty system:

"Oslo University 'honors' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for his achievements in 'inspiring hostility among nations, increasing human suffering."

And in the meantime the reality - instability of the Iranian regime - is becoming ever more apparent. The anti-regime sentiments among the people has become so widespread, according to the Wall Street Journal, that "Iran has entered one of those hinge moments in history. What is certain is that the status quo has become untenable".