You're wrong Prof Zucker

Professor Zucker, in comparing Iran with Poland, thinks that the only opposition group of Iran is the MEK. Can you believe this? He ignores all the people who want a new democracy, be it as part of a Constitutional Monarchy, or a Republic. He then advocates an attack on Iran. He would rather have people, who are in many respects, even more confused than the Seyyeds, take over with the help of US.

Read this:

Instead of assisting the largest, best organized, oldest, and most popular of all Iranian opposition groups, the United States and the EU have placed the National Council of Resistance of Iran and its principal member, the Mojahedin-e Khalq, on their Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, thereby once again bowing to political pressure from Tehran and aiding the mullahs instead of the Iranian people. Whether it is political naiveté, or financial greed and a desire for lucrative deals with the Islamic Republic, the West has so far done nothing of substance to aid the Iranian people's best chance at regime change.

More at:

http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=2996&cid=2&sid=4

US snookered by China on Iran

You would think that the US could just hint at the US companies in China to protest at the Chinese government for their dealings with the Seyyeds.

The United States is also stepping up international efforts to isolate Iran over its defiant nuclear program but it is quietly concerned over China's potential oil and gas dealings with the Islamic republic, experts say.

Beijing has signed a 100-billion-dollar agreement to import 10 million tonnes of Iranian natural gas over the coming decades. In return, Chinese companies will become key stakeholders in Iran's oil fields.

But no, the Chinese have got the US by the balls, and there is nothing the US can do. Too much is made in China. The world needs to diversify away from China, that has an awful Human Rights record, and turns a blind eye to horrible regimes like the Seyyeds in Iran.

Left wing and Seyyeds against Iran secular nationalism

Media such as the Observer appeased the fanatic Islamists in the late 70's against USA, that led them to support the downfall of the sovereignty of Iran. Now I read this:

What was Britain hoping to achieve? How did a country under a left-of-centre government expect to influence religious rightists? Did it hope that a conversation with Foreign Office ministers would persuade them to repent and become converts to the noble cause of the emancipation of women?

It took them nearly thirty years to see what the Shahanshah of Iran called, "the alliance of red and black". Truly the naive left wing did not know what they were doing, and many still blindly support the Seyyeds against the US, just for the sake of being against the US, not that they really care about Iranian secular nationalism.