Would Iranians "rally 'round the flag" if Iran is attacked? Maybe, maybe not, they say. "One cannot assume that a preventive strike against Iran's nuclear infrastructure would necessarily prompt a nationalist backlash.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080613/cm_thenation/1096329613
The flag of the Seyyeds is not Iranian. Why would any Iranian, rally around that flag. Go inside every home in Iran, and you would see the proper Iranian flag.
A major point, that this paper completely misses, is that within Iran, there is an "us and them" situation. The Seyyeds enticed Saddam to attack Iran, and so obtained some kind of moral support, from Iranians, who felt that the enemy within, is not as bad as the enemy on the border. What should have happened then of course, was that if Iranians then, could have objected to all those theocratic warmongerings from Khomeini: -to rise against Saddam and cleanse the world in preparation for their Mahdi etc etc, and shut him up, the Saddam army would not have marched into Khuzestan. At the time, all Iranian nationalists said to me, that you are too silly and naïve with your non-violence talk, and I should look at such mad acts of Saddam.
So here we are with one of Khomeini's staunchest believers, beating his drums of war and enticing the world with the threat of nukes. This time we don't have Saddam to get worried about a divided Iraq, but we have the Israelis worried about Seyyeds' proxies dropping mini nukes across from their borders, once Natanz has concentrated enough of the wretched stuff.
Peace comes from having your cause for your own home. False ideologies whose cause is just a cause, fuel fanaticism that becomes war. So back to this article, it seems the authors have forgotten, that if Iranians really were that fanatic then they would have risen up against the Seyyeds a long time ago with a lot of blood on the streets. But Iranians believe in Life and Peace, as enshrined in our Zend Avesta, and books derived from it like the Shahnameh. We all know where our hearts and minds are; and they are now certainly not with the Seyyeds' ideologies.
A lot has happened in the past thirty years. Iranians have realised how their very culture has been threatened from within. There is a war already going on in Iran, and if the recent Seyyed selection (SS) is anything to go by, then the fact that the people abstained en-masse, shows how weak the Seyyed support is. In fact the Seyyeds' loved Saddam for the war, and would love the Israelis to attack. The Seyyed ideology thrives on war. If attacked the Seyyeds will have reason to exist as defenders of Islamic Iran, even though the peace movement in Iran is much more popular amongst pure Iranians.
So how can we Iranians convince the Israelis that we are not the same as the Seyyeds, and that they should be dealing with us? I have said it before, and I will say it again. The UN must pass a resolution to create a provisional government in exile that will represent Iran. The unions and other corporations will show their allegiance as proof. This new body of Iranians who put Iran first, will sit at the negotiating tables with the UN, and not those that went through the SS. A call for general strike will be stronger than any Israeli or US air strike.
But the world corporations just do not want to think along such lines of thought. A new modern Iran, with its energy based on gas, is a huge competitive concern. Iran has in the past benefited from being at the cross-roads of civilizations; with its real estate located in the centre of three continents. Just imagine how easily any company can produce and distribute their products from Iran. The competition is far too threatening. And so it is best to trip Iran into another war and wound it for a couple of generations.
Ya Ahuramazda in the Spirit of Nowrooz we will not let that happen.
