At first I thought I would just tweet it, and then send him a direct message. But now I hear voices that tell me, differently. We all hear voices from our Free Will and we are moved by them when they shout at us. And this is becoming louder to me all the time.
One thing that is important to all Iranians is representation. The culture of Iran is not represented properly at the moment from any institution. In fact there are plently of institutions whose job is to misrepresent Iran. But the Royal Institution of Iran has a mandate, and it is not political, religious, or financial. It represent all that is purely cultural.
The debate over cultural itself as distinct from the political, religious, and commercial is important. I am not going to dwell on that here. But what I hear in my heart is the voice deep from the past. Democracy it cries is a process based on Free Will and the ability to choose, or Gozineshi. That is first mentioned in the Zend-Avesta.
When the person in charge of the Royal Institution does not know that the Zend-Avesta is at the heart of Iranian culture, and that Gozineshi is at the heart of Zend-Avesta, then we have a disconnect.
I know that Cyrus Reza Pahlavi is doing his best, but serious mistakes like this, especially in front of the Greeks is madness. Even Alexander the Great who is half Iranian is turning in his grave.
The Iranian nation, not the Islamic cult with guns, has been held hostage by China's business practices.
Obama has been black mailed in not taking tough actions on companies that deal with the Islamic regime and US that are based in China.
China is provider of labour and buys US bonds. So the US is in collusion with the Chinese. The left wing in US does not look at the peace dividend if there were military cut backs if there was a non violent regime in Iran.
For our part I say, find another enemy and leave Iran to develop peacefully. Let us have regime change by recognising the true Iranians who put Iran first. Iranians that love Iranian culture that is the oldest in the world and is part of the human heritage.
For how long has the world helped the Ayatollahs remain in power just because they thought they could pretend to be representing Iran, and abuse the income they received for their own agenda.
The world has a duty. It must use the correct wording when it comes to describing the behaviour of the Islamic State. This BBC report uses the word Iran in the wrong context, as it is the Ayatollahs activities they are describing not the behaviours of Iranians.
Iranians have been under the sanctions of the Islamic State ever since 1979. Some would argue that Iranians have been under this inquisition since it was brought back again after the Monguls wiped Islam from Iran and allowed Iranian culture to flourish again. All our famous poets and art flourished under the Monguls. Just look at the miniatures and the poems of Hafez.
It took a bitter force like Islam to stop Iran becoming great and many do not want Iran to be the great force in West Asia. But it will be.
You know how I hate the BBC. Why? Because it is huge and it's heard by everyone. So it is only important because it makes a big splash, like a big ugly elephant jumping into water. This time it is making waves over the nuclear power plant that has just kick started in the port of Bushehr. Soo what's the big deal Ali you say? Well old fogies like me know stuff that should be put in reports like this and the BBC does "disinformation by omission" very well. They do not tell people that Iran had the full trust of the world in the 60's and 70's. What has changed? The Ayatollahs' invasion of Iran is what has changed. Just like the Nazis took power in Germany, and ruined the reputation of German scientists, these monsters have ruined the reputation of Iranian scientists. The world relies on the media to inform them properly, and the English tax payer is being abused. As a public service, the BBC must give a balanced report, but it does not. It portrays the Ayatollahs as legit. The Ayatollahs rely on the BBC to spread their propaganda, and it works. This is worse than an invasion of Iran in the physical form, with tanks and missiles. In some ways if the Ayatollahs has marched into Iran with an army and took on Iran bravely like soldiers do, then they would have been dealt with a mighty blow. But Islam is illusive and has no centre as such. There is no Pope or Vatican to hold everything responsible. But the people of Iran have managed to gather all the influencial people in this dogma in the government, so that they can be seen in clear day light. We have given them the feeling of power, but have managed to find them all in the process. Their policies are front and centre. The Ayatollahs have seen with their own eyes how successful or unsuccessful they have been with the Iranians. Over years they lost the heart and soul of Iranians. No Iranian calls their children Mohammad. Iranians feel a deeper allegiance to Iranian culture that links to modern world. The phrase Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds, has more power than any sentence in the Koran. So we have distilled this element out of the Iranian world, and it is contained in what is a massive recycling bin. We have effectively quarantined it like a virus in a computer. Now every now and then this worm tries to show that it is doing something for Iran's sake, like this nuclear stuff. But the people know better, even if the BBC does not.
You wonder why this Iranian women with a Nobel Peace Prize, is begging the Ayatollahs to change. She is not interested in using her accolade to create a non-violent movement, that will benefit all. Let me explain. She states, that if the regime does not change, then no one will benefit from the situation. The non-violent movement, unlike the violent movements, does not justify its violence under "the end justifies the means" principle", like George Bush used in his invasion of Iraq. Just because you want "Democracy" or "Human Rights", that does not mean you go out of your house and battle.
We are humans, and as human beings we can use peace to be united. The non-violent movement is united along peaceful lines, and it will eventually unite all of the people of Iran. Currently we have a small minority ruling over us with weapons, and also in the process of building weapons of mass destruction. Iran is rich in mineral and human resources, but they have been used to build weapons of mass destruction to defend this small but potent Ayatollah regime. What is more important, the United States of America's military industrial complex, needs to have the threat element, in order to justify its existence in the Persian Gulf area. The small minority's forces (IRGC), use their Mahdi Cause and the threat of USA, to siphon the energy and resources of Iranians, to build weapons of mass destruction. The never ending exchanges between the US and the Ayatollah regime has bought time for the regime and the US to carry plundering their peoples wealth, for useless violent causes. The world media is of course involved in selling exciting news regarding all this.
We in Iran have withstood the changes the Ayatollahs have tried to make in Iran, in trying to wipe out our culture, from changing the name, to to changing the flag, to changing the national anthem. We have stopped them non-violently and the Ayatollahs have retreated. We know who they are, what they are doing, and they are cornered in their ivory towers of power. They control the media and some streets. But they still rely on the people of Iran to make bread for them, as they make bread for themselves. They are like leaches. But the people of Iran use other new more modern media systems to peacefully connect with each other. We are the second largest bloggers in the world. We used Twitter to tell the world how bad the media is, by reporting things the mass media like BBC and AP do not, because they are afraid of the Ayatollahs shutting them out of Iran. Citizen Journalism is rife in Iran, and has saved Iranian culture.
With the advent of the World Cup, the regime will get a lot of pressure on it, as the youth in Iran will use this occasion to greet and meet, and assemble. World Cup excites nationalism and Iranian nationalism is what the politicians, religious leaders hate. Their ideologies go counter to nationalism and they will use God or Democracy to get rid of any thing that is Iranian. But Iranian culture is based on Love and Peace. Our poetry and philosophy united us, and the world knows this. Iranians have not defeated, but overcome and absorbed any invader or ruler, be it internal or external. This ruler is internal, and it makes itself look Iranian, and speaks on behalf of Iranians. World powers and agencies, that support it, speak of it as if it represents Iran. This regime does not represent Iran or Iranians. It represents its own narrow minded version of Islam first, and then Iran. It has no respect for any other kind of order. So for Shirin Ebadi to try to deal with the regime, instead of talking about the peaceful change that will take place, whether the regime likes it or not, is wrong. The regime is small and insignificant and does not need to be begged at to consider change. The peaceful change in Iran will not hurt the regime, and will create a new Iran, where we can all live with each other. This is not what Mrs Ebadi says. She talks of a situation that will not benefit all. She is wrong.
Fact is that once the US starts to talk to the Hezbollah, or the Ayatollahs, then people's imagination will not ride wild. People will then be able to see and feel the debates with the Hezbollah and the Ayatollahs, and the "fear factor" would be diminished.
So who benefits from this "fear factor"? Well the US forces themselves. With no fear, then there would be no need for the US forces in the area. The US military budget needs to be maintained.
in reference to:
"The U.S. should break with long-standing policy and start talking to Hezbollah in order to "mess with" the Iranian-backed group, a leading U.S. expert on the Mideast told Congress on Tuesday."
- News from The Associated Press (view on Google Sidewiki)
It is not that they want to have nuclear medicine shoved down people throats for photos, which is what they are saying the rods are for.
But look at this report. It clearly shows the kind of sanctions the Ayatollahs have placed on Iranians. We don't have enough fuel and we it all goes to China for them to make toys for the US consumers.
If Iranians had access to cheap fuel and proper cars to not pollute the country (which is another problem) then an Iranian would be able to function better than anyone in the world.
Why has it taken so long? The US does not want Iran to become the next Japan of the Asia. They used the myth of "democracy" to destabilize Iran. Remember that we had a pseudo-democracy much better than the Ayatollah one, before 1979. At the time the worry was USSR and Communists wiping out our culture. Now we have Islamists wiping out Iran.
Hopefully the oil company that has struggled to modernize with this regime, can get more funding, and sort out the problem. I remember when we had problems with oil wells going down, because the Ayatollahs were more interested in other things.
The internal struggle in Iran continues. The non-violent approach by engineers and others to educate and change the Ayatollahs has been a long struggle. Iran would not be in this situation if we did not have aliens running our country.
You can't have Hillary Clinton say one thing, and then Turkey and Brazil, say another thing. Is the UN behind the sanctions or not? And what in the world is China up to; saying yes to both sides of the equation. This is all a bit silly.
Let's be practical. The day the fuel is about to be delivered to Turkey, Qom will say no. The likes of Jannati will not allow it, and they control the regime. The days when their Foreign Ministry (the old Reform Camp) had power, are gone. If anything the die-hards will kick out Ahmadinejad.
Now for those sanctions. If the US really wanted to do anything, they would close down banks that operated in Iran and US. They would stop those Chinese companies dealing in US and Iran. That will not happen.
So all of this is just a superb way to waste time. It makes good "news", and the media makes money printing it. Meanwhile the US stays in the area wasting money on military.
Nothing has changed. But the non-violent movement moves forward.
Think of Ayatollahs' Oil, not Iranians' oil from now on. The reason is because they have invaded Iran with the help of world terrorism, to build their own Empire after Armageddon. Ayatollahs are not Iranians. Help Iranians remove them non-violently. Don't lend the Ayatollahs money.
in reference to:
"Iran has not attacked anyone literally through its conventional forces. The Ayatollahs that put Islam above Iranian culture have their own gangsters. Yes they are close to folks like Bin Laden, and the Chinese. This the new force that has taken on the world powers." - rss iran: Chinese Press and Ayatollah Oil from Iran (view on Google Sidewiki)
Notice how fast the Xinhua is on the uptake on some of the news relating to Iran. In this item the power of the gangsters in Iran (IRGC) and other areas in the world is seen.
Iran has not attacked anyone literally through its conventional forces. The Ayatollahs that put Islam above Iranian culture have their own gangsters. Yes they are close to folks like Bin Laden, and the Chinese. This the new force that has taken on the world powers.
The Chinese are not the real cause. The real cause are the Chinese Banks and other US companies that are manufacturing via slave labour, and cheap Ayatollah Oil from Iran.
If the US created a positive direct relationship via the Ayatollahs' Foreign Ministry in Iran, then another bunch of "nicer" gansters would be involved. They are the so called reformers, and they even included The Greens (Mousavi et al).
But from an Iranian culture perspective the Ayatollahs who put Iran after Islam, this is all part of their dogma. The Ayatollahs want to change the whole world with their allegiance to their Mahdi or their last Emperor that has disappeared. They want another Empire of their own for the world.
We Iranians have our own culture that is older than the Chinese culture. The Chinese refer to Iranians in ancient times as Persians, and everyone else as Barbarians. Yes that is true. The concept of dualism is from the Zend Avesta, that predates China by thousands of years. Our Ancients are from the last stellar alignment some 26000 years ago. All will be revealed in 2012 Yalda.
Why am I saying all this. Because the ancient that binds the Chinese and Persians is on a revival. This is what the Age of Aquarius is bringing on to the world. A new partnership has to be established on a firmer more ancient root.
It looks like HRH, or someone at Huffington Post has decided not to post this:
Your Royal Highness has a mandate to act. Unfortnately you have, once again, given us a sophomoric update instead. The Royal Institution of Iran acts when the culture is at risk of being wiped out. Please tell us what you want to do.
What do you think that means? We Iranians have a Prince who is in charge of the Royal Institution, and does not carry out his job. The Royal Institution defends the culture of the country. His inaction has helped Iran to become an Islamic State. Strong words? Maybe, but necessary.
My ancestor, who was the last King of the Qajars, at least admitted that he did not want to carry out his duty, and left it to Reza Shah (his grand father) to ask to be a President, and the Parliament made him the new King. HRH the Crown Prince is not doing his duty, in this time of need. He writes like a Journalist. He is not a Journalist.
What do we Iranian then do. We then think of abandoning the Royal Institution, and sell our country to the abuses of democracy. Yes democracy can kill a country's national character. Think of this. One day you wake up and you see the name of Mount Demavand changed to Mount Khomeini. Then what? It was voted by the Ayatollah poodles in their so called Majlis. That is democracy becoming democrazy.
We in the Islamic State, and that is what it is, as it not Iran, have obviously no one to defend the history of Iran that defends Iran's culture. People have literally hidden Iran's culture under their beds. We get our Prince in exile lecturing us over and over again, but he does nothing.
If this was the past and HRH Crown Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi was stuck in Iran, the situation would have been different. He would have had to act his job. But he has not. I would do it, and many better than me would do it, but he has to do what my ancestors did. We gave our house in Saadabad for pittance to his grandad, and he did resurrect Iran. His dad was born in that house. But what has this Prince done.
As an Astrologer I know how bad Mars in Cancer can be, and the Prince has that. So has the UN, and that is why there is not action in both. If you do not understand Astrology then I am sorry, but that is the reason for this situation. What we have here is a drummer, not a lead guitarist. He needs to get his band together now.
Here is a very important comment made in 1979, and it shows how naive some of the biggest minds in the world were. The answer of course was given by this other famous commentator at this link:
The Soviet Union then and Russia now supported the mullahs then and now, and the Chinese have the strongest business ties with the Communists and others.
I have reprinted an extract from a book that is free on Google, that tells you of the exact events that led to the loss of Iran to the Moslems. The Generals effectively took charge at around 10 am on Februrary 11 1979. It was coordinated by a man called Fardust, because he stopped the loyalty to The Crown.
Fardust was the Shah's closest man, and he let Iran down. Nowadays his friend is a man called AA Dareini and he works for AP. For years I have been seeing his articles all over the world, as an AP correspondent. Did he write fairly on Iran? Did he write about how Iranians resisted the Islamification of Iran with the Nowruz Pagan culture and won. Our ancient farm festivals in praise of nature and life have given Iranians the will to live and resist the death worship of Islam.
As you all know, I go to sites and take on anyone, but this guy Dareini was always hidding. The other day I found his page in Newsvine, and I put the above questions there. Recently I followed another link to his page and found I could not log in. Wow, my first ever. Never has anyone blocked my non-violent approach, and that includes the pro-regime sites and forums. So it goes to show where the problem is. The problem is media, and it is a problem because people do not know how much influence these writers have. People think they know everything, but they don't.
Oh it sickens me how educated Iranians, did not dwell into more philosophical, more Earthly, how does one say, more natural way of approaching life. Iranians at the time of the Shah, were either the structured modern sort, you know Scientists, Doctors, Military people, or they were more common sense traders. All of them blindly accepted Islam, because it did not interfere. This is what caught us all by surprise. But if we had respected our own pagan philosophy written in The Zend Avesta and followed Astrology then we would not be tempted by violence.
I am pleased to say that we are now finally beginning to see the non-violent approach and we are getting there. Many of those born with Saturn in Libra are finally old enough to be involved in the new Iran.
The real reasoning behind this act of jumping through fire, is related to Astrology of the Twelfth House. The Twelfth House is related to the non-self, humility and selflessness of a person. The activities relate to facing all issues that are pending for a person so that the person may be able to start the new year properly. The last five days are called Hamspatmediamgah or as Parsi call it Hamaspathmaedaya.
Saw this site and put out all this there (don't know why, it just happened):
I do not agree with a lot that has been said. The Iranians, like myself began as conscientious objectors to this illegal regime from 12th Feb 1979.
I had relatives employed in the oil and petrochemicals, and they, like me, objected to the new directives being sent out by the mullahs.
Every place, every important meeting had an IRGC or mullah sniffing around. But the non-violent movement in Iran was born to stop them from the progress of Iran. Iranians defeated their wishes from the 12th February 1979.
But the problem was that the world refused to note the mullahs being defeated. The world focused on the warmongering of Khomeini and let the war with Iraq start. That killed Iranians. It was then very difficult to stop that. But we managed at the end. But a lot of Iranians became Basij and that sustained the mullahs.
Oh they managed to change the flag, the anthem, and many names. They even wanted to bulldoze Persepolis. But the ancient ruins remain, and more have been found as new roads had to be built. The people of Iran do not use Islamic names to name their children anymore. The backlash has been a blessing in disguise. A new Iran has been born in stealth out of this tragedy.
There is a level of doubt that has risen purely from the foreign policy of the mullahs, and their sense of world order. In the time of the Shah, the US did not mind even if Iran had the bomb. So it is the type of people that are running the country that matters. We have a lot of intelligent people in Iran and outside, who can represent Iran, and do not have wacko 7th Century ideas.
The question you need to be asking is, why did a modern state in 1979 get derailed by Carter. What was he worried about when he said Iran is an Island of Stability. Obviously that is exactly what he did not want. Just think what Iran would be now. Quo Bene?
The same WPO poll asked respondents to assess actual freedom of speech in Iran: “In Iran, how free do you think people are to express controversial political views, without fear of being harassed or punished?” Only 27% of Iranians said they were completely free in this regard, but another 44% said they were somewhat free; 23% said they were “not very free” (12%) or “not at all free” (11%).
The interesting part of this whole report is that it makes Ahmadinejad look popular, whilst it knows too well that the people in Iran cannot answer any questions, just in case they get killed by the mullahs.
They are all falling apart and they know that the people are not with them. This is all show.
in reference to:
"The Iranian nuclear program is not going very well. Lacking an actual completed weapon, the Iranian mullahs may seek to gain some of the political benefits of weaponizing by boasting and bragging. Watch out for us! We’re coming! Any minute now! Getting closer!" - David Frum: Don't start bombing Iran just yet - Full Comment (view on Google Sidewiki)
I thought it necessary to enlighten the Japanese of who the real opposition are, and what our purpose is. Clashing is not the non-violent way. One day maybe they will see how the Iranians have resisted in every area of culture and industry against the mullahs and have won.
It is so sad that the world press just does not understand how long the non-violent movement has been fighting the mullahs in Iran.
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"Iranians have been non-violently protesting, fighting, and winning against the mullah ever since 12th Feb 1979. It is just that the western press refuses to accept how we have stopped the mullahs from completely wiping out our Iranian culture. They have changed the flag, our national anthem. But go inside every Iranians' home and you will see that they put Iranian culture above anything else, especially Islam." - The two Irans collide - BostonHerald.com (view on Google Sidewiki)
It was obvious from the start. Now they admit that they are a bunch of clowns.
in reference to:
"The foreign ministry shunned the US offer as “not logical,” after US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley floated the idea on Tuesday when Iran said it had begun enriching uranium to 20% for a Tehran research reactor.“Shutting down the reactor or stopping the production of medicine is not the solution,” said foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast. “This proposal is not logical.”" - Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Gulf/Arab World (view on Google Sidewiki)
From the moment that Obama got elected I said that, the US military wanted to have a proper young man at the helm, that can really tackle the roots of the problems in Iran.
George Bush's cowboy stuff did not really convince anyone, and everyone saw him as a con. This guy Obama is different. Right from the start he has been seen as the black darling of the world. He reminds me of the days when Sidney Poitier came to Hollywood, and how he represented the Ambassador of the Blacks in Hollywood.
So the US military managed with one simple act, be able to present to the world a new clean proper look to the world. Whatever this man said was going to be accepted. They did not have an embarrasing cowboy kid in the White House. This very educated polished black man was going to smooth talk the US up the moral ladder again. The EU was in love with the US. The left in Germany were nuts over him.
But I said then, that after a year, folks like Jannati will not budge and this extended hand of Obama's will have a gun at the end of it, no sooner than the final days of the nuclear talks are over. Once the US is out of Iraq for good, real war will be fought. That is not the drug war the US is fighting in Afghanistan. That is something they need for themselves. Cheap supplies for their own men and women of narcotics is there for all at Helmand, as it has been since the days of the silk route.
So what is the real war. The real war is the might of the young Iranians and other Western Asians. As cultures that created the world's first civilization well before China and other Eastern Asians, we have the energy and the location to become the centre of civilization as we were in the times of Cyrus the Great, We developed the planet Earth along human rights and the world had three three hundred year Empires that moved humanity forward. The Persian Pride that is in all Iranians, is what this war is about.
The people of Western Asia know that their energy is being siphoned off by China to build cheap materials by their political dissidents for the likes of Wal-Mart. The major US companies are not interested in losing market share to huge companies that will grow in Western Asia and put Iran at the centre of the world as it always had. The US companies want to make sure that Iran is destroyed by a force like the mullahs in combat with the US. The last thing they want is a peaceful economically prospering Iran, that will put them out of business.
in reference to:
"Palin suggested that if President Obama "played the war card" by declaring war on Iran in the next two years, the political landscape would change dramatically in his favor. "There wouldn't be as much passion to make sure that he doesn't serve another four years," Palin said." - 44 - Palin: Obama could play 'war card' to win reelection (view on Google Sidewiki)
The typical historical references to the time of the Shah are actually incorrect. Connecting what was done at the time of the Shah with now is incorrect. The left wing does not apologise for what it did in the time of the Shah, and Trita is not doing it now. The purely democratic ideology does not work in an ancient culture. Iran like many old nations has many other cultural elements that have to be considered, before it is cut up by the blunt democratic tool. Things are not black and white, and Mossadegh was not God. At that time the fear of the Communist Party selling Iran to the Russians was great amongst the world. The world press exaggerated all this, and the result was complete economic disaster for Iran whilst Mossadegh was around.
I know all this to be true because my father was a leading industrialists at the time of Mossadegh. He advised Mossadegh not to make such a big deal and not to allow the oil price to rise. The world of oil was and is in the hands of the distributers, and Mossadegh refused to understand this simple fact. He thought that just having the oil is the be and end all of it all. He built a political scenario around this, and like Khomeini tried to convince the people that the Shah stood at the ports and filled his pockets with money. He promised great revenues for the people of Iran, and like Khomeini, got power but never delivered. Luckily his rent-a-crowds were not around for too long and the people did worry about his dealings with the Communists. Mentioning Mossadegh at the time of the Shah was as if you were talking about the Russians. So the people did see a threat to their freedom. We did have elections at the time of the Shah, but like this Theocracy it was protected against the radicals. These radicals do not give credit to the fact that the Shah was on the side of Ancient Iranian culture, whilst the Khomeinists put Islam above Iran. Iran comes before Islam or Democracy in my and many Iranians' lives. Trita et al think like the mullahs in that ideology - namely democracy (a political ideology) should come above Iranian culture.
The spirit of Iran, rooted in its ancient culture propelled Iranians to put Iran on the map and make it the great nation it was. There was good reason for the 2500 year celebrations. But some people in the left called it a "tea party". They money and effort that was put towards the research to find out about Iran's history is what has kept Iran's dignity now. As we know Iran prospered under the Shah so much that it was ahead of Turkey and South Korea by most economic measures, and plans were afoot to make Iran and Western Asia the world's next power house. But as many people have written in the past thirty years, the world does not like "Persian Pride". Yes we Iranians do carry a big chip on our shoulder, as we look at the ancient history books, and wonder why were are not the Empire of the world. We have instead become a pariah state.
So there are important reasons why everyday we hear horribe news from Iran. The world press does not look at the Good Iranians who are working in many countries and in Iran, and could give Iran the honour and glory it has in its spirit. Imagine what Iran would have been if the Shah had told the world that he is dying from cancer and that it is about time that he was not the place where the buck stops. You see, in Iran, no one wanted to take responsibility for anything. Like most developing nations the people were more interested in being told what to do than to take risks and do things on their own. Look at the number of graduates in Iran, look at the number of new businesses being set up every day, and then look at the unemployment figures. Why you would say aren't new businesses being set up for a country with so much wealth from natural resources and room to grow?
So the people who were fished out and sent to Iran were carefully selected and are supported to rule Iran, to stop Iran from growing. We have the highest brain drain in the world. Every child wants to leave Iran, whilst all the venture capitalists want to get a good connection with a mullah that they can rely on, because Iran economically speaking is the most undervalued nation in the world. Why the mullah? Because the mullah does not allow sane Iranians who want to build Iranian culture to do business. That leaves a bunch of gunmen and drug dealer to do business with the mullahs. But look at the companies that do trade in Iran and you will see that most companies trade at book value or less. You cannot get that measure anywhere else.
If it was not for the plans drawn up by the minds of the 70's that were logical as opposed to political, that are being carried out now, Iran would not have gotten this far. The people had to fight the mullah who right from the start did not want the modern state. To them it was seen as too western. Once the mullahs took power they wanted to reverse all funds into all the modern projects. It brings to mind the story of the Shirly Brothers who 16th Century planted tomatoes and once the local mullah found out the profit they were making, he ordered them to be flattened. And so the joke goes "when did Iran not catch up with the west?" It was at that point in time when the mullahs and the Safavids lost against the modernity, and now they want to turn the clocks back to then. Iran comes second to them.
Inside the Iranian is a zest for development and the world that hates competition from a new Japan, always supported forces that stop Iran from modernizing. The removal of the Shah was not so much removal of the Shah, but to stop Iran from modernizing. Rotten and useless equipment from Russia (as in aircraft) has to be bought, when we have huge oil and gas reserves. Like the time of the Shah the rulers are allowed to waste money on financial intensive military goods or nuclear equipment, instead of hospitals and schools above ground where centrifuges are being spun. Go to Natanz, see how poor these honourable people are, and ask them how many schools there are. Count how many doctors have moved into the area ever since centrifuges were brought into huge bunkers undergound over there.
It saddens me to see all the wise people of this debate miss the most simplest solution to this saga, namely the threat of non-violent general strike. This is the only weapon that the modern world has against any nasty government. It took two days of a hint of strike by the post men in the UK and they got what they wanted. The press were behind them and the whole matter was resolved. We are human beings in Iran just like the people of Britain, but the British media refuses to advise the dictators in Iran that they are powerless against a general strike. Instead the media writes about the killings they get up to, and makes them look strong. They don't write and broadcast about the small strikes that the people of Iran are making. What if they did, and the people realised that their quest for freedom is making front page in The Times or The Economist. Wouldn't that encourage them to do the right thing? Of course it would. Hopefully that would cause the mullahs to react. The chain reaction would start and more and more people would get involved and the road to peaceful regime change would begin. This is not rocket science, and I am no genius. The media are the geniuses who have managed to prevent this from happening. Well done to the media of the world for keeping Iran in the dark ages.
