Iran, Shirin Ebadi, Non-Violence and World Cup 2010

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.