Comments on: NEWS & VIEWS ROUNDUP: June 27 http://warincontext.org/2009/06/27/news-views-roundup-june-27/ ... with attention to the unseen Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:14:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ian Arbuckle http://warincontext.org/2009/06/27/news-views-roundup-june-27/comment-page-1/#comment-4792 Ian Arbuckle Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:18:26 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=1683#comment-4792 The question has already gone well beyond the election was a fraud or not. The supreme Ayatollah and the Guardian Council of Iran as well as the government of Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have to come to terms with the fact that a “very significant number” of citizens do not accept their honesty, their veracity, and the more they are attacked, beaten up and even killed by authorized thugs like the Basijis, the less credible is the authority of the government, and the more they betray their revolutionary origins to appear like the dictatorship they replaced 30 years ago. This rejection of the status quo, as it has become, even if it is only by a significant minority, whether is in the interest of one or another faction or whether outside powers have an interest in the outcome, is neither here nor their. It is not relevant to the question, although it is convenient for the Ayatollah and Ahmadinejad to have an apparent “foreign” adversary to blame for internal shortcomings and the resultant conflicts. In the end of this unrest Iran will emerge the country of its people, bending to no foreign interference. They have been there and done that and know the discomfort of that position. The millions of youthful exuberant and determined Iranians will also not be beaten away by thugs or wooed by foreign intelligence agencies to forget past acts or responsibilities. If anything the waves of demands of these Iranians can only get stronger as their numbers continue to swell with each injustice heaped on them becoming widely known. Above all they are supported by millions of expatriate Iranians, a force, it might be said, far more effective and probably more powerful in this context than any CIA or MI5. Whether one or another camp likes it or not the changes have started in Iran and the old line conservatives will inevitably have to give ground, unfortunately they seem to want to do it the hard way which probably means they have to loose more, and more painfully all round as well, with more precious Iranian blood spilled unnecessarily. The question must be though what kind of Iran will emerge? One can only see that by the old conservatives resisting the inevitable change demanded by the young, educated intellectuals and liberals, a more fractured and weaker Iran will result. At this stage, that would be a disaster for Iran, for the Middle East, and in my opinion the world in general. A weaker Iran can only benefit the Zionist/Neocon Imperialists and Disaster Capitalists who have successfully embroiled the region and beyond in violence and destruction quite enough so far. Iran is a democracy and that needs to be strengthened from within by good sense. Ironically we can only “pray” that the Guardian Council can come up with just that. The Basijis are certainly not the way to resolve the real discontent many Iranians have with the system. The question has already gone well beyond the election was a fraud or not. The supreme Ayatollah and the Guardian Council of Iran as well as the government of Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have to come to terms with the fact that a “very significant number” of citizens do not accept their honesty, their veracity, and the more they are attacked, beaten up and even killed by authorized thugs like the Basijis, the less credible is the authority of the government, and the more they betray their revolutionary origins to appear like the dictatorship they replaced 30 years ago.

This rejection of the status quo, as it has become, even if it is only by a significant minority, whether is in the interest of one or another faction or whether outside powers have an interest in the outcome, is neither here nor their. It is not relevant to the question, although it is convenient for the Ayatollah and Ahmadinejad to have an apparent “foreign” adversary to blame for internal shortcomings and the resultant conflicts.

In the end of this unrest Iran will emerge the country of its people, bending to no foreign interference. They have been there and done that and know the discomfort of that position. The millions of youthful exuberant and determined Iranians will also not be beaten away by thugs or wooed by foreign intelligence agencies to forget past acts or responsibilities. If anything the waves of demands of these Iranians can only get stronger as their numbers continue to swell with each injustice heaped on them becoming widely known. Above all they are supported by millions of expatriate Iranians, a force, it might be said, far more effective and probably more powerful in this context than any CIA or MI5.

Whether one or another camp likes it or not the changes have started in Iran and the old line conservatives will inevitably have to give ground, unfortunately they seem to want to do it the hard way which probably means they have to loose more, and more painfully all round as well, with more precious Iranian blood spilled unnecessarily.

The question must be though what kind of Iran will emerge? One can only see that by the old conservatives resisting the inevitable change demanded by the young, educated intellectuals and liberals, a more fractured and weaker Iran will result. At this stage, that would be a disaster for Iran, for the Middle East, and in my opinion the world in general. A weaker Iran can only benefit the Zionist/Neocon Imperialists and Disaster Capitalists who have successfully embroiled the region and beyond in violence and destruction quite enough so far.

Iran is a democracy and that needs to be strengthened from within by good sense. Ironically we can only “pray” that the Guardian Council can come up with just that. The Basijis are certainly not the way to resolve the real discontent many Iranians have with the system.

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