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Commentary
by U.S. Alliance for Democratic Iran
The
Weeping Ahmadinejad
It turns out that Iran’s belligerent president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a softie and always in
tears for the plight of people around the world;
Iranians, Iraqis, Palestinians, and Americans
alike. Why? Because he so deeply loves people
wherever they are! How is that for a demagogue?
ABC News’s Diane Sawyer, while on assignment in
Iran this week, was told that Ahmadinejad cries
a lot and, as Sawyer puts it, he is
“dramatically sympathetic.”
"Are you often in tears?" Sawyer asks.
Ahmadinejad, well-schooled in the art of
demagoguery by the Master Demagogue Ayatollah
Khomeini, answers:
“Yes, that's true. Not overwhelm for
Iranians, of course, they are very close to me
and I love all Iranians. And anywhere -- when I
see people suffering I have the same reaction,
and we feel sad for people of Iraq, for the
people of Palestine. Anywhere we have war, we
feel sad. Even when I see on TV, for example,
some Americans, because of tornadoes or a
hurricane, they have lost their homes, I become
sad.”
And these repulsive statements are from a man
with years of service at various internal
security agencies as an interrogator and
executioner of political prisoners in 1980s when
he earned the nickname "The Terminator". A thug
who was trained in the Iran’s notorious Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Ahmadinejad
was a mastermind of assassination plots against
Iranian dissidents abroad and a commander of the
terrorist outfit Qods Force, which is behind
much of the mayhem now in Iraq.
In the ABC interview, Ahmadinejad, realizing
that he had the eager ears of Diane Sawyer, was
further encouraged and continued with his
preposterous pronouncements:
“Because, for us, human beings are
respectable, no matter where they are. Human
beings are respectable, and they have their own
dignity. And all of us should help so that
people should lead better lives to live at
peace. And to live in peace and brotherhood. In
the viewpoint of our religion, all people are
respectable, and they must be loved. Regardless
of their nationality, ethnicity or religion.
This is part of our religious teachings, and
we'll live with this religion.”
Well, here you have it: The mystery behind
Iranian regime’s twenty-eight years of terror
and tyranny is finally solved. All along,
unbeknownst to Iranian people and the rest of
the world, it has been all about love and
respect for human beings and sanctity of life!
It turns out that this boundless “love for human
beings” has been the driving force behind more
than 100,000 political executions in Iran since
1997, eye-gouging, limb amputations, death by
stoning, public execution of 16-year-old girl
Atefeh Rajabi, murder of Zahra Kazemi, and mass
execution of political prisoners in summer of
1988. Maybe it was Tehran’s “respect for human
beings no matter where they are” which inspired
a long list of suicide bombings, hostage-taking,
terrorist killing of foreign nationals, and
fueling the gut-wrenching sectarian conflict in
Iraq
Maybe mullahs’ “love for people regardless of
their nationality, ethnicity or religion”
explains the brutal suppression of religious and
ethnic minorities in Iran where hundreds of
Iranians have been imprisoned, tortured,
executed and even stabbed to death for
converting to Christianity.
Or maybe it was the “sympathetic” Ahmadinejad
who has called for wiping Israel off the map,
has threatened Arab and Muslim states with fire
of revenge, and has denied the Holocaust
Ahmadinejad has even developed a deep affection
for the rule of law. When asked by Diane Sawyer
about overwhelming evidence concerning his
regime’s directing much of terrorism in Iraq,
Ahmadinejad responded: “There should be a court
to prove the case and to support the case.”
Ms. Sawyer should have reminded him that indeed
the judicial systems of Germany, Switzerland and
Argentina have already done that and have issued
arrest warrants for Tehran’s top leaders like
Rafsanjani for masterminding terror operations
on their soil.
Make no mistake. For all their laughable
pronouncements, demagogues at the helm of
tyrannical terror-sponsoring regimes bent on
acquiring nuclear weapons are the most dangerous
of their kind. Not that they turn Dian Sawyers
of the world into a pile of human mush. But
because they bring war, death and destruction to
the people they rule and to the rest of the
world.
Iran’s ruling demagogues must be stopped and
they can only be stopped when they are gone. The
notion of Iran’s behavioral change is just an
illusion and promoting such a fantasy is simply
a policy trick by the Trans-Atlantic advocates
of Tehran regime. Short of a military
intervention, we must throw our full diplomatic
and political weight behind people of Iran who
desire the fall of tyrant demagogues.
(USADI)
USADI
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