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July 28, 2010

Amil Imani

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“We just don't get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in, in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called "dim-witted cowboy," has created the entire mess. The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini.” Michael Evans, Jerusalem Times, Jan 20, 2007

In 1979, the U.S. Government, notably, Jimmy Carter and company, with the help of its allied forces created the greatest Islamic terrorist nation on the face of the earth and the rise of Islamofascisim elsewhere. In fact, Jimmy Carter by his mere interference in another country betrayed the most valued friend to the West, the late Shah of Iran, and he is perhaps responsible for the formation of Islamicterrorism, not only in Iran, but around the world, including the United States.There have been more than 10,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11 with 60,000 dead and 90,000 injured.

“Carter’s pro Human Rights campaign shocked the foundations of many American allies including the late Shah of Iran who was running an ancient country with cultural and historical complications that needed time to be corrected.”

“In November 1978 then President Carter nominated George Ball as a member of the Trilateral Commission. The commission acted under the direct control of the National Security Council’s Zbigniew Brzezinski, an ardent opponent of the Shah of Iran. This commission cultivated a clandestine Iran task force. While serving on this commission, George Ball championed cessation of United States support for the Shah and clandestine support for Ruhollah Ayatollah Khomeini who, albeit in exile, led a proletariat Islamic opposition.”

It is interesting that Carter’s UN ambassador, Andrew Young, called Ayatollah Khomeini, (an Islamist mass murderer) “a kind of saint.” Ironically, after 31 years of devastation of civility by the radical Muslims, Mr. Carter is still active in siding with terrorist groups such as Hamas and other terrorist organizations, something the current administration appears to be following.

“Jimmy Carter's belief that every crisis can be resolved with diplomacy has had many catastrophic results. What we encounter today, as Islamic Terrorism mostly backed by the current Iranian regime, is one of the few gifts of Carter’s failed foreign policy. Had he shown resolve in dealing with the 1979 revolution and the US embassy hostage crisis, we would not be in this mess we are today. Diplomacy is a great tool to enforce your policies, if other tools of foreign policy including military might and economic incentive and disincentives correctly back it. Jimmy Carter didn’t apply these tools properly in order to handle many crises he faced during his 4-year presidency. All the blame does not lie with Carter’s failure but he played an important role in this.” Michael Evans

To most Iranians, including me, the name of the Ayatollah Khomeini was unheard of until the Western policy makers decided to remove the Shah (the best friend of the West) and install so called a “Holy Man” Ayatollah Khomeini and carelessly forced the Shah of Iran to leave his homeland. For 31 years, the U.S. is still making big mistakes with respect to its policy regarding Iran. It is as though the U.S. is unable to or unwilling to recruit experienced and capable people as advisors on Iranian affairs. For the past 60 years, every U.S. policy with respect to Iran has been failure upon failure. Currently, pro-Islamic Republic lobbyists known as the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) has been given carte blanche to the Obama administration. Instead of confiscating their assets, sealing their offices, and deporting them immediately, this pro-Islamic Republic group has comfortably found its way into the White House.

As early as December 1954, the Shah noted,

“the potentialities of friendly and close relations between the people of Iran and the United States are immense. There is a deep and fundamental identity of national interests which overshadows everything else. We both believe that the individual is the central figure in society, and that freedom is the supreme blessing. . . Iran has a great deal in common, in convictions with the Western world regarding freedom and democracy.”

During the revolution of 1979, the communists of course were very active in the original uprisings against the Shah. A very strange marriage took place early on between the Islamists (who were an insignificant minority) and the variety of communist factions. They buried their hatchets and supposedly "unified" the nation for a "common" cause, which was supposed to be the achievement of democracy and political freedom.

Unbeknownst to most Iranians who jumped on the bandwagon with these two main groups, the communists had the dream of socialism and the Islamists wanted to bring about Islamic fascism. They both lied to the people and betrayed their trust. Periodically the Islamists used the idea of "Taqeyya" or an Islamic lie, took the nation and its revolution hostage.

Then the Islamists started to arrest and murder the communists and anyone else they found to be against the establishment of an Islamic Ummah. This is exactly the way these forms of uprisings turn out. You can see it played out almost as a parallel in the October Revolution in Russia, which was the basis for George Orwell's book "Animal Farm."

For the past 31 years, Iranian people have been kept hostage in their own county by a group of barbaric Muslim terrorists who despise anything Persian and are slowly purging the remnant of pre-Islamic Persia as well as Persian textbooks. These pro-Arab invaders are not Iranians by any means. Iranian is defined by a state of mind, not by a place of residence. The barbaric Islamist mullahs and their mercenaries presently ruling Iran are not Iranians. They are Islamofascists who have betrayed their magnificent heritage and have enlisted themselves in the service of a most oppressive, discriminating, and demeaning ideology, Islam.

Iranians are proud spiritual descendants of King Cyrus the Great, the author of the first charter of human rights. Some of Cyrus’ children live in the patch of land called Iran. The overwhelming majority—free humans with human beliefs—live in every country, city, and village of the earth.

These world-wide people, one and all, irrespective of nationality, color, or creed are Iranians because they all adhere to the Cyrus Charter; they practice and defend its lofty tenets, and transfer this precious humanity’s treasure to the next generation.

What makes people different is not their biology, but the “software” that runs them.

There is ample proof to support the above assertion. A case in point is the present menace posed by the people whose life is programmed by the software of Islam: an ideology anathema to the Cyrus Charter. And the results are self-evident. Hate, superstition, violence, and a raft of other inhuman beliefs drives these religious fascists. These captive followers of the primitive Islamic Charter are both the perpetrators and the victims of much suffering. The result is backward Islamic societies that are intent at dragging the rest of the world into the same sorry state. Misery likes company, it is said.

We recognize that the dysfunctional Islamic software is deeply engrained in the minds of many Muslims who opt to remain in mental bondage rather than purge their minds of the Islamic programming and join the rest of the human family with a new emancipating program for life—liberty.

Islamic clergy, the parasitic prime beneficiaries of Islam, are master practitioners of the carrot-and-stick strategy. By drawing heavily from the Quran and the Hadith, the conniving mullahs and imams have assembled a potent arsenal of threats and promises to keep the faithful in line. They had little trouble in so doing, since Islamic scripture is replete with graphic horrific punishment awaiting the wayward and the unbelievers, while the rewards for the obedient docile, if he is male, are described as an endless variety of sensual pleasures. Anyone daring to leave the corral of Islam is apostate and automatically condemned to death. And that’s just for starters. The punishment awaiting the ungrateful deserter of the one and only true path, Islam threatens a raft of horrific eternal torment in Allah’s hell.

And for the true faithful—the mindless robot—the promised rewards, all physical pleasures, are infinite and eternal.

In spite of these horrid threats and empty promises, more and more people are beginning to recognize Islam for what it is. It is difficult, but not impossible to leave fraudulent Islam’s captivity. Millions of Iranians have done so successfully, yet aren’t able to announce it for the obvious reason, and hundreds of thousands of non-Iranians have left Islam as well and are enjoying the blessings of liberty.

A great threat facing free people is the recently petrodollar-energized Islam embarking on a campaign of recruiting more people under its dark banner. Millions of disenfranchised underclass in the non-Islamic world, and millions more mentally under-developed, may flock to Islam, deluded by its empty promises.

Islam is no longer in its own self-made cage. It has broken out and has established a powerful presence in much of the non-Islamic world. Islam is a charter of submission. It is a sworn enemy of freedom and views the Cyrus Charter as heresy. Freedom and tyranny are incompatible. Free people must do all they can to preserve their birthright of liberty and assist others to break from the bondage of Islamic captivity.

The interdependent world community faces great challenges that demand a united effort, uncompromisingly based on justice, to meet the various ills it faces. We can no longer be complacent about events in a distant world affecting alien people. Distances are bridged and alien people are now diverse members of the human family.

We honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for proclaiming from a Birmingham jail, “Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere.” To demand justice for others, he risked his life, left his native Georgia, and ended up in jail in the then-bigoted south—Birmingham, Alabama. We “Iranians” of the world—free humans—must do no less. We must demand justice for our belief-kin who are suffering under the yoke of Islamofascisim in Iran or anywhere in the world.

Now the world is facing wall-builders of a different kind: the Islamofascists who have been at their shameless work for centuries. As their walls built with superstition, discrimination and blood are crumbling; they are intent at building walls in new territories.

But once again, human decency is rising to the challenge, this time in the voices and actions of billions of free people who proclaim: we are also children of Iran in the spirit of Cyrus the Great; “we meet any challenge and pay any price” to defeat Islamofascisim; and, we will not rest until humanity is completely free of the despotic rule of Islam.

We Iranians in spirit—free people of the world--greatly cherish liberty, where the mind is imbued with enlightenment, and every individual by the virtue of being born human is afforded measured freedom. It is within the open expanse of liberty that each and every person can be at his or her best. And when the individual person is at his best, humanity is at its best.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Amil Imani is an Iranian-born American citizen and a pro-democracy activist residing in the United States of America. Imani is a columnist, literary translator, novelist and essayist who has been writing and speaking out for the struggling people of his native land, Iran. He maintains a website at www.amilimani.com.

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November of 78, how interesting.... no matter how well planned the ill intentions of our enemy, hater of mankind... heirs of Cyrus the Great will prevail... the irony of it all... indeed, to be Iranian is a state of mind... it transcends all race, gender, and nationality... peace be with you my friend

posted by: SOS
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 06:59 AM

Bravo Amil
you've stated what needed to be said. I believe That the vast majority of the American Iranian communtiy and Iranian community in exile agrees with your sentiments. But for Jimmy Carter and the other "progressive" powers that be at the time who insisted on Irans transition to an Islamic Republic, the world would not have been in this mess. The Islamic terrorrist state better known as the Islamic Republic of Iran, is in no way refelective of the majority of it's population, but has for years since it's inception received complicit approval of it's inhumane treatment of it's own citizens, from western policy makers in hope of greater cooperation in energy resouce developement and diplomatic influence in the middle east. I would go on and say that the Islamic Republic was the Western progressive policymakers solution to an energy rich country that was gathering considerable wealth, economy and intellectual prowess independent of the West. Now in hindsight they must realize that their attempt in Islamic banana republic building has backfired in worst of possible ways. Such is the way o short sighted foreign policymakers in Washington and Europe

posted by: Alex
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 02:47 PM

Amil Imani, you are nothing but a traitor to the Iranian nation if you say you are Iranian in fact.

Are you claiming that it was Jimmy Carter who created the Islamic Republic of Iran? You are a clown, LOL. You claim "he name of the Ayatollah Khomeini was unheard of", It is because you are illiterate and most likely never read any papers of history of your own country.

Ayatollah Khomeini's father was killed by the Shah and even his son was killed by the Shah and you want to tell me that is not enough just to try get the Shah killed or deposed, not including 1000 of others? We, in the US even know about all this, where have you been?

If you like to live under tyranny and be ruled by a puppet, I suggest you move to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait etc etc. You must have come from a rich family, One of them that embezzled lot of money out of Iran and now lives in mansions in LA!!

The Mullahs lived in Iran for over 1300 years what part of your society in Iran did you come from ? The Dynasty?

Ridiculous.

posted by: Esther Haman
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 04:34 PM

Prior to Muhammadism Iran was a virtual superpower for thirteen centuries.
Zoroaster, who is credited with being the first monotheist, lived around 1700 BCE. That makes Zoroastrianism the dominant religion in Iran for at least 2700 years.
Sculpture, textiles and metal work reached new heights during the Sassanid reign. After exhaustive wars with the Byzantine empire, the weakened Sassanids fell to the armies of the Islamic Umayyd Caliphs from Arabia in 637, but Sassanid resistance continued for 200 years .
Iran has had a rich history up until the overthrow by Islamic armies in 637CE.
Esther Haman has some valid points regarding the shah's of Iran but I don't think Islamic republic is an answer to a shah. It was a jump from the fire right into the pan. Now Islamic fascism has spread world-wide. Thanks Dhimmi Carter!

posted by: Kim Bruce
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 08:50 PM

Dear Ester Haman,
Amil Imani is well known for his research based and informative writings. Perhaps you might need some "educating" yourself.
1. You claim that Khomeini'd dad was murdered by the Shah...fact is his dad was murdered in 1903...Shah father (Reza Shah) did not become a shah till 1921 almost 18 yrs after Khomeini's dad was murdered. It is proven fact that Carter helped Khomeini while in France...read Michael Evans book..or Google "Iran Carter Gudalupe" and you might be enlightened. President Reagan admits to US Government (Carter) turning his back on his best ally in the Middle East. It is on Youtube. Under Khomeini thousands of Iranians were massacred... there is an international lawsuit against IRI officials and MOusavi himself proudly has admitted with pride having carried out Khomeini's orders...I suggest you spend some money and buy some books and seek solitude in a cave is Saudi Arabia and read...it might do you some good! Sorry for my tone...but following in your footstep accusing a brilliant writer and researcher...what you are suggesting unfairly for Amil...should be good for you as well. Unless you are paid to write such nonsense.

posted by: Arash Irandoost
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 00:12 AM

Arash Irandoost, If you are defending what we did to your country in 1953 and what the British and the Russians did to your country before that you belong with Amil Imani, because you have no pride. The glorious Persian empire was long time ago. The Shahs of Iran/Persia or any othger KING are only tyrants who benefited from the peasants. A modern society and current world situation demands a more democratic government which they can't tolerate or provide for. That is right, we destroyed your democratically elected government in 1953 and set up a puppet government to control you and the Iranians like bunch of slaves. How many Iranians got killed then? If you take pride in that time period, I feel sorry for you.

The Iranian patriots where those who fought that injustice and did not give in to it. Before that the British took your oil and did not give you a dime for it. How can you two live with yourselves? Stand up and fight for your independence. Every society has to and will evolve eventually. The direction comes from the people and the culture in that society. Mullah's are not anything new to Iran and they have been their for over 1300 years. If it was not for them Iran would have been colonized by the British and the French long ago. So, thank them for it.

posted by: Esther Haman
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 10:42 AM

bullshit...!!! Amil

posted by: muthohhari
Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 04:05 AM

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