December 18, 2004
The Mullahs Kill - The Europeans Appease!
UPDATE: Iranian Girl Faces Noose or Stoning
The Mullahs continue their wrath as the EU-3 attempt every last ditch effort to keep their good friends Khamenei and Rafsanjani in power for just another week or month, so they can continue to maximize business contracts, while completely disregarding the nature of the Mullah's regime, their past and current ties to terrorism, their support and coordination of attacks on Americans and Iraqis, their infinitely long record of human rights abuses, their continued march towards nuclear weapons, and of course utterly turning a blind eye to the Iranian people who are some of the most educated, civilized, cultured, pro-freedom and pro-American people in the Middle East!
The appeasers call it "progress" and "diplomacy".
What do you call it?
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November 29, 2004
EUROPE IS APPEASING IRAN (Dr. Ledeen on the Money)
We can always count on Dr. Michael Ledeen to be on the money with regard to the Mullahs, their European friends, and the struggle of the Iranian people!
Be sure to read his latest piece!
When will America take a stand and back the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom? Isn't inaction is the same thing as appeasement?
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October 16, 2004
Another "last chance"... (UPDATED)
Update: Iran to Reject EU Three's Nuclear Proposal
Apparently nothing was accomplished at the 3 hour meeting of the G8 nations yesterday in Washington (Suprising isn't it?). The Europeans spoke of the incentives (Nuke fuel and improved trade ops/relationships) contained in a package they plan on presenting to the regime next week.
via Washington Times -
"The administration did not endorse the EU's benefits package. Even though U.S. officials said they told the Europeans to "go ahead" with it, they did not hide their belief that Tehran will not comply."
Meanwhile, from a translation via Peykeiran.com, we learn that a 13 year old Iranian girl is to be stoned to death.
"Having allegedly become pregnant by her 15-year-old brother, a thirteen-year-old Iranian girl by the name of Zhila (her last name has not been released), currently jailed in the city of Marivan, has been sentenced to death by stoning in the Islamic Republic. The date set for her execution is unknown. No other information is available."
The regime kills, tortures and arrests Iranians who speak out against the brutal regime... The regime kills Canadian journalists... The regime funds much of the terrorism in Iraq as well in the Palestinian/Israeli region... The regime executes young girls...
All the Big-three and Co. can think about are trade deals?
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October 15, 2004
G8 meets today...
via Washington Post -
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"Iran is definitely the next big issue. It's the number one issue that any administration, be it Kerry or Bush, will have to face immediately because of the intelligence assessment that predicts Iran could have the know-how and capability as early as the summer of 2005," said a senior State Department official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitive diplomacy.
"That's a disputed intelligence claim," the official said. "But any capability in the hands of a rogue nation with a long record of supporting terror and a clear interest in challenging the U.S. and Israel makes that the clearest threat facing U.S. interests in the next administration."
The mullahs have been a major issue long before now, but have been able to successfully remain below radar thanks to intense division within the Bush administration as well as the greater world's appeasement of the regime. If, God forbid, the Mullahs end up with a nuclear weapon, the free world can kiss the spread of liberty goodbye.
Read our Wednesday post regarding today's G8 meeting!
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October 13, 2004
New York Sun - right on target! (Updated)
Via New York Sun Staff Editorial -
"Beyond that, it will be important in considering any proposed deal with Iran to focus on the fact that Iran's nuclear ambitions are not at the heart of America's dispute with Tehran. After all, India, Pakistan, Israel, and France all have nuclear weapons and America has full diplomatic and economic relations with them. There are a host of other issues on the table with Iran: its human rights record that includes executing a Canadian journalist, jailing student dissidents, and persecuting Jews, among others; its financial and logistical support for radical Islamist terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah that engage in suicide bombing attacks in Israel that kill Americans and Israelis; its harboring of Al Qaeda terrorists; and its aid to anti-American forces in Iraq."
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"Senator Kerry is on record as preferring a negotiated approach to the Persian problem. President Bush himself has been too willing to countenance a European approach. On the campaign trail, Mr. Bush has said of the terrorists, "You can't negotiate with them." This would be an excellent moment for the president and his diplomats to keep that in mind."
Point of disagreement with the article: It's not a "Persian" problem! It's a "Mullahbarbarianterroristrepressivedictatorship" problem. Even if there isn't such a word!
Voice of America has a roundup of recent human rights violations committed by the regime in Iran. [
Listen to report]
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"An Iranian-American human rights group says the Iranian government has stepped up its campaign against pro-democracy dissidents, women and minorities with the staging of some 120 public hangings, and the arrest and imprisonment of more than 40 journalists. Members of the National Coalition of Pro-Democracy Advocates say that in the past year, the Islamic fundamentalist regime has been taking extreme measures to silence reform efforts."
"The non-profit group cites as evidence of the government's tactics an Amnesty International report of the public execution of a 16-year-old girl for "acts incompatible with chastity." Atefeh Rajabi was reportedly hanged in the Northern city center of Neka on August 15."
Never take freedom for granted! NEVER!!
Rewards for Iran?
New York Sun Staff Editorial
October 13, 2004
The press is full of trial balloons with respect to proposals for Europe or America to offer "incentives" for Iran agreeing to stop work on a nuclear weapon. The New York Times reported yesterday that "The package would lift a ban on exports to Iran of certain badly needed civilian aircraft parts, without which its fleet of civilian airliners has been virtually grounded."
One of the lessons of September 11 is that civilian aircraft in the hands of terrorists can do considerable damage. This is a point so obvious that it is painful to have to point it out. On what grounds does an officially designated terrorist regime get help from their target countries in flying civilian airliners? If the Europeans who are negotiating with the Iranians do not grasp this essential point, certainly the people of New York do.
Beyond that, it will be important in considering any proposed deal with Iran to focus on the fact that Iran's nuclear ambitions are not at the heart of America's dispute with Tehran. After all, India, Pakistan, Israel, and France all have nuclear weapons and America has full diplomatic and economic relations with them. There are a host of other issues on the table with Iran: its human rights record that includes executing a Canadian journalist, jailing student dissidents, and persecuting Jews, among others; its financial and logistical support for radical Islamist terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah that engage in suicide bombing attacks in Israel that kill Americans and Israelis; its harboring of Al Qaeda terrorists; and its aid to anti-American forces in Iraq.
Even were a deal reached in which the Iranians promised progress on all those fronts, there is no guarantee that the Iranians would not cheat on such a deal. Iraq cheated on its United Nations-supervised oil-for-food and disarmament arrangement. North Korea cheated on the nuclear disarmament deal that it cut with an overly credulous Clinton administration.
It is true that diplomacy is more likely to be successful when it is backed, as it is in the Bush administration, with a credible threat of the use of force. But count us as skeptical that America or its allies should send nuclear fuel or civilian airplane parts or anything else useful to Iran - other than aid to its democratic opposition - so long as the regime there is aiding and harboring terrorists and oppressing internal opposition.
Senator Kerry is on record as preferring a negotiated approach to the Persian problem. President Bush himself has been too willing to countenance a European approach. On the campaign trail, Mr. Bush has said of the terrorists, "You can't negotiate with them." This would be an excellent moment for the president and his diplomats to keep that in mind.
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Carrots, Sticks, and a side of Blue Cheese - Ohh My!! (Updated)
The G8 will rendezvous in Washington on Friday to discuss the grand ideas the EU has conjured up in order to deal with Iran.
CNN reports that European officials have said they plan to offer Tehran "bigger sticks and bigger carrots."
What exactly do they mean by "bigger sticks and bigger carrots"? Can you visualize this? Perhaps Jack Straw and Joschka Fischer will pay their upteenth visit to the Mullahs and say "please ohh please accept our bigger carrots, because if you don't, we will be forced to pull out our bigger sticks!"
Does anyone have a guess as to what the European version of "bigger sticks" entails? Actually, don't waste your time. The stick, carrot, and blue cheese fantasy has been employed over and over again, and every single time we magically end up right where we started, if not in an even worse position.
For all practical purposes, European carrots, regardless of size, equate to improved "trade and cooperation agreement(s) between the European Union and Iran." Sticks for that matter can be thought of in this light: A mother moves a cookie jar that her son, Mikey, has been reaching into when he's not supposed to, to a location Mikey can no longer reach due to his small size. The mother then takes her son to the garage where the ladder is stored, and gives him a brief rundown on how to use this gravity-defying device.
The "carrot and stick" method, with regard to the Mullahs, has always been a method of circles, never failing to deliver us back to where we started. It has been a method of regression, not progress. This method will lead us to failure, unless effectively checked.
On Tuesday, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said "I think we've made very, very clear that Iran needs to take action on the nuclear issue... Our view is that it should be referred to the U.N. Security Council. That's where we think the next steps are."
Is the Bush Administration playing the European hand in an effort to box John Kerry in, as the senator doesn't at this point seem intent upon moving beyond his current position?
Why has the Bush Administration waited until now to address the Mullahs, and if the objectives of both the War on Terror and Bush Doctrine are to defeat terrorism and spread freedom (very noble goals), why has the pro-American Iranian street been left to fend for themselves?
Do terrorists really operate independently of states?
Isn't the government in Iran one of the biggest sponsors of international terrorism and does any part of the Bush Doctrine address this regime?
In the meantime, who brought the beer?
Daniel Drezner also has some thoughts about the Mullah-related foreign policy relationship between the US and EU.
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