[Mb-civic] FW: The Voice Of The Revolution / Khatami' vows...

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From: Samii Shahla <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:00:28 -0400
Subject: The Voice Of The Revolution / Khatami' vows...

Dear Friends,


"...the Government of the late Shah of Iran, who ‹ as can now be seen in
hindsight ‹ was modernizing, stabilizing, and democraticizing Iran more
efficiently and fairly than any other force had been able to do." excerpted
from the June 27 edition of Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy:


tells the sad and terrible story of how the people in Iran did not realize
what a leader they had and instead fell for a brutal theocrat (holy man !)
who lied and deceived.  We have not found another man with the vision and
patriotism as the late Shah within our opposition, who would be courageous,
passionate, patriotic and strong but within the framework of today's
Iranians' aspirations.

The IRI regime knows this and takes full advantage, to the detriment of all
Iranians and the West.



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> The Voice Of The Revolution
> By: Reza Bayegan 
> Wednesday, June 29, 2005
> "I heard the voice of your revolution ... Let all of us work together to
> establish real democracy in Iran ... I make a commitment to be with you and
> your revolution against corruption and injustice in Iran..."
> 
> These were the unforgettable words from the last speech of Shah Mohammad Reza
> Pahlavi to his compatriots. Not long after this appeal monarchy was overthrown
> and Iran was plunged into a crisis that has not abated for the past twenty-six
> years. No nation has ever paid such a dear price for not heeding a call to
> follow the path of reason. No Imperial Majesty has ever humbled himself to
> such a degree in the interest of saving his people from destruction. If
> Iranians - due to the poisonous political atmosphere of the time - could not
> in 1979 muster enough common sense to see the depth of the Shah¹s sincerity,
> today after the passage of a quarter of a century, they definitely have no
> excuse not to.
> 
> On Friday 24 June, another voice of revolution shook the foundation of the
> Iranian political structure. Iranians went to the polls, not so much to elect
> a president of their choice - they weren't given that chance - but to reject
> the status quo and say no to the hated establishment. This cry of collective
> repugnance not only did not register on the closed mind of the supreme ruler
> of the Islamic Republic, he moreover took the election results as a token of
> appreciation and a compliment paid to his dictatorship. Even if he might have
> been privately shaken, publicly he stayed on his high horse, imagining that by
> doing so he would make himself invulnerable to reality. Ali Khamenei has
> declared the election of Mr. Ahmadinejad as a sign that:
> 
> "The Islamic Revolution is pressing ahead with its lofty goals by the grace of
> God and based on national resolve.²
> 
> It is not surprising that the leader of the Islamic Republic lacks the courage
> to admit that the poor and unemployed have decided that they have no hope
> under the plutocracy of the mullahs such as Rafsanjani or hornswoggling
> clergies such as Khatami. It is very much in keeping with the character of the
> supreme dictator of the clerical regime that instead of squarely facing the
> fact that Iranian citizens desire a real transformation of the domestic scene,
> he clings to his tired swashbuckling rhetoric against the supposed foreign
> enemies. He ignores the judgment of the nation and cuddles up to what people
> have rejected with all the electoral power they could get their hands on.
> 
> In a speech yesterday, 28 June, Khamenei laments ³the unjust and unfair
> defamation of some candidates such as the reputable and experienced character
> of Mr Rafsanjani.² Although there can be no doubt that Khamenei would not
> think twice about throwing Rafsanjani overboard to save his own skin, he also
> realizes that the umbilical cord connecting him to the shrewd billionaire
> mullah is too dangerous to cut. He well knows that he cannot sacrifice
> Rafsanjani without also endangering his own survival. Khamenei owes who he is
> to a large degree, to the machination of this Machiavellian mullah popularly
> known as ³Expedient Akbar². After the death of Khomeini, Akbar Hashemi
> Rafsanjani played a crucial part in creating for Khamenei the factitious and
> theologically untenable position of Supreme Religious Guide. Rafsanjani will
> not leave the scene without letting the cat out of the bag and spilling the
> beans. 
> 
> This recent clarion call of the new revolution in Iran expressing itself in an
> electoral plunge into anything-but-the-status quo, and a vote for a totally
> unknown character, was the exact opposite of what Khamenei claimed it to be,
> i.e. a vote of confidence in the Islamic Republic. By rejecting the whole kit
> and caboodle of Khatami¹s movement, the Iranian people pronounced an
> unmistakable death sentence on the whole regime and gave a vote of no
> confidence to any possibility of amelioration and vitality for the present
> political system.
> 
> The wake up call of the voting results also carried a few messages for the
> opposition that had vehemently boycotted the polls. The opposition will either
> hearken to this message, or it will lose the sympathy of the future generation
> of Iranians who will look at its current performance from an unbiased and
> objective historical vantage point. Iranian citizens today are looking for
> clearly articulated national alternatives and a viable political agenda. The
> opposition does not seem to be able to produce such an alternative. It needs
> to sit down and carefully consider what it is doing wrong. Either the message
> it is putting forward is flawed, or the fault lies in the manner of its
> delivery. The unfortunate fact is that it has not made the needed impact
> within the Iranian population.
> 
> The opposition, especially those in exile who are sincerely fighting to take
> the civilized diet of freedom, tolerance and democracy to their politically
> starved compatriots have failed to turn those essential nutrients into an
> Iranian political cuisine. The highly independent character of Iranians shaped
> by a civilization that for centuries has been a significant cultural and
> political influence throughout the world resists being patronized or lectured
> to by superpowers.
> 
> Michael Slackman, The New York Times correspondent covering the recent
> presidential election, writes that almost everyone he spoke to in the streets
> of Tehran wanted improved relations with America, provided that the United
> States would treat Iran ³as an equal, not a second class country². At election
> headquarters, a spokesperson for Ahmadinejad¹s campaign Hasan Khalili with
> angrily remarks: ³When foreigners talk about this country, they laugh and make
> fun of us.² When he is asked by the reporter whether he thinks all Americans
> have this attitude, Khalili looks shocked and says ³No, we like the American
> people,² then leans over and kisses an American reporter on the cheek. What
> he, like many other Iranians find objectionable, is not the American
> civilization or people, but a kind of supercilious triumphalism that can spoil
> even the most hopeful political agenda.
> 
> What the Shah had the generosity and humility to recognize, is part of a
> rightful political demand that Iranians have made since their constitutional
> Revolution in late1900s, and will not desist from making in the future.
> Liberty, patriotism, progress and political independence top the list of these
> aspirations. For the past quarter of a century, the dictators of the Islamic
> Republic have turned a deaf ear to these aspirations. If they are given a
> chance they will ignore it for the quarter of a century to come.
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Khatami has 'Documents on Unethical Moves' During Elections
> 
> June 30, 2005 
> BBC Monitoring Service
> Monsters and Critics
> 
> Tehran -- Outgoing President Mohammad Khatami said here Wednesday [29 June],
> "Based on authentic evidence, I would reveal documents on unethical moves
> taken place in (recent presidential) election.
> 
> Speaking at Tehran's famous Qoba Mosque at a commemoration service for 72
> martyrs of the dissolved Islamic Republic Party's Central Headquarters
> explosion on 28 June 1981 (7 Tir), President Khatami added, "In order to abide
> by the text of the covenant I have vowed with God and this nation and based on
> quite authentic documents, I have prepared a detailed dossier on violations of
> election laws before and during the voting.
> 
> The president said, "I would present copies of that dossier to he Supreme
> Leader, the Judiciary Chief and the President-Elect."
> 
> He emphasized, "This service would be my last move in line with remaining
> faithful to the covenant I have vowed with God and the Iranian nation and I
> believe in order to secure and safeguard our volution's prestige, our
> personalities' reputation, and our national security the system has to uproot
> the origins of such violations."
> 
> The outgoing IRI president further reiterated, "The concerned officials would
> hopefully deal with the matter painstakingly."
> 
> Arguing that "If we abandon abiding by ethical rules we would be deprived of
> all other blessings at our disposal", he said, "Breaking ethical norms,
> ruining others' personalities, attributing baseless accusations to opponents
> is always condemnable, but if such moves are made against the revolution's
> assets they would be doubly as ugly."
> 
> President Khatami said, "Now such unethical accusations are condemned whether
> they are made against Hashemi Rafsanjani and Karrubi, or against Ahmadinezhad,
> Larijani and others."
> 
> Khatami stressed, "We need to dully tackle this problem once and for ever,
> particularly more so since it often occurs on the thresholds of the nation's
> political participation."
> 
> He said, "Yesterday it was Martyr Beheshti, today its is Hashemi Rafsanjani,
> and tomorrow, only God knows who would be exposed to such violations of
> ethical rules and such ugly accusations, but what are the roots of such
> unethical moves.?"
> 
> ALL SHOULD ASSIST PRESIDENT-ELECT
> 
> President Khatami encouraged the whole nation and the country's officials at
> all levels to assist President-Elect Ahmadinezhad, adding, "Yet, what should
> we do with this unhealthy atmosphere, ignoring it is not an easy job for the
> revolution's friends?"
> 
> Referring to the Supreme Leader's remarks on abundance of unethical moves
> conducted recently, he stressed, "Ignoring moralities is always undesirable,
> but doing so systematically is really worrisome."
> 
> He said, "And if such systematic unethical moves are conducted relying on
> political, spiritual, financial and intelligence backing of a state organ
> commissioned to safeguard the values, the catastrophe is of greater
> dimensions, and more catastrophic is when such moves are conducted in the name
> of the revolution and under the banner of values."
> 
> The president added, "Now if this phenomenon would be conducted relying on the
> backing of secret and semi-secret bands embedded in the society then we would
> be right in getting seriously worried about the foundations of the society."
> 
> GOVERNMENT'S GREATEST PRIDE: UPROOTING ORIGINS OF SERIAL MURDERS
> 
> Emphasizing that such immoral moves have astonishingly broad reflections
> inside and outside Iran, he said, "My government's greatest pride has been
> efforts aimed at uprooting political serial murders, although the phenomenon
> was unfortunately not uprooted."
> 
> President Khatami added, "Yet, today the Intelligence Ministry is among the
> system's most alert, most intelligent bodies in confrontation with threats,
> and the world's most ethical intelligent organization."
> 
> Khatami added, "Today no one is worried lest plots against society and nation
> would be hatched at that ministry, or scenarios for murdering individuals
> would be drafted there."
> 
> He emphasized, "Today the Intelligence Ministry safeguards the nation and the
> society's interests and the nation can feel proud of it, since fight against
> the roots of unethical deeds was conducted at that ministry." IRAN, GREATEST
> VICTIM OF TERRORISM
> 
> Referring to the exalted personality of Martyr Beheshti and his martyred
> friends, President Khatami said, "The same murderers who assassinated those
> exalted personalities later issued communiques at capitals of the countries
> that always accuse us of terrorism, boasting about assassination our top
> political officials."
> 
> Khatami added, "Should we be accused of terrorist moves or those political
> leaders whose countries have become safe havens for greatest terrorists of the
> world, and yet they are not going to take any action against those
> terrorists?" 
> 
> President Khatami ended his remarks arguing, "Ethical values are the human
> society's greatest lost gem, and our society is unfortunately no exception,
> and since we claim to have an Islamic system, and if ethics would be
> annihilated in a society the ground would be quite paved for nurturing of
> corruption and the corrupt."
> 
> Source: IRNA web site, Tehran, in English 1955 gmt 29 Jun 05



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