[Mb-civic] FW: Public Letter for the attention of 109th US Congress
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From: Samii Shahla <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:47:20 -0500
Subject: Public Letter for the attention of 109th US Congress
>
> The "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy
> in Iran" (SMCCDI)
> _____________________
>
>
> March 1, 2005
>
> - President of the U.S. Senate:
> Honorable Richard Cheney, the US Vice-President
> - Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives:
> Honorable J. Dennis Hastert
> - Chairman of the U.S. Senate on Foreign Relations:
> Honorable Richard G. Lugar
> - Chairman of the House Committee on International
> Relations: Honorable Henry J. Hyde
> - Honorable Senators Rick Santorum, John Cornyn, Sam
> Brownback & George Allen
>
> Via Fedex and Fax
>
> - Honorable members of the 109th U.S. Congress
>
> Via Fax or E.Mail
>
>
> Dear Vice President Cheney, Dear Speaker of the House
> Hastert, Dear Chairmen of the Foreign Relations Committees,
> Dear members of the 109th Congress,
>
> In regards to the people of Iran's legitimate
> aspirations for freedom, wishing the following be
> considered by the members for sponsorship to be read aloud
> for the record, and entered as Congressional testimony:
>
> As prescribed by the U.S. Constitution, President George
> W. Bush has, on several occasions definitively outlined
> American policy toward the Islamic Republic regime. These
> policies of freedom's promise outlined by your respected
> President clearly clarify the outstanding issues of the
> "Argument of the age" as defined. To the Iranian people he
> said, "As you stand for your own liberty, America stands
> with you."
>
> On behalf of the "Student Movement Coordination
> Committee for Democracy in Iran" (SMCCDI), and the good
> people of our nation who have striven so long for freedom,
> we wish to extend our most sincere and humble thanks and
> gratitude for these words and the support of U.S. Congress
> in our long road to liberty.
> Know this, that as America stands with the people of
> Iran, we stand with America in your fight against terrorism
> and tyranny!
>
> For in this struggle we are engaged in, the leaders of
> the disreputable and wholly unpopular Islamic Republic
> regime are the terrorists in our people's midst, sponsoring
> it abroad, conducting it at home, and staining the honor of
> our nation with the blood of our citizens, as well as, the
> blood of the innocent throughout the entire world.
> Indeed, this theocratic entity is engaged in terror,
> torture and atrocity on a daily basis, and this
> illegitimate regime dares to call itself Democratic, an
> advocate of human rights, and protector of the oppressed
> throughout the region. A cruel joke added onto the injury
> to our nation's pride and heritage.
>
> The horror of this evil regime's hypocrisy, and
> methodical atrocities can only be likened to a daily
> Auschwitz for the stain it brings on the honor of those who
> appease and support and lengthen the life-span of this
> barbarian and tyrannical regime through silence, economic
> incentive, nuclear fuel negotiations, "engagement" and
> illusion, blind or not as they may be of what is taking
> place in our country. Nor can the international community,
> or any member of any government that holds in their heart
> the values of freedom continue to turn their back on the
> Iranian people's legitimate aspirations to formulate a new
> secular political structure, and call themselves human.
>
> Iran is not Iraq, nor Afghanistan nor China. While the
> overwhelming majority of Iranians, most of them young and
> educated with thirst of modernity and progress, have passed
> the stage of accepting any type of religion mixing with the
> affairs of state. They have also become very lucid and are
> open critics of any "Chinafication" of Iran where the
> governmental ideology will rule unchanged while its foreign
> policy and economy will be adapting to foreign governments
> requests. The main difference between China and Iran is
> that Marxism was an economical ideology and can be adapted
> or end when the regime needs but the Islamist ideology by
> its essence is supposedly emanating from God and is by
> nature restrictive and against individuals rightful
> aspirations to freedom by trying to anchor them in precepts
> inherited from 14 centuries ago.
>
>
> Respected Senators and Representatives of the great
> American Nation,
>
> The Islamic Republic regime cannot be reformed in whole
> or in part by any referendum while the regime sits in power
> able to manipulate the outcome, nor can the regime be
> caused to abandon its blind nuclear ambition through the
> "carrot" of WTO ascension and other European "economic
> incentives".
>
> This honorable body of the elected is not blinded by
> illusion of propaganda the Islamic Republic regime has
> tried to create, and we wish to illustrate the alarming
> results of eight years of demagogy and sham "reforms from
> within", and to caution the U.S. Congress regarding any
> proposed Congressional testimony from former regime
> theoreticians or members of regime promoted religious
> student bodies. Indeed these 'former' supporters, involved
> in selling the sham reforms scenario and buying time for
> the shaky theocracy, have only recently 'joined' the
> opposition and they do not represent the majority of the
> Iranian people who wish for a totally new form of
> secular-democratic and progressist political structure
> without the backwarded mullahs and their technocrats
> involved in any way.
>
> The only way our people can regain our honor and the
> world its trust for a WMD-free Iran that seeks to provide a
> safer future for the world is by providing us, the people
> of Iran, the support for our legitimate aspirations of
> liberty and the tools necessary to take back the land that
> Cyrus the Great brought Democracy to over 2500 years ago.
> Honor demands that we do this of our own accord, and with
> the proper tools provided by this elected body of free men
> and women which is the U.S. Congress, as well as the
> President's noble foreign policy, and with the tools
> provided by the international community through the
> auspices of the UN, we will ultimately succeed.
> Primary among those tools we seek is the rule of
> international law, as provided by the resolutions on human
> rights, state sponsors of terrorism and terrorist financing
> already in place within the UN in various resolutions, and
> mandated by the Security Council.
>
> The prayers of suggestion included in SMCCDI's letter to
> the honorable George W. Bush (Jan. 27, 2005:
> http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_3270.shtml)
> contains the full list of international tools the Iranian
> people need to solve the problem that plagues all of us.
> None of which include military intervention, or arms sales
> to any faction of the opposition movement within or outside
> Iran.
>
> We are not blinded by the difficulties involved with
> civil disobedience in stopping the functioning of the
> Islamic Republic, but those here who would have doubt of
> the current leadership's ability or the people's will must
> remember your own history of civil disobedience that
> changed the fabric of your nation, protecting the rights of
> all it's citizens.
> We remember Gandhi's march, the Gdansk shipyards, the
> Velvet revolution, the Rose revolution, and all the
> non-violent change that has been brought about through
> these non-violent methods throughout history. These leaders
> of civil disobedience were mostly unknown in their
> beginnings, just as the publicly unknowns of many uprisings
> led in anonymity the localized events in these national
> revolutions that have changed the world for the better. So
> it is among all grass roots movements.
>
> We ask that this letter to U.S. Congress, as well as the
> letter to President Bush be considered in equal measure to
> provide proper perspective to you on the issues, for it is
> our firm belief that only after the Islamic regime is
> removed by the Iranian people can a genuine UN monitored
> referendum, and new political structure be properly debated
> and chosen by the people.
>
>
> Honorable members of the 109th U.S. Congress,
>
> Many resolutions have come before you on matters of
> human rights, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and weapons
> development over the years. In particular, the "Iran
> Democracy Act", that the honorable Senator Sam Brownback
> introduced On May 19, 2003., supporting the right of the
> Iranian people to choose their own government. The
> legislation to be considered,
> contained within the "Iran Freedom and Support Act",
> introduced by the honorable Senator Rick Santorum and
> endorsed by Senator John Cornyn and some of your fellow
> colleagues, follows on these measures.
>
> The honorable George W. Bush, your president, has said
> many times that "We owe it to our children and our
> children's children to free the world from weapons of mass
> destruction in the hands of those who hate freedom." No one
> knows the truth of these words more than the people of our
> nation who have the most to lose should this become
> manifest in the hands of the mullahs, and their terrorist
> allies.
>
> On behalf of the "Student Movement Coordination
> Committee for Democracy in Iran" (SMCCDI), and the good
> people of our nation who have striven so long for freedom,
> we call upon all members of this great elected body of
> Democracy, to approve the "Iran Freedom and Support Act" in
> a vote of unanimous consent. We hope that this bill will be
> endorsed and/or co-sponsored by a overwhelming majority,
> with both Democrat and Republican adding their names in
> bi-partisan support for our aspirations of liberty.
> Such supportive action will provide the tools we need to
> free not only our children and grandchildren, but the
> world's as well, from the dangers posed to all by the
> Islamic Republic regime.
>
> Many among you view the word's "regime change" in
> different ways, and in different manifestations. The
> proposals outlined in SMCCDI's letter to president Bush may
> not require this Congress to debate this phrase that causes
> so much controversy, primarily as we have proposed "regime
> change" the Iranian way, as they are essentially Iranian
> solutions by, for and of, the Iranian people. But these
> solutions may serve as well to create a better world for
> the sake of all people in their success, and we believe
> they merit America's strong and solid support.
> We believe they will work to provide a better home for
> all our children and grandchildren to live in, and for the
> entire region. It has already begun in Iran, now the
> solution needs the world's support and resolve as well. The
> "Iran Freedom and Support Act" is part and parcel to this.
>
> With this elected body's firm unanimous voice, and the
> resolve of the U.S. President and his Secretary of State;
> Supporting the measures proposed to be tabled and ratified
> in the UN as outlined in SMCCDI's proposals, and the
> formation of a roundtable of opposition groups and
> international representatives; The coordination of economic
> and military sanction, freezing of assets, closing of
> embassies, banishment from the UN, and other non-violent
> measures as may be found worthy under international law
> will be overwhelming to the Islamic republic regime, and
> it's demise will happen in a fairly short time.
>
> The Mullahs are on life support, and the machine that
> keeps them alive is their vast financial holdings, the
> Revolutionary Guard and the absence of a unified
> international stand against this evil regime, politically
> and economically.
> Many rank and file military will join the people of
> Iran, having no loyalty but their families and to a
> paycheck which is never on time. As the infrastructure of
> the economy sit idle, the regime will have to take from
> what's left of the guard to run it, and thereby leaving the
> streets to the people. We believe we can remove the regime
> without undo bloodshed, for we wish not for the future to
> be stained with the blood of civil war.
> In the end, the only stain we wish to have upon us, is
> a purple one on everyone's index finger held up in a "V".
>
> On this path of liberty America has been given the task
> to promote, may all the members of U.S. Congress, as well
> as, all free nations support each other in common cause,
> let not your doubts or differences blind you to the correct
> path when the fork in the road is before you, seek not to
> point fingers at one another in confusion and doubt as to
> which road to take. Heed not the confusion sown by those
> who would place that shadow of doubt at the feet of
> freedom.
> In this great world endeavor of freedom the U.S.
> President has put forth, let all people of the world
> remember why our feet point forward (to walk upright) and
> why our eyes are at the front of our heads (to not look
> backwards while walking).
> For even as the shadows of doubt follows in the bright
> light of the truth, do not seek to look at the shadow that
> is cast behind lest it cause a people to stumble and
> falter.
> When the shadow of doubt lies in the path ahead, let
> sturdy feet trample it with reason. And when the shadow of
> doubt is cast beside the path, do not turn aside to speak
> to it, lest it deceive and delay the reaching of the
> "undiscovered country".
>
> On behalf of the "Student Movement Coordination
> Committee for Democracy in Iran" (SMCCDI), and the good
> people of our nation who have striven so long for freedom,
> we ask simply that every one of you in the 109th U.S.
> Congress stand united with us now, not as Democrat or
> Republican, nor even as Americans per se, but simply as
> Humans. For that, and the hope of liberty is what binds all
> people together in unity.
>
> With gratitude
>
> Aryo B. Pirouznia (Movement's Coordinator)
>
>
>
>
> SMCCDI
> 5015 Addison Circle #244 Addison, TX 75001 (USA)
> Tel: +1 (972) 504-6864; Fax: +1 (972) 491-9866;
> E.Mail: smccdi at daneshjoo.org
> www.daneshjoo.org ; www.iranstudents.org
>
> http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_3287.shtml
>
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