The mess of Iran and Dick Cheney Rising. December 4, 2007

Of course the latest newspaper stories are ablaze with the report from National Intelligence Estimate stating that Iran stopped working on nuclear weapons program in 2003. But Mr. Bush has debunked the obvious implications and asserted (Read BBC Story, ”Bush says Iran remains a threat”) that the report mentions Iran’s capability of producing nuclear weapons, so it needs to be checked. Also read, TIME’S ”If North Korea, Why not Iran?”that contrasts Iranian situation with North Korea (I discuss it in the middle of my post)

 

 

This is a totally messy subject and Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric doesn’t help. Sometimes I wonder if Ahmadinejad is getting huge pay checks from Pentagon and Israeli military to keep the air charged with threats and vivid images of looming mushroom clouds? Because if he is not getting paid there is nothing that can explain how can he be so stupid? Here is an excellent New Yorker article that thoroughly analyzes this growing confrontation between Iran and the Western world (America, Britain, and now France as well): Click to read: ”Shifting Targets: Administration’s plan for Iran”

 

 

Suggestions for peace– My personal feeling is that US foreign policy should do its best to engage Iran in a long term strategic friendship. Iran will never be a direct terrorist threat to Americans. There were no Iranian terrorists on September 11 hijacked planes. Iranians don’t have direct interests to bomb American civilian targets. This kind of terrorism is mainly the work of Arab-Sunni Muslim fundamentalists. Iran stands alone in the Muslim world as the only Shiite Muslim majority country (Iraq is only other Muslim country in the world with large Shiia population). But the reality is that Iran will never be an ally with Arab Muslim fundamentalists or Sunni-Arab led Al Qaeda or Afghan Sunni Taleban. Iranian interests are regional.

 

 

And meaningful dialogue with Iran can not only foster long-term peace but also trade with Iran in many areas including developing its huge reserves of oil and natural gas. Such meaningful engagement with Iran would also be in the best interests of Israel. If Arab Egypt can be persuaded to adopt the policy of non-belligerence towards the state of Israel, I can’t see why Iran cannot be included in the same group of Muslim nations that recognize the legitimate existence of Israel. The United States could explore the similar responsible, monitored civil nuclear deals with Iran that it has tried to pursue with North Korea and India.

 

 

 

Dick Cheney Rising….. Dick Cheney is behaving bad again. He continues to bay for Iranian blood as his first priority. Maureen Dowd has been chasing up on this madness. In ”Method as Madness” She writes, ”Dick Cheney’s craziness used to influence foreign policy. Now it is foreign policy.” In another column, ”W.M.D. in Iran? QED” she further explores Dick Cheney’s obsession with Iran that blinds him to all other aspects of American trade, national defense and foreign policy issues.

 

 

I don’t know what’s wrong with Cheney. He is not even Halliburton’s CEO anymore. He resigned in 2000 as the CEO, at least officially. He has stated once his current term in the US administration is over, ”I’m out of here.” He has an ailing heart, medically speaking, for which he has undergone various surgeries. He also survived a bizarre hunting incident when he nearly shot (”accidentally”) his fellow septuagenarian quail hunter buddy dead. But despite all this the exiting Dick Cheney is rising with madness in his mind. Why?

 

 

 

This comment was made on someone’s blog post (CLICK TO READ) and I thought it is relevant to this post:

 

I knew you will blog about it with your beautiful myopic eyes. But here is some info to balance the misconceptions.

 

The report says Iran had stopped nuclear weapons program in 2003. It does go on to mention that Iran continues to enrich uranium and according to best estimates it can make nuclear bomb within 3 to 8 years if it wants to (and I am sure it wants to, it’s dying to)

 

 

As for military strikes. They can happen right now as you are reading this. Nuclear bomb is not the only issue. The fundamentalist, military wings of Iran have been destabilizing Iraq since Saddam was toppled. They’re supplying money, arms, ammunition and providing training to Shiite Iraqi militants and thugs like Sadr’s Mahdi army.

 

 

The next time you read a news story where a bomb blast or a suicide bomber killed men, women and children, you can take comfort in the fact that the bomb was made in and supplied by your favorite country, Iran.

 

 

Iran must stop Hizbollah and other criminal outfits that spread violence, terrorism, war crimes or else next time you won’t be able to blog about Iran, because there will be no country called Iran on this planet anymore. I am only expressing my genuine fears.

On Canada’s BBC and freedom of speech for Neo Nazis November 27, 2007

As a shameless act of self- promotion I felt tempted to post here two of my comments left on two different blogs. There are two reasons for this: first, I wanted to leave a bit of a lighter after some rather dense posts. Second, I wanted to express my opinion for record’s sake. So here they are:

 

 

 

 

1.) This was from some Blog about human rights violations in China that reproduced Canadian newspaper National Post’s news report, ‘‘Covering up slaughter, with a little help from the CBC”. This report mentions rather diabolical allegations that the Chinese government is involved in mass slaughter of Falun Gong members. Not only that, the Chinese authorities are disemboweling them to sell their organs on the market. I know it sounds like a very morbid conspiracy theory, but actually it has been verified by very credible sources like veteran former Canadian member of Parliament Mr. David Kilgour on his website. But of course the initial topic was that Canada’s public broadcaster CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) cowered under Chinese government pressure when it decided not to broadcast a documentary (or the vital parts of it) that investigated the serious allegations. I was tempted to make this short comment:

”If China can kick out BBC, Shut up Rupert Murdoch, Yahoo, Google…. then…. who the hell is CBC?”



2.) Now we come to the other blog whose writer and readers passionately and ”vehemently” supported Holocaust deniers’ freedom of speech. The two of them being, David Irwing and Nick Griffin. This issue has been on my mind for quite some time but was buried under others priorities and concerns. I was fortunate to have come across this post. This gave me an opportunity to suggest a solution to this debate and also express my opinion and sentiments. So here is my humble comment:

 

”Maybe we should send these folks to Iran on a tax payer funded public holiday or call it Sabbatical (nothing to do with Sabbath Day).

 

 

 

I am sure Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would greatly respect their freedom of expression. They can get it out of their system to their heart’s content, maybe go on prime time Al Jazeera and come back safely. What you think?”

 

To this the blogger replies:

 

 

 

”Or maybe having giving a platform to fascist, they should have invited a genuine antifascist, like Ahmadinejad to speak at the Oxford Union. He’d get a more intelligent and polite reception than he did at CUNY”.



To which I yet again humbly reply:


‘‘I don’t think Ahmadinejad would be all that welcome. He would be hooted down and booted out the moment he opens his mouth about Homosexuality.”

Borat reports on the Shocking secret life of Ahmadinejad November 11, 2007

It all began when in late 2007 the Iranian President Most Honorable and Rt. Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad enlightened the whole world (to the great relief of millions of Christian evangelists all over the world) that there are no gay people in Iran. This was contradicted by quite a few people. For example this half Iranian happy boy who lives in U.K. wrote >> CLICK>>THIS ARTICLE<< in the Guardian newspaper mentioning how his affections were- supposedly- sought by a Muslim/Iranian queer in one of Iran’s public parks.

 

This whole controversy piqued the interest of Kazakh journalist who has already gained international fame by his courageous and meticulous reporting on Middle Eastern affairs. Kazakhstan Times –in special arrangement with these publications for different reasons; New York Times, Washington Times, Playboy, Hustler, National Review, Jerusalem Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Catholicnews.com- sent Borat to Iran on a special assignment to discover the truth, the sole truth, nothing but the filthy, dirty and raw gay truth, if there was any.

 

Borat has already risked his life on many occasions to report with utmost courage on Middle Eastern affairs. Last time he was almost killed by American ”friendly fire” when he was traveling with some British soldiers on a secret military mission. But this time again, he rose up to the challenge and not fearing for his life, set for Iran to discover the sinister underworld of Iran that was to shock the world and make it pause **Reportedly Osama Bin Laden has issued a new video tape assuring that he does not share any values of his Iranian counterparts…..Though Britain may share some values with Saudi Arabia** This is what Borat unearthed….

 

Borat found the huge gay culture thriving in many parts of Iran that corresponds to ancient Iranian culture, history and literature. Iranian gay men have a passion for Bette Midler music. (something that the US State Department should take note of) But the truth is that it was always an open secret for international community and there was nothing shocking about it. Fags are everywhere; not just on cigarettes. Borat only confirmed what we all knew all along. But here is SOMETHING ELSE he managed uncover. Most of his pictures were destroyed while running away, escaping from gay Iranian soldiers who gave him a hot chase as he made his way out of Iran. This picture shows the secret life of Ahmadinejad himself who still claims there are no gay people in Iran…..

 

 

Borat managed to capture this photo when he secretly pursued Ahmedinejad’s Limo on horseback. He followed Ahmedinejad through a labyrinth of a rugged, mountainous terrain, close to the Afghnistan border. Borat was damn sure Ahmadinjead was going to meet some terrorists…. but……. what he found was that there was an elite secret gay club right in the middle of nowhere in a martian terrain of endless desert and bone dry mountains. This picture was taken from the keyhole of the gay club’s door with a special camera developed by Ukrainian spies working illegally in Ireland, on potato farms.

 

Now the official statement by Iranian President makes perfect sense. ”There are no homosexuals in Iran”. It denotes two things:

 

1.) Iranian president is living in denial about his happiness.

 

2.) Iranian president is trying to cover his tracks that lead to happiness.

 

P.S. — **It is also believed that the secret elite gay club Iranian president frequents serves no alcoholic beverages in strict compliance with Islamic laws**

Question for today. November 8, 2007

Question–What would Iranian President Ahmadinejad do if he had friendly relations with the United States of America?

Answer– He would be selling carpets (Persian rugs) on the streets.

News and views on latest British prisoners of Iran. April 1, 2007

Picture: Eminent Kazakh Journalist Borat endeavors to analyze the latest crisis.

 

To the utter surprise of the Iranian President, Mr. Ahmadinejad……

Hmmmm… dear friends, I have a very good suspicion that the latest Persian-British battle is going to heat up the Blogland or Blogistan, as we call it in my home country Kazakhstan. We have already seen some blogs from our friends Simon and Fuzzy.>>>> Oh, I’m sorry I think that poor young woman in tattered clothes (Jeans) needs some help, I will be back soon and meanwhile I will let this Eskimo guy do the job.

Ok….. this one is getting scary as the news trickle in. Not that attacking Iran was never on the cards. The Iranian defiance is legendary, matched only by North Korea. But the latter has reliable support from Russia and China and moreover any attack on North Korea would be considered as the bombing of China and Russia’s own backyard, not only politically but also geographically. But I wonder and wonder what these Iranians got in mind. These things evoke so many ideas, concerns and mixed feelings in my brain. I remember I posted a comment on Simon’s blog and then breathed heavily, looked at it and said to myself, ”Hmmmm.. that looks like a blog.” So, I shamelessly copy- pasted it, added an odd sentence and published it as a new post on my Word Press blog, under the tongue in cheek title, ”Satanic Iran and hypocritical Angels”

It would be a tragedy if Iran finds itself getting bombed by Anglo- American forces. In the long term the consequences would be bad as both sides will spiral into new phase of mistrust and hatred. Just look how news headlines sound like now: ”US ready to strike Iran on Good Friday‘; ‘Iran fears U.S. attack in summer: Israeli General’; ‘Iran accuses US jet fighters of violating airspace’; Even the opinion page of the British newspaper, The Telegraph came up with strong Fox News style editorial, ”If Iranians hate us, let them also fear us”.

I have neither the resources nor the interest in analyzing how many nautical inches British ‘’sailors” were within or outside the Iranian territory. But they must have been awfully close. I suppose, so very often the armies of peace and freedom do get curious about their less free and not so peaceful counterparts that they want to have a peek inside their backyards. It happens a lot more than you could ever imagine. It is not the first time that the British curiosity or concern for the enslaved Iranians got them in trouble. Even in 2004 British ‘’servicemen” were booked by Iranians as BBC so kindly reminds us: ‘Iran releases British Servicemen’ .

Digression: BBC can be amusing though. It has some liberal bleeding hearts but it will go to sleazy extents to hide them: ”BBC pays £200,000 to ‘cover up report on anti-Israel bias’

Digressing again a bit: I think the myth that the young Arab and Iranian ‘’students” do not support their government and believe in the ”western freedoms” should be discarded. Surely, lots of young Iranians are liberal like young people anywhere in the world. But they are most likely to grow and merge into their national identity, culture as they grow older or whenever some outsider will threaten their country (Protests at UK’s Tehran embassy). Not long ago, I remember watching an Interview of Salman Rushdie (on C-Span) at some conference in New York. He had his audience enthralled and laughing out loud with his witty remarks. But he said some imbecile things about Islamists that 80% of people loved and applauded. He said- with chuckles and grins- that Islamic fundamentalism or backwardness results from their fear of sex and also that Iranians can be won over if Americans flood them with MTV, Ipods, Western music etc. I will not analyze these remarks but as for the sex bit I have seen plenty of cultures, civilizations and tribes on National Geographic and Discovery channel that seem to have nudism as their lifestyle and as for sexual liberty and promiscuity: some of them remain unmatched even by Byronic standards. And yet, they are anything but modern or progressive.

Objectively speaking, I think Iran can have its dignity and save itself from any useless military conflicts by gracefully releasing the wandering Britons as it did in 2004. That would only win Iran the praises of international community. But I very much doubt that Iranian leaders would consider it easily. Stupidity is such a sad thing when confused with patriotism. I fear conflict is coming up. And it will all be the same old story: armed conflicts, killing of civilians who had nothing to do with the conflict and the genesis of new terrorists, suicide bombers; more military strikes, more terrorist attacks. A vicious circle that everybody gets sucked into till the whole world starts to cry and bleed.