The Mullahs Smell
Victory
By: Potkin
Azarmehr
Those of us who have first hand
experience of the Mullahs in Iran, know how they beg for mercy and cower
when they feel threatened and weak, but we also know how over confident,
audacious and ruthless they can be too when they smell victory.
I remember reading the memoirs
of one of Khomeini’s allies (I think it was Bazargan), when I learned
how Khomeini rebuffed those who wanted to compromise with the Shah.
”You have a rope tied around his neck, and you can pull at both ends
of the rope, so don’t hesitate, pull hard while you can and finish him
off.” He screamed at those who were wavering and didn’t have
confidence in the complete overthrow of the Shah.
These days, I can sense that
same air of over-confidence about the Mullahs in
Iran
, except this time they seem to think the rope is tied around US’s
neck. At one end of the rope, they have Moqtada Al-Sadr, a young callous
gangster whose stare instills fear in the hearts of
Iraqi citizens and at the other end of the rope they have once
again activated Golbedin Hekmatyar, an
Afghan criminal warlord whose ruthless reputation still makes the
ordinary people of
Afghanistan
tremble with fear.
Both have been trained and
nurtured in the art of genocide by the Islamic Republic of the
Ayatollahs. Nothing has been spared in anticipation for the day when
they feel they can finish off the “Great Satan”. Money, arms,
training camps, propaganda tools, and the lot has been flowing from the
coffers of the Iranian people who have no say in their own destiny to
these warlords. The same Iranian people who only want moral support for
their struggle and a firm stand against their oppressors by the Free
World, so that they could control their destiny and not have the name of
their motherland mixed up with these Neanderthal terror groups.
Just like when the Shah’s men
wavered and dithered in 1979, the Free World is now acting too scared to
take on the enemies of civilization. Just like in 1979
Iran
, when a firm response was needed to quash the forces of darkness, some
presently talk of the coalition troops to leave
Iraq
. This is reminiscent of when the Shah was told to leave
Iran
in the hope of the situation calming after his departure.
Everyone knows who the paymaster
of those at each end of the rope is, yet there is no firm response. Back
in 1979 the clerics had ordered their thugs to burn down a cinema which
resulted in the death of close to 400 innocent lives; men, women and
children were charred to death while watching a film in
Rex
Cinema
,
Abadan
. The clerics infuriated the crowds by blaming the atrocity on the
Shah’s regime. But the Shah’s regime had the main culprit of the
massacre in their custody. The culprit was willing to testify in an open
trial and disclose those who had given him the orders, for he was
suffering from a terrible guilty conscience. He did not know the cinema
goers would be locked in and unable to escape. He wanted to reveal it
all, but the Shah’s men were worried that his trial could lead to more
tension with Khoemini. They were duped into thinking that Khomeini was
willing to negotiate!
In 2004, the leaders of the Free
World know who is giving the orders, but they are scared to rock the
boat. After all, the mullahs in
Iran
are offering to negotiate. Just like the Shah’s Generals, they are
hesitating to act, as they did in 1979 hoping they could reach a
compromise with Khoemini. The BBC, always boasting for wanting to show
all angles of a dispute and hence often ending up in giving a platform
to the instigators of violence and intolerance, has not as yet once even
mentioned the role of the Islamic Republic in the recent events of
Iraq
and
Afghanistan
.
The Islamic Republic continues
with its winning formulae of 1979 tactics, the Mullahs can smell victory
and are pulling the rope tighter and tighter, the Free World on the
other hand seems to be infected with the Shah’s indecisiveness in the
last days of the Peacock Throne. They talk of assurances from Khatami's
close allies that the Islamic Republic is not behind the uprisings! (See
the Time Magazine this month).
I see many parallels between now
and 1979, but victory for the Mullahs this time will not just mean pain
and misery for the people of
Iran
,
Iraq
and
Afghanistan
. It will be the beginning of the end for the Western civilization that
did not act decisively when its own survival was at stake, instead the
dithering European politicians who continued with a losing formulae of
what they preferred to call “critical dialogue” with Islamic
Republic! A farce which was neither “critical” enough nor a
“dialogue” with the paymasters of terror.---
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