The return to office of the Iranian incumbent Ahmadinejad is good news. The hardliners musical chairs that has been described in the media here as an election has kept out the so called reformist Mousavi. Mousavi is not a reformer; he is a prominent supporter of the regime who whilst in office was responsible for a colossal massacre of dissidents in the eighties.
A Mousavi presidency would have breathed fresh life into the rotten corpse of the Iranian theocracy as the West has chosen to dress him up as someone reasonable with whom business could be done. Someone to cosy up to, someone to appease. Mousavi is gone and now the decay and demise of the ayatollahs reign can happily proceed unhindered by the West's outright and shameful support. Even Obama might be forced to stop simpering at Teheran's knees.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Iran; Ahmadinejad the Madman and Mousavi the Butcher.
In the sham "elections" being held this Friday in Iran, the choice is between the lunatic Ahmadinejad and the smiling rather avuncular looking Mousavi. If the Iranians have any sense they will stay at home.
Mousavi is portrayed as a reformer. This could in fact hardly be further from the truth. Mousavi is a hard liner with a blood soaked track record. For, amongst other demonstrations of loyalty, his support of the execution of several thousand of the regime's political opponents in 1981, Khomeni made him Prime Minister. Mousavi went on to be a founding member of Hizbollah in 1983. Most importantly, he is the creator of the Ministry of Intelligence and Information. MOIS is modelled on the KGB and is the Ayatollahs principle organ of repression. It is responsible for the detention, torture and killing of dissidents at home and terrorism and the liquidation of opponents abroad. At the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, on his watch as Prime Minister, several tens of thousands more of the opposition were executed. More than six thousand according to a conservative Amnesty reckoning. Most of those killed were students. After a 20 year absence from political office spent as a "painter and architect", Mir Hossein Mousavi is back.
Mousavi, of course, wants the bomb as badly as Ahmadinejad. For the poor Iranians who do decide to "vote" the choice is not great; the Madman or the Butcher.
Mousavi is portrayed as a reformer. This could in fact hardly be further from the truth. Mousavi is a hard liner with a blood soaked track record. For, amongst other demonstrations of loyalty, his support of the execution of several thousand of the regime's political opponents in 1981, Khomeni made him Prime Minister. Mousavi went on to be a founding member of Hizbollah in 1983. Most importantly, he is the creator of the Ministry of Intelligence and Information. MOIS is modelled on the KGB and is the Ayatollahs principle organ of repression. It is responsible for the detention, torture and killing of dissidents at home and terrorism and the liquidation of opponents abroad. At the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, on his watch as Prime Minister, several tens of thousands more of the opposition were executed. More than six thousand according to a conservative Amnesty reckoning. Most of those killed were students. After a 20 year absence from political office spent as a "painter and architect", Mir Hossein Mousavi is back.
Mousavi, of course, wants the bomb as badly as Ahmadinejad. For the poor Iranians who do decide to "vote" the choice is not great; the Madman or the Butcher.
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