The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill (401 to 11) that calls for a military strike if Iran obtains nuclear "capability", which essentially means American lawmakers have lit the fuse for war.
Now put this alongside the news that Saeed Jalili, secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council, repeatedly asked Catherine Ashton, the chief nuclear negotiator for the P5+1, that sanctions be removed. Even Obama is powerless to remove the sanctions that have been imposed by the House and Senate, so Jalili begging Ashton displays a huge disconnect with reality.
The sanctions that were imposed on Iraq, and which were directly responsible for the death of 500,000 children, were only removed FIVE YEARS after the American Empire invaded Iraq.
So given this situation the Iranian people are going to face a great deal of hardship because the wrong people are sitting around the negotiating table and discussing issues that will not remove any sanctions and therefore will end up making war more likely.
Given that most of the House and Senate are in the pockets of the Israeli Lobby, and the military-industrial-complex – which made obscene profits from the Iraq war – the threat of war is still very real.
Iranian negotiators can argue until they are blue in the face that legally they have the right to the peaceful development of nuclear energy but it is not going to make any difference.
The only reason Iran has not been attacked is because the price of oil will increase to unacceptable levels and because even non-regime supporters will pick up a gun to defend Iran which will mean a region wide conflagration.
As I have argued repeatedly Iran needs to mothball and abandon its nuclear activities and only keep what it requires for nuclear medicine. Four years ago I wrote "Iran's Nuclear Mistake" and given advances in solar energy the arguments I made then have been strengthened through advancements in solar technology.
Iran is finally coming to its senses and has allocated $500,000,000 towards alternative energy but this is not nearly enough. It should be $150 billion dollars. Saudi Arabia has just announced plans to invest $120 billion dollars to develop solar energy so that all of its domestic energy needs will be met. The Desertec Foundation has been launched and will soon become a reality.
It's time Iranian "leaders" put aside their ego and pride and faced reality. There is little prestige in having a nuclear accident like Chernobyl or Fukushima. There is little to be proud of when our grandchildren are born with deformities due to a nuclear accident or radioactive contamination after our enrichment sites have been bombed.
We must abandon our nuclear activities NOW and once and for all eliminate the threat of war. The path to peace is clear as is the path to clean renewable energy.
(The image above shows the radioactive fallout 48 hours after Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities have been bombed. Look at the area that is set for exposure limit for general public. It is huge!)
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Dear Maemoor, You were half right
by Siavash300 on Wed May 23, 2012 09:41 AM PDTNo, my dear.
A. Blacks
B. Jews
These groups of people has been oppressed, discriminated, and mistreated throughout history. Either in western world or in the Middle East. My heart goes to the families and friends of those people. I am standing by them against any oppressors such as Basijii, cold blooded bastard Islamists and white oppressor Europeans. From "slaverly" of blacks in Africa by white Europeans all the way to the gas chamber of Nazi Germany, these 2 groups were victims of oppression. Imagine Europeans were taking your parents and relatives as slaves. what would you feel? how about to remember your mother and your sister were being burned in Nazi gas chamber. How do you feel? Where is your heart my dear?
The human dignity worse more than money. How possibly can you ever enjoy the money which is "Blood Money" of our dear sister Neda? How could you possibly enjoy the money that is blood money of our brave brother Sohrab ? Where is your heart Maemoor.? Don't you feel bad to confess of being on payroll by a bunch of Islamist thugs? Is that something really makes you pride?
But it is not too late. Just write a letter to those stinky ragheads saying that you are no longer interested in working for them. Tell them for some medical personal reason. Let's Iran history to be pride of you. Let's your name remain as a good person and Iran history judging you as a good person. If I can be any futher help,please don't hesistate and let me know.
Sincerely,
Siavash
Video of effect of Sanctions on Iraqi Children
by Mohammad Alireza on Tue May 22, 2012 11:42 PM PDTFor those that doubt what sanctions did to Iraqi children here is a video documentary.
WARNING: Graphic.
//www.johnpilger.com/videos/paying-the-price-...
may god bless the united states of america & our armed forces.
by mousa67 on Tue May 22, 2012 10:34 PM PDTand may FBI track down the anti american/anti jewish shia islamist terrorist cyber bassijis one by one and send them all back to gaza strip via gizmo into the custody of IDF before we have another 9/11 .
بهائی و
مآمورTue May 22, 2012 06:24 PM PDT
بهائی و کلیمی
درست گفتم؟؟ حالا جایزه ام بده که من هم مجبور نباشم مامور باشم!!
I wear an Omega watch
موضوع کس نخارد پشت من
Siavash300Tue May 22, 2012 05:45 PM PDT
دوست عزیز،
به جز خود فروشی به ملا ی کثافت و جنایتکار
راههای بسیار زیادی برای پول
درآوردن هست. اگر به هر ایرانی وضعیت مالیات را
بگویی من مطمئنم که اونها کمکت میکنند
Maemoor puzzle. Of course people can be brainwashed
by Siavash300 on Tue May 22, 2012 04:54 PM PDTGermany was much more progressive and much more modern than current Iran during WWII. Hitler was able to brainwashes mindset of million Germans. No comparison between current people of Iran with high rate of illiteracy with Germany during WWII, but Hitler did it. Even in countries such as U.S there are many cults like a "heaven gate" whom the homosexual leader was able to conceive people to committ suicide in order to catch the space ship. 32 people in a big mansion committed mass suicide. It was in San Diego, Rancho Cordova back in 1998. In fact the owner of the mansion was Iranian guy. The leader was able to brainwash people and convine them to see what he was seeing in different galacy or planets. Or Jim Jones, the pastor of Chicago was able to brainwash over 300 Americans to travel to Guina. There they all committed mass suicide in 1978. There are thousands and thousands examples whom the people were much more intellegent and much more sofisticated than Iranians and were being brainwashed. Some were to the extend that they committed suicide. MEK and camp e Ashraf is a vivid example of Iranian brainwashed in our recent history. You must be very naive to think the other way. The stinky ruling mullahs play with the words in order to get into naive people like you. For example, they substitute the word of zionist instead of Jews. This is new item in Mullah's dictionary. They used to complain of jews who were throwing rocks over Mohammad's head when he was passing from the ally that belonged to jews. Mohammad referred to that day, the most painful day of his life. Since then mullahs had been against jews. You must read more Islamic books to find the origin of hate. The hate has nothing to do with Palestine, it is rooted in that Mohammad day. If Mullahs say jews that is very obvious, therefore, many people resist the manipulation, but when they say zionist,it sounds more acceptable to the ear of guilable people than saying just jews. Ask those who say death to Israel what is zionist. I bet none of them can describe it for you. So all these are none sense and aimed to manipulate people like you.
Throughout history 2 groups of people were victims of discrimination, oppression and at times they were victims of massacre. Can you tell us which groups were those two?
کس نخارند پشت
مآمورTue May 22, 2012 09:21 AM PDT
کس نخارند پشت من
جزء ناخن انگشت من
این جواب سوال اول شما.
مگر دولت ایران یا هر نهادی دیگر در دنیا امروز با این وسعت اطلاعات و دسترسی آسان به آن میتواند مغز من یا هر بیسوادی دیگررا شستشو بدهد؟؟
من مشکلی با کلیمی یا هر مذهبی دیگر ندارم!! صهونیسم مذهب نیست حزب سیاسی است.
I wear an Omega watch
Maemoor concern
by Siavash300 on Tue May 22, 2012 08:52 AM PDTDear Maemoor,
I am still waiting for my question whether you are on payroll by those Islamic criminal gang who occupied Iran for last 32 years. No response so far. In that scenario, I should inform you the money you're receiving is the "BLOOD MONEY" of our brothers and sisters who lost their sweet lives in combat with Islamic devil on streets on Iran. How possibly any decent person with clear conscious can enjoy that money?
The second scenario is that you are not receiving any money, just being brainwashed by a bunch of the Islamic ragheads who has no respect for human lives. My hope is this scenario is correct. Therefore, it is my duty to inform you as your country man.
Mullahs have lied. They took power by deception and trick and lies. I was present during revolution and followed those bastards day by day. Most likely you were not even born back then. In order to achieve their politcal agenda, these Islamic monsters set a fire on Cinema Rex in Abadan and burned 500 innocent people to ashes and blamed it on shah and S.A.V.A.K. (shah secret police). They did it just to take power. They were capable to do whateve it takes to gain power. From the day one they came to power they started anti jews propagandas.
Hitler was able to convince Germans to see jews from the same angle that he was seeing them. Once he established that mentality he committed the most horoble crime throughout the centuries.
The stinky ruling mullahs in Iran were doing the same thing that Hitler did. They were convincing innocent people to look at jews the same way they look at them. Their propanda brainwashed innocent and naive people like you (if you're not on payroll) to see jews the way they were perceiving. Consequently they are ready to commit the same crime that Hitler did. That means 2nd holocaust. Imagine your relatives, brothers and sisters were in Hitler's gas chamber. How did you feel ? just for 1 second imagine it was your relatives who were burned in Hitler's owen. Don't you feel bad? so where is your heart for those innocent people. I wish I was in the authority who could invite all jews to settle in Iran instead of Israel. Forget all Arab nations. I would have shared my food with them and I enjoy doing that. That is commonly called "humanity", something that stinky mullahs and their supporters who were brainwashed can NOT understand.
Sincerely,
Siavash
No They Won't
by HHH on Mon May 21, 2012 09:05 PM PDTThey won't hit Iran because Iran will hit Saudi, Kuwaiti, Persian Gulf oil facilities & will spread hundreds of mines in Persian Gulf which will drive the price of oil over $250/bbl & gas over $9/gal. No superpower can afford that or survive it.
End of subject.
siavash
by مآمور on Mon May 21, 2012 07:22 PM PDTwhere u get that 'massive force'?
u r right it has to be massive, bigger than Israel and their cosines!!
but where they come from? u should start signing in for your own brigade!!
I wear an Omega watch
"Sanctions and Iraqi Children" -- Google it yourself.
by Mohammad Alireza on Mon May 21, 2012 07:05 PM PDTUN Says Sanctions Have Killed Some 500,000 Iraqi Children
//www.commondreams.org/headlines/072100-03.ht...
Iraq Sanctions Kill Children, U.N. Reports
//www.nytimes.com/1995/12/01/world/iraq-sanct...
UN sanctions'are killing Iraq's children'
//www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/may/27/iraq.s...
What a naive expectation...
by Siavash300 on Mon May 21, 2012 01:57 PM PDTMr. Mohammad Alireza are you this much naive that you think stinky ruling mullahs give up their agenda and sit on the table of negociation.? Those Islamic bastards are after the singer who didn't even commit any crime. They want him to be killed. The singer didn't kill anyone or didn't harm anybody, now the death decree against him has been issued. You're expecting the same mullahs with such a violent mindset sit on the table of negociation with the west? Are you kidding me? No way jose.
These monsters who can't tolerate a simple song how possibly tolerate west proposal? Mullahs clearly and frequently stated Israel must be wipe off the map. What part of this agenda is NOT clear? Similarly they are saying they give $100,000 to anyone who kills Shahin Najafi for singing the song. The guy is in hidden in Germany. Now you expect mullahs suddenly change their behavior and become good guys.
I am sorry my friend but mullahs must go.The sad part is the fact that they don't go by negociation. Only violence can remove them. They haven't left any alternative except violence. Time will prove to whatever I am saying is correct. Only by force and massive military launch. It doesn't matter it is from MKE or Israel or U.S. The bottomline is by massive force eventually will remove mullahs from power. That is all.
Long-live-Iran, That is true
by Kooshan on Mon May 21, 2012 11:10 AM PDTThe effect of sanctions are much more on people than government but at least it is much less than a war. A war wastes people lives blindly, catapults the whole country back few decades and scars the culture and sentiments for long time.
I think sanctions will pressure people to pressure government to come to senses and perhaps the rich (usually the deciding elements in a society) will see how much they loose and there will be a major clean up in the authority towards more pragmatic and secular government than apocolypsic one.
Sanctions were not responsible for Iraqi deaths!
by Artificial Intelligence on Mon May 21, 2012 11:09 AM PDTThis is a big lie. Saddam and only saddam was responsible. This is another lie by the radical left.
"your respect for
by vildemose on Mon May 21, 2012 10:18 AM PDT"your respect for butcher khamenei's fatwa speaks volumes."
Actually, he can't be a more transparent shill for Khamnie Inc. His main concern is his own pocketbook.
All Oppression Creates a State of War--Simone De Beauvoir
Provide proof
by Anonymous Observer on Mon May 21, 2012 10:14 AM PDTIf it's so widely known, then provide a link to an independent, statistically and scientifically accurate study. If you can't / don't, then you're a liar.
alireza, and you have paid
by hamsade ghadimi on Mon May 21, 2012 10:12 AM PDTalireza, and if you had paid more attention to my response, you would know that khamenei's fatwa is not more than the toilet paper after i use it in the bathroom. your respect for butcher khamenei's fatwa speaks volumes.
To: hamsade ghadimi
by Mohammad Alireza on Mon May 21, 2012 10:04 AM PDTAnd if you had read my comment more carefully you would have noticed I said "nuclear energy" and not "nuclear weapons" regarding Khamenie's "fatwa".
To: An Observer: Sorry I won't take resonsiblity for your ignorance. The 500,000 number figure is common knowledge to those who keep up with these issues.
MA: You don't
by vildemose on Mon May 21, 2012 10:03 AM PDTMA: You don't want people to rise up and change their criminal and oppressing regime?? Why??
All Oppression Creates a State of War--Simone De Beauvoir
story of choopan dorooghgoo
by hamsade ghadimi on Mon May 21, 2012 09:52 AM PDTalireza, in short your answers are no, and probably yes. "no" to iri's claim that sanctions have no effect on iri. "probably yes" to the notion that iri is not making a nuclear weapon. the west wants assurances that iri is not in pursuit of nulcear weapon and would not take your tepid endorsement of iri (or iri's endorsement of itself) to the bank; hence sanctions. sanctions are direct result of iri's actions and you can't blame anyone (e.g., u.s., israel, arab countries,...) but iri itself.
you state: "If Khamenie was a little better informed he would issue a "fatwa" against nuclear energy ..." you must've missed the news that khamenei did issue a fatwa against nuclear weapons. and perhaps if you were a little better informed, then you would know about the mullah's tradition of taghieh. in other words, no intelligent person would take a mullah's word on any matter including the claim that sanctions has no effect on iri (another taghieh).
Please provide proof of your statements
by Anonymous Observer on Mon May 21, 2012 09:46 AM PDT"The sanctions that were imposed on Iraq, and which were directly responsible for the death of 500,000 children"
Please provide proof. That means numbers, exact causes of death and the relation between those causes of deaths and the sanctions. No hyperbole, hysteria or general statements please. I'm just interested in facts and statistics. If you cannot prove your claim, then kindly remove it.
PS- Please don't tell me to look it up myself. Asdie from it being extremely time consuming, it is not my burden to do so. You have written this "article" and published it. It is your burden to back up your statements with independently verifiable and objective facts.
To: hamsade ghadimi
by Mohammad Alireza on Mon May 21, 2012 09:35 AM PDTThe claim that sanctions are not hurting the IRI is maybe correct if you are talking about the regime elite and those that feed off of it, and they number in the millions.
But ordinary Iranians are under tremendous pressure and if the regime does not do something soon people will soon be in the streets burning banks, cars, and anything government related.
When workers that are employed are not able to feed their children the regime will crumble but we are still a longs way from that thanks to the billions coming in through the sale of oil and gas.
My own opinion regarding the regime is that what will bring it down is its own incompetence.
IRI's claim that it is not building a nuclear weapon is probably true for the simple reason that if they were the monitors in place would have detected it long ago.
But I if go out and buy some wheels, an engine, some seats, and a pair of windshield wipers and stick them in my garage there is a strong likelihood that my neighbors will assume I am building a car.
Personally I think the regime's intention was to have the option of a deterrent against Saddam so as to never again allow chemical weapons be used against Iranian citizens (supplied by Western powers) and once he was deposed they stopped their nuclear weapons research.
If Khamenie was a little better informed he would issue a "fatwa" against nuclear energy given what has taken place at Fukushima and Chernobyl.
To the fools...
by Sassan1 on Mon May 21, 2012 06:41 AM PDTSupporting military action and precision strikes against the Islamic Republic hooligans is not supporting "nuking Iran". It is supporting our fellow Iranians in getting rid of these fanatical madmen who kill with impunity.
to gilani, you failed to
by hamsade ghadimi on Mon May 21, 2012 06:26 AM PDTto gilani, you failed to mention that iri boycotted south africa, through economic and trade boycott, for 15 years because of s.a.'s treatment of its citizens.
alireza, iri claims that sanctions have no effect on iri. iri also claims that it has no intention of building nuclear weapon. which one of the claims should we believe and which one should we discard?
With Sarkozy out Obama wants appeasement with Mullahs
by Darius Kadivar on Mon May 21, 2012 05:43 AM PDTObama opposition to the IRI is just for the show. He wants to make history once re elected just like Nixon with China in order to justify his undeserving Nobel Peace Prize.
Folks like Fareed Zakaria, MAziar Bahari and other IRI Lobbyists will do all the explaining to convince mainstream medias into believing in all this neo liberal crap that the IRI is reformable ...
Just you wait ... Voting Obama equates indirectly voting for Trita Parsi ...
Not that Mitt Romney is my cup of tea and I will definitively not vote for a Mormon turncoat no more than for demagogue neo cons but as an Iranian American who advocates Regime Change and not merely 'reform' of the IRI I definitively won't vote for Obama for a second term as I did for his first election ...
Obama may be good for America ... He is a disaster for Europe and definitively for Iran on the long run ...
He will legitimize the IRI and you will all fall for it too just as you did when you fell for Khatami's smiles ...
I actually won't be surprised to see Khatami and the Reformist make a comeback as a treat from Khamenei to Obama his "muslim" brother ...
Fool me once fool me twice ... but mark my words for the future:
OU BA MA NEEST !
Kooshan, unfortunately I should agree you
by long live Iran on Mon May 21, 2012 03:28 AM PDTUnfortunately I see so much cherish among some Pre-Iranian mostly Rajavi`s slaves on nucking their own fellow Iranian that I wonder if they know any about humanity.
There is no doubt that sanction always affected normal cevilliant than the regims and west know this clearly. So as I said we, as Iranian outside Iran should take action and try to lift the sanction and be against any possible war on IRAN.
Long Live IRAN for Ever.
Hardship for Iranian
by long live Iran on Mon May 21, 2012 03:20 AM PDTThanks for posting this text. Unfortunately hardship for Iranian is started long time ago but became worse recently. It is now duty of all Iran-lover to come to the help of Iranian people( not IRI) to lift the sanction. There is no hope for stupid IRI leader to do any for Iran and Iranian.
But do you think while west does not sell passenger aircraft spair parts to Iran, they are going to sell solar cell panels and the regarding technologies to Iran!!! I know that they even stop selling wind tubine to Iran many years ago! So I guess you are too optimistic about the west.
Long Live IRAN for Ever.
War with this regime is inevitable
by Sassan1 on Mon May 21, 2012 03:03 AM PDTOne cannot negotiate with messianic madmen who want to bring an end to humanity and destroy other member states including executing homosexuals and stoning women to death inside their country (not to mention wedding 9-year old girls). The international community must stand together and get rid of such evil from this world. Haven't we learned the lessons from history when we don't take the threat of radical madmen seriously and try to instead appease them?
زنگها برای که به صدا در می آیند؟
مآمورSun May 20, 2012 11:21 PM PDT
بادهای موسمی در روز حمله هوائی موسی با اسکادران باربی در کدام جهت میوزند؟ ؟
از قدیم گفتن هر چی سنگه مال پای لنگه!!
ایران را بمب میزنند دودش تو حلق هندیها میرود!!
I wear an Omega watch
two full crates for you.
by mousa67 on Sun May 20, 2012 10:04 PM PDTmamooreh ahmadinejad joon: dont sulk. for you my favorite cyber bassij, your uncle mousa will have two full crates of coke and pepsi hand delivered to your london address to "wash up" the chelo koobab. but save a couple for mr "appleton" please. LOL