Iran: Iranian Teachers Beaten up Again and the usual suspects' Justification

Potkin:
More Iranian teachers were beaten up outside the Islamic Assembly in Tehran yesterday. Many were prevented from joining the rally by road blocks and fear of previous brutal crackdowns, but despite the smaller numbers yesterday, there was no reduction in the brutality of the Islamic Republic security forces.Some of the teachers were huddled into unmarked cars and taken away to undisclosed locations.

One teacher suffered a stroke and another was unable to talk after having been so savagely beaten up.Amongst the arrested was Sorraya Darabi, whose husband Mohammad Khaksari, editor of a Teacher publication, is still in prison. There are reports that their eldest son, Sajjad has also now been arrested.Of course the Islamic Republic apologists and lobbyists, the current champions of the British academic institutions and the Champagne Socialists, admonish all Iranian dissidents and those who report on such crackdowns.
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In their view while their beloved Islamic Republic is under "external threat", there should be no dissent or reporting of dissent.See CASMII's protest at Znet's mild criticism of the Islamic Republic on 18th May, 2006:, June 11, 2006or an email I recently received from an Islamic Republic apologist, Shirin Saedi (ss725@cam.ac.uk ), from Cambridge Universty and a member of the CASMII editorial, who desperately tried to justify the crimes of Islamic Republic :"....any country under threat passes extraordinairy laws to bypass democratic institutions."--

Shirin Saeidi, a member of the editorial board at CASMII.

The fearmongering by the CASMII et al is nothing but an intimidation tactic to silence dissent and score political points for the establishment who support this ilk. Al-quda and the IRI have declared war against the U.S. (see here, here, and here) Israel, and the West(e.g. recent hostage taking of British Sailors) many years ago and their track record doesn't bode too well for them in that regard.

...The idea that there is a preventive war strategy to change the regime is at best a straw-man argument and at worst a conspiracy theory.Criticism regarding carrier group dispatch is misplaced. First, it is important that Arab states in the Persian Gulf recognize that the United States is going to defend its interests and protect our allies. Second, while Washington assumes events revolve around our decisions, the danger is Iranian overconfidence. Decision-makers in Iran, those in the office of the Supreme Leader and the Revolutionary Guard, may confuse democratic debate with weakness and inadvertently cross a red line. We know from their statements that they do not take U.S. diplomatic demarches seriously. That the United States is willing to demonstrate red lines aids transparency and reduces the risk of accidental conflict.

Then, let me get this, according to Shirin Saeidi's logic, it follows that Iran should not be criticized because any of the criticism can and will be used as a pretext for attacking Iran. Further, all morbid actions by Iran are defensive. Even the "wipe off" other countries comments and weekly death wishes (for 28 years) and "Making the World Without America possible" as the long-term objectives of the IR.

Luckily for dictators around the world, utilizing Shirin Saedi's sophism, we can obsolve democratically elected Hitler, the late Shah, Saadam (100% of the votes were for him), democratically elected Pol pot and all the rest from any crimes they have ever done against their own citizens and against others. Splendid!

Then, lets not criticize Israel and the U.S. at all either as the criticism may lead to terrorist attacks against Americans, other westerners, and Israelis. What a wonderful logic, 'danger of attack absolves from criticism'. Why didn't I think of that? So, Mrs. Saedi, please stop writing your highly anti-American articles because your criticism of USA can subject USA to terrorist attacks. Thanks.