Islamic Republic Wins, Iranian People and America Lose!

The International Atomic Energy Commission has determined that Iran, having solved its technical problems, is enriching uranium at a much faster rate than ever before. Iran's ability to produce its own nuclear fuel is what Israel has repeatedly called "the point of no return" - a view all but confirmed by IAEA Director Mohammed ElBaradei Last Sunday. So, given this fait accompli, why the need to engage and negotiate. Negotiate on What? It's too late.


Tehran’s brutal fanatics have moved closer to the potential for nuclear conflagration. And what does the world can do? Nothing. It gets worse. The Bush administration making all the appropriate warning noises about Iran’s nuclear program is cozying up to Tehran to help us in I don't know what? As if they can be trusted...That Bush is dependent on Iran’s ruling ayatollahs to salvage a modicum of face-saving stability in Iraq also was made clear on Sunday when, despite new concerns about Iran’s nuclear potential, the White House confirmed an upcoming Iran-U.S. meeting in Baghdad in the next few weeks to discuss Tehran taking a “productive role” in Iraq’s security. Now it has come to this: to bring peace to Iraq, We now turn to the very “rogue regime” that sponsors worldwide terrorism. The United States created a vacuum for the vast expansion of Iranian influence throughout the Mideast and doesn't have a plan to reverse it because it can't bring itself to admitting it, in the first place. Amazing, isn't it?

The losers in this whole fiasco, if we fail to come up with a strategy to rectify it soon, will be the ordinary Iranian people and the Iraqi people who are going to be stock with a brutal theocracy like Iran. The only winner is the Islamic Republic and their minions, including the reformers (pocketbook supporters and upstarts who became rich because of IRI after the revolution) who want "engagement" and "glorious talks" and not because they care about Iran being bombed. Their utmost concern is their own position and status in the government and maintaining their continued privilege of theft, profiteering,debauchery, and protecting their own real estate and oil empire inside Iran.

And what does the U.S. gain here: Nothing but empty promises that are not going to be kept and more intransigence in foreign policy (a euphemism for the regime's policy of sponsoring terror and destabilizing its neighbors)and possibly expediting the emergence of China as a superpower who has imperialistic intention of its own and will not be as nice as the fickle superpower that America has been.

The danger of offering 'friendship' and 'hope' to religious rulers such as Khamanie is that it will be interpreted as acquiescence by the United States to the policies of dictatorship and it will reinforce their claim and notion of Islam as being "an alternative to the current world order". The regime will get much needed breathing room to continue to silence the dissidents in the name of Islam and unifying the Islamic Ummah in the greater Middle East and beyond (Margarita Island in Venezuela is already a hub of Hizballah terrorism in South America).

Furthermore, it would be a death knell for Iran's nascent Women's Liberation and Rights and severely hampered Labor Movement. If anything, the oppression and suppression of the Iranian people will intensify without having to worry about the outside pressure. Wanton brutality domestically, against brave civic and human rights and secular activists will increase drastically with impunity.

I can categorically assert that there has never been a case of rewarding and compromising with religious ideologue tyrants where it has resulted in weakening of their commitment and resolve or lessening of the suppression of their dissidents. You can't make a deal with a *cause* such as Islam. Remember Khomeini used to say "Islam is in Danger"! He was right and he did something about it (mainly establishing the Islamic Republic and spelling out it's global and far reaching foreign policy and agenda in 1979) and so far, his plans have been implemented with astonishing success.