The Iranian People are Prisoners of War
By John A. Ross (10/10/07)
For more than twenty-eight years the Iranian people have unwittingly become prisoners of a war that is being waged by their terrorist jailers against America, Europe and all other "infidels." Caught in a religiously manipulated nightmare of brutality, coercion and deceit that draws its’ support from less than ten percent of the entire Iranian population, the Iranian prisoners of war are terrorist by default. Constrained by the very civilization that defines them, the Iranian people have become pawns in an international game of chess that they are credited with developing more than two thousand years ago.
Reduced, effectively, to being co-conspirators of a government that has control of all levers of power, most Iranians are, ironically, victims of their “civilization,” religious fanatics and opportunists. Saddled with being taught that their forefathers along with the Greeks that came along much later were the architects of modern civilization, as we know it, civilized Iranians rely on intellect and not the Arab sword, fire and rape to gain and remain in power. Embarrassed to tears by the manipulators in Tehran that most Iranians call animals they are mentally, socially and physically ill equipped to remove the brutal mullahs and ayatollahs from power.
Imprisoned in their ancient homeland by religious zealots, brutal militarists and “cultural” enforcers and opportunists that, as in all dictatorships, will steal the gold from their mother’s teeth, may soon start believing that they have little to live for. Systematically reduced to near destitution, most of the various indigenous people of Iran cannot afford to immigrate to other countries, unless they were fortunate enough to be well educated. In a nutshell: their hated government has declared war on all “non-believers” and they, the Iranian people, are prisoners of a war that is being waged by their un-elected religious opportunists. Firmly stuck in believing that dissent in the form of words and peaceful demonstrations will change their plight, the Iranian people have been unable to come to grips with the fact that their jailers do not really care what they say but do care what they might do.
The Iranian paradox became a reality when Muslim hordes used deception to defeat the Persians in the year 628AD. To this day, most Iranians refer to the Arab victors of nearly fourteen hundred years ago as “Bedouins on a camel.” At the time of their defeat in 628AD, most Iranians were pre-Christian Zoroastrians. Soon after the end of World War I, Iran became a constitutional democracy for a few years. Regional influences using force and deception defeated the fledgling democracy and imposed a “friendly” regime more amenable to existing regional rulers.
Eighty plus years ago the Iranian people found the desire and backbone to fight for freedom and democracy. Their present day jailers know the aforementioned history. History has been known to repeat itself.
John Ross
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