IRAN POLITICS

Anti-War War Mongering Dillon Freed - 2/14/2012 Without exception, every intellectual that I have spoken to about, or heard speak about, Iran’s nuclear program are absolutely opposed to any sort of war against the country. Good. We agree. No war on Iran, no war on the Iranian people, no war on the stunning and irreplaceable Persian culture. And without question, no invasion of Iran. But I declare – and so should they – without equivocation, total and merciless military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities along with sabotage against any enablers of the program and harsh sanctions on the country. More than that, these covert and overt efforts must continue until Iran has a responsible secular government in power (and we must realize – this may never happen).

Will Egypt's Ruling class be Replaced? Kambiz Basetvat             2/14/2012 In the span of the last year, the people’s revolution in Egypt shook its political foundation irreversibly. Mobark’s dictatorial autocratic secular regime with its handpicked house of representative is gone. The national police force that used to suppress religious and liberal political descent is badly beaten and demoralized by the sweeping popular revolt. Now, the only institution that prevents Egypt plunge into total revolutionary anarchy is the armed forces. So far, the people of Egypt In their quest for political transformation from an autocratic secular dictatorial regime to a democratically elected government were lucky. During last year’s revolution a unity of uncompromising ideological political forces converged with singular aim to dislodge Mobark from power. Mobark’s regime could not withstand such a national steadfast popular movement which was praised nationally and worldwid

Iran: Anticipating Spring Dame Chkatroski - 2/8/2012 Regarding the situation in Iran and its region the most anxious countries are Israel and Turkey. The cabinet of president Erdogan, and all serious Turkish political analysts have already comprehended the seriousness of matters in Iran. Turkey would have never been a significant and major economic force if it hadn’t been for the Islamic Revolution of Khomeini in Iran. Turkey gained the best of the Islamic Revolution and emerged as one of the most powerful geopolitical, economic and military strength in the region. It took over the entire role which Iran had had it before the Islamic Revolution. Nowadays Turkey is aware that if any alteration of the government in Iran occurs that can marginalize Turkey or it shall lose a part of its importance within the international scene.

Iranian Oppositions to Islamic Republic and Western countries Military Option Kambiz Basetvat                            info@iranpolitics.org                           1/13/2012 The United Nations atomic watch dog recent devastating report revealed Islamic Republic (IR) regime of Iran’s uninterrupted and continuous work to weaponize its atomic research. The report increased the level of tensions and convinced the western countries to impose new sanctions on IR. This development coupled with the revelation of a bold IR conspiracy to kill the Saudi Arabia ambassador to US in an explosion in a crowded public place increased speculation of western countries military option necessity that has been on the table since the beginning of IR hostility toward western countries interests.

What happened to the America’s political morality and what seems to be wrong with it? 11/21/2011           Kambiz Basetvat There are obvious political morality discrepancies between domestic and foreign politics of American politicians’. What brought this pen to this sad conclusion are the well known and respected politicians and decorated military leaders lobby for infamous Mojahedin-e Kaalgh Organization (MKO) delisting from the State Department’s terrorist organizations list. Seeing the respected former mayor of New York and presidential candidate sitting next to Mariam Rajavi, a serious Iranian political culprit, was jaw- dropping. According to Mr. Kenneth R. Timmerman, the MKO lobbing arm for its delisting endeavor from terrorist organizations enlisted support of former White House chief of staff Andy Card, former NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark, former state department counter-terrorism coordinator Dell Dailey, and more in a pro-MKO event in Brussels on May 25.

The Emerging Discourse in Iran's Politics is Commitment to Democracy and Separation of Mosque and State Kambiz Basetvat - 03/11 Why with an overwhelming popular opposition to the Islamic republic (IR) and the regime’s engagement in one serious crisis after another still IR survives year after year? This is the agonizing question Iranian’s political observers fail to find a satisfactory answer for. Could the answer be the existence of a considerable indirect and secretive supports for the regime amid the regime’s well known oppositions? If this speculation carries any validity, the question which begs for an answer will be; who are these indirect and secretive supporters of the IR, who carries the burden of Islamic Republic survival? Is it possible to blame outright the opposition outside Iran? If one does so, what will be the under laying reasoning and logic behind it? How the vast number of Iranian opposition outside Iran has been holding the answer to Islamic Republic’s regime survival?

Does The Los Angeles Times Promotes Muslim Traditinalist and suppresses Muslim Re Kambiz Basetvat - 12/10 The number of articles and their aims in the Los Angeles Times covering Islamic issues raise several pressing questions. The frequency of stories, their locations in the paper which pertain their importance, the bias writers of the articles further emphasizes the purpose of the Times for its keenly aware reader. While America leads two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both Muslim countries, and is deeply involved in Palestinian and Israelis conflict for its commitment to Israel security; while the US is in bitter struggle with Islamic Republic regime for its atomic ambitions, in addition to whole volatile Mideast Muslim countries with their valuable oil export for world economy it seems there are sufficient number of journalistic stories to go around. Still there are home front stories which deal with Islamist complains, grievances, impositions, and demands. But the Los Angeles times offers further effort to publish Islamic issues and religious exhibitions.

The Historical Perspective of Iranian Hezb-Allah in Threshold of Demise   Hezb-Allah’s back to the future Kambiz Basetvat    01/14/2010 The recent mass Iranian’s freedom fighters revolt against Hezb-Allah’s regime, which followed the last Islamist traditionally fraudulent election, manifested the re-emergence of the Shiites’ Islamist historical memory. The political imagination of Hezb-Allah is confined to the historical events caused by the first great civil war in the nascent Islamic world, which rose from the Shiite struggle for political power. The third Rashidun caliph Uthman (644-56) favoritism to Umayyad clan derived companions of Prophet Mohammad, then nobility of Medina including Mohammad son in law, Ali the forth caliph (656-61), to resent him bitterly. After the assignation of Uthman, during Ali’s caliphate era he faced a great number of armed challengers. The actors and historical events of this period have been emulated by Islamists who hold the political power and the Islamist reformers in modern Iran.

How do Political Forces are Positioning themselves as the Islamic Republic's Presidential Election gets closer? Kambiz Basetvat- 5/19/2009 With less than a month to Presidential election the political landscape is getting more complicated. The student organizations could not get their choice to become candidate for election, and they are now considering endorsing another reformist candidate. The reformist political activists, other than the goal of removing Ahmadinejad from office, condition their support for the reformist candidates to their specific demands. The interesting developments in this election are the formation of a few new voting blocs. Meaning, since none religious political entities can’t organize freely in a political party, they declare unity for the specific political or social wish list as a voting bloc for the candidate who is prepared to accept them on his presidential agenda. The reformist has two candidates and fundamentalist or committed Khomeinist other than the current president has one more candidate.

The Quest for Democracy in an Islamic Style Fascist Dictatorship Kambiz Basetvat- 4/8/2009 The Islamic Republic presidential election, scheduled for June 12, 2009, has brought a new life to political activity in Iran. Popular elections’ legitimacy for the government became a well respected tradition since the 1905 Constitutional Revolution; although most of the times since then they were a façade for dictatorial regimes. For a peculiar internal structure of Shiite branch of Islam, Shiite authorities keep their independent from the most revered or powerful; in short, there is no firm hierarchy in Shi.ism. Since Islamic Republic is a new form of Shi.ism authority imposed universally, its elections manifest internal struggle of Shiites elite’s independence and power backed by mass followers. At the same time enormous well educated middle class Iranians adhered to democracy, freedom, and human rights consider the Presidential and Majles (House of Representatives) elections their chance to gain executives and legislatives political power. As a result of Islamic Republic formation, and its backward nature, and brutal dictatorship, the political forces such as Islamist, Mossaddeghist’s nationalist, and the whole spectrum of Iranian leftists which supported such a disastrous revolution lost their intellectual hold over Iranian politics which they had since contemporary Iran’s modern era.

Does the Islamioc Republic's Demise derive from its Presidential Election? Kambiz Basetvat-Thursday, January 29, 2009             In 1979, in the final months of Shah’s regime, Khomeinist forces in their scheme to take over political power in Iran stressed on the republicanism of their Islamic regime to cement support of nationalists, liberals, and leftists for their leadership of an anti Shah movement. The Islamist later proved the worthlessness of their promise to none religious political groups, but the regime was trapped with idea of the power and legitimacy of the people’s votes and republicanism of the regime. In the three decades of Islamic regime existence the political landscape in Iran has changed dramatically, yet the Islamic regime founding cadre’s firm hold on the political power survived the internal and external challenges. With the Islamo-fascist firmly in control, the two elected political bodies, Presidential and Majles, became the thermometer of Iran’s political being. Islamist’s intelligence and creatively constructed several Islamic institutions, such as the vlaiat faghih (supreme leader), shoraya nekahban (the council of guardian, chosen by valit faghih), majles khabregan (council of experts), majma tashkhise maslehate   nezam(collective determination of regime’s expedience), to safeguard the tyranny of Islamist and the political uselessness of popular vote.

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