Sunday, October 27, 2013
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (b.August 25, 1934) is a Iranian ayatollah and businessman. From 1989 to 1997 he was the president of Iran. Argentina issued an arrest warrant because Rafsanjani gave the order to bomb the jewish centre of Bueno Aires in 1994.[1]
? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6134066.stmAyatollah Ruholla Khomeini
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The Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini (1902 - 1989) was a Shiite Muslim who took control of Iran after a revolution overthrew in 1979 one of the twin pillars of Western cooperative security arrangements in the Persian Gulf, the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. President Reagan criticized Khomeini as "a maniacal fanatic who has slaughtered thousands and thousands of people calling it executions."[1]
The Ayatollah came to power as part of US President Jimmy Carter's "Human Rights" policy. William Miller, chief of staff on the US Senate Intelligence Committee, said America had nothing to fear from Khomeini since he would be a progressive force for human rights. U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan compared Khomeini to Mahatma Gandhi.”
In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini created the Basij Mostazafan a mass movement of young people under 17 years of age. When the Iran-Iraq War started in 1980, Khomeini issued a fatwa and promise of paradise and they were incorporated into the Iranian military. The Iranian clergy took over command from the regular military leaders in mid-1982. In July 1982 Iran launched Operation Ramadan near Basra. The clergy used "human-wave" attacks calling for the young people from age 9 years old and up to move forward in human wave attacks to clear minefields so the regular Army could follow. [2] Matthias Küntzel quotes an Iraqi officer's description of one such encounter in the summer of 1982.
“They come toward our positions in huge hordes with their fists swinging...You can shoot down the first wave and then the second. But at some point the corpses are piling up in front of you, and all you want to do is scream and throw away your weapon. Those are human beings, after all! [3]Other reports appeared in the Iranian daily newspaper Ettelaat and later an eyewitness gave an account to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine in 2002. Some 100,000 were killed this way.
On April 5, 1984, US President Ronald Reagan issued a National Security Decision Directive (NSDD 139), saying the U.S. needed to stress
"the urgent need to dissuade Iran from continuing the ruthless and inhumane tactics which have characterized recent offensives." [4]This played a large part in the humanitarian basis of Reagan's decision to help put the end of the Iran-Iraq War by the Iran-Contra affair and reestablish relations with an old longtime ally, Iran.
The Ayatollah held American hostages until President Carter, who had admitted the Shah into the United States for medical treatment, left the presidency on Jan. 20, 1981.
Khomeini died June 3rd, 1989. He held power in Iran until his death.
Carter Doctrine
? The Second 1984 Presidential Debate? Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), Iraqi Retreats, 1982-84, Globalsecruity.org, retrieved 20 March 2007.? Ahmadinejad's Demons: A Child of the Revolution Takes Over, Matthias Küntzel, The New Republic, 24 April 2006 .? NSDD 139, 5 April 1984.Grinter, Dr. Lawrence E. Avoiding the Burden: The Carter Doctrine in Perspective Vol. XXXIV, No. 2 (January-February 1983): 73-82. Global Security.org Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) Winton, Emanual E., Abomination: The Sacrificing of Children, Tzemach, 17 July 2001. Küntzel, Matthias, A Child of the Revolution takes Over, The New Republic, April 4, 2006. D'Souza, Dinesh,Giving radical Islam its start, January 29, 2007Science and engineering
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"Science is the pursuit of knowledge, and engineering is the application of that knowledge for the benefit of people."
Science and engineering
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"Science is the pursuit of knowledge, and engineering is the application of that knowledge for the benefit of people."
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the former president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the former mayor of Tehran. He came to power on a campaign based on stamping out corruption in 2005, and pursued an agenda defined by support of Islamic fundamentalism, strong anti-Americanism, and anti-Zionism. Under Ahmadinejad's rule Iran put a large amount of effort into producing nuclear technology, possibly for nuclear weapons, although Iran has not yet been successful in this endeavor. His politics were mixed as best, as he had a strong, conservative view towards homosexuality, infamously stating that there are no homosexuals in Iran. However, he has also eliminated some rights such as freedom of speech and the press.
Photographs appear to implicate Ahmadinejad in the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis as someone involved with the hostage taking. Five former American hostages have stated that Ahmadinejad was one of their captors. A former US intelligence officer, said "I recognized him right off. … I remember so much his hatred of Americans. It just emanated from every pore of his body." BBC correspondent John Simpson recalled seeing Ahmadinejad on the embassy grounds. Abholhassan Bani-Sadr, a former president of Iran long living in exile, asserted that Ahmadinejad "wasn't among the decision-makers but he was among those inside the Embassy."[1] However, some former hostages dispute this claim. [2] Additionally, a number of terrorists who were actually involved in the hostage taking have denied Ahmedinejad's involvement.[3] [4] A CIA report was commissioned to determine whether or not Ahmedinejad was involved in the hostage taking, and that report determined that the evidence was at best inconclusive. [5] [6]
Ahmadinajed's foreign policies were criticized by many within his country and government, who thought he was too extreme and would cause their country to be attacked by the United States.
Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier, calling it a "myth"[7] and a "holy lie,"[8] and hosting a conference for holocaust deniers from around the world in Tehran.[9] Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has often compared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler.[10][11]
Ahmadinajed was term-limited out of office in 2013; Hassan Rouhani was elected as his successor.
? Pipes, Daniel Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the 1979-1981 U.S. Embassy Takeover (2006) Capitalism Magazine Accessed 7 February 2008? http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014049.php? http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_1-7-2005_pg4_16? http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/30/ldt.01.html? http://www.nysun.com/article/19982?page_no=2? http://www.cfr.org/publication/8831/takeyh.html? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4527142.stm? http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/176326/ahmadinejads-holocaust-speech/michael-rubin? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/dec/13/20061213-120143-8384r/?page=1? Lappin, Yaakov Bibi: Iran president more dangerous than Hitler YNetNews. Accessed 7 February 2008? Hirschberg, Peter Netanyahu: It's 1938 and Iran is Germany; Ahmadinejad is preparing another Holocaust Haaretz. Accessed 7 February 2008
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