“If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in its possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave any thing in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world.”—Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani.
“Senator Ted Cruz says the United States should not be backing any U.N. action until Congress fulfills its legal role in reviewing—and potentially rejecting—the deal, which will provide Iran with billions of dollars in economic relief.” I fully agree with the Senator.
A plethora of Western analysts have their diverse expert opinions regarding the “Mullah Problem” and what do about it. They are under the illusion that the mad mullahs in Iran will never dare to use the bomb, even if they had it. They concede, in doing so, it would be suicidal.
The truth is: the Islamic Republic of Iran is advancing a nuclear program and is developing it. So, what is the likelihood that the ruling mullahs will actually use the bomb? If they remain in power long enough to have it, they are very likely to use it, in one form or another.
The Iran of today, on the one hand, has the potential of rapidly becoming a nuclear state and a formidable adversary that would not settle for anything less than the total subjugation of the free world. On the other hand, in Iran’s people and culture is a genuine potential for replacing the doomsday-bent mullahcracy and making Iran the Free World’s staunchest partner in the Islamic world.
What to do?: It is dangerous and unnecessary to attack Iran militarily, neither does the U.S. need to go the route of appeasement with a seriously weak adversary.
The most effective and prudent solution is to change the regime in Iran. The idea of regime change in Iran is hardly new. What is new here is a list of non-violent undertakings that holds considerable promise in disposing the homicidal-suicidal Mullahs.
Governments should enact the following:
- Declare unequivocally the commitment to respect the territorial integrity of Iran, as well as the rights of the Iranians to decide, through a democratic process, all matters pertaining to their life and country.
- Initiate, without delay or equivocation, a comprehensive program of assistance to all democratic Iranian opposition groups, both within as well as outside of Iran, in their struggle to accomplish the regime change themselves.
- Proclaim far and wide, the cardinal reason for taking these measures against the Mullahs’ reign of terror is to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons, the threat they pose to the region as well as to the world, and the stimulus they provide for other nations to develop their own nuclear arsenal.
- Enforce the U.N. sanctions by inspecting every vessel headed for Iranian ports to make sure they are not ferrying prohibited material. Other than vessels known to be carrying foodstuff and medicine, each ship should be subjected to elaborate inspection.
- Persuade Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and other Persian Gulf Arab oil producers to significantly increase their output and drastically cut the price of oil (as they have). It is the least they can do to forestall the emergence of a nuclear Shiite Iran bent on ruling the region.
- Obtain court orders to freeze the overseas assets of Iranian leaders, since they are clearly ill-begotten funds that rightfully belong to the nation.
- Shut down, or severely restrict the operation of the Mullahs’ businesses in Dubai and other Persian Gulf states.
- Shut down Iranian missions. Severely restrict Iranian officials and nuclear scientists from foreign travel. Recall your ambassadors from Iran.
- Deny the Iranian airlines operation and encourage non-Iranian airlines to cease serving the country.
- File legal charges against the leaders of the Islamic Republic’s wanton violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; for their crimes against humanity, genocidal actions against religious and political groups; for support of international terrorism; for demolition of religious sites and cemeteries; for rape, torture, and summary execution of prisoners of conscience; for forgery of documents, for acts of blackmail and fraud, and much more.
- Declare and treat the clerical regime as illegitimate.
- Stop or slow down Iran’s import of refined petroleum products.
- Shut down the Islamic Republic’s web sites and block their television and radio broadcasts.
- Seize the regime’s front organizations such as the Alavi Foundation in New York City.
- Identify the agents of the Islamic Republic and prosecute them as promoters of international terrorism.
- Investigate individuals and organizations that lobby or front for the Islamic Republic.
- Take all necessary steps to stop investments in Iran. Persuade banks to refrain from dealing with Iran and the issuance of letters of credit.
- Pressure businesses to stop dealing with Iran.
- Pressure governments to stop doing business with Iran. Warn countries such as China and Russia against commercial adventurism.
The Iran problem is urgent. It is a world problem. A warning to the world: You need to act now. Apathy is sleep. If you sleep, you weep.
We have crossed the Rubicon. If there even is a solution, we will not get to see it. We are on the brink of a global catastrophe.
Regime change? Yes, in Washington, DC
I too have argued that induced regime change in Iran is the sole practicable way that their present march to development of, and likely use of, nuclear weapons can be stopped. But I also think that the best way to achieve that goal would be the overnight surprise neutralization of the top leadership of the mullahs, the Revolutionary Guard, which the Iranian version of Hitler’s Schutzstaffel, and the Basij, whose counterpart in that era was the Sturmabteilung street thugs. Such an action would be the veritable long, thin needle that would pierce the heart of that most-threatening of national leaderships.
Get rid of those men of evil, and peace could be established with the great Iranian nation.
But leave them in place, and the world will face a situation that would have been akin to Hitler’s gang in control of hundreds of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, the intercontinental rocketry that would have been used to deliver them onto doomed cities all around the world.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI