Letters April 2005
Give the people of Iran timeIn response to Hamid Bakhsheshi's "Who is doing whom?": Dear Hamid, What a well written explanation of Iranian American sentiment towards the Bush administration's misdirected attempts to hide their desire to proselytize and sodomize our distant relatives all over. A bunch of people who resemble Hitler's henchmen surround GW and fill his head with false dreams. Just like the French Resistance and the Viet Cong, Iranians will never tolerate what the Iraqis and Afghanis tolerate in American Invasion. Maybe if they had gone to Iran first before Iraq, they would have had the streets full of people with open arms greeting them, but now that the whole world has seen first hand what Americans did in Iraq and the fact that there were no WMDs, Iran will be just like it was when it was invaded by Iraq 25 years ago. I remember the night when my aunt called to tell me my favorite cousin had just died defending Iran from the Iraqi invaders. It was my first night in college in a university famous for producing more American soldiers than all the service academies combined. My cousin was my age and he had come home at the end of the day to tell his mother that he and the other boys in his class were going to go stop a column of tanks they had just heard were headed into Iran. They drove and walked all night so by the cover of darkness, they could line up and get as many of the tanks from as close a range as possible. They were able to get so close that once the first and last tanks in the column were disabled, the others would just be a shooting gallery the rest of the night. Unfortunately, that put him only a few feet away from his target tank to make sure the others could also get assured hits. When the RPG went off and the tank blew up, there wasn't much of him left to take home. But, these 18 year old boys were going to die rather than allow the defamation of anyone invading their home. Does this type of determination sound like others in history? Yes, Iranians are a proud people who are like that. They are not the weasles of other countries who don't care who comes to rule them. It is tolerable to have Iranians ruling them under horrible conditions, but they will not have someone tell them who will rule them and they would rather die than be invaded. I remember when I once fearfully queried my grandfather about the dangers in Iran during those times and he told me not to worry about him and our family there. He told me not to worry about them because any government needs its people and those people will stand up when they tire of any government. He continued to tell me that people like him who had land and money and who made jobs and hired people and kept the economy going were the real country and governments come and go but the will be there. In fact he told me that the people with the support of the businessmen had thrown out the shah and would get rid of any new government when it went too far or was unacceptable to the people. Despite many family members complaining about the current regime in Iran, I still remember what he told me and I feel if it ever got to the point where the people of Iran were tired of the regime in charge, THEY would rise up like they did against the shah and SAVAK and kick their asses out of Iran. But, they will under no circumstances allow anyone else to tell them who they will put in and they certainly would never ever tolerate invasion by anyone. Can't these YES MEN figure out that the backlash of listening to the gutless runaways who live in LA and the self serving liars like the ones they listened to in Iraq is that they will destroy any semblance of good will that may exist towards the USA? In their attempts to force change, they will force the wrong changes. Give the people of Iran time and let them choose for themselves when they are ready for change. In fact, the way to empower the people to implement their own will is to stop this isolation of Iran and reembrace them in trade and interaction. That would create more people like my grandfather who are able to do business and trade and make money and hire people and pay taxes and those people would then show their desires to have all those things American that have brought Iranians for decades to the USA. I am so certain of this strategy that I am willing to challenge those nitwits in Washington to open their minds and embrace a strategy that can't lose: Open trade and exchange with the people of Iran and empower them to stand up to their own government on their own. I hope we Iranian Americans truly want the best for America so our children can live in as good a society as we or our parents chose to live in. We are Americans by choice and that makes us more aware and vigilant of what made America the greatest country on earth and want to make sure that those ways are not abandoned.
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