To All Iranians:
Those who care to know about your objection to the 22 Khordad 1388/12 June 2009 presidential election results outside of Iran are well aware of the situation. They also know the response that you have received since it is well reported by all media outlets and video clips you post on-line. As an Iranian-born, child of the revolution, historian, teacher, and defender of freedom I ask you to look only within yourselves to help find the necessary remedies to solve your issue.
I can only speak historically when I inform you that I am not aware of any moment that the East or the West has ever helped any nation if they did not see something in it for themselves. If they assisted anyone, it’s been by default. You and Iran are no exception. Meaning, you should be aware if any non-Iranian entity tries to assist you because more likely than not they are doing it for their own sake. We cannot, once again, become victims of our own willful oblivion.
Do you remember when the Russians bombarded our nascent parliament in 1908 because they did not approve of an Iran that was ruled by law, order, and popular vote? Do you remember when the Iranians fought the British in their struggle to nationalize their oil industry in early 1950s and the end result was a coup by their friends, the Americans? Do you remember the hunger and destitution caused by the imposed sanctions in reaction to Dr. Mosaddeq’s success in ending the British oil monopoly while the United Nations was no where to assist you?
Do you remember your struggle during the 1979 Revolution, when neither the West nor the East took time to listen to your struggle, because it was not their concern since they did not think their interests would be threatened? But after they noticed that heavy political and financial loss was coming their way they did everything to thwart your efforts.
Do you remember the time that at one of the most dire situations in modern Iranian history, after the Revolution had been won and different factions were fighting for survival, Iraq under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship (and later assisted by the French and Americans) attacked, invaded, occupied, raped, looted, and pillaged Iranian cities and citizens and after a while the West deemed appropriate to help the aggressor and not the victim?
Do you remember when the West (namely Germans) stocked Saddam’s chemical weapon’s arsenal and he in turn used them against Iranian fighters and no one objected? Remember that manufacturers of these weapons were busy lining their pockets and experimenting on humans while no animal could survive the effects of these chemicals. Are you aware that those fighters are amongst you and live a life that death is preferred over?
Do you remember when the Iran Air flight over the Persian Gulf was shut down by an American aircraft carrier in 1988 killing hundreds of innocent Iranians onboard, no one cared to assist you in objection to such an act? Do you see how the world has tried to stop the Iranian nuclear energy program and no one in the world cares to listen to the Iranians’ need for it but rather everyone is trying to do their best to stop it?
Remember, you, as an Iranian are in charge of your own future. Neither I nor any other person, irrespective of their genuine desire, can ask foreign powers to meddle into your affairs at this very sensitive time in history.
Power to the People and Remember the Past!
