America's President
The multifaceted Rafsanjani family
has converted Iranian wealth into billions-dollar investments
in the United States, Canada and Europe
Farhat
Quam Maquami
May 30, 2005
iranian.com
On June 17 Iranians are going to the polls to pick
a president in an election which can hardly be called democratic.
For propaganda
reasons, and to provide cover for its dwindling legitimacy, the
IRI is offering people a handful of candidates from a list
of over one thousand applicants for the job.
In the last two elections,
Mullah Khatemi was selected to be the emasculated reform candidate
to provide a semblance of hope in an otherwise demoralized society,
and he proved to be a failure. This time around the morally bankrupt
system, faced with public apathy and certainly
running
out of credible candidates, has put forward the Millionaire Mullah
Rafsnajani to save its corrupt and un-Islamic system. On the surface,
Rafsanjani might prove to be the lesser of thousands
of evil for Iranians; but, in reality he personifies what is wrong
with Iran.
Islamic Republic is a trade name, a slogan
used for propaganda, and an empty phrase which has been coined
to subjugate people who
believe in Islam all over the world. It is a strange dictatorship,
baptized in blood baths and terror established in 1979. It is ironical
that the system which murdered
many as "Corrupt on
Earth" and "Warrior against God" has become
the symbol of corruption and socioeconomic oppression. In order
to repress the growing opposition to clerical rule, the regime
relies not on soldiers or uniformed police; but, on the enforcers
of Hezbollah, death squads Bassijis and the equally thuggish Revolutionary
Guards. Mostly recruited from the same wretched of the earth lumen
proletariats whose siblings spearheaded the overthrow of Mossaddegh
in 1953.
The mullahs who control this weird republic claim that the regime
drives its legitimacy from Allah; but they remain on top with gangster
like methods of intimidation, violence, murder and draconian system
of terror. In reality the regime is neither Islamic nor a republic
and basically was created, supported, sustained and designed under
Zbigniew Brzezinski Doctrine to fight communist ideology. On the
one hand, it utilizes the terminology Islam and its utopian ideals
to prevent any philosophical convergence of socialism and Islam,
on the one hand it propagate a perverted theological justification
of Neo-liberalism and the so-called Free Market Economy to enrich
the mullahs.
The political system has been basically a "dictatorship
of mullahs" achieved by a Bolshevik-type blood bath and
run by a shadow government that terrorizes Iranians inside and
finances shadowy groups outside to protect a corrupt economic system.
Its
economy is dominated by shadow business empires controlled by the
Rafsanjani family and its related gangs of collaborator mullahs,
and its power
is protected by a shadow army of mafia-type enforcers.
Ironically, the man who came out of nowhere and put in charge
of the secretive power structure of the Republic has been America's
poster child Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, is now the
Godfather who is being pushed as the leading candidate to
save the bankrupt Islamic Republic.
That is why nothing short of revolution
may save the country from the path of moral corruption, cultural
deprivation and economic hardship of the majority of Iranians
whose national wealth has been siphoned by the Godfather and
his gang of mullahs.
Rafsanjani came into power in a secretive pact with General
Huyser in which in lieu of the American assistance to dismantle
the Shah's regime, which did not fit in with the American
new strategy of fighting Communism. The monarchy was replaced with
an Islamic Republic and that is how a
bunch second
rate businessmen
and pistachio farmers became billion-dollar conglomerates and
millionaire mullahs draining Iran and devastating its economy.
Rafsanjani is what is wrong with Iran and Iran would take another
step backward with him as president again.
In order to discover how the Iranians left, right and the center
were duped into revolutionize Rafsanjani's family fortunes
rather than revolutionizing Iran, the buck stops at Rafsanjani's
door. Rafsanjani was getting his instruction from American
Neo-Cons economists before it became fashionable in the U.S. The
1979 revolution transformed the Rafsanjani clan into commercial
Rubber Barons. One brother headed the country's largest
copper mine; another took control of the state-owned TV network;
a brother-in-law became governor of Kerman province, while a cousin
runs an outfit that dominates Iran's $400 million pistachio export
business; a nephew and one of Rafsanjani's sons took key positions
in the Ministry of Oil; another son heads the Tehran metro construction
project.
Today, Rafsanjani's octopus family is in control of everything
from narcotics, prostitution rings, and illicit alcohols to investments
in U.S. satellite TV stations, Canada's private toll
ways, Australia meat packing and wherever his multi-national corporation
can operate.
The Rafsanjani family operates through various foundations and
front companies, that is why he innocently claims that he is a
humble
man with no assets. The family is also believed to control one
of Iran's biggest oil engineering companies, a plant assembling
Daewoo automobiles, and an airline company.
Rafsanjani has always been in the background assuring
that the economic system would privatize and follow the Neo-liberal
guideline of establishing a "free-market" economy
for exploitation of the wealth of Iran by global corporations.
He is the Godfather of Iran's "privatization" program
during which mullahs and their allies took over public companies
at dirt cheap prices. They expropriated the old regime's properties
for
free and established a new "crony capitalism" in
Iran. It is this new class of Westernized mullahs who control
many
satellite TV and Internet sites, exploiting fugitive
Iranians from Australia to Canada and from London to Los Angeles.
Rafsanjani somehow became the power behind Khomeini and worked
behind the scene with Huyser and Fardoost and Ghareh Baghi (two
turn coat generals) to make sure the Shah's nationalist generals
would not derail the American designed Islamic Revolution. Later
on when Death Squads blew up the entire emerging nationalist
leadership, mysteriously Rafsanjani survived. He thanked God in
public and the CIA in private for his miraculous survival. He made
sure that
economic system would be privatized and follow the Neo-liberal
free market economy. He has run Iran for the past 25 years.
He assumed the powerful position of the Speaker of Parliament
and the brain behind Khomeini in the 1980s. As a show of gratitude
to his American masters he secretly negotiated a deal to help
the Contra's in Nicaragua. He was the Iranian counter revolutionary
who received
and ate the infamous key shaped cake with Iran Contra front-man
Oliver North. They both conspired to finance Death Squads
to sabotage the revolutionary Sandanistas and indiscriminately
kill civilians in order to ensure the failure of Sandanistas
semi-socialist
system. He was the recipient of the Bible signed by Ronald Regan
which signaled the beginning of the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages
deal. He was president from 1989 to 1997 and is now
the chairman of the powerful Expediency Council, which is the seat
of actual political power in Iran.
Compared to Ayatollah Taleghani,
whom I had the privilege of being his cellmate in Quasr Prison,
Rafsanjani has no revolutionary credentials.
Yet Taleghani, who could have been a real revolutionary was set
aside in favor of money hungry mullahs, led by the deal maker businessman
Mullah Rafsanjani. He is the man who has done what the American
Neo-cons would have loved to see in America: complete privatization
of the economy and human beings to the point that one million
Iranians would enjoy everything the West has to offer and the
other
69 million
live in exploitation, poverty, destitution and economic deprivation.
Yet the population has been sedated by an ideology which makes
them believe that it's all God's will. This is Calvanism
pure and simple, not the revolutionary Islam of Ali and Hossien.
Rafsanjani and his gang never espoused revolutionary
Islam. They used Islam in a pejorative way, the same way George
Bush uses the term "liberation", "oppression" and
"democracy". These are empty words used as propaganda to achieve
certain aims and a smokescreens behind which they accomplish their
real design. Revolutionary Islam can never condone the Pinochet
type rein of terror that gave birth to the Islamic Republic; nor
would have let public companies be privatized and given to mullahs
or even would have let them rule a civic society and expropriate
the means of production. Revolutionary Islam would have never permitted
exploitation of man by fellow man.
It was Khomeini who proudly
declared -- but never acted on -- a government
of the oppressed by the oppressed to share and divide the communal
wealth of a nation. Rafsanjani not only subjected Iran to
Neo-liberal
foreign trade but opened up the oil sector to private companies
and put Iran's assets on the auction block for Conoco and Shell.
Most of the Iran's finest properties and top contracts have ended
up in the hands of mullahs, their relatives, associates and
supporters. The multifaceted Rafsanjani family
has converted Iranian wealth into billions-dollar investments
in the United States, Canada and Europe. The Islamic Republic
has really revolutionized and transformed the lives of a small
pistachio farmers in Rafsnajan and changed them into billionaire
mullahs
in a quarter of a century while 80 percent of Iranians live
in abject poverty.
Iran's social, economic and cultural
problem cannot be solved by an election or a referendum. Iran needs
a
revolution.
This generation of disillusioned
young people need fresh blood, a person uncorrupted by power who
wants to be a mirror image
of pain, deprivation and grievances of its populous. He must promise
to bring the utopian idea of government of the "oppressed" by
the "oppressed" and punish those blood suckers who
in the name of Islam have brought capitalist corruption to the
country. He must promise to re-nationalize and expropriate assets
and return them to the treasury and public ownership. If none of
the candidates succeed to arouse public enthusiasm and participation
in the political process, chances are that the alienated public,
especially the youth, would fall prey to cause disturbances which
might be followed by a public uprising to overthrow the whole system
of reactionary Islam.
This might be the last chance to save whatever is left of the
Islamic Republic which has become an EMPTY SHELL OF PROPAGANDA
covering its rotten seeds of crime and corruption. Public apathy
and non-participation in election would be the last times that
the bell would be ringing for the American mullahs. It is the last
chance to save a morally corrupt regime which its proponents have
become "Warriors against God" and "Corrupt
on Earth" and now would be waiting for the "Allah
the Avenger."
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