Obama, step up stance on Iran

John Kami
Contributing reporter

Our president’s approach to solving Iran’s issues could hurt his image as President of a first class nation.

Upon entering office, Obama blamed his predecessor as the reason for Iran not being fair to the world. He did not realize that Iran has had a long history of abuse to its own people, and it is unlikely that it will cooperate with the rest of the world let alone its citizens

Although Obama’s policy focus was on solving local-level problems, his effectiveness has resulted in failure: look at our nation’s unemployment rate. His hesitancy in taking real action against Iran does not give Americans confidence and neither does it answer the pleas for help from Iran’s opposition.

This does not look good for Obama’s ability to mediate problems.

It’s not an issue about our country’s ego given the different opinions people have in why I write about Iran’s unjust government, but rather that Obama’s hesitancy only allows the major problems of the U.S. and the rest of the world to grow.

Our economy continues to suffer at a standstill, and Iran’s acting like a major bully to other nations and most notably to its own people. During the 31st anniversary of Iran’s regime, protestors outnumbered the government supporters, but hundreds of people were brutally beaten by police.

The Iranian government did not allow any media coverage to try and hide its injustices against the innocent. In addition, Iran’s government restricted e-mail use under the claim that it wants the people to use government-monitored services controlled by its military used in an effort to persecute anyone who offends the government.

Ayatollah Khomeini came into power and overthrew the Shah in 1979. Khomeini, a man of non-Persian (Indian) ancestry proclaimed that he was a prophet and the last Imam of Shi’a Islam. He promised the people of Iran free water and energy usage if they helped cause a revolution to bring in a “democracy” that disguised a religious fundamentalism controlled by a non-elected supreme leader.

Once the Shah was overthrown and the Islamic Republic’s tyranny began, the government began charging its people for water and power. Hillary Clinton recently mentioned that Iran has become a “military dictatorship,” according to Fox news.

Obama’s administration has failed to secure the release of three missing American hostages who were arrested in Iraq by Iranian authorities. I can only imagine how angry the families of these missing hostages feel when it’s been nearly a year since their kidnapping. If the hostages are released they will be forced to communicate with outside journalists using Iran’s telephones on the conditions of lies by saying that they were treated well by their abusive captors.

Then if the three hostages make it back to the U.S. alive, and would want to reveal the true tortures that they suffered, the media might fail to give much attention to the issue.

Americans are too focused on how much they pay for gasoline when they don’t know that everything is connected. When the humanitarian health of the outside world is in poor condition, then there will likely be disunity within our own nation. If we reduce our oil dependency and show Iran’s government that its natural resources are becoming useless, its economy will not only collapse but it will have fewer financial resources to help persecute its own innocent people.

Obama’s hesitancy to take bolder actions when dealing with Iran seems like he is trying to appease Iran. It doesn’t make sense that if our president wants to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, he continues to allow Iran’s government to exist and abuse its people. Most of the world is on the opposition’s side. Obama has more than enough support if he decides to finally solve issues in Iran. The world is finding out about Iran’s cruelty to humanity and now the Islamic Republic cannot deny its abusive fetishes anymore after 31 years of strife and thievery.

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  • stephan

    At a time when U.S. society is convulsing in agony from its impending finincial doom and hated all over the world because of the “wars of choice” it is waging, the shrill voices calling for hostilities against Iran, a country which poses no threat to the U.S., threatening only Israel’s supremacy in the Middle East, are not thinking about American interests when they either agitate for outright bombing raids or for “crippling sanctions”, itself an act of war, and which will inevitably result in war, as in the case of Iraq. Approximately a million murdered Iraqis later, 2 million Iraqi orphans, and a devastated and exiled Iraqi middle class, the war party has not satisified its thirst for blood, and would like to get another “war of choice” off the ground on false premises. Those who want war in Iran are not thinking of the interests of the U.S. but those of Israel, the latter which has made itself hoarse over the last three or more years demanding war, and worse, threatening and even blackmailing the U.S. into doing its dirty work, saying that if the U.S doesn’t attack, it, Israel, will; and if it does, the U.S. will be dragged in against its will and therefore should attack on its own terms. The war party advocating for the interests of a foreign country are agitating for bombings of an Iranian nuclear program which the U.S. intelligence estimate of 2007 declared was non-existent, saying, “All agencies recognize the possibility that this capability may not be attained until after 2015,” thus spoiling the plans of the war party and its agents for whom the Iranian nuclear bomb was perpetually less than six months from completion, and when six months passed and nothing developed, then the next six months. “When the humanitarian health of the outside world is in poor conditions” John Kami writes in the March 18 edition of the Sundial, “then there will likely be disunity within our own nation,” which is a good sample of the rest of the article: an inane jumble of words and completely specious. If he were truly concerned about “humanitarian health” he should consider another state in the region which better fits the descritption of “a ‘democracy’ that disguise[s] a religious fundementalism” in Israel, the propoganda of whom he is echoing in the pages of this newpaper. Pity the poor Palestinians and Lebanese being slaughtered like cattle in regular and premeditated intervals for putting pot-holes in Israeli streets with their old Soviet Katyusha rockets, the twisted and petty remains of which the Israelis put on display for foreign emissaries stroking their chins wondering instead if they are standing atop the facility that houses Israel’s two-hundred nuclear bombs attaied illegally and outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Iran has signed. Attention instead should be turned to the advisors around fundementalist Israeli president Netanyahu, who have expressed their intention to mass-murder the Iranian people for a nuclear bomb they do not have when they recently called Iran “Amalek”. Amalek is the mythical Jewish figure which the Jews have a religious obligation to exterminate. “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.” (1 Samuel 15:3) Moreover, the cartoon that adorns the half-literate ramblings of John Kami is anti-semitic. It after all, exaggerates in order to ridicule the facial feature, especially the stereotypical Jewish nose of Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinjead is a Jew: 100% pure blooded, not a quarter Jewish like Hitler, whose real name is Sabourjian, a common name among Persian Jews, which was changed shortly after his birth. Is the president of Israel secretly Iranian? No. The current president of Israel believes that the Holocaust of European Jews was the fulfillment of Ezekiel 37. Some thirty million Christian Zionists in the U.S., who are supported and encouraged by their Zionist patrons, were elated. These fools are hastening toward a biblical apocalypse that promises to destory humanity, and are next anticipating the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38 and 39, which hold that Gog and Magog, i.e. Iran and Russia and others will descend on Israel and commence a nuclear world war which will devastate the earth and murder countless millions. Articles like that of John Kami and the voices of those like him are slowly moving humanity toward this contemptible end, and if they are not vehemently shouted down this country will find itself in another “war of choice” which the citizenry loyal to this country and its health did not chose.

    Stephan Rodriguez
    Senior
    Political Science

  • Joseph

    Without disagreeing with any of your assessments on the government of Iran; what do you think this bold action should be? Bombing Tehran? Letting the Israeli dogs of war loose on Iran? Do you know that any bombing of Iran will only kill the victims of the regime’s repression?

    Do you think the IRG and the ayatollahs and Ahmadinejad would be killed or hurt in such an attack?

    Do you know destructive sanctions were the first time around, and how bad they were in Iraq and how bad they are now in Gaza? Do you think about these things before you advocate “bold action”?

    Suggest to me the answer to this situation which doesn’t involve hurting Iranian civilians even more, and I’ll agree to it in a second