On the Brink of a Neoconservative Nuclear War with Iran
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote, California
State University, Fullerton
pfoote@fullerton.edu
September 23, 2005
Mike Whitney’s "The Inevitable War with Iran" provided details of the desperate attempts of the neoconservatives to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack upon Iran. Indeed, before the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on America, neoconservatives were writing about the importance in history of “fortuitous events” such as Pearl Harbor in moving Americans from anti-war sentiments to clamoring for war. The absence of new terrorist attacks in America and the resistance to coalition forces in Iraq have slowed the pace of endless wars envisioned by chickenhawk neoconservatives. By now, a majority of Americans understand that the neoconservatives lied about the Iraq War in terms of weapons of mass destruction. Unfortunately, Americans who rely upon the evening television news or the local newspaper remain unaware that the neoconservatives support the MEK (Rajavi Cult), one of the Saddam Hussein-supported terrorist groups President George W. Bush cited in his background paper for his September 2002 remarks at the United Nations and used as a pretext for the Iraq War.
On January 15, 2003, MEK supporters placed a full-page advertisement in the New York Times thanking the 150 members of Congress (approximately half were Democrats and half were Republicans) who signed the Iran Statement of support for the MEK. Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the circulator of the Iran Statement, is now the sponsor of the Iran Freedom Support Act (H.R.282 in the House of Representatives; S.333 in the United States Senate, Republican Senator Rick Santorum, sponsor). Hundreds of members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, want to spend millions of dollars of the American taxpayers’ money to corrupt the political process in Iran. No patriotic Iranian would ever vote for any Iranian candidate who had taken corruption money from the American government. Johnny Chung’s testimony that he had contributed illegally large amounts of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s money to the Democratic National Committee and to Democratic Party candidates became a scandal in America. Yet, America’s neoconservative lawmakers are seeking to corrupt the political processes in other countries.
In the absence of “fortuitous events”, many of the neoconservatives will be voted out of office next year. Neoconservatives are betting that there are enough American dupes who will believe that Iran, lacking any nuclear weapons, is a greater nuclear threat than North Korea. Neoconservatives are betting, also, that the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran will blunder by pushing now for their inalienable rights to nuclear power at any cost. Iranian leaders are betting that Russia, China, and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries will defend them in the United Nations. This nuclear brinksmanship could result in hatred, political instability, and a world-wide economic depression.
On December 8, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his Atoms for Peace speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Approximately 50 years ago, America was exporting radioactive isotopes to more than 50 countries and offering to train the technicians of the world on how to generate electricity with atomic reactors. America urged the Shah of Iran to contract with an American company to build a nuclear power plant. After the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini halted work on a nuclear power plant in Iran because he considered nuclear power plants to be contrary to Islam. The current leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran are offering to develop nuclear power plants and to export the results of their technological progress at lower prices than Western companies charge. The only immediate problems for the West from Iran’s desire to develop peaceful uses of nuclear power are: (1) loss of work for Western nuclear power plant contractors (2) loss of countries dependent upon the West for nuclear power (3) competition in the nuclear power plant and nuclear materials markets. The only urgent problem for the neoconservatives, the world’s most dangerous terrorists, is that the American voters might vote them out of office before they can bomb or invade any other countries.
Since 1988, there has been an Atomic Energy Research Institute at King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis know that their oil resources are limited. While the Saudis are developing plans for nuclear power plants, the neoconservatives are not threatening to drop nuclear bombs on Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia still sells its oil for American dollars. Iraq and Iran switched to selling oil for Euros. Iran is planning to open in 2006 an exchange for trading oil. Any country in the world should be able to refuse to sell to any other country or to specify the currency to be used in the sale. American soldiers need to stop volunteering to die to benefit only a few greedy American pigs.
Neoconservatives are betting that the Iranian leaders will provide the fortuitous event of pursuing the peaceful uses of nuclear power at any cost. Of course, the neoconservative totalitarians will not portray Iran’s leaders in the tradition of America’s Patrick Henry: “Give me liberty or give me death.” Rather than waiting for Americans to flush America’s political toilet of the neoconservative totalitarians, Iran’s political leaders might regard a nuclear attack on Iran as a fortuitous event to unite the Iranian people for decades, if not centuries, against the corrupt Western political leaders.
The American hostage crisis (November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981) was not in the interests of the people of Iran. However, the hostage crisis was useful to the MEK and to the supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini in eliminating political competition from Iranian, pro-democracy, secular nationalists. While the MEK appealed to the people of Iran to kill the American hostages, the supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini chose to keep the hostages as an embarrassment for President Jimmy Carter and as a political gift for the next American president, Ronald Reagan.
While the MEK lost the power struggle during the Iranian Revolution and has nearly zero support inside Iran today, the MEK has been successful in working with corrupt political leaders in Europe (especially in France) and in America.
For years, American members of Congress have been accepting contributions from MEK supporters. The MEK and the Iranian monarchists (who abolished all political parties in Iran in the 1970’s) are lobbying for the passage of the Iran Freedom Support Act to gain millions of dollars of money for corrupting the Iranian political process. The Iran Policy Committee is promoting actively the MEK (Rajavi Cult), a terrorist organization on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.
In Iran, the MEK gained support by being the most anti-imperialist and most anti-American organization. The MEK murdered American military officers and Rockwell International employees. See, for example, this film of a meeting between Massoud Rajavi, supreme leader of the MEK, and Saddam Hussein’s representatives.
The
meeting of Rajavi with Taher Aljalil Haboush in the years 1998-99
(film)
14 min.
Vice President Richard Cheney’s desires to develop plans for the use of nuclear weapons, including at the decision level of military commanders, to terrorize and to enslave the people of Iran and of other countries neoconservatives want to bomb or to invade represent the most dangerous and worst time in American history. Americans need to inform President George W. Bush and the neoconservative members of Congress that all American traitors will be voted out of office. As noted by the Progressives for Bush bumper sticker, the most important war crimes tribunals at The Hague might be for American neoconservatives.
References
“Atoms for Peace” Movie
http://www.radiochemistry.org/history/video/atoms_for_peace.html
Iran Freedom Support Act
H.R.282 House of
Representatives version:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00282:@@@P
S.333 Senate version:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN00333:@@@P
King Abdulaziz City
for Science & Technology
http://www.kacst.edu.sa
Progressives for Bush
http://progressivesforbush.com/
Whitney, Mike, “The
Inevitable War with Iran”, OpEdNews.com, September 2005.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mike_whi_050923_the_inevitable_war_w.htm
Recommended Books on the MEK (Rajavi Cult)
Singleton, Anne, Saddam’s Private Army: How Rajavi Changed Iran’s Mojahedin from Armed Revolutionaries to an Armed Cult, Iran-Interlink (UK), 2003. ISBN: 0-9545009-0-3
Available from the United
Kingdom:
http://www.iran-interlink.org/files/child%20pages/book_I-I.htm
This is the best single book available today on the MEK. Unfortunately, no American publisher is promoting this book in America. You must order it from the United Kingdom. The British author and her Iranian husband spent approximately 20 years inside the MEK, including time at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. She included extensive discussions of cult techniques and of why it is difficult to leave the MEK (Rajavi Cult) even in the United Kingdom.
Banisadr, Masoud, Masoud: Memoirs of an Iranian Rebel, Saqi Books, 2004. ISBN 0863563740
Available from many
sources in America, such as:
http://www.amazon.com
This Iranian author spent nearly 20 years of his life in the MEK, including at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He described brainwashing and torture of MEK cult members at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. Unlike some MEK cult members, he did not die from the punishment. After leaving the MEK (Rajavi Cult), he wrote a lengthy book explaining exactly how the MEK finds new members and how it brainwashes and tortures its members.
Abrahamian, Ervand, The Iranian Mojahedin, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1989. ISBN 0-300-05267-7
Available from many
sources in America, such as:
http://www.amazon.com
While this book has not been updated since 1989, it contains the scholarly research of an Iranian-American professor who interviewed Massoud Rajavi and other MEK leaders.
Democracy Betrayed: A Response to U.S. State Department Report on the Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance, Foreign Affairs Committee, National Council of Resistance of Iran, B.P. 18, 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Available for free
downloading from some Web sites of the MEK or of MEK supporters, such as:
http://www.iran-e-azad.org/english/special/dembet.html
This is my favorite of the free books the MEK and its front groups have posted online because: (1) this book is an excellent example of how communist groups claim to be democratic. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the People’s Republic of China are examples of totalitarian countries claiming to be democratic (2) this book contains some of the names of the members of Congress the MEK likes, such as Senator John Kerry, 2004 Democratic Party candidate for President.
Recommended Web Sites about the MEK (Rajavi Cult)
Inter-Interlink
This is Anne Singleton’s Web site in the United Kingdom. The content includes extensive documentation about the MEK (Rajavi Cult), stories of cult members who have escaped from the MEK, and a lot of European documents the American neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) do not want Americans to read.
Iran Didban
This Iranian Web site contains massive amounts of documents on the MEK (Rajavi Cult) in English, French, Arabic, and in Persian (Farsi).
Traitors USA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traitorsusa/
My Yahoo! Group contains all of my postings plus the postings of members who choose to join the group.