Tim Ghaemi, 16 November 2013

Since 1979, when the Ayatollah Khomeini sized power in Iran, instability has consistently grown throughout the Middle Eastern region.  At that time, the Ayatollah Khomeini’s agenda was to expand the Islamic regimes territory by exporting terrorism and spending millions of dollars to manipulate the minds of people throughout the world. Shortly after the regime took over, one of the first slogans was to march into Jerusalem.  In fact, when the Iran & Iraq war started in early 1980, Khomeini preached that his forces will get to Jerusalem by invading Iraq and taking over the city of Karbala, a holy city for Islamic Shias.  The war was costly.  There were more than 3 million casualties from both sides with billions of dollars spent in property damages.  Even though a cease fire was offered and achievable by Iraq, Khomeini stiffly rejected it because he had other plans, his eyes were on Iraq and expanding Iran’s territory. However, this plan failed and Khomeini accepted the cease fire agreement several years later.

Since then, the Mullahs which are fundamentalist religious clerics have actively expanded their terrorist activities throughout the world and have taken the most casualties from international communities. In fact, their momentum has increased since they’ve noticed that there is no retaliation from the West:

On October 23^rd 1983 a U.S. Marine barrack in Beirut was bombed and over 240 U.S. service men and women were lost.  In 1994, a Jewish community in Argentina was blown up and 85 were killed.  On June 26, 1996 the regime plotted a terrorist attacked on another U.S. military facility at the Khobar Tower in Saudi Arabia and 19 Americans were killed.  These are just a few murderous acts that the Iranian government is fully responsible for having committed against the United States and our allies or friends within the global community. Not to mention the countless acts of rape, public beatings, stoning, hangings and torture committed by this regime against its own citizens; more than 120,000 murdered thus far. In 1988 30,000 political prisoners that had already been tried and sentenced to years of imprisonment were sub-sequentially executed. This type of blatant abuse of power and authority goes against all principals of international justice.  Yet, it continued and in 2008-2009 an unprecedented crack down on more than 10,000 of its citizens occurred. All that these individuals did was to peacefully demonstrate for regime change yet they were unlawful imprisoned, tortured and five years later their where-about are still listed as “UNKNOWN”. Additionally, it must also be noted that several American Generals have stated upon numerous occasions that many U.S. casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan are as direct result of Iranian made explosions. This goes directly against the Geneva Convention and rules of engagement.

We must not forget the ultimate price that we, as a nation, have paid to fight Iran’s destructive influence in the Middle East.  In fact, we must hold Iran responsible for every casualty it has directly and indirectly caused and be prepared for a stiff retaliation.  We must recognize that our governments’ current appeasement policy has worked as a green light for Iran to continue terrorizing the region and in the continuation of taking innocent lives. This must stop before it is too late.

The time has come for us to be firm and continue with imposing more sanctions and offer our strong support to the Iranian people as they continue their struggle for regime change.  Fortunately, the Iranian people are able and capable of toppling the regime and bringing about peace and democracy for Iran.  We must rally behind them and exhibit our support NOW.