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  • Rasputin
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2005
    • 63906

    #1

    Feds Arrest Iranian for Attempt to Export Weapons to Iran

    For decades American citizens have been brain washed and misguided with the word, “terrorists” when they should have been educated and informed not only about the Middle East, its culture and traditions, but also about United States foreign policy in the region.



    No doubt, the word terrorist is scary, their actions are uncivilized and it brings fear and horror to our minds. But repeating the word terrorist is also a convenient short cut used to deceive a nation by ignoring the facts of history, denying the blunders of our leaders and simply labeling people when they stand up to defend their rights.



    One wonders if our policies are not the catalysts breeding terrorist as we are witnessing in the case of Iraq and now in Lebanon.

    We know that no one is born terrorist or criminal. It is when one’s cry for justice is ignored that one’s actions take turn for disaster and even self- destruction.



    Perhaps it is time to ask our leaders: How long we can continue this dangerous diplomacy of biases and blunders combined with arrogance and ignorance toward underdog nations and how many more Americans and others have to be sacrificed for us to learn that this lopsided policy in the Middle East is like waiting for a time bomb to explode.



    For decades Israel has enjoyed her marriage with the United States, their alliance and allegiances are proudly announced by most American presidents and very recently by President Bush. Any criticism against Israel is a sin. One must apologize or to be labeled Anti-Semitic.

    Unfortunately, the product of this marriage has been decades of animosity and bloodshed in the region. Israel has been supported and funded unconditionally by the United States with no wisdom as what will happen next.



    On the other hand, One by one the other Middle East countries are destroyed, manipulated to become the United States puppets, or they have been degraded and isolated in the name of terrorists regardless of its ramifications on the citizens of such countries either here or abroad.



    Isn’t this rather curious that president Bush and his cronies advocates democracy in the Middle East while the three most prominent Arab States are either absolute monarchy or a fake democracy? Perhaps we mean selective democracy as it suits the United States and the Israel’s interest...



    The September 11th events happened with the participation of fifteen Saudi citizens out of the nineteen participants. But, Saudi families were the first to go home when no plane was permitted to fly out of United States. But shortly after, Iran was added to the “The Axis of Evil” list. The same evil manifested by the United States and United Kingdom, changing the Iran’s destiny for a long time to come.



    The Israel’s only response to the recent killing in Lebanon, the massacre in Qana and other atrocities is, “Sorry, it was a mistake, we will investigate.” They have the green light and the dream to be the power in the Middle east and why not?

    This kind of behavior by Israel is only approved by the United StatesAmerica’s image even further. and it has not only outraged the world’s community but has damaged the





    How much and how long Americans have to sacrifice for this marriage?



    We must choose our position in the world diplomacy. Either we should follow the ideology of isolationism and mind our own business which we have plenty to attend to. Or if we claim to be the leader of the free world we must treat the world fairly and prevent more conflict and bloodshed. Unfortunately we have done neither especially with the recent administration.



    Since the inception of Israel, we have spoiled one child at the expense of all other siblings for our political purposes. It is just natural that all other siblings are resenting the brat.

    The billion of dollars that goes to build Israel’s arsenal every year can be used wisely and evenly to bring peace and prosperity to the region.

    This is the way that we can bring democracy to the region if our intentions are honest and democratic.



    It is not that Middle East is incapable of having a democracy, but when one doesn’t have home, food, shelter and security, one does not think democratic, one feels angry, rebellious and destructive. This is how we turn good people to suicide bombers and so called terrorists.

    Any act of aggression by any radical faction or group is not condoned by a civilized society, but aren’t these behaviors really reactions to decades of despair and depravations?



    United States, as the leader and the super power could have used her position more effectively resolving the Middle East problem long ago. All it was needed was a wise and fair diplomacy. Regretfully, we have just done the opposite and for too long.



    Those of us who speak up are devoted to real peace and we are not anti-Semitic. Rather we are vying for an evenhanded, unbiased diplomacy and a lasting peace. And those who are hiding behind the politically correct attitude are the number one enemies of this country and the world peace.



    For decades we have enjoyed economic prosperity and flow of oil at the expense of Middle East people. Nations often richer in culture, resources and intellect than us and yet we have the audacity to call them the Third World, the fanatics, and the terrorists.



    We plant puppets and depose them as we desire for our own economic and National Security interests and then when things go wrong we just forget about the people of those countries and simply isolate them with the label of terrorists.



    We preempt war upon Iraq disregarding the world’s opinion, destroy their infrastructures, create insurgency and civil war and then we have the audacity to say, it is their country, they should rebuild it! What business we had to destroy it in the first place and why Americans should die and be the target to fulfill the dreams of the bullies.



    It is insult to American’s intellect that all these blunders are for our National Security or for bringing Democracy to the Middle East. Have we really given up thinking?

    Americans deserve better and they must claim their great image in the world as once they enjoyed.



    The world and its citizens are not that different from a family structure. As a family need wise and fair parents to teach, to guide and to discipline so does the world.



    The world is in a very precarious state and all we need are leaders who are wise and capable, genuinely desiring peace and justice in the world by practicing a wise and workable diplomacy.

    iran
  • Rasputin
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2005
    • 63906

    #2
    Like the first rat leaving the sinking ship, Donald Rumsfeld, the Robert McNamara of his time, resigned in total and utter shame today. He even looks like McNamara these days.

    I say shame, because I refuse to let him leave with even one scrap of the honor we are being sold by President Bush. And before he gest one, let me be the first to curse the medal he is about to receive for his "service".

    Of course, at the very moment when it is precisely too late to admit you were wrong, too late to admit you were warned by everyoen that you were wrong, the natural cowards way out of all this, is to quit and simply and try to quietly slink away from the very problems he hath wrought!

    Talk about cutting and running!

    Please let the newly invigorated Democrats grow their much needed spines, and for once follow through on the nationally embarassing but necessarily painful and long-running inquiry into the slimy details of the Iraq war disaster left in Rumsfelds wake.

    And when it is finally done, let there be swift justice. Just once let's send these bastards to jail for the incompetence that has possibly uncorked an irretrievable world-wind of chaos and long lasting inter-cultural schism. At a minimum it will get the attention of those with similar "divine inspirations".

    But of course the answer is now Gates. For as we all know, running a hick-filled University of Texas A&M, and being the family friend of the Georges, makes you completely qualified to fill those ever-squeaking shoes.

    But today is a good day.

    iran

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    • zubin
      Member
      • Aug 2006
      • 1567

      #3
      agar kheyli sadeh nabasham fekr meekonam amreka yeh zareh beedartar shode va emkaneh donyayeh behtar hast. benazaram faghat israel mundeh keh yeh zareh beedar besheh. yeh atash baso solh unja besheh oon vaght be een environmento faghro badbakhtio human rights shayad reseedeem. engar badbakhtaneh system een shekliyeh agar khab nabasham.
      Take him and cut him out in little stars,
      and he will make the face of heaven so fine,
      that all the world will be in love with night,
      and pay no worship to the garish sun

      - Shakespeare

      "In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny." - JS Mill

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      • Rasputin
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2005
        • 63906

        #4
        by Jim Kouri - DETROIT -- An Iranian citizen and permanent resident was arrested last Tuesday night at Detroit Airport after airport officers found rifle scopes, stun guns, and numerous other prohibited items in his luggage for his trip to Tehran, Iran.


        The items were discovered Sunday by Customs and Border Protection inspectors, while the investigation is being handled by agents with the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement Directorate.

        Forty-nine year old Fereidoon Kariman was in the process of boarding Northwest Airlines flight 68 when he was stopped and questioned by CBP officers. After initially questioning him, they pulled Kariman’s checked luggage from the plane to investigate further. In the luggage they discovered: one BSA laser with mounting rails and remote switch, one pair of laser range-finding binoculars, two reloading presses with dies for 30.06- and .270-caliber ammunition, one pepper spray canister, one pair of camouflage two-way radios, one 12-volt spotlight, two Taser stun-gun devices, nine boxes of rifle ammunition pre-loaded without powder or primer; and six firearm scopes.

        Exporting these items to Iran without obtaining licenses or permits from the US Department of State or Department of Commerce violates the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, according to ICE officials.

        “Enforcing the IEEPA is a critical mission for our ICE agents,” said Brian Moskowitz, special agent in charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Detroit. “ICE’s enforcement puts teeth into this Act, and helps protect national security.”

        Kariman, a resident of Florida, stated that he recently started his own import/export business called Imports Express. However, he stated that he has not shipped anything recently due to the strained relations between the US and Iranian government.

        Kariman boarded a flight to Detroit from Orlando, Florida, on the morning of November 19. He checked his luggage through to his final destination, Tehran, Iran. He planned to change planes in Detroit, and again in Amsterdam, and then retrieve his luggage in Iran on Nov. 20.

        On November 21, an arrest warrant for Kariman was obtained in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Federal agents apprehended Kariman at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport before he could execute his alternate travel plans to Iran. Kariman made his initial appearance before a Magistrate and was detained pending a hearing scheduled for November 27.

        President Bill Clinton signed Executive Orders in 1995 prohibiting any new investments in, or unauthorized exports to Iran by persons residing in the US. These orders have been continuously renewed, most recently by President Bush. The embargo is in effect through March 2007. Violating IEEPA carries a potential penalty of a $250,000 fine, 10 years imprisonment, or both. But the case is still being investigated and any indictments could be amended.

        iran

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