Monday, August 15, 2005

 

Anyone who thinks the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran's new President will result in the same push and pull between the reformist majority and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his core of ultra-orthodox clerics (which resulted in a kind of Politico-Cultural stasis) should just examine Ahmadinejad's cabinet selections. All ultra-conservatives, especially those heading the important interior, cultural and intelligence ministries (a whole different sphere of reference in comparison to American conservatism). Iran's reformers can look forward to more newspaper closings, pullbacks on freedom of speech and the rights of women, more arrests in the middle of the night, and the carrying out of punishment using Qur’anic Law or Sharia. We can also expect an all-out effort to complete a nuclear weapon. Should we trust a regime that could justify the launching of a nuclear nightmare as "God's Will"? It may be time to follow the example Israel set by bombing Iraq's nuclear facility.
The choice should be easy given the consequences. Once the Irani's have the bomb, they will use it. It's time for the gutless European Union to support the dropping of a few "bunker-buster" bombs on Iran's nuke factories.

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