Roylat.com » Iran http://roylat.com Commentary on a Mixed Up and Sometimes Backward World Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:37:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= How Significant Are the Protests in Iran? http://roylat.com/2009/06/how-significant-are-the-protests-in-iran/ http://roylat.com/2009/06/how-significant-are-the-protests-in-iran/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:43:42 +0000 roylat http://roylat.com/2009/06/how-significant-are-the-protests-in-iran/ According to Fareed Zakaria, buy real viagra without prescription they Buy Cialis Online Tadalis SX are very significant, indeed, viagra cost for the ruling religious regime. Mr. Zakaria is a commentator for Newsweek and CNN.

Here is what he said last week:

If senior clerics dispute Khamenei’s divine assessment and argue that the Guardian Council is wrong, it is a death blow to the basic premise behind the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It is as if a senior Soviet amoxil online leader had Buy Accutane said in 1980 that Karl Marx was not the right guide to economic policy.

If Mr. Zakaria is right, change

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Zakaria: ‘Fatal wound’ inflicted on Iranian regime’s ideology

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Fareed Zakaria: One of the first things that strikes me is we are watching the fall amoxicillin buy of Islamic theocracy.

CNN: Do you mean you think the regime will fall?

Zakaria: No, I don’t mean the Iranian regime will fall soon. It may — I certainly hope it will — but repressive buy amoxil regimes can stick around for a long time. I mean that this is the end of the ideology that lay at the basis of the Iranian regime.

The regime’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, laid out his special interpretation buy viagra cheap online of political Islam in a series of lectures in 1970. In this interpretation of Shia Islam, Islamic jurists had divinely ordained powers to rule as guardians of the society, supreme arbiters not only on matters of morality levitra brand online but politics as well. When Khomeini established the Islamic Republic of Iran, this idea was at its heart. Last week, that ideology suffered a fatal wound.

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CNN: How so?

Zakaria: When the supreme leader, buy online acomplia Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, viagra for women online declared the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "divine assessment," he was buy pfizer viagra online indicating it was divinely sanctioned. Cialis But no one bought it.

He was forced to accept the need for an inquiry into Online buy Viagra the election. The Guardian Council, Iran’s supreme constitutional body, met buy cialis now with the candidates Buy Viagra Professional Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed and promised to investigate and perhaps recount some votes. Khamenei lasix buy has subsequently hardened his position but that is now irrelevant.

Something very important has been laid bare in Iran today — legitimacy does not flow from divine authority but from popular support.

CNN: There order levitra have been protests in Iran before.

What makes this differen

t?

Zakaria: In the past the protests were always the street against the state, and the clerics all sided with the state. When the reformist president, Mohammed Khatami, was in power, he entertained cialis online the possibility of siding with the street, but eventually stuck with the establishment. The street and state are at odds again but this time the clerics are divided. Khatami has openly sided with the challenger, Mir Hossein Moussavi, levitra buying as has the reformist Grand Ayatollah Montazeri.

So has Ali Larijani, buy ampicillin online the speaker Viagra generic of the parliament and a man with strong family connections amoxil online to Buy Viagra online the highest levels of the religious hierarchy. Behind the scenes, the former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, now head of the Assembly of Experts, another important buyviagra constitutional body, is waging a campaign against Ahmadinejad and even the supreme leader himself.

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It is very clear that the interviewers are mainstream buy cialis pro-American, Nato supporters, and they press Ahmadinejad very hard time and again on his positions can you buy viagra in stores and policies. Although his views seem distorted in places, I was impressed by his even temper in response to many antagonistic questions and comments. Overall, he seems far more reasonable and thoughtful Brand Levitra than the mainstream press conveys. Below are a few selected quotes, with a link to the full article.

SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH IRANIAN PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD

‘We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible’

04/10/2009

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke with SPIEGEL about what he expects from US President Barack Obama,

why America’s new Afghanistan

strategy is wrong and why Iran should have a spot on the UN Security Council.

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SPIEGEL: The weight where can buy viagra loss acomplia new US president, Barack Obama, directed a video address to the Iranian nation three weeks ago, during the Iranian New Year festival.

Did you watch the speech

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Ahmadinejad: buy cialis professional Buy Cialis Yes. Great things viagera are happening in the United States. I believe that the Americans are in the process of initiating important developments.

SPIEGEL: How did you feel about the speech?

Ahmadinejad: Ambivalent. Some passages were Cialis Professional new, while some repeated well-known positions. I thought it striking that Obama best viagra online attached such high value to the Iranian civilization, our history and culture. It is also positive that he stresses mutual respect and honest interactions with one another as the basis of cooperation. In one segment of his speech, he says that a nation’s standing in the world does not depend solely on weapons and military strength, which is precisely what we Levitra Professional told the previous American administration. George W. Bush’s big mistake was that he wanted to solve all problems militarily. The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic.

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SPIEGEL: You online meds without diflucan buy prescription are constantly making demands. But the truth is: Your policies, Iran’s disastrous relations with the United States, are a burden on the global community and a threat to world peace. Where is your contribution to the easing of tensions?

Ahmadinejad: I have already explained this to you. We support talks on the basis of fairness and respect. That has always been our position. We are waiting for Obama to announce his plans, so that we can analyze them.

SPIEGEL: And that’s all?

Ahmadinejad: We have to wait and see what Obama wants to do.

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SPIEGEL: The world buy purchase Order Generic Accutane Online without Prescription levitra online viagra online discount sees this differently, and we do too. Iran must act. Iran must now show good will.

Ahmadinejad: Where is th

is world you are talking about? What do we have to

do? You are aware that buy propecia we are not the ones who severed relations with America. America cut off relations with us. What do you expect from Iran now?

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Ahmadinejad: We don’t want to exact revenge. We merely want generic levitra price the Americans to correct their course. Do you truly see any signs that this is happening?

SPIEGEL: Yes, we do. George W. Bush declared Iran a member of the Axis of Evil and he threatened Tehran, at least indirectly, with regime change. There is no longer any mention of these things under Obama.

Ahmadinejad: There are changes in the choice of language.

But that isn’t enough. For the past 30 years, Germany and other European countries have been under pressure from the Americans not to improve their relations with Tehran. That’s what all European statesmen tell us.

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Ahmadinejad: We speak very respectfully of Barack Obama. amoxicillin But we are realists. We want to see real changes. In this connection, we are also interested in helping correct a Viagra online faulty policy in Afghanistan.

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SPIEGEL: What do you propose to do

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Ahmadinejad: Look, more levaquin antibiotic than $250 billion (€190 billion) has been spent on the military campaign in Afghanistan to date. With a population of 30 million, that comes to more than $8,000 a person, or close to $42,000 for an average family of five. Factories and roads could have been built, universities established and fields cultivated for the Afghan people. If that had happened, would there have been any room left for terrorists? One has to address the root of the problem, not proceed against amoxicillin its branches. The solution for Afghanistan is not military, but humanitarian.

It is to the West’s advantage to listen to us, and if it does not, we wash our hands of the matter. We are merely observers. We deeply regret generic amoxil the loss of human life, no matter whose lives are lost.

This is just as Buy Levaquin Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed applicable to Afghan civilians as it is to the military proscar cheap levitra generic forces that have intervened.

SPIEGEL: That doesn’t sound at all like you have any interest in helping the Americans and NATO fight the Taliban. Obama is placing more emphasis on civilian reconstruction, but he also believes that radicals who seek to stand in the way of this reconstruction must be dealt with militarily.

Ahmadinejad: I am telling you now that Obama’s new policy is wrong.

The Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription Americans buy amoxicillin are not familiar with the region, and the perceptions of the NATO commanders are mistaken.

I am telling you this as a trained teacher: This is wrong. As far as the $250 billion is concerned: If the money had been spent in America, perhaps it would have solved the problem of unemployment, at least in part. And perhaps there would be no economic crisis today. [Emphasis added. Ahmadinejad here displays a lack of understanding of the magnitude of the American economy ($15 trillion annual output), the size of the current economic downturn, and the amounts of money already committed to addressing the problem (many buy cheap ampicillin times $350 billion). Roylat]

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Ahmadinejad: If a technology is beneficial, free levitra brand 20 mg cialis coupon everyone should have it. If it is not, no one should have it. Can it be that America has 5,400 nuclear warheads and Germany has none? And that we are lasix order not even permitted to pursue the peaceful use of nuclear energy

? Our logic is completely clear: equal rights for all. The composition of the Security Council and the veto of its five permanent members are consequences of World War II, which ended 60 years ago. Must the victorious powers dominate mankind for evermore, and must they constitute the world government

? Buy Antibiotics medications generic nolvadex The composition of the Security Council must be changed.

SPIEGEL: You are referring to India, Germany, South Africa? Should Iran also be a permanent Brand Viagra member of the Security Council?

Ahmadinejad: If things were done fairly in the world, Iran would also have to be a member of the Security Council. We do not accept the notion that a handful of countries see themselves as the masters of the world. They should open their eyes and recognize amoxicillin amoxil real conditions.

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