Mullahs are number one again.... in executions that is!

The Amnesty International annual survey of state-sponsored executions shows that the number of executions has fallen worldwide, but that in a small number of countries, there has been a "disturbing revival" of the number of executions. In particular, it cites Iran as having the largest number of increase in executions (from 94 in 2005 to 177 in 2006, nearly double) . The mullahs win on the spread again!

The list of big winners are:

1- China 1010+
2- Iran 177*
3- Pakistan 82
4- Iraq 65+
5- Sudan 65+
6- US 53
7-Saudi Arabia 39+
8- Yemen 30+
9- Vietnam 14
10-Kuwait 10+

The "+" often marks the uncertainty of 50% or more. So, in the case of China the actual number is more likely 1500 executions. The mullahs of Iran are second in just how fast they kill their citizenry. But, not so fast. Let's count how many people live in Iran and in China, 70 millions and 1200 millions. Now, let's normalize Iran's numbers by the population ratio, i. e. 177 *(1200/70)=3034 people executed, whereas the upper limit to China's numbers are about 1500 people. SO, who wins? The mullahs do, of course.

They are the champions the world over and have in fact been the reigning champions for the last couple of decades. Congratulations to the murderers in Iran.

Regime change is now "a change in regime behaviour”?!

One constant to the relations between the mullahs and the West over the last quarter of the century has been this: the mullahs lash out and the west blinks. In an interview with the Financial Times, Dr. Rice, the US Secretary of State, "is urging Iran to join her at a high-level conference on the future of Iraq next week" (FT, April 22, 2007). Dr. Rice considers it a “missed opportunity” if the the mullahs foreign minister does not show up to talk shop on the future of Iraq and beyond.

How absurd and how desperate. We repeated before that when the turbaned regime feels pinched at home, it lashes out- in this case, puts the fear of god into the hearts of some chicken littles from Britain- gets what it wants and needs and the West is ready to capitulate. In the 1980s, the mullahs took hostages in the middle east, and the US and UK rewarded them for bad behavior- sent them guns and missiles, branded the mullahs' archenemies as terrorists for manufactured reasons, and continued to massacre the people of Iran.

The pattern appears to repeat itself. The mullahs have made a mockery of the UNSC resolutions- both of them- continued to speed up their centrifuges and separate isotopes, and are rewarded for their menacing behavior. Is this the "behavior" Dr. Rice wishes to "change"? Just what bargaining chip does Dr. Rice have to play? The last time, it was the Iranian resistance and by way of connection, the Iranian people.

Forget the "Islamic" bomb; it's now the "Sunni" v "Shiite" bomb...

Read all about. Just a few months ago, the political echelons on either side of the Atlantic divide were braving for the "Islamic" bomb that would vaporize us all, in the form of a nuclear weapon in the hands of the devilish mullahs in Iran. It's no longer the case now; it is now the specter of the "Sunni" bomb v the "Shiite" bomb, specifically referring to the new interest and drive on the parts of the Sunni governments in the Middle East, the despotic societies in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait and a number of other luminaries in this club, to get on the nuclear bandwagon and apply themselves and their scientific might, all of their ten physicists, to countering the ascend of the Shiite mullahs and their bomb in the region ("Eye on Iran, Rivals Pursuing Nuclear Power", New York Times, April 16, 2007).

Never mind the absurdity of such an astonishing claim, but we have seen similar sounding claims before, the trust of the issue is just desperate the situation with regard to the nuclear mullahs has become. The impotence of the EU3 and other international bodies, to some degrees the US, has allowed the Iranian mullahs to not only steal the show- do you remember the March UNSC resolution on Iran?- and modify the argument, but now the worry is how Iran's neighbor would do when the mullahs are even more menacing that they are now. The mullahs 10- the West 0.

We restate; to save the world, the region, and Iran, we must apply ourselves to countering the mullahs with those who know them the best and have felt their wrath the harshest; the Iranian opposition.

Mullahs take on yet another weak Western leader ... the new "national right"

The recent capture of 15 British sailors & marines and the ensuing diplomatic and political grunt match between the UK, and the other Us (UN, EU, US) and the Iranian mullahs, has resulted in the following desperation utterance by the politically wounded British PM, Mr. Blair, "I really don't know why the Iranian regime keep doing this. All it does is enhance people's sense of disgust at captured personnel being paraded and manipulated in this way." (BBC News, March 30, 2007) Just what part of the mullahs' actions does Mr. Blair does not understand, is not clear; that the mullahs are unpredictable? that the mullahs are incapable of taking hostages? that the mullahs are known in the art of projecting of their troubles at home outwards and on the international scene?

The pattern is remarkably clear. First, the mullahs get into a international political hassle, next they focus in on a weak Western leader of any significance, take a few Western hostages- BTW, the only Western leader who has called the captured sailors "hostages" appears to be George Bush-, parade them in front of TV cameras, broadcast a few confessions, and then make the "the Iranian waterways" the new Iranian national right. You have to give it to the murderous mullahs. They know their realpolitiks. The other Iranian national right is the right to nuclear technology. Forget, the right to free speech, freedom of movement, assembly, free press, and all of those wishy washy stuff!

The mullahs are full aware of the fact that Blair is a wounded duck, internally in a fight to give up the premiership to Gordon Brown, who is a total unknown and reasonably inexperienced on the international scene, and externally due to his impotence and incompetence, in Iraq and now with Iran. With the new round of hostage crisis, one should expect the British PM to remain at the helm and become progressively weaker in his position, until the mullahs get their wish. At the moment, they seem to want the Brits to cough up an apology that they were indeed in the Iranian waters. This after, an elaborate show of precision technology- read GPS data- by the British government to prove its innocence.

Remember Jimmy Carter in 1980?