My “Dear Mahmoud” letter has apparently upset some folks in his world. Here’s the latest, which wasn’t sent to Pajamas but to me personally:
> Dear Mr Ledeen,
>
>
> I read your most recent article in the form of a letter
> to President Nejad of the Islamic Republic of Iran , I have
> few points to make as follows :
>
> * On the analytical side you might be right in most of
> the points you try to make, however,being secular you miss
> to grasp the religious fervor engulfing us Shites , and we
> know inside us that we are winning gradually and
> incrementally.Tell me the last time Israel chose to go for a
> war in the region and ended with a dismal failure .
> * The Western lack of sincerity and genuine conduct is
> clear in your invasion of Iraq .You told us it is about
> democracy, while it was about Israel and Oil, and getting
> closer to Iran.But god was on our side : you helped to
> deliver Iraq , thanks.
> * You are in a fix : If Israel attack Iran, it could be
> destroyed , it is just too weak and small as Rafasenjai and
> other Leaders in Iran and Lebanon mentioned many times,
> while US is too preoccupied with the mistakes in Iraq and
> Afghanistan, and the consequences of financial corruption,
> moreover, the Europeans are too commercially interested and
> busy with Russia,witness Austrian gas deal with Iran. What
> do you think?the Austrians will buy and pass Western
> technology to Iran at cheaper price.Get over it.
> * With due respect , I am sure you know that Iran will win
> , if you manage to release your hot air by destroying few
> buildings , then your losses will mount and your media
> machine will be in reverse .Iran will win, the shite
> community will dominate the Region , and Israel will be
> what it deserves to be: small marginal state seeking Iran
> protection and passing Western technology to Iran until the
> we shites master the know how which is not far.
> That is probably why you write comfortably from US not
> Israel.I understand that human need of yours.I challenge you
> to publish it .
>
> Regards
> MOhammed Hamza Alhassan
> Qatif, S. Arabia
You may wonder, as I do, if Mohammed is really the guy he claims to be–a Saudi Shi’ite. There aren’t many of them, and they are not treated well by the Royal Family, even though they sit on the oil over in the Eastern Province.
Note the alternate universe feature: anyone who claims that the United States was defeated in Iraq has it precisely backwards. And anyone who think that Iran is winning is, well, a useful idiot of the Tehran regime…
Meanwhile, the useful idiots are active on American media, as in the shockingly ignorant interview with Ahmadinejad on NPR. There’s this little exchange, for example:
Ahmadinejad: You know the history, but it has to be repeated to the people who are your listeners. While America was there, we had no elections in our country. Nonetheless, when the Islamic Republic came into being, the U.S. government rose against it with all its might.
NPR: Let me ask about that.
Ahmadinejad: Several coup attempts occurred. The eight years of war between Saddam [Hussein] and our country were actually supported directly by the United States. From Day 1, our people were — sanctions were imposed on our people. So who exactly is the provocateur? Who is the one who seeks war?
Every single claim by Ahmadinejad is false. There were plenty of elections under the shah, indeed during those years Iran was the most “progressive” country in the Islamic world, women had more power and more freedom than anywhere else in the Middle East save Israel, and I dare say that Jimmy Carter did as much as anyone to favor the revolution. When the shah was overthrown, the United States tried desperately to kiss up to Khomeini, offering arms deals, trade deals, all kinds of goodies. But Khomeini declared war on America right away (branding us “the great Satan”) and relations were broken, not by U.S. policy but when Iranians seized our embassy in Tehran and took our people hostage.
But the interviewer seemed not to know any of that. If he did, he didn’t say so. Nor, so far as I know, has any pundit in the following days.
Maybe our journalists need a short stint in a reeducation center…
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9 Comments
1. j green:NPR is only good for classical music. The rest of the nonesense they broadcast is socialist lefty propaganda financed by us taxpayers. Ever checked “All Things Considered”? Here is a gem: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92592545
Its specifically about this one lady who had a car accident and became disabled (depression) and therefore has never worked a single day in her life, and lives off of hand-outs. She says that with her government hand-outs, she can no longer afford to eat steak and ice cream. NPR probably thinks receiving government hand-outs is an economic activity and that somehow, she is qualified to comment on the ecomomy.
I hear that Ahmadinejad demanded on NPR that the U.S.–the wealthiest country in the world and the beacon of liberty–should have a referendum which is the same demand that was made to the lawless mullah regime on behalf of its poor oppressed citizens. Why are we in this country so stupid to keep giving this brazen nitwit platforms upon which to say these ridiculous things?
Sep 24, 2008 - 8:41 am 2. kourosh:I second your statement with a small change:
Sep 24, 2008 - 12:09 pm 3. Winston:“Meanwhile, the useful idiots are active on American media, as in the shockingly ignorant interview with Ahmadinejad on CNN”.
Larry King ignored the whole Human Right issue and abuses in the hands of Khomeionists in Iran. His Questions must be written by BBC or CNN international. He was not allowed to even mention one word about Iranian people suffering. What a shame. However, Larry King managed to invite himself to Iran next year. In my opinion and many other people who I have heard from today, Larry King was 500% worse than NPR. It seems these people know nothing about IRI and its abuses, or they don’t care about Iranian but they set agenda, or are not allowed to ask any question worse human hearing.
Indeed. It drives me nuts when people start talking about US support for Saddam in 1980s. It was Iran that had US built weaponry and Saddam had SOVIET built weaponry. The leftists have no clue.
Sep 24, 2008 - 8:50 pm 4. kourosh:Anybody familiar with IRI / Khomeinist Psychic can realize they are up to something. These Khomeinist terrorists most certainly have achieved their goal of obtaining some kind of dirty bomb if not a complete nuclear one. Their behavior in ignoring all the standard norms of the civilized communities is all indicative of the fact that they have already got the bomb. God save the world from these terrorist Khomeinists who have established the Islamo-fascism in the world and nobody seems to care. Khoeminists are polluting all Islamist minds with their propagandas. Beside calling 9-11 catastrophe a plot by Jews, and equally blaming CIA and Moosad for London, Spain, Mali and other bombing, they are now claiming the recent bombing of Marriot in Islamabad as the work of CIA and Moosad. If you now Farsi, read their official newspaper here:
Sep 25, 2008 - 8:12 am 5. Ira Zad:http://kayhannews.ir/870703/16.htm#other1606
Khomeinie proclaimed tomorrow as “Ghods” day, and IRI calls on all Islamists to demonstrate and yell “Down with Israel” tomorrow.
http://www.kayhannews.ir/
Khomeinists also claimed the assassination of Rafigh Hariri of Lebanon was plotted by Moosad.
http://kayhannews.ir/870703/16.htm#other1606
“Mohammad Haasan Alhamza” most probably works in the Iranian Interests Section in the Pakistani Embassy in DC — Why we even let the Islamic Republic of Terror have ANY offices inside the US is freaking beyond me.
As for the NPR’s, Charlie Rose’s, Katie Couric’s, and NBC’s and The NY Times’s of the world; well, what do you expect from EU-Liberal media missioned and hired operatives on US soil? These are the same people who stepped over each other in worshiping Khatami, the EU-mullah with Germano-Aurtrian ties.
But, we don’t even have to go that far to find appeasement and surrender to Islamic Fascism’s head terrorist the Iranian regime. No, in fact, look no further than our own Bush Administration if you want to see real surrender and appeasement in real-time.
The unfortunate and painful reality is that our President Bush has finally and officially joined the “Axis of Fear” on Iran: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,428265,00.html
As long as Iran-appeasers and spineless morons like Condi Rice(who knows next to nothing about foregin policy), and of course the illustrious Bob Gates(yellow Bob) are in charge of our Iran policy, it’s just gonna be the same thing.
And now is when B. Hussein Obama is NOT in the White House yet; can you imagine what we will become of us vis a vis our sworn Islamo-Fascist enemies when he does get in there?
Sep 25, 2008 - 11:40 pm 6. j green:He forgets that the US supported Iran during that war through what became known as Iran-Contra. You know what they say about those pesky facts, though.
Sep 26, 2008 - 10:12 am 7. Michael Lonie:Iran will get nukes. Then the Pharaohs of Tehran will use them on Israel and on us. Then Iran will become a radioactive parking lot. If Mohammad Haasan Alhamza looks forward to that fate he can keep thinking that Iran is winning. The evil desires of the Mullahs to commit genocide on the Jews and to destroy the USA will bring down on them the sort of disaster the Germans sufferred, but worse.
I have really become fatalistic about this matter. Nobody is doing anything sensible to stop it. Nobody has the courage to do anything sensible. Only force, and rather massive and indiscriminate force at that, will stop the Mullahs. What is going on in the world today would probably make more sense to a reader of the Book of Revelations than to any graduate in International Relations from some prestigeous but fatuous Ivy League Uni.
Sep 27, 2008 - 11:23 pm 8. Sam:I bet most of these so called “Iranians” are not really iranians at all….like this guy winston, or ira zad??? hahahaha….true Iranians would never say things like these demented retards would.
Sep 30, 2008 - 5:28 pm 9. Ira Zad:Michael Lonie, I agree.
Oct 2, 2008 - 5:07 pmIt’s gonna end up badly, but no one has the balls to start it. certainly not Bush & his Iran leash master Condi Rice.