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Powell, of course, has it all wrong. Either his knowledge about Iran is very limited or he has been won over by the Islamic Republic of Iran's (IRI) lobby groups. The recent uprising in Iran was anything but a "family fight." Secretary Powell, haven't you heard the Iranian people's slogans in recent demonstrations, reported by many Western correspondents? Does "Death to Khamenei" or "Shame on Khatami" signify a "family fight"? How else do you expect the people to show their hatred for this terrorist regime and its frightening repression? How many students have to be arrested, tortured, and executed before you acknowledge that the Iranian people do not want this regime? Did you notice that the majority of Iranians stayed away from the recent elections in Iran, in spite of fierce campaign and constant appeals by Khatami? Powell should acknowledge that human rights and the principles of democracy are universal and must be applied to the Iranian people the same way that they are applied to the Americans. The U.S. Department of State has identified Iran as one of the top terrorist regimes in the world. What else do you need to be convinced that IRI is a terrorist regime and should not be supported by the U.S. and the world community? This regime has been condemned eight times by a U.S. federal court for terror counts against the U.S. citizens. This regime has been involved in many terrorist acts including bombings of a Jewish center in Argentina and of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, which killed, among others, U.S. Marines. Iranian dissidents have been assassinated, even abroad, by agents of the Iranian government. The oil companies' lobby groups and their Iranian fronts such as the American Iranian Council (AIC) and a whole host of other individuals-and many U.S. lawmakers painted the U.S./Iran relationship as a black-and-white one. They set up a U.S. military-intervention scenario against Iran and conclude (very conveniently) that to avoid disastrous battlefield consequences, the U.S. should establish dialogue and trade with IRI instead! The ideal course which is desired by freedom-loving Iranians and serves the best interests of the United States is to be found in neither of these two ways. The humane alternative
is for the U.S. to recognize the Iranian people's struggle for democracy
and formally declare that it does not recognize the Islamic regime of
Iran as the representative of the Iranian people. The U.S. should allow
the people of Iran regain their freedom and change the regime on
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