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no major challenge is overcome;
no great cause is done.
Foreword
Why I fight
It will also be a bleak day for the 21st century history if the
free world gives in to Ahmadinejad. On
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all democracies.
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PART ONE
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“Imposing Koranic law
throughout the world”
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The Hezbollah “octopus”
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September 11th: a
“godsend” for Iran
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Taking over the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
as an Arab affair, Iran now is, and all the more since Yasser
Arafat died, at the heart of the problem. It is, in a way,
History’s finest political hold-up: Iran, Persian and mostly
Shia, has become the champion of a cause uprising mainly
the Arab world, which is practically all Sunni. This is why
the Islamist regime leading my country today will never
accept peace between Israel and the Palestinians: this would
deprive it of the ideological issues it uses to maintain its
hold on the region.
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The early days of a dictator
All the countries in the world and all the economic sectors
were affected with unprecedented violence.
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The bomb, the ultimate
“bayonet”
Iraq-Iran War. This time, they had official help from Russia
and backing from the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb,
as well as the North-Korean regime. In February 2003, the
Iranian regime officially announced that they had started a
uranium enrichment programme on their territory. From
that date, there was nothing to stop the Islamist regime in
pursuing its aggressive intentions.
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The risk of world upheaval
And besides, the oil and gas fields of the Gulf monarchies
would probably be bombed. Furthermore, Ahmadinejad
was so bold as to imply the threat during the riots that
followed the fixed elections of June12th: should these
monarchies conform to the western position, and interfere
in
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Long-term vision
Long-term vision
Long-term vision
The forth level, and not the least, is the various branches of
Hezbollah active in the region —I have already mentioned
the prepared attacks recently failed in Egypt that were
blamed on Hezbollah. Anyway, Hezbollah is not only the
extraterritorial paramilitary force of the Iranian regime in
the Near and Middle East: its tentacles have spread much
further, all the way to South America, as I will explain
later.
It already has virtually full control over Basra, the only sea
access and main export route for Iraqi oil. The hold of the
Iranian regime on the Shia south of Iraq, that produces
some 2 million barrels per day —most of the country’s
production— is plain to see for everyone.
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Long-term vision
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In this race for the bomb, North Korea is now in the lead.
On 9 October 2006, they announced that they had
completed a first underground test. In fact all the experts,
Chinese and American included, believe that this test failed.
Still, the announcement was unanimously frowned upon all
over the world —except in Iran, where the State’s
television made a eulogistic coverage. Less than three
years later, on 25 May this year, North Korea made another
test, this time a success. Kim Jong-il’s regime became the
world’s 9th nuclear state.
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Fiendish allies
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You must also be able to reach a target; that falls within the
ballistics’ competence. This is why all the international
military experts are convinced that Iran and North Korea
are working together, since the early 2000s, on a long-haul
missile plan; a total infringement to the decisions of the UN
Security Council. Early in the spring of 2009,
international tension went up a notch when North Korea
—again— announced its intention to shortly proceed to
“firing a rocket”, to “send a communications satellite in
orbit”. Nobody doubted that the said rocket was in fact a
disguised missile. And the Japanese press said that some
fifteen Iranian technicians had arrived in Pyongyang, with a
letter from Ahmadinejad. In the end, regardless of the
unanimous hostility,
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Dormant networks
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Dormant networks
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The “Gate of Tears”
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The “Gate of Tears”
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The “Gate of Tears”
PART II
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Aftermath of the Revolution
of 1906
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Iran then became the first Muslim country —and the first
country in the region, fifteen years before Ataturk’s
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Aftermath of the Revolution of 1906
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and successive governments had a certain independence
and autonomy in managing the country’s affairs.
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Aftermath of the Revolution of 1906
Had the Shah heard the liberal call for greater democracy in
time, I stand convinced that nothing that happened
afterwards would have occurred. The pressures, in 1977,
of the American administration for a greater application of
human rights compelled the sovereign, unwilling to
displease his main ally, to release several hundreds of
political prisoners. His opponents saw this as a sign that
the time had come to intensify their fight. The liberals,
religious, Toudeh party communists, People’s Mujahideen,
Marxists, etc., all gathered in a single objective coalition
that came down to the motto that Khomeini repeated
constantly from his exile: “The Shah must go”. With the
people’s massive support, the movement bolted and
Revolution triumphed. But nobody foresaw at the time
that the religious would rush in and seize it. Once again,
the ideals of 1906 were ridiculed.
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Those who claim that Iran will only recover its freedom
provided it terminates the Revolution of 1979 “interlude”
are totally mistaken about my country. This Revolution
was completely in line with our history and the people’s
democratic aspirations. It is its seizure by the religious
that is the interlude that needs ending.
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A people crushing machine
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A people crushing machine
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I have already told the story1 of how, on the day before my
departure, I still tried to visit my father, whom I had not
seen in nine months. On that day, in the courtyard of Evin
prison, near Tehran, where I had been waiting since dawn, I
was confronted to an unbearably violent scene. A mother,
who had been denied by the Pasdaran the right to see her
death-sentenced son, threw her chador to the ground and,
driven insane by grief, literally pulled her hair out under our
very eyes. I would have never thought that hair could be
pulled out in that way, one fistful after the other. Soon her
head was a bloody mass, and the many Pasdaran who had
rushed up were enjoying the scene.
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1. Amir Jahanchahi, Vaincre le III Totalitarisme , Ramsay
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(2001).
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A people crushing machine
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Pre-June 12 , 2009: why
oppositions failed
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IRAN’S HITLR
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Pre-June 12th, 2009: why oppositions failed
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Divisions within the very regime
individual rights, but also the seizure of oil money for the
benefit of a small few, trampling of human rights and all
the other unbearable and unacceptable injustices he is guilty
of. As it is now clear to see that this dictatorial regime is
on the warpath —and nothing like the conflict that opposed
my country to Iraq for eight years— the time has come to
go beyond old divisions between partisans and opponents
of the Islamic Republic. Our country has just lived the
painful, but alas predictable, experience that neither its will
for change, or massive mobilisation, or enthusiastic youth,
or even public backing from several VIPs, even religious,
were enough to steer the regime a single inch away from its
tyrannical and expansionist intrigues.
Now that the people are aware that the expression of their
will in the ballot boxes has failed, they must organise the
largest possible coalition of all those who do not want war
in the region, a war that will impact the whole planet. A
coalition to rally the Iranian people, Iranian diaspora
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So, these people do exist in the regime, and are even in the
highest spheres of power. But the conditions in which
they can reveal themselves and especially take action do not
exist yet.
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But this system has reached its limits with rock-bottom oil
prices that fell in six months from $150 per barrel to less
than $50. In 2008, inflation was officially 30%, but
actually closer to 50%, and seems to have gone yet further
down to 60% in the first quarter of 2009. As for
unemployment, considerably minimised by official figures,
it
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People are suppressed, not resigned
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People are suppressed, not resigned
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A powerful and responsive
diaspora
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A powerful and responsive diaspora
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Role of the Great Powers
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Role of the Great Powers
I simply expect from the free world that they trigger it. It
will then be up to us, Iranians, to do the rest.
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Role of the Great Powers
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Yes, it must end!
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The free world must unite and resolve, show that they will
no longer accept the slightest indulgence towards
Ahmadinejad’s imperialist regime, and that they will
certainly not let him threaten peace in the region. Then a
whole population craving for freedom, led by youth and
women, will massively take to the streets. And then those
within the very regime who wish above all to avoid war
with the West will be able to publicly uncover and try to get
the Supreme Leader to significantly soften the regime.
For these people know very well that war with Israel and
the West will inflict an exorbitant cost in lives and
prospects on the country, and they are well aware that they
could also loose everything in this unfortunate affair.
If they feel that the people are on the move, they will dare
reunite despite their diverging interests —some simply
want to save their fortunes, others wish to impose a more
modern regime like Turkey, and some only want to
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that we know that the ballot boxes will not voice the
population’s wishes, the time for collective duty and
ambition has come. Thirty years later, it is time for my
country to sign, in its very birthplace, the death warrant of
political Islamism. Its termination in my country will be
its termination in the world. That is our duty, all Iranians,
and we will take it on.
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This is why all those who, within the circles of power, with
their support, neutrality, or simply by refraining from
interfering, will have made the change possible will not be
exposed to any trial, and their assets will not be seized
unlike in 1979. This is the only way to end Islamic
tyranny that took the Revolution of 1979 away from the
people.
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Creation of the Second Republic
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For thirty years, this system worked for the people never
confronted the regime, until the election of 12 June 2009.
For the first time, the people dared voice their wish to break
away from Ahmadinejad’s Islamism and expansionism.
But he did not intend to move an inch away from his
guideline. Neither did he intend to grant the youth and
women of this country the freedom that they claimed. So
the votes were massively rigged.
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Reform of the Constitution
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Reform of the Constitution
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Reform of the Constitution
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Legal system
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The justice
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The justice
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State machinery
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State machinery
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State machinery
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Health and social protection
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Health and social protection
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Health and social protection
For the past thirty years, the Islamic regime has constantly
despised the minorities that contribute to the richness and
diversity of our country. These minorities are religious,
but also ethnical, and are mainly located in the Iranian
border provinces.
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The regions
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Economy
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Economy
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Economy
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Economy
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Role of the diaspora
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The influence of the new Iran outside its borders will not be
forced militarily nor ideologically, but through its capacity
to lead the whole region towards prosperity, a necessary
prelude to its pacification.
This is the raison d’être of this book’s fourth part, our duty
towards coming generations: the creation of an economic
community of countries in the Near East, Middle East and
Central Asia.
PART FOUR
Community of Countries of
the Near and Middle East
and Central Asia: a great
regional plan
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Iran and its neighbours
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Iran and its neighbours
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Iran and its neighbours
All major challenges like this one seem utopian at first, but
mankind’s will and driving force can lead us beyond the
unimaginable. This is how World War II was won; this is
how we sent man to the Moon; this is how the Berlin Wall
fell; this is how Apartheid disappeared, and a man walked
out of prison to rule, without no bloodshed or revenge,
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Peace and democracy will derive from prosperity
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Outlines of the Community
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Outlines of the Community
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Organisation
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Organisation
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Organisation
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Water, a major problem
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Conclusion
Contents
PART ONE
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PART TWO
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Contents
PART THREE
PART FOUR
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