One Who Freely Speaks

I am presently staying with a friend from Iran, daughter of a communist under the Shah regime. She is an outstandingly intelligent person, a specialist medical doctor, running a successful psychotherapy clinic, where she uses the most advanced body-mind based trauma therapy.

We have been focusing our minds on the Syrian and Middle East issue. She is a physical descendant of  the prophet Mohammed - as are numerous people throughout the Middle East - but in her case, she is also Persian, descendent of the Zoroastrians and a woman, in both cases victimised and suppressed by the followers of Mohammed. Makes for a very interesting body-mind, to say the least. The name her father chose for her means in translation: "the one who freely speaks her mind".

Here a summary of our joint fact-finding and meditation sessions on the Syria issue and right behind, of course, the underlying conflict with Iran.

The Middle East conflict is in a runaway phase, in danger of spiraling out of control.

The Iranian Islamists are very bad news, especially for the women in the country and are the force backing Assad. However armed conflict is water on their mills. Islam is growing fast, especially in poor countries suffering from globalised exploitation, in Africa as well as Asia.  Radicalisation is a real danger. Therefore de-escalation is the only hope to win the time to let reason have a chance.

The truth about the historical development is still being withheld from the public. Normally CIA secrets have to be revealed after a certain time, exception so far: The Kennedy assassination and the involvement of the CIA in Iran. An Iranian scholar who lived in Germany at the time tried to reveal the facts about the so-called Iranian revolution and was brutally murdered in his residence. The forensic report talks of unprecedented cruelty, never seen and never described before in any literature.

My friend's personal narrative starts with the time of the Shah. He was hated very much. The population was aware that he was an American puppet. However, he initiated OPEC and sought to make the oil producing countries more independent. Today my friend says: "Even if the Shah had created paradise for every Iranian, we would have still hated him for his suppressive regime and his American backed putsch against Mossadegh." -

Then, in spring of 1978 one of her cousins returned from the US. He belonged to the conservative and religious wing of the family (unlike her father who was a communist and in constant danger during the Shah regime.) This cousin came home saying he needed to find a house now: "we are coming back to rule the country". The family was embarrassed and thought he had gone mad, while in America. They thought he might want to find a job, but no, he asserted that he and his Islamist friends had come back to take over the running of the country. The family discussed, if he had gone schizophrenic.

The Shah was hated. So a lot of opposition formed in the country. The most popular one were leftist groups. Some of them were supported by Moscow and they had the best chances of overthrowing the Shah in a revolution. In the Persian population Islam is also regarded as an externally imposed system, even though long ago. Most of the Persian Muslims don't even know the meaning of the Arab verses, which they recite over and over again during the prayers. During the take-over in the 7th century  it has been said the watermills were driven by the streams of blood from the slaughtered Zoroastrians. Before Islam, Iranian women were well respected and wore no veil.

Here a quote from Wikipedia:

Iranian historians have sought to defend their forebears by using Arab sources to illustrate that "contrary to the claims of some historians, Iranians, in fact, fought long and hard against the invading Arabs."^[4] By 651, most of the urban centers in Iranian lands, with the notable exception of the Caspian provinces and Transoxiana, had come under the domination of the Arab armies. Many localities in Iran staged a defense against the invaders, but in the end none was able to repulse the invasion. Even after the Arabs had subdued the country, many cities rose in rebellion, killing the Arab governor or attacking their garrisons, but reinforcements from the caliphs succeeded in putting down all these rebellions and imposing the rule of Islam. The violent subjugation of Bukhara after many uprisings is a case in point. Conversion to Islam was, however, only gradual. In the process, many acts of violence took place, Zoroastrian scriptures were burnt and many mobads executed (for examples, see Balāḏori, Fotuḥ, p. 421; Biruni, Āṯār, p. 35).Once conquered politically, the Persians began to reassert themselves by maintaining Persian language and culture. Regardless, Islam was adopted by many, for political, socio-cultural or spiritual reasons, or simply by persuasion, and became the dominant religion

On September 8, (still during the summer holidays,) of 1978 the Persian military fired in a surprise and sudden attack  from a helicopter into a Koran theological seminary and killed dozens of youths studying to become mullahs. In Wikipedia it says they fired on rioters. My friend says different. The Shah was of course blamed for this but in his later interviews swore he had not ordered such an attack, nor has he had knowledge of it and my friend confirms this because of many high ranking military officers voiced their surprise as well at the time.

Outrage swept the country and 40 days later, on the traditional day of mourning and remembrance, when all the kids back at school, students back at universities had ample opportunity to communicate and organise, the first large scale Islamist demonstrations occurred. Suddenly everywhere appeared leaflets with the statements of one Ruhollah Chomeini, who had been forced to leave the country in 1964 when he tried to stop the voting rights for women and a land reform, dispossessing landlords of large estates. The leaflets could be printed after BBC broadcast Chomeini's statements into Iran.  Keen listeners wrote them down and shared them on pamphlets.

Then news came through an acquaintance of the family, a known Shah-supporter, that the Shah was to leave, long before there was any resemblance of "victory" through either side.

In conclusion of this first part it seems obvious that the people who run this planet, IMO the Zionist-American-British bunch decided to overthrow the unstable regime of the Shah themselves with the help of Islamists, which they had groomed and thought they could control. All this was done to fight communism, which otherwise would have been likely to win the Iranian position.

Remember in this time the US-Zionist-British crew supported the Taliban in Afghanistan against the Soviet backed regime there. And they built up Bin Laden.

In  January 1979 the Shah had to leave the country and two weeks later Chomeini returned.  He found people from three backgrounds to support him. First were his own genuinely radical Islamist followers, second were a group of US trained and prepared Muslims, like my friend's cousin, and third were a group of communists. Chomeini himself was unaware of this. He had always been very hostile towards the materialistic US.

The Soviet Union was hoping to turn Chomeini into a second Fidel Castro, who, at the time of the revolution was not a communist but was persuaded later. Therefore many among his close supporters were communists. The US planned to influence Chomeini by their group of "Islamists", also in Chomeini's the inner circle, after the successful deposition of the Shah.

On February 14, 1979, communist students raided the US embassy and carefully put together shredded documents that proved that many Islamists in Chomeini's inner circle were agents of the hated US. It may be safely assumed that orders for the raid would have come from Moscow. When Chomeini learnt how much the US had interfered in Iran domestic affairs and how he had been misled, a wave of arrests and a bloodbath followed. After this debacle the US friendly Islamists were to assassinate Chomeini, but again, the Moscow backed Tudeh party got information of the plan and betrayed it. The US had lost their "handle" on the situation.

Some time later (in 1983) a Russian Diplomat fled via the British embassy to the West with a briefcase full of documents revealing the extent of the infiltration of KGB dependent Iranian communists in strategic positions such as the leadership of the Iranian Navy and some of her important officers. Britain passed this information on to Chomeini in an attempt to weaken the Soviet influence. Another wave of arrests and executions followed. Chomeini was finally cut loose and angry against both super powers of the day. 

The family of my friend got into immediate danger at that time and secretly moved house into the countryside, where no-one knew them. Just in time, for their old residence was stormed two days after. My friend fled the country in the same week.
 

My friend had been in her teens at the time of  the demonstrations against the Shah in 1978 before his deposition. Many times she went to the cemeteries for the 7 and 40 day memorial demonstrations for the martyrs. Once, she told me, a man approached the group of demonstrating students with a wheelbarrow full of entrails, pulling them out, beating himself with them and crying about the brave martyrs who had been gutted alive by the Shah. The students were horrified. My friend told me she was crying all night and sleepless. Years later during the anatomy class at the German University, where she studied medicine, she realised that those guts had not even been human at all.

As soon as Khomeini's book appeared in the bookshops, which had previously been banned for such a long time, my friend, an avid reader, bought it and read it right through. She was shaken. There were many things in there, about Islamist state and law, but the one thing she keeps repeating to me over and over is the passage where Chomeini reduces the age for girls to be married to 9 years and the statement that it is a blessing for the family, when the girl has her first menstruation in the house of her husband. She read this passage whithout further comment to her schoolmates and was subsequently mobbed and branded a counter-revolutionary, especially by those, she adds, who, during the period of unrest would not have dared to even join one single protest march.

Despite her excellent grades she was not allowed to study, needless to say. 

The fire storm in the Middle East has been fanned by the US, Israel and Britain in an attempt to defeat communism in defense of their scheme of global exploitation and domination. The Soviet Union interferred as well in their bid against capitalism, even though less aggressively and less stupidly, if I may say so. To sponsor Islamists really is the height of madness. Without this ruthless and criminal interference the ordinary people of Iran and perhaps right through the Middle East, would have been able to keep their extremists and trouble makers at bay, to balance their societies.

We have been searching for a positive vision to at least imagine a solution to the problem. It is very difficult. I believe, the best we can do is open up the archives, call for a release of the classified documents. I trust that given free flow of information the collective intelligence will generate a workable solution.

One vision did pop up: How about all parties concerned, from the Islamists to the Isrealis, from the communists to the CIA and SIS, from Palestinians to Syrians, Lybians, Egyptians, from governments to ordinary people, ALL TALK ABOUT THEIR OWN CRIMES ONLY. Not about what others have done to them, ONLY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO OTHERS. Explain to their citizens and members all the wicked schemes and crafty betrayals they have engaged in.. Etc. etc.  It's thought way outside the box, but nothing else comes to my mind that has enough traction to bring those Taliban and Ayatollahs and Hezbollahs and Muslim Brothers and Zionist financial schemers and military-industrial lackeys back down to earth.