[The Arab American News] Anger, arrogance cause quandary in Iran

Mohammed Ali Elahi is religious leader of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights. He is of Iranian origin and a patriotic American citizen despite the false and defamatory claims of un-American Israel-loyal racist Jewish Zionist Islamophobe Debbie Schlussel.

Even though Imam Elahi hates it to be mentioned, he was a hero during the Iran-Iraq War, in which the US government for the most part supported Iraq despite the Iran-Contra Affair. While American foreign policy was not quite as Jewish-Zionist-dominated under Reagan as it came to be under Clinton and George W. Bush, Jewish Zionist incompetence and subversion during the 80s gave both Iraqis and Iranians tremendous reason to hate America.

Imam Elahi recently discussed the Iranian election crisis in the Arab American News.

Anger, arrogance cause quandary in Iran
By Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi
Friday, 06.19.2009, 05:56am

Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi (C waving) speaks to supporters at a rally in Tehran June 18, 2009. REUTERS

Friday, June 12, 2009 was a dynamic day in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Thirty years after its establishment under the leadership of Imam Khomeini, the Iranian democracy should inspire the world and especially those still living under dictatorship in the Middle East. Eighty-five percent of Iran's 46 million eligible voters went to the polls in an unprecedented voter turnout.

All four candidates, Ahmadinejad, Mousavi, Karoubi and Rezai, are patriotic Islamic Republic citizens loyal to its Constitution and principles.

Mr. Ahmadinejad has been the president of Iran for the last four years and he is eligible for only 4 more years.

No one should doubt Ahmadinejad's popularity among many Iranians, in particular those in small towns and villages benefiting from some governmental services. Ahmadinejad receives admiration from the Muslim world because he defends Iran's peaceful nuclear energy rights and condemns Israel's injustice against the Palestinians.

Yet many Iranians blame him for Iran's economic problems including the price of food and joblessness. They also consider some of Ahmadinejad's foreign policy statements to be careless and uncalculated.

[To read the entire article, click here.]

Analysing the US coverage of the Iranian election gives an interesting perspective on US power centers.

Take a look at this summary article from Huffington Post:
Iran Protests 2009: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In On Political Fallout, Twitter And What Happens Next

At first glance about half the American non-Iranian analysts are Jewish.

Then I look at the American Iranian analysts:

Meir Javedanfar (the lead)
Gina Nahai
Roya Hakakian
Angella Nazarian.

Javedanfar is of course American Israeli Iranian.

The last 3 gals are LA Iranian Jews, whose qualifications as commentators on Iranian politics are meager to say the least -- I have done business with Beverly Hills Mayor Jimmy Delshad and am quite familiar with the LA Jewish crowd.

While I focus on American and Eastern European Jewish historical political economics, I have had to research the relationship between Iranian and American Jews.

In David Shasha: Holocaust, Mean-Spirit, Fraudsters, I have a brief summary:

Joachim’s note: I am not sure that I can do justice to the history in a short paragraph, for I consider the interactions of Iran with the USA far more complex than usually depicted, but the US overthrew Mossadegh (or assisted the British in overthrowing him or let the Iranian regime collapse in the face of British intransigence over nationalization of the Iranian petroleum industry) in part because he planned to apply developmentalist models to the Iranian economy and to use Iranian oil wealth to modernize. The Shah and the Shah’s associates cut a deal to partner with Western interests to loot Iranian wealth while relatively little was spent on improving the lot of Iranians -- something like the later scenario in Chile. Eventually the Shah invested a lot in strengthening Iran militarily sometimes at cross purposes with American or Zionist goals, but on the whole certain wealthy, politically powerful and non-Zionist Americans have been quite happy when Arabs, Iranians or Turks buy US weapons. In the process of the Shah’s military buildup many Iranian Jews became involved in profiteering associated with the looting of Iranian wealth especially when Western Jews were on the American or British side of the equation. The younger generation of Iranian Jews generally does not understand the ambivalent role that some of their parents and grandparents played in the Iranian economy and society under the Shah.

The enmeshment of Iranian Jews in Ashkenazi social networking has followed the similar evolutionary pattern of the Algerian Jewish community albeit with much more explicit Zionization.

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