I just found out about Mr. Alan Hale's email, and just sent him the following response. For privacy reasons I have left out the personal information in brakcets in this posting.
Anyway, Mr. Alan Hale's email address is ahale@swisr.org . Please feel free to respond to his letter to President Bush (see previous post).
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Dear Mr. Alan Hale,
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a U.S citizen, a native of Iran and resident of <......>, and I am a <.....>. I came to this country in 1978 when I was only 17 years old leaving behind my entire immediate family and friends. I have no political motives, or any association with any political organization or otherwise. While like you I am not an expert on political affairs I also do my best to keep informed of the various issues that affect our nation and (yes our planet).
I am writing this to express my alarm, and my rather anger and disappointment to some of the statements you have made in your letter dated Wednesday January 30, 2002, with the subject title: State of the Union/relationship with Iran. I would like to go through your comments and respond to them.
In your characterization of President Bush’s statement calling Iran as part of the Axis of Evil, you state:
> Such statements appear to reflect the common
> American mindset of Iran that is based upon events
> that happened over twenty years ago.
With all due respect to you sir, no one is referring to any mindset or any events from 20 years ago. We are simply referring to the current regime of Iran developing weapons of mass destruction, and its support of various terrorist organizations such as Hezb-ol-allah (as noted also in its annual budgetary document available in Farsi and English from the Iranian government budgetary agencies), and the atrocities it is committing against humanity (and in particular against its own people) under the disguise and such idealistic novelties as Islam, peace, love, and the brotherhood of mankind. This is the same regime that is in control of second largest oil reserves on this planet, and yet majority of its population is living under the poverty line (by all standards), while spending millions of dollars on building a shrine for its Islamic Republic founder (namely Ayatollah Khomeini) who has offered the following teachings to the mankind: homa.org
The same President Khatami whom you found to be a civilized man is the very same person who calls Khomeini as his savior and idle.
You state:
> Its society and government confront numerous
> internal (and external) challenges, and
> there are disagreements within that
> society and government on how best to confront
> these -- but the same can also be said
> about the American society and government.
With all due respect to you sir, how on earth, or heaven can you possibly compare the Iranian government to the American system of government? Since I find you to be an educated intellectual individual I am not going to even elaborate on this subject and will leave the topic for you to judge and decide. But what I am going to offer you is to do a bit of research and make an attempt to understand what is going on in everyday life in Iran. The following is a hint as where you can perhaps start your research homa.org
And finally sir, you state:
> The people of Iran are not our enemies.
> They are human beings who desire peace, and
> a secure future for their children, as much
> as does any American.
If you genuinely believe in what you have stated above, you would not write a letter in defense of a murderous regime who simply showed you some hospitality while you were in Iran! Sir, the people of Iran – if you actually and in fact care about them – welcome with all their hearts and mind any action by anyone that can take away the evil of Islamic Regime from their land.
20 years ago we had an Idealistic fool by the name of Jimmy Carter whose idealistic human right values imposed on the Iranian regime of the time, caused the destruction of every fabric of the Iranian society. Millions were murdered, displaced from their homelands, and today we have nothing but a cult of evil followers ruling the land of Iran. Whether Mr. Carter’s human rights issues were genuine or merely an excuse to control and manipulate oil prices for the next 20 years, is left for the history to judge, but lets not forget the people of Iran. The very same people whom you saw in the streets of Tehran, and Esfahan, and Zanjan. The very same people who showed you their hospitality and opened their arms for you.
For them, Mr. Alan Hale, I beg of you not to characterize or even place the Iranian regime in the same context as the people of Iran.
Lets not be idealistic fools whose eyes are blinded by such superficial idiotic novelties as “dialogue of civilizations”!!
Sincerely,
<my name>
P.S - Some may call me a naive fool for sending this
email to you for possible actions taken against me by
the Iranian regime's Islamic thugs! Since I believe
you are a scientist of credible background and a
highly respectable individual
(http://www.swisr.org/ahbio.html), I trust that my
email to you will not be used to notify the murderous
regime of Iran of my dissatisfaction with your
statements praising them! |
