August 29, 2006, - 11:18 am
Wimps: U.S. Grants Visa to Iranian Official Khatami
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Why is the U.S. granting former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami a visa to visit Washington, next week?
Although he is the former President of Iran, he is very much in sync with the thinking of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad government. When Khatami first became President of Iran, there were hopes that he was a moderate. In fact, he was and still is known as “the moderate.” But now, it’s said as kind of a joke.
Khatami never ended up being a moderate. It was more of the Iranian same-old, same-old. Iran under Khatami was hardly different from Iran under Khomeini. And hardly different than Iran under Ahmadinejad, but for the public rhetoric about the Holocaust and America. Privately, that rhetoric has been in Iran for decades, since the deposing of the Shah (with the help of Jimmy Carter). And it didn’t change under Khatami. He was NOT a reformer in any way.
The last time Khatami was in the U.S. (in New York to visit the U.N. so he didn’t need a special visa), he used the opportunity to meet with extremist imams here in the U.S., to encourage them. One of them was , pictured above, who is a strong, vocal supporter of Hezbollah and of Ahmadinejad.
So why are we letting Khatami in? Why are we granting him a visa to deliver a BS speech on “reconciliation” at the National Cathedral on September 7th?
Ask President Bush and his State Department. For all of their bluster against Iran’s totalitarian Islamofascist regime, granting this visa shows it’s all empty. We’re just wimps.
And it will be the death of us.
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Having actually lived in Iran, I’d just like to say that during Rafsanjani(when I lived there), the regime seemed to be loosening up, but just a little. It definitely wasn’t as strict as it was under Khomeini(psycho that he was). My mother can atest to this. She’s American, and after she met my dad(who’s Iranian), they went over there, and she was actually stopped on the street by cops for wearing makeup. When we went back, under Rafsanjani, none of that nonsense happened. I’m not saying Rafsanjani was a great president or anything, because I was too young to know the difference, I just remember that nothing like that happened. And for a while I remember hearing news about the youth over there trying to make a difference, and it looked like the theocratical element, the Islamic extremists in office, may have been losing grip..but then something changed, and from what I hear, it is headed towards the way it was under Khomeini. (Most) Iranian people aren’t like the Arab countries..I know that alot of them actually enjoy thinking for themselves and would like to have alot of the freedoms that we have here, especially the youth. They realize they’re being oppressed but know that there’s little they can do without disappearing, and that saddens me. I can only hope that enough people over there come to their senses and get rid of the crazies running the gov’t right now.
Descent on August 29, 2006 at 12:00 pm