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Not yet two months old, the weblog Regime Change Iran is run by DoctorZin, who describes himself as follows:
I am not of Iranian heritage. I am an American committed to supporting the efforts of those in Iran seeking to replace their government with a secular democracy. I am in contact with leaders of the Iranian community here in the United States and in Iran itself.
...If all goes well Iran will be free soon and I am convinced become a major ally in the war on terrorism. The regime will fall. Iran will be free. It is just a matter of time.
The weblog is an offshoot of DoctorZin’s ongoing Free Republic daily threads containing English language news reports on Iran. (Same link—just scroll down to find the news reports). The good doctor notes:
...most Americans are unaware that the Islamic Republic of Iran is NOT supported by the masses of Iranians today. Modern Iranians are among the most pro-American in the Middle East. In fact they were one of the first countries to have spontaneous candlelight vigils after the 911 tragedy (see photo).
There is a popular revolt against the Iranian regime brewing in Iran today. I began these daily threads June 10th 2003. On that date Iranians once again began taking to the streets to express their desire for a regime change. Today in Iran, most want to replace the regime with a secular democracy.
The regime is working hard to keep the news about the protest movement in Iran from being reported. Unfortunately, the regime has successfully prohibited western news reporters from covering the demonstrations. The voices of discontent within Iran are sometime murdered, more often imprisoned. Still the people continue to take to the streets to demonstrate against the regime.
A sample post:
John Loftus just reported on Fox News the following:
Here are a few of John’s comments as to why Secretary Powell decided to expose Iran’s new missile system for it’s nuclear weapons [which they don’t have…sure]:
1. Iran lost a thousand pages of classified files to make nuclear weapons and those documents showed up at the CIA this week.
2. The Iranians have put four scientists on trial this past week for leaking those documents.
3. The British have videotape of a new type of new Iranian warhead that is short and stubby. It is too light to be used for conventional war heads. It can only be used for a nuclear weapons.
To put this in context, note this from Victor Davis Hanson’s latest column:
...despite the rocky reconstruction and our own election hysteria, there is a good chance that the January elections [in Iraq] can begin a cycle similar to what we see in Afghanistan. And at that point things should get very, very interesting.
Just as the breakdown of a few Communist Eastern European states led to a general collapse of Marxism in the east, or the military humiliation in colonial Africa and the Falklands led to democratic renaissance in Iberia and Argentina, or American military efforts in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama City brought consensual government to Central America, a reformed Afghanistan and Iraq may prompt what decades of billions of dollars in wasted aid to Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinians, the 1991 Gulf War, and 60 years of appeasement of Gulf petrol-sheiks could not: the end of the old sick calculus of Middle East tyrannies blackmailing the United States through past intrigue with the Soviet Union, then threats of oil embargos and rigged prices, and, most recently, both overt and stealthy support for fundamentalist killers.
Very interesting indeed.
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A few nights ago I was wathching a Rick Steves travel special on PBS. He visited Iran!
Naturally, I was astounded that he chose to travel there, he's usually the maven on Europe and I don't believe that Iran is in Europe!
Now he is marketing tours to Iran! Outrageous! Has he become the Jane Fonda of travel!!!
The 'ordinary' citizens and students he interviewed were all telling him how they, privately, love America and Americans, after we have been shown large, graphically vile, hateful, government murals with Death to America type messages.
I was utterly confused by this and could only come to this conclusion: their smiles were deceptive; they were lying to Rick Steves because it was evident that the citizens of Iran are being conditioned to hate our country, from the cradle on.
Rick Steves has been quite naive to think that he would find some true friends here - and I question his true motives.
However, he did do a great service by showing those murals.
We don't have anything like that about Iran, and certainly nothing of that sort would be sanctioned by the government; that would be considered a Hate Crime.