Clifford D. May who is president of the foundation that says
it exists to defend the democracies, has written an article that came under the
title: “Defining violent extremism down” and the subtitle: “There are Iranian
moderates, but Rafsanjani was not among them.” It was published on Jan. 17,
2017 in The Washington Times.
The article is about Iran in general and its former
president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in particular. The man passed away not
long ago, and was eulogized by those who knew him well, and those who dealt
with him lightly. Most said good or neutral things about him because this is
how normal human beings behave when someone dies. But then, there are the Jews
– such as Clifford May and his colleagues – who view themselves as separate
from the human species, thus do things in tortuous ways. It is, in fact, how
May has handled Rafsanjani's death.
Chagrined by the praises heaped on the man from every
direction, Clifford May decided to set the record straight. He says that
Rafsanjani was a revolutionary motivated by bellicose religious beliefs. He
went on to explain that this attitude rendered the Iranian “regime implacably
hostile to America , Israel and the
liberal world order.” This is why it happened that during Rafsanjani's reign
“foreign assassination teams ran rampant in Europe ,
eliminating Iranian artists, activists and dissidents,” he added.
Citing colleagues attached to his outfit, and others who
work for like-minded publications, Clifford May draws a list of what he and
they say were crimes committed on the world stage by Iran during Rafsanjani's watch. The
trouble, however, is that not one such crime was traced back to Iran , let alone
to Rafsanjani himself. In fact, neither May nor his colleagues offer as much as
a shred of evidence to back their claims aside from the assertion that what
they say is the absolute truth.
So then, what do we make of all that? Well, this is the kind
of incredibility that should cause a fair minded person to pause for a moment
and take a fresh look at the whole situation from scratch. What comes to mind
when we do this, is the reality that people have the tendency to attribute to
those they hate the sins they see in themselves and their friends. We must therefore
ask the question: Could it be that Clifford May and his colleagues are
attributing to Iran
and Rafsanjani what they saw in someone else?
To answer that question, we take May's suggestion which came
at the end of his article. It is to the effect that “the history of the past
two generations might have produced wiser policies.” So we ask: What happened
during the past two generations that may be pertinent to this discussion? We
find that Iran
never attacked anyone. On the contrary, it was Iran
that saw America
subvert its democratically elected government. It saw America arm and encourage Iraq 's Saddam
Hussein to attack it with chemical weapons. And it saw America team up with Israel in an effort to
cybersabotage its installations. That's quite a litany.
And that's not all because during those two generations, Israel attacked
its neighbors something like a dozen times. It sent its air force to commit
“targeted assassinations” on unarmed people who did nothing worse than mind
their own business. And it sent goons to Europe, Lebanon and the Gulf nations where
they assassinated Arab scientists and businessmen who worked for the betterment
of their people. This too is quite a litany.
And so we conclude that Clifford May and his colleagues did
nothing more than collect the dirty brushes left behind by America and Israel ,
and used them to paint false images of Iran and Rafsanjani.
And there is the ultimate irony of Israel 's Shimon
Peres dying a few months before Rafsanjani. What the two have in common is that
people credit each with developing his country's nuclear program. In addition,
May's colleagues seem to hint that there was a cause and effect relationship
between the two. Here is what they say:
“In 2001, Rafsanjani threatened: 'If one day the Islamic world
is also equipped with weapons like those that Israel possesses now, then the
imperialists' strategy will reach a standstill' … We may assume Rafsanjani had
that in mind when he became the driving force behind the development of the
Islamic republic's nuclear program.” In other words, it was Israel 's program that inspired the creation of Iran 's nuclear
program.
As it turned out, however, there is a difference between the
two programs. It is that we know what's involved in the Iranian nuclear
program. We know where it's at now, and where it will be decades from now
because it was practically designed by the (P5+1) world powers.
As to Israel ,
it is now universally accepted that its nuclear program started as a hoax. The
hoax was maintained for several decades till it vanished into nothingness,
leaving behind a solid Iran
whose power grew exponentially thanks to Israel 's hoax.