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Amil Imani: The Islamic Republic Is Not Iran

[Amil Imani is the author of Obama meets Ahmadinejad.]

...In 1979, the U.S. government (notably Jimmy Carter and the Company), with the help of its allied forces, created the greatest Islamic terrorist nation on the face of the earth and the spurred the rise of Islamofascism elsewhere. In fact, Jimmy Carter, by his interference in another country, betrayed the most valued friend to the West, the late Shah of Iran. Carter is perhaps responsible for the formation of Islamic terrorism -- not only in Iran, but around the world, including in the United States. There have been more than 10,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11, with 60,000 dead and 90,000 injured....

It is interesting that Carter's U.N. ambassador, Andrew Young, called Ayatollah Khomeini (an Islamist mass murderer) "a kind of saint." Ironically, after 31 years of devastation of civility by the radical Muslims, Mr. Carter is still active in siding with terrorist groups such as Hamas and other terrorist organizations, a trend the current administration appears to be following....

For 31 years, the U.S. has been and is still making big mistakes with respect to its policy regarding Iran. It is as though the U.S. is unable or unwilling to recruit experienced and capable people as advisors on Iranian affairs. For the past sixty years, every U.S. policy with respect to Iran has been a failure upon a failure. Currently, pro-Islamic Republic lobbyists known as the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) have been given carte blanche by the Obama administration. Instead of confiscating their assets, sealing their offices, and deporting them immediately, the Obama administration has allowed this pro-Islamic Republic group to comfortably find its way into the White House....

We honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for proclaiming from a Birmingham jail, "Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere." To demand justice for others, he risked his life, left his native Georgia, and ended up in jail in the then-bigoted South -- Birmingham, Alabama. We "Iranians" of the world -- free humans -- must do no less. We must demand justice for our belief-kin who are suffering under the yoke of Islamofascism in Iran or anywhere in the world.

Now the world is facing wall-builders of a different kind: the Islamofascists, who have been at their shameless work for centuries. As their walls, built with superstition, discrimination and blood, are crumbling, they become ever more intent on rebuilding in new territories.

But once again, human decency is rising to the challenge, this time in the voices and actions of billions of free people who proclaim: We are also children of Iran in the spirit of Cyrus the Great, "we meet any challenge and pay any price" to defeat Islamofascisim, and we will not rest until humanity is completely free of the despotic rule of Islam....
Read entire article at American Thinker