The Hitler-Like Basis of the Iranian Regime's Ideology

[John Kilduff]

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My interpretation of Ahmadinejad's wish for Israel to disappear is that he wants the regime to disappear, in the same way as USSR, the shah or Iran fell. And "allow the Palestinian people to decide about its future for itself."

I will be quoting his speech at Columbia.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/202820.php

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What we say is that to solve the 60-year problem we must allow the Palestinian people to decide about its future for itself. This is compatible with the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations and the fundamental principles enshrined in it. We must allow Jewish Palestinians, Muslim Palestinians and Christian Palestinians to determine their own fate themselves through a free referendum. Whatever they choose as a nation everybody should accept and respect. Nobody should interfere in the affairs of the Palestinian nation. Nobody should sow the seeds of discord. Nobody should spend tens of billions of dollars equipping and arming one group there.
We say allow the Palestinian nation to decide its own future, to have the right to self-determination for itself. This is what we are saying as the Iranian nation.

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As for nuclear weapons, he has always claimed that he only wants civil nuclear power.

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Making nuclear, chemical and biological bombs and weapons of mass destruction is yet another result of the misuse of science and research by the big powers.


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We do not believe in nuclear weapons, period. It goes against the whole grain of humanity.
I think the politicians who are after atomic bombs or are testing them, making them -- politically they are backward, retarded.


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Also Iran is a signatory of the non proliferation treaty and hasn't violated it.

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(wikipedia) The treaty is sometimes interpreted as having three pillars: non-proliferation, disarmament, and the right to peacefully use nuclear technology

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I think we should let Iran build peaceful nuclear technology, while finding a way to watch over their activities.
Otherwise, why are we letting Egypt build a nuclear plant, why is France going to build a plant in Libya?

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You sure do seem to be giving a regime which believes in hanging gays for being gay, and in hanging teenage girls for promiscuity, a lot of the benefit of the doubt. Hamas and Hezbollah appear even more bluntly to believe in genocide, and Iran is their sponsor and ally.

A lot of people gave Hitler the benefit of the doubt for quite some time, too - until he grew powerful enough to prove them wrong.

I don't understand giving evil people or evil regimes the benefit of the doubt. That doesn't mean I think Iran should be bombed (I'm not at all sure what should be done) but I do think it is a pure "sucker" move to give the mullahs the benefit of the doubt. Neville Chamberlain was a sucker, and so in my opinion too are those who think Iran isn't going to be building nuclear weapons.