Iranian pot doesn't even notice the Iranian kettle

Tired Iranian girl, whose working hands look far older than her face. Photo by Horizon

The Tehran Times is an English paper that bills itself as "Iran's leading International daily". On their "about" page, they claim the paper was formed in 1979 to give a worldwide voice to the Iranian revolution. Their motto:

“The Tehran Times is not the newspaper of the government; it must be a loud voice of the Islamic Revolution and the loudspeaker of the oppressed people of the world.”

Two weeks ago, the Tehran Times ran an article titled "Deadly Hubris: A million Iraqis dead -- for what?". It hit the front page of Reddit today. It was actually a reprint of an article that appeared on Anti-war.com earlier in the month.

It claims that more than one million have died as a result of the invasion of Iraq (the figure is impossible for many reasons; in fact, the most recent peer-reviewed estimate is 151,000, but that's another topic). The Reddit article called it "genocide". Tehran Times published it because they believe the United States is an evil nation, and like Antiwar.com, they want everyone else to think so too. So, apparently, if the United States leaves, everything will be better again.

Here's the problem with their logic: Even by the highest estimates of the killings, most Iraqis are killed by other Iraqis, not by Americans. The Americans are the ones caught in the crossfire trying to stabilize the country. What do you think will happen when no one is there to stop the militias?

There's another problem as well. Since Iran is actively arming and training Shia militias in Iraq, aren't they responsible for a good number of these casualties? (See here for some of their future plans)

It's also strange to take lessons in morality from the Islamic Repubic of Iran, who, to give just one example of many, is planning to execute a 17 year-old girl for the crime of being a rape victim. How, you might wonder, do they even sleep at night? It's easy - their concept of "jihad" justifies everything else - especially blaming the USA ("the Great Satan") for things they have done themselves.

Incidentally, I wasn't terribly surprised to find out that the author, Justin Raimondo, wrote a book a few years ago titled "Terror Enigma: 9/11 And the Israeli Connection" - a conspiracy theory piece that claims Israeli agents were either behind the 9/11 attacks, or knew they were going to happen beforehand and decided not to warn anyone!



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