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The Key Mistakes Of The Iranian Democratic Opposition

Dear ladies & ladies

In my last opinion piece about Iran (To which I will list a link down below*),  I shed light on one of the main problems of the Iranian democratic opposition & now I want to twist the knife in the wounds again & tell about other problems. Before anybody accuses me of being racist, „anti-Iranian“ & other bullshit: I am still strictly for sanctions, that are tighter than my pussy & will the Treaty of Golestan make look like a gift from heaven, against the Islamic Republic because of course, the regime is inhuman & dangerous. But there are grave mistakes INSIDE the Iranian opposition that also need to be fixed.

In my book these are the main issues:

  1. Persian/ Iranian chauvinism: Let`s get real; most Iranians I met so far are very sophisticated & vain & also- of course- love their heritage & culture. That is all fine & dandy, until a certain point is reached. The point where the vanity & love for Iran turns ugly, is when one Iranian starts belittle others, for either being non-Iranian & therefore inferior to Iranians, or for other Iranians being not „Iranian enough“ or not a „real Iranian“. For example: I am of Georgian descent & I had to cut relationships with Iranian people, because of their attitude & their irredentist ideology, when it comes to an independet Georgia. I literally had a couple of arguments, because some Iranians called Georgia „worthless“ & „undeserving“ of being independent & dreamed to rebuild either the Sassanid or the Safavid empire & therefore making Georgia a hostage of Persian occupation again. Being of Georgian descent, it drains my soul, when people, who are incapable of fixing their own homecountry, want to invade & occupy Georgia, just to satisfy their delusions. Of course, having such ideas, while Iran is currently ruled by insane Shiite clerigy, does not help achiving freedom for the Iranian nation. Another example of this kind of chauvinism, is when Iranian people despise Islam & Arabic culture so much, that they denial the fact, that Iranians, who still, see themselves as Muslim or have Arabic names, are real Iranians. It does not help to achive democracy either, when you exclude people, because their names are „Mehdi“ or „Ali“.
  2. The Mossadegh-Martyr-Cult: There are a couple of left-leaning Iranians, who still think, that Iran isn`t democratic today, because of „Operation Ajax“ & the fact, that Mossadegh was removed from power by force. What a terrible mistake!!! „Operation Ajax“ was in 1953!!! After that, there were many coups d`etat & other intervention, by both the USA & Russia. Still other countries, who went through similar interventions as Iran, are today democracies, like the Czech Republic, where Alexander Dubcek was removed by the Soviets from power after the „Prague Spring“, because he wanted to create a „Socialism with a human face“. Or Georgia, which only became independent in 1991 & the first, freely elected president of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, was killed in 1993 by the KGB/FSB. Still, both countries, the Czech Republic & Georgia, are today democracies with civil liberties & a decently functiong state of law, because of the revolutions, that those countries had, were not „Islamic“. Iran, however, had an Islamic Revolution in 1979 & is therefore, till today, a theocracy. Not because of the fact, that Mossadegh was removed from power.
  3. The involvement of groups, like MEK in the Iranian opposition: The fact, that Iranian opposition groups are very likely hijacked by the MEK-cult-members, like airplanes in the 70ies were by Arab terrorists, is very sad. It is sad for two reasons: MEK-members are known to be bullies & to push out other members, who don`t share their ideology, from the opposition group & also, of course, the so called „People`s Mojahedin“ are terrorists, period.

*Here is the link for my other piece on the Iranian opposition:
https://pinkkoshernostra.org/2017/05/needed-a-leader-english/

 

Anti-Semitism in Europe (What it all does mean)

Dear ladies & fellas

If you are following my blog for some time, you might already know, that I am both, Jewish & bisexual. Also I live in Western Europe, to be exactly, I live in Switzerland. As you may know, anti-Semitism in Europe is on the rise. But what it does mean, besides the terror-attacks, that first hit us Jews mercilessly in Toulouse, Vienna, Paris & Bruxelles & now spreading to anyone in Europe, like in London yesterday???

To be honest: I quite struggeled to write this piece after the terror-attacks in London yesterday, because I did not intend to sound selfish & as somebody, who only cares about my own people. Till now anti-Semitism & terror-attacks against jews are not taken seriously, which lead the jihadis to continue their attacks on anyone, they despise. Because „red lines“ were either not drawn or it was not acted accordingly, when the first targets of terrorists in Europe were Jews.

So in this piece I write about my experiences as jewish woman in Europe in 21th century:

  1. The bookshop, in which I work has a lot of students from the university nearby, as customers. Most of these students have anti-Semitic predjudicies. But the two students in this incident took the cake: One day, two students, a woman & a man, approached me at the bookshop, because it seemed that they could not find a certain book, which was on a shelf near the floor. So I had to go down on my knees, to grab said book & give it to the students. When I was about to stand up again, all of a sudden, I felt how my hair was pulled. It was quite painful. First I thought, that my hair was caught in a shelf or something like that, because I can be really clumsy. However, I realised that one of the students had actually pulled my hair on purpose. When I was about to ask them, if they were insane or something, the female student interrupted me & told me, that my colleague told them, that I am Jewish & so those students were curious to see, if I wore a wig, like some married, Jewish orthodox woman do. So these folks pulled my hair to satisfy their curiosity. The female student told me also to relax because they just wanted to „look“. Because I was at my workplace, I swallowed my anger & continued to assist them.
  2. During the last elections in the USA, I had an argument with another student & member of the Swiss „Green party“, who thought that Ted Cruz, the Republican politician, is Jewish, because of his nose. When I told the student, that it is anti-Semitic to claim that somebody is Jewish just because of his/ her nose, he became recalcitrant & told me, that I, as a Jew, don`t have to defend Ted Cruz because he is also Jewish & that Ted Cruz & I, share the same nose & therefore Ted Cruz has to be Jewish. I really tried to explain that stuff to this guy, but he kept insisting, that I would defend Ted Cruz because he is Jewish…
  3. Back then, when I was a member of the JUSO, the young Socialists here in Switzerland, a female fellow-member approached me, because she was stunned, that I, as Jew, was a JUSO-member. According to this woman, we Jews are the servants of the capital, the capitalism & the banks. At that incident I was a bit more chipper & told this woman, that we Jews are actually a very caring & social people & that, because of people like Amy Winehouse & Michel Friedman the GNP of Columbia doubled.

Folks, I also cannot count how many times non-Jewish people told me, that my nose is Jewish, but I am sure, that if I would have received 1 CHF or 1 EURO, each time somebody told me that, I would have done my nosejob years ago.

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