Wednesday, March 15, 2006
UN, Bloggers, and the IRI
I think the underlying theme here, from the majority of the Blogs (abtahi, khanoumhana, alpar, ashoob) is the overwhelming vote of no-confidence from the Iranian people and it's Diaspora at large against the nuclear/atomic energy proliferations of the Iranian government.
The idea that is being spread here is that the energy is for the people, and the majority of Iranians would agree that this energy is not for the people. Some may like to say that people do not know what's good for them, which is why the government makes the greater decisions for them, but that is not true. Iranians who are educated and well read on this issue realize that it is a political and demographic tactic to ensure the IRI's continuing continuing power struggle within the Middle East against its image of weakness and back-door dealings with the West.
Those Iranians who don't know what the processes and implications of the atomic energy policies and plants entail in a real world context would not know the butt end of a heating rod from a toilet pipe...but they do know that the gas and energy minsitry has trouble getting gas to their homes in the winter and they wonder how atomic energy is going to change their municipality skills.
The idea that is being spread here is that the energy is for the people, and the majority of Iranians would agree that this energy is not for the people. Some may like to say that people do not know what's good for them, which is why the government makes the greater decisions for them, but that is not true. Iranians who are educated and well read on this issue realize that it is a political and demographic tactic to ensure the IRI's continuing continuing power struggle within the Middle East against its image of weakness and back-door dealings with the West.
Those Iranians who don't know what the processes and implications of the atomic energy policies and plants entail in a real world context would not know the butt end of a heating rod from a toilet pipe...but they do know that the gas and energy minsitry has trouble getting gas to their homes in the winter and they wonder how atomic energy is going to change their municipality skills.
