How To Save The Regime In Tehran -- Nazila Fathi, Foreign Policy
Shirin Ebadi, Iran's leading human rights activist, explains why on attack on the country's nuclear program is just what the mullahs have been yearning for.
Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi has a lot on her mind these days. She's spent her life working for the defense of human rights in her home country of Iran, but the reformists she sympathizes with are on the defensive, reeling from years of harsh repression. For the past three years she's been living in virtual exile in an undisclosed location in Western Europe, unable to return home without fear of arrest. The government has seized her property (including her Nobel Prize medal) and subjected her family members to harassment and detention. Now she spends her days traveling the world, fighting to draw attention to the abuses of human rights by the government in Tehran. "I feel it's my duty to help bring the voices of activists, and my comrades who are in prison, to the world," she says.
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My Comment: I have myself mentioned on a few occasions in this blog that sometimes Iran is giving the impression that they want Israel to launch a military strike .... in fact sometimes (maybe) even deliberately goading them to do so. But I doubt that they really want to go to war. War would only exacerbate their situation, and while the Iranian government will enjoy a brief burst of support from the Iranian people .... after the fighting has died down and the economic costs escalate, sentiments of anger and resentment will quickly be directed at the mullahs in power.
