Ashraf Dehghani Quotes
The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.
She was captured and tortured by the Shah’s secret police. When the Shah was finally overthrown, the theocracy that replaced his rule was a bad as the Shah’s regime. Torture and killing of political opponents and religious dissenters was even more common.
Ashraf Dehghani, Iranian Revolutionary, Torture and Resistance in Iran, 1971
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the U. S. and the West Of particular interest is the last sentence. Rarely does the Iranian leader and the American leadership agree on anything, but what Khamenei alleges is exactly the object of American general policy toward Iran. The U. S,, has other objectives as well, and the man purpose of the draconian sanctions is to pressure the Iranians to halt their nuclear weapons development or give the UN access to be sure that there is no military development nuclear program.
When the Shah left Iran, the moderate religions leaders of the country. including those who were major opponents of the Shah, approached the American ambassador urging America do something to prevent the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini who had returned to Tehran from taking over the government, as they claimed he would;d create a dictatorial theocracy. Ambassador Sullivan was convinced tghatg America should work with the new government an d negotiate with them for moderation. See the related quotes for more of his erroneous thinking.
Tens of thousands of Iranians were.
This coup has been the biggest trauma for the Iranian people in the last centuries. The blowback from it, has soured relationships between America and Iran for decades. Khamenei personally was traumatized by the coup and publicly refers to it quite frequently. Ironically, reasons and policy logic for the CIA orchestration of the coup are even today murky. The desires of the British may well have been the main reason. “Arrogance” is the term Khamenei uses to describe the British-American alliance and their propensity to try and shape the affairs of other nations.
He was ill and was transferred from jail to a hospital where he was murdered by Bolshevik sailors.
This particular quotation is very important. Khomeini was probably the most influential Muslim in the 20th Century. The fact that he wrote this in 1942—before there was an Israel as an enemy—shows how deep seated the requirement for world conquest is. To the Nazi’s world conquest was a justifiable goal. To Khomeini and his many followers, it is a religious obligation and duty and thus is every more dangerous. Extreme anti Muslims justify the attempted expulsion of Muslim immigrants on the grounds that they are a fifth column whose loyalty is and will be to the religion which will attempt to conquer their country. It gives Islamaphobia a veneer of respectability.
Here Khomeini takes the classic Islamic view of the Koran that leaders should be obeyed unless they do not follow Islam. To the leaders of Islamic nations, this means that even if the state is not a theocracy, the Muslim clergy has the final say as to whether a ruler may justly remain in power since they are the ones who determine if a ruler is properly following Islam.
This quotation illustrates one interesting difference between Muslim fundamentalists and the Jewish and Christian fundamentalists. All three insist that whenever the world of God has appeared in holy scripture, it must be followed and not be eroded by time and modernity. However, the Islamic fundamentalists also believe that no other laws, regulations or norms are needed to cope with change and modernity while the fundamentalist Christians and Jews do allow for additional legislation to govern areas on which holy scripture is silent.
This famous quotation has been attributed to Voltaire, 1694-1778, and French Philosopher, Denis Diderot, 1713-1784. Most quotation collections erroneously attribute it to Diderot in the version “Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” Both Voltaire and Diderot used the quotation as did many others opposed to monarchy and the then repressive church hierarchies. But the origin of the famous phrase was with Meslier. When the priest died, three handwritten manuscripts were found written and signed by him in which he attacked religion in general and the church and the Bible in particular. His Testament was read by Voltaire and Denis Diderot among others and he was very influential in their development as opponents of organized religion.
While he disagreed with Russian policies in any cases, he kept his criticism private but strove to maintain Yugoslavia as a Socialist state and part of the Soviet lock but independent. As his policies more and more deviated from Russian policies, Stalin tried to have Tito assassinated as Tito had his own independent policies on relations with the West.
These failure of these secession opponents to influence most Southerners was one of the great tragedies of the war. William Tecumseh Sherman also counseled against the rebellion {627900}. Identity of many Americans at the time was defined by their State with less identification with the nation than today. Eggleston was an accomplished writer who had served in the Confederate army of the Civil War. 20 year after the war he wrote a series of articles for the prestigious Northern Atlantic Monthly trying to convey the war from the Southerner’s point of view.
Ashraf Dehghani (Persian: اشرف دهقانی, born 1948) is amongst the best known Iranian female communist revolutionaries, and is a member of the Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.
