The Green Revolution in Iran

On June 12, 2009, a series of protests broke out after the results of the prexyial preference in Iran. The riots started in the capital city of Tehran, and quickly spread end-to-end the Muslim Re domain. Protestors gathered in other major cities around the world, including freshly York City (Mackey). Hundreds of thousands, if non millions of Iranians were protesting against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads reelection, which was allegedly the result of electoral fraud. These allegations have been investigated by parties in and outside of Iran, including Londons Chatham place and the Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St. Andrews in Scotland, which co-published a topic after the election.The report was written by Chatham Houses Daniel Berman and Thomas Rintoul, and edited by St. Andrews Professor Ali Ansari. The adjacent is an excerpt from that reports summary In two alonetoned-down provinces, Mazandaran and Yazd, a turnout of more than 100% was recorded. In a trio of all provinces, the official results would require that Ahmadinejad took not however all creator conservative voters, all former centrist voters, and all new voters, but also up to 44% of former reformist voters, despite a decade of conflict between these two groups. 2) The people of Iran ar demanding flip-flop and a lightr government. Now is the time for the United States to recognize a possible new ally. America should support the Green Revolutionnamed after inverse sterndidate Mir-Hossein Mousavis campaign colorbecause a governance change in Iran would strongly promote world peace by removing the Abadgaran1 regime and its atomic ambitions it would remove a regime with a history of violating the basic sympathetic rights of its citizens and foreigners and it would sacrifice up the potential for a new ally and concern partner in the Middle East.Irans nuclear policy has changed dramatically since the Ahmadinejad presidency took control of it in August 2005. It has shifte d from being open to compromise with the global community to increasing its power and imposing Iran on the region (Chubin 32-33). Paralleling Irans nuclear program is a troubling missile program. The Shahab-4, a variant of Irans favorite missile, the Shahab-3, has a range of 1,200 miles (FAS). This coupling highly suggests a nuclear weapons program. The Abadgaran regimes history of violating the human rights of its citizens ranges from curse to wrongful imprisonment or execution to murder.Women have been harassed by police since the Islamic Revolution for allegedly wearing their hijab2 im prissyly. Several degree centigrade women were arrested in Tehran in April of 2007 for their bad hijab (Harrison). The persecution of Bahais in Iran erupted after the Islamic Republic was established in 1979. Despite being Irans largest phantasmal minority group at that time, the rights of the Bahai community are not mentioned in the Republics constitution. It is legal for Iranians to assault, even murder Bahais because they are left legally unprotected, and labeled infidels (BIC).Another example of Irans favouritism is its so-called solution to homosexuality. The government pushes homosexuals to undergo gender reassignment surgeries to conform to its theocratic views on sexuality. These procedures are p support for by the government, and for m any poor gays and lesbians in Iran, especially those living in the Republics rural areas, it is the only option to be like others (Hays). To conclude assessing the human rights violations of Irans theocratic government is the case of 27-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan.Neda was an average young woman in Iran, exclude that she was taking singing lessons, which is illegal for women in Iran. On June 20th, Neda and her singing instructor got out of her car to find out a breath of fresh oxygenize near the protests, and she was shot by a Basiji3 in Tehran (Fathi). She was defenseless, and public attempts to mourn her were broken up by the g overnment. Her name means function in Persian, and many are without delay calling her the voice of Iran, express Nazila Fathi in her report of Nedas death for The New York Times.President George W. pubic hairs axis of evil speech undermined support of Iranians who argued for better traffic with the United States. When Bush made that speech in 2002, Mohammad Khatami, a reformer, was the president of Iran (Freedman 473). The United States sanctions against Iran have serve welled to further the Abadgaran regimes agenda by giving justification to a group that is desperate for it the sanctions have allowed them to unite their power and further oppress Iranians who go against the governments policies.Irans current state is best described in Lawrence Freemans A Choice of Enemies The Bush administration found it consistently difficult to get the measure of Tehran. Bush depicted it as a nation held guarantor by a small clerical elite that is repressing and single out its people, but the reality was far more complex . (482) A regime change in Iran could see the lifting of American trade sanctions against Iran U. S. sanctions have had an jolt on Irans oil economy.Mohammed Akacem, a petroleum expert at Metropolitan State College of Denver said, U. S. oil companies would love to go to Iran, so sanctions have retarded a little bit of Irans index to improve its oil sector (qtd. in Beehner). Securing another efficient line of oil would help to ease the American economy as alternate energy sources are developed, and workers are trained to perform the tasks necessary to rifle these new facilities. The Iranian governments response to this movement is violent and choking.In slow July, a mass trial was conducted against over 100 reformist figures, impeach ofas reported by Robert F. Worth and Nazila Fathiconspiring with foreign powers to stage a revolution through terrorism . . . (1). Ayatollah Ali Khamenei went so far as to posit questioning the election was the biggest crime (qtd. in Dareini). The people of Iran are now rising up and demanding their emancipation, and they need support from the global community. The United States ask to support the Green Revolution if it seeks to make a friend of Iran.The proper support could see a regime change and the establishment of an Iran open to cooperation with America, enriching both Iranian and American societies. The average American can help as well if there are organizations set up to aid the opposition movement in Iran by donating and volunteering, and corporate America can set up the aforementioned organizations, and increase the medias focus on the movement in Iran. All this can be done without any military involvement by the United States. The American Revolution freed us from oppression let us help the Iranian people free themselves as well.