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The Spiritual-Political Importance of Iran

Most Americans who oppose the neocon-Zionist push for war on Iran don’t like the Iranian form of government…mainly because they don’t understand it. The Islamic Republic of Iran is called a democracy by some, a theocracy by others. In fact, it is both. It is democratic in two senses. First, it has competitive and relatively honest elections for all relevant national, regional and local offices. In this sense its degree of democracy is somewhere between Europe, where elections are generally legitimate, and the USA, where black-box voting machines and propaganda specialists decide outcomes and voters are almost entirely irrelevant.  Some…

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US, Arab World Both Need Revolutions

Virtually the entire Arab world – the historic heartland of Islam – is under US-Zionist occupation…while the US itself is under Zionist-financier occupation. The people of the US and the Arab world ought to rise up, together, and overthrow the regimes occupying their countries and targeting them for destruction. Unfortunately, many Arabs, and most Americans, are in denial. I spend most of my time trying to wake up Americans; but as a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, I am also interested in the Arab world. When I watch al-Jazeera, I see bought-and-paid-for Arab talking heads bemoaning the Iranian influence in Iraq and espousing…

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