Bostom Interview: Iranians Seeking Freedom Are Revolting Against the Sharia-Based 2009 Green Movement, Too

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I was interviewed Wednesday, January 3, 2018 about the ongoing demonstrations in Iran, by Audrey Russo.

Please listen to the full ~12-minute full interview at this link: http://www.audreyrusso.com/AndyBostom_010418.mp3

I elaborated on why these nationwide demonstrations differ, dramatically, from what I have come to refer to as the 2009 “Soylent” Green Movement (with deliberate reference to the ghoulish theme of the Charlton Heston cult classic, and Edward G. Robinson’s final movie, “Soylent Green”). The Green Movement’s chief ideologues, political leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, and “spiritual guiding force” Ayatollah Montazeri (d. 2009), were both full-throated, bigoted Shiite Sharia supremacists, who were pro-Iranian nukes (to an extent Mousavi helped godfather Iran’s nuke program; Montazeri affirmed it till his death in December, 2009), virulently anti-Western, and anti- non-Muslim “infidel,” who each also, sadly, championed Iran’s annihilationist, Shiite Islamic Jew-hatred. Ayatollah Montazeri, to his unique, and lasting shame, was the main contemporary Iranian clerical “revivalist” of the odious Shiite doctrine of najis which dehumanizes non-Muslims as physically, politically, and spiritually “impure”, and has historically, in Iran, through the present, made their very existence, parlous.

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Indeed as I pointed out during the interview, the election of Rouhani, twice, in 2013 and 2017, represents the triumph of the Soylent Green ideology because Rouhani shares the views of Mousavi and Ayatollah Montazeri, and as Iranian journalist Borzou Daragahi acknowledged (in a 1/3/18 essay), even amongst Iranian youth “many of those who took to the streets in the 2009 ‘Green’ uprising…are sitting these protests out They stood in long lines in 2013 and 2017 to elect Rouhani.” 

Why might they be sitting out these protests? Unlike in 2009, the current protests are revolutionary, in that they are directed at uprooting the entire Shiite theocratic system that was Iran’s form of governance (notwithstanding invasion and internal conflict in the 18th century) from its founding by Shah Ismail in 1501, through 1925. Iran underwent a forced secularization/Westernization under the authoritarian Pahlavi Shahs, from 1925, till1979, and the return of Shiite theocratic rule upon Khomeini’s ascension to power, and his retrograde “revolution,” which restored the theocratic norms of the 16th, through early 20th centuries. What were those (i.e., 1501-1925) “norms”? As characterized by the renowned Persianophilic scholar E.G. Browne, in 1924:

 The Mujtahids [an eminent, very learned Muslim jurist/scholar who is qualified to interpret the law] and Mulla [a scholar, not of Mujtahid stature] are a great force in Persia and concern themselves with every department of human activity from the minutest detail of personal purification to the largest issues of politics.

And it is precisely those Shiite theocratic norms the current protesters—not their 2009 Soylent Green Movement counterparts—resoundingly reject, as illustrated, below, in three powerful examples, which I captured on my twitter account: [I] the demonstrators’ “Nine Key Demands,” put forth in the public domain; [II] a revealing twitter exchange between a young Iranian woman Soylent Green Movement supporter, cool to the current protests, and a young Iranian man who supports them; [III] the courageous, pellucid analysis of a young Iranian woman—a conscientious objector to Islam/“apostate”—describing her optimism about the present developments, and what they mean for her and all Iranians.

The “Nine Key Demands,” feature (see, 1-3,5, and 9), unabashedly, the dismantling of the Shiite theocratic state:

1) A referendum on founding the future regime, as most of the demonstrators called for a republican system similar to the developed countries and the overthrowing of the rule of of the Faqih.

2) Undermining the ideology of the Faqih regime and the liberation of Iranian society from the illusion of leadership of the Shiite world and its incursion into the Islamic world and eliminate the slogan of exporting the revolution.

3) Abolishing the forced veil and endorsing the principle of women’s free choice of appearance and clothing.

4) Freedom of the media, including free access to information, the Internet, social networks and the abolition of censorship.

5) Separating religion from politics and removing religious institutions and estates from politics and handing the administration of state affairs over to a government of technocrats.

6) An independent, just and impartial judiciary that is not subjected to any authority, power or political current.

7) Equal distribution of wealth and development plans to eradicate poverty, unemployment and deprivation.

8) Free, fair and transparent elections under international supervision.

9) Equality between women and men and the rejecting all forms of discrimination, violence and abuse against women in all fields.

A twitter exchange between two young Iranians elucidates the starkly different aspirations between young supporters of the 2009 Soylent Green Movement, and the ongoing, current protests. What is further revealing is how the Green Movement protesters, overridingly “champions” of the Shiite theocratic status quo, who advocated at best dishonest tinkering “reforms,” as embodied by their twice-elected leader, Rouhani, feel threatened by the truly revolutionary goals of those protesting now:

[Young woman] “A young Iranian who was active during the 2009 so-called Green Movement tells me it’s not our crowd this time around. These are lower income protesters. We don’t necessarily feel good about them either”

[Young man, respondent] “It’s correct that so-called green movement supporter[s] and so-called reformist[s] prefer to keep [their] distance from [the] current protests, because [the] current protests, unlike 2009, target [the] whole system, and regime.”

Finally, these piercing observations of a young Iranian woman “apostate” capture the pent up yearning for true freedom—antithetical to the stultifying physical, social, and intellectual Shiite Islamic supremacist order—these demonstrations have come to represent for her:

I am very optimistic and hopeful because as an atheist, according to the laws of the [mainstream Shiite] Islamic Republic, which are based on Sharia, I am considered an apostate, and an infidel, and my blood is halal [i.e., taking her blood, and killing her is sanctioned]. It has been 39 years that no one, absolutely no one, other than the Shias have been in control because the most important qualification for them is belief in governance of the [Shiite] jurist, and Islam, and not the ability and knowledge of people. How many more generations should be deprived of freedom and the pleasures of life? Iran will never become like Syria since the cause of the misery of people in Syria, and their condition is Islam [their Islamic Republic] itself.

Let us all hope her brave and righteous vision for a truly free Iran, at long last, prevails.

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Davd Williams
Davd Williams
6 years ago

Interesting. So Obama was right to not support the Green movement, which was just a little restructing of a terrorist Islamic regime?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Lets see how much sustainable increasing support there is?

Phil McDonald
Phil McDonald
6 years ago

I just love this picture!

Duchess of Pork
Duchess of Pork
6 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

Tweet to Linda Sarsour: This is the true definition of courage.

Lysy
Lysy
6 years ago

These Persian petit brunettes are effin’ HOT! Hope to see them in tight jeans, high heels and tank-tops very soon!

Lysy
Lysy
6 years ago
Reply to  Lysy

Unfortunately they all reside on Left Coast, cross-country from me, if not for that, sure as $hit I would have had married one 🙂

Mark Huber
Mark Huber
6 years ago

Perhaps the 2009 demonstrators did not have it right. But what is certain is how poorly the whole thing was reported by MSM. There is a monopoly over information tat is unprecedented in history. We must wake up, smell the coffee and liberate information. Free speech, forever!

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