Tuesday 18 August 2009

"Iran's regime is Dictatorial and Tyrannical"

MEMRI has a few items from the Egyptian press about sets in which the authors were not just enthusiasm for the Iranian regime over beat.
A selection:
Another article, titled "Religious State - Political Lie" includes an interview with several Egyptian intellectuals focusing on Iran, conducted by journalist Asmaa Nassar. In it, Al-Tagammu 'party leader Dr. Rif'at Al-Sayyed stated: "The real problem is that [Iran] has only one source of authority, which is not the constitution, nor the law, nor yet the majority opinion . Rather, it is the 'rule of the jurisprudent' [representing] the religious outlook of the religious state's founding fathers, which honors neither the constitution nor democracy. "
In another of the articles, political Islam researcher Isma'il Hosni drawing a parallel between the Iranian regime of the ayatollahs and dictatorship, claiming that the common denominator in a theocracy's sources of authority and in a dictatorship is Tyranny. He wrote: "Both [types of regime claim] to possess the absolute truth, and let not a single day pass without [Exercising] Tyranny or depriving others of the freedom to express their opinions."
A number of the authors of the Roz Al-Yousef articles contended that the Islamic Republic had never, since its inception, reflected the wishes of the people, instead Relying on power, Intimidation, Coercion, and violence.
Clearly, the direction the state is given. In Cairo, one might not Ahmedinejad. Nevertheless, an undertone, which is interesting, because criticism of Iran in the Arab world these days, always in some criticism of their own Auokratien. Iran split the Arab world into those who firmly behind the rulers in Tehran and its implementing organizations Hezbollah and Hamas, and those with little joy and envy the developments.
Interesting in any case, that these newspapers in Egypt and other Arab countries, Iran's system (and not only the "choice" Ahmedinejad) criticize far more violent than in Europe.

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