name: Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Comments and thoughts of an American Muslim on US Foreign policy in the Middle East and the so-called War on Terror,examining the contradictions from a perspective of justice, fairness and human rights.
A Tale of Two Countries
15 January, 2008
This is a story about two countries. One is The United States of Acirema, often called Acirema or the US for short, and the other is called Nari. Now the US and Nari were as different as night and day, black and white, or east and west. The Aciremans spoke English which is written from left to right, while the Narians spoke a language called Persian--just like the Gulf off its shores--which is written from right to left. The US was a small peace-loving country while Nari was a rich, aggressive, imperialistic power with military bases in many countries, including those surrounding Acirema like Abuc, Ocixem and Adanac.
Will Natanz be the next Nagasaki?
02 October, 2006
On 9 August 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan killing some 150,000 men, women and children. The blast leveled 6.7 million sq. meters of the city and destroyed over 12,000 homes.[1] Since then, the US has become a world leader in proliferating nuclear weapons; overtly by the sale of weapons and technology to other nations and covertly by forcing smaller nations to acquire nuclear arms in self-defense. Iran now faces the threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike if it does not cave in to US pressure to halt its nuclear program. Regardless of intentions, it is understandable that any country finding itself surrounded by US nuclear forces and client states, as is Iran, would utilize every available option for self-defense.
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USS Vincennes?
11 May, 2006
I admit it, I forgot, too! And I’m old enough to remember. I recall where I was and what I was doing on July 3, 1988, but it took a look at Mehr News Agency to jog my memory. Oh yes, the US missile cruiser USS Vincennes did indeed attack an unarmed, Iranian airliner flying within the commercial air corridor and blew it out of the sky, killing 290 human beings.
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Nuclear Suspicians and Iran
07 March, 2006
The Denver Post (Colorado USA) ran an article on