Ahmadinejad Terms Opponents of Nuclear Program Traitors
November 13, 2007 by pulkit
Ahmadinejad has always had a mouthful of rubbish but with every comment of his, he seems to reinvent the wheels of preposterous vocalization, and takes it to a whole new level. His pejorative of the many detractors of Iran’s nuke program within Iran’s political and social circles is well known and he has time and again fired a slew of disparaging remarks at them.
Earlier he likened their brains to that of a goat’s. Now he has disowned those remarks and blamed the media for deceiving the public. He called the critics of the Iranian nuclear program ,and his government’s obstinate and rigid nuclear policy of minimal willingness to parley, traitors. He is trying to convince the Iranian people, who have insulated themselves from the political situation in their country by remaining silent, that the nuclear program is not only in national interest but the acme of national interest, and those against it are against the state, hence traitors.
He is implicitly trying to intimidate the moderates in Iran, although he abstained from naming them and promised to do it when the nuclear issue got resolved. He alleged that they had colluded with the “enemy” and were conspiring against the state.
I am tempted to stick my neck out and forbode that he might, in the future, unleash a policy of prosecution and persecution against these opponents of the nuclear program who have been peaceful in voicing their concerns and dissidence.
If something like that happens then it might open the floodgates for an unbridled reign of terror, injustice and naked show of his obnoxious power. Just as prophets of God are said to declare their real purpose, this man will also resoundingly declare his (absolute rule), and he seems to be no carmen by the virtue of his deeds and their implications. Even now the world is receiveing images of the increasing oppression in Iran. This self-fashioned beast has brought back the primitive practice of public hangings into the 21 century, where many countries have shunned capital punishment, or are mulling such a step.
But these people who have been berated by this dictator as traitors can be expected to continue their dissidence, however, the people outside Iran also need to join in.
“These people are traitors and, based on our pact with the nation, we will not back down,” he said, according to the official news agency, Irna.
“If they do not give up their pressures on [the government] over the atomic issues, we will expose them to the Iranian nation,” he added. [source]
