Dear President Obama:
It has now become clear, through internal as well as external sources, that you have sent yet another secret letter to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran seeking direct talks and negotiations! Surely there is a limit to political expediency and diplomatic hypocrisy for the sake of winning elections?
How would the American people react, or indeed the free world, if they were to be informed that President Roosevelt was engaged in secret diplomacy to enter direct negotiations with Adolph Hitler, the Supreme Leader of the Third Reich? Or, if they were informed that Presidents Bush or Clinton were seeking direct negotiations to “address our differences” with Mullah Omar of the Taliban and Bin Ladin of Al Qaeda? For what is the difference? Has not the Islamic Republic of Iran killed enough Americans as of yet? What is the magic number? How many Americans should a regime kill first, or take as hostages, or how many different countries should a regime sponsor and or conduct acts of terrorism against, before your administration becomes convinced that they are in fact who they say they are….our enemies.
How many Iranians must die or be tortured by this regime first? How many Baha’is, how many Jews, how many Christians, Zoroastrians or just simple ordinary people must suffer, before your administration gets it?..... That these monsters must too be slain.
Mr. President in May 2009 in a similar secret letter to the very same Supreme Leader, at the height of the “elections” in Iran, you indicated to His Theocracy that regardless of the election results you would be more than happy to deal and negotiate with his regime. His Theocracy, of course, took this as a sign of weakness on our part, and unleashed his black shirts, and brown shirts and Islamic Revolutionary Guards on the innocent Iranian people who had taken your words at your election campaign seriously. Their chant after your Green Light to His Theocracy changed to “Obama, Obama, You are either with US or with Them!” As a sign of proving your bona fides to His Theocracy, you went so far as to remain silent as many were bludgeoned to death, and directed your administration to defund and change the direction of the US Democracy and Freedom initiatives toward Iran. His Theocracy’s response to your reaching out was to kill more Americans and American allies across the globe, to speed up the nuclear ambitions and mock and belittle the U.S in public, and gain more propaganda points among our enemies! Oh, let’s not forget the scores of American hostages, for the release of whom your administration paid millions of dollars through third parties!
And now you are at it again? Who or What is the price now? Who or what is going to be sacrificed at the altar of political expediency, at the expense of the people of Iran, and indeed U.S. security interests this time? His Theocracy’s conditions have never changed and never will. They want security guarantees, at the expense of all the freedom loving people of Iran and anyone who dares to support a true democracy in their stead. And then they will continue with their plans anyway, because that is what totalitarian dictatorships do.
As an American I am ashamed at the hypocritical conduct of your administration. As an Iranian-American, I am outraged. The US policy toward the theocratic regime should be Free Elections through the ballot box, inspected and observed through internationally recognized and respected institutio
Said D. Jabbari
