PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Iranian-American Seeking Help For Country

I am an Iranian-American living in the state of Arkansas.

I am very thankful for the United States who has given me and other Iranians the ability to share in the American dream.

Meanwhile, our homeland of Iran, is occupied by a radical Islamic regime, that holds power in Tehran. I am a supporter of the resistance to that occupation.

The Iranian regime is brutal to its own people, and has shown little regard for human rights.

The very ideas we hold sacred in the United States, such as personal liberty, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought, mean nothing to the mullahs in Iran. The Islamic regime would also like to destroy Israel, and has been working feverishly toward nuclear capabilities. With the recent well documented upgrade in their centrifuges, the time for some sort of action has arrived. Support for an internal rebellion makes sense both strategically and in cost of lives.

We have a saying in Iran: “The enemy of my enemy, is my friend.” The mullah regime is the enemy of the civilized world. I would like for the world governments to support the Iranian Resistance group and recognize them as a government in exile. They are known as MEK andNCRI. They have support by the majority of the Iranian people.

We the NCRI are seeking political and moral support from the government of the United States in our quest for an independent, secular, democratically elected, non-nuclear, noninvasive Iranian government.

The people of Iran are no different from people in the United States. They want to raise their kids in a safe environment and they want the same freedoms and liberties we enjoy here in the United States. Please help us in achieving this dream.

HOOSHANG NAZARALI

Elkins

CANFIELD NOT ‘IN THE MIDDLE’ You published a column by Kevin Canfield (“A View from the Middle” Feb. 3) about Hillary Clinton’s appearance before Congress.

Mr. Canfield’s views are hardly from the middle, any more than those of the GOP former candidates who gave us Mr. Perry’s “oops” and Mr. Cain’s “uzbeki beki stan stan,” and almost anything from Mrs. Bachmann or Mr. Santorum. Their views are little different from Mr.

Canfield’s reference to Mrs.

Clinton as people who “go down a path designed to manage and manipulate.”

JON ZIMMER

Fayetteville

Opinion, Pages 5 on 02/20/2013

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