In a recent interview with Rahim Rashidi, Washington DC Correspondent, KurdistanTV, Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer expressed Israel's heartfelt and deep support for the Iranian people. A summary of Ambassador Dermer's comments follows:

Iran is a great source of instability in the Middle East, is the foremost sponsor of terrorism around the world. Israel is concerned about Iran, and concerned about what it is doing to its own people. They are hanging gays in public squares, political prisoners are being killed by the hundreds in Iran. Israel has not seen a change in the Iranian regime's behavior at all. Israel is strong on its stance that the Iranian regime is not one that should be allowed to have nuclear weapons. As much as the Iranian regime is a great danger, the people of Iran are a great hope because they want a different future. The Iranian regime doesn't represent the people of Iran. "...like Neda who we remember bleeding in the streets of Iran, that is the real face of Iran. And I believe one day Iran will be free."    

Image: Young woman in Iran waving her hijab in protest.

Rebirth of the Persian Spring
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The protests in Iran are the people of Iran seeking liberation from the grasping evil mullahs that have destroyed Iran and conducted nothing but mayhem throughout the Middle East and beyond, including killing Americans on 9/11 and through IEDs in Iraq. The Iranian people are standing up for not only Iranians who favor liberty, but Americans that died defending freedom and died as victims of Iranian clerical evil.

Mr. Huessy quotes a National Security expert in the United States who wishes to remain anonymous:

"The [Iranian] regime has been conducting expeditionary warfare on at least two fronts, and putting all of its cash into military hardware and supporting these expansionist wars. The public have suffered accordingly. The regime has also been very actively suppressing minorities across the country, and Iran is anything but monolithic Persian / Shia / Farsi. The theocratic regime has effectively done everything it could to make itself insurrection and coup-proof.

"The IRGC are destructive fanatics with a track record of murderous rage against anything they regard to be a threat to the regime. This is a regime that still conducts mass public hangings of petty criminals, and have hanged many domestic violence victims, LGBT, "adulterers", and anybody else who has offended the theocracy or its ideology, including teenage girls who might be simply regarded as delinquent in any other nation. There are numerous Youtube clips of hangings of minorities who allegedly conspired against the regime.

"This is also why Iran's diaspora is one of the largest globally..

"If the protests spread and escalate, there is every possibility of another Syria style scenario, as this regime will not collapse, it will simply copy what its proxy Assad in Syria did, and the IRGC will kill the population by the million if it thinks this is required to keep the regime in power.

"There are a great many in the IRGC who belong before war crimes tribunals for their actions inside Iran since 1979, and their actions during expeditionary campaigns.

"This could become very, very ugly."


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Image: Peaceful demonstrators protesting against the regime in Iran



Ambassador Dermer was born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida. He earned a degree in Finance and Management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University. For three years, he was a columnist for the Jerusalem Post. 
 
In 2004, Ambassador Dermer co-authored with Natan Sharansky the best-selling book, The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror, which has been translated into ten languages. From 2005-2008, Ambassador Dermer served as Israel's Minister of Economic Affairs in the United States.  From 2009-2013, he served as Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


Peter R. Huessy, President, GeoStrategic Analysis, Inc. 

Since 1983, Mr. Huessy has hosted 1250 Congressional breakfast, lunch and dinner seminars on Capitol Hill dealing with missile defense, strategic nuclear modernization, strategic airlift, strategic bombers, space, proliferation, arms control, homeland, port and maritime security and defense policy as well as the security of Israel, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan and other US allies. Prominent speakers featured each year include Uzi Rubin, formerly of the Israeli Defense Ministry, as well as top officials in the USAF, Navy, and Department of Defense, members of the Senate and House, as well as top national security professionals who specialize in these areas. Mr. Huessy has lectured at various professional schools and institutions in the DC area including Johns Hopkins SAIS, the Naval Academy, the US War College, the Joint Military Intelligence College, the Institute of World Politics and Georgetown University. 

Mr. Huessy has testified before Congressional Committees and has extensive knowledge of Congress and the Executive Branch of the US Government.

For many years Mr. Huessy wrote op-eds for the Washington Times under the direction of Tony Blankley. He now writes also for a number of additional publications including the Gatestone Institute, Big Peace, Family Security Matters, Human Events, National Review, Fox News and Frontiers of Freedom. He has written extensively on the subject of Iran's state sponsorship of terrorism and the threats to Israel and the United States. He has written for the JINSA Journal of International Security Affairs as well as InFocus and the ROA Monthly magazine. 

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