By
Iranian
General Murdered by Trump?
January 3,
2020
President
Donald J. Trump
The White
House
1600
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington
DC 20500
Dear
President Trump:
The
President yesterday ordered the slaying of Iranian commander Major General
Qassem Soleimani, the hero of over 80% Iranians. The President’s action
signifies a colossal intensification of the disputes between Iran and the U.S..
It threatens to immerse the Middle East into a devastating war damaging
Americans, Iranians, and the Middle East citizens to an extent the world has
not witnessed since perhaps WW II.
By all
reasonable standards, the reckless action by the U.S. is the most hostile
American act of savagery in the region since the start of the invasion in the
Middle East. Major General Soleimani was the sword of Iran in fighting ISIS and
other terrorist groups created by our government and our “allies” in the Middle
East.
We, a group
of 253 Iranian Americans and American scholars and opponents of weapons of
destruction, write to express our protest in the strongest terms to your unconstitutional
and despicable action.
The
escalation of tension is due to your undoing of the Iran Nuclear Deal on May 8,
2018, the trademark foreign policy success of President Barack
Obama. The imposition of inhumane sanctions on 81 million citizens represents
international carnage and gangsterism against a peaceful nation. In so doing,
the President has pushed our country towards a war with Iran, has separated the
U.S. from its Western partners, and seeded doubt in the perilous nuclear
negotiations with North Korea.
Since 2001,
amid extensive warnings of crisis, the U.S. raced in the obverse direction in
seeking peace. By all reasonable norms, the U.S. has been the critical root of
global turmoil. Last year, a study by Pew Research Center found that almost
half the world citizens consider the U.S. “a major threat” to their nations,
almost twice the hostile outlooks Pew found in 2013. The chief cause of
instability has been the dictatorial actions of the U.S. government; expressly,
regime change around the world in breach of state sovereignty.
The 1953
Iranian coup, organized by the U.S. and the United Kingdom, ousted the
democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Since 1953, the U.S.
foreign policy towards Iran has been pitiful, painful, disastrous, and
shameful, especially after the 1979 revolution.
The
President has no strategy, no reason, and no point in a war with Iran. Please
stop endangering the lives, sweat, and labor of the U.S. and Iranians citizens
on the behalves of Israel and stone-aged Arab terrorist regimes, expressly
Saudi Arabia.
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Akbar
Montaser, Professor Emeritus
The George
Washington University, Washington, DC
From The
noble 13th century Persian Sufi Poet Rumi:
“I go to a
synagogue, church, and mosque, and I see the same spirit and the same altar.”
Cc:
Vice
President Mike Pence
The
Honorable Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper
The
Honorable Secretary of States Mike Pompeo
The
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley
The
National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien
The White
House Chief of Staff Mr. Mick Mulvaney,
The
Honorable Members of the US Senate
The
Honorable Members of the House of Representatives
Bio: Akbar Montaser is Professor Emeritus, The George
Washington University (Washington, DC) where he taught and conducted research
for 32 years (1981-2012). He also served as a Program Director at the National
Science Foundation for nine years. He is an antiwar devotee of
human rights, an advocate of nuclear disarmament, and a partisan in the
elimination of weapons of mass destruction. Aside from his field of chemical
instrumentation, he writes on political subjects pertinent to Iran, the Middle
East, and the United States.
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