Iranian "Tit for Tat"

Iranian lawmakers passed a non-binding resolution calling the American army and CIA, terrorist organizations. The parliament approved the decree today, which was clearly in response to the US Senate vote favoring a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran’s islamic revolutionary guard a terrorist organization. But there could be another reason for such an empty action.

The nutter in chief and the mullahs, who really run the islamic state, are trying to save face. After the mild tongue lashing Ahmadinejad received at the hands of Columbia University president Lee Bollinger, the Persians are attempting to regain national and cultural pride. Ahmadinejad was insulted and like most muslims, needs to defend his honor or run the risk of looking weak among his countrymen and the ummah.

Shame, honor and revenge; islamic society is an extroverted society that operates within a triangle of values with three dimensions. Honor is the most important of the three and sometimes it is more valued than life itself. If honor is smeared the result is shame, which can only be erased through revenge. The process starts on the personal level and then shifts to the community or in this case the national level. Iranian honor has been disgraced and this decree is their revenge.

A culture that condones the murder of a raped daughter for shaming her family is capable of anything. I hope this meaningless declaration, against our military and CIA, will be adequate.