1- Iran has signed the NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty)

The NPT clearly states that all parties have “an inalienable right to nuclear enrichment”. Iran has been progressing towards nuclear power for over 40 years, which started and supported by the western powers during the days of pro-western dictatorship of Shah.

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Iran vs Israel

Individual Comparisons:

Iran:

1- Is a member of the IAEA

2- Iran has signed the Non-proliferation Treat (NPT)

3- The UN and IAEA inspectors have not found any evidence to prove Iran is moving towards building an atomic weapon.

4- Iran has so far abided the UN and its regulations,  cooperated with the IAEA within the guidelines of  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

5- Has had the most number of  recorded UN inspectors on its sites than any other country  in the world

6- Is not currently a processor or nuclear fuel and does not hold any nuclear weapons

7- Has not initially attacked (been the aggressor towards) any country over the past 250 years

8- Iranian leaders publicly and repeatedly have emphasized their opposition to nuclear weapons

9- Iranian leaders have denounces war and shows their willingness to cooperate with the international regulating bodies to move towards world wide nuclear disarmament.

10- Iran accuses Israel of producing second and third generations nuclear war heads and not cooperating with the “international community”

Israel:

1- Is a member of the IAEA

2- Israel has NOT signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

3- Has broken more UN resolutions than any other country in the world

4- Possesses over two hundred ready nuclear war heads.

5- Has move or is moving towards 2nd and 3rd generation nuclear war head technology

6- Is the sole process of nuclear arms in the Middle East

7- Has had history of preemptive attacks against its enemies

8- Israel has previously and currently occupies its neighboring lands.

9- Israel  accuses the Iran of having ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons

10- Israeli leaders have publicly shown their readiness to attack Iran

Further Points:

• Israel is encourage
• Iran is feared
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• Israel is held as a friend and an ally
• Iran is an enemy and part of the “Axis of Evil”
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• Israel accuses Iran of violating human rights within its own country
• Iran accuses Israel of violating human rights outside its boarders (in Palestine)

The hypocrisy and the double standards in this world are extraordinary. In these hostile times between the two countries and turmoil around the world, we should remind ourselves that if there is no justice in the world, humanity shall never find peace.

Justice will come soon and so will peace between all.

Lets hope!

Does the Jewish population have freedom in Iran?

There are 25,000 Jews living in Iran, who have a permanent representative in the Iranian parliament. When Israel backed a plan to pay Iranian Jewish families $60,000 to settle in Israel, Society of Iranian Jews met the announcement with scorn, issuing this statement: “The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradable for any amount of money. Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran’s Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews.”

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Iranian Jews message to Israel: Our national identity is not for sale

So what were the incorrect information and myths that the movie 300 presented to its viewers?

Lets start by the Persian kings themselves.  As depicted in “Xerxes” also known as “Khashayar”, the kings never shaved their heads or beards. They braided their hair. The Persian or Iranian Kings did not pierce their body or least not their faces to be visible; this was true throughout the Achaemenid or “Hakhamanesh” and the dynasties that followed them with occasional exception of ear piercing.

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It is important to know that unlike the movie 300 depicts, most Greek leaders, kings and scholars, if not all of them, including “Alexander the Great” were admirers of the Persians empire, kings, palaces and magnificent gardens. Most well-known of such palace was Persepolis, described as “The Richest City Under The Sun” whose remaining is still quite a magnificent site near today’s city of Shiraz. Alexander, in his youth, like many other Greek young students at the time studied the Iranian empire and its vast kingdom. The admiration and love for the Persian kingdom and their majestic palaces was so much that after the defeat of the Achaemenid’s king Darius III, Alexander married his daughter and declared himself “The Last Achaemenid Persian king”. He prepare a  massive and glorious state funeral for him and procrlaimed that “He (Darius) is to be put to rest and honored as a Persian king.”

Unlike as it was shown by Zack Snydeir, director of 300, the Persian kings did not whip or beat their workers. As a matter of fact, the Persepolis, also known as the city of kings, was built by workers who were paid for moving the stones and sculpting them; the salary astonishingly was based on the quality of their work. This also included women who participated in most of the decoration as well as construction. Such a governing system was unheard of at the time, a period during in which, the Egyptians, the later Romans, and the Greeks themselves would beat and torture their slave workers to death.

The movie 300 also stressed on the implication that Xerxes or “Khasharyar shah” proclaimed himself as God. The Persian kings never declared themselves as Gods. It is widely accepted that the Iranians were the first people who declared their worship to the “one God”. This was fundamintal a religious belief that all kings and their general public adhered by. The kings, however, were perceived as the mediator between man an the God of Ahura Mazda. This religious belief was founded on one of the most ancient holy books; the book of “Avesta”, which enclosed the religion of Zoroastrianism, a small minority of which that day still exists in Iran and parts of India.

Based on the Zoroastrian doctrine, it was the strong emphasis on honesty and integrity that gave the ancient Persians credibility to rule their vast kingdom. This was true even in the eyes of the people belonging to the conquered nations (Herodotus, mid 5th century B.C). “Truth for the sake of truth” was the universal motto and the very core of the Persian culture that was followed not only by the great kings, but even the ordinary Persians who made it a point to adhere to this code of conduct.

The Persian kings believed in one religion and cultural tolerance. This important foundation initiated during the ruling of Cyrus the Great, the first Achaemenid king, who freed the Jews from exile in Babylon to return to today’s Palestine and Egypt. Under the rule of Cyrus The Great, the “Cyrus Cylinder” was issued; the most ancient document that is considered to be the first universal declaration of human rights.