Cempaka Belanda: Stoning furore gives Iran foreign policy problems

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"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

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“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Stoning furore gives Iran foreign policy problems

BBC News, By Jon Leyne, Cairo, 6 September 2010

The case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman under threat of stoning to death, seems to be causing special problems for the Iranian government, highlighting some big dilemmas in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic.

The international outcry over the case simply refuses to go away.

Ms Ashtiani's family say they have not been
allowed to contact her in prison for two weeks

Last week, The Times newspaper in London published what it said was a photo of her, without the headscarf which is obligatory in Iran.

Days later it retracted the photo, explaining that it was a mix-up, and the photo was really of an Iranian exile living in Sweden.

Nevertheless, according to one of her lawyers, Ms Ashtiani was sentenced to 99 lashes for "indecency" as a result, and the sentence has already been carried out - though another lawyer denies that.

At the same time, the Vatican has said it is considering making an appeal on her behalf to the Iranian government.

The obvious response to this international furore might be for Iran to exercise its usual defiance.

The Iranian government prides itself on its independence, and would always argue that the Islamic Republic is answerable to a higher power.

That seemed to be evidenced by a "confession" from Ms Ashtiani broadcast on Iranian television three weeks ago, in which she appeared to admit complicity in the murder of her husband, a charge her lawyers say has either already been dismissed or was never even brought to court.

The news of a new sentence of 99 lashes also suggests more defiance from Iran - an attempt to warn foreign "meddlers" from further involvement in the case.

Iranian self-image

Ms Ashtiani is still, by all accounts, in danger of execution, though most likely by hanging rather than stoning.

But carrying out that sentence would cause the Iranian government difficulties, both in its image of itself, and in its relations with the outside world.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad often boasts of the superiority of Iranian civilization and Iranian values, by contrast with the corruption of the West.

His response to criticisms of his re-election in 2009 was to declare Iran the most democratic country in the world.

In a speech in Qatar on Monday he declared: "Today, the only nation that has the ability to establish a just order in the world is the Iranian nation."

But Mr Ahmadinejad has had much less to say about the issue of stoning.

In an interview with Iran's Press TV on 15 August he said only that the case "would be resolved", hardly a ringing defence of the practice of stoning.

Not only is the case causing problems for Iran's proud self-image, it has also caused real diplomatic difficulties. Iran aspires to be the leader of an alternative coalition of nations, an anti-American alliance.

Interests at stake

One of Mr Ahmadinejad's most prized recent diplomatic successes was in persuading Brazil and Turkey to vote against the recent round of UN sanctions on Iran.

But President Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil has come under pressure for working with a country which still endorses stoning.

Hence his recent offer of asylum to Ms Ashtiani. And other leaders may think twice about improving relations with Iran, if her case is not resolved.

The journalist Maziar Bahari, who was held in prison in Iran for 118 days following Mr Ahmadinejad's re-election, described the moment he knew he was about to be freed.

It was when one of his prison guards told him that the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, had taken up his case.

He had become "more of a liability than an asset", he was told by one Iranian official.

Campaigners for Ms Ashtiani must be hoping that the same logic will apply to her case.

The Iranian government is still run by intelligent people who have a strong sense of Iran's best interests in the world.

But Mr Ahmadinejad's government is also unpredictable and weakened, following the circumstances of his re-election. This case could still go either way.

Mohammad Mostafaei, right, the lawyer who defended a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, left , and French philosopher Bernard Henry Levy arrive for a press conference, in relation to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has attracted worldwide attention, in Paris, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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