Remember this guy? The Shah. There was once an assassination attempt and that should have been a clue that Sunni leaders were not getting the job done for the people in Iran.

What spawned the Iranian Revolution? It wasn't the allegiance to a dictator named Khomeini. Not really. The Grand Ayatollah Khomeini was a vehicle for the revolution, but, the reason the people came to his side in large populations is because they were suffering. My question is why were they suffering?

It has long been understood that the Shah and his spouse were treated better than royalty as they had fresh food flown in from areas outside Iran daily. There was a reason beyond the fact he simply liked high end gourmet food. It was because the water in Iran, from the oil fields, was unhealthy to drink.

The people of Iran were also suffering because they didn't have enough food. While the Shah was comfortable with centuries of royal blood in his veins it never translated to a relationship with the people. The Iranian people, the Shi'ites that is, if they were to survive the flash point was all too obvious.

Once the Shah was overthrown the reaction by The West was to take up an offensive against any leader of the country and has isolated Iran ever since. The reasons nuclear power is so important to the people of the country is because it proves their leadership is equal to anything The West or any Sunni nation could produce.

The politics inside the nation of Iran and that of The West and Israel has only served to escalate the tensions of decades to a pinnacle every nation in the world understands to be idiotic. There is no tossing nuclear weapons around in the Middle East. It would be catastrophic, yet only a year or so ago that is exactly where Iran and the rest of the world were. Crazy stuff, but, The West was in Iraq and the threat of returning to a prior status was all to real in the eyes of the Shi'ites.

What made it worse and probably propelled the former President Ahmadinejad to leadership, was the attempt to destroy the Imam ali Mosque in Iraq. Why, in god's name would any USA military ever conceive of destroying a Mosque, especially this one. 

I think this Mosque, if it were destroyed, was to break the will of the Shia in Iraq. No one will convince me differently. 

The point is this. The Shia have every right to live and live well in full longevity on Earth. One of the most devoted Ayatollahs to peace is that of the Grand Ayatollah al Sistani. He is affectionately known as the Peace Ayatollah. They are good people. They may be somewhat out of step with advances in society. I really wouldn't know. I do know they were out of step with reality under Saddam, but, their reality then was so very different than today. And to think for decades this ethnic group in the Middle East has been under attack for the sheer reason of their religion is completely unthinkable.

The West needs to get this right and entering Iraq with war machines is not the answer. Iran and southern Iraq must have a place on this Earth. They cannot be sacrificed as the Kurds cannot.

Both the Kurds and the Shi'ites have fought back against the Western dominated region for a long time. It is their homeland as it is the Sunnis homeland. A generation of all people in the Middle East has to come to pass whereby war is not part of their daily lives. When is that going to happen? When are all ethnicities in the Middle East going to know they are safe enough to lay down their weapons? There is no room for hate. The Earth is not that big.