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IRAN UPDATE October 12, 2007   EDUCATION – IRANIAN STYLE: PREPPING FOR WAR AGAINST U.S. AND WEST THROUGH… SCHOOL TEXTS Iran is using its school textbooks to indoctrinate its children in a global war against the “enemies of Islam,” with a special focus on the United States and the West, according to a comprehensive and alarming report from the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace. As you will see by reading the report or a summary, both available online at http://www.edume.org/, Iran is training 15 million children to strive for “martyrdom” in attacks against the United States.  In fact, the declared goal of the school curriculum is to prepare students for an armed struggle against the United States to put an end to “Western dominion” and establish the reign of Islam. “Now, in order to continue the Islamic Revolution,” says a book for 7th graders, “it is our duty to continue with all [our] power our revolt against the Arrogant Ones [i.e., the United States], and the oppressors, and not cease until all Islam’s commandments and the spread of the redeeming message of ‘there is no god except Allah’ are realized in the whole world.” For 11th graders, the message is, “America is known as an Imperialist country, which embarks on military intervention wherever it sees that its interests are in danger.  It does not refrain from massacring people, burying alive the soldiers of the opposite side and using weapons of mass destruction (as it did in Iraq).  It makes use of atomic bombs (the bombardment of Japan).  It uses the weapons of human rights in order to suppress the justice seekers (as it does in its abuses against Islamic Iran).  It creates the greatest dictatorships and the most violent and torturing security-oriented regimes, and defends them.” The 11th graders are called to action: “O Muslims of all countries of the world!  Since under the foreigners’ dominance gradual death has been inflicted on you, you should overcome the fear of death and make use of the existence of the passionate and the martyrdom-seeking youths, who are ready to smash the borders of unbelief.  Do not think of keeping the status quo.” This study is important – and directly relevant to the current debates in Washington and in other Western capitals about whether to confront or negotiate with Tehran – because it provides important insights into the regime’s long-term ambitions.  We recommend it highly.

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