Comments on: Two Iranian Anniversaries

By: Arman

Arman — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:51:37 +0000

If westerners and phony Iranian ‘opposition’ groups who have chosen to work and help zionist and imperialist forces are serious about human rights in Iran, they must organize their activities towards lifting the economic sanction on Iranian workers and children immediately, otherwise people will continue to hold thier opinion against them as agent of zionist and imperalist forces where we have witness so far. We have to prevent another Iraq at any cost. Hungry Iranian workers and other groups are not able to build anything including decmocratic institution which are needed for any meaningful civil society. Iranian opposition group so far have been competing with each other to get the $ and Uro from the western goverment and arrange their activities in such a way so they can receive an ‘award’ to help their ‘career’. Examples are numerous to be mentioned here. Any visit to Iranian women ‘opposition’ groups site will reveal that Iranian women have no fight with atrocities of the zionist and imperialist at all and are willing to do anything to get award from their activities against the Iranian goverment to satisfy their master, the intelligent agency of the western countries. One example is Parvin Ardalan who recieved an ‘award’ for her activities in ‘One million signature’ admired by ‘voice of America’ yet she has never spoken against raping women in Iraq or stoning of women in North of Iraq, Kurdistan. Shame.

By: Arman

Arman — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:38:37 +0000

Poala

Ahmed Chalabi was and is an agent of the US and the neocons. The neocons still talk about him in good faith. The US government deceived the world when warned about WMD in Iraq. They also knew were lying about ‘bringing democracy’ to Iraq since the US history on this issue tells us the opposite and in fact the US is against democracy in the region and is dependent on Arab puppet head of states to control the region with its resources.
What you have pasted here on Chalabi presents nothing except that Chalabi is not a reliable person and could not deliver what he promised to his masters because Iraqi people view him as a war criminal and a thief who uses anything for power and financial gain. Chalabi with less than 0.5 per cent of the votes showed that he has no credibility among Iraqi people. However it is interesting to see even chalabi is against ‘secret bases’ in Iraq.
There was a division among Iranian ruling circle and their supporters on invasion of Iraq. Khamenaie’s circle was against the war but some of the ‘reformermists’ close to the US who pose as ‘opposition’ now were supporting the invasion including Abdul Karim Soroush, Naser Hadian, Jahanbeglou, Afshari, Atri, Sasegara and those who have become incorporated in the ‘voice of America’, NED, and other American intelligent agencies in addition to those who are active as ‘journalist’ with Internet sites funded by Western governments such as ‘Rouz’ and other journals who have close relation with organization such as ‘Journalists without borders’ or ‘human rights’ organizations.
It is not surprising, however, to see Ahmadinejad is happy to witness Saddam’s fall since Saddam invaded Iran with the help of the US, western and Arab countries which left more than 700,000 deaths. Many Iranians especially in Khuzestan province feel the same. But you must remember it was the US – Israel – Britain where waged a war in 2003 and have killed over one million of Iraqi people not Iran.
Iran like other countries seeks its own national interest, therefore, is trying to have a good relationship with its neighboring countries to push the foreign troops out of Iraq and region who have come from the other side of the globe.
Iraq with shared history and border is next to Iran, thus, it is Iran’s right to be concerned about the stability of Iraq. US, Israel and Britain are trying to keep Iraq unstable to have an excuse to stay permanently in Iraq and the region through act of terrorism and sectarian divide not Iran. If you do a little bit of research you will find out that Iran wants to have a good relation with all neighboring countries regardless of religion or ethnic divide. This point has been said by many people including Iran’s enemies. Iran does not promote sectarian divide and tension in the region because it is against Iran’s interest. Iran has done every thing possible to unite people of the region to neutralize the enemies’ plan to control the region . Thus, the US and the ‘Arab moderate states’ where are involved in act of terrorism are not happy to see people’s unity because unity of the people defeats the empire’s plan to ‘divide and conquer.’

By: paola

paola — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:14:22 +0000

Arman,

as you perfectly know Iran has always supported the US puppets in Iraq, and the Iran-backed sectarian militias (Badr brigades and Mahdi army) ethnic cleansed Baghdad and the south of Iraq and fought agaisnt the iraqi resistance.
Here is a picture for you: http://www.historiae.org/images/BadrMaysanKhumayniCommittee12June2008.JPG
Badr members in Maysan at a joint Iranian-Iraqi function celebrating the Khomeini legacy and a Khomeini aid fund, 12 June 2008

The IRANIAN double agent Chalabi is always in Tehran, where now he barks against his US ex- masters.

June 30, 2008
http://aramroston.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625583-ahmad-chalabi-in-iran-criticizing-us-iraq-agreement-plans
According to the Iranian press this weekend, Ahmad Chalabi, who was so influential in Washington, DC, before the Iraq war, was meeting with Iranians in Tehran. Chalabi spoke out against the US security agreement
with Iraq, which the US wants to have in place because the UN mandate is expiring.

http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/09/19/chalabi_us_wants_secret_bases_in_iraq/80be/
September 19, 2008
– Former Iraqi Deputy Premier Ahmad Chalabi told Iranian state-owned media Friday the United States is seeking to establish secret military bases in Iraq. In an interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency, Chalabi, once a Washington favorite, said U.S. officials are trying to inject agreements for secret bases in Iraq as part of the long-term security contract slated to govern U.S.-Iraqi relations when the U.N. mandate there expires at the end of this year.
etc. etc. etc.

And the DailyKos article you quote didn’t say absolutely anything about Chalabi.

However here you can read hundreds of thousands of articles about Chalabi’s links with Iran:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chalabi+iran&btnG=Search
Of course i don’t believe the US’ claims that they were fooled by the Iran’s agent Chalabi. The US knew who Chalabi was and de facto the US and Iran worked together to produce false intelligence about the alleged Iraqi WMD.

By the way on Spetember 24, 2008, Ahmadinejad confirmed that Iran approved the criminal US war against Iraq:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/364292/ahmadinejad_meets_us_peace_movement
“In response to the questions, Ahmadinejad happily endorsed America’s invasion of Iraq. “Finally, [US leaders] were able to make a good decision for once,” he said, referring to the 2003 war. But now, he said, America has overstayed its welcome, in an effort to dominate the Persian Gulf and secure access to oil. Having eliminated Iran’s enemy, Saddam Hussein, it’s time for the United States to get out. “We have friendly ties with both the government and the people of Iraq,” he declared. “The best help the United States can provide to people in the region is to withdraw troops from the region. Leave the region alone!”

This is my last reply to you, because i don’t like to discuss with people in bad faith.

By: Arman

Arman — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:16:47 +0000

Mehrangiz Kar, a ‘democracy activist ‘ in Iran received her award from Laura Bush who supports a war criminal in name of George Bush who is responsible for more than 1.2 m Iraqi and rapes and destruction. The following picture shows Mrs. Kar who has said nothing on rapes and killings of Iraqi and Afghani people standing nest to Laura Bush while holding her award.
http://www.ned.org/publications/newsletters/summer02.html

By: Arman

Arman — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:46:01 +0000

Paola:

You are not only a liar but an ignorant person who knows nothing about Iran and the role of the Zionist and Imperialist in destabilization of Iran. Ahmed Chalabi is an agent of the US and Israel like Kannan Makiya who has recieved PhD as honorary degree in Israel for his services. Chalabi was with the occupational government and still is, thus like other people in the government he goes to neighboring countries for negociation including Iran, but he has not been back for a long time because he does not represent anyone except his masters, the US and Israel, and his own financial interest. He earned only less than 0.5 percent of the votes in the last election, of course with the help of his master the US and Israel. It is better for you to do some research before revealing yourself even further as an ignorant person. There are plenty of papers written about whatever I have presented here, and if you were interested in the well being of the Iranian people you would have done a little bit of research before going after others.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/21/74045/1543

By: paola

paola — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:10:09 +0000

@Arman
I cannot waste my time to reply your grotesque pack of lies. So, only a few words about the last one.
Chalabi, as all the world knows, is an IRANIAN double agent. And of course he has still excellent relationships with the Iranian government, that has always supported him. .
This is one of his last trips to Teheran ( June 29, 2008): http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-22/0806294436011845.htm
“Chalabi, for his part, felicitated Larijani’s new position as Majlis speaker and said Iraq considers Iran as one of its important friends and added security agreement is one of Iraqi people and officials main problems now.”

By: Arman

Arman — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:47:53 +0000

Iran is a targeted country for partition to bring its resources under control by the Zionist’s plan to create puppet states such as Kurdistan, Khuzistan, Azarbaijan, Baluchistan and other mini states so enemies of Iran can have access to its oil and natural gas and create puppets for Israel in the region. The Iranian left has made numerous mistakes and were involved in many assassinations within their own organizations to monopolize power and even many “left” organizations cooperated with the Islamic government to identify and sacrifice their own rivals with no shame, examples are many including Tudeh Party, Mujahedin, Fadaian, and other ‘left’ organizations where became ‘opposition’ after the government did not share power with them, instead, simply used them and force them out. Thus, majority of these ‘oppositon’ groups became allies of the Zionist and imperialist forces and have sought refuge with the ‘voice of America’, NED, Freedom house, Open society, and so on and so forth. Mehrangiz Kar, ‘woman activist’ and Ramin Jahanbeglou who received award from NED by Laura Bush are one example. Iranian ‘left’ where majority of them were Stalinist before the revolution became Trotskyite for after the revolution. One of the organization that Reza Fiyouzat is involved with and repeats their reactionary slogan and has been supported by the gatekeepers such as Noam Chomsky is the Trotskyite group based in England in name of ‘Hands off the people of Iran’ where were forced out of CASMII because they preach ‘regime change’. This group has the same position as Zionist on Islamic groups such as Hezbullah and Hamas and finds these groups far more dangerous than Zionist groups. This Trotskyite group has make Islam their number one enemy. Their slogan ‘No to Imperialist war, No to theocracy’ has captured Noam Chomsky’s attention and he signed all their petitions. Other Zionist groups who pose as ‘left’ have identical slogan, which is basically calling for ‘regime change’ identical to the Zionist group in a CLEVER way. The west with the leadership of the US and Israel have contributed large amount of resources to bring down the Iranian government. Majority of the Iranian web sites are funded by the western government. Many Iranian ‘activist’ have been given an award for their activities against the government. Shadi Sadr who ‘internationalizes’ stoning in Iran is totally silent on stoning in Kurdistan. Iran is an ancient country. People in remote areas conduct their rules according to their tribe. Government is trying to prevent this conduct but the slave ‘opposition’ do not inform the Iranian government when there is stoning has been set to go rather they prefer to give these information to the ‘Journalist without border’ without informing the government so they can collect ‘AWARDS’ and may obtain GREEN CARD so they can join the rest of the grown at ‘The voice of America’. Please go to ‘voice of America’ to watch these ‘leftist’ who are analyzing Iranian government while they totally ignore the crime of the Zionist and Imperialist.
The riot of April 15-17 2005 in the oil rich province of Khuzestan where caused one death and 200 people also were arrested in Ahwaz capital of Khuzestan where soon after all but 10 were released. The riot started by circulation of a fabricated letter revealed a supposed government plan to move ethnic Persians into the region. This fabricated story is very similar to another fabricated story on minority’s dress code where was written by Amir Taheri, a neocon close to Zionist Israelis in Canadian ‘National Post’ a Zionist paper regarding new legislation in Iranian parliament allegedly requiring Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive colored badges which ran alongside the story a 1935 photograph of a Jewish businessman in Berlin with a yellow six-pointed star sewn on his overcoat, as required by Nazi legislation at the time. Taheri’s lie was exposed and ‘National Post’ had to apologize. The fabricated letter which caused the riot in Khuzestan has similar story. The letter was first published in English on the website of the newly-founded British Ahwazi Friendship Society (BAFS) and then broadcast into Khuzestan over BAFS-supported Al-Ahwaz TV into Iran. It was also provided to Al-Jazeera. Now please PAY ATTENTION to find out who was behind this Fabricated LETTER where caused a big riot and left one dead. To expose this story we must ask ourselves who is Daniel Brett? And when BAFS was funded? Search in the net reveals: In December 2004 Daniel Brett, journalist and Young Fabian, founded BAFS. The BAFS website goes live in March 2005. Within a couple of weeks BAFS receives an explosive letter which appeared to be from the Tehran leadership proposing ethnic cleansing against the Ahwazi Arabs. Shortly thereafter there are protests, riots, arrests and deaths over in Iran. Daniel Brett then uses his journalistic skills and the BAFS brand to focus human rights groups and media attention on the Iranian government’s repression in the Ahwazi region. Isn’t it funny that a few weeks after BAFS’s website installed all of the sudden the fabricated letter appeared on their site and soon after on 15-17 of April there is a big riot in Ahwaz due to this letter appeared on BAFS’ site? It would be suspicious to me. Searching more about Daniel Brett who is so concern about discrimination of Ahwazi reveals that: Daniel Brett is a UK-based consultant on emerging markets and formerly a freelance journalist. Daniel Brett is a journalist specializing in defense, security, hydrocarbons and the petrochemicals industry in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He was educated in politics and development economics at Queen Mary and Westfield College and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is International and Embassy Receptions Officer of the Young Fabians. That’s why many label him as MI6 agent which he denies. We know many people are in denial including the Zionist neocon and their puppets George Bush, dick Cheney and Tony Blair. Daniel Brett claims that: The BAFS does not take any side, but the side of justice, democracy, human rights, secularism and self-determination for the Ahwazi people and indigenous minorities across the world. For someone not taking sides, the BAFS website was heavily attacking Tehran and not acknowledging any of the actions Tehran had taken to calm the peoples in southern Iran following the riots. We should also remember that Mr. Brett’s wife is the secretary and Mansour Silawi-Ahwazi, “the Arab Iranian journalist” who produces most of the content for the Al-Ahwaz TV is the Treasurer of BAFS. The region of Khuzestan has huge undeveloped oil reserves and is conveniently adjacent to Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraqi Kurdistan is where the CIA, tools like Chalabi and agents in Israeli intelligence have operated for the past 20 years and now is the spy network for Israel and US where Kurdish terrorist are trained to be sent to the neighboring countries to destabilize and manufacture crisis so people of the region to turn their anger into riot. Description of Daniel Brett is similar to Chalabi liar who was one of the important enablers of the Zionist plan, the Iraq war.

By: cine

cine — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:31:52 +0000

I agree with Reza Fiyouzat and the issues raised.

However, I think the first priority must be to get the US off the back of the Iranian government.

Iranian progressives will not be able to gain in power whilst there is such an outside power threatening the nation with invasion.

Before this nuclear conflict reformers were gaining power. And the theocrats were having to concede power. Now that has all appears to have been lost.

The first and most important struggle has to be to resist US aggression. Then and only then will Iranians be able to turn to reforming the state.

But whilst supporting Iran and its international rights we must not forget or make light of the terrible crimes of its leaders against their own people.

We can not change the Iranian government’s policies. The Iranian people will do that. We can work to get the US out of the frame and give the Iranian people the space they need.

By: cg

cg — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:28:41 +0000

A very honest and brave article which forces people to confront their own sense of truth and justice.
That is, if they read it.

By: Chris Horton

Chris Horton — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:18:00 +0000

This is a difficult and painful issue for American progressives; how to oppose and resist moves by our government to justify and provoke a war with Iran, while at the same time agreeing with many of their accusations against the regime.

A war with Iran, if we’re very lucky, will “only” result in the deaths of a few million Iranians and a few thousands or tens of thousands of Americans, and “only” cost a few trillion dollars. (It could get much worse!) It will certainly do nothing to advance the cause of democracy and social justice, in Iran or anywhere else. Pointing out the backward and repressive character of the Iranian regime, and the revolution that ended up as mostly a counter-revolution, often feels like collusion with the Empire, the enemy of both our peoples.

But you are right; there is in the end nothing to be gained by not facing the situation honestly and speaking the truth. There is no hiding from it, and our own credibility and moral clarity are at stake.