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No deals with the Iranian Mullahs! /Keine Geschäfte mit den iranischen Mullahs

2009-01-26T22:46:00.000+01:00

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Kundgebung und Infotisch

Keine Geschäfte mit den iranischen Mullahs!

Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2009, 8:00 - 10:00 Uhr

vor dem Hotel Savoyen, Rennweg 16, 1030 Wien

Vom 27. bis 29. Januar findet im Wiener Hotel Savoyen die "European Gas Conference" statt, die maßgeblich von der OMV und Siemens gesponsored wird. Auf der Konferenz soll laut Programm auch über "Möglichkeiten einer Zusammenarbeit mit dem Iran" gesprochen werden.

Wir protestieren gegen die systematischen Bemühungen der beteiligten Firmen, eine Ausweitung der Sanktionen gegen das iranische Regime zu unterlaufen. Die OMV wäre mit ihrem geplanten Milliardendeal mit dem Iran, den mittlerweile nicht einmal mehr der österreichische Außenminister unterstützt, und dem Betreiben des Nabucco-Pipeline-Projekts, das nach den bisherigen Planungen nur dann profitabel wäre, wenn sich Europa in die Abhängigkeit vom iranischen Erdgas begibt, einer der Hauptförderer des iranischen Regimes. Auch Siemens gehörte in den vergangenen Jahren zu den wichtigsten Handelspartnern der Diktatur der Ajatollahs, die heuer ihr 30jähriges Bestehen feiern kann.

Der Ausbau der Beziehungen zu den Machthabern in Teheran bedeutet eine noch stärkere Abhängigkeit von einem Regime, das Einnahmen aus dem Öl- und Gasgeschäft für seinen Kampf gegen den Westen und gegen seine eigene Bevölkerung verwendet. Gerade heute muss auf die iranische Unterstützung für die terroristische Hamas hingewiesen werden, die einer der Hauptgründe dafür ist, dass im Nahen Osten weder Frieden noch Stabilität Einzug halten. Das Regime in Teheran hat die palästinensischen Moslembrüder in ihrem Djihad gegen Israel mit Millionen von Dollar, Waffen und militärischem Training unter die Arme gegriffen. Jedes Geschäft mit dem iranischen Regime bedeutet eine Finanzierung des internationalen Terrorismus. Die iranischen Mordkommandos haben sich in der Vergangenheit auch nicht damit begnügt, im Iran selbst zuzuschlagen. 1989 ermordeten sie beispielsweise in Wien Abdel Rahman Ghassemlou, den Vorsitzenden der Demokratischen Partei Kurdistan Iran und seine Begleiter, ohne dafür von der österreichischen Justiz zur Verantwortung gezogen zu werden.

Die zeitliche Nähe der Konferenz zum internationalen Holocaust-Gedenktag rückt die teilnehmenden Konzerne, von denen einige wie beispielsweise Siemens zu den Profiteuren der Ausbeutung von Zwangsarbeitern im Nationalsozialismus gehört haben, in ein besonders schlechtes Licht. Während weltweit am 27. Januar der Befreiung des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz gedacht wird, konferieren Energiekonzerne in Wien darüber, wie die Geschäftsbeziehungen zu einem antisemitischen Regime wie dem iranischen ausgebaut werden können, das Konferenzen zur Leugnung des Holocaust veranstaltet, Israel seit 30 Jahren mit der Vernichtung droht und bestrebt ist, sich mittels seines Nuklearprogramms die Mittel zu beschaffen, diese Vernichtungsfantasien auch in die Tat umsetzen zu können.

http://www.stopthebomb.net

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Protest and information desk

No deals with the Iranian Mullahs!

Wednesday, January 28th 2009, 8.00 - 10.00 AM

in front of Hotel Savoyen, Rennweg 16, 1030 Vienna

From January 27th to 29th the "European Gas Conference" will take place at the hotel Savoyen in Vienna. This conference is sponsored mainly by OMV and Siemens. According to the conference schedule, one session will deal with "Opportunities for cooperation with Iran".

We protest the systematic efforts of the companies participating that try to undermine a broadening of sanctions against the Iranian regime. In light of OMV's planned billion Euro deal that even isn't supported by the Austrian foreign minister anymore, and its work on the Nabucco pipeline project that according to the current planning would only become profitable if Europe became dependent on Iranian gas, OMV would become a main sponsor of the Iranian regime. Siemens too has been a main trading partner of the Ayatullahs’ dictatorship, which this year celebrates 30 years since its founding.

The further development of economic relations with Iran means Austria and Europe becoming dependent on a regime such as the Iranian one, which uses oil and gas revenues for both its fight against the West and for suppressing its own population. Iran’s support of the terrorist organization Hamas is a major reason why neither peace nor stability find a place in the Middle East. The regime in Tehran helped the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood by giving them millions of dollars, arms and military training for their jihad against Israel. Any trade with the Iranian regime constitutes financing of international terrorism. The Iranian killer commandos have not only operated on their own territory in the past. In 1989 in Vienna, for instance, they murdered Abdel Rahman Ghassemlou, the General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, and his companions, without ever being brought to justice by an Austrian court.

The proximity in time of this conference to the international day of Holocaust-remembrance casts a damning light on the participating companies, some of them, such as Siemens, belonging to the profiteers of forced labor during the era of National-Socialism. While the world remembers the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27th, energy companies are discussing in Vienna how business relations with an antisemitic regime such as the Iranian one can be expanded. This regime organizes conferences on Holocaust denial, threatens Israel for 30 years with annihilation, and is now seeking to achieve its goals through a nuclear program.

http://www.stopthebomb.net

Avicenna / Abu Ali Ibn Sina, Vortrag: Prof. Dr. med. Yadollah Moazami-Goudarzi

2009-01-26T10:54:00.013+01:00

Eine Veranstaltung
des Kulturvereins Dehkhod e. V.
und des Vereins der Iranischen Ärzte e. V

Avicenna / Abu Ali Ibn Sina

Vortrag

Prof. Dr. med. Yadollah Moazami-Goudarzi

Freitag 30. Januar 2009 19:30 Uhr
Literaturhaus Berlin, Fasanenstr. 23, 10719 Berlin
Eintritt frei

http://www.dehkhoda.net/

Volksmudschahedin verschwinden von Terrorliste

2009-01-23T20:37:00.003+01:00

Volksmudschahedin verschwinden von Terrorliste

Voraussichtlich am Montag werden die Iranischen Volksmudschahedin von der Terrorliste der EU gestrichen. Die Oppositionsbewegung hatte im Jahr 2008 mehrmals Recht vor einem europäischen Gericht bekommen. Sie soll sich bereits vor Jahren vom gewalttätigen Kampf verabschiedet haben.

Die iranische Oppositionsbewegung Volksmudschahedin (PMOI) soll am Montag von einer „Terrorliste“ der Europäischen Union gestrichen werden. Mit diesem Beschluss wollen die Außenminister der EU am Montag in Brüssel mehrere Urteile des Europäischen Gerichtshofes umsetzen, sagten EU-Diplomaten.

Die Botschafter der 27 EU-Staaten hätten sich am Donnerstag dafür ausgesprochen, einem entsprechenden Urteil des Europäischen Gerichts erster Instanz Folge zu leisten, verlautete aus Kreisen der tschechischen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft.

Damit würde ein jahrelanger Rechtsstreit mit den PMOI zu Ende gehen. Sie hatten sich erfolgreich gegen die Beschlagnahme ihres Vermögens unter Berufung auf eine UN-Resolution vom September 2001 gewehrt. Der EU-Gerichtshof hatte vor allem bemängelt, dass die Organisation, die das Regime der Mullahs im Iran bekämpft, nicht angehört worden sei, bevor sie auf die „Terrorliste“ gesetzt wurde.

Die in den 60er-Jahren gegründeten Volksmudschahedin gehören der iranischen Exilopposition an und bekämpften die Teheraner Regierung jahrzehntelang vom Irak aus. Im Herbst 2007 aber stellte ein britisches Gericht fest, die Gruppe habe seit 2001 keine Gewalttaten mehr verübt. Damit war die Begründung für ihren Eintrag auf der EU-Terrorliste, der ursprünglich von Großbritannien veranlasst worden war, hinfällig, wie das EU-Gericht erster Instanz im Oktober 2008 feststellte.

Zwischenzeitlich hatten die EU-Regierungen aber bereits eine neue Begründung gefunden, um die Volksmudschahedin weiter als Terrororganisation einzustufen und ihre Vermögen in Europa unter Verschluss zu halten. Bei der letzten Aktualisierung der Liste im Juli 2008 wurden die PMOI wegen Terrorverdachts gegen mutmaßliche PMOI-Mitglieder in Frankreich erneut aufgeführt.

Diese Begründung wurde vom EU-Gericht erster Instanz im Dezember für unzureichend erklärt. Zudem wurde sie den PMOI erst nachträglich mitgeteilt, was die Luxemburger Richter als Verstoß gegen die Verteidigungsrechte der Volksmudschahedin werteten.

http://www.welt.de/politik/article3077056/Volksmudschahedin-verschwinden-von-Terrorliste.html

Schwerer Vorwurf gegen deutsche Bildungseinrichtungen, Stiftungen, Medien sowie die Botschaft in Teheran

2009-01-22T21:29:00.005+01:00

Iran beschuldigt deutsche Stiftungen

Von Wahied Wahdat-Hagh und Joachim Frank,

http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1231945321208.shtml

Schwerer Vorwurf gegen deutsche Bildungseinrichtungen, Stiftungen, Medien sowie die Botschaft in Teheran: Der Iran beschuldigt die Einrichtungen der Spionage. Der iranische Armeechef droht mit möglichen Botschaftsbesetzungen.

BERLIN / KÖLN - Der Iran beschuldigt deutsche Bildungseinrichtungen, Stiftungen, Medien sowie die Botschaft in Teheran der Spionage und umstürzlerischer Umtriebe. Den massiven Vorwürfen, die von staatlich gelenkten Medien wie „Farsnews“ und „Basirat“ verbreitet wurden, folgten kaum verhohlene Drohungen. Der Oberbefehlshaber der Iranischen Revolutionsgarde, General Mohammed Ali Jafari, wird in einem weiteren „Farsnews“-Bericht mit dem Hinweis auf die Besetzung der US-Botschaft in Teheran 1979 zitiert. Um vergleichbare Aktionen im Bedarfsfall wieder zu ermöglichen, müssten Spezialeinheiten ausgebildet werden, so der Armeechef kurz vor den Feiern zum 30. Jahrestag der „Islamischen Revolution“. Das Auswärtige Amt in Berlin protestierte gegen die Anschuldigungen. Die Botschaft des Irans kam mehrfachen Bitten des „Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger“ um Stellungnahme nicht nach.

Als Akteure der vermeintlichen Spionagetätigkeit nennen die Berichte den Deutschen Akademischen Austausch Dienst (DAAD), das Max-Planck-Institut, die Deutsche Welle (DW) sowie die parteinahen Stiftungen. Allein der DAAD förderte im Jahr 2007 insgesamt 235 Studierende und Graduierte sowie 113 Wissenschaftler aus dem Iran.

Die iranischen Medien stellen Auslandsstipendien an iranische Studenten als Mittel hin, potenzielle Spione auszubilden und langfristig das islamische System durch eine „sanfte Revolution“ zu stürzen. Die wissenschaftliche Arbeit der Stiftungen sei nur ein Deckmantel für Spionage. Wer sich als Stipendiat von den Feinden der islamischen Revolution rekrutieren, mit den Idealen der Demokratie vertraut machen und einer „christlichen Weltsicht“ infiltrieren lasse, verliere durch diese „Assimilation“ seine Identität und werde ein williges Werkzeug des Westens.

Die Deutsche Welle nannte den Vorwurf der Spionagetätigkeit „absurd“. Die Berichterstattung des deutschen Auslandsrundfunks „erfolgt auf der Grundlage der Werte und Perspektiven, für die Deutschland in der Welt steht“, sagte DW-Sprecher Johannes Hoffmann dem „Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger“. Der Sender verstehe sich als „deutsche Stimme der Menschenrechte“ und setze „auf freie, ungefilterte Information und die Kraft von Argumenten“. Andere kritisierte Institutionen wollten sich nicht äußern. Intern war aber auch dort von „völlig haltlosen, aberwitzigen Anschuldigungen“ die Rede.

Sign the Petition: Stop destruction of political mass garves in Iran

2009-01-19T19:16:00.001+01:00

Stop destruction of political mass garves in Iran

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To: UN High Commissioner of Human Rights

Ms. Navanethem Pillay
UN High Commisssioner of Human Rights

Your Excellency,

The Islamic regime of Iran has reportedly destructed a number of mass graves in Khavaran Cemetery in past several days. As you may know, in 1980s, the Islamic regime of Iran executed thousands of political prisoners. There are no numbers of the exact amount victims, as a result of harsh censorship and a harsh political climate in Iran. But to this day there are around 20000 known names of victims by families and organizations.

The massacre of political prisoner in the summer of 1988 was climax of at massive elimination process. Today, many families do not know where their loved ones are buried. A number of the graves have been discovered by the families across the country. The most well-known graves are found in Khavaran cemetery in southwest suburbs of the capital of Iran, Tehran. Khavaran has all these years become a place for thousands of families to commemorate their loved ones.

All these years, the Iranian regime has tried to destroy the khavaran, the most important evidence of its most horrifying crime in the Iranian history by destructing the mass graves and transfer the Khavaran into a park. They have digged a number of the graves and possibly moved the remainder of the bodies to unknown place or destroyed them. They have changed the soil and planted a huge number of trees on the top of the graves.

By this petition, will we urge your Excellency, to take what ever action needs, to prevent the destruction of more graves. A prompt action is needed and much appreciated.

Respectfully,

Sincerely,
The Undersigned

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Religiöser (!) Aufruf z.B. zur Erschießung der israelischen Außenministerin

2009-01-18T17:07:00.005+01:00

"Religiöser (!) Aufruf" z.B. zur Erschießung

Mullah Ahmad Dschannati, der Vorsitzende des mächtigen Wächterrats des iranischen „Grundgesetzes (!)“ hat zur Erschießung der israelischen Außenministerin Zipora Livni aufgerufen.

Wann immer er deren Bild sehe, wünsche er sich, jemand würde eine Kugel auf sie abfeuern, sagte Mulla Ahmad Dschannati Ahmad Dschannati in der Freitagspredigt in der „Universität (!) von Teheran“ am 18.01.2009 vor Gläubigen.

Mullahregime bestätigt Bericht über Steinigung

2009-01-17T13:10:00.006+01:00

Mullahregime
bestätigt
Bericht über Steinigung

Sekretariat des nationalen Widerstandsrats Iran
http://www.ncr-iran.org/de/content/view/2048/1/
Saturday, 17 January 2009

Der Iranische Widerstand
ruft alle internationalen Menschenrechtsorganisationen und Behörden, besonders den Hohekommisar der UN für Menschenrechte auf, die bestehenden Menschrechtsverletzungen im Iran zu verurteilen und fordert die Notwendigkeit mehr denn je ein, das Menschenrechtsdossier über den Iran vor den UN Sicherheitsrat zu bringen, um bindende und sofortige Maßnahmen zu ergreifen.

Drei Personen erhängt und ein verdächtiger Tod eines politischen Gefangenen in Orumieh

Einer der Erhängten war 17 Jahre zum Tatzeitpunkt des Verbrechens
NWRI – Die Staatliche Tageszeitung Kayhan schrieb am 13. Januar, dass Mojtaba R. und M.H-A, 24 öffentlich in der Gemeinde Jahrom (Fars Provinz) gehängt wurden.Nach gesicherten Berichten aus dem Gefängnis des Regimes, hängten die Henker der Mullahs ebenfalls Ahmad Zarei, 23, der zum Tatzeitpunkt des Verbrechens, das ihm zur Last gelegt wird, 17 Jahre alt war.

Weiterhin wurde ein 45 jähriger Bewohner mit dem Namen Hashem Ramezani in der nordwestlichen Stadt Mahabad zu Beginn des Jahres 2009 als politischer Gefangener vom Ministerium für Geheimdienste und Sicherheit (MOIS) von Agenten in Mahabad verhaftet. Er wurde zum Hauptquartier des MOIS in Orumieh transportiert und wurde auf mysteriöse Weise vier Tage später im Gefängnis ermordet. Er war verheiratet und hinterlässt einige Kinder.

Ebrahim Lotfollahi, Zahra Bani-Yaghoub (ein Mediziner), Zahra Kazemi (Iranisch-Kanadischer Journalist), Akbar Mohammadi (Universitätsstudent) und Mitglieder der Volksmodjahedin Iran (PMOI), Valiollah Fevez-Mahdavi und Abdolreza Rajabi (Arbeiter und Väter von fünf Kindern) waren ebenfalls unter den Gefangenen, die unter merkwürdigen Umständen starben, während sie in den Gefängnissen des Regimes waren.

Mittlerweile, am 13. Januar 2009, hat ein Justizsprecher der Mullahs Berichte bestätigt, die zuerst vom Iranischen Widerstand aufgedeckt wurden und die damals noch ein Geheimnis waren. Es ging um die brutale Steinigung von drei Menschen im Behesht-Reza Friedhof am 26.Dezember in der heiligen Stadt von Mashhad.
Gleichzeitig dazu hat Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, der Justizvorsitzende der Mullahs, in einem trügerischen Akt die komplette Verbannung von Steinigungen verkündet. Der Sprecher des Justizministeriums erklärte die Unstimmigkeiten, in dem er sagte:“ Aus Sicht der der Unabhängigkeit der Gerichte kann es möglich sein, dass so etwas passiert, so lange der Bann von Steinigungen kein Gesetz ist. Die Anweisung des Justizvorsitzenden könnten noch nicht überall angekommen sein.

Redebeitrag von Dr. Kazem Moussavi auf der Kundgebung am 11.01.2009 in Berlin

2009-01-15T13:59:00.006+01:00

Redebeitrag von

Dr. Kazem Moussavi

auf der Kundgebung „Solidarität mit Israel! Stoppt den Terror der Hamas!“
am 11.01.2009 in Berlin

http://de.stopthebomb.net/de/start/deutschland/text-audio-und-video/texte/rede-kazem-moussavi/

Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde,

ich spreche heute hier als Vertreter der Grünen Partei des Iran und der Stop the Bomb-Koalition, aber auch als eine der Stimmen von Millionen von iranischen Menschen, die direkt von der Expansionspolitik und dem damit verbundenen Antisemitismus und Terrorismus des islamischen Regimes betroffen sind.

Meine Damen und Herren

Unsere Kundgebung demonstriert Solidarität mit Israel, das durch die terroristischen Selbsmordattentate und den Raketenbeschuss von Hamas und Jihade Islami bedroht wird. Hamas wird – wie schon bekannt ist – durch die Revolutionsgardisten des islamischen Regimes im Iran ausgebildet, aufgerüstet und finanziert. Hamas wird – nach Aussagen von Betroffen und Zeugen – durch die Revolutionsgardisten des iranischen Regimes auch bei der Unterdrückungspolitik des Regimes im Iran massiv eingesetzt. Um aber nicht erkannt zu werden, bedecken die Hamas-Leute im Iran ihre Gesichter mit schwarzen Skimasken, welche nur zwei Löcher zum Sehen enthalten.

Damit fühle ich mich heute auch verpflichtet, etwas über die dramatische Lage der Menschenrechte im Iran zu sagen.

Es hat in der islamischen Republik seit 1979 bis jetzt über 100.000 politische Hinrichtungen gegeben, unter den Opfern gibt es auch Schwule, Lesben, bi- und transsexuelle Menschen. Die Leichen der Oppositionellen, die hingerichtet wurden, hat man nach Angaben ehemaliger Inhaftierter des Teheraner Evin-Gefängnisses, in israelische Fahnen gewickelt und verscharrt.

Seit der Machtübernahme von Ahmadinejad hat die Anzahl der Hinrichtungen von Systemgegnern, Frauen, aber auch von Jugendlichen unter 18 Jahren erheblich zugenommen. In den Mullah-Gefängnissen gibt es 174 Arten der Folter, darunter Auspeitschen, Steinigungen und Amputationen von Gliedmassen. Es gab bisher mehr als sieben Millionen Verhaftungen, unter den Verhafteten waren auch Frauen, die die Zwangsverschleierung nicht akzeptiert haben. Die Unterdrückung und sexistische Diskriminierung von Frauen ist an der Tagesordnung. Es werden religiöse Minderheiten wie die Christen, die Bahai und Juden sowie ethnische Minderheiten wie die Kurden verfolgt und ermordet. Das Regime hat bisher 450 terroristische Aktionen im Ausland durchgeführt. Dabei wurden Hizbollah-Mitglieder durch das Regime fuer die Ermordung der Oppositionellen im Aussland – auch hier in Deutschland, im Berliner Restaurant Mykonos, in Paris, Wien, Rom, u.s.w. – eingesetzt.

Deshalb fordern wir, dass die Aktivitäten der vom Iran unterstützten Terrororganisationen Hamas und Hizbollah in Deutschland und in Europa verboten werden, im Interesse der Sicherheit Deutschlands und Israels, aber auch der iranischen Oppositionellen im Exil.

Meine Damen und Herren,

Das deutsche und europäische Appeasement schafft dem iranischen Regime die Möglichkeit, seine antisemitische Politik salonfähig zu machen und seine heimlichen atomaren Plaene voranzubringen.

Aber die Verantwortlichen der Iran-Politik in Deutschland müssen sich über eines im Klaren sein: Die Verwüstungen des Regimes beschränken sich nicht nur auf die Landesgrenzen Irans.

Das Beharren der Mullahs auf dem Export von Fundamentalismus in islamische Länder, aber auch nach Europa und Deutschland,
die Einmischung des Regimes in Angelegenheiten des Nachbarlandes Irak,
die Bemühungen der Mullahs für eine atomare Aufrüstung und
der Verstoss gegen die internationalen Verpflichtungen und den aktuellen UN-Sicherheitsrat-Resolutionen,
sowie kürzlich die Ausschreibung eines Kopfgeldes für die Ermordung des Präsidenten Ägyptens, hat die von diesem Regime ausgehende Gefahr in eine globale Bedrohung verwandelt.

Gleichzeitig hat das islamische Regime der internationalen Gemeinschaft de Facto den Krieg erklärt, in dem es zur Vernichtung Israels aufruft.

Der geistige Führer des Regimes Ayatollah Ali Khamanei hat vor 2 Wochen in einer Fatwa Israel als Kafare Harbi bezeichnet. Kafare Harbi bedeutet soviel wie kriegerischer Ungläubiger.

Mit der Benennung Israels als Kafare Harbi hat Khamenei alle Muslime zum heiligen Krieg gegen Israel aufgerufen. Aus diesen Gründen bitte ich Sie auch im Namen des Stop the Bomb Bündnisses, die Petition für Sanktionen gegen das iranische Regime unbeding zu unterstützen und zu unterschreiben.

Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde,

Auch die Leugnung des Holocaust durch das islamische Regime ist eine Verletzung der Menschenwürde. Die antisemitische Haltung des iranischen Regimes ist ein Aufruf zum Völkermord. Dies darf besonders von Deutschland nicht mehr stillschweigend hingenommen werden.

Lassen Sie mich bitte kurz einige Hintergründe des Gaza-Konflikts und unserer Solidarität mit Israel erläutern.

Die Wahrheit ist, dass in den letzten Monaten den Mullahs und deren Atombombenprojekt auch mit dem massiven Protest der islamischen Länder im Nahen Osten begegnet worden ist. Die Atombombe ist aber für das Fortbestehen des islamischen Regimes existentiell. Hamas ist ein Instrument der Mullahs im Kampf gegen Israel. Hamas sollte mit der Kriegsführung gegen Israel die führende Rolle des islamischen Regimes gegenüber den islamischen Ländern unter Beweis stellen und für das Regime Zeit für den Bau der Atombombe gewinnen. Hamas hat den „Waffenstillstand“ im letzten Jahr wiederholt durch Anschläge gebrochen und im Dezember 2008 einseitig aufgekündigt.

Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde

Die politische Zusammenarbeit und die Wirtschaftsbeziehungen Europas und Deutschlands sind wichtige Stützen des iranischen Regimes geworden, und tragen so auch zur Unterstützung der Hamas bei.

Die Mullahs haben in den letzten Jahren allein aus Öl- und Gasgeschäften jährlich 70 bis 80 Milliarden US-Dollar Gewinn erzielt. Große Teile dieser Gelder wurden in die Atompolitik, in die Aufrüstung des Militärs und in die Unterstützung der terroristischen Strukturen und Gruppierungen im Nahen Osten investiert. Gleichzeitig leben nach offiziellen Angaben mehr als 80 Prozent der iranischen Menschen zurzeit an oder unterhalb der Armutsgrenze.

Wir warnen deshalb:

wer mit den Teheraner Mullahs Geschäfte betreibt und mit ihnen verhandelt, macht sich direkt mitschuldig an dem Terror des iranischen Regimes nach innen und nach außen.

Die Menschen im Iran wissen das sehr genau. Und sie wissen auch, dass das Schicksal Israels heute mit ihrem Schicksal verbunden ist. Tagtäglich gehen beim persischen Programm von Radio Israel Anrufe aus dem Iran ein, in denen die Menschen Israel zu seinen Erfolgen gegen die Hamas beglückwünschen. Denn es ist klar: die Hamas ist die rechte Hand des iranischen Regimes im Nahen Osten. Jede Niederlage der Hamas ist eine Niederlage der iranischen Mullahs – und umgekehrt.

Die Appeasementpolitik Europas und Deutschlands gibt dagegen den Mullahs die Gelegenheit, den Irak unter ihre Macht zu bringen. Sie verschafft den Mullahs atomare Waffen. Sie führt zum heiligen atomaren Krieg des Iran gegen Israel. Sie führt zu einem Verbrechen in der Dimension des Holocaust. Sie führt zum Ausbau terroristisch-fundamentalistischer Netzwerke. Sie führt zur Instabilität in der Region. Sie führt zur Blockade der Friedenspolitik im Nahen Osten. Sie führt zu einem nuklearen Wettstreit und der Aufrüstung in der Region und weltweit.

Daher zum Schluss:

Wir fordern die Isolierung der Hamas, sowie ein Verbot der Hisbollah und ähnlicher Organisationen in Deutschland. Wir erklären uns solidarisch mit den vom islamistischen Terror bedrohten Menschen in Israel, aber auch in Gaza, Libanon oder im Iran

Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist der wichtigste westliche Handelspartner des totalitären Regimes im Iran, welches die Hamas aufrüstet und finanziert.

Deshalb muss Deutschland in Europa den ersten Schritt machen und seine Beschwichtigungspolitik mit den Mullahs sofort beenden. Stop the Appeasement!

Wir fordern schärfere und umfassendere Sanktionen auch im Bereich der Öl- und Gasgeschäfte mit Iran, um so die Haupfinanzierungsquelle der Atombombe des Regimes stoppen zu können.

Wir fordern, dass der Druck auf iranische Oppositionelle aufgehoben wird. Der Dialog muss nicht mit den Mullahs sondern mit der Oppositionellen, die sich für einen demokratischen säkularen Iran einsetzen, geführt werden. Diese Botschaft würde die Menschen im Iran zu Protesten gegen das Regime ermuntern, um ein für allemal die globale Gefahr, die dieses Regime darstellt, zu beseitigen. Vielen herzlichen Dank für Eure Aufmerksamkeit!

Jetzt sind die Grundschüler an der Reihe

2009-01-13T12:53:00.006+01:00

Jetzt sind die Grundschüler an der Reihe!

Von Amir Hassan Cheheltan

Wandmalerei an der ehemaligen amerikanischen Botschaft in Teheran

13. Januar 2009 Ja, es geht weiter, jetzt sind die Grundschüler damit an der Reihe, barfuß auf dem Schulhof zu stehen und mit ihren Schuhen die Karikatur des noch amtierenden amerikanischen Präsidenten zu bewerfen, die mit einem Stück Kohle auf die Schulmauer gezeichnet worden ist. Dies war eine Szene, die das staatliche iranische Fernsehen zeigte.

Die Tat des irakischen Journalisten, der Präsident Bush mit seinen Schuhen bewarf und dazu, wie der iranische Nachrichtensprecher erklärte, sagte: „Du Hund!“ (siehe auch: Nach Attacke auf Bush: Aufstand der Schuhe), erfüllte einige iranische WürdenträgerÄ mit freudiger Zufriedenheit. Der Teheraner Freitagsprediger bezeichnete sie als „Schuh-Intifada“ und verlangte von der Bevölkerung, fortan mit einem Schuh zu antiamerikanischen Demonstrationen zu erscheinen. Er schlug sogar vor, die Schuhe dieses Journalisten im politischen Museum des Irak auszustellen. Anderntags berichtete eine der staatlichen Nachrichtenagenturen, der Betreffende sei Schiit und ein Anhänger Irans.

Die gebetsbegünstigte und gottgewollte Finanzkrise

Dieser Vorfall war allerdings nicht der einzige, der in jüngster Zeit den iranischen Verantwortlichen Anlass zur Genugtuung gegeben hatte. Nach zunehmender Verschärfung der amerikanischen Finanzkrise hatte derselbe Freitagsprediger verkündet: „Wir freuen uns, dass die amerikanische Wirtschaft einen Niedergang erlebt, der sich auch auf Europa ausbreiten wird. Gott bestraft sie für ihre bösen Taten.“ In denselben Tagen erklärte Staatspräsident Ahmadineschad unter Verweis auf die Auflösungserscheinungen des westlichen Imperiums: „Amerika erlebt wegen unserer Gebete eine Krise, und die Hegemonie des Unrechts ist im Begriff, zugrunde zu gehen.“

Der "Präsident" will UN-Hauptsitz in den Iran verlegen lassen

2009-01-12T15:33:00.002+01:00

Der "Präsident"
will
UN-Hauptsitz in den Iran verlegen lassen!

Der iranische „Präsident“ hat am vergangenen Wochenende „neue“ scharfe Worte gefunden: Die UNO müsse ihren Mechanismus verbessern. Dies sei aber nur möglich, wenn sie ihren Hauptsitz aus New York verlegen würde.

Ahmadinedschad betonte, dass der Iran bereit sei, einen neuen, angemesseren Sitz für die UNO zu finden.

„Experten“ vermuten, dass er damit Teheran meint!

Der doppelte Gaza-Krieg der Islamischen "Iranischen Republik(!)"

2009-01-10T11:31:00.012+01:00

Der doppelte Gaza-Krieg
der Islamischen "Iranischen Republik(!)"

Im Gaza-Krieg geht es um die Macht des Iran
WELT ONLINE

Der doppelte Krieg

WELT ONLINE

Israel: Iran steckt hinter Raketenangriffen
sueddeutsche.de
Kampf gilt der Hamas, nicht dem palästinensischen Volk Nürnberger Nachrichten
Iran als Sieger des Konflikts" - Krieg in Gaza
n-tv
Brüder im Zorn
ZEIT ONLINE
Hamas Die Jüdische
Gaza-Krieg Berliner Kurier

Wir verurteilen die Schließung des Menschenrechtszentrums im Iran!

2009-01-05T16:33:00.002+01:00

Sign the petition

Wir verurteilen die Schließung des Menschenrechtszentrums im Iran!

In diesem Jahr feiern wir weltweit den 60. Jahrestag der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte (UDHR - Universal Declaration of Human Rights), und wie überall in der Welt sollte dieser Jahrestag auch im „Zentrum der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte“ im Iran begangen werden.
Allerdings stellt die Diskussion über die Menschenrechte im Iran ein Tabu dar, dessen Bruch unter Strafe gestellt wurde. Aus diesem Grund werden die Verteidiger der Menschenrechte verhaftet, gefoltert und in einigen Fällen auch entführt und getötet.
Wir zitieren hier einen Absatz aus einer am 22. Dezember 2008 erschienenen Presseveröffentlichung der Internationalen Vereinigung für Menschenrechte (FIDH - Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme) und der Weltorganisation gegen Folter (OMCT - Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture):
„Am 21. Dezember 2008 wurde die Teheraner Zentrale des Zentrums der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte, einem Mitglied der FIDH im Iran, auf brutale Weise und ohne rechtliche Legitimation durchsucht und danach von der Polizei geschlossen. Für diesen Tag war ursprünglich eine private Veranstaltung anlässlich des 60. Jahrestags der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte vorgesehen.“
Wie aber verhält es sich nun mit dieser Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte? Haben wir im 21. Jahrhundert nicht das Recht, von Rede-, Meinungs-, Religions- und Glaubensfreiheit zu sprechen? Haben wir nicht das Recht, Gewerkschaften, Verbände, Organisationen und politische Parteien zu gründen und die Gleichheit von Frauen und Männern sowie die Freiheit der wissenschaftlichen Forschung und der Kunst zu verteidigen und in unserer Muttersprache zu sprechen?
Frau Shirin Ebadi, die im Jahr 2003 den Friedensnobelpreis erhielt, hat zusammen mit anderen engagierten Anwälten das Zentrum der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte in Teheran gegründet. Das Büro dieses Zentrums wurde mit Geldern gekauft, die aus der Dotierung des Frau Ebadi verliehenen Nobelpreises stammten.
Wir fordern Aufklärung darüber, durch welches Verhalten und aus welchen Gründen sich das Zentrum der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte diesen Hass und diese brutale Unterdrückung der Islamischen Regierung des Iran zugezogen hat.
In ihren Statuten hat diese Organisation drei Punkte festgeschrieben:
1.Unentgeltliche Verteidigung von Meinungs- und politischen Gefangenen.
2.Unterstützung der Familien von Meinungs- und politischen Gefangenen.
3.Andauernde Veröffentlichung von Verletzungen der Menschenrechte im Iran.
Vor dem Hintergrund der Tatsache, dass es Abgesandten der Vereinten Nationen nicht möglich ist, ein Einreisevisum für den Iran zu erhalten, sehen verschiedene internationale Organisationen und der UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki-Moon unsere Berichte als authentische Quelle für Informationen zur Menschenrechtssituation im Iran an, um den Iran wegen der begangenen Menschenrechtsverletzungen vor der Allgemeinen Vollversammlung der UN 2008 zu verurteilen.
Wir klagen hiermit die iranische Regierung wegen der Schließung des Zentrums der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte im Iran und der Gefährdung von Leib und Leben der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte an.
Wir, die Unterzeichner dieser Petition, seien wir Privatpersonen, politische Parteien, Interessensgruppen oder Organisationen, erklären unsere volle Unterstützung für die Verteidiger der Menschenrechte und verurteilen offiziell sämtliche Arten von Einschüchterung, Verhaftung und Missachtung gegenüber diesen Aktivisten und insbesondere gegenüber Frau Shirin Ebadi.
Wir fordern die iranische Regierung in ihrer Eigenschaft als Unterzeichner der Konventionen der Vereinten Nationen auf, unverzüglich die bedingungslose Wiedereröffnung des Zentrums der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte anzuordnen.

Diese Petition wird unterstützt von:

Fédération d’Europerse, Belgien
Amnesty International Belgien
Internationale Vereinigung für Menschenrechte
Liga für Menschenrechte im Iran (nach Paris verbannt)
Anwar Mir Sattari, Mitglied der Europäischen Grünen Partei (EGP)
Emile Frank, AI Belgien
R. Gilavai, persischer Dichter und Leiter des Menschenrechtsbüros Europerse
Diese Petition wird in folgenden Sprachen veröffentlicht: Persisch (Farsi), Englisch, Französisch, Niederländisch, Türkisch, Spanisch, Italienisch, Arabisch, Russisch, Azeri und Deutsch.
Die gesammelten Unterschriften werden wöchentlich an die folgenden Organisationen und Personen versandt, bis das Zentrum der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte wieder geöffnet und das Zutrittsverbot aufgehoben wird:
1.Vereinte Nationen
2.Amnesty International
3.Der Präsident des Europäischen Parlaments
4.Abteilung für Menschenrechte des Europäischen Parlaments
5.alle Mitglieder des Europäischen Parlaments
6.alle Friedensnobelpreisträger
7.alle demokratischen Parteien und iranischen Oppositionsgruppen
8.Vereinigung Iranischer Schriftsteller
9.Internationale Medien
Anmerkung : Wenn Sie diese Petition unterzeichnen, dann bitte mit Ihrem vollständigen Vor- und Familiennamen. Unvollständige bzw. abgekürzte Unterschriften werden nicht berücksichtigt.

Written By:

A – The Organisations:
Amnesty International (Francophone) - Belgium,
Federation Europerse - Belgium,
Foundation Abdolrahman Broumand,
International Federation of Leagues of Human Rights (FIDH),
League of Human Rights in Iran (exiled in France).

B- The Personality:

1.Abghari Shahla, Professor, Life University, USA,
2.Abghari Siavash, Professorof Business Administration, Morehouse College, USA,
3.Aghelizadeh Abbas, Republicain, Human Rights activist – Germany,
4.Allamehzadeh Reza, Film-director, Writer -Netherlands,
5.Amjadi Nastaran, Women’s Movement and Human Rights activist - Germany,
6.Araz M. Fanni, Coordinator for Forum Human Rights and democracy & Coordinator for Federation of Iranian Associations in Sweden,
7.Aryanpour Amir-Houshang, writer and researcher, Member of Iranian National Planning Group (INPG) - USA,
8.Ashouri Dariush, writer, political, social, literary and linguistic critic – France,
9.Bekaert Philipp, philosophe and activist Republican and laïc in Belgium,
10.Beizaie Niloufar, Director, actress and political activist- Germany,
11.Choubineh Bahram, Writer - Germany,
12.Coeurnelle Didier, Belgian Green Party (ECOLO) representative in central council of European Green Parties – Belgium,
13.Darvishpour Mehrdad, Professor of sociology, University of Stockholm - Sweden,
14.Degati Reza, Photojournalist, "President & Founder Ainaworld.org"- France,
15.Feyzi Shahab, Human Rights activist – Sweden,
16.Fincan Tural, member of the Belgian Green Party ( ECOLO) - Belgium,
17.Frank Emile, Amnesty International – Belgium,
18.Geerts Nadia, One of the founders of the Europress, philosophe and activist Republican and laïc in Belgium,
19.Ghasemi Akhgtar, journalist and photographer – Germany,
20.GilAvaei,Responsible for the section of DDH EUROPERSE and Poet & writer in exile - Netherlands,
21.Gubin Eliane, Professor Emeritus, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Belgium,
22.IDJADI Jalal, University professor and member of the Green Party – France,
23.Lahidji Abdel-Karim, Director of the Human Rights League in Iran – France,
24.Mamedova  Tarana, Co - Chairman  of the Greens' Party of the Republic of Azerbaijan,
25.Mir Sattari Anwar, member of the European Green Party and president of the Federation Europerse,
26.Mohseny Parvine, Gender equality activist and the vice-chair of EUROPERSE, Belgium,
27.Nadjie Nima, Human Rights activist - Sweden,
28.Nayeb Hashem Hassan, Human Rights activist – Austrian,
29.Ohadi Saeid, Human Rights activist – Sweden,
30.Ordoukhani Abolfazl, Writer, Belgium,
31.Parsipur Shahrnush, writer and ex-political prisoner – USA,
32.Pour-Naghavi Ali, Editor of « Kar-online » publication – Netherlands,
33.Puissant Jean, Professor Emeritus, “Université Libre de Bruxelles” - Belgium,
34.Shams Haeri Hadi, Human Rights activist,
35.Taghipoor Masoomeh, Director, actress, poet & researcher – Sweden.

Protect Human Rights in Iran

Signatures

Published by EUROPERSE on Jan 03, 2009

Category: Human Rights

Region: GLOBAL

Target: all world citizens

Description/History:

On the 21st of December 2008, the secret police entered the headquarters of the centre of the Defenders of Human Rights, the only non-governmental organisation for human rights and a member of the FIDH in Iran, by force and without legal warrant and, sealed the centre.

This letter is written in Persian, English, French, Dutch, Turkish, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Russian.

English
01-01-2009

We strongly condemn the closure of the Centre of the Defenders of Human Rights in Iran!

This year, People around the world are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the publication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as the highest achievement of man.

The Centre of the Defenders of Human Rights in Iran also decided to commemorate this day alongside the international institutions.

However, , to talk about the Human Rights in Iran is a crime and to defend human rights entails punishment. The activists and supporters of Human Rights are arrested, tortured and disappeared in certain cases.

In the press release of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) is written:

“On the 21st of December 2008, the secret police entered the headquarters of the centre of the Defenders of Human Rights, the only non-governmental organisation for human rights and a member of the FIDH in Iran, by force and without legal warrant and, sealed the centre.

What is written in the universal Charter to justify such actions?

Don't we have the right to talk about and defend the freedom of speech, religion, personal opinion, press, political parties, art & literature, learning & research, gender equality, the right to form trade unions and the right to speak in your mother tongue in the 21st century?

The centre for the defenders of Human Rights is set up by Shirin Ebadi- the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and a few human rights lawyers in Tehran. The building of the centre is purchased by the money Mrs. Ebadi received as her Nobel Prize in 2003.

The Iranian government attacks the centre regardless the fact that the activities of the centre are lawful. The centre follows three humane and grand objectives in its constitution that are also mentioned in their letter protesting the closure of the centre.

“The centre of the defenders of Human Rights has three main duties according to its constitution,
1.free legal representation for prisoners of conscience and political prisoners
2.supporting families of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners
3.regular and continuous report on abuse of Human rights in Iran “

Many International organisations are referring to the above centre reports following the fact that no visa is issued for any of the Human Rights reporters of the United Nation during the last two years. Ban-gi-Moon, the general secretary of the UN, refers to the report of the centre in his presentation to the general assembly in December 2008 that voted new sanctions against Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Iranian Government is responsible for the closure of the centre for the defenders of Human Rights and the abuse of the activists and supporters of Human rights in Iran. We demand the reopening of the centre and immunity for all the members against any further abuse.

We, the signatories of this letter including individuals, groups, organisations and political parties fully support the activists of the centre of the defenders of Human Rights and strongly condemn any abuse against them especially Mrs. Shirin Ebadi. We also regard the actions of the Iranian government who is a signatory of the UN conventions inhumane and unacceptable.

We are asking the Iranian authorities who issued the order for sealing the centre, to allow the reopening of the centre and breaking the seal as soon as possible.

This letter is written in Persian, English, French, Dutch, Turkish, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Arabic, Russian and Azeri.

The collected signatures will be sent to the following organisations every week until the reopening of the centre:

1.The United Nations
2.Amnesty International
3.The President of the European Parliament
4.Human rights department in the European Parliament
5.The Members of the European Parliament
6.All recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize
7.All democratic parties and Iranian oppositions
8.Association of Iranian writers
9.International medias

Note: If you wish to sign this petition, please use your real name and surname and, write them fully. Pseudo-names will be deleted from the list.

Written By:
A – The Organisations:
Amnesty International (Francophone) - Belgium,
Federation Europerse - Belgium,
Foundation Abdolrahman Broumand,
International Federation of Leagues of Human Rights (FIDH),
League of Human Rights in Iran (exiled in France).

B- The Personality:

1.Abghari Shahla, Professor, Life University, USA,
2.Abghari Siavash, Professorof Business Administration, Morehouse College, USA,
3.Aghelizadeh Abbas, Republicain, Human Rights activist – Germany,
4.Allamehzadeh Reza, Film-director, Writer -Netherlands,
5.Amjadi Nastaran, Women’s Movement and Human Rights activist - Germany,
6.Araz M. Fanni, Coordinator for Forum Human Rights and democracy & Coordinator for Federation of Iranian Associations in Sweden,
7.Aryanpour Amir-Houshang, writer and researcher, Member of Iranian National Planning Group (INPG) - USA,
8.Ashouri Dariush, writer, political, social, literary and linguistic critic – France,
9.Bekaert Philipp, philosophe and activist Republican and laïc in Belgium,
10.Beizaie Niloufar, Director, actress and political activist- Germany,
11.Choubineh Bahram, Writer - Germany,
12.Coeurnelle Didier, Belgian Green Party (ECOLO) representative in central council of European Green Parties – Belgium,
13.Darvishpour Mehrdad, Professor of sociology, University of Stockholm - Sweden,
14.Degati Reza, Photojournalist, "President & Founder Ainaworld.org"- France,
15.Feyzi Shahab, Human Rights activist – Sweden,
16.Fincan Tural, member of the Belgian Green Party ( ECOLO) - Belgium,
17.Frank Emile, Amnesty International – Belgium,
18.Geerts Nadia, One of the founders of the Europress, philosophe and activist Republican and laïc in Belgium,
19.Ghasemi Akhgtar, journalist and photographer – Germany,
20.GilAvaei,Responsible for the section of DDH EUROPERSE and Poet & writer in exile - Netherlands,
21.Gubin Eliane, Professor Emeritus, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Belgium,
22.IDJADI Jalal, University professor and member of the Green Party – France,
23.Lahidji Abdel-Karim, Director of the Human Rights League in Iran – France,
24.Mamedova  Tarana, Co - Chairman  of the Greens' Party of the Republic of Azerbaijan,
25.Mir Sattari Anwar, member of the European Green Party and president of the Federation Europerse,
26.Mohseny Parvine, Gender equality activist and the vice-chair of EUROPERSE, Belgium,
27.Nadjie Nima, Human Rights activist - Sweden,
28.Nayeb Hashem Hassan, Human Rights activist – Austrian,
29.Ohadi Saeid, Human Rights activist – Sweden,
30.Ordoukhani Abolfazl, Writer, Belgium,
31.Parsipur Shahrnush, writer and ex-political prisoner – USA,
32.Pour-Naghavi Ali, Editor of « Kar-online » publication – Netherlands,
33.Puissant Jean, Professor Emeritus, “Université Libre de Bruxelles” - Belgium,
34.Shams Haeri Hadi, Human Rights activist,
35.Taghipoor Masoomeh, Director, actress, poet & researcher – Sweden.

Français

Nous condamnons fortement la fermeture des bureaux du Centre des défenseurs des Droits De l'Homme en Iran!

Cette année correspond au 60ème anniversaire de la déclaration universelle des Droits de l’Homme. Le Centre des défenseurs des droits de l’Homme en Iran (CDDH) souhaitait ainsi commémorer cet événement, à l’instar des autres organisations de défense des droits de l’homme dans le monde.

Il semblerait cependant que parler des DDH en Iran soit tabou et qu’aller à l'encontre de ce tabou suppose des châtiments. C’est ainsi que des défenseurs des DDH en Iran sont régulièrement arrêtés, torturés et dans certains cas kidnappés et tués. Voici à ce propos un passage du communiqué de presse du 22/12/08 de la Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme (FIDH) et de l’Organisation mondiale contre la torture (OMCT ) :
« Le 21 décembre 2008, le siège du Centre des défenseurs des droits de l’Homme, à Téhéran, organisation membre de la FIDH en Iran, a été brutalement perquisitionné sans mandat d’un juge et fermé par la police. Une réunion privée y était prévue le jour-même à l’occasion du 60ème anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme (DUDH).»

Mais qu’y a-t-il donc derrière cette DUDH? Les Iraniens n’ont-ils pas le droit en ce 21ème siècle de parler de la liberté d'expression, d'opinion, de conviction religieuse ou philosophique? Le droit de se réunir en association, syndicat, organisation, parti politique doit-il leur être refusé? Pourquoi ne pourraient-ils donc pas aborder la question de la parité entre les femmes et les hommes, réclamer plus de liberté pour la recherche scientifique, pour la création artistique et s'exprimer dans la diversité de leurs langues maternelles ?
Madame Shirin Ebadi, lauréate du prix Nobel de la paix en 2003, en collaboration avec d'autres avocats et juristes ont créé le bureau du Centre des défenseurs des droits de l’homme à Téhéran. Le local de ce centre a été acquis avec l'argent que Madame Shirin Ebadi a reçu pour son prix de Nobel.

Les statuts du CDDH tiennent en 3 points essentiels :
1.La défense gratuite des prisonniers d'opinion et politiques,
2.Le soutien aux familles de ces prisonniers,
3.La publication régulière des violations des DDH en Iran.

Dès lors que depuis deux ans, les inspecteurs des Nations-Unies n'ont pas pu obtenir un visa pour l'Iran, plusieurs organisations internationales, ainsi que Monsieur Ban Ki Moon, le secrétaire Général de l'ONU, ont utilisé les rapports du CDDH comme principale source digne de foi pour apprécier la situation des DDH en Iran, ce qui a abouti à une condamnation de l'Iran lors de l'assemblée générale 2008 des Nations-Unies pour violation des droits humains.

Nous rejetons au gouvernement iranien toute la responsabilité de la fermeture du siège du Centre... et la potentielle mise en danger de la vie des défenseurs des DDH.
Nous les signataires, en tant qu'individus, partis politiques, groupes ou organisations, souhaitons vivement exprimer notre soutien total aux défenseurs des droits humains en Iran et condamnons formellement, toute forme d'intimidation, d’arrestation et de mépris vis-à-vis de ces activistes en particulier à l’égard de Madame Shirin Ebadi.
Nous exigeons du gouvernement iranien, membre signataire des conventions des Nations-Unies, qu’il permette la réouverture immédiate et inconditionnelle du CDDH.

Cette pétition est publiée en persan, anglais, français, néerlandais, turc, espagnol, italien, arabe, russe, Azéri, suédois et allemand...

En attendant la réouverture du Centre des défenseurs des Droits De l'Homme en Iran, les signatures récoltées chaque semaine seront envoyées aux organisations et aux personnalités mentionnées ci-dessous :
1.- Les Nations-Unies,
2.- Amnesty International,
3.- La Présidence du Parlement européen,
4.- Le responsable des Droits de l'Homme du Parlement européen,
5.- Les Euro-députés,
6.- Tous ceux qui ont reçu un prix de Nobel,
7.- Tous les partis démocratiques en exil d'opposition au régime iranien actuel,
8.- L'association des Ecrivains iraniens,
9.- Les médias internationaux.

Rappel : Veuillez s’il vous plaît si vous souhaitez signer la pétition, écrire lisiblement et complètement votre nom et prénom.

Cette pétition est une initiative de:

A - Des Organisations

Amnesty International (Francophone) – Belgique,
Fédération Europerse - Belgique ,
Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Hommes ( FIDH),
Fondation Abdolrahman Broumand,
Ligue des Droits de l'Homme d'Iran (Exilé en France),

B – Des Personnalités:

1.Abghari Shahla, Professeur de l'Université – USA,
2.Abghari Siavash,Professeur de l'Université – USA,
3.Aghelizadeh Abbas, Républicain et Activiste des DDH – Allemagne,
4.Allamehzadeh Reza, Ecrivain, Cinéaste – Hollande,
5.Amjadi Nastaran, Activiste de la parité femme – homme et activiste des DDH, Allemagne,
6.Aryanpour Amir-Houshang, Membre de «Iranian National Planing Group (INPG)» - USA,
7.Ashouri Dariush, Ecrivain et Critique – France,
8.Philipp Bekaert, philosophe et militant républicain et laïque, Belgique
9.Beizaie Niloufar, Réalisatrice,artiste et activiste politique- Allemagne,
10.Choubineh Bahram, Ecrivain – Allemagne,
11.Coeurnelle Didier, Délégué du Parti des Verts belges (ECOLO) au conseil du parti Vert Européen – Belge,
12.Darvishpour Mehrdad, Professeur des universités Stockholm et sociologue – Suède,
13.Degati Reza, Photojournalist, «President & Founder Ainaworld.org» –France,
14.Feyzi Shahab, Activist des DDH – Suède,
15.Fincan Tural, Membre du Party vert belge ( ECOLO) - Belgique
16.Frank Emile, Amnesty international – Belgique,
17.Geerts Nadia, Fondatrice d'EUROPERSE, philosophe et militante républicaine et laïque, Belgique
18.Ghasemi Akhgtar, journaliste & Photographe – Allemagne,
19.GilAvaei, Responsible de la section des DDH d'EUROPERSE et Poet, écrivain- Holland,
20.Gubin Eliane, Professeur émérite, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Belgique,
21.IDJADI Jalal, professeur à l'université et membre du parti des Verts en France,
22.Lahidji Abdel-Karim, Président de la Ligue des DDHI – France,
23.M. Fanni Araz, Directeur du Cercle DDH & Démocratie en Iran, Président d'Union des Iraniens de Suède,
36.Mamedova  Tarana, Co – Présidente du Parti des Verts de la République Azerbaijan,
24.Mir Sattari Anwar, membre du parti verts européens et président d' Europerse – Belgique,
25.Mohseny Parvine, Activiste pour parité femme–homme, Vice-présidente d'EUROPERSE – Belgique,
26.Nadjie Nima, Activiste des DDH - Suède,
27.Nayeb Hashem Hassan, Activiste des DDH - ْAutriche,
28.Ohadi Saeid, Activiste des DDH - Suède,
29.Ordoukhani Abolfazl, Ecrivain – Belgique,
30.Parsipur Shahrnush, Ecrivain, ancienne prisonnière politique – USA,
31.Pour-naghavi Ali, Rédacteur en chef du «Kar-Online» - Hollande,
32.Puissant Jean, Professeur émérite, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Belgique,
33.Shams Haeri Hadi,Activiste des DDH,
34.Taghipoor Masoomeh, Réalisatrice,artiste, Poétesse, chercheuse – Suède.

Néerlandais

   
We veroordelen krachtig de sluiting van het kantoor van het Centrum van de verdedigers van de Rechten van de Mens in Iran!

In de ganse wereld wordt dit jaar de 60ste verjaardag gevierd van de universele verklaring van de Rechten van de Mens. Het Centrum van de verdedigers van de Rechten van de Mens (CVRM) in Iran wou dit mee herdenken samen met de rest van de wereld.
Blijkbaar is praten over de rechten van de mens in Iran taboe en ingaan tegen dit taboe leidt tot straffen.
Zo worden de verdedigers van de Rechten van de Mens aangehouden, gefolterd en in bepaalde gevallen gegijzeld en gedood. Wij citeren een passage uit het persbericht van 22 december 2008 van de Internationale Federatie van de bonden van de Rechten van de Mens (FIDH) en van de Wereldorganisatie tegen de foltering: " De 21ste december 2008 is het centrum van de verdedigers van de Rechten van de Mens, een lidorganisatie van de FIDH in Iran, voorwerp geweest van een brutale huiszoeking zonder bevel van een rechter en is het gesloten door de politie. Een private bijeenkomst was er gepland dezelfde dag ter gelegenheid van de 60ste verjaardag van de Universele Verklaring van de Rechten van de Mens.
Maar wat is er verborgen achter deze CVRM? Hebben we in de 21ste eeuw niet het recht om te spreken over de vrije meningsuiting, van godsdienst of overtuiging, van het recht van vakbonden, van vereniging, van organisatie, van partij, van gelijkheid van vrouwen en mannen, van vrijheid van wetenschappelijk onderzoek, van de kunsten en van het recht om in de moedertaal te spreken?
Mevrouw Shirin Ebadi, Nobelprijs voor de Vrede in 2003 heeft in samenwerking met andere geëngageerde advocaten het kantoor van het centrum van de verdedigers van de Rechten van de Mens in Teheran opgericht. Het lokaal van het centrum is aangekocht met het geld dat mevrouw Shirin Ebadi heeft ontvangen voor de Nobelprijs. Men vraagt zich af wegens welk gedrag en waarom het centrum voor de Rechten van de Mens zo wordt betwist en brutaal onderdrukt door de Iraanse islamitische regering.
Deze beweging heeft drie objectieven in zijn statuten gezet:
1.Gratis verdediging van politieke gevangenen of gevangenen om poltieke redenen;
2.Ondersteuning van families van politieke gevangenen of gevangenen om poltieke redenen
3.Het regelmatig rapporteren over de schending van de Rechten van de Mens in Iran.
Omdat sinds 2 jaar de verslaggevers van de Verenigde Naties geen visum krijgen voor Iran, hebben verschillende internationale organisaties evenals de heer Ban Ki Moon gebruik gemaakt van de rapporten van CVRM als authentieke bron over de sitatuatie van de Mensenrechten in Iran dat tijdens de Algemene Vergadering van de UNO leidde tot het veroordelen van Iran voor schending van de Mensenrechten.
Wij achten de Iraanse regering verantwoordelijk voor de sluiting van het centrum van de verdedigers van de Mensenrechten in Iran en voor het mogelijk in gevaar brengen van het leven van de verdedigers van de Mensenrechten.
Ondergetekenden bevestigen persoonlijk, als politieke partij, als groep of organisatie volledige steun aan de verdedigers van de Mensenrechten in Iran en veroordelen formeel elke intimidatie, aanhouding of misprijzen tegenover deze activisten en vooral mevrouw Shirin Ebadi. We eisen van de Iraanse regering, lidstaat ondertekenaar van de Verdragen van de Verenigde Naties, onmiddellijk het bevel te geven tot heropening van het centrum van de verdedigers van de Mensenrechten in Iran.
De petitie is bekendgemaakt in het Perzisch, het Engels, het Frans, het Nederlands, het Turks, het Spaans, het Italiaans, het Russisch, en het Duits. Elke week worden de verzamelde handtekeningen gezonden naar de organisaties die hieronder vermeld worden in afwachting van de heropening van het Centrum van de verdedigers van de Mensenrechten in Iran:
1.De Verenigde Naties
2.Amnesty International;
3.De Voorzittter van het Europees Parlement;
4.De verantwoordelijken voor de Mensenrechten in het Europees Parlement;
5.De leden van het Europees Parlement;
6.De Laureaten van de Nobelprijs;
7.Alle democratische en verbannen oppositiepartijen van Iran;
8.De Vereniging van Iraanse schrijvers;
9.De Internationale media. 
Noot : uw ondertekening van deze petitie is enkel geldig als u uw voornaam en naam juist en volledig schrijft.

Deze petitie is een initiatief van de volgende verenigingen en personen:
A.Organisaties
Amnesty International België (franstalige afdeling),
De vereniging Europerse,
De internationale liga van de mensenrechten,
De stichting Abdolrahman Broumand,
De liga van de mensenrechten Iran (verbannen naar Frankrijk).
B. Personaliteiten:
1.Abghari Shahla, Professor, Life University – VS,
2.Abghari Siavash, Professorof Business Administration, Morehouse College - VS,
3.Aghelizadeh Abbas, Republikein, mensenrechtenactivist – Duitsland,
4.Allamehzadeh Reza, Filmregisseur, Schrijver - Nederland,
5.Amjadi Nastaran, vrouwenbeweging- en mensenrechtenactivist - Duitsland,
6.Araz M. Fanni, Directeur Cercle DDH & Democratie in Iran, voorzitter van Iraanse koepelvereniging in Zweden – Zweden,
7.Aryanpour Amir-Houshang, Schrijver, onderzoeker, lid van de Iraanse Nationale Planningsgroep (INPG) - VS,
8.Ashouri Dariush, schrijver en criticus – Frankrijk,
9.Philipp Bekaert, voorzitter van de vereniging van Belgische Republikeinen – België,
10.Beizaie Niloufar, Director, actress en political activist - Duitsland,
11.Choubineh Bahram, Schrijver – Duitsland,
12.Coeurnelle Didier, afgevaardigde van de Belgische Groene Partij (Ecolo) aan de Europese Groene Partij – België,
13.Darvishpour Mehrdad, professor sociologie Universiteit van Stockholm – Zweden,
14.Degati Reza, fotojournalist, "President & oprichter Ainaworld.org"-Frankrijk,
15.Feyzi Shahab, activist van DDH – Zweden,
16.Fincan Tural, lid van de Belgische Groene Partij ( ECOLO) – België,
17.Frank Emile, Amnestie International - België,
18.Geerts Nadia, oprichter van EUROPERSE en voorzitter van de vereniging van Belgische Republikeinen – België,
19.Ghasemi Akhtar, journalist en fotograaf - Duitsland
20.Gil-Avaei, Verantwoordelijk voor de afdeling van DDH EUROPERSE, dichter, schrijver -Nederland,
21.Gubin Eliane, professor emeritus aan de Universite Libre de Bruxelles – België,
22.IDJADI Jalal, professor, lid van de Groene Partij in Frankrijk,
23.Lahidji Abdel-Karim, Voorzitter van de Liga van DDHI – Frankrijk,
24.Mamedova  Tarana, Co - Chairman  of the Greens' Party of the Republic of Azerbaijan,
25.Mir Sattar Anwar, lid van de Europese Groene Partij en voorzitter van de Federatie Europerse - België,
26.Mohseny Parvin, vrouwenbewegingactivist, vicevoorzitter van EUROPERSE - België,
27.Nadjie Nima, mensenrechtenactivist - Zweden,
28.Nayeb Hashem Hassan, mensenrechtenactivist – Oostenrijk,
29.Ohadi Saeid, mensenrechtenactivist – Zweden,
30.Ordoukhani Abolfazl, schrijver, België,
31.Parsipur Shahrnush, schrijver, ex politieke gevangene – VS,
32.Pour-naghavi-Ali, hoofdredacteur van "Kar-Online – Nederland,
33.Puissant Jean, professor emeritus aan de Universite Libre de Bruxelles - België
34.Shams Haeri Hadi, mensenrechtenactivist,
35.Taghipoor Masoomeh, cineaste, kunstenares, dichtster en onderzoekster – Zweden.

Deutsch

Wir verurteilen die Schließung des Menschenrechtszentrums im Iran!

In diesem Jahr feiern wir weltweit den 60. Jahrestag der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte (UDHR - Universal Declaration of Human Rights), und wie überall in der Welt sollte dieser Jahrestag auch im „Zentrum der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte“ im Iran begangen werden.
Allerdings stellt die Diskussion über die Menschenrechte im Iran ein Tabu dar, dessen Bruch unter Strafe gestellt wurde. Aus diesem Grund werden die Verteidiger der Menschenrechte verhaftet, gefoltert und in einigen Fällen auch entführt und getötet.
Wir zitieren hier einen Absatz aus einer am 22. Dezember 2008 erschienenen Presseveröffentlichung der Internationalen Vereinigung für Menschenrechte (FIDH - Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme) und der Weltorganisation gegen Folter (OMCT - Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture):
„Am 21. Dezember 2008 wurde die Teheraner Zentrale des Zentrums der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte, einem Mitglied der FIDH im Iran, auf brutale Weise und ohne rechtliche Legitimation durchsucht und danach von der Polizei geschlossen. Für diesen Tag war ursprünglich eine private Veranstaltung anlässlich des 60. Jahrestags der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte vorgesehen.“
Wie aber verhält es sich nun mit dieser Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte? Haben wir im 21. Jahrhundert nicht das Recht, von Rede-, Meinungs-, Religions- und Glaubensfreiheit zu sprechen? Haben wir nicht das Recht, Gewerkschaften, Verbände, Organisationen und politische Parteien zu gründen und die Gleichheit von Frauen und Männern sowie die Freiheit der wissenschaftlichen Forschung und der Kunst zu verteidigen und in unserer Muttersprache zu sprechen?
Frau Shirin Ebadi, die im Jahr 2003 den Friedensnobelpreis erhielt, hat zusammen mit anderen engagierten Anwälten das Zentrum der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte in Teheran gegründet. Das Büro dieses Zentrums wurde mit Geldern gekauft, die aus der Dotierung des Frau Ebadi verliehenen Nobelpreises stammten.
Wir fordern Aufklärung darüber, durch welches Verhalten und aus welchen Gründen sich das Zentrum der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte diesen Hass und diese brutale Unterdrückung der Islamischen Regierung des Iran zugezogen hat.
In ihren Statuten hat diese Organisation drei Punkte festgeschrieben:
1.Unentgeltliche Verteidigung von Meinungs- und politischen Gefangenen.
2.Unterstützung der Familien von Meinungs- und politischen Gefangenen.
3.Andauernde Veröffentlichung von Verletzungen der Menschenrechte im Iran.
Vor dem Hintergrund der Tatsache, dass es Abgesandten der Vereinten Nationen nicht möglich ist, ein Einreisevisum für den Iran zu erhalten, sehen verschiedene internationale Organisationen und der UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki-Moon unsere Berichte als authentische Quelle für Informationen zur Menschenrechtssituation im Iran an, um den Iran wegen der begangenen Menschenrechtsverletzungen vor der Allgemeinen Vollversammlung der UN 2008 zu verurteilen.
Wir klagen hiermit die iranische Regierung wegen der Schließung des Zentrums der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte im Iran und der Gefährdung von Leib und Leben der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte an.
Wir, die Unterzeichner dieser Petition, seien wir Privatpersonen, politische Parteien, Interessensgruppen oder Organisationen, erklären unsere volle Unterstützung für die Verteidiger der Menschenrechte und verurteilen offiziell sämtliche Arten von Einschüchterung, Verhaftung und Missachtung gegenüber diesen Aktivisten und insbesondere gegenüber Frau Shirin Ebadi.
Wir fordern die iranische Regierung in ihrer Eigenschaft als Unterzeichner der Konventionen der Vereinten Nationen auf, unverzüglich die bedingungslose Wiedereröffnung des Zentrums der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte anzuordnen.
Diese Petition wird unterstützt von:
Fédération d’Europerse, Belgien
Amnesty International Belgien
Internationale Vereinigung für Menschenrechte
Liga für Menschenrechte im Iran (nach Paris verbannt)
Anwar Mir Sattari, Mitglied der Europäischen Grünen Partei (EGP)
Emile Frank, AI Belgien
R. Gilavai, persischer Dichter und Leiter des Menschenrechtsbüros Europerse
Diese Petition wird in folgenden Sprachen veröffentlicht: Persisch (Farsi), Englisch, Französisch, Niederländisch, Türkisch, Spanisch, Italienisch, Arabisch, Russisch, Azeri und Deutsch.
Die gesammelten Unterschriften werden wöchentlich an die folgenden Organisationen und Personen versandt, bis das Zentrum der Verteidiger der Menschenrechte wieder geöffnet und das Zutrittsverbot aufgehoben wird:
1.Vereinte Nationen
2.Amnesty International
3.Der Präsident des Europäischen Parlaments
4.Abteilung für Menschenrechte des Europäischen Parlaments
5.alle Mitglieder des Europäischen Parlaments
6.alle Friedensnobelpreisträger
7.alle demokratischen Parteien und iranischen Oppositionsgruppen
8.Vereinigung Iranischer Schriftsteller
9.Internationale Medien
Anmerkung : Wenn Sie diese Petition unterzeichnen, dann bitte mit Ihrem vollständigen Vor- und Familiennamen. Unvollständige bzw. abgekürzte Unterschriften werden nicht berücksichtigt.

Written By:
A – The Organisations:
Amnesty International (Francophone) - Belgium,
Federation Europerse - Belgium,
Foundation Abdolrahman Broumand,
International Federation of Leagues of Human Rights (FIDH),
League of Human Rights in Iran (exiled in France).

B- The Personality:
1.Abghari Shahla, Professor, Life University, USA,
2.Abghari Siavash, Professorof Business Administration, Morehouse College, USA,
3.Aghelizadeh Abbas, Republicain, Human Rights activist – Germany,
4.Allamehzadeh Reza, Film-director, Writer -Netherlands,
5.Amjadi Nastaran, Women’s Movement and Human Rights activist - Germany,
6.Araz M. Fanni, Coordinator for Forum Human Rights and democracy & Coordinator for Federation of Iranian Associations in Sweden,
7.Aryanpour Amir-Houshang, writer and researcher, Member of Iranian National Planning Group (INPG) - USA,
8.Ashouri Dariush, writer, political, social, literary and linguistic critic – France,
9.Bekaert Philipp, philosophe and activist Republican and laïc in Belgium,
10.Beizaie Niloufar, Director, actress and political activist- Germany,
11.Choubineh Bahram, Writer - Germany,
12.Coeurnelle Didier, Belgian Green Party (ECOLO) representative in central council of European Green Parties – Belgium,
13.Darvishpour Mehrdad, Professor of sociology, University of Stockholm - Sweden,
14.Degati Reza, Photojournalist, "President & Founder Ainaworld.org"- France,
15.Feyzi Shahab, Human Rights activist – Sweden,
16.Fincan Tural, member of the Belgian Green Party ( ECOLO) - Belgium,
17.Frank Emile, Amnesty International – Belgium,
18.Geerts Nadia, One of the founders of the Europress, philosophe and activist Republican and laïc in Belgium,
19.Ghasemi Akhgtar, journalist and photographer – Germany,
20.GilAvaei,Responsible for the section of DDH EUROPERSE and Poet & writer in exile - Netherlands,
21.Gubin Eliane, Professor Emeritus, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Belgium,
22.IDJADI Jalal, University professor and member of the Green Party – France,
23.Lahidji Abdel-Karim, Director of the Human Rights League in Iran – France,
24.Mamedova  Tarana, Co - Chairman  of the Greens' Party of the Republic of Azerbaijan,
25.Mir Sattari Anwar, member of the European Green Party and president of the Federation Europerse,
26.Mohseny Parvine, Gender equality activist and the vice-chair of EUROPERSE, Belgium,
27.Nadjie Nima, Human Rights activist - Sweden,
28.Nayeb Hashem Hassan, Human Rights activist – Austrian,
29.Ohadi Saeid, Human Rights activist – Sweden,
30.Ordoukhani Abolfazl, Writer, Belgium,
31.Parsipur Shahrnush, writer and ex-political prisoner – USA,
32.Pour-Naghavi Ali, Editor of « Kar-online » publication – Netherlands,
33.Puissant Jean, Professor Emeritus, “Université Libre de Bruxelles” - Belgium,
34.Shams Haeri Hadi, Human Rights activist,
35.Taghipoor Masoomeh, Director, actress, poet & researcher – Sweden.

Italie

01-01-2009

Condanniamo formalmente la chiusura del centro
dei Difensori dei Diritti Umani in Iran!

Quest’anno si celebra mondialmente il 60° anniversario della Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani. Il gruppo dei Difensori dei Diritti Umani in Iran ha voluto commemorare questo evento, unitamente al resto del mondo.
Sembra purtroppo che parlare dei diritti umani in Iran sia tabu e chi infrange questo tabu rischia di essere perseguitato. I diffensori dei diritti umani sono arrestati, torturati ed in alcuni casi sequestrati e uccisi.

Citiamo un passaggio del comunicato stampa del 22 dicembre della Federazione Internazionale dei Diritti Umani e dell’Organizzazione Mondiale contro la T ortura:
“ Il 21 dicembre 2008 il Centro dei Difensori dei Diritti Umani a Teheran, membro della Federazione Internazionale dei Diritti Umani, a subito una brutale percuisizione senza mandato del giudice ed è stato chiuso dalla polizia. Una riunione privata era prevista il giorno stesso in occasione del 60° anniversario della Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani (DUDU).
Cosa si nasconde dietro questa DUDU? Non abbiamo il diritto, in questo XXI secolo, di parlare di libertà di espressione, di opinione, di religione e di convinzione, diritto di riunirsi in sindacato, associazione, organizzazione, partito, di parlare di parità uomo-donna, libertà della ricerca scientifica e diritto di esprimersi nella propria lingua madre ?
La Signora Shirine Ebadi, vincitrice nel 2003 del premio Nobel della pace, in collaborazione con altri avvocati impegnati nella stessa causa, hanno aperto il Centro dei Difensori dei Diritti Umani a Teheran i cui locali erano stati comprati con la somma vinta dala Signora Ebadi al premio Nobel.
Nello statuto di questo Centro sono indicati tre punti :
1. difesa gratuita dei prigionieri politici e di opinione
2. sostegno alle famiglie dei prigionieri politici e di opinione
3. pubblicazione e denuncia sistematica della violazione dei diritti umani in Iran.
Siccome da due anni i reporters delle Nazioni Unite non hanno ottenuto un visa per l’Iran, i nostri rapporti sono stati utilizzati come informazione autorevole da diverse organizzazioni internazionali e dal Signor Ban Ki Moon, segretario generale dell’ONU per condannare l’Iran per violazione dei diritti umani, al momento dell’Assemblea Generale del ONU del 2008.”

Noi consideriamo il governo iraniamo responsabile della chiusura del Centro e del pericolo corso dai Difensori dei Diritti Umani.
Noi firmatari, in qualità di individui, partiti politici, gruppi e organizzazioni, esprimiamo il nostro sostegno incondizionato ai difensori dei diritti umani in Iran e condanniamo formalmente ogni genere di intimidazione, arresto e disprezzo di questi attivisti e specialmente di madame Shirine Ebadi.
Esigiamo dal governo Iraniano, membro firmatario delle Convenzioni delle Nazioni Unite, di dare l’ordine immediato di riaprire il Centro dei DDU.

La presente petizione è proposta da :
- Federazione Europerse; Belgio
- Amnesty International; Belgio
- Federazion Internazionale della
- La lega dei diritti umani in Iran (esiliata a Parigi)
- Anwar Mir Sattari, membro del partito dei Verdi europei
- Emile Frank, AI Belgium
- GilAvai, poeta persiano e Head Office of Humain Right EUROPERSE

La presente petizione è pubblicata in persiano, inglese, francese, olandese, turco, spagnolo, italiano, arabo, cinese, russo, giapponese, portoghese e tedesco.

In attesa della riapertura del Centro dei difensori dei DU in Iran, le firme raccolte ogni settimana saranno inviate alle organizzazioni e alle personalità seguenti :
- Nazioni-Unite
- Amnesty-Iternational
- Presidente del Parlamento Europeo
- Responsabile dei diritti umani del Parlamento Europeo
- Euro Deputati
- Tutti i vincitori del premio Nobel per la Pace

Espagnol

¡ Condenamos fuertemente el cierre del Centro de los Defensores de Derechos Humanos en Irán!

Este año celebramos mundialmente el 60 aniversario de la declaración universal del DDH.
El Hogar de los defensores del DDH en Irán quería también conmemorar este acontecimiento, simultáneamente con el resto del mundo.

Parecería sin embargo que hablar de DDH en Irán sea sagrado e ir en contra de este tabú arrastra castigos. Así los defensores del DDH están parados(detenidos), torturados y secuestrados y matados en ciertos casos.
Citamos un pasaje del comunicado de prensa del 22/12/08 de la Federación internacional de las ligas de los derechos humanos (FIDH) y de la Organización mundial contra la tortura (OMCT):

" El 21 de diciembre de 2008, la sede del Centro de los defensores de los derechos humanos, en Teherán, organización miembro de la FIDH en Irán, ha sido brutalmente indagado sin mandato juzgado y cerrado por la policía. Una reunión privada estuvo prevista allí el mismo día con ocasión del 60 aniversario de la Declaración universal de los derechos humanos (DUDH). "

¿ Pero qué se esconde detrás de este DUDH, inspirado de la Declaración del DDH de Cyrus que data de 2500 años? ¿ No tenemos el derecho en este siglo 21 de hablar de la libertad de expresión, de opinión, de religiones y de convicción, derecho de sindicato, asociación, organización, partido, igualdad de la mujer y de los hombres, de la libertad de las investigaciones científicas, las artes y el derecho a expresarse en su lengua maternal?

La Señora Shirine Ebadi, laureada del premio Nobel de la paz en 2003, en colaboración con otros abogados voluntarios instauraron la oficina del centro de los defensores del DDH en Teherán. Local del centro ha sido comprado con dinero que la Señora Shirine Ebadi recibió del premio Nobel.
Nos preguntamos, para cual actitud y por qué motivo el centro del DDH es detestado y reprimido tanto brutalmente por el gobierno islámico iraní.

Este movimiento marcó 3 puntos en sus estatutos:
1.Défensa gratis de los prisioneros políticos,
2.Ayuda a las familias de los presos políticos,
3.La publicación continua de la violación del DH en Irán.
Dado que desde hace dos años, los reporteros de las Naciones Unidas no pueden obtener un visado para Irán, varias organizaciones internacionales, así como Señor Ban Ki Moon, el secretario general de las Naciones Unidas, han utilizado nuestros reportes como oficiales de la situacion de los DH en Iran para condemnar Iran ,durante el AG de 2008 del ONU,de violation de los DH.

Le rechazamos al gobierno iraní toda responsabilidad del cierre de la sede del Centro y la puesta en peligro de la vida de los defensores del DDH.
Los firmantes, como individuos, partidos políticos, grupos u organizaciones, vivamente declaramos nuestro sostén total de los defensores del DDH en Irán y condenamos categóricamente, todo tipo de intimidación, detención y desprecio enfrente de estos activistas y sobre todo :
Exigimos el gobierno firmante iraní y miembro de los convenios de las Naciones Unidas, de dar la orden inmediata de una reapertura incondicional.

Esta petición es publicada en persa, inglés, francés, neerlandés, turco, español, italiano, árabe, chino, ruso, japonés, portugués y alemán...
Cada semana, las firmas recoltadas serán enviadas a las organizaciones y a las personas bajo mencionadas esperando la reuvertura del Centro de los defensores de los Derechos humanos en Irán:
Las Naciones Unidas,
Amnestia International,
Presidente del Parlamento Europeo,
Résponsables de los derechos humanos,
Los Eurodeputados,
Todos los que han recibido el premio Nobel,
Todos los partidos democraticos oponentes al régimen de Iran ( en el exilio)
Les médias internationales,

Si usted quiere firmar la petición, absolutamente hay que escribir correctamente y completamente el nombre y el apellido.

Esta petición es propuesta por:

A – The Organisations:
La Federación Internacional de las ligas de los Derechos humanos
Liga Derechos humanos en Irán (éxiliados en París)
Amnistia International de Bélgica,
La federación de Europersa Bélgica,
Foundation Abdolrahman Broumand,

Russe

Мы осуждаем офисы fermeturedes Центра защитников Прав человека настоятельно в Иране!

В этом году мы празднуем 60-ый день рождения универсальной декларации о DDH универсально.
Дом защитников DDH в Иране хотел праздновать этот случай также, одновременно к остальной части Мира.
он / это будет казаться, в то время как говорить относительно DDH в Иране - табу и входят оппозиция этому табу тянет некоторое количество наказаний. Так что защитники DDH остановлены, подвергалась пыткам и в похищенных несколько случаев и убивалась.

Мы упоминаем проход официального сообщения для печати 12.22.08 международной федерации лиг прав человека (FIDH) и мировой организации против пытки (OMCT): «21 декабря, 2008, место Центра защитников прав человека, в Тегеране, член организации FIDH в Иране, отыскивался жестоко без судей мандата и закрывался полицией. Частная встреча была предсказана день- тот же самый там по случаю 60-ого дня рождения универсальной Декларации о правах человека (DUDH).»

Но что он скрывает поэтому позади этого DUDH, вдохновленного Декларации о DDH Cyrus, датирующего 2500 лет? Разве мы не имеем право в этом 21-ого столетия, чтобы говорить относительно свободы слова, мнения, религий и осуждения , право союза, сделанной ассоциации, организации, отпуска, паритет жены и людей, свободы научного исследования, искусств и права выражаться в его / ее / @ материнском языке?

Госпожа Ширайн Эбади, награжденная из Нобелевского приза мира в 2003, в сотрудничестве с другими совершенными адвокатами устанавливала офис центра защитников DDH в Тегеране. Местный из центра был куплен с деньгами, что Госпожа Ширайн Эбади получила цену Нобелевского.
Одни чудеса, для того какой отношение и для того какая причина сосредотачивает это DDH вызывает ненависть как много и подавляется жестоко Иранским Исламский Свободный
1-defense заключенных мнения и политики,
2-поддержками из семейств заключенных мнения и политики, непрерывная публикация,
3нарушения DDH в Иране.

С тех пор как начиная с двух лет, репортеры Организации Объединенных Наций не могли бы получить визу для Ирана, нескольких международных организаций, как и Госп Прокламашна Ки Муна, Руководитель администрации ООН, использовали наши отчеты подобно подлинному источнику.

Мы отклоняем к Иранскому правительству целую ответственность закрытия места Центра... и потенциал держит пари в опасности жизни защитников DDH.
Мы подписавшиеся, как личности, политические партии, группы или организации, давайте объявлять нашу полную поддержку оживленно защитникам DDH в Иране и давайте осуждать положительно, весь вид запугивания, ареста и презрения напротив этих активистов и особенно,

Мы требуем Иранского правительства, подписавшийся члена условных обозначений Организации Объединенных Наций, давать непосредственный заказ безоговорочного повторного открытия.

Это ходатайство предложено федерация by:
The Europerse; "Международная амнистия" Бельгии Rah-вознаграждение Ассоциации в Бельгии; Ахенский Анвар мир саттари, член Европейца у, который зеленый, Пирр Vanrie, Журналист и Профессор к ULB, Эмилю Франку, ИМЕЮТ Бельгия Гилавай, персидского Поэта Хеда и офис человеческого Правого EUROPERSE.

Это ходатайство издано в Персидском, Английский, французский, Голландский язык, Турецкий язык, Испанский язык, Итальянец, Арабский язык, Китаец, Русский, Японский, Португалец и Немец...

На каждой неделе, собранные подписи будут посланы организациям и personnalitées под упомянутым при ожидании повторное открытие Центра защитников Прав человека в Иране:

Организация Объединенных Наций
- Международная Амнистия
- Федерация Internationale лиг Прав человека
- Лига Прав человека в Иране (éxilé в Париже)
- Президент Европейца Parlemant
- Résponsable Прав человека Европейца Parlemant
- Евро-представители
- Повар Государств страны Европы, России, Китая, Japone, Канады, Гос-объединенный, Аравийские страны
-Congrés союза Африки
- все те что имеют цены Нобелевского
- Все демократические партии и изгнания oposition Ирана
- ассоциация Авторов Ирана
- Международные средства информации

Отзыв 1: Если вы хотите подписывать ходатайство, необходимо писать абсолютно правильно и полностью название и имя. Иначе, не пропадайте впустую ваше время, поскольку неполные подписи или в сокращении будут аннулированы.

Вспомните 2: Это ходатайство не будет послано для любого официального процесса Ирана. Поскольку они будут когда-либо развивать требование людей.

IRAN

ما بسته شدن دفتر کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر در تهران را شدیدا محکوم می کنیم!

 امسال مردم در سراسر گیتی شصتمین سال انتشار بیانیه جهانی حقوق بشر را به عنوان عالیترین دستاورد بشری، جشن می گیرند.
کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر در ایران نیز تصمیم گرفت تا همزمان و پا به پای نهاد های بین المللی، این روز را ارج نهد.
اما در ایران، گفتن از حقوق بشر جرم و دفاع از آن با مجازات روبروست. تلاشگران و پشتیبانان حقوق بشر، زندانی، شکنجه و برخی ناپدید می شوند.
در بیانیه "سازمان جهانی مبارزه با شکنجه" و "فدراسیون بین المللی جامعه های حقوق بشر" خبر این گونه آمده است:
« روز ۲۱ دسامبر ۲۰۰۸، دفتر کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر در تهران، تنها سازمان غیردولتی مستقل در زمینه حقوق بشر در داخل ایران که یکی از اعضای فدراسیون بین المللی جامعه های حقوق بشر نیز به شمار می رود، به شکلی وحشیانه و زورگویانه و بدون صدور هیچ گونه حکمی از سوی قاضی پلمب شد... »
مگر در منشور جهانی چه نوشته شده است؟
آیا نباید در قرن ۲۱ از آزادی بیان، قلم، ادیان و مرام و حق تشکیل سندیکاها و از آزادی رسانه های همگانی و آزادی احزاب و برابری زنان و مردان و آزادی گویش، دانش، پژوهش و نمایش و هنر حرفی زده و دفاع کرد ؟
خانم شیرین عبادی، برنده جایزه صلح نوبل، و چند تن از وکلای پایبند به حقوق بشر، دفتری را در تهران دایر کرده اند. این دفتر با پولی که خانم عبادی به عنوان جایزه صلح نوبل در سال ۲۰۰۳ به دست آورد، خریداری شده است.
مگر کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر چه کار می کند که مورد قهر و غضب دولت ایران قرار گرفته است؟
این بنیاد دارای سه هدف بزرگ و انسانی است که در اساسنامه و همچنین در نامه اعتراضیه آنان به بسته شدن دفتر خود، آمده است:

« کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر طبق اساسنامه خود سه وظیفه اصلی بر عهده دارد،
۱ ـ دفاع رایگان از متهمان عقیدتی و سیاسی،
۲ ـ حمایت از خانواده های زندانیان سیاسی و عقیدتی،
۳ ـ گزارش دهی منظم و مستمر در موارد نقض حقوق بشر در ایران.
از آنجایی که در دو سال اخیر به هیچ یک از گزارشگران ویژه حقوق بشر سازمان ملل متحد جهت ورود به ایران ویزا داده نشده بود، بسیاری از سازمان های بین المللی به گزارش های این کانون استناد می کردند، از جمله بان کی مون، دبیر کل سازمان ملل متحد در گزارشی که به مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل متحد در دسامبر ۲۰۰۸ ارائه کرد و منجر به صدور قطعنامه علیه دولت جمهوری اسلامی ایران شد نیز به گزارش کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر استناد شده بود. »

مسئولیت بسته شدن دفتر کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر و هر گونه ناروایی به تلاشگران و مدافعان حقوق بشر متوجه حکومت اسلامی است. ما خواهان بازگشایی بی قید و شرط این دفتر و مصونیت کلیه افراد آن از هرگونه پیگرد و برخوردهای ایذایی هستیم.

ما امضا کنندگان زیر، چه فردی و چه حزبی، گروهی، سازمانی پشتیبانی کامل خود را از فعالین کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر در ایران اعلام نموده و اذیت و آزار آنان، به ویژه خانم شیرین عبادی را به شدت محکوم نموده و این عمل دولت ایران را که از امضاء کنندگان کنوانسیون های جهانی سازمان ملل است، کاری بسیار ناشایست و زشت و غیر انسانی می دانیم.
از مسئولین دولت ایران که دستور بسته شدن دفتر کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر را صادر کرده اند، مصرانه می خواهیم تا هر چه زودتر اجازه بازگشایی دفتر را داده و پلمب درب آن را بردارند.

این نامه به زبان های پارسی، انگلیسی، فرانسوی،هلندی، ترکی، آلمانی، اسپانیولی، ایتالیایی، سوئدی، عربی، روسی و آذری نوشته شده است.

هر هفته تا بازگشایی دوباره دفتر کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر، امضا های جمع آوری شده برای ارگان های زیر ارسال خواهد شد:
سازمان ملل متحد
سازمان عفو بین الملل
رئیس پارلمان اروپا
رئیس حقوق بشر در پارلمان اروپا
برای یکایک نمایندگان پارلمان اروپا
برای تمام کسانی که جایزه صلح نوبل گرفته اند
برای تمام احزاب اپوزیسیون و دموکرات ایران در تبعید
برای کانون نویسندگان ایران
برای رسانه های همگانی شناخته شده و معتبر جهان

تذکر : اگر چنانچه می خواهید این دادنامه را امضا کنید، باید حتما نام و نام خانوادگی خود را کامل بنویسید و از نوشتن نام های مستعار و مخفی کاری خود داری کنید.
این دسته از امضا ها از سیاهه پاک خواهند شد.

تهیه شده توسط :

الف ـ سازمان ها

بنیاد عبدالرحمان برومند
سازمان عفو بین الملل ـ بلژیک
فدراسیون ایرانیان اروپا ـ اروپرس
فدراسیون جهانی حقوق بشر
لیگ حقوق بشر در ایران

ب ـ شخصیت ها

1.آراز م. فنی، سرپرست جامعه ی دفاع از حقوق بشر و دموکراسی در ایران (سوئد)، همآهنگ کننده ی اتحادیه ی سراسری ایرانیان در سوئد
2.آریان پور امیر هوشنگ، نویسنده و پژوهشگر ـ آمریکا
3.آشوری داریوش، نویسنده، پژوهشگر در قلمروهای علوم سیاسی، جامعه شناسی، نقد ادبی، فلسفه و زبان شناسی ـ فرانسه
4.اردوخانی ابوالفضل، نویسنده ـ بلژیک
5.امجدی نسترن، تلاشگر جنبش زنان و حقوق بشری ـ آلمان
6.ایجادی جلال، استاد دانشگاه و عضو حزب سبزهای فرانسه
7.اوحدی سعید، سوئد
8.بکارت فیلیپ، فیلسوف و از جامعه جمهوری خواهان و لائیک ـ بلژیک
9.بیضایی نیلوفر، نمایشنامه نویس و کارگردان تئاتر ـ آلمان ( برلین )
10.پارسی پور شهر نوش، نویسنده و زندانی سیاسی سابق ـ آمریکا
11.پور نقوی علی، سردبیر نشریه کار ـ آنلاین ـ هلند
12.پوئی سان ژان، استاد ممتاز و برگزیده دانشگاه آزاد بروکسل ـ بلژیک
13.تقی پور معصومه، کارگردان، بازیگر، شاعر و پژوهشگر ـ سوئد
14.چوبینه بهرام، نویسنده ـ آلمان
15.درویش پورمهرداد، جامعه شناس و استاد دانشگاه استکهلم ـ سوئد
16.دقتی رضا، خبرنگار فتوگراف، رئیس و بنیان گذار انجمن آئینه ـ فرانسه
17.شمس حائری هادی، تلاشگر حقوق بشر
18.عاقلی زاده عباس، جمهوری خواه و تلاشگر حقوق بشر ـ آلمان
19.عبقری شهلا، استاد دانشگاه ـ آمریکا
20.عبقری سیاوش، استاد دانشگاه ـ آمریکا
21.علامه‌ زاده رضا، نویسنده و سینماگر ـ هلند
22.فرانک امیل از مسئولان سازمان عفو بین الملل ـ بلژیک
23.فنجان تورال از حزب سبزهای بلژیک
24.فیضی شهاب، فعال حقوق بشر ـ استکهلم (سوئد)
25.قاسمی اختر، خبرنگار و عکاس ـ آلمان
26.کورنل دیدیه، نماینده حزب سبزهای بلژیک ( اکولو ) در شورای مرکزی حزب سبزهای اروپا
27.گرتس نادیا، دبیر دبیرستان های بروکسل، از بنیانگذاران اروپرس و از تلاشگران جامعه جمهوری خواهان و لائیک ـ بلژیک
28.گوبن ایلیان، استاد ممتاز و برگزیده دانشگاه آزاد بروکسل ـ بلژیک
29.گیل آوائی، مسئول بخش حقوق بشر فدراسیون اروپرس ـ شاعر و نویسنده در تبعید ـ هلند
30.لاهیجی سید عبدالکریم، رئیس لیگ حقوق بشر در ایران ـ فرانسه
31.ماممد اُ وا، رئیس حزب سبزهای جمهوری آذربایجان
32.محسنی پروین، تلاش گر در راه برابری زنان و مردان، نایب رئیس فدراسیون اروپرس ـ بلژیک
33.میرستاری انور، رئیس فدراسیون اروپرس و عضو حزب سبزهای اروپا
34.ناجی نیما، تلاشگر حقوق بشر ـ سوئد
35 .نايب هاشم حسن، مدافع حقوق بشر – اتریش ا

Happy New Year! Ein frohes neues Jahr ! Bonne Année! سال نو میلادی مبارک

2008-12-31T11:42:00.006+01:00

Happy New Year!

Ein frohes neues Jahr!

Bonne Année!

سال نو میلادی مبارک

A new public opinion survey of the Iranian Americans

2008-12-20T18:43:00.002+01:00

Survey of Iranian-Americans

The Progressive American and Iranian Committee (PAIC)
http://www.iranian-americans.com/2008/12/596.html

A new public opinion survey of the Iranian Americans has been released recently. The survey was commissioned by the newly founded organization, the Public Affairs of Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) to Zogby International.

While there are some reservations about the limited number of people surveyed (only 401) and the formulation of questions, we should however welcome the results as the Iranian-Americans have in large numbers pointed to the roots of their concerns. The results show in a clear way that the Iranian-Americans concerns are directly caused by the Iranian regime.

“When asked to name the two most important from a list of six issues relating to U.S.-Iran relations, seventy percent (70%) of Iranian Americans surveyed cite the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran as the most important.

An overwhelming eighty-five percent (85%) of Iranian Americans believe it is important to facilitate greater understanding between the peoples of the United States and Iran. Also a significant number of Iranian Americans (75%) believe it is important to ensure that the image of Iranian Americans in the U.S. accurately reflects their values and accomplishment.”

It is well understood that the Iranian and American people’s mutual understanding has been only affected by the Iranian regime’s policies, barbarism in the country and sponsorship of terrorism in foreign policy. Thirty years of anti-American policies by the Islamic regime accompanied by killings of Americans, burning of American flag and active support to the anti-American terrorist groups have caused mistrust and misunderstanding among the American peoples in regard to our community. There would be absolutely no misunderstanding between the two peoples if we remove the Islamic regime factor.

This element is more obvious in the answer to another question: “Nearly half of Iranian Americans surveyed (47%) have themselves experienced or personally know another Iranian American who has experienced discrimination because of their ethnicity or country of origin.”

One of the most respected people in the world; the Iranians have turned to prime suspects of wrongdoings only because of the Tehran’s regime. Now, the Iranians are subjected to discrimination in their daily lives in almost every country. This unfair treatment is more unbearable in America, where a son of an immigrant, a son of an African, a son of a Muslim is elected as president. In the US, people from all around the world live together peacefully without systematic discrimination that the Iranians have been experiencing for the past 30 years.

The answers to another question leave no doubt about the disastrous impact of the Islamic regime on the daily life of Iranians abroad: “75% believe it is important to ensure that the image of Iranian Americans in the U.S. accurately reflects their values and accomplishment.”

No doubt that the Iranian-Americans’ image has been damaged mainly by the Iranian regime’s anti-human behaviors. The peaceful inheritors of Cyrus the great are being wrongly identified with a regime that in 21st century stones the women, cuts the limbs, pull outs the eyes and has turned a whole country to a Middle Age prison.

The Zogby poll illustrates in a clear and unequivocal manner that addressing the real concerns of Iranian-Americans starts with condemning this regime and crying loud that the barbaric regime does not represent our community. Those who try to ignore this basic fact are only harming the Iranians leaving abroad.

The Progressive American and Iranian Committee (PAIC) has been precisely founded to defend the interest of our community. We are a group of Iranian-Americans of diverse political views who share the same aspirations; the establishment of a democratic and secular system in Iran. Inevitably, this includes defending our Iranian heritage and helping our compatriots in Iran in their struggle against the Islamic Republic. We also aim to demonstrate that the ordinary freedom loving people of Iran should not be mistaken with the detested ruling theocracy in Tehran. Furthermore, PAIC strives to build an everlasting friendship between the peoples of Iran and America.

شکر خوردن های زیادی عمله جات تنگ چشمِ و دهن دریده و وقیح "بالاترین (!)" بسیج اینترنتی تبلیغات انتخوابات (!) و قانون (!) اساسی حکومت آخوندی

2008-12-17T20:44:00.004+01:00

با سپاس از لینک آباد مستقل
دنباله

که به مقاله آقای جواد اسدیان لینک داده است
و این "توضیحات" دگر باره ولازم از زیر چتر چل تیکه
http://zir-chatr-40tikke.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post_17.html...
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شکر خوردن های زیادی عمله جات تنگ چشمِ
و دهن دریده و وقیح "بالاترین (!)" بسیج اینترنتی تبلیغات انتخوابات (!) و قانون (!) اساسی حکومت آخوندی

http://balatarin.com/permlink/2008/12/17/1477386#comments

حدود ۲ ساعت قبل گفت

تکراری عزیز جان..

از اون سایت که دوستمون ارسال نموده سایت کپی کاری است و مستحق منفی نقض کپی رایت که حتی بالاترین هم ارسال لینک از ان سایت راممنوع نموده است اما این که من ارسال نموده ام از وبلاگ خود نویسنده میباشد

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ghorbanat,
javad.

Javad Asadian
Wed, 17. Dec 2008 12:50:42 +0000

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آخوند مطهری تنگ چشمِ دهن دریده و وقیح
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در باره فردوسی و فرهنگ ایرانی

جواد اسدیان

آخوند مطهری به هرآنچه رنگ و نشانی از ایران و ایرانی داشت، نفرت می ورزید، بسان دیگر آخوند های ریز و درشت. نامربوط های او را در بارۀ شاملو و حافظ خوانده بودم و امروز که به سخنان وی می اندیشم، سخت در شگفتم که چرا در همان روزگار کسی پیدا نشد بر این بیهوده گویی ها خرده ای بگیرد! پسینتر بر من روشن شد که روشنفکر چپ، آخوند را در مبارزه با "سرمایه داری و امپریالیسم" همراه و همرای و در جبهۀ خود می پنداشت؛ همچنانکه کم و بیش می پندارد و روشنفکر راست که دستگاه دولتی را نیز در دست داشت، آخوند را کم و بیش موجود مفیدی می انگاشت که می تواند در نفی اندیشه های سوسیالیستی، بر ماتریالیسم دیالکتیک آبکی، ردیه های آبکی تقریر کند. آنان غافل بودند که آخوندِ مسلمان، سری بر تن روشنفکر چپ و راست نمی خواهد.

در تارنمای " ایران ب.ب.ب" بخشی از نوشته های پریشان این شیخ ایران ستیز را در بارۀ فردوسی بزرگ دیدم که از هزار و چند سد سال پیش، خواب از چشم این عربزدگان ربوده است. این آخوند تنگ چشمِ دهن دریده و وقیح در کتابی با عنوان "نور ملکوت قرآن" می گوید: " فردوسی‌ با شاهنامۀ افسانه‌ای‌ خود كه‌ كتاب‌ شعر (يعني‌ تخيّلات‌ و پندارهايی شاعرانه‌) است‌ خواست‌ باطلی‌ را در مقابل‌ قرآن‌ عَلم‌ كند؛ و موهومی‌ را در برابر يقين‌ بر سر پا دارد. خداوند وی‌ را به‌ جزای‌ خودش‌ در دنيا رسانيد، و از عاقبتش‌ در آخرت‌ خبر نداريم‌."

فردوسی با شاهنامه اش توانست منش ایرانی را از دستبرد اسلام پاس بدارد و چیستی و کیستی ما ایرانیان که در حوزۀ نفوذ اسلام، تافته ای جدابافته است، بی تردید وامدار کار سترگ اوست. بعدها بود که نظامی عروضی بر فردوسی دروغی بزرگ بست که وی، شاهنامه را برای مقداری صله سروده که گویا قرار بوده است محمود غزنوی بپردازد. این جعل تاریخی تا کنون همچنان تکرار می شود؛ حال آنکه نه محمود را با ابوالقاسم فردوسی کار ی بود و نه فردوسی را با او نسبتی و نزدیکی. این شیخ هم همان ترهات را نشخوار می کند، اما نه برای پرتو افکنی بر زاویه های تاریک تاریخ، بلکه برای دشنام گویی به فرهنگ ایران و ایرانی و تحریف وقیحانۀ بزرگان این سرزمین.

محمد تقی بهار که از خشم آخوند مسلمان و از دیدگاه کین توزانۀ او به شاهنامه و فردوسی آگاهی داشت، پیشاپیش تکلیف آخوندهایی مانند مطهری را که جانِ سخن را آلوده اند، تعیین کرده است. به سرودۀ بهار توجه کنید تا بتوانید نسبت آن را با نوشته های این آخوند ایرانی ستیز، بسنجید:

عیب بر شهنامه و گوینده اش هرگز نکرد
جز کسی کش نیست عقل از وَسنتِ نقصان بری
هم از بهار است که می گوید:
شاهنامه هست بی اغراق قرآن عجم
رتبۀ دانای توسی رتبۀ پیغمبری ست

مطهری تا توانست بر فردوسی تاخت و تلاش بسیار هم کرد که حافظ را ملاخور کند؛ به معنای دقیق این مفهوم. برادر دیگر این آخوند که انقلاب فرهنگی و بستن دانشگاه های یک کشور از دستاوردهای ننگین اوست، کوشش کرده و می کند که نه تنها حافظ را ملاخور کند، بلکه مولوی را نیز در باتلاق تفکر اسلامی از معنا خالی کند.

مولوی می گوید که مثنوی دارای پوسته ای است و دارای هسته ای. سروش به این پوستۀ اسلامی که برای عوام است، چنگ انداخته تا تمام اندیشۀ مولوی که از اندیشه و فرهنگ ایرانی سیراب شده است، در پرده بماند و در پردۀ پندار بپوسد. مولوی در بارۀ عطار نیشابوری می گوید:

هفت شهر عشق را عطار گشت
ما هنوز اندر خم یک کوچه ایم

و یکی از شهر عشق ، شهری است که عطار در آن به بانگ بلند، اعلام می کند:

مسلمانان من آن گبرم که دین را خوار می دارم
مسلمانم همی خوانند و من زنار می دارم
ببستم خانقه را در، در میخانه بگشودم
ز می من فخر می گیرم ز مسجد عار می دارم

همۀ اسلام ستیزی عطار در اثبات این امر است که هستۀ هستی و بودِ انسان، ورای کفر و دین و برداشت های انسان ستیزانۀ اسلامی ست؛ یعنی همانی که مولوی در باب انسان خداییِ انسان می گوید:

پس به صورت عالم اصغر تویی
پس بـــه معنــی عـالم اکبـر تویی

کفر و دین مرکز هستی و هستانه نیست. گوهر انسان و وجود اوست که باید مورد توجه قرار بگیرد و از آرایه ها و پیرایه های اسلامی پالوده شود.

امید که روشنفکران سکولار با هر دیدگاه و با باور به هر ایدئولوژی انسانی و خردپذیر، ببینند که آخوند برای نابودی ایران و ایرانی عزمش را جزم کرده است. نمی توان و نمی باید که چشم و دل را بست و آسوده بر کناری رفت. امروز، بخش بزرگ جامعۀ شهری به دنبال منش گم کردۀ خود است و دریافته است، آخوند آنرا از وی ربوده و در پی نابودی تمام عیار آن است. اینک گنجینۀ فرهنگ ایران از هر زمان دیگر در برابر دیدگان ماست. آنرا ببینیم و دریابیم.

j-asadian@web.de

Iranian blood transfusion

2008-12-15T19:09:00.005+01:00

Iranian blood transfusion

IRANIAN WOMAN

http://zaneirani.blogspot.com/
زن ايـرانـی

I received this document in a mass e-mail. It shows in the case of IRI’s revolutionary guards they didn’t receive blood transfusion from the blood bank. The political prisoners who were to be executed had to undergo the blood collection. A catheter would be inserted into their vein and their blood was collected for transfusion.

An Iranian Cinderella man in Washington

2008-12-13T10:18:00.002+01:00

An Iranian Cinderella man in Washington

Twelve years of pro-Tehran lobby

American Chronicle

Hassan Daioleslam

Progressive American-Iranian Committee

A few weeks ago, on November 18th, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) held a conference in the Hart Senate building. A group of lawmakers, former diplomats and Iran experts gathered to indirectly advise the President elect Obama on how to deal with Iran. Or, how to reduce the pressure off the Iranian regime and augment the incentives.1 The moderator of the event was Trita Parsi, the president of NIAC.

In the process of preparing for the meeting a group of 21 self-proclaimed foreign policy “experts” issued a report2 titled “Joint Experts’ Statement on Iran” which according to them was “the product of a large group of experts with diverse knowledge, experience and affiliations.” Surprisingly, the lion’s share of this report was published one year ago by Trita Parsi as the sole author.3

It is hard to explain how an old report is being recycled by such a prominent group of “Iran experts” and presented as a hot-out-of-oven roadmap for the new President. This puzzling “coincidence” is yet another loop in a chain of coincidental events that has made Trita Parsi the leading light of some influential Iran related circles in Washington. A few more examples of the windfall of divine fortune for Mr. Parsi are listed below.

In 1997, Parsi, a young student living in Sweden, decided to found a small lobby group and combat the US economic sanctions against Iran.4 In his early 20s, he became advisor to Bob Ney, an influential Republican congressman from Ohio.5 This collaboration lasted 10 years until Ney was sent to prison on corruption-related charges (some related to accepting bribes to create loopholes for Iran to buy American aircrafts).6

In 2001, Parsi came to the US and within a few months became the Director of development in the American Iranian Council (AIC).7 This powerful organization was advocating improved relation with the Iranian regime. AIC’s board of directors included a former undersecretary of State, U.S. Senators, Iran experts and representatives of major US oil corporations.8 For a young Iranian who had freshly arrived in Washington, it was quite a success.

Parsi did not stop here. He decided to found his own organization in 2002 and set up the National Iranian American Council (NIAC).5&7 Here too, the success story is amazing. He inspired so much confidence that less than a month after NIAC was founded, the National Endowment for Democracy gave him a grant. Normally, it takes at least 2 month for NED just to process a grant application, but here the whole process was accomplished in record time. Over the next few years, NED granted him about 200.000$.9

His new organization needed help. Again, the best professionals came to Parsi’s rescue. A few months after NIAC was founded, 2 of the best Washington lobbyists, Roy Coffee and David Destefano held a lobbying session in a restaurant for a few NIAC’s members.10

According to his official bio, Coffee “was Deputy Campaign Manager for George W. Bush in his successful 1994 race for Governor against incumbent Ann Richards. He then served as the Director of State-Federal Relations in the Governor’s office for four years.”11

In 2003, the Iranian regime decided to send a secret offer of “Grand Bargain” to US. The Swiss ambassador in Tehran, Tom Guldiman and an Iranian official wrote the proposal. This affaire was so secret that according to Guldiman; only 4 people were informed in Iran.12 Guldiman wrote:

“Kharazi told me that he had two long discussions with the Leader on the roadmap. In those meetings which both lasted two hours, only president Khatami and foreign minister Kamal Kharazi were present. The question is dealt with in high secrecy. Therefore no one else has been informed.”

But, Guldiman came to Washington and went to Bob Ney’s office and gave him a copy and asked him to send it to the White House. Parsi told the Democracy Now journalist that: “I was an advisor to Bob Ney at the time. And Tim met with Bob and handed over the proposal to him. And Bob afterwards sent it to be hand-delivered to the White House to Karl Rove, and Karl Rove called back within two hours, and they had a brief discussion about the proposal.”13

According to the media, Parsi was personally involved in this dealing “Parsi admitted that he was the point person for Ney in helping to manage this issue.” Wrote Steve Clemons.14 This was an extraordinary privilege. While the Iranian parliament, the Revolutionary Guards, National Security Council, Rafsanjani and … were not informed about such a historic initiative, Parsi was the fifth Iranian to be involved.

This exceptional trust was repeated three years later, in 2006, when the situation was worsening for the regime of Tehran. Parsi was once again given a new copy of the 2003 offer and he gave it to the press. No one before him had ever gone public about this affaire, not even in Tehran. Gareth Porter wrote in IPS that: “Parsi, who provided the document to IPS, says he got it from an Iranian official earlier this year but is not at liberty to reveal the source.” 15

This Iranian regime’s trust toward Parsi is so important that on September 19, 2006, ambassador Faramarze Fathnejad , the former head of the Iran Interest section in Washington, went back to Tehran and personally promoted Parsi’s position. He met with a semi-governmental organization and underlined “the importance of relation with Iranian organizations in the U.S. and specially pointed to NIAC and his young leader who is a consultant to CNN and has been very successful in his efforts”16

I was personally unaware of such favorable attitude from Tehran toward Parsi till April 2007 when I wrote my first article about him and NIAC. I did not expect that several government related newspapers would come to defend Parsi and attack me. One of them called NIAC the “Iranian lobby in Washington”.17

When in 2006 Parsi defended his doctorate, he was assisted by highest US politicians and visionaries. He wrote his Doctoral thesis on US-Israeli-Iranian relations under Professor Francis Fukuyama and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s National Security advisor.18

In 2007, Parsi published his only book, Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press, 2007). The success was again immediate. He was the 2008 Silver Medal Recipient of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award.19

In 2008, when US Congress was showing some teeth to the Iranian regime, a number of groups (Peace organizations, Moslem association, Iran experts and former politicians) and individuals came together and founded the “Campaign for new American Policy on Iran”.20 Their campaign was especially intense to fight against the H.R. 362, an advisory resolution which was asking more sanctions on Iran. This resolution which enjoyed a large number of sponsors was finally shelved by the Congress. Again, NIAC and Parsi were on top of this event. According to Sasan Dehghan, a NIAC’s prominent member, his group led the lobby efforts. In an epical tone, he compares NIAC to “David” and portrays the Israeli lobby as “Goliath”:21

“NIAC beats AIPAC

It was David versus Goliath: the classic underdog match up. In the battle over a Congressional resolution calling for war with Iran, the lines were drawn between the smaller grassroots Iranian-American movement (NIAC) on one side and the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) mega-lobby on the other…

Led by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and a coalition of peace and security groups, Iranian Americans from around the country called, emailed, wrote, and visited their members of Congress…

In the end, the bill was never allowed to be brought up for a vote on the House floor, nor was it even considered by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, thanks to groups like NIAC working behind the scenes with members of Congress to discourage consideration of the bill.”

Here we are. 12 years of exceptional success. Trusted in Tehran and Washington. For my part, I attribute his achievement to the fact that both the Iranian regime and some influential US business interests have found a common ground: combating American sanctions on Iran. Parsi grew in such a fertile land.

He started his career in 1997 when these business interests started their campaign against the sanctions. This campaign needed an “Iranian” touch, an “Iranian” presence. 3 organizations (including Parsi’s IIC) were created and the AIC (mentioned earlier) was the biggest one. AIC was mainly funded by Oil corporations.22 In 1998, Associated Press reporter Josef Federman reported on these new Iranian groups and wrote that:23

“Gary Marfin, Conoco’s manager for government affairs, said the company’s alliance with Iranian-Americans is part of its general opposition to economic sanctions. Another group, Iranians for International Cooperation, seeks to promote dialogue, cultural exchanges and economic ties between Iran and America. Trita Parsi, a graduate student leads the group from Sweden.”

In 2001, this campaign was intensified to beat the Iran Libya Sanction Act (ILSA). Peter H. Stone worte in National Journal that:24

“Red Cavaney, the president of the American Petroleum Institute and his allies are in the midst of a lobbying campaign aimed at persuading members of Congress and Administration officials to relax sanctions against investments in Iran and. Oil behemoths such as Chevron Corp., Conoco, ExxonMobil Corp., and Phillips Petroleum Co. have been working aggressively alongside big business coalitions, such as USA*Engage, a group of 670 U.S. companies, to fight unilateral sanctions…..

For extra help on the issue, oil companies are also banking on a grassroots organization of Iranian-Americans to lend a hand.”

Parsi’s merit has been to outperform the 2 other “Iranian” organizations and monopolize the favorable attentions. Recently, the Iranian regime controlled newspaper Aftab published an interview with Trita Parsi and in the introduction, the editor wrote about the creation of these “Iranian” groups in Washington:25

“Houshang Amirahmadi founded his council, The American Iranian Council (AIC) in 1997. In 2001, Trita Parsi, as a young Iranian Swedish came to the U.S. and joined AIC as the managing director. In 2002, he [Parsi] with the support of the Congressman Bob Nay started a new organization called NIAC (National Iranian American Council). Since then Parsi has been able to achieve a superior status than Amirahmadi.”

I believe the streak of Trita Parsi´s success has not come without cost. From my view, the cost has been added confusion in the US policy towards Iran, a climate of misinformation and misrepresentation of Iran related facts in the US congress, and empowerment of a web of Iranian influence in America. This in turn has meant more suffering for the Iranian people, higher casualties for the American forces in the region, .and the scary prospect of the nuclear mullahs.

Notes:

1- http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1279&Itemid=29

2- See the report at http://americanforeignpolicy.org/.

3- See Parsi’s report at http://www.niacouncil.org/images/PDF_files/seven%20myths%20about%20iran.pdf

I compared the two reports at http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/81956

4- Parsi’s first statement at: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3725/trita.html

5- See parsi’e resume at http://web.archive.org/web/20011120204601/www.geocities.com/tritaparsi/resume.html

6- DoJ’s plea agreement with Bob Ney http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/September/06_crm_622.html

7- In addition to his resume, you can also read Parsi’s Bio at http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2002/May/Group/

8- AIC’s board: http://www.american-iranian.org/home.php?mains=2&subs=14

9- Read my article about NED’s grants to NIAC at (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/65425 )

10- See the 2 following links A:http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=2

B:http://web.payk.net/mailingLists/iran-news/html/2002/msg00572.html

11- Coffee’s bio at: http://www.lockelord.com/rcoffee/

12- A copy of Iranian offer and Guldiman’s memo is published by Washington Post: http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/us_iran_roadmap.pdf

For a comprehensive study of this affaire, read my article: 2003 Grand Bargain, Secrets, Lies and Manipulation at: http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/12/18/iran%e2%80%99s-2003-grand-bargain-offer-secrets-lies-and-manipulation/

13- Trita Parsi’s interview with Democracy Now, Feb. 26, 2007:

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/26/ex_congressional_aide_karl_rove_personally

14- Steve Clemons, Feb. 17, 2007: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/what-did-rove-do-with-200_b_41472.html

15- Gareth Porter, IPS, May 24, 2006 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0525-05.htm

16- http://www.topiranian.com/ngo/archives/009103.html

17- See the six following Iranian regime controlled newspapers:

http://www.qudsdaily.com/archive/1386/html/2/1386-02-01/page61.html

http://www.alef.ir/content/view/7756/

http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8601280492

http://www.emammahdi.com/news/watr.asp?sys=110&subof=1&bakhsh=8&NewsID=857

http://old.tebyan.net/teb.aspx?nId=28205

http://www.javannewspaper.com/1386/860130/world.htm

18- http://www.tritaparsi.com/biography.htm. To see the photos, go to http://www.tritaparsi.com/photos.htm photos 12 & 13

19- http://www.tritaparsi.com/biography.htm

20- http://www.newiranpolicy.org/401.html

21- (http://www.iranian.com/main/2008/niac-beats-aipac

22- See AIC’s document http://www.american-iranian.org/aboutus/growthplan.pdf

23- http://www.iraniantrade.org/publications/pdetails.asp?ID=32

24- http://www.iraniantrade.org/publications/pdetails.asp?ID=49

25- Aftab, August 5, 2008 http://www.aftabnews.ir/vdcc10q2b0q4m.html

A Few Simple Shots / Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran

2008-12-08T00:26:00.009+01:00

"A Few Simple Shots"

Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran

Filmmaker

Jamshid Akrami

..................

(full length movie)

PAIC welcome’s OFAC’s decision to broaden sanctions against the Iranian regime

2008-12-07T00:49:00.002+01:00

PAIC welcome’s OFAC’s decision
to broaden sanctions
against the Iranian regime

On November 26, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added three new entities to its non-exhaustive list of companies controlled by the Iranian Government.

The newly identified companies to be added to OFAC’s appendix are: National Iranian Oil Company, Naftiran Intertrade Company Ltd., and Naftiran Intertrade Co. Sarl.

Therefore, American corporations will be prohibited to deal with Iran’s oil companies as well as other Iranian financial institutions already listed in the appendix.

This latest move takes the U.S. sanctions on the Iranian Government to broader levels. The immediate reactions by Tehran regime’s media show the significance of this new initiative on the Iranian Regime. “Tabnak”, a website belonging to the former commander of the Revolutionary Guard, wrote:” The recent policy taken by the U.S. Government is designed to pressuring Iranian owned companies and some specific trading activities.” December 3, 2008.

Also, “Jomhouri Eslami” a newspaper connected to Khamenei, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader, wrote: “U.S. is extending its sanction to all aspects of Iran’s financial and trading activities. Their intention is to create obstacles for Iran’s economy.” December 4, 2008.

The Progressive American-Iranian Committee (PAIC) unequivocally supports OFAC’s latest move as a practical step towards wider and more effective sanctions against Tehran’s regime.

Progressive American-Iranian Committee (PAIC)

http://www.iranian-americans.com/
December 4, 2008

Selling an Iranian Mirage Again

2008-12-07T00:43:00.000+01:00

Selling an Iranian Mirage Again

A new report by Maloney-Takeyh

Hassan Daioleslam

http://www.iranian-americans.com/

Two of the U.S. Think-Tanks (the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution) have collaborated to prepare an advisory report on the American policy in the Middle East. This report titled, “Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President”1 is meant to advise President-Elect Obama on how to deal with the complex issues of the Middle East. The third chapter of the report (34 pages) is on Iran, “Pathway to Coexistence: A New U.S. Policy toward Iran”.2 Suzanne Maloney and Ray Takeyh (Maloney’s husband) have co-authored this chapter.

For those familiar with the Iran related circles in Washington, knowing the authors (i.e. Maloney and Takeyh) is enough to know the contents of their recommendations on Iran. The authors belong to a group of “Iran experts” who for the past 12 years have tirelessly advocated a friendly policy toward Tehran rulers. Dr. Takeyh, a senior fellow at CFR,3 has testified frequently at various congressional committees and has appeared in numerous media venues. Prior to early 2000s, he was an ardent opponent of engagement with Iran. However, he astonishingly turned overnight into a strong advocate of rapprochement policy.

Takeyh’s wife, Susan Maloney, was until last year an Iran policy planner staff in the State Department.4 Unfortunately, in her advisory reports for directing the future American policy; she has failed to disclose her collaboration with the Oil industry. It is well understood that US oil corporations have been the most vibrant advocates of removing all sanctions against the Iranian regime.

American foreign policy on Iran has been amalgamated with confusion and indecision. The price of this confusion has been American blood and prolonged suffering of Iranian and Iraqi people. The so called “Iran Experts” have shaped this confusion and misinformation disarray.

I will examine the new report by the husband and wife in two parts. First, in this paper, we will re-examine how Takeyh, Maloney and their peers have in past misrepresented the Iranian situation and tried to evasively influence US policy toward Iran. By examining their past works, we can better understand the tactics used by these “Iran experts”, and therefore better appreciate the timing and the goals of the recent report.

In the second part I will analyze in details, the report “Pathway to Coexistence: A New U.S. Policy toward Iran”, its timing and its message. We will see how they have re-wrapped the same old message in a new package. The report’s message is simple: The Iranian regime is strong and stable. It poses no danger to the strategic interests of the U.S. and its allies. Therefore tolerate, co-exist, and share the region with the mullahs.

I have been very careful not to take quotes out of context. Nevertheless, I urge the readers to refer to the original articles and read them for themselves.

Part I: A History of Wavering and Disingenuous Political Prophesy

2000-2001: Takeyh was zealously against engagement with Mullahs

Prior to joining the pro-Iranian circles and CFR, Takeyh presented a totally different view of the Iranian regime. Even under Khatami’s rule and the peak of power of the “reformist” circles in Iran, Takeyh was adamantly against rapprochement based strategies towards Iran. He totally denied the concept of “moderates” in Tehran. In April 2000, in an article titled “Pragmatic theocracy: A contradiction in terms?” ridiculing the pro engagement circles, Takeyh wrote:

” … And this is where a strategy of accommodation falters. For no degree of internal liberalization is likely to alter this fundamental clash of interests. Khatemi may have discarded the Khomeini regime’s intemperate rhetoric and inflammatory strategy, but he has remained loyal to its hegemonic aspirations. A more pragmatic Iran, then, is likely to offer the United States only slightly less of a challenge than its revolutionary opposition movement claiming that only a return to religious values can fulfill the masses’ demands for economic and political regeneration.”5

At that time, Takeyh was categorically against any carrots given to the Iranian regime. He advised the United States to maintain a harsh stance against the clerical rule which according to him “is relentlessly complotting against the United States“:

“If Washington wants Tehran to conform to international rules of conduct, it will have to maintain a robust regional presence and conduct a determined effort against Iran’s terrorism and efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. … If the U.S. is not prepared to allow Iranian hegemony over much of the Middle East, U.S.-Iranian relations will continue to be marked by confrontation, even when both states appear to share certain interests. In essence, the Clinton-Albright approach - offering concessions as a means of generating dialogue - failed to appreciate that the U.S. and Iran simply have different plans for the region”. 6

2002: Takeyh was Pro-war with Iraq

There is a perception that these pro-Iran circles are genuinely peace-loving scholars that are trying to avoid another war. Nothing could be farther from truth. Parallel to the efforts of Iran’s proxies such as Ahmad Chalaby in beating the drum of war, or Bob Ney’s charade of “freedom fries”, Takeyh and many other scholars advocated regime change in Iraq as a tradition of spreading freedom. At the onset of US conflict in Iraq in 2002, Takeyh wrote:

“Beginning with Thomas Jefferson’s call for “empire of liberties,” American statesmen have long propounded a vision of a global civilization predicated on liberal democracy and market economics. …. In contrast to the European focus on the external behavior of states as opposed to their internal composition, American internationalists have long argued that the domestic character of a state is the most predictable barometer of its external conduct. U.S. President George W. Bush’s emphasis on regime change and the promotion of democracy as the primary mean s of ensuring American security, at the expense of deterrence, containment, and the balance of power, is well in keeping with that outlook.” 7

Then, Takeyh started a new career with the pro-Iranian regime circles and experienced a sudden intellectual enlightenment that turned him to a resolute and tenacious advocate of engagement.

Best Time for a Deal with the Mullahs

A common goal for the Iranian regime and the US business interests that support the pro-Iranian lobby, has always been to avoid harsh and coercive measures against the clerical rule. In order to justify this approach, they have publicized the idea that the regime in Tehran is at all times ready to talk and make a deal with the United States.

Regardless of the time, situation or who is in power in Iran, Takeyh and cohorts maintained that it is a unique time to deal with Iran. Followings are a few such sample declarations over the years.

2000 (Khatami’s presidency and peak of the power of reformists): “We get a better deal on all issues of concern, the holy trinity - weapons, terrorism, and Israel - from the reformers, who are more pragmatists than the hard-liners.” 8

2002: “This time, with public opinion in favor of reaching out to Washington, Iranian political groups of all complexion are loath to let the opportunity pass.” 9

2004 (Defeat of reformers and rise of radical faction): “The recent demise of the reform movement has facilitated the ascendance of pragmatic conservatives willing to have a far-reaching dialogue with the United States. At a time when the challenge of Iran seems most acute, the prospect of Tehran accommodating Washington has never been greater.” 10

2004: “For the first time in more than 20 years, the United States has the opportunity to deal with rational, pragmatic interlocutors who, by virtue of their standing in the government, are in a position to negotiate. It is an opportunity that should not be squandered.” 11

2005 (The radical fundamentalists gain power. Ahmadinejd is elected as the president): “Despite the election of a hard-line government in Iran, the time surprisingly might be ripe for a deal.” 12

2007: “In Iran today the idea of negotiating with the United States as late as 1999, 2001, was a contentious issue. Now there is a consensus in Iran, across political spectrum, blessed by the supreme leader, that Iran is willing to negotiate with the United States.” 13

It is interesting to see how under very different situations, and cast of characters in power in Iran, Takeyh manages to arrive at the same conclusion. In order to justify these declarations, Takeyh and other pro-ayatollahs analysts have continiously misrepresented the realities of power structure in Iran. To convince the decision makers in the US to engage Iran and avoide harsh policies against the ayatollahs, Ray Takeyh and friends had to ascertain that a pragmatic faction in Tehran controls the situation. To do so, these scholars have demonstrated a very creative imagination.

Let’s focus on the last 12 years and examine the events in Iran and the corresponding proclamations of CFR and Takeyh.

1997-2004: Reform is concretely irreversible

The victory of Mohammad Khatami in the presidential election of 1997, created an ideal political environment for the American business interests to embark on a new aggressive lobby against the economic sanctions imposed on Iran. The anti-sanctions drive was initiated by the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC). In early 1997, the USA*Engage, NFTC’s lobbying arm, officially started its activities.

Armed with such an impressive armada, the pro-engagement circles tried to represent the reformer’s victory as rock solid and irreversible, hence a unique opportunity for the United States to change its policy toward Iran.

Robin Wright wrote:

· “The (2000 parliamentary) election may also have marked the onset of recovery - a revolution’s third and final phase”. 14

· “The impact of political change in Iran could be sweeping for the more than 50 nations of the Islamic world.” 15

· “Like the world around it, Iran is still undergoing a profound transformation… Gradually, the government of God is being forced to cede to secular statecraft — and to empower Iranians. In the process, Iran has begun contributing to the spread of public empowerment around the world.” 16

Suzanne Maloney was also very clear on the irreversibility of the reform movement:

“For the foreseeable future, then, the Islamic Republic will continue to be buffeted by the forces of divisiveness and unresolved questions of authority. Nonetheless, the February elections provide powerful evidence that the system is evolving in an irreversibly democratic fashion”. 17

Takeyh was even more affirmative, He wrote that the reformers will soon capture the judiciary and even the Supreme Leader’s absolute authority would be diminshed :

“The next institution that is likely to fall in the hands of the reformers is the judiciary… The anticipated reform of the court system will further diminish the conservatives’ power base…In the coming decade it is likely that the position of the leader will undergo transformations as its absolutism is widely challenged within both clerical and secular circles.” 18

“Despite sporadic setbacks, Khatami and his reform supporters are forging new paths and transforming politics into a meaningful representative practice … A politicized middle class, restive youth and an emboldened civil society make the recession of conservative power inevitable.” 19

Takeyh, like Robin Wright was asserting that the reform movement is the Iranian regime’s last chance of survival.

“Should the hardliners succeed in completely obstructing reform, Iran may not see a revolution similar to the 1979 mass uprising, but rather a state that increasingly resembles the Soviet Union of the 1970s.” 20

Then, in 2001, Takeyh again asserted that the reformists are Iran’s last chance of survival:

“In fact, for Iran to avoid collapsing into civil strife it must adopt some basic secular tenets. Whatever direction the country takes, this much is at least evident: Khomeini failed to establish a durable Islamic polity in Iran, and the clerics are ruling on borrowed time. 21

Takeyh emphasized the unique opportunity for the US to engage the Iranian regime and warned that if the reform movement is defeated, the US should adopt a new policy:

“I think, should there be - and I don’t anticipate that - there’s sort of a conservative backlash and takeover of power in Iran, U.S. policy toward Iran is going to be measurably altered, and if it’s not altered, that’s malpractice.”22

2004: Maloney and CFR masked the rise of Ahmadinejad’s faction

In July 2004, the Council on Foreign Relations released its Task Force Report on Iran. Suzanne Maloney directed this project. The report urged rapprochement with the Iranian regime, basically the same policy that many such reports had already proposed for the previous seven years. What made this CFR report unique was its analysis of the Iranian power structure after the defeat of reformers in two consecutive elections in 2003 and 2004. In fact, the CFR report was released at a time, when many Iranian analysts qualified as a turning point in the life of the Islamic Republic: The start of a new era, dominated by the radical factions related to the Revolutionary Guards. Nearly 100 members of the new parliament came from the Guards.

Alavi Tabar a prominent commentator in Iran declared in early 2004 that:

“We are actually at a turning point and something fundamental is happening which is the militarization of Iranian politics. The regime’s stance on nuclear issue, the affiliation of the new MPs and the positions taken by some of the regime’s leader regarding Iraq all are signs of the trend toward the control of power by a mafia kind complex which controls the Guards and the Bassijis.”23

In 2004, before the release of CFR’s report, the “Rouydad news” considered as the reformers’ news website, published a commentary and strongly warned that:

” We see clear indications of the new trend in the power structure. This trend was first demonstrated in the city councils elections and shows a total control of the” Guards”. During the parliamentary elections in 2004, the Guards and the Bassijis became very active and a majority of the new deputies came from these institutions and the security forces. The new head of the Iranian TV and Radio is also a former high ranking member of the Guards as it is the case for Ahmadinejad, the new mayor of Tehran. The Guards will pursue this strategy in the next presidential election of 2005 and their candidate is Ahmadinejad.”24

Shargh newspaper, wrote several editorials about the new emerging radical faction: “Abadgaran the victorious group in parliamentary election is dominated by these new fundamentalists and as a result, the traditional conservatives are marginalized.” 25

While a large number of Iranian analysts, political scholars and intellectuals were warning the Iranians and the international community about the rise of this new faction and its dangerous internal and international implications, the CFR task force report not only did not mention anything about this apparent element, it surprisingly discovered an “ascending pragmatic faction” in Iran:

“Iran is experiencing a gradual process of internal change that will slowly but surely produce a government more responsive toward its citizens‘ wishes and more responsible in its approach to the international community.” (page13)

” …. the pragmatists who appear to be ascendant in Tehran.” (page19)

“…. Some conservatives appear to favor a ‘China model’ of reform that maintains political orthodoxy while encouraging market reforms and tolerating expanding civil liberties.” (page 15) 26

Suzanne Maloney, Takeyh and friends magically discovered a new ascending “pragmatic” faction completely unknown to the Iranian observers inside the country. Takeyh and his cohorts did not stop there. In 2004 and 2005, they wrote numerous articles to institute that such pragmatic faction is indeed in command. In an extraordinary article Takeyh and N. Gvosdev (from CFR) brought together all of their untrue conjunctures. This article masked the rise of Ahmadinejad faction.

“The reality is that the postwar situation in Iraq and the massive projection of U.S. power along Iran’s [border] have strengthened the position of a cadre of pragmatic conservatives seeking practical solutions to Iran’s increasingly dire predicaments. Under the banner of “new thinking,” this group seeks to restructure Iran’s domestic priorities and international relations.” 27

“Such dire circumstances have facilitated the rise of a pragmatic wing among Iranian conservatives, sometimes known as the new Right. If the reformers are comparable to Gorbachev, the pragmatic conservatives resemble China’s Deng Xiaoping: they recognize the need for pragmatic policy adjustments to secure the survival of their regime. Specifically, the “China model” is perceived to include economic reform accompanied by some degree of social liberalization and a pragmatic foreign policy.” 27

“This clerical cadre of pragmatic conservatives is grouped around influential former Iranian president Rafsanjani and the outgoing parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karrubi … The pragmatic conservatives first found a home and a base within the political party Khedmatgozaran-i Sazandegi (Servants of Construction) that was set up in 199..” Ever since the closing years of the Rafsanjani administration (1989-1997), this faction has dominated key regime institutions such as the Expediency Council, which is responsible for mediating conflicts between the Majlis and the Guardian Council and for setting economic policy.” 27

“After most reformist candidates were disqualified from the 2004 elections, it has been the pragmatic grouping Abadgaran Iran-e-Islami, that has emerged as the leading faction within the new Majlis… indicating that the pragmatists have a comfortable base within the new legislature. Moreover, a leading figure of the new Right, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Hassan Rouhani, is the presumptive front-runner to succeed Khatami as president when the latter steps down in 2005.” 27

Even a cursory study of the Iranian press as well as the events in Iran would have pointed out the erroneous claims in the article. The course of events in 2005 proved the complete fallacy of Takeyh’s assertions. There was no relation between Rafsanjani and Karroubi. The new parliament, by no means could be presented as a pragmatist assembly. The “Abadgaran” was never a pragmatic group and contrary to Takeyh’s claim, the new right, bared no resemblance to Deng Xiaoping. They represent the most radical and fascist part of the regime.

Only one year later, Takeyh argued completely differently and called the new parliament a radical assembly which was against Rafsanjani. 28

Takeyh’s cohort, David L. Phillips from CFR also discovered that the defeat of reformers helped the emergance of a more pragmatic faction in Iran:

” At least the recent election results will break the log jam; (the eviction of reformers) Tehran will be represented by one unified government that is hopefully more pragmatic and more committed to fulfilling Iran’s international obligations.” 29

Gary Sick, another affiliate of CFR, went even further and completely denied the victory of conservatives. In his interview with the Farsi language radio Farda he declared:

“The fact that some well-known reformists are no longer in the parliament doesn’t mean that the new assembly is conservative. There are many independents and many reformers with the conservative pasts who are present in the new assembly.” 30

Takeyh and his colleagues were so certain about the ascendance of this pragmatic faction that they advised the U.S. administration to be prepared for a deal with Rafsanjani’s clan in 2005:

‘The U.S. should be prepared to take the first steps after the May 2005 Iranian election…. Rafsanjani’s cohorts would find intermediaries in either a second-term Bush administration or a Kerry administration who believe that promoting America’s interests and America’s values require engagement with Iran rather than confrontation. 27

As the 2005 election was approaching, Takeyh and CFR, once again switched gears and took a completely opposite position. In the middle of Iran’s presidential elections and when it became apparent that Rafsanjani’s chances to win are low, in an article titled “The World Should Not Pin Its Hopes on Rafsanjani” in Financial Times he wrote:

“.. in their euphoric embrace of Mr Rafsanjani, the Europeans neglect both Iran’s recent history and its political peculiarities … Contrary to the popular images of Mr. Rafsanjani as the only politician who can transcend Iran’s factionalized politics and produce results, his previous tenure as president was far from successful. [Here Takeyh reviews a long list of Rafsanjani's past failures.] …. Moreover, the younger generation of conservatives, many of whom covet the presidency themselves, resent not just Mr. Rafsanjani’s pragmatism but also his opportunism in terms of seeking yet another presidential term and thus denying them the opportunity…. In a strange twist, Mr Rafsanjani’s candidacy has generated more optimism in western capitals than on Iran’s street,”. 31

It is hard to believe that Takeyh so easily forgot the advice he was giving to the US government to be ready for a deal with Rafsanjani’s cohorts in 2005. Once again, in an article for Boston Globe on June 23rd, 2005 he asserted that even in the future there would be no chance for Rafsanjani:

” However, the facade of elections conceals the remarkable changes that Iran has undergone in the past few years. In a gradual yet relentless manner, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has consolidated his power over the theocracy….. The February 2004 parliamentary elections that witnessed the triumph of many of these conservatives essentially completed Khamenei’s political hegemony….. the future of Iran belongs not to the aging mullahs who were present at the creation of the revolution, but to Khamenei and his youthful, reactionary loyalists.” 32

2005- Ahmadinejad’s foreign policy is pragmatist

After Ahmadinejad won presidential elections in Iran, once again, Takeyh and friends changed tones. Takyeh wrote an extraordinary article in which he tried to camouflage Ahmadinejad’s threat which was already felt around the world. He wrote in Christian Science Monitor: “Why Iran isn’t a global threat”

“…Although the assertive nationalists (new appellation for fascism) who have taken command of Iran’s executive branch have dispensed with their predecessor’s “dialogue of civilizations” rhetoric, and display a marked indifference to reestablishment of relations with America, they are loath to jeopardize the successful multilateral détente that was the singular achievement of the reformist era.

The days when Iran sought to undermine established authority in the name of Islamic salvation are over. Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s disciples have long abandoned the mission of exporting the revolution, supplanting it with conventional measures of the national interest.

Despite the chorus of concern, Iran’s new president has demonstrated no interest in substantially altering the contours of Iran’s international policy - nor has the country’s ultimate authority, the Supreme Leader. … But the notion that Iran’s foreign policy is entering a new radical state is yet another misreading of the Islamic Republic and its many paradoxes.” 33

Do not loose hope; Rafsanjani could come back to power

Only a few months prior to this, in an attempt to advocate US engagement with Ahmadinejad, Tekeyh had predicted a new irreversible era in the Iranian politics:

“Irrespective of the verdict of the presidential contest, the future of Iran belongs not to the aging mullahs who were present at the creation of the revolution, but to Khamenei and his youthful, reactionary loyalists.” 34

But after the world’s negative reaction to Ahmadinejad’s behavior, Takeyh changed his position again. As if his duty is to sustain a permanent window of hope for the West, he discovered a new solution: Rafsanjani or reformers will come back again. In his testimony before the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee on November 15, 2005 he declared

“In Iran, however, politics is a shifting landscape. It is not inconceivable that the reformers may stage yet another comeback and reclaim the parliament in the next election. Nor can it be ruled out that Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani or one of his pragmatic protégés will assume the office of the presidency yet again.

There are already signs that the clerical system is re-balancing itself and seeking to restraint its impetuous new president. Mahmoud Ahamdinejad’s inexperience and ideological stridency has cost Iran dearly… In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has empowered Rafsanjani to “supervise” the workings of the office of the presidency, particularly in the realm of foreign affairs. How this latest attempt to curb Ahmadinejad will work in actual reality is hard to tell, but there does appear a determination by the leadership of the state to check his excesses and impose limits on his expansive ideological vision.” 35

2006- a new powerful faction: Realists

A few months later, Takeyh, one more time, changes position and finds a new faction. Now, the “Realists” are the new windows of hope for the West. In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 19, 2006, Takeyh said:

“The debates are no longer between the pragmatists such as Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani and the more austere reactionary clerics… The current divide in the theocratic regime is between those who press for a revolutionary foreign policy and more tempered realists emphasizing Persian nationalism. This delineation is best exemplified by examining the worldviews of Ahmadinejad and the current head of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani.

Realists: President Ahmadinejad’s rhetorical fulminations and presence on the international stage should not obscure the fact that he is not in complete command of Iran’s foreign relations. One of the most important actors in Iran today is the powerful Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani. As the leader of a new generation of realists that evolved in the intelligence community in the 1990s, this cohort’s has predominant influence over the direction of Iran’s international relations. Through their presence in key institutions, links with traditional clerical community and intimate ties to the Supreme Leader, the realists chart the course of Iran’s foreign policy”. 36

Only 6 weeks later, Takeyh changed his position one more time. For more than a year he had been arguing that the Iranian leadership and the Supreme Leader are checking Ahmadinejad’s power and as a result, the new “realists” charted Iran’s foreign policy. Now he admits that the Supreme Leader can not or does not want to control Ahmadinejad. On November 11, 2006, in a roundtable with Pollack, he declared:

“I actually think at this particular point Ahmadinejad is probably the second most important actor in Iran, arguably the most important actor because the supreme leader doesn’t have the capability or will or desire to rein him in. He has consolidated his control over all the relevant ministries…..He is probably the most-strongest president Iran has had since the first two, three years of the Rafsanjani presidency between ‘89 to ‘92, ‘93″. 37

2007: Nationalist Pragmatists are coming!

In yet another stretch of imagination, in Newsweek on Feb.26, 2007, Takeyh announced to the world that the true power holders in Iran are internationally well-behaved pragmatist nationalists:

“This emerging group looks askance at the strident rhetoric of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Its members tend to stress Iranian nationalism over Islamic identity, and pragmatism over ideology. …. Over the past two years, members of this pragmatic faction have risen to influence within the highest ranks of government, the intelligence community and the military…. these men are trying to wrest control of Iran’s international relations from the most militant old-guard mullahs.” 38

Conclusion

As we have seen through a sample collection of Takeyh’s writings and proclamations, he has constantly insisted that the Iranian regime has always been ready to reach out to Washington. Regardless of who has been in power in Iran, Takeyh has claimed that pragmatists are in control of the foreign policy. The policy recommendation, based on such imagination stretching declarations is clear: “the United States would do better to shelve its containment strategy and embark on a policy of unconditional dialogue and sanctions relief.” 39

The same advice is naturally offered in the nuclear confrontation with Tehran’s ayatollahs: “U.S. Can Only Stop Iranian Nuclear Program by Offering Broad Concessions .” 40

References

1- Council on Foreign relations: http://www.cfr.org/publication/17791/

2- “Pathway to Coexistence: A New U.S. Policy toward Iran: http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/CFR-Saban_Chapter3_Iran_MaloneyTakeyh.pdf

3- CFR, Ray Takeyh: http://www.cfr.org/bios/9599/

4- Brookings: http://www.brookings.edu/experts/m/maloneys.aspx

State Department: http://www.state.gov/s/p/47013.htm \5-

5. Takeyh, R., Pragmatic theocracy: A contradiction in terms? in National Interest. April 1, 2000.

6. Takeyh, R., National Review, Nov. 5th, 2001.

7. Takeyh, R., A ‘New’ Security Agenda Revives Old Traditions, in Wall Street Journal Europe. October 9, 2002.

8. Takeyh, R., in Middle East Policy Council. December 12th, 2000.

9. Takeyh, R., in Financial Times. November 4, 2002.

10. Takeyh, R., in International Herald Tribune. August 24, 2004.

11. Takeyh, R., in Washington Quarterly. Autumn 2004.

12. Feinstein, L. and R. Takeyh, in The Baltimore Sun. September 26, 2005.

13. Takeyh, R., in a speech. February 22, 2007.

14. Wright, R., The Last Great Revolution. The Journal of The International Institute (http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol8no1/Wright.htm).

15. Wright, R., Iran Now a Hotbed of Islamic Reforms, in Los Angeles Times. December 29, 2000.

16. Wright, R., Iran’s New Revolution, in Foreign Affairs (http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20000101faessay10/robin-wright/iran-s-new-revolution.html). January/February 2000.

17. Maloney, S., in Middle East Policy. June 2000.

18. Takeyh, R., in Middle East Policy Journal. November 2000.

19. Takeyh, R., in Middle East Policy Journal. 11.2000 Number 4.

20. Takeyh, R., Iran in the Axis of Evil, in Updates from AIJAC. February 15, 2001.

21. Takeyh, R., in The National Interest, AIJAC. No. 63, Spring 2001.

22. Takeyh, R., in Middle East policy council. December 12th, 2000.

23. Alavi-Tabar, in Rouydad. May 1st, 2004.

24. in Rouydad. May 10th, 2004.

25. in Shargh. April 9, 2004.

26. Iran:Time for a New Approach. Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Robert M. Gates,

Co-Chairs, Suzanne Maloney, Project Director, http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Iran_TF.pdf.

27. Takeyh, R. and N. Gvosdev, Pragmatism in the Midst of Iranian Turmoil, in The Washington Quarterly (http://www.twq.com/04autumn/docs/04autumn_takeyh-gvosdev.pdf). Autumn 2004.

28. in The Boston Globe. June 23, 2005.

29. Phillips, D., Pragmatism Needed in US-Iran Relations, in The Boston Globe. March 7, 2004.

30. Sick, G., Interview with Radio Farda. 18.2.2004.

31. Takeyh, R., The World Should Not Pin Its Hopes on Rafsanjani, in Financial Times. May 25, 2005.

32. Takeyh, R., The Triumph of Absolute Rule, in The Boston Globe. June 23, 2005.

33. Takeyh, R., Why Iran isn’t a global threat, in Christian science Monitor. Sep. 29th, 2005.

34. Takeyh, R., The Triumph of Absolute Rule, in The Boston Globe. June 23, 2005.

35. Takyeh, R., http://hsgac.senate.gov/_files/111505Takeyh.pdf.

36. Takeyh, R., Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. September 19, 2006.

37. Takeyh and Pollack roundtable at CFR. November 1st, 2006.

38. Takeyh, R., in http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17202829/site/newsweek/. Feb.26, 2007.

39. Takeyh, R. and V. Nasr, in Washington Post. Februray 8, 2007.

40. Takeyh, R., interview with CFR. April 13, 2006.

Eine Veranstaltung von STOP THE BOMB / This event is organized by STOP THE BOMB

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Nuklearmacht Iran
Über den Charakter des iranischen Regimes und seine nuklearen Ambitionen

Vortrag von Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi
(Direktor des Transatlantic Instituts, Brüssel)
Moderation: Simone Dinah Hartmann (STOP THE BOMB)

Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008, 19:30 Uhr
Universität Wien, Neues Institutsgebäude, Hörsaal II
Universitätsstr. 7, 1010 Wien

Eine Veranstaltung von STOP THE BOMB
mit
Unterstützung von Scholars for Peace in the Middle East – Austria und der Studienvertretung Politikwissenschaft

Entwickelt der Iran Atomwaffen? Diese Frage wird international diskutiert und die Positionierung der neuen US-amerikanischen Administration und der Europäischen Union hinsichtlich des iranischen Regimes wird die Weltpolitik in den kommenden Monaten entscheidend mit bestimmen. Die Frage nach dem Ziel des iranischen Nuklearprogramms kann nur beantwortet werden, wenn man sich über den Charakter des iranischen Regimes und dessen Ambitionen Klarheit verschafft. Emanuele Ottolenghi wird die Geschichte, den augenblicklichen Stand und mögliche zukünftige Entwicklungen des iranischen Nuklearprogramms vor dem Hintergrund einer Analyse der khomeinistischen Ideologie skizzieren und der Frage nachgehen was eine angebrachte Reaktion der EU und ihrer Mitgliedsstaaten auf die nuklearen Ambitionen und die Menschenrechtsverletzungen des iranischen Regimes wäre.

Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi ist Politikwissenschaftler, hat an der Oxford University unterrichtet und ist Direktor des Transatlantic Instituts in Brüssel. Er schreibt regelmäßig für Publikationen wie Newsday, Commentary, National Review Online, The Middle East Quarterly, Jewish Chronicle, The Guardian, The Daily Mirror, Die Welt, Il Corriere del Ticino, L’Unità, Il Foglio, Libero, Il Reformista und Standpoint Magazine.

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Nuclear Power Iran
On the character of the Iranian regime and its nuclear ambitions

Lecture by Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi
(Executive Director of the Transatlantic Institute, Brussels)
Chair: Simone Dinah Hartmann (STOP THE BOMB)

Wednesday, December 10th, 19.30
University of Vienna, Neues Institutsgebäude, lecture hall II
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna

This event is organized by STOP THE BOMB and co-sponsored by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East – Austria and the student representatives for political science

Is Iran developing nuclear weapons? This is a question discussed at the international level, and the position of the new American administration and the European Union regarding the Iranian regime will decisively impact world politics in the upcoming months. The question of the purpose of the Iranian nuclear program can only be answered if one provides clarity on the character of the Iranian regime and its ambitions. Emanuele Ottolenghie will talk about the history, the current situation, and possible future developments regarding the Iranian nuclear program in the context of the Khomeinist ideology, and will further answer the question what an appropriate reaction of the European Union and its member states to the nuclear ambitions and human rights violations of the Iranian regime would be.

Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi is a political scientist and Director of the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels. He frequently writes for publications such as Newsday, Commentary, National Review Online, The Middle East Quarterly, Jewish Chronicle, The Guardian, The Daily Mirror, Die Welt, Il Corriere del Ticino, L’Unità, Il Foglio, Libero, Il Reformista and Standpoint Magazine.

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Please join with the thousands of trade unionists and human rights defenders around the world who are mobilising in defence of Farzad Kamangar, an Iranian Kurdish teacher and trade unionist who is at risk of execution.

Education International received information from reliable sources that on 26 November Kamangar was taken from his cell 121 in ward 209 of Tehran's Evin prison in preparation for execution by hanging. However, the latest information is that he is still alive and was able to meet with his lawyer on 27 November for the first time in over two months. His situation remains precarious nonetheless.

Kamangar, aged 33, was sentenced to death by the Iranian Revolutionary Court on 25 February 2008 after a trial which took place in secret, lasted only minutes, and failed to meet Iranian and international standards of fairness. His lawyer, Kahlil Bahramian, said: "Nothing in Kamangar's judicial files and records demonstrates any links to the charges brought against him." Indeed, Kamangar was initially cleared of all charges during the investigation process.

Education International, the International Trade Union Confederation, the International Transport Workers Federation, Amnesty International and LabourStart are appealing to the Iranian authorities to commute the death sentence and ensure his case is reviewed fairly.

Agissez maintenant!

Iran : Sauvons la vie de Farzad Kamangar

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=455

Education Internationale a reçu de sources fiables l’information que Farzad Kamangar, un jeune enseignant kurde iranien de 33 ans, condamné à mort pour ses activités syndicales, a été emmené, le 26 novembre, de sa cellule 121 à la salle 209 de l’infâme prison d'Evin de Téhéran en préparation de son exécution. Cependant, selon la plus récente information, il serait toujours en vie et a pu rencontrer son avocat le 27 novembre pour la première fois depuis plus de deux mois. Sa situation demeure néanmoins périlleuse.

Kamangar a été condamné à mort par la cour révolutionnaire iranienne le 25 février 2008 lors d’un simulacre de procès à huis clos tenu en quelques minutes dans un total irrespect des normes iraniennes et internationales d’équité. Son avocat, Kahlil Bahramian, estime "qu'il n’y a rien dans le dossier ni dans les actes d’accusation qui démontre le moindre lien entre Kamangar et les accusations portées contre lui". La phase d’instruction du procès a même conclu à l’absence de preuves à son encontre.

Education Internationale, la Confédération Syndicale Internationale, la Fédération Internationale des Ouvriers du Transport internationaux, Amnesty International et LabourStart appellent les autorités iraniennes à commuer la peine de mort et à ordonner une révision de son procès.

Pour sauver Farzad Kamangar de la pendaison, il faut que des dizaines de milliers de syndicalistes interpellent les autorités iraniennes. Les travailleurs de ce pays doivent pouvoir bénéficier des droits de l’homme, et notamment celui de se syndiquer, sans crainte ni inquiétude.

Influencing US policy toward Iran, Conference at New York University

2008-11-30T12:41:00.003+01:00

Influencing US policy toward Iran,
Conference at New York University

Hassan Dai
Progressive American-Iranian Committee

On 3 December 2008, a group of “Iran experts” and scholars will be participating in a one day conference to debate the US policy toward Iran. This meeting, far from a usual experts’ gathering, is part of a broader campaign which aims to influence Obama’s policy with regards to Iran.

This new campaign started in early 2008 following the formation of the “Campaign for a new policy toward Iran“. This coalition included the Islamic Republic’s lobbyist groups and individuals. Their main objective was set to prevent the Congress to adopt any serious measures against the Iranian government. So far, they have been successful in shelving the H.R. 362 which originally intended to advise the president on more economic sanctions against Iran. Consequential to this success, a few weeks ago, a sizeable number of the same experts founded a new group, this time called “American Foreign Policy project“. They began their efforts by releasing a joint statement signed by 21 experts on Iran. In this statement, they urged the new administration to lift the sanctions and to be more lenient toward Iran.

This joint statement was presented during a Congressional briefing hosted by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). Surprisingly, the famous statement is mainly a reprint of an older report released one year earlier by NIAC’s president Trita Parsi. This group is better known as “the Iranian lobby” by the government press in Tehran.

Now, this campaign has been extended to the academic boundaries. One such example would be the forthcoming conference to be held at the NYU Center for Dialogue. This conference, similar to the expert’s report, tries to give more gravity to the same policy advice; that the Iranian regime is stable, the US should forgo the sanctions and it should grant a good share of the Middle East to IRI. Interestingly, Gholamali Khoshroo, the former Iranian deputy foreign minister, also appears on the list of the University meeting speakers. Khoshroo’s presence by itself is a good indication of the aims and objectives of this conference and clearly reveals the nature, the direction and the intentions of this event.

The important issue however, is the timing of this large-scale campaign. This reminds us of two other similar previous events; one in 1997 and the other in 2004 when the US was at a turning point each time to shape its policy on Iran. On both occasions, a campaign was launched to influence the decision makers. On both occasions the recommendations were to show flexibility with the Iranian regime. On both occasions, the administration followed the prescription and as a result, Iran got into a stronger position to the detriment of the US’s disposition.

In 1997, Mohammad Khatami was elected as president. With his election, “Iran experts” advocated that the reform movements would be irreversible in Iran. As we know, the Clinton administration was largely influenced by this campaign and unilaterally rewarded the Iranian regime with a series of incentives; some dearly costly to the United States. On 23 November 2004, Kenneth Pollack (Director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council) told the Saban Center:

“In the Clinton Administration in 1999 and 2000, we tried, very hard, to put the grand bargain on the table. And we tried. We made 12 separate gestures to Iran to try to demonstrate to them that we really meant it, and we were really willing to go the full nine yards and put all of these big carrots on the table if the Iranians were willing to give us what we needed. And the Iranians couldn’t.”

The second occasion was in 2004 nearing the end of Khatami’s period in the office followed by the emergence of Ahmadinejad. Again, the “Iran experts” argued that although the reformists were leaving the power posts, but the pragmatists were ascending. The US once again adopted the soft approach toward Tehran. This period can be best explained by making reference to Secretary Robert Gates. In his speech, at National Defense University on September 29 he said:

“And of course, in the 2004 or (200)5 study that I co-chaired with Brzezinski for the Council on Foreign Relations with respect to U.S. policy on Iran, given the fact that President Khatami was in power, sounded more moderate — at least was not making some of the outrageous statements that Ahmadinejad does — we said, “It’s worth reaching out to them.”

Gates is well placed to appraise the outcome of this erroneous approach:

“I have been involved in the search for the elusive Iranian moderate for 30 years. (Laughter.) I was in the first meeting that took place between a senior U.S. government official and the leadership of the Iranian government in Algiers at the end of October, 1979.

Every administration since 1979 has reached out to the Iranians in one way or another and all have failed. Some have gotten into deep trouble associated with their failures, but the reality is the Iranian leadership has been consistently unyielding over a very long period of time in response to repeated overtures from the United States about having a different and better kind of relationship.”

Once again, we are placed at yet another turning point in the US politics to shape its course of action toward Iran. Again the same “Iran experts” are getting involved and are running their own shows. This time though, there are no reformists or pragmatists in power in Tehran. Once again we hear the same campaign waffles coming from the Iranian lobbyist groups for the US to adopt a more amicable practice with Iran; this time though, simply because Bush was not peaceful enough. Will Obama be manipulated by this campaign?

This time the progressive Iranian community will be on the scene to stave off such déjà vu.

Justice Denied

2008-11-27T15:35:00.009+01:00

Human Rights & Democracy for Iran
A project of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation

WashingtonDC, November 28, 2008
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Justice Denied

We stand resolute in our demand to know the whole truth about these crimes against humanity and to have a competent court investigate them. … These crimes are still an open wound in the collective conscience of the Iranian society. And each one of us feels responsible to press for justice.”

Forouhar, Mokhtari, and Pouyandeh families (2008)

Those who have signed this call for justice are the children and relatives of four peaceful dissidents and intellectuals slain in Iran in the fall of 1998. Ten years ago, on November 22^nd 1998, Darioush and Parvaneh Forouhar were brutally murdered in their home by agents of the Ministry of Information. While the Iranian society was still chocked by the news of this abject crime, two members of Iran’s writers’ associations, Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad Ja’far Pouyandeh disappeared and were found dead on December 3^rd and December 10^t,1998, respectively.

Parvaneh and Dariush Forouhar were outspoken critics of the Islamic Republic. Mokhtari and Pouyandeh were actively engaged in reviving the independent Iranian writers association. All four had received threats and warnings regarding their activities. Their murder brought to light a string of disappearances and suspicious deaths of scores of intellectuals and dissidents. The evidence disclosed over the past 10 years points to the fact that the Ministry of Information implemented throughout the 1990s, the decision made by the highest authorities of the Islamic Republic, to eliminate peaceful dissidents.

The attempt of the Forouhar, Mokhtari, and Pouyandeh families to seek justice for the murders has brought them little more than frustration, distress, and disillusionment. The Iranian authorities attributed the killings to “rogue elements” and unnamed “foreign powers” aiming to harm the Islamic Republic. They refused to investigate or prosecute high ranking officials who are believed to have ordered the systematic elimination of peaceful dissidents inside and outside Iran, silenced the press, intimidated the families and imprisoned their lawyer.

On November 22, as in previous years, the authorities banned friends and families of the Forouhars to gather and commemorate their death neither in public nor in the privacy of their own home. The security services closed off the street leading to the Forouhars’ house, confiscated the mobile phones and identity papers of five individuals who intended to attend the ceremony, and dispersed people who attempted to stay nearby and talk.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of these serial killings, The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation has translated “Report to the Nation”, (attached in PDF format) in which the Forouhars daughter, Parastou, provides a public account about her parents’ death and the subsequent investigation and prosecution.

ABF honors the memory of the victims and urges all Iranians to show their support and solidarity with the three families’ appeal for truth and justice by signing their petition*. ABF also calls on the international community to remember these victims and demand that the Iranian authorities allow an independent investigation of their murders.

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Text of the families' petition:

Fellow citizens,

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the tragic assassination of dissidents in November 1998, we pay homage to the memory of the victims, Paravaneh and Darioush Forouhar (political dissidents), Mohammad Mokhtari (writer), and Mohammad Ja’far Puyandeh (writer), along with all other victims of political crimes [in Iran].

We stand resolute in our demand to know the whole truth about these crimes against humanity and to have a competent court investigate them. The killing of dissidents was an organized plan implemented from within government’s bodies. These crimes are still an open wound in the collective conscience of the Iranian society. And each one of us feels responsible to press for justice.

With the hope for the rule of freedom and justice in Iran.

Forouhar, Pouyandeh and Mokhtari families

To support this appeal please send your name, surname and city of residence to daadkhahi@googlemail.com.

You may also send a signed copy of the appeal to :
Tehran, Saidi avenue,
Hedayat avenue (Shahid Qaedi), Shahid Moradzadeh street, #22,
Forouhar residence.

Iran’s Lobby Drooling in Washington Bazaar

2008-11-23T17:00:00.008+01:00

Iran’s Lobby Drooling in
Washington Bazaar

Kayvan Kaboli
http://www.iranian-americans.com/

If we refer to their past declarations, their message is clear and simple: the Iranian regime is not a threat to either the West or the US. The reason for its nuclear program or regional expansion is because Iran is under threat. They feel lonely and vulnerable. Therefore, remove the threat from Iran and it will act reasonably. The same goes for human rights violations. Iran is under US threat and fears the policy of regime change, therefore, to improve the human rights situation, they are asking for the ceasing of pressure on this regime. Finally, if you listen to these “Iran experts,” you should do exactly what Trita Parsi has been trying to say for so long, that the US should accept Iran’s power in the Middle East. In an article in the Huffington Post of April 22, 2008 he asked: “Is the United States ready to share the region with Iran?” Parsi emphasized that: “Sooner or later, Iran and the U.S. must learn how to share the region.”
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Iran’s Lobby Drooling in Washington Bazaar

By Jamie Glazov

FrontPageMagazine.com

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Hassan Daioleslam, an Iranian human rights activist and political scholar. Daioleslam was born in Tehran in 1957. After finishing his primary and high school in Tehran, he entered the Polytechnic University of Tehran in 1974. In the years after the 1979 Iranian Islamist Revolution in Iran, he became a student movement leader standing up against Khomeini’s repression and mass executions. He eventually left the country and settled in France. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Daioleslam was active with Iranian secular movements, human rights activities and the defense of Iranian political prisoners.

In 2001, Daioleslam moved to the United States and concentrated on political research. Since 2005, he has been collaborating with two independent Iranian journalists inside Iran focusing on the Iranian Regime’s lobby in the U.S. His reports have been largely published by major Farsi websites and several US journals. Daioleslam has frequently appeared as an expert guest on the Voice of America-TV as well as on other outlets of Persian media.

FP: Hassan Daioleslam, welcome back to FrontPage Interview.

Daioleslam: My pleasure to be back.

FP: The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is hosting an event in the Senate tomorrow (tuesday). They are going to talk about the new president’s policy toward Iran and Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE) and Representative John Tierney (D-MA) are among the speakers. Trita Parsi, the president of NIAC, will moderate the conference.¹ What do you think about it?

Daioleslam: There are 2 elements; first is the timing of the event and the rush of holding such conference only a few weeks after Obama’s election. Second is the message they want to send.

FP: Let’s start with the timing. Why so quickly?

Daioleslam: The timing of these meetings could have the impact of influencing the new administration’s Iran policy from the beginning. It could create an environment in which Obama’s presumed pressure on Iran would become more costly. Timing is very important. Let’s look at an interesting interview given by Trita Parsi’s former employer, Hooshang Amirahmadi²who was in Tehran a few days ago and talked about this subject. He told the “Etemad” newspaper in Tehean that the “Iranian lobby” should act quickly to influence the next administration:³ He talked about the Washington bazaar:

“There is clash between various regional [Middle East] lobbies. Israelites will fast gather around Obama . Arabs will also spend their money to get close to Obama. Unfortunately, Iran is very lonely in Washington, and those few, like us, who defend the Iranian rights, are subject of unkind hostility in Tehran. These gentlemen [in Iran] do not truly understand what they do, and how they weaken our position. As a result the field is left wide open for Israelis and Arabs and enemies of Iran. Firstly, Iran should realize that, and empower its friends in Washington, especially in the next one to two months, which is the time [to do it].

Iranian leaders should pay attention to what is going on, and strengthen their friends. They [Iranian leaders] should have confidence in, energize, and trust their friends [in Washington] so they enter the arena. This is very important. Therefore the next two or three months are the time to conquer Obama’s heart and mind and that of his teams. Anyone who acts faster will rest trouble free for the next 8 years. Anyone who does not go to that bazaar [marketplace] now, will have a tough time entering that bazaar in future.”

FP: Who is Amirahmadi?

Daioleslam: He is the president of the American Iranian Council (AIC) founded in 1997 and funded by US business interests especially the oil industry.⁴ They were very active until 2001 and pushed for a rapprochement with the Iranian regime. They held exactly the kind of events that Parsi is going to hold next week in the Senate.

FP: Is there a relation between Amirahmadi’s declaration and the NIAC’s event?

Daioleslam: The answer is probably in another Iranian newspaper, Aftab. Recently, they published an interview with Trita Parsi and in the introduction, the editor wrote that NIAC is doing exactly the same activity as Amirahmadi, the only difference is that NIAC is more influential.⁵

“Houshang Amirahmadi founded his council, The American Iranian Council (AIC) in 1997. In 2001, Trita Parsi, as a young Iranian Swedish came to the U.S. and joined AIC as the managing director. In 2002, he [Parsi] with the support of the Congressman Bob Nay started a new organization called NIAC (National Iranian American Council). Since then Parsi has been able to achieve a superior status than Amirahmadi.”

FP: Are they saying that NIAC or similar groups lobby in favor of the Iranian regime?

Daioleslam: When in April 2007, FrontPage magazine published my first article about NIAC’s activities and its relation to the clerical regime, a coordinated campaign by governmental press was launched in Tehran to defend NIAC. Some Iranian newspapers called NIAC the “Iranian lobby.”This is the exact term they used.⁶

FP: Let’s go to the second point, what is the message they want to send by these kinds of events?

Daioleslam: If we refer to their past declarations, their message is clear and simple: the Iranian regime is not a threat to either the West or the US. The reason for its nuclear program or regional expansion is because Iran is under threat. They feel lonely and vulnerable. Therefore, remove the threat from Iran and it will act reasonably. The same goes for human rights violations. Iran is under US threat and fears the policy of regime change, therefore, to improve the human rights situation, they are asking for the ceasing of pressure on this regime. Finally, if you listen to these “Iran experts,” you should do exactly what Trita Parsi has been trying to say for so long, that the US should accept Iran’s power in the Middle East. In an article in the Huffington Post of April 22, 2008 he asked: “Is the United States ready to share the region with Iran?” Parsi emphasized that: “Sooner or later, Iran and the U.S. must learn how to share the region.”⁷

FP: If Iran is not a threat, and it is feasible to settle the differences between the US and Iran, why hasn’t it been done yet?

Daioleslam: Here comes a central tenant of the pro-Iran campaign. It is very important to understand how they present their campaign. In a long article titled “Iranian lobby and Israeli decoy”, I talked about this issue last year.⁸ The pivotal element in their campaign is Israel.

Similar to the Iranian regime’s goal of putting Israel at the center of its foreign policy, its advocacy organizations have also concentrated their efforts on Israel. It is not accidental that Parsi’s doctoral thesis and his only book are focused on the “Israeli problem.”⁹

The Iranian lobby’s campaign line is simple and efficient; Iran has always been ready to reach an agreement with the US, and the reason behind US hostilities and refusal to engage Iran, they say, is Israel. He wrote in 2006: ¹⁰

“For more than 14 years, Israel has been the primary force countering Iran’s nuclear advances. Though Israel presents the prospect of a nuclear Iran as a global rather than an Israeli problem, it has compelled Washington to adopt its own red lines and not those of the non-proliferation treaty (NPT)…Under these circumstances, US-Iran negotiations could damage Israel’s strategic standing, since common interests shared by Iran and the US would overshadow Israel’s concerns with Tehran and leave Israel alone in facing its Iranian rival….Israel is playing hardball to prevent Washington from cutting a deal with Tehran that could benefit America, but deprive Israel of its military and strategic supremacy.”

For Parsi, it was not only the US attitude towards the Iranian nuclear issue that had been dictated by Israel, but also the international community’s decision to refer the Iranian file to the UN: ¹¹

“With the issue of Iran’s nuclear program being taken up by the U.N. Security Council, Israel’s hawkish policy and AIPAC’s support for Bush administration hard-liners would appear to be paying dividends.”

FP: What is the purpose of this campaign? What do they expect from US?

Daioleslam: Interesting question. Only they can say, but it is interesting to see the result of the policies from the Clinton and Bush administrations. The best example is the experience during the past 2 years after the Baker-Hamilton report was released and the US intensified its efforts to accommodate Tehran. Robert Gates took the command as the Defense Secretary and together with Secretary Rice, they tried to approach Tehran. It is difficult to find a politician in the US more favorable to negotiating with Iran than Robert Gates. What has been the result of 2 years of rewarding Iran under Gates and Rice? He brought a clear and unequivocal response during his speech at National Defense University on September 29th. He said:¹²

“I have been involved in the search for the elusive Iranian moderate for 30 years. (Laughter.) I was in the first meeting that took place between a senior U.S. government official and the leadership of the Iranian government in Algiers at the end of October, 1979.

Every administration since then has reached out to the Iranians in one way or another and all have failed. Some have gotten into deep trouble associated with their failures, but the reality is the Iranian leadership has been consistently unyielding over a very long period of time in response to repeated overtures from the United States about having a different and better kind of relationship.

I just think this is a case where we have to look at the history of outreach that was very real, under successive presidents, and did not yield any results. I think until the Iranians decide they want to take a different approach, to the rest of the world, that where we are is probably not a bad place.”

FP: Do you think they could paralyze Obama’s policy toward Iran?

Daioleslam: I think that US policy will finally be shaped in response to the Iranian regime’s behavior. Very soon, the new administration will confront the reality and will adopt a more robust policy than what President Bush has been pursuing. Shortly after, those who favor Iran will portray the Obama administration as being under Israeli’s orders and infiltrated by Neocons.

FP: Thank you Mr. Daioleslam.

Daioleslam: Thank you Jamie for inviting me.

Notes:

1-http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1270&Itemid=59

2- See Parsi’s resume posted on Web. Advisor to Bob Ney and director of AIC. Mr. Amirahmadi is president of AIC. See http://web.archive.org/web/20011120204601/www.geocities.com/tritaparsi/resume.html; see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooshang_Amirahmadi.

3- Etemad newspaper, taken by Emrooz, Nov. 12, 2008, http://emruz.net/ShowItem.aspx?ID=18725&p=1

4- Look at this AIC document which talks about its creation and funding. http://www.american-iranian.org/aboutus/growthplan.pdf at 13 (listing several members of the board who are also executives at various oil companies).

For a complete documentation on AIC, go to my website and see this file: http://www.iranianlobby.com/pfiles/majmoe-asnad2_hoshang_amir_ahmadi.pdf

5- Aftab Newspaper August 5, 2008, http://www.aftabnews.ir/vdcc10q2b0q4m.html

6- Among them, see the 6 following government controlled newspapers: Ghods:http://www.qudsdaily.com/archive/1386/html/2/1386-02-01/page61.html

Alef:http://www.alef.ir/content/view/7756/

Fars News:http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8601280492

EmamMehdi:http://www.emammahdi.com/news/watr.asp?sys=110&subof=1&bakhsh=8&NewsID=857

Tebyan:http://old.tebyan.net/teb.aspx?nId=28205

Javan:http://www.javannewspaper.com/1386/860130/world.htm

7- Trita Parsi: Can the US and Iran share the Middle East: Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trita-parsi/can-the-us-and-iran share_b_97670.html?show_comment_id=12663467

8- Hassan Daioleslam, The Iranian lobby and the Israeli decoy, http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/the_iranian_lobby_and_the_isra.html

9- http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trita_Parsi

10- Parsi: “A challenge to Israel’s strategic primacy” at: http://www.bitterlemons-international.org/inside.php?id=468

11- Parsi: A modus vivendi between Jerusalem and Tehran” at: http://www.forward.com/articles/a-modus-vivendi-between-jerusalem-and-tehran/

12- http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4295

Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine’s managing editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He edited and wrote the introduction to David Horowitz’s Left Illusions. He is also the co-editor (with David Horowitz) of The Hate America Left and the author of Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev’s Soviet Union (McGill-Queens University Press, 2002) and 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist. To see his previous symposiums, interviews and articles Click Here. Email him at jglazov@rogers.com.

َThe Iranian regime has executed Ali Ashtari. He was convicted of spying for Israel

2008-11-22T16:41:00.003+01:00

IRANIAN WOMAN
http://zaneirani.blogspot.com/

Iran: Human Rights Crimes

َThe Iranian regime has executed Ali Ashtari. He was convicted of spying for Israel. With the increasing crisis in Iran this is just another way for the regime to show its fearfulness of the economic hardship that is on the way.

And in Love i Live, Regie: Pantea Bahrami, TU-Berlin

2008-11-17T09:21:00.001+01:00

And In Love I Live
Regie: Pantea Bahrami

28. 11. 2008
19 Uhr
Straße des 17. Juni 135 / Hauptgebäude 1

TU-Berlin

Iranian Regime’s Lobby (NIAC) Becomes Active in Congress

2008-11-16T16:09:00.004+01:00

Iranian Regime’s Lobby (NIAC) becomes Active in Congress!

Progressive American-Iranian Committee (PAIC).
http://www.iranian-americans.com/

Next Tuesday, on November 18, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) will host a congressional briefing. Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE) and Representative John Tierney (D-MA) are amongst the speakers. They will be talking about the new president’s policy towards Iran.

It is deeply concerning that a discredited group within the Iranian-American community, with blatantly obvious connections with the Islamic Republic, should be allowed to freely influence Washington’s political circles to the detriment of the American peoples’ and ultimately, the world community’s interests. It is also shocking and difficult to explain that a group labeled by the Iranian regime as the “Iranian lobby” could so easily penetrate the US Congress.

NIAC has been trusted, supported and promoted by the Iranian regime and this is the root cause of its deep discreditability within the Iranian community. Nevertheless, some American interest groups have invariably promoted such organizations to influence the US policies towards Iran.

NIAC was founded and grew strong during President Bush’s time in the office. This was mainly due to the disconcerted policies and illusory hopes adopted by his administration for engaging with Tehran which inevitably prepared favorable grounds for the formation of such groups in the first place.

We, the Iranian-Americans believe that only our own mobilization could stop the spread of the Iranian regime’s web of influence in the US. This is the first and most essential step to defend the interests of our community, protect our interests as Americans and defend our compatriots in Iran.

Regarding the contents of this event, once again, the speakers will argue that the time is now rife to engage with the Iranian regime. They will be pushing for all the sanctions to be lifted, and will be arguing that incentives should be augmented. The organizer of the Tuesday event, Trita Parsi, as the moderator and president of NIAC will be trying to persuade the forum what he has been trying to achieve for a long time; that the US should accept the Iranian dominance in the Middle East. In an article in Huffington Post of April 22, 2008 Parsi wrote: “Is the United States ready to share the region with Iran?” Then he emphasized that: “Sooner or later, Iran and the U.S. must learn how to share the region.”

NIAC and its president are fully aware that the US engagement with the Islamic Republic for the purpose of submission to Tehran’s nuclear or regional ambitions is totally out of reach. What they are really set out to achieve, as they have been for a considerably long time, is to buy more precious time for Iran to achieve its nuclear ambitions and hence the regional supremacy and hegemony.

Progressive American-Iranian Committee” (PAIC): the key to dismantle the Iranian regime’s lobby in the US

2008-11-14T10:05:00.003+01:00

Iranian-Americans: the key to dismantle the Iranian regime’s lobby in the US

After several months of discussions, a group of Iranian Americans finally converged and founded the “Progressive American-Iranian Committee” (PAIC).

This new organization is particularly focused on counteracting the Iranian regime’s web of influence in the US.
Hassan Dai interviewed Kayvan Kaboli, a co-founder of PAIC, and discussed this new group’s manifesto and their means of achieving their goals.

This interview alreay was published in American Chronicle.

Daioleslam: What is PAIC? What does differentiate you from other Iranian-American groups?

Kaboli: We are a group of Iranian-Americans of diverse political views who share the same aspirations; the establishment of a democratic and secular system in Iran. Inevitably, this includes defending our Iranian heritage and helping our compatriots in Iran in their struggle against the Islamic Republic. We also aim to demonstrate that the ordinary freedom loving people of Iran should not be mistaken with the detested ruling theocracy in Tehran. Furthermore, PAIC strives to build an everlasting friendship between the peoples of Iran and America.

Daioleslam: Why do you think that confronting Tehran´s regime would help the Iranian-American community?

Kaboli: First of all, the Islamic Republic rulers have projected a negative image of the Iranian community here in the US with devastating consequences. The overwhelming majority of the Iranian community living in the US is morally under pressure for Iranian regime´s derogatory behaviors; acts which they are not at all connected with.

The Iranian-Americans have been totally opposed to Islamic Republic´s international fiascos right from the outset. This started by invading the American embassy in Tehran and taking the American diplomats hostage, initiated by the Ayatollah´s direct orders and later on spiraled out to the bombing of the American military base by the Revolutionary Guards´ networks in the Middle East, killing American Marines and soldiers. Other destructive policies such as Salman Rushdi´s death decree can be added to this. There has always been double pressure on the Iranians. On the one hand, for being targeted as an American by the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran and on the other, for being branded and accused of having the same creed as terrorists outside Iran. Although, the peace loving Iranian-Americans were naturalized and found their safe haven in the U.S., but the evil actions of sponsored terrorist groups in the name of Iranian people, has continued chasing them thousands of miles away. We can not successfully integrate here by being misrepresented by the current rulers of Iran.

Secondly, the Iranian regime is directly threatening the American interests. This is unacceptable, as Iranian-Americans are the citizens of the United States who also happen to share the same interests.

Thirdly, if the ongoing Islamic Republic´s policies i.e. the nuclear weapons program, regional expansion plans and State sponsorship of terrorism continue, the possibility of an all out military conflict between the Islamic Republic and the US would most probably be on the outlook. This could have disastrous ramifications on the Iranian community in the US as a whole.

Last but not the least; we can not behold a different sequel for the Iranian community in the US to that of our compatriots´ in Iran. We can not ignore nor disregard the state of affairs in Iran. The people of Iran need us and expect us to stand by them and this is exactly what we intend to do.

Daioleslam: How can the Iranian-American community make a difference? What is the order of priorities for PAIC right now?

Kaboli: During the past 10 years, the Iranian regime has been engaged to establish a network of lobbyists here in the US. One of our goals, as stated in our mission statement, is to expose the true essence of these numerous and widespread lobbying networks. Since 2006, these lobbying networks have been getting more active and effective, to the extent that even some of them find the audacity to make the false claims of representing the Iranian community.

Their goal is to help lift the pressure off the Iranian regime and buy time for Islamic Republic´s nuclear ambitions. This lobby harms our interests and we feel the need to neutralize them. This is urgent because the level of the Iranian regime´s threats have escalated. PAIC can play a decisive role to frustrate Islamic Republic´s lobbyists and counterbalance their influence.

Daioleslam: Who are these lobby groups?

Kaboli: The answer can be found in the Iranian regime’s own press. In April 2007, an article was published about “Iran’s oil Mafia, penetrating the US congress”. In that article the author reflected upon the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) founded by Trita Parsi– who “incidentally”, was an advisor to the convicted Congressman Bob Ney.

Immediately after the publication of this article, in a very organized manner, the official Iranian newspapers came to NIAC’s rescue and published an article with the title “The Neo-cons and the Israeli lobby are attacking the Iranian lobby”. As you can see, they (the Iranian official media) refer to NIAC as an Iranian lobby. (Ghods Daily, April 21, 2007)

On December 28, 2006 the State run newspaper Aftab published an interview with Trita Parsi. In his introduction, the editor underlined the role of the Iranian American lobby to act on behalf of the Iranian regime and described it as the Mullahs’ “Unofficial diplomacy.”

Daioleslam: What other organizations are involved in the Iranian Lobby?

Kaboli: In 2006, when Ahmadinejad stubbornly persisted with Islamic Republic´s controversial nuclear program policy, a new lobbying group was launched in Europe and in the US. “Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran”. “CASMII” was founded by Abbas Edalat, a computer professor connected to the inner circle of the Iranian regime. Half of “CASMII’s” board level founding members came from Trita Parsi’s circle and NIAC. The other half came from the so-called Iranian left wing individuals with Anti-Imperialist tendencies

Daioleslam: Are there any Iranian-Americans present in these organizations?

Kaboli: Only a small number of Iranians joined this lobby. In fact, the lack of Iranian sympathizers in this lobby pushed them to work with other US groups such as the anti-war organizations. As mentioned earlier, the overwhelming majority of Iranians are naturally in favor of imposing pressure on the Iranian regime with regard to their contentious policies. I can justify this statement by the fact that Tehran´s regime has repeatedly admitted that the Iranian people living abroad, especially in the US, are enemies of the Islamic establishment. The Mullahs´ propaganda machine constantly hounds and condemns Persian people in the US. Particularly, those living in southern California and Los Angeles have been branded as counter-revolutionaries.

Daioleslam: What can the Iranian community do in this respect?

Kaboli: The Iranian community has a great potential and can play a significant role. See how much the Iranian regime’s lobby is gaining by merely using the Iranian-American appellation. It shows that our community has a decisive role to play.

I should underline an important factor here. The American people and our community share the same threats to their long term interests by the Islamic Republic. This means that the US administration and those who want to offset the Iranian threat should consider the progressive Iranian community as a partner and an ally.

Just see how the Islamic Republic´s lobby has been able to absorb some interest groups in the US. See how this alliance has been successful.

Daioleslam: Which interest groups are assisting this lobby?

Kaboli: The Iranian regime´s lobby could not continue without the material support of the very powerful political circles in the US. These lobby groups have been receiving considerable amounts of financial aid from their American counter parts; those who put their commercial interests before the US interests, representing the businesses willing to have a market share in Iran. (Mainly the oil industry) Thanks to their American partners who paved the way for them, the Islamic Republic´s lobby managed to find their way into the US congress and created their lobbying foothold in Washington DC.

All started in 1997 when a vast lobbying activity was launched to lift the US sanctions off Iran. This lobby needed an “Iranian” presence; one that was able to paint a legitimate picture of their endeavors. As if the Iranians would support a rapprochement with a totalitarian regime.

This Iranian touch helped the formation of several smaller groups which later became the foundation for the Iranian regime’s own lobby. Ironically, they managed to pretentiously magnify the presence of a very small number of Iranians within their lobby and maximize their gains by adopting the appropriate PR techniques. The point being that they were able to make good use of this small minority of Iranians.

If you consider the overwhelming majority of Iranians being against this lobby and refuting its campaigns, one would then realize how much could be achieved by mobilizing the bulk of the Iranian community against the lobbyists´ objectives.

The point is that in order to stand up to the threats posed by the Islamic Republic, very little success would be achieved without the participation of the opposition groups or the progressive members of the Iranian community in the USA.

Daioleslam: Why couldn´t the Iranian community get organized against this small lobbying minority?

Kaboli: Although the Iranian-American community has a substantial presence and has achieved a great deal of success in their everyday life in the United States, but unfortunately they have been unable to form a real and effective organization in line with their political aspirations and objectives; which is why PAIC has been formed in order to bridge this gap. There are many reasons for this failure. But I particularly point to one element. The very existence of the Iranian regime’s lobby and its large scale campaign has had devastating ramifications on our community. They have enjoyed very powerful sources of support and have succeeded in portraying themselves as the representatives of the Iranian community. They have become the privileged interlocutors of the US media; they have managed to monopolize the political circles. To this end, they have stifled the rest of the Iranian community.

Daioleslam: How could you remedy this situation and how could you mobilize the Iranians?

Kaboli: The point is that we, the Iranians, are capable of achieving realistic goals. We can get together to voice our opinion. We can influence the US policy towards the Islamic regime. We should then focus on these achievable goals.

Let me give you an example. The House resolution 362 asking for tougher sanctions on the Iranian regime was shelved by the US Congress partly as a result of the efforts of the lobby groups. They made a concerted effort by canvassing the House representatives and lobbying other legislative bodies. A few thousand emails and letters proved to have a major impact.

We can mobilize the Iranian community in order to support such bills and make sure that they get through. This is feasible and we are determined to achieve this.

They falsify the opinion polls, misrepresent the Iranian status quo and deceive the Americans about the Iranian regime´s true intentions or the state of affairs in Iran. We have set out to encounter and challenge them.

For over 6 years the Iranian regime’s lobby has been publicizing false presumptions that the Iranian people support regime’s nuclear policy. We will show how the Mullahs have imposed a strict censorship over the country´s media in order to blackout the majority´s dissenting voice while at the same time, making use of their propaganda machines overseas to spread a mendacious popular support for their imperial dreams.

There are lots of tasks ahead of us. We need help in order to reveal the truth about the current situation. The huge potential within the collective progressive Iranian community and the opposition groups has been overlooked for a long period. Collectively, we can defuse Iranian regime´s ambitions and expose their lobbyist activities which in turn would ultimately benefit the interests of the people of the United States. One of our goals in PAIC is to form alliance with other groups which share the same concerns as ours; we could then consolidate our efforts to achieve the mutual strategic interests of the Iranians as well as those of the American people´s.

Daioleslam: What has been the Iranian community’s reaction to your appeal?

Kaboli: So far, the response has exceeded our expectations. This is encouraging and once again proves that the formation of PAIC is the appropriate catalyst to bridge over the long awaited gap between the Iranian-American community and the US politics. We are now getting organized and look forward to marking our presence within the US political arena very soon.

http://www.iranian-americans.com/2008/11/351.html

Charges against Jimmy Carter for crime Genocide against iranians and his clear cut support to Islamic Republic of Iran

2008-11-14T09:01:00.009+01:00

Charges against Jimmy Carter
for crime Genocide against iranians
and his clear cut support to Islamic Republic of Iran

to: international criminal tribunal
maanweg 174-2516,the hague the netherland

Bringing Jimmy Carter to International Courts of Justice for crime Genocide against iranians and his clear cut support to Islamic Republic of Iran ( Founder of international terrorism ). This regime is a brutal-corrupt regime which was eased in the power by an american coup, disguised as a revolution ! Islamic Republic of Khomeini and now khamenehei !! This entity is nothing but god father of horrors and international terrorism and an incorporation of serial killers with weapon of Islam in their hands who occupied imperial Iran 30 years ago.

Iranians all over the world ( inside and outside Iran ) have been talking about filling a criminal charges against former president of U.S. Jimmy Carter for his support of criminal regime of Islamic Republic and his role for bringing Khomeini in power resulting hundreds of thousands of executions and stonning of men, women and children to death. This is a quiet legitimate nation which certainly be surfaced out on the open.

Jimmy Carter the man who paved the way for Iran,s ayatollahs and the creator of Khomeini and criminal regime of Islamic Republic has kept a closed eye and simply looking the other way denying and not acknowledging the genocide of iranaians commited by Islamic republic!!!Jimmy Carter should be trial in a criminal court for sure.

This well researched and informative undersigned is dedicated to those who love Iran and want to know who and where is betraying their father land and work as an agent to keep Islamic Republic in power!

We undersigned deeply hope that the horrors humanity has suffered during the 20th century will serve us as a painful lesson, and that the creation of the International Criminal Court ( Court of people and not court of states : International Criminal Tribunal, The Hague ) will help us to prevent those atrocities from being repeated in the future .

There are a lot of evidence to charge USA, ex President, Jimmy Carter, with ten counts of crimes against humanity and genocide of Iranian innocent people.
Victims of ex President are : Iranian people.

Witnesses of ex President, crimes are:

1- Remembrances of Josef M. Heiser , Jr. Lieutenant General, United States Army.
2- Remembrances of William H Sullivan USA, Ambassador to Iran ( 1977 - 1979 ).
3- Remembrances of former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
4- Remembrances of Carters National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski
5- Remembrance of Hamilton Jordan Political Adviser to Jimmy Carter ( In 1982, his book CRISES, The last year of the Carter Presidency-Interview with Hamilton Jordan from the Carter Presidency project: No such things as a bad day ).

Hopeful for your judgment .

Ex Diplomat: Dr. Ali Akbar Omid Mehr
Ashrafolsadat Omid Mehr
Dr.Mahzad Omid Mehr
Dr.Mahraz Omid Mehr

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2008-11-12T14:52:00.007+01:00

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Obama's victory is a new source of inspiration for the Iranian people in their struggle for democracy and freedom.

2008-11-10T01:46:00.005+01:00

Progressive American Iranian Committee

http://www.iranian-americans.com/

Congratulation

On behalf of “PAIC” we would like to extend our congratulations to the President-elect Mr. Barack Obama. This historic event is a significant illustration of the American democracy at its best. Once again this victory demonstrated that USA is the land of opportunities for all its residents including the minorities and the immigrants. The Iranian Americans as one of the minority immigrants are confident that their adopted country, the USA, would respond in the same tone to their needs and would recognize their choices in the same admirable manner in their efforts to establish democracy in their native land.

The ruling regime in our native country is relentlessly suppressing the most fundamental and basic rights of our people.

Obama's victory is a new source of inspiration for the Iranian people in their struggle for democracy and freedom.

We hope that Mr. Obama’s new administration will steer USA’s previous disconcerted policies towards Iran into the right direction to take a more purposeful and firm stance in US policies against the despotic regime of the Islamic Republic in Iran.

There is little doubt that the Iranian community’s concerns regarding the religious dictatorship in Iran is one of the biggest challenges of the new president after his inauguration on January 20^th 2009.

The Iranian community in the USA expects Mr. Obama to take effective steps in handling the Iranian regime’s threats in the Middle East by bringing the whole world together in order to neutralize Iran’s rulers’ ambitions to acquire the nuclear bomb, and to offset Islamic Republic’s lobbying influence in the USA.

We would like to emphasize that in order to stand against the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Iran, the Progressive Iranian-American individuals and organizations such as “PAIC” are amongst the best partners and allies.

PAIC

Radio Zamaneh's Interim Director to its staff: به مزدوران رادیو زم زمانه: یا میمونین با گورتونو گم میکنین

2008-11-07T17:01:00.008+01:00

Radio Zamaneh's

Interim Director

to its staff

There has been sufficient explanation about the decision of the Radio Zamaneh Board regarding the suggested position (editor-in-chief) to Mr. Mehdi Jami and his negative response. The attitude of the Board, Press Now as financier and the development guide of RZ, and of the RZ lawyer is clear and irreversible. Mr. Mehdi Jami is suspended from his duties and he is going to be fired. He will not come back to the organization. I have had talks with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about our decision.

As the RZ lawyer said, people in Zamaneh who disagree with this decision, or if they feel stronger personal affiliation with Mr. Jami than devotion to Radio Zamaneh continuation and developing further, are free to start a new media outlet for their own.

At the time of crisis management and restructuring of the organization, any further violation of the confidentiality of the internal affairs of Radio Zamaneh and bringing it into public that can damage public image of Zamaneh will not be tolerated. The only authorized person for contact with media is the head of the RZ Board Bijan Moshaver. In his absence, Mr. Joop Daalmeijer, member of the RZ Board, will be responsible for contacts with media.

The RZ Board has decided to appoint Mr. Hossein Alavi as an interim editor-in-chief. Besides Mr. Alavi's direct responsibilities for the content side of Radio Zamaneh, he will make a quick scan of the functioning of the newsroom, evaluate skills of journalist within Zamaneh team, and help designing a profile for the vacancy of selecting the new editor-in-chief that is supposed to be appointed as permanent position. After consultation with his editorial colleagues Mr. Alavi will also assign an Editorial Council work and cooperate with him in the editorial office.

Furthermore, in order to create the possibility for all employees (staff and freelancers) of Zamaneh to contribute to the policy of Zamaneh, I will facilitate the composition of an Employee Council in close consultation with their representative, as soon as possible.

Zoran Djukanovic

Interim Director of Radio Zamaneh

ترجمه‌

تا کنون توضیح کافی درباره‌ی تصميم هيأت مديره‌ی رادیو زمانه در خصوص منصب پيشنهادی (سردبیری) به آقای مهدی جامی و پاسخ منفی او داده شده است. رویکردِ هيأت مديره، پرس ناو به عنوان سرمايه‌گذار و رهنمودهای توسعه‌ی رادیو زمانه و رويکرد وکيل راديو زمانه روشن و بازگشت‌ناپذير است. آقای مهدی جامی از وظايف‌اش معلق شده است و قرار است اخراج شود. ايشان به اين سازمان باز نخواهد گشت. من با وزرات امور خارجه درباره‌ی تصميم‌مان گفت‌وگو داشته‌ام.

چنان‌که وکيل راديو زمانه گفته است، افرادی که در زمانه با این تصميم مخالف هستند، يا اگر احساس تعلق شخصی قوی‌تر به آقای جامی دارند تا احساس سرسپردگی به استمرار و توسعه‌ی بيشتر راديو زمانه، آزادند که برای خودشان رسانه‌ای تازه‌ای بر پا کنند.

در زمان مديريت بحران و بازسازی اين سازمان، هر گونه نقض بيشتر مسايل محرمانه و امور داخلی راديو زمانه و علنی کردن آن‌ها که اسباب آسيب ديدن وجهه‌ی زمانه شود، تحمل نخواهد شد. تنها شخص مجاز برای تماس با رسانه‌ها، رييس هيأت مديره‌ی راديو زمانه،‌ بيژن مشاور است. در غيابِ او، آقای جوپ دالماير، عضو هيأت مديره‌ی زمانه، مسئول تماس با رسانه‌ها خواهد بود.

هيأت مدیره‌ی راديو زمانه تصميم گرفته است که آقای حسين علوی را به عنوان سردبير موقت انتصاب کند. آقای علوی در مسئوليت‌های مستقيم‌اش در خصوص جنبه‌ی محتوايی راديو زمانه، نگاهی کلی به عملکرد اتاق خبر خواهد داشت تا مهارت‌های روزنامه‌نگاران داخل تيم زمانه را ارزيابی کند و به تهيه‌ی پروفایلی برای منصب خالی سردبير تازه‌ای که قرار است به طور دايمی انتصاب شود، ياری رساند. آقای علوی، پس از مشورت با همکاران سردبيری‌اش یک شورای صنفی سردبيری نيز انتصاب خواهد کرد و با او در دفتر سردبيری همکاری خواهد کرد.

علاوه بر اين، جهت ايجاد امکان مشارکت همه‌ی کارمندان (اعضای زمانه و همکاران آزاد) در سياست‌گزاری زمانه، من زمينه‌ی تشکيل يک شورای صنفی را با مشورت نمايندگان‌شان، در اسرع وقت، فراهم خواهم کرد.

زوران جوکانوويچ

مدير موقت رادیو زمانه

Der Innenminister (!) hatte fälschlich angegeben, einen Ehrendoktortitel der renommierten britischen Universität Oxford zu besitzen

2008-11-05T02:08:00.003+01:00

Amtsenthebung des Innenministers beschlossen

TEHERAN: Das iranische Parlament hat mit großer Mehrheit einem Antrag zur Amtsenthebung von Innenminister Ali Kordan zugestimmt. Er hatte fälschlich angegeben, einen Ehrendoktortitel der renommierten britischen Universität Oxford zu besitzen. Staatspräsident Mahmud Ahmadinedschad bezeichnete das Amtsenthebungsverfahren als 'illegal'. Zugleich bescheinigte er Kordan eine gute Arbeit als Minister.

Rumi in tears / by Parviz Sayyad

2008-11-03T13:32:00.002+01:00

Rumi in tears

by Parviz Sayyad
http://www.iranian-americans.com/

Under the pretext of celebrating Rumi, the 13th century Persian mystic, poet and philosopher, the Hollywood Bowl presented a showcase of Islamic fundamentalism on Sunday, September 27th. The event attracted a huge crowd (15,644 officially attended) made up mainly of Iranians who have emigrated to Southern California since the Islamic Revolution swept Iran in 1979.

Initially, they were proud and excited that the Hollywood Bowl was paying attention to their culture. They thought that perhaps the grandeur of the Bowl, together with a grand budget and grand vision has yielded a grand tribute to the beauties of their culture. But, by the end of the night, many of them, if not most, found themselves disappointed after being trapped for almost four hours, and forced to witness the less grand aspects of that same culture.

They were “trapped” because as all Angelenos know, you cannot leave the Bowl mid-show. In a regular theater or stadium, if you are not enjoying the program, you can express your displeasure by simply leaving. But, at the Bowl, you don’t have the luxury of escape. Your vehicle is stuck in a jungle of automobiles, or the bus you arrived in will not depart without your fellow passengers. This was the case for me and for many others who wanted desperately to leave the Hollywood Bowl on the night of September 27th. Instead, we had to sit back and watch our beloved Rumi be misrepresented to the point of becoming unrecognizable.

The title of a music review, written by Richard S. Ginell, (special to the Times, on Monday September 28th) is “The Silk Road to Happiness,” referring to the tenth anniversary of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project and Ensemble, a group whose 2005 appearance at the Bowl drew a similarly large crowd. The article, however, does not tell us who actually experienced any “happiness” that night. Certainly, nothing “happy” was taking place on stage. And the audience was subjected to a constant barrage of traditional Islamic chanting and the recitation of Koranic verses, both of which share the quality of being quite mournful. Nour-Mohammad Dorpour set a poem by Rumi to music, but did so in the style of the traditional Islamic lament, usually meant to draw sobs from the listener.

The Qaderi Dervishes of Kurdistan set that same poem to music, but soon completely overwhelmed the poem in ecstatic chants calling on Allah and the Prophet Muhammad, until that was all that was left. With the exception of some poetry recital by Mr. Iraj Gorgin in Persian, and by Ms. Shohreh Aghdashloo in English, the evening was one of lamentation. Mr. Ginell seems unaware of 90% of that evening’s content, as do Mr. Yo-yo Ma and certainly the Bowl’s artistic advisors.

Sheik Hamza Shakour, lead vocalist with the Ensemble Al-Kindi, and backing the Whirling Dervishes of Damascus, starts his Koranic recitation by cursing “the cruel Great Satan” (”Al Sheitan al rajeem”). With the current tensions between the US and Islamic Extremists, that felt like a rather aggressive and ungracious opening from a group invited to Hollywood from an Islamic country known to be hostile towards Western values, and the US in particular. Sheik Hamza then goes on singing his verses, as if his doing so has any relation to Rumi whatsoever. These are the same verses chanted by devoted Muslims during daily prayers. And they are also recited at funerals as “fateha” over the tomb of the deceased Muslim.

Rumi’s “universal manifesto” as Ginell labels it, is “I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Zoroastrian, nor a Moslem.” From time to time, the moderators Gorgin and Aghdashloo reminded us of this important part of Rumi’s philosophy. But, in the rest of the program, the universal Rumi was sorely missing and missed. Instead, Rumi was represented as the most devoted of Muslims, and even as a fundamentalist.

In his early life, Rumi can be mistaken as being an Islamic cleric, which was the dominant interpretation at the Bowl on the night of September 27th. But Rumi’s famed philosophy and his global appeal does not stop at such a one-dimensional interpretation. For most Iranians, as well as many scholars, Rumi changes drastically upon meeting his muse, Shams, the mysterious Sufi philosopher. Rumi, at that point, turns into a figure of rebellion against his own previous views, religious dogma and the established morality coming from Islamic clichés.

Rumi then went further by humanizing the Divine. In his work, he reduces the Almighty into the figure of Shams, and elevates Shams to the level of the Almighty. At this point, he can no longer be seen as a Muslim cleric. What he says and what he suggests would be considered blasphemous, and therefore punishable by death to any actual Muslim cleric.

For the Iranian audience at the Bowl, listening to Iraj Gorgin reciting Rumi was enjoyable. Mr. Gorgin who is now working with a US government-backed radio network in the Czech Republic is best remembered as a lead news anchor and television personality during the Shah’s regime. Seeing him without a tie for the first time, on a wide screen at the Hollywood Bowl was a bit shocking for those who knew him. Whether it was to pay homage to the evening’s religious mood, or to the style of Islamic Republic diplomats attending the UN at that time, his simplicity was in complete contrast to the actress Shohreh Aghdashloo’s attire as Madam Butterfly, displaying herself more than Rumi’s poetry as she waved her arms like an actual butterfly!

Sitting there for over 3 hours, watching one of the greatest, most progressive thinkers of all time butchered on stage, brings you to a point at which not even the most magical piece of music could change your mood. That was the point for me when Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble took the stage to finish the last segment of the show. It was also a time when, even those not particularly sensitive about Rumi, were just plain bored by the fundamentalist Islamic version of him, accompanied by pathetic and amateurish music, the miserly lack of stage decoration, and the mind-numbing action of returning repeatedly to the calligraphy of Ostad Yadollah Kaboli. Talented as Kaboli is, when did calligraphy become acceptable as performance?

“Blue as the Turqoise Night of Neyshabur” composed by Keyhan Kalhor, the evening’s curator, performed by the Silk Road Ensemble was a breath of fresh air compared to the rest of the show, but not so fresh as to save us from a suffocating night.

Los Angeles Times: U.S. policies may have contributed to Iran revolution

2008-10-31T16:36:00.018+01:00

By Borzou Daragahi
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

U.S. policies "may" have contributed to Iran "revolution"

A report based on declassified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations, angry with the shah for his support for raising oil prices, worked to curb his ambitions.

A new report based on previously classified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations created conditions that helped destabilize Iran in the late 1970s and contributed to the country's Islamic Revolution.

A trove of transcripts, memos and other correspondence show sharp differences over rising oil prices developing between the Republican administrations and Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi in the mid-1970s, says a report to be published today in the fall issue of Middle East Journal, an academic journal published by the Washington-based Middle East Institute, a think tank.

The report, after two years of research by scholar Andrew Scott Cooper, zeros in on the role of White House policymakers -- including Donald H. Rumsfeld, then a top aide to President Ford -- hoping to roll back oil prices and curb the shah's

ambitions, despite warnings by then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that such a move might precipitate the rise of a "radical regime" in Iran.

"The shah is a tough, mean guy. But he is our real friend," Kissinger warned Ford, who was considering options to press the monarch into lowering oil prices, in an August 1974 conversation cited by the report. "We can't tackle him without breaking him."

Analysts and historians often contend that President Carter, a Democrat, fumbled Iran, allowing the country to eventually become one of the chief U.S. opponents in the region. But the report suggests that his Republican predecessors not only contributed to the shah's fall but also were inching toward a realignment with Saudi Arabia as the key U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf.

The examination of pre- revolutionary Iran has special relevance today. Cooper said Iran's economic situation just before the revolution resembled its current state, this time with big-spending President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad banking on high oil prices to sustain his power.

"Ahmadinejad's fiscal recklessness is eerily reminiscent of the shah's, with Iran's inflation rate running at approximately 30% and Iran's current deficit approximately $12 billion -- not to mention widespread underemployment and unemployment," Cooper said in an e-mail.

The report, based mostly on documents stored at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor, Mich., opens a window on an unruly period more than 30 years ago that precipitated Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, which established a template for religiously inspired Muslim movements throughout the Middle East.

As high oil prices in the early 1970s began strangling the U.S. economy, Washington began to sour on Iran, the documents suggest. After an oil embargo over American support of Israel ended in March 1974, U.S. officials considered the shah the principal culprit in keeping oil prices from falling and wanted him to put on the brakes. At one point, Rumsfeld, who later served as the current President Bush's Defense secretary, warned Iran's chief arms procurement official that Tehran was losing friends in Washington.

"Don't try to get around me," he reportedly told Gen. Hassan Toufanian, in an encounter described by the Washington Post three decades ago and cited in the report. "Remember, Kissinger and I have to approve all [arms] exports."

Chief among those advocating pressure on Iran was William Simon, who served as Treasury secretary and energy czar under the Nixon and Ford administrations. He blamed the shah for high oil prices and wanted the U.S. to use weapons sales to Tehran as leverage.

"He is the ringleader on oil prices, together with Venezuela," Simon told President Nixon in July 1974, referring to the Iranian ruler. "Is it possible to put pressure on the shah?"

Over the years, Kissinger advocated a friendlier line on Iran and the shah, who had been brought back to power by a U.S.-engineered coup in 1953. The report suggests that Kissinger had special insights into the country's instability. At the time, university campuses in Iran were in turmoil, and guerrillas were attacking U.S. facilities and assassinating key officials. Even in 1974, a CIA analysis sounded the alarm, saying the shah's ambitious buildup of the country was causing economic polarization and cultural clashes that were roiling Iran.

By late 1976 the shah was in deep financial trouble, facing a huge cash crunch. He wanted the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries oil cartel, or OPEC, to raise oil prices by 25%, a move the U.S. opposed.

"There is unanimity among my advisors that the world economy health is not good," Ford told Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi in December 1976, according to the archives. "Any increase in the price of oil would have a serious impact on the world financial structure."

But U.S. officials, especially Simon, had been working with Saudi officials behind the shah's back to seek help on oil prices in exchange for political and military support for the Arab kingdom. The Saudis stunned OPEC by announcing at a December summit in Doha, Qatar, that they would boost production to 11.6 million barrels a day from 8.6 million barrels, driving down prices.

"We should get credit for what happened at OPEC," Kissinger told Ford. "I have said all along the Saudis were the key. . . . Our great diplomacy is what did it."

But it would prove to be a Pyrrhic victory in terms of one American ally. Iran was cash-strapped, having spent much of its reserves on American weapons and the shah's Great Civilization programs, which spurred inflation by flooding the country with money.

The shah was broke. Declining oil revenue amid continued inflation forced him to abandon ambitious plans to modernize his country.

"The collapse of the Doha summit, and the Saudi decision to undercut the price of crude and boost its output to try to flood the market, rushed the Iranian economy to the precipice," Cooper writes in his report.

The shah's government, shaken by the loss of oil revenue, imposed a harsh austerity budget that threw thousands out of work, collapsed investor confidence and panicked middle-class Iranians. Economic chaos and unemployment quickly spread.

Within a year of the Doha summit, the first mass demonstrations that grew into revolution broke out on the streets of the Iranian capital.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-shah17-2008oct17,0,7529887.story

Der Iran richtet weiter Kinder hin/ Es gilt Vergeltungsrecht / Hinrichtungen werden öffentlich inszeniert

2008-10-22T16:34:00.004+02:00

Der Iran richtet weiter Kinder hin

Die "Justiz" ist nicht zuständig!

Ob ein Jugendlicher, der einen Mord begangen habe, hingerichtet werde oder nicht, entscheidet nicht die Justiz. Die Entscheidung liege bei den Hinterbliebenen der Opfer. Denn nach iranischer Rechtsprechung gilt bei Tötungsdelikten oder schwerer Körperverletzung das Recht auf Vergeltungsstrafe: Demnach entscheidet die Familie des Opfers, ob sie ein Blutgeld fordert, mit dem der Täter quasi eine Entschädigung zahlt, oder ob sie verlangt, dass die Todesstrafe ausgeführt wird. Dieses "Auge-um-Auge"-Recht könne den Familien nach islamischem Recht nicht verwehrt werden. Das sind nach Dokumentationen von ai allerdings 99 Prozent der Fälle, in denen die Todesstrafe gegen Minderjährige verhängt wird. Oftmals handelt es sich dabei um Jugendliche, die zwar wegen Mordes verurteilt wurden, deren Taten aber nach internationalen Standards nicht als vorsätzliche Tötung gewertet werden dürften, sondern

Amnesty International fordert, dass die Todesstrafe für Minderjährige im iranischen Strafgesetzbuch generell abgeschafft wird. Wenn diese gesetzlichen Grundlagen geschaffen würden, gäbe es auch keine Interpretationsmöglichkeiten mehr.

Ina Rottscheidt
DW

Spiegel': Bundesregierung will Kurs gegenüber Iran verschärfen

2008-10-20T19:57:00.002+02:00

Bundesregierung
will
Kurs gegenüber Iran
verschärfen

Die Bundesregierung will nach einem Bericht des Nachrichtenmagazins 'Der Spiegel' ihren Sanktionskurs gegenüber dem Iran deutlich verschärfen. Demnach plant die Koalition, deutsche Unternehmen der Banken- und Versicherungswirtschaft sowie der Energiebranche von neuen Geschäften mit dem Iran abzubringen. Auf diese Weise solle das Land zum Stopp seines Atomprogramms bewegt werden.

Bisher beharrt die deutsche Industrie darauf, nur gesetzlich verbotene Geschäfte zu unterlassen. Der deutsche Handel mit dem Iran stieg laut 'Spiegel' im ersten Halbjahr um über 16 Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahreszeitraum. Dies sorge bei anderen westlichen Ländern zunehmend für Unmut. Die Bundesregierung lehnt eine Stellungnahme zu dem Bericht bisher ab.

Iran's Judiciary announces a STOP to CHILD EXECUTIONS

2008-10-17T12:08:00.003+02:00

Iran's Judiciary announces
a STOP to CHILD EXECUTIONS

On behalf of the Stop Child Executions organization I would personally like to THANK YOU for your efforts in our campaign.

We hope this latest news of Iran's desire to end the death penalty for minors is sincere and abide by their word . We are pleased that Iran is taking the right step forward but we are being cautious as we have seen announcements before where the Islamic Republic of Iran's officials have reneged on their statements . We at Stop Child Executions are hopeful that this is a battle that can be won. Our voices together really do make a difference and are being heard and addressed worldwide!

For a full report by Stop Child Executions please read below.

Thank you for being a part of the solution,

Nazanin Afshin-Jam

President and Co-Founder

Stop Child Executions

www.stopchildexecutions.com

Iran's Judiciary announces a STOP to CHILD EXECUTIONS

Stop Child Executions organization welcomes with joy Iran’s announcement to abolish juvenile executions.

According to Iran's Assistant Attorney General for Judicial Affairs, Hossein Zabhi, a memorandum has been sent to all bodies of the Judiciary in Iran to stop child executions and instructed Judges to issue a maximum sentence of life imprisonment with possibility of parole after 15 years in lieu of execution.

Over the last few years, Stop Child Executions has continuously put pressure on Iran to abide by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Charter of the Rights of the Child (CRC) to which it is state party and put a permanent end to executions of children who have committed an offence before the age of 18.

In September 2008, Stop Child Executions organized “Ahmadinejad’s Wall of Shame" rally outside of the United Nations in New York. A list of recommendations was issued urging Iran's Supreme Leader, Head of Judiciary and the Parliament to immediately stop child executions and implement the changes into law in Iran’s Parliament.

Stop Child Executions was also among 300 other NGO’s from 82 countries who called on the UN General Assembly in its recent annual debate on the Rights of the Child to take urgent action to end the death penalty for minors.

SCE would like to congratulate and thank all its supporters who have signed the petition including human rights defenders, lawyers, government officials, and journalists around the world who have been fighting along with them to end child executions in Iran.

While Iran is the worst offender of child executions with over 140 minors on death row and six executions of children this year alone, Stop Child Executions calls on other countries including Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan and Pakistan to follow Iran’s lead in calling for an end to child executions.

All the volunteers at Stop Child Executions wish this overdue decision would have been implemented long before and give their condolences to the families of the 26 minors who have been executed in vain since 2005 and others prior to this date.

Stop Child Executions hopes Iran will abide by their announcement and looks forward to seeing the implementations of its other recommendations to Iran into law.

Link to recommendations:

POWERPOINT DOWNLOAD:www.stopchildexecutions.com/solutionPP.ppt

POWERPOINT ONLINE : www.stopchildexecutions.com/solutionsPP.htm

HTML: http://www.stopchildexecutions.com/scesolutions.aspx

For more information visit Stop Child Executions organization at

www.stopchildexecutions.com

The judge said, 'We have to see the movie and then decide what we're going to do with you.'

2008-10-10T00:03:00.010+02:00

Golshifteh Farahani plays Leonardo DiCaprio's love interest in 'Body of Lies' and fears exile from IranIran

Leonardo DiCaprio had to spend three months in Morocco filming his CIA thriller, "Body of Lies." But Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who plays his love interest, could face an even longer exile.

The gorgeous 25-year-old, one of Iran's biggest stars, is the first Iranian-based actress to appear in a Hollywood film since the 1979 Islamic revolution. She wonders about returning to her homeland now that a court there is weighing whether she broke Islamic law by making the film without permission.

"I had a lot of problems because of this movie," she told us at Sunday's New York premiere, where she caught up with co-stars DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Oscar Isaac and director Ridley Scott. "[Iranian officials] took my passport. The intelligence service interrogated me several times. In the end, the judge said, 'We have to see the movie and then decide what we're going to do with you.'"

It's hard to see what would bother them. Farahani plays a nurse who treats DiCaprio's character, but is wary of his advances, insisting that he first meet her family. She won't even shake his hand.

Though her passport has been returned, she doesn't know whether the hard-line government will seize it again if she returns. "I'm on trial," she said, turning down a waiter offering a glass of wine. The actress, who has been living in France with her husband, Amin Mahdavi, said, "I'm totally in love with Iran. I have family there. But now, if they want to see me, they have to leave."

Last month, Saudi Arabia's chief judge threatened to execute satellite broadcast providers who import "deviant" Western movies. It's no wonder Farahani is reluctant to venture even to relatively liberal Dubai, where "Body of Lies" is to be screened at the country's film festival.

"I'm going to stay here," she said. "I lost one opportunity to do a screen test, for 'The Prince of Persia.' I'm not ready for that again."

MOMINATION Adib Boroumand for The 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature

2008-10-05T15:27:00.003+02:00

We are hereby honored to nominate
Abdolali Adib Boroumand,
for the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature

October 03, 2008

The Swedish Academy Committee for Nobel Nominations in Literature

Källargränd 4, Gamla Stan Stockholm, Sweden

Subject: The 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature

Dear Sirs/Madams,

We are hereby honored to nominate Mr. Abdolali Adib Boroumand,
Iran’s National Poet, political and human rights activist,
for the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature.

Mr. Boroumand, Born 1924, in the city of Isfahan, a lawyer by academics and profession, a linguist and literary icon, has been one of the most renowned poets of Iranian modern history. His seven books of poetry are collection of hundreds of poems he has written all in support of people’s struggle for freedom, democracy and human rights. His latest collection of poems in support of freedom movements around the world named “Message of Freedom” has been translated into 8 other languages such as English, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean Tagalog and Esperanto, and is being translated into a dozen more. His fans in Asian and western countries are dubbing him as an “International Poet” and setting up a multi-lingual site in order to make his works accessible internationally. His other books of collection are called “Moaning of Motherland”, “Familiar Pain”, Song of Liberation”, Secret of Flight” and “Fruits of Being” among others.

What makes Mr. Boroumand a special case in literature, aside from the literary quality of his poems and their delicateness and sensitivity, is the fact that he has been a political activist all his life, opposing tyranny and corruption, and struggling for democracy and human rights. Because of his political opposition activities during the Pahlavi monarchy and the Islamic Republic, he’s been jailed, refused media access or otherwise limited in public activities. He’s been addresses by colleagues and people who know him as Iran’s undisputed national poet. He has been in serving in the leadership council of Iran National Front, Iran’s oldest and most respected democratic political party and is now the head of INF Central Council as well. Upon invitation by the esteemed Academy, his full biography, works and support letters and signatures by many Iranian and international professors of literature and linguistics from the universities in Iran and abroad will be provided.

Respectfully submitted,

Kourosh Zaim, President

Guess Who's Coming for Dinner

2008-09-24T20:18:00.002+02:00

Guess Who's Coming for Dinner

By Kayvan Kaboli and Hassan Daoleslam

FrontPageMagazine.com Wednesday, September 24, 2008

On September 25th 2008, five American religious groups will host the Iranian president Mahmood Ahmadinejad, as they did last year during his 2007 visit to the UN.[1]
It is safe to assume that the purpose of the dinner won’t be a group interfaith prayer session. This event follows a series of trips by some American religious groups to Tehran. In fact, when these groups are not busy hosting Ahmadinejad here, they are hosted by him in Tehran. The "American Friends Service Committee" and "the Mennonite Central Committee," two of Ahmadinejad's dinner hosts in New York, visited Tehran in early 2007.[2]
These "peace" trips became fashionable after Ahmadinejad's ascendance to the presidency in 2005. The main organizer in the U.S. is the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) which has already arranged eight other trips since 2005.[3] For example, their May 2008 trip to Iran was locally organized by the "Islamic Culture and relations Organization," a governmental agency whose activities encompass a broad range from PR campaign for Tehran to assisting terrorist operations.[4]
Prior to the religious delegation’s arrival in Tehran, Rassouli, the head of Iranian host agency, declared: "The goal of this trip is to soften the negative image that the US media is spreading about Iran.” He predicted that the visitors would speak positively about Iran.[5]
Upon their return from Iran, these delegations behaved as the PR agents for one of the most brutal regimes on earth. Their trip diaries are ludicrous and disgraceful. They remind one of the Cold War era visits to the Soviet Union when the returning visitors praised Stalin and the joyful Gulags.
In Iran, according to these visitors, the religious minorities are well respected and enjoy ample freedom to practice their religion. The Iranian nuclear program is absolutely peaceful. The root cause of the nuclear dispute is the US administration who is looking for pretexts to wage another war. People are happy in Iran. They can freely talk about politics and their only worry is the US administration. Two sample excerpts follow:[6]
"The Iranian Archbishop, Doctor Ghorian Babian, praised the freedom of the religious minorities in Iran:
Archbishop Babian said it was important to respect the laws of each religion. In Islam, converting to another faith is punishable by death and foreign evangelism has been the reason for animosity towards western Christianity here. He said that he thought that it was hypocritical of the United States to claim the lack of human rights or religious freedom in Iran, when the U.S. policy in Saudi Arabia was to pump oil out of that country for 24 years but not to build a single chapel there."
Laurie, one American Christian living in Iran:
"Laurie said that aside from missing her family and the bother of having to dress in a chador, life was quite all right. When asked if people feel free to talk about politics, Laurie said that’s all they ever talk about!
She praised the improvements in health and education that have taken place since the revolution. Compared to Egypt, where there is so much poverty, Iranians are better off, she thought."
This unholy alliance is further augmented with the Iranian web of influence in the U.S. For example, PAX Christi USA is one group which has traveled to Iran on two occasions, one of which was with FOR delegation. Their report about the trip explained that:[7]
"One of the new relationships that Pax Christi USA entered into as a result of the delegation was with the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), the largest US based organization representing Iranian Americans. Later in the spring, Dave and NIAC staff Alex Patico, another delegation member, presented their insights on the Iranian situation to DC-based organizations at an event organized together with NETWORK. Dave continued to write and to speak on Iran to groups around the country in the months following the delegation."
Alex Patico, according to NIAC web site, is the co-founder of NIAC. He was also one of the delegates of 2006 trip to Tehran. After the trip, NIAC's president Trita Parsi accompanied the religious leader in a briefing in the Congress about Iranian nuclear program.[8]
Patico is also the US coordinator of another Iranian organization called CASMII (Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran) created in 2006. This group is a tenacious defender of the Iranian nuclear program. The readers are invited to visit CASMII's website to get the first hand views of this organization’s position on Iranian related issues.[9]
FOR and its allies organize many religious trips to Iran. This organization also has a broader range of activities with CASMII and other pro Tehran organizations. The latest example is their September 21st candle vigil organized by the Iranian regime in Tehran.[10]
While religious organizations are at it, the hosts of the September 25th gala might add to their dinner grace, the gratitude of the prosecuted religious minorities, tortured political prisoners, executed children, stoned women, hanged homosexuals and many other victims of the mullahs’ regime.
Notes:
1- http://mcc.org/news/news/article.html?id=254
2- http://www.afsc.org/ht/display/Contents/xcids/6838/pid/268
3- http://forusa.org/programs/iran/
4- http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=681591
5- http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=676786
6- http://www.forusa.org/programs/iran/dec05-2.htm
7- http://www.paxchristiusa.org/2006AnnualReport.pdf
8- http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=415&Itemid=2
9- http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/
10- http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/6322

Kayvan Kaboli is a member of “Progressive American-Iranian Committee” (PAIC). He has been a political activist for 30 years with particular interest in environmental and peace issues. Hassan Daoleslam is an independent Iran Analyst and writer. His focus is the Iranian regime's web of influence in U.S. http://english.iranianlobby.com/.

Im Iran wachsen die Spannungen zwischen Schiiten und Sunniten.

2008-09-14T14:56:00.005+02:00

DW-World.de
Deutsche Welle

Religiöse Zerreißprobe im Iran

Im Iran wachsen die Spannungen zwischen Schiiten und Sunniten.Im Süden wurde eine sunnitische Religionsschule zerstört. Dem "Präsidenten" scheint der Streit gelegen zu kommen.

Sunniten sind im Iran die zweitgrößte Religionsgruppe, zwischen zehn und fünfzehn Prozent der Bevölkerung, genaueres weiß man nicht. Seit Jahren kämpfen sie in Teheran vergeblich für die Baugenehmigung ihrer Moschee. Als Bürgermeister der Hauptstadt lehnte der heutige Präsident Mahmud Ahmadinedschad damals ihren Antrag ab. Teheraner Sunniten beten seither in Botschaften islamischer Länder. Trotz heftiger Kritik der sunnitischen Geistlichen und ungeachtet der Solidarität einiger schiitischer Ayatollahs lenkte Ahmadinedschad nicht ein, und bis jetzt zeigte die iranische Regierung keine Reaktion.

Die Spannungen zwischen den Religionsgruppen verschärfen sich nun: Anfang August 2008 beschloss der Rat der Kulturrevolution unter Präsident Ahmadinedschad, einen Regierungsrat für sunnitische Religionsschulen zu gründen. Dieser soll sunnitische Aktivitäten im Iran kontrollieren. Viele Parlamentsabgeordnete, darunter die sunnitische Fraktionen protestierten gegen den Plan. Der Beschluss müsse zurückgenommen werden, fordern führende Sunniten im Iran. Er gefährde die Einheit des Landes und das Zusammenleben beider religiöser Gruppen.

"Der erste Schritt für eine Verbot"

Die iranischen Sunniten fühlen sich ohnehin benachteiligt: Nach dem iranischem Grundgesetz darf nur ein Schiit Präsident werden. Minister und ihre Stellvertreter, Botschafter, Dekane und Führungspositionen im Iran dürfen nur von Schiiten gewählt werden. "Sunniten dürfen auch nicht an Kultur- und Sicherheitsfragen des Landes teilnehmen", sagt Jalal Jalalisadeh, sunnitischer Religionsexperte im Iran und ehemaliger Parlamentsabgeordneter. Der geplante Regierungsrat würde diese Situation noch verschärfen: "Ahmadinedschad Rat ist der erste Schritt für ein Verbot der sunnitischen Zentren im Iran. In den iranischen Medien haben Sunniten keine Rolle, und ihre Identität wird bedroht."

Auch unter Schiiten ist das geplante Kontrollorgan für sunnitische Religionsschulen umstritten. Ahmad Ghabel, der in Ghom, dem bedeutendsten Religionszentrum der Schiiten im Iran, studiert hat, warnt vor einer Spaltung der Gesellschaft. Denn seit einigen Jahren werden immer wieder sunnitische Moscheen zerstört und sunnitische Geistliche verhaftet. Nun wurde kürzlich sogar eine sunnitische Religionsschule im Südosten des Landes von Sicherheitsorganen zerstört, Geistliche wurden festgenommen - mit der offiziellen Begründung einer fehlende Baugenehmigung für die Schule. Damit habe die seit Jahrzehnten wachsende Diskriminierung der Sunniten ihren Höhepunkt erreicht, sagt Religionsexperte Ghabel. Ahmadinedschads Plan verletze das iranische Grundgesetz. "In unserer Verfassung sind die Rechte der religiösen Minderheiten geschützt, sie dürfen in ihren Städten und Dörfern frei nach ihren religiösen Rechten und ihrem Glauben handeln."

Die 14-Jährige MinuTizabi machte Abitur

2008-09-13T15:33:00.008+02:00

Die 14-Jährige Minu Tizabi
machte Abitur mit Note 1,0

Mädchen in ihrem Alter gehen normalerweise in die achte Klasse. Minu Dietlinde Tizabi aus Pforzheim hat schon das Abitur in der Tasche. Im Interview erklärt sie ihre Zukunftspläne: erst mal Medizin studieren.

Als Einjährige baute Minu Dietlinde Tizabi Figuren aus Überraschungseiern zusammen. Mit drei Jahren las sie selbst, vertiefte sich stundenlang in ihr Kinderlexikon und studierte Planeten-Konstellationen. Den Kindergarten besuchte sie nie. Ihr Vater kümmerte sich lieber selbst um das Kind, die Mutter starb, als Minu einen Monat alt war. Mit sechs Jahren wurde das Kind eingeschult - direkt in die dritte Klasse. Und jetzt, mit 14, hat das Mädchen am Hebel-Gymnasium Pforzheim ihr Abitur mit 1,0 bestanden.

MINU UND IHR ABI: "ICH BIN NICHTS BESONDERES"

815 von maximal 840 Punkten erreichte Minu. Sie selbst findet das gar nicht so bemerkenswert - mit 835 Punkten sei doch ihre Freundin Hanna, 18, viel besser gewesen. Manchmal machte der gravierende Altersunterschied zu ihren Mitschülern sich im Schulalltag schon bemerkbar. So wollten die Lehrer Minu nicht am Sportunterricht teilnehmen lassen. Die Begründung: Sie sei so klein und könnte von den anderen über den Haufen gerannt werden. Doch Minu saß in der Zeit nicht tatenlos rum - sie büffelte lieber Physik.

"Sie ist kein Wunderkind, sie ist ziemlich normal", sagte ihr Vater Djamshid Tizabi der "Bietigheimer Zeitung". Der selbstständige Diplom-Ingenieur für Quantenelektronik stammt aus Iran und will auch in Zukunft in der Nähe seiner Tochter bleiben.

SPIEGEL: Minu, wie geht das: Abitur mit 14?

Tizabi: Ich habe vier Klassen übersprungen. Mit sechs wurde ich gleich in die dritte Klasse eingeschult, weil ich schon lesen konnte und unterfordert war. Und auf dem Gymnasium war nach drei Wochen klar: Die Fünfte kann ich auch überspringen. Dann hat noch unser gesamter Jahrgang als Versuchsklasse die 11. ausgelassen. Meine Mitschüler waren drei bis vier Jahre älter als ich.

SPIEGEL: Hattest du Schwierigkeiten in der Klasse - wegen des Altersunterschiedes?

Tizabi: Mit den Mädchen war es immer okay. Und durch das Kurssystem der Oberstufe sind weitere Freundinnen dazugekommen. Aber die Jungs haben mich nie so ganz akzeptieren können. Warum, weiß ich nicht. Richtigen Neid habe ich aber nicht zu spüren bekommen.

SPIEGEL: Wie geht es jetzt nach dem Abitur weiter bei dir?

Tizabi: Ich möchte Medizin studieren, um später in Forschung und Lehre zu arbeiten. Medizinische Forschung kann Leben retten, das ist besonders wichtig. Deshalb finde ich auch, dass das ein tolles Berufsbild ist. Studieren würde ich am liebsten in Heidelberg. Die Uni soll dort ja besonders für Medizin sehr gut sein. Dafür muss ich mich aber über die ZVS bewerben.

SPIEGEL: Gibt es da bürokratische Widerstände, weil du noch nicht volljährig bist?

Tizabi: Für die Anträge bei der ZVS ist mein Alter kein Problem. Und von den Unis, mit denen ich bisher gesprochen habe, kamen überall nur positive Reaktionen. Aber wenn ich eine Zusage für den Studienplatz habe, muss mein Vater mit zur Immatrikulation kommen und unterschreiben.

SPIEGEL: Nutzt du die Sommerferien zum Lernen, oder hast du noch etwas Freizeit vor dem Studium?

Tizabi: Normalerweise lerne ich nicht unbedingt mehr als andere. Aber mich interessiert vieles, ich habe zum Beispiel bei der Biologie-Olympiade mitgemacht, aus reinem Interesse. In diesem Sommer habe ich aber noch keine besonderen Pläne. Ich lese gern, vor allem auf Englisch, und schreibe auch selbst englischsprachige Geschichten. Auch die Harry-Potter-Bücher habe ich alle auf Englisch gelesen. Die sind zwar gut, aber das wird übertrieben. Das ist ja nur ein Buch wie jedes andere auch.

Das Interview führte Anwen Roberts

In Deutschland formiert sich Widerstand gegen ein von der Bundesregierung genehmigtes Geschäft zum Aufbau mehrerer Flüssiggas-Anlagen im Iran

2008-09-02T09:10:00.006+02:00

Protest gegen
Flüssiggas-Deal mit dem Iran

Von Benjamin Weinthal

Siegen -

In Deutschland formiert sich Widerstand gegen ein von der Bundesregierung genehmigtes Geschäft zum Aufbau mehrerer Flüssiggas-Anlagen im Iran.

Am Samstag gab es eine Demonstration in Siegen, dem Sitz der Firma Steiner, die den 100-Millionen-Euro-Deal mit dem Iran abgeschlossen hat. Inzwischen hat sich auch eine Reihe von Politikern gegen das Projekt ausgesprochen. In der Kritik steht vor allem auch Hartmut Schauerte (CDU), parlamentarischer Staatssekretär im Wirtschaftsministerium, in dessen Wahlkreis sich die Firma Steiner befindet und der sich für eine Ausfuhrgenehmigung eingesetzt hatte.

Der Erdgas-Deal löste im August eine diplomatische Krise zwischen Israel und Deutschland aus. Die israelische Regierung hätte mehr von der Bundesregierung wegen der "besonderen Beziehungen" zwischen den Ländern erwartet, so ein israelischer Pressesprecher.

"Das Geschäft sollte gekündigt werden", sagte Gert Weisskirchen, außenpolitischer Sprecher der SPD. Innerhalb der CDU stößt Schauertes Fürsprache auch auf Ablehnung. "Ich halte dieses Geschäft politisch für schädlich und moralisch für fragwürdig. Denn es geht um eine Lieferung für den Iran. Sein Präsident Mahmud Ahmadinedschad hat nicht nur gedroht, Israel von der Landkarte auszuradieren, sondern unternimmt auch Anstrengungen, diese Drohung in die Tat umzusetzen", betonte die CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete Gitta Connemann.

Die Siegener Kundgebung stand unter dem Motto "Geschäfte mit den Mullahs". Eine bunte Mischung aus Exil-Iranern, Nichtregierungsorganisationen einschließlich des Zentralrates der Juden in Deutschland forderte "umfassende politische und ökonomische Sanktionen gegen das iranische Regime". Der Generalsekretär des Zentralrates und gebürtiger Siegener Stephan Kramer verlangte in seinem Grußwort, dass die Hermesbürgerschaften für Iran komplett gestrichen werden sollten. Kramer forderte auch die "unverzügliche Entlassung" Schauertes. "Wer dem Iran modernste Technik liefert, der macht sich zum Kollaborateur des dortigen Regimes", so Kramer.

Roger Bückert von der Pro-Israel-Initative "neveragain" in Siegen, der Hauptorganisator des Protestes, sagte, "es ist ein Skandal, dass hier die deutsche Bundesregierung nichts unternimmt und dass so ein Handel wie durch die Siegerländer Firma Steiner überhaupt möglich ist und nicht einfach unterbunden wird." Kazem Moussavi, Exil-Iraner und Sprecher der iranischen Grünen, nannte auf der Kundgebung die Namen der iranischen Geschäftspartner der Firma Steiner, die Verbindungen zu den von den USA als terroristisch bezeichneten Revolutionswächtern im Iran hätten. Auf Anfrage der WELT sagte eine Mitarbeiterin des Unternehmens, dass Inhaber Steiner "auf Dienstreise" und nicht für eine Stellungnahme erreichbar sei.

Iran droht mit Weltkrieg

2008-08-30T20:12:00.002+02:00

http://www.n-tv.de/1016710.html

Iran droht mit "Weltkrieg"

Ein hochrangiger iranischer General hat für den Fall eines Angriffs auf sein Land einen "Weltkrieg" vorausgesagt. "Jeder Angriff auf den Iran würde einen Weltkrieg zur Folge haben", sagte Vize-Generalstabschef Masud Dschasajeri der amtlichen Nachrichtenagentur Irna.

Dschasajeri warf den USA und Israel ein "Raubvogelverhalten ohne Grenzen" vor. Israelische Regierungsmitglieder hatten wiederholt mit Luftangriffen auf iranische Atomanlagen gedroht, falls nur so die Entwicklung von Atomwaffen im Iran verhindert werden könne.

Auch die US-Regierung schloss Präventivangriffe nicht aus.

The crime of defending popular sovereignty and establishing democracy in Iran

2008-08-28T23:15:00.005+02:00

Abbas Amir-Entezam
The Longest-Held Political Prisoner of Conscience
Serving the 29th Year of Imprisonment

July 18, 2008

To: The Secretary-General of the United Nations

Your Excellency Ban Ki-moon
The Esteemed Secretary-General of the United Nations

I am writing to you as the longest-held political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and as a prisoner of conscious who has spent more than 29 years of his life in the regime’s dungeons for the crime of defending popular sovereignty and establishing democracy in Iran. I am currently on medical furlough in order to receive necessary treatment for medical conditions, the origins of which are the long imprisonment, as well as the maltreatment, malnutrition, and lack of medical care during my imprisonment. I am writing to you at a time of high tensions between Iran and the world community, the nuclear crisis, and the danger of another war.

Although cognizant of the regime’s extreme sensitivity about my activities, nevertheless I feel responsibility for the welfare of my compatriots. For the sake of defending the Iranian people’s rights to life and liberties, as well as for the sake of guarding peace in Iran and the crisis-ridden Middle East region, I am appealing to you. Through you and with your interjection, I appeal to the global community, humanity’s conscious, civil society institutions engaged in peace-building, and human rights supporters around the world.

Your Excellency,
The danger of war is so acute that only with mobilizing all the possible capabilities of the global community in support of the non-violent civil rights movement of the Iranian people, could we prevent this looming war.
The options that are on the table for the permanent members of the Security Council and the political leaders around the world, could not have any results other than increased harm to the material and ethical existence of the Iranian people. Increased sanctions, even smart sanctions, will increase the pain and suffering of the Iranian people with increased restrictions in the economic realm. These sanctions will only strengthen the regime-related smuggling groups as well as increase corruption, inflation, and unemployment. These sanctions will create shortages of various commodities and public necessities, which will gradually bury the Iranian people in mass graves.

On the other hand, the ruling regime will use the pretext of confronting foreign pressures to increase pressures on political, civil rights, and human rights activists in Iran. Under the excuse of confronting the enemy, the ruling regime will declare movements of the Iranian people for their freedoms and rights as unacceptable. The ruling regime will use the security environment in order to crush all movements of the civil society and bring absolute repression. Under such eerie conditions the regime will be taking the entire population of Iran as hostages.

For these reasons, it appears that the officials of this regime not only do not regard the kind of sanctions that have been imposed so far as any threat to their survival, but also welcome such sanctions. These sanctions will provide the regime the opportunity to declare war conditions, so that they could retaliate against the dissidents. In the same vein, threatening violence, in addition to creating irreparable costs for the Iranian people, will provide the officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran the opportunity to increase repression at home, and continue the irresponsible and adventurist policies in all realms that will endanger the security of the Iranian people and those of the global community.

Neither war nor sanctions could change the behavior of the Islamic Republic regime in pursuing adventurism and accepting the necessities of international peace and security. Therefore, the only possible option is assisting the Iranian people to take leadership in managing their affairs and find an exit from the current impasse. In my opinion, the officials of the Islamic Republic will not accept freeze for freeze, nor will they accept the package of incentives offered by 5+1, because this regime needs crisis for its survival like one needs oxygen. For this reason, the nuclear dossier has provided the officials of the regime an opportunity to increase tensions, the necessary oxygen for regime survival.

If we think about and analyze the root causes of the nuclear crisis, we will easily discover that this crisis has its roots in the policies and strategic plans of the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Islamic Republic’s system has been so structured that producing crisis for the Iranian people as well as for the region and the global community have been its routine behaviors. This regime does not believe in freedom, democracy, peace, and the right of the people to choose their own destiny. That is why this regime is not concerned and worried about economic difficulties, psychological security, and financial security of the Iranian people. And this regime does not hesitate to sacrifice the entire population of Iran for its adventurism. For a regime which has such behavior towards its own population, naturally this regime will not hesitate to engage in any kind of violence towards others and threaten the right of existence of other peoples around the world.

Your Excellency,
The Iranian people, who are the primary victims of this regime’s adventurist, arrogant, selfish, violent, bellicose, and inhumane policies, are at the forefront of the struggles to change the behavior of this regime. Therefore, it would be auspicious, if your excellency would utilize all the capabilities and abilities of the United Nations to help the Iranian people in the struggle to determine their own destiny and to establish freedom and democracy. Your responsibility in defending peace, international security, and the rights to lives and liberties of the Iranian people and the people of the world is a grave responsibility.

If you take brave and responsible actions, history will honor you. And conversely, if you do not take brave and responsible actions, history will judge you harshly. When you look at the history and civilization of the honorable people of Iran, you would judge that the Iranian people have the capabilities and abilities of the free people around the world to choose their own destiny and utilize their cultural and material capabilities to advance peace and democracy.

Perhaps the costs of helping the Iranian people under these conditions is very hard. But such costs are far less than the costs of war and increased crisis and insecurities in the region and the world.

Your Excellency,
The people of Iran extend their hands in solidarity to you, and through you to leaders around the world, as well as to freedom-loving and peace-loving people around the world. Helping the Iranian people, is helping the future of human kind.

Your Excellency,
My plea to you is very simple and at the same time is extremely significant. Demand the Islamic Republic to accept and implement all the primary conventions on human rights, conventions against torture, conventions against all forms of discrimination against women, and international criminal court’s treaty and laws as part of the confidence-building in the nuclear dossier and in order to have real control and monitoring of the nuclear activities. And the global community should utilize all its capabilities to monitor the regime’s respecting human rights, including charter of civil and political rights, and its voluntary protocols. Complete abiding of all human rights rules, norms, standards, and obligations in Iran is the key to solving the nuclear crisis as well as other crises in the region.

Your Excellency,
For the treatment of my medical conditions, I need to have access to my physicians at a moment’s notice. Returning me to prison again, may cause me to die. I am prepared to accept this heavy price with ease of mind in order to save the Iranian people from war, poverty, repression, starvation, catastrophe, mass killings, brain drain, and cultural destruction. By mentioning the possibility of my death, I wish to increase your moral responsibility so that you will go beyond traditional norms and activities of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and utilize all of the resources of the global community and use new and creative policies for the implementation of human rights rules and norms in Iran.

I am prepared to discuss the details of my plans and suggestions with your representatives and the experts whom you trust.

You can be certain that the great nation of Iran will be eternally grateful to you.

Sincerely yours,

Abbas Amir-Entezam
The Longest-Held Political Prisoner of Conscience
Serving the 29th Year of Imprisonment
July 18, 2008

http://iran-amirentezam.com/node/163

دیدگاه ها و پیشنهادات پیرامون نامه به دبیر کل سازمان ملل

از هموطنان عزیزم تقاضا دارد که دیدگاه ها و پیشنهادات خود را جهت تکمیل و اصلاح مواضع اعلام شده در نامه به دبیرکل سازمان ملل متحد را به اینجانب منعکس نمایند. چنانچه به رغم انتقادات به این مواضع ، راه حل پیشنهادی اینجانب را برای بیرون رفتن از بن بست موجود مفید و مؤثر می دانند، در آن صورت به هر طریقی که صلاح می دانند پشتیبانی خود را به دفتر دبیرکل سازمان ملل منعکس نموده و برای شکل گیری یک گفتمان ملی در این خصوص تلاش نمایند. دست همه شما عزیزان را به گرمی می فشارم.

عباس امیرانتظام
http://iran-amirentezam.com/node/163

Aufruf zur Protestkundgebung: Stoppt den Steiner-Deal mit dem Iran

2008-08-25T11:23:00.006+02:00

Keine Geschäfte mit den Mullahs!

· Wir fordern die Fa. Steiner auf, sofort von dem Projekt zurückzutreten
· Wir fordern die Bundesregierung auf, gezielte politische und

· Wir solidarisieren uns mit den oppositionellen Kräften im Iran und Exil, die gegen die islamische Diktatur und für Menschenrechte, Demokratie, individuelle Freiheit und Säkularismus im Iran kämpfen

Aufruf zur Protestkundgebung
und Diskussionsveranstaltung
am 30.8.2008
15:00 Uhr
Siegplatte an der Fußgängerzone Bahnhofstraße

in Siegen

Die Siegener Firma Steiner (SPG Steiner-Prematechnik-Gastec GmbH) hat vor einigen Monaten einen 100 Mio. Euro Vertrag über den Bau von drei neuen Anlagen zur Gasverflüssigung im Iran abgeschlossen. Hartmut Schauerte hat sich als Staatssekretär und CDU-Bundestagsabgeordneter aus der Region für die Beschleunigung des Geschäftes eingesetzt. Das Geschäft unterläuft so mit Unterstützung eines Regierungsbeamten alle internationalen Bemühungen, das iranische Regime unter Druck zu setzen und von seinem Atomprogramm abzubringen.

Dabei müssen wirtschaftliche Interessen gerade im Fall des Iran zurückstehen. Es darf keine Unterstützung geben für ein Regime, dass nach Atomwaffen strebt, den Holocaust leugnet und Israel mit der Vernichtung droht! Ein atomar bewaffneter Iran wäre nicht nur für Israel eine unberechenbare Gefahr, die unbedingt verhindert werden muss. Zudem ist der Iran eine brutale Diktatur. Systematisch werden Frauen, religiöse und ethnische Minderheiten diskriminiert, Gewerkschaften und politische Opposition werden zerschlagen, die Presse zensiert, Homosexuellen droht die Todesstrafe, Folter und öffentliche Hinrichtungen sind an der Tagesordnung. Auch außerhalb des Iran finanziert und bewaffnet der Iran islamistische und terroristische Kräfte wie die Hizbollah oder die Hamas.

Während das Regime international durch Sanktionen unter Druck steht, würden die Anlagen der Firma Steiner das iranische Regime ganz direkt stützen, denn der Energiesektor ist seine mit Abstand wichtigste Einnahmequelle und Machtbasis. Deshalb war es auch so wichtig, dass vor kurzem mit TOTAL aus Frankreich und Statoil aus Norwegen zwei Unternehmen aus politischen Gründen von ähnlichen Projekten im Iran zurückgetreten sind.

Dabei ist das Iran-Geschäft von Steiner Beispiel für eine allgemeine Tendenz und Geisteshaltung innerhalb der deutschen Wirtschaft und Politik. Der Handel mit dem Iran weitet sich in diesem Jahr aus anstatt zurückzugehen, Deutschland ist noch immer wichtigster Handelspartner und unersetzbarer Technologielieferant des Iran. Die bestehenden Gesetze und Ausfuhrbestimmungen sind längst nicht ausreichend, um die Unterstützung des Regimes durch deutsche Unternehmen zu unterbinden. Doch gerade dann, wenn noch ernsthaft versucht werden soll, den Iran mit nichtmilitärischen Mitteln von seinem gefährlichen Atomprogramm abzubringen, muss das Regime politisch und wirtschaftlich unter Druck gesetzt werden.

Keine Geschäfte mit den Mullahs!

Keine Unterstützung für das islamistische und antisemitische Terrorregime!

· Wir fordern die Fa. Steiner auf, sofort von dem Projekt zurückzutreten

· Wir fordern die Bundesregierung auf, gezielte politische und wirtschaftliche Sanktionen gegen das iranische Regime zu erlassen, und solche Sanktionen auf internationaler Ebene zu forcieren

· Wir solidarisieren uns mit den oppositionellen Kräften im Iran und Exil, die gegen die islamische Diktatur und für Menschenrechte, Demokratie, individuelle Freiheit und Säkularismus im Iran kämpfen

Email: info@mideastfreedomforum.org
Phone: +49 (0)30 8733 3417
Fax: +49 (0)30 700 143 1010
www.mideastfreedomforum.org
www.stopthebomb.net

Bisher verhinderte jedoch vor allem der Kreml, dass wirksamer Druck auf Iran ausgeübt werden konnte

2008-08-21T21:56:00.003+02:00

21. August 2008 / Am 40. Jahrestag der Niederschlagung des Prager Frühlings hat die Angst um den Weltfrieden auch die SPD erfasst.

„Sehr besorgt“ äußerte sich deren Vorsitzender Beck allerdings nicht über den russischen Einmarsch in Georgien. „Erheblichste Probleme“ bereitet ihm vielmehr das Abkommen zwischen Washington und Warschau über die Raketenabwehr. Das System soll vor iranischen Atomraketen schützen.

Beck meint, dieses Vorhaben setze eine neue Aufrüstungsspirale in Gang und gefährde die „Geschlossenheit“ des Westens und Russlands in den Verhandlungen mit Teheran.

Bisher verhinderte jedoch vor allem der Kreml, dass wirksamer Druck auf Iran ausgeübt werden konnte - obwohl ein Verzicht Teherans auf die Atombombe auch im russischen Interesse wäre und mit ihm die Begründung für das Abwehrsystem wegfiele.

Nein zu einem weiteren sinnlosen Krieg und abenteuerlicher Politik der iranischen Führung.

2008-08-14T14:18:00.004+02:00

Nein zur Islamischen Republik Iran.
Nein zu Hinrichtungen und Verletzung der Menschenrechte.
Nein zu Verfolgung von Studenten, Arbeitern und ethnischen Minderheiten

Nein zu einem weiteren sinnlosen Krieg und abenteuerlicher Politik der iranischen Führung.

Ja zu Demokratie, Säkularismus und Freiheit.
Ja zu Gerechtigkeit und Achtung der Menschenrechte.
Ja zu Frieden und freundschaftlichem Zusammenleben.
Ja zu Herrschaft von Gesetzen und Gesetzmäßigkeit im Iran.

Wer steckt hinter 100.000-Signatures ?

100 000-Signatures wird von der Deutsch-Iranischen Band
Tapesh-2012 organisiert und geleitet.
Tapesh-2012 ist zu 100% unabhängig und an keine politischen Partei oder Organisation gebunden.
Im Jahre 2006 gewann Tapesh 2012 den NRW - Preis für Weltmusik.
Die Band setzt sich mit Musik, Videos und Konzerten verstärkt für die Menschenrechte im Iran ein.
Für Einzelheiten besuchen Sie bitte: www.Tapesh-2012.com

Welches konkrete Ziel wird mit dem Projekt verfolgt?

Das Ziel ist innerhalb von 3 Monaten (15.08 bis 15.11.2008 ) 100.000 Unterschriften zu sammeln.
Die gesammelten Unterschriften werden am 10. Dezember der europäischen Union in Brüssel überreicht.
Die Aktion soll große Medienaufmerksamkeit erreichen und die Öffentlichkeit über die herrschenden Verhältnisse und die Unzufriedenheit der Menschen im Iran informieren.

Was unterschreiben Sie ganz genau ?

Nein zur Islamischen Republik Iran.
Nein zu Hinrichtungen und Verletzung der Menschenrechte.
Nein zu Verfolgung von Studenten, Arbeitern und ethnischen Minderheiten

Nein zu einem weiteren sinnlosen Krieg und abenteuerlicher Politik der iranischen Führung.

Wie können Sie das Projekt unterstützen ?

1. Der erste und einfachste Weg für die Unterstützung des Projektes ist das Unterschreiben des Formulars.
Am einfachsten können sie es hier online unterschreiben.
Auch per Fax können Sie uns das Formular zukommen lassen ( +49-234-43 88 556)
Ein anderer Weg ist die Zusendung des Formulars per E.-Mail. ( info@100000signatures.com)
Oder auch per Post an:

100 000-Emza.com
Postfach 250344
44741 Bochum

2. Sie können das Projekt unterstützen indem Sie die Idee Ihren Freunden vorstellen und diese zum Mitmachen motivieren. Jede Stimme zählt!

3. Als Journalist oder Webloger können Sie über das Projekt schreiben und informieren.

4. Wenn Sie künstlerisch aktiv sind können sie bei Ihren Konzerten oder Vorlesungen auf das Projekt aufmerksam machen und zum Mitmachen motivieren.

Wer kann unterschreiben ?

Fürs Mitmachen müssen die Teilnehmer mindestens 18 Jahre alt sein.

Iraner sowie die Bürger anderer Nationalitäten können unterschreiben.

Wie sieht es mit Anonymität aus ?

Wir legen bei dieser Aktion einen sehr großen Wert auf die Anonymität und gehen mit Ihren Daten behutsam um.
Was und wie viel von Ihren Daten für die Öffentlichkeit zu sehen ist können Sie selbst bestimmen.
Es ist auch möglich ganz anonym zu unterschreiben.

100.000 Signatures Team:

Omid Pour Yousefi
VIDEO by: Aria, Behnaz, Micha, Eckard, Helmut, Shero, Denis,
Mani, Sina, Abbas, Jessy, Tanja, Omid, Hamid, Arkan, Donja
Music: Shahin & Micha
Thanx to Mr. Koushan & Ali
Übersetzung: Kamran, Arman, Abbas, Armin
Technical support & Admin: Reza Unesshaad (admin@100000signatures.com)

100.000 Signatures is organized, and led by Tapesh-2012 as German-Iran project managers

2008-08-14T14:14:00.004+02:00

NO to:
Islamic Republic of Iran and its human rights violations.

NO to:
War against Iran

YES to:
Democracy, secularism and Freedom in Iran.

Who is behind the campaign 100.000 Signatures ?

100.000 Signatures is organized, and led by Tapesh-2012 as German-Iran project managers.
Tapesh-2012 is 100% independent and free of any political parties and/or political organisations.
In 2006 Tapesh 2012 won the German NRW Award of World Music.
The band intensively speaks with music, videos and concerts for human rights in Iran.
For details please visit: www.Tapesh-2012.com

What is the absolute target of this project?

The target is to collect 100.000 supporting signatures within 3 months (August 15, 2008 till November 15, 2008).

In December, 2008 the collected signatures will be handed over to the European Union in Brussels.
The campain should achieve a huge media interest, and inform the European public about the extreme conditions and the discontentedness of the people in Iran.

What do you exactly sign for?

With your signature you say

NO to:
Islamic Republic of Iran and its human rights violations.

NO to:
War against Iran

YES to:
Democracy, secularism and Freedom in Iran.

How can you support the project?

1- Please sign the standard form online, or:

Print, sign, and fax the form to: +49-234-43 88 556
Send the standard form by e-mail to: info@100000signatures.com
Or you can use regular mail:

Postbox 25344
44741 Bochum
Germany

2- You can also support the project by explaining the idea to your friends and motivating them to take a part. Every vote counts!

3- As a jornalist or a Webloger you can write or inform others about the project.

4- If you are an artist/performer, you can advertise at your concerts, lectures, or events for the project and motivate your spectators to take a part.

How about the anonymity?

We realise the importance of anonymity, and we will be very careful with your private information.
You decide what and how much of your private information will be seen by public.

Who can sign?

To take part you have to be 18 years old.

Besides Iranian all other nationalities are welcome to sign

100.000 Signatures Team:

Omid Pour Yousefi
VIDEO by: Aria, Behnaz, Micha, Eckard, Helmut, Shero, Denis,
Mani, Sina, Abbas, Jessy, Tanja, Omid, Hamid, Arkan, Donja
Music: Shahin Najafi & Micha
Thanx to Mr. Koushan & Ali
Translation: Kamran, Arman, Abbas, Armin
Technical support & Admin: Reza Unesshaad (admin@100000signatures.com)

ATOMSTREIT / EU verhängt weitere Sanktionen gegen Iran

2008-08-09T18:44:00.003+02:00

EU verhängt weitere Sanktionen gegen Iran

Angesichts des ungelösten Streits über Irans Atomprogramm hat die EU neue Sanktionen gegen Teheran verhängt. Bankgeschäfte sollen schärfer überwacht, iranische Flugzeuge und Schiffe genau kontrolliert werden. Die USA und Großbritannien planen weitere Strafmaßnahmen.

Brüssel/London - Die Europäische Union hat die im März beschlossenen Sanktionen gegen den Iran am Freitag offiziell in Kraft gesetzt. Künftig sollen Finanzgeschäfte mit iranischen Banken, vor allem der Saderat-Bank, schärfer überwacht werden, wie die französische EU-Ratspräsidentschaft am Freitag mitteilte. Auch die Ladungen iranischer Schiffe und Flugzeuge bestimmter Unternehmen sollen in allen Mitgliedsstaaten genau kontrolliert werden.

Der Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen hatte im andauernden Atomstreit mit Teheran am 3. März 2008 eine Reihe von Handelsbeschränkungen beschlossen. Mit der Veröffentlichung einer entsprechenden Ratsentscheidung im Amtsblatt der EU bekämen die Maßnahmen nunmehr Rechtskraft, teilte die Ratsverwaltung am Freitag mit.

In London verlautete derweil, die Vereinigten Staaten und Großbritannien planten noch zusätzliche Sanktionen. Diese sollten sich vor allem gegen den iranischen Energiesektor richten, etwa die Herstellung von Flüssiggas.

Iran bei Hinrichtungen international auf Rang zwei

2008-07-27T13:54:00.005+02:00

Iran vollstreckt 29 Todesurteile

In Iran sind bei einer Massenhinrichtung im Teheraner Ewin-Gefängnis 29 Todesurteile vollstreckt worden. Dabei kritisiert Amnesty International vor allem, dass einige der zum Tode Verurteilten zum Zeitpunkt der ihnen vorgeworfenen Taten noch nicht volljährig waren.

Im vergangenen Jahr waren Zählungen von Amnesty International (AI) zufolge mindestens 317 Menschen hingerichtet worden, viele von ihnen öffentlich.

Laut einem AI-Bericht lag das Land bei den Hinrichtungen im Jahr 2007 hinter China an zweiter Stelle.

Iran verbürgt sich für US-Diplomaten!

2008-07-18T13:04:00.003+02:00

Iran verbürgt sich

für US-Diplomaten!

Der Iran hat eine Gefährdung von US-Diplomaten für den Fall einer dauerhaften Entsendung nach Teheran ausgeschlossen. "Wir garantieren die Sicherheit aller Diplomaten", sagte der iranische Vizeinnenminister Mohtadsch in Berlin.

Mohtadsch traf in Berlin mit Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble und Staatssekretär August Hanning zusammen. Schäuble nahm dabei eine Einladung Mohtadschs nach Teheran an.

Hoffentlich schießt Ihnen bald jemand eine Kugel in den Kopf

2008-07-12T15:04:00.003+02:00

"Hoffentlich schießt Ihnen bald

jemand eine Kugel in den Kopf"

Millionen Iraner nutzen Internet-Blogs,
weil sie eine rare Möglichkeit zur freien Meinungsäußerung sind

Der Iran ist im Nahen Osten einsame Spitze - was das Internet-Bloggen angeht. Mehr als 1,6 Millionen Nutzer sollen allein die beiden größten Weblog-Portale haben, auf denen sich Iraner über Politik, den Alltag, aber auch über Autos und Lifestyle sowie ihre Liebesgeschichten austauschen. Nach dem Verbot von mehr als 100 Zeitungen in den vergangenen Jahren gelten Weblogs als eines der wichtigsten Medien, in denen sich noch Kritik gegen das Regime äußern lässt - wenn man die Tricks kennt, sich dabei nicht erwischen zu lassen. Denn die Regierung liest mit, was über sie geschrieben wird - und hat bereits mehrere Blogger mit Gefängnis bestraft.

Dabei verdammen die Machthaber in Teheran die Weblogs keineswegs generell als Teufelszeug. Sie haben längst erkannt, dass das Internet als Medium zu Propagandazwecken nützlich sein kann. So verwundert es nicht, dass nicht nur Reformpolitiker als Blogger tätig sind, sondern selbst Staatspräsident Mahmud Ahmadinedschad seinen persönlichen Blog pflegt. Und das staatliche Radio ruft sogar im Ausland zu Weblog-Wettbewerben auf.

Einer von Irans Bloggern ist Azad. "Azad" ist Persisch und heißt auf Deutsch "Freiheit". Der Iraner, der seine Identität aus Sicherheitsgründen nicht preisgibt, ist nicht nur durch seine Beiträge als Oppositioneller oder zumindest Regierungskritiker zu erkennen. Schon ein kurzer Blick auf seine Seite reicht, um zu sehen, wo er politisch steht. Rechts oben in der Ecke prangt nicht die aktuelle iranische Staatsflagge, sondern die ehemals in der Schahzeit verwendete mit dem Löwenemblem. Iranische Oppositionelle in aller Welt verwenden diese Fahne heute noch als Protestmittel gegen die iranische Regierung, zum Beispiel bei Fußballspielen der iranischen Nationalmannschaft in europäischen Stadien wie bei der WM 2006. Azad weist in seinem Blog ganz direkt darauf hin, was mit seiner Seite passieren könnte. "Ich möchte hier noch ein paar Dinge aufschreiben, damit ich selbst ruhiger werde. Denn vielleicht mögen viele meine Gedanken nicht, sehen mich als Verräter, und dieser Blog wird bald gefiltert", schreibt er. Immerhin teilt er heftige Schläge gegen den Staatspräsidenten und seine Regierung aus, zweifelt insbesondere die Kompetenz Ahmadinedschads für sein Amt an und tut das - wie in der persischen Kultur häufig üblich - in blumigen Worten und mit vielen Vergleichen.

Wenn die Internet-Zensoren der Regierung den Blog filtern würden, würden Nutzer, die den Weblog vom Iran aus aufrufen wollen, eine Meldung auf dem Bildschirm erhalten: "Diese Webseite ist nicht mehr erreichbar." Das ist die Zensurvariante Nummer eins, die aber nicht unbedingt sehr wirkungsvoll ist. Denn die täglich wachsende Gemeinde der iranischen Blogger - Persisch ist inzwischen die viertwichtigste Sprache im WWW - weiß ziemlich genau, was man gegen diese Zensurvariante unternehmen kann. Man lädt sich ein Programm aus dem Internet, das die Blockade löst und die verbotene Seite über eine Entschlüsselung wieder sichtbar macht. So ist das mit den Verboten im Iran: Diejenigen, die sich etwas nicht verbieten lassen wollen, finden oft Mittel und Wege, Verbote zu umgehen. Nur so ist es auch zu erklären, dass offiziell verbotene Hollywood-Filme im Iran auf illegalen DVD-Kopien schon erhältlich sind, noch bevor sie in europäischen Kinos anlaufen.

Es gibt allerdings noch eine zweite Zensurvariante, die es Weblog-Nutzern etwas schwieriger macht, ihren Lieblingsblog wiederzufinden - nämlich, wenn dieser von den Betreibern der Weblog-Portale entfernt wurde. Einer dieser großen, im Iran ansässigen Anbieter ist Blogfa, der fast 900 000 User haben soll.

In politischen Weblogs geht es trotz möglicher Zensur weiter hart zur Sache, vor allem wird immer wieder Ahmadinedschad kritisiert. Besonders beliebt: die verfehlte Wirtschaftspolitik des Präsidenten. Aber es geht auch darum, welche Regimegegner inhaftiert sind und warum. Es finden sich in Blog-Beiträgen Listen politischer Gefangener ebenso wie erschütternde Berichte von Vergewaltigungen weiblicher Gefängnisinsassen.

Die junge Gesellschaft des Iran - 70 Prozent sind jünger als 30 Jahre - ist internetaffin. Junge Menschen, so sie denn politisch interessiert sind, informieren sich nicht nur über das - eigentlich auch verbotene - Satellitenfernsehen, sondern eben auch über das World Wide Web, sei es über die Nachrichtenseiten von BBC oder über Blogs.

Ob Blogs nun per se etwas Schlechtes und Gefährliches für die Machthaber oder eher nützlich sind, darüber ist sich die Führung des Landes nicht so ganz einig. Natürlich würden Teile der Fundamentalisten Blogs am liebsten ganz verbieten. So werden in den Zeitungen der Revolutionsgarden, der Pasdaran, Blogger immer wieder als "Quelle der Gefahr für das Land" dargestellt. Im Juli vergangenen Jahres forderte die Pasdaran-nahe Wochenzeitung "Sobh'e Azadegan" die Behörden dazu auf, endlich schärfere Maßnahmen gegen politische Blogger zu ergreifen. Sie seien zwar gering an der Zahl, aber ihre Bedeutung sei groß. Blogs könnten das Feld sein, in dem durch Spionage die nationale Sicherheit gefährdet werden könnte, hieß es.

Auf der Seite www.ahmadinejad.ir veröffentlicht der Präsident sein Web-Tagebuch - auch in Englisch und Französisch. Im englischen Teil schreibt er zwar nur alle paar Monate einen Beitrag, dafür lässt er aber die Lobeshymnen seiner Leser einblenden - und sogar äußerst kritische Beiträge. So bewundert der Chinese Han Guanghui Ahmadinedschad für seinen "ungeheuren Mut, mit dem Sie gegen die USA kämpfen. Ich werde Sie immer unterstützen", versichert er ihm. "Nicolas" aus Großbritannien meint hingegen: "Sie sind der dümmste Präsident, den es je gab. Ich bin sicher, dass die Hälfte der Kommentare, die hier veröffentlicht sind, erfunden sind und nur der Propaganda dienen." Und der US-Amerikaner Jack Meyhoffer äußert gar:

"Ich hoffe, dass Ihnen möglichst bald jemand eine Kugel in Ihren Kopf schießt."

Eine Nacht in Teheran / Text & Regie: Arash Sarhaddi

2008-07-06T21:03:00.000+02:00

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Todesstrafe für Internetvergehen

2008-07-05T11:38:00.004+02:00

Todesstrafe für Internetvergehen

Im Iran wird eine Gesetzesnovelle im Parlament diskutiert, nach der für Internetvergehen sogar die Todesstrafe verhängt werden könnte.

Die Gesetzesvorlage habe insgesamt das Ziel, die Strafen für die "Schädigung der geistigen Sicherheit in der Gesellschaft" zu verschärfen, wird ISNA (Iranian Student's News Agency) zitiert. Wer Blogs oder Webseiten betreibt und für die genannten Vergehen wirbt, soll als "mohareb" (Gottesfeind) bestraft werden.

Iran sperrt den Zugang zu vielen Webseiten und hat, wie die OpenNet Initiative schreibt, eines der umfassendsten Filtersysteme auf der Welt. Internetaktivitäten werden streng reguliert und kontrolliert.

In jüngster Zeit ging das Regime gegen feministische Webseiten vor, im Juni wurden neun Frauen, darunter fünf Online-Journalistinnen, verhaftet. Immer wieder werden Webseiten vom Netz genommen und Blogger oder Journalisten verhaftet. Auf der Rangliste von Reporter ohne Grenzen zur weltweiten Lage der Pressefreiheit nimmt Iran den viertletzten Platz ein. Die Zahl der verhängten Todesstrafen, auch gegen Minderjährige, nimmt laut Amnesty International zu. Es finden weiterhin Steinigungen statt.

Don't Betray My People

2008-07-03T14:09:00.004+02:00

Mr. Obama,

if elected president,

don't betray my people!

By Amil Imani

It looks like Mr. Obama may well be the next resident of the White House. It also looks like my people are going to be betrayed once again by a badly misguided American president. Jimmy Carter helped give birth to the virulent Shiite Islamism by forbidding the Shah of Iran to crush the bloodthirsty Ayatollah Khomeini and his band of rabid Islamists. Now, Mr. Obama intends to confer legitimacy on the illegitimate child, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Jimmy Carter, the self-appointed touring ambassador of bad-mouthing America must be rejoicing in the prospect of Mr. Obama's presidency. Mr. Obama holds the promise of not only carrying on the Carterian misguided policies, but taking them to their very ruinous end.

Jimmy Carter did his thing and my people died. In no time at all, the vicious Mullahs gutted the Iranian armed forces and executed many of its most capable officers. Saddam Hussein watched gleefully as the Iranian military disintegrated, and found the opportunity to carry out his Pan Arabism ambition by attacking Iran. Some eight years of barbaric butchery killed and maimed millions on both sides, gutted the vibrant Iranian economy, and visited misery of all sorts upon the Iranian people.

Iran's Mullahs, with the aid of the beguiled illiterate and religiously fanatic masses, strengthened their stranglehold as they blamed others for their incompetence and larcenous nature for the people's intractable problems. The ever-machinating Mullahs had to find a scapegoat, preferably many scapegoats, to blame. True to form they turned and bit the hand that helped bring them to power -- the United States. For good measure, the Mullahs included Israel. Jews have always been good scapegoats for Islamists, going back to the time of Muhammad in Medina. The prophet of Allah, as soon as he gathered enough power, found it expedient to plunder the Jews' properties, kill the men and take the women and children as slaves to exploit or sell.

The Mullahs who took over Iran needed more straw-men, preferably on the home-front itself. Well, Allah helped them with that problem with some 300-400 thousand peaceful Baha'is. Baha'is were perfect for the part, since they had their holy places in Israel and that automatically made them agents of the Little Satan.

Now, history is about to repeat itself. While the ever-contrite ambassador of apology, Carter, cavorts with the officially designated terrorist Hamas, bestowing legitimacy on the thuggish Islamists, Mr. Obama is promising to outdo his idol Jimmy by engaging in negotiations or discussions with the "loveable" president Ahmadinejad of the IRI: a sort of tete-a-tete of two heads of states to settle things amicably. Doesn't that sound lovely and a sure vote-getter? But, I am troubled and I have serious concerns.

Mr. Obama, you keep blaring about "change," but you hardly spell out the details. Recall, the devil is in the details, as they say. Change from what to what, Mr. Charisma?

Mr. Obama, how do you propose to engage the point-man of the end-of-the-worlder Shiite regime in negotiation or discussion, without sacrificing the valiant Iranian people who are struggling to free themselves from the yoke of fascist Islamists? You believe that you, still somewhat wet behind the ears, can do better than the four-year combined efforts of seasoned diplomats from France, Germany, and Great Britain?

Mr. Obama, do you have trouble reading the man's lips? Ahmadinejad, the one you wish to engage in negotiation, shouts as clearly and as often as he can that he is not going to stop enriching uranium; that he is irrevocably committed to the destruction of Israel; that the U.S. must pack, abandon all its interests and friends in the Middle East and leave the Mullahs in control of the world's major oil spigot.

Mr. Obama, how are you going to sweeten the deal for Ahmadinejad? What would you give him to stop killing our GIs in Iraq; to arm and finance Hizbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and its ilk next door to Israel, and even the Taliban in Afghanistan? Give him Iraq and its oil? How about at least parts of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait?

Mr. Obama, it takes two to tango, as the old saying goes. The uncompromising oil-intoxicated fanatics of Iran and their proxies don't want to dance with you. They want the entire floor -- the Middle East -- and the rest of the world down the road.

Mr. Obama, if you get elected as president, don't you even think of doing anything that would further whet the insatiable appetite of the Islamists. Your mentor and idol, Carter, helped the Islamists and an untold number of my people died and are still dying. And by "my people," I include both innocent people of my native birthplace Iran, as well as many noble compatriots of my adopted homeland, America.

Mr. Obama, you are either naïve or find it politically expedient to propose your foreign policy approach. In either case, you'd best keep in mind that the Islamist enemy plays by a completely different set of rules. Negotiating with the Islamists is like flipping a coin: Heads they win, tails you lose.

Mr. Obama, in your meteoric rise to power, you found it expedient to throw your wonderful grandmother under the bus, so to speak. She has been joined by many others, most recently General Clark. Now, who else are the people you intend to steamroll over to service your personal ambition?

Mr. Obama, I repeat, if elected president, don't betray my people.

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2008-07-02T16:33:00.002+02:00

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