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Museum of Tolerance survey shows that most people oppose supporting the pro-democracy uprisings

By Benyamin Solomon
Earlier today, I went to the museum of Tolerance [it wasn't the first time]. I saw a poll on whether we should support the pro-democracy Iranian uprisings of not. Anyone can take part in the poll. The answers there is yes, no or I don't know. I took part in the poll and answered yes. 
But it turns out that most people answered no. 43% voted no, 30% yes and 25% voted I don't know. I was shocked. 
This is so worth reporting.
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Ayatollah Montazeri's fatwa: Khamenei is dismissed as Supreme Leader

By the National Council of Resistance in Iran [NCRI]

Monday, 13 July 2009

Massoud Rajavi, Leader of Iranian ResistanceMassoud Rajavi welcomes Montazeri’s stance, urges him to reveal the facts to the people without fearing the consequences

NCRI - Subsequent to the escalation of the Iranian people’s nationwide uprising on July 9, 2009, Mr. Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Ruhollah Khomeini's former designated successor, issued a fatwa (religious edict) on July 10. While not mentioning the regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei by name, Mr. Montazeri called for his dismissal as the Supreme Leader, citing a lack of justice, trustworthiness and the vote of a majority of the Iranian people. These, he said, are necessarily cause for the indisputable and inevitable fall of Khamenei from his position as the Supreme Leader.  Montazeri described Khamenei as an "oppressor" and his rule “oppressive.”

For ten years (1979-1989), Montazeri was Khomeini's successor. He was dismissed in March 1989 by Khomeini himself for protesting against the massacre of members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). Based on Khomeini’s decree, some 30,000 political prisoners, the vast majority of them members or supporters of the PMOI, were massacred in the span of a few weeks in the summer of 1988.

In a statement broadcast by Iran National Television (Simay-e Azadi), the Iranian Resistance's Leader, Massoud Rajavi, said Ayatollah Montazeri’s fatwa to dismiss Khamenei as Supreme Leader was worthy of praise. Mr. Rajavi added that Montazeri's dismissal by Khomeini because of his protests against the massacre of PMOI political prisoners constituted his greatest political and spiritual capital.

Mr. Rajavi added that it is time Mr. Montazeri, 87, reveals the entire truth to the Iranian people for the sake of his own salvation now and in the afterlife. That truth, Mr. Rajavi said, is none other than acknowledging that the rule of the velayat-e faqih (absolute supremacy of clerical rule) was established by usurping the right of the Iranian people to sovereignty and that the anti-Monarchic revolution was stolen under the cloak of the velayat-e faqih.

Mr. Rajavi underscored that just as the Monarchic dictatorship was doomed to fall, the mullahs' religious dictatorship, which Mr. Montazeri himself has acknowledged, has surpassed the Shah's SAVAK in torturing, slaughtering and perpetrating crimes against the Iranian people, is also doomed to fall and deserves eternal damnation.

Mr. Rajavi expressed hope that Mr. Montazeri would shed any fear of Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and in doing so pay his debt to Iran, Islam and especially the Shiite Imams. He wished Mr. Montazeri health, success and long life to carry out this mandate.

Benyamin Solomon's note: Even the picture and the caption underneath comes from the NCRI website.

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Iran's Latin America push

By John Kiriakou, LA Times

As Washington ignores the region, Tehran has been making friends and influencing nations.
Iran, the ultimate mischief maker with global reach, astounding patience, a shameless marriage to mayhem and terrorism, and interests that fall squarely in opposition to those of the United States, is making major diplomatic inroads under Washington's nose.

It's amazing, really. Iran, after all, is regarded by most of the world as an outlaw country. Sanctions are in place on much of its military-industrial complex, and international loan guarantees are virtually impossible to come by. The Iranian economy is in tatters. Even while $100-plus oil was enriching most producers in the region, Iran's low-tech, outdated industry was barely profiting. In fact, 6% of the country's gasoline is imported.

Bolivian President Evo Morales jumped into Iran's lap even more quickly than his neighbors, ordering his foreign minister to lift visa restrictions on Iranian citizens in exchange for a $1.1-billion Iranian investment in Bolivia's gas facilities. Morales then gushed that Bolivia would move its only embassy in the Middle East from Cairo to Tehran. Iranian state television even agreed to provide Bolivian state television with Spanish-language programming, making it that much easier for every Bolivian to receive Iranian-produced news and documentary shows -- i.e. propaganda.

The real danger here doesn't have to do with an arcane diplomatic battle over who has more friends in Latin America. The problem is visa-free Iranian travel and the potential creation of a terrorist base of operations in the United States' backyard. If anyone with an Iranian passport may enter Bolivia without a visa or any further documentation, the country will soon be open to covert officers of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, its Islamic Revolutionary Guard, which the State Department recently declared a terrorist organization, and the Quds Force, an Iranian military group whose mandate is to spread Islamic revolution around the world.

A further danger is if other Latin American countries follow the Bolivian lead and lift visa restrictions. Iran already has proved what it can do in Latin America with visa restrictions. In 1994, Iranian agents worked with Hezbollah terrorists to bomb a Jewish association's community center in Argentina, killing 85 people and wounding hundreds. An established Iranian intelligence presence traveling freely throughout Latin America would make counter-terrorism efforts in the region much more difficult.

The United States still has an opportunity to stop the Iranians in their tracks in Latin America. But it's a big job. The growing Iranian influence -- inconceivable a decade ago -- is the result of the decision by the United States to stop paying attention to the region. And it will only be reversed if the U.S. changes its policy.

First, the new president must reverse the Bush administration's policy of ignoring Latin America and instead engage those countries in active diplomacy. Political and economic relations must improve to the point at which there is simply no benefit to breaking bread with Iran. Diplomacy will be slow, difficult and probably expensive. Iran is spending billions of dollars on the continent, and the U.S. must do the same. Trade agreements must be negotiated, an immigration policy must be conceived and implemented, and the new administration must pay our neighbors the attention that is necessary to win them over.

The only alternative is yet another front in the ongoing battle against terrorism.

John Kiriakou, now in the private sector, served as a CIA counter-

terrorism official from 1998-2004.
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Hamas Takes Part Suppression of Iranian Pro-democracy Uprisings

By Benyamin Solomon, Newflavor

June 20, 2009

Hamas is collaborating with the Iranian regime in oppressing the pro-democracy demonstrations in Iran.

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The Jerusalem Post reported on the protesters’ allegations that Hamas is involved in oppressing the pro-democracy demonstrations. “My brother had his ribs beaten in by those Palestinian animals. Taking our people’s money is not enough, they are thirsty for our blood too,”said one of the protesters. When it came to the question about it being Lebanese Shiites sent by Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy terror group in Lebanon, and not Hamas, that’s oppressing the pro-democracy uprisings, he said,”Ask anyone, they will tell you the same thing. They [Palestinian extremists] are out beating Iranians in the streets… The more we gave this arrogant race, the more they want… [But] we will not let them push us around in our own country”.

Hamas now is helping its Iranian backers to suppress freedom fighters who seek democratic change in Iran. Hamas understands that and is helping its Iranian backers to keep its oppressive rule in the country.

Hamas is the Palestinian faction of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was founded as an Islamic Fundamentalist terrorist group that seeks Israel’s destruction and behaved as a proxy of Tehran. Iran supplies Hamas with weapons and funds. 

Courageous Iranians are demonstrating because they’re sick and tired of putting up with the regime’s crap. The regime’s move to rig the 2009 Presidential “election” for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the last straw. Hamas congratulated the Ahmadinejad’s “election victory”.

As my Towhall blog Iran Monitor showed, Mir Hossein Mousavi is no different than Ahmadinejad in terms of Iran’s foreign and domestic policy. If Mousavi won, he would’ve continued the regime’s support for Hamas and Hezbollah, the latter of which Mousavi helped to found when he was Prime Minister from 1981-1989. He was one of Khomeini’s most radical supporters. He was well-liked by Khomeini but not by his successor Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad is well-liked by Khamenei. Ahmadinejad’s was Khamenei’s favorite choice for the 2005 and 2009 “elections”.

Protesters also stated that Hamas is colluding with the Iranian regime in suppressing the pro-democracy heroes. This piece of news needs to be heard by people like the pro-Hamas former President Jimmy Carter, who now makes bashing Israel a political career and who even stated that President Obama should remove Hamas from the US State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations [FTO].

Hamas has its terrorist campaign against Israel and even exploits the humanitarian crisis in Gaza to make Israel look bad. On February, Hamas raided a UN office and stole the food and blankets that were meant to aid the people of Gaza. The UN, which was silent on Hamas stealing humanitarian aid, broke their silent and condemned Hamas. The media was silent about it until that point. Even some media outlets reported on it. Then, it was largly forgotten. However, Hamas still continues to steal humanitarian aid that is for the people of Gaza. 

Now, Hamas is apparently showing the Iranian regime its thanks by oppressing the pro-democracy demonstrations. At least many liberals including the Jimmy Carter dopes may be in denial that Hamas is helping the Iranian regime oppress the demonstrators. But demonstrators themselves confirm that Iran is oppressing the pro-democracy demonstrations.

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Jewish community joins Iranian protest at Khatami visit

By the European Jewish Press [EJP]
Updated: 05/Nov/2006 22:59
LONDON (EJP)--- Jewish students joined a protest by Iranian minority groups at Chatham House, the eminent foreign affairs think tank, in central London last week protesting the visit to the UK of former president Mohammed Khatami.

In an email sent to various Jewish community organisations, former Iranian resident Nousha Eshghipour, a college tutor from Brighton, appealed to the Jewish community to “unite” and join them to protest the visit of the former president, the most senior Iranian leader to enter the UK since 1979.

She said: “It is now a crucial time to unite. We need the Jewish community to collaborate, to restore the rights of the Jewish community as well as innocent Iranians from various religious backgrounds who are clearly separate from the government.

Explaining that before the 1979 revolution Iran was home to some 80,000 Jews, she added: “I am Iranian, however, I cannot justify or condone this regime’s opposition to Judaism. Iran’s Jewish community, as well as other religious groups, has endured much burden and suffering.”

Large protest

More than 300 people attended the peaceful protest calling for former president Khatami to be charged for human rights abuses and for an end of Islamic rule in Iran.

One protestor said: “Khatami has always been introduced to the world by western governments and media, as the smiling and reformist face of the Islamic Republic but under his regime, hundreds were executed, women had no rights and were sentenced to death by stoning, thousands were arrested and demonstrations and worker’s strikes were brutally crushed.”

A former member of the Iranian Jewish community, who did not want to be named as he still has family in Tehran, said: “It typifies what is wrong with the generally mentality that someone who has and presided over a regime that has oppressed and murdered is welcomed with such open arms.”

Ahwazi’s also demonstrate

Also protesting the treatment of ethnic minorities in Iran, including the ethnic cleansing they suffered under Khatami, were members of the members of Ahwazi Arab minority who live in Khuzestan in present-day Iran. Prior to its annexation by Iran in 1925, it was an autonomous, and at times independent, territory inhabited entirely by indigenous Ahwazi Arab tribes.

A spokesman for the British Ahwazi Friendship Group, based in London, said: “It seems that the only Arabs that ever deserve solidarity are the Palestinians, but the Ahwazis are treated far worse, as shown in human development indicators.”

Speaking about the decision by St Andrews University in Scotland to award Khatami an honorary doctorate on Tuesday, he said: “The Ahwazi Arabs, other ethnic and religious minorities, women, trade unionists and students have paid a high price of the Islamic democracy. Meanwhile, Khatami did nothing to curb the power of the mullahs.

“It is an utter shame that St Andrews stoops so low and refuses to acknowledge Khatami’s crimes against humanity. They are appeasing a criminal human rights abuser.

“The worst thing is that the Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell, a man who claims to champion peace in the Middle East, is awarding the degree in his capacity as chancellor of the university. It is an act of complete hypocrisy on his part and casts doubt on his suitability to lead a democratic party,” he added.

During his talk at Chatham House, Khatami did not mention Israel or the plight of the Palestinians.
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ISRAEL: Iranian Jews show solidarity with Iranian protesters

By the LA Times Blogs

 June 23, 2009

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Their names often pay tribute to Iranian culture and their accented speech still sings the unique music of the language, even after decades. They stay on top of Iranian news, culture, sports and trivia, and stay in touch with friends and family living in a country whose distance from Israel is measured in more than geography. The Israeli community of Iranian Jews numbers about 170,000 --  including the first generation of Israeli-born -- and is deeply proud of its roots.

On Tuesday, around 150 members of the community demonstrated in the Israeli city of Holon, home to the country's largest concentration of Iranian Jews. They expressed solidarity with the people of Iran, chanted slogans against the ayatollahs' regime and in favor of Reza Pahlavi, crown prince of Iran at the time of the revolution and today living in exile.

Flag-(2) The show of support was organized by Kamal Penhasi, the Iranian-born editor of Shahyad, the only Persian-language magazine published in Israel. "We speak from the throats of the entire Iranian people, whose voices are being silenced by the censorship of the regime that is killing people on the streets …we are part of the Iranian people and want to tell them we are with them. Enough of this regime;  the Iranian people deserve their freedom," he said at the demonstration.

Penhasi left Iran shortly after the Islamic Revolution. "I saw what happened in 1979; today's events remind me of that revolution," he said. "This is the great spark in the direction of the big revolution." Penhasi says the regime likes to show that it is strong, but in reality it is crumbling from within. "The people of Iran want their freedom and have taken to the streets to prove it." The young generation in Iran knows exactly what's happening in the outside world, they view Israel as a second paradise on Earth after the U.S. in terms of freedom, he says. Acknowledging that "30 years of brainwashing" have damaged Iranians' sympathy to Israel, Penhasi still believes it's there.

Penhasi has been publishing Shahyad for 19 years. Each month, 2,000 copies of the magazine are printed and it is read by many others online in Israel and elsewhere, including Iran. Besides news and culture, the website serves Penhasi for outreach, for preserving the connection with Iran, keeping an open channel for information and dialogue and documenting the Jewish community's history. Once, he undertook a project to document all the streets in Israel that have Persian- or Iranian-related names and posted them on the website. Iranians were astonished that the Zionist state has so many sites recognizing Iran.

And some repay him in kind, sending him information and pictures from Jewish sites such as cemeteries, including exclusive pictures from the tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Hamadan. For years, he has collects documentation on the Jews of Iran, with hopes of one day establishing a heritage center. If only the many organizations of Iranian Jews in Israel were better organized and budgeted,  this would be possible, he says sighing, envious of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center

Many still have family among the 15,000-17,000 Jews still living in Iran. It's not always simple and not always safe but there is contact. These days, Penhasi is more plugged in than ever -- but not only with Jews. Phone, e-mails, chats -- he has a constant stream of real-time news, some of it exclusive that he shares with the local press.

 The name of his publication is no coincidence. Shahyad is the great tower of Tehran, built as a tribute to Persian history and the nation's kings, before being popularly renamed Azadi (freedom)  after the revolution. Penhasi and his publication favor Reza Pahlavi, whom he still refers to as the crown prince. He maintains  close connections with the opposition. Penhasi knows that even if the regime were to topple, the era of the shah wouldn't return as it was. If a monarchy is revived, he envisions it more like Spain's version. Iran is complex, he says. It's not one of those places where you have a military coup and people wake up in the morning with little fundamental change. There are many ethnic groups in Iran that seek independence, and only a member of the royal family could keep Iran from crumbling after a revolution, he says.

 A few months ago, the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat held a stormy council meeting on a proposal to change its flag, which was designed 56 years ago and bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the flag adopted by Iran after the revolution. Tuesday's demonstrators in Israel boldly and proudly waved the Iranian flag -- the pre-revolution version. "Proud to be Persian," reads a banner on the website.

-- Batsheva Sobelman, in Jerusalem

Photos:Iranian Jews demonstrate in Holon, Israel.  Credit: Kamal Penhasi and Shahyad

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Iran and the Sham Elections

By Ali Safavi, Middle East Times
Friday, June 12, 2009
More than 99 percent of Iran’s presidential hopefuls have been disqualified by the Guardian Council suggesting that Friday’s elections in the Islamic Republic is set to be yet one more engineered farce as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has already blessed the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Only four candidates now remain: Ahmadinejad, a former prime-minister-turned-“reformer” Mir Hossein Moussavi, former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezai, and former parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karoubi.

These “Four Horsemen” are true icons of conquest, war, famine, and death. They all share a common denominator, symbolizing their antagonism towards the Iranian people and vice versa. In fact, they all owned up to a small portion of their thefts and crimes when they threw pies at each other’s faces during recent televised debates. The otherwise dry and denounced state-run programming got a ratings boost when eager Iranians tuned in to watch officials of a widely reviled theocracy smacking each other in the face, revealing the state's secrets, which the Iranian opposition had already exposed in the years past.

Moussavi admitted that Iranians have a great dislike for the clerical regime: “What evil have we done against our people, that wherever I go I am greeted with protests?”
 
Ahmadinejad reminded everyone that during Moussavi’s tenure as prime minister, security forces instituted “Islamic” dress codes and even used scissors to cut men’s ties in government offices. Ahmadinejad also said his other rival, Karoubi, accepted a $300,000 bribe a few years ago, and ran secret prisons in the headquarters of the "martyrs' foundation" -- of all places-- in the 1980s. Karoubi returned the favor by accusing Ahmadinejad of offering a $700 million gift to his cohorts.

The extent of the crimes and corruption were, of course, greatly diminished. But, the severity of the public accusations was unprecedented and tells the tale of a faltering theocracy.

Indeed, it would be highly disingenuous to believe that these elections are little more than a charade. The most powerful authority in the regime is actually the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, who makes the final decisions on all-important state matters.

The Guardian Council (IRGC), whose six mullahs are handpicked by Khamenei, towers over an obedient parliament and screens all candidates. Elections in Iran are simply a veneer to veil a monumental power grab by the mullahs from millions of Iranians.


Moussavi, for example, was one of the founders of the Islamic Republican Party, which in the 1980s unleashed paramilitary forces on the streets to terrorize political opponents. As prime minister, he was a strong proponent of the war with Iraq, and was involved in the 1988 massacre of more than 30,000 political prisoners.
 
As the IRGC commander for 16 years, Rezai vociferously campaigned for the escalation of the regime’s secret nuclear weapons project as a strategic imperative. In November 2007, Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest because of his role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

Karoubi, a Khomeini protégé and self-made billionaire, has also been involved in appalling state decisions as the regime’s parliamentary speaker. Among many other instances of exporting terrorism abroad, he had a role in the chaos initiated by the regime during the Haj pilgrimage of 1987 in Mecca, leading to the death and injury of several hundred people.

Khamenei has already implicitly endorsed Ahmadinejad for a second term. As recently as May 12, he declared, “We should elect those who have popular support and who live in a simple and modest way,” a clear reference to Ahmadinejad. Moreover, last August, he ordered Ahmadinejad’s cabinet to proceed with making “plans for the next five years.”

Even if Ahmadinejad is defeated, however, the winner is simply going to continue to execute the Supreme Leader’s decisions on the nuclear weapons program, meddling in Iraq, and other important strategic policies. These candidates have a proven track record in every single one of these fields. They have also expressed total allegiance to Khamenei, who is the cornerstone of their collective rule.

Instead of pinning hope on the candidates who will in the end hardly be different, Washington should consider reaching out to Iranian opposition groups. As a first step, it should follow Europe's lead in removing the terror label against the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK).
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Ali Safavi, a member of Iran's Parliament in exile, is president of Near East Policy Research, a policy analysis firm in Washington, DC.
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Iranian regime's agents, Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie connection exposed

By NCRI [National Council of Resistance of Iran] Thursday, 09 April 2009

NCRI – A report by Iranian regime’s official news agency exposed the connections of an infamous Iranian regime’s agent with Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie, Iraqi National Security Advisor, on aggression against members of the Iranian opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), residing in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

On Sunday, IRNA, the state-run news agency quoted Massoud Khodabandeh saying, “Mr. al-Rubaie told me that claims by Monafeqin [the term used by the Iranian regime and its agent to refer to PMOI] on the treatment of Ashraf Camp residents are lies and their protest is only because they want to stay in this hideout by all means possible.”

Khodabandeh said that I have personally seen the arrest warrants of PMOI members "that al-Rubaie holds…they include many ring leaders of the Monafeqin,”  the report added.

On Monday, in a press release, Khodabandeh’s wife, Ann Singleton Khodabandeh, described the inhuman measures against Camp Ashraf that include preventing doctors  from entering into the Camp as “al-Rubaie's plan for the difficult task of dismantling” the PMOI and praised it as “enlightened, humanitarian approach which could become a blueprint for tackling similar organizations worldwide.”

In October 2007, The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom headed by Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, following a comprehensive study of Iranian regime’s agents in Britain, published a document which revealed that Ann Singleton and Massoud Khodabandeh worked for the Iranian regimes’ Ministry of Intelligence .

“In witness statements provided to British Court by members of the British Committee for Iran Freedom, MPs and Peers set out the ways in which the regime and its Ministry of Intelligence operate in Britain,” the report said.

The report also exposed the details of numerous websites used by the Iranian regime to spread misinformation against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran including the website that is run by Khodabandeh and his wife.

On January 28, 2009, in a television interview, Khodabandeh introduced himself as an advisor to the Iraqi government on “terrorism.”

Benyamin Solomon's note :The NCRI as founded in 1981 as the parliament in exile. It is opposed to the radical Islamist regime in Iran. It seeks democratic change in Iran. The main group of the NCRI is the MEK, which was founded as an opposition group to the Shah and which now opposes the Shah and the current Iranian regime.
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Daniel Postel Attacks Iranian Freedom Fighters

By Benyamin Solomon, Newsflavor

November 22, 2008

Here is the rebuttal of Daniel Postel, who attacks Iranian freedom fighters and the right-wing heroes who fight the Islamo-fascists.

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I read a leftist propaganda piece on Alternet called “Neocons embrace Islamic Terror Group.” It’s by Daniel Postel. It’s actually for tompain.com. Though I found and read it on alternet. Here, I will take apart his claims.Daniel claims:

Daniel Pipes, one of America’s premiere Islamophobes, has a soft spot for one deadly deadly Islamic terrorist organization.

The author’s first error is in describing Daniel Pipes an islamophobe, which is a classic leftist and Islamist thing to do to someone who exposes radical Islam. Mr. Pipes actually favors the term ”moderate Islam.” You figure that when Daniel Postel here says “one deadly Islamic terrorist organization” [as shown above Daniel here said deadly twice] that he means the MEK [Mujahideen-e-Khalq] and the NCRI [National Council on Resistance in Iran]. The MEK is the main group in the NCRI. As I’ll show later, Daniel considers NCRI to be an alias for MEK. By the way, neither the NCRI nor MEK, it’s main group, are a “deadly Islamic terrorist group.” The MEK and NCRI seeks to liberate Iran from the Islamo-fascist regime in Iran. “One deadly Islamic terrorist organization” is the Iranian revolutionary Guards, which is commanded by Supreme leader Ali Khamenei and Supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini before him. The Iranian revolutionary Guards is one of the groups that carries out Iran’s state terrorism at home and abroad and helps Iran export its Islamo-fascist revolution around the world. It was the terrorist government in Iran that carried out a terrorist attack on the Asociacion Mutual Israel Argentina [AMIA], a Jewish community center in Argentina.  According to Hezbollah deputy, Naim Qassem, Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy, only carries out its terrorist attacks with apporval from Iran. Hezbollah did kill the most Americans before al Quada and started a war with Israel in 2006 by kidnapping and killing IDF [Israel Defense Force] soldiers and launching rockets at Israeli cities. So, Daniel, want to talk to me about who’s  ”one deadly Islamic terrorist organization?”  If Daniel Pipes has “a soft spot for one deadly Islamic terrorist group,” how does that make him Islamophobic?Daniel Postel claims:

During the week of October 22-26, an official announcement effuses, “The nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever - Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.” Ringmastered by David Horowitz, this circus will be performing under the tent of something called the “Terrorism Awareness Project.”

The purpose of this ballyhoolooza, we are told, is to confront the “Big Lies” of the Left regarding terrorism and militant Islam. Worthy subjects, to be sure. Indeed I would like to help the sponsors of the “wake-up call” promote awareness of them. Toward this end, let’s consider the American Right’s “special relationship” with one group of terrorists.

Correction, let’s consider the right’s relationship with one group of freedom fighters. This is a pethetic attempt to distract people so they won’t see the left’s relationship with terrorists by throwing mud at the right [including Islamo-fascism Awareness Week] and the Iranian freedom fighters, who want to free their country. What about the Muslim Association of Britain [MAB], the British wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. The MAB is also a member group of Stop the War coalition. What about George Galloway’s [Galloway is a vice president of Stop the War coalition] praise for Hezbollah and the International Solidarity Movement’s [ISM] inclusion in the United with Peace and Justice, another extreme leftist anti-war movement. I documented in my last article ISM, peace group or terrorist front, that the ISM is a front for Palestinian terrorists and takes part in the secret covert terrorist war on Israel, which is war that was launched to destroy Israel. Not all of the left supports terrorists. But too much of it does. Even most of the ones in the left who don’t support terrorism whitewash or deny the Islamo-fascist threat. To be fair, I do admit that some leftists do understand the Islamo-fascist terrorist threat. I showed much of the left’s support for terrorists. Islamo-fascism awareness week was a heroic event. It sought to fight Islamist infiltration, supported victims of Islamism and supported democracy and freedom in the Middle East. Daniel claims:

The U.S. State Department officially considers the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) a Foreign Terrorist Organization. While those honors date back to 1994, they’ve been renewed during the Bush years. Indeed in 2003 Foggy Bottom went further, including the National Council of Resistance of Iran – an MEK alias — under the terrorist designation. (The MEK is also known as the People’s Mujahedeen.)

Yes, they were put on the State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations to appease the terrorist regime in Iran. But guess what? The US gets its information on Iran from those groups.  They get good intelligence information on Iran and were the ones who revealed Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Many American soldiers in Iraq  consider them as useful allies. Daniel claims:

To make a long and bizarre story short, the MEK got its start in early 1960s Iran, helped overthrow the Shah in 1979, but quickly turned on the revolutionary government it helped bring to power. Employing an ideological blend of Stalinism and Islamism, the tactics of a paramilitary guerilla faction, and the organizational structure of a cult, the group went into exile, eventually making their home in Iraq in the mid-1980s. Not only did Saddam give the organization cover: he armed, funded, and utilized them for a variety of ends over two decades.

Yes, the MEK may [or may not] have started off as radical. But now, the NCRI and its main group MEK seek to free Iran and democratize it. He claims that MEK helped the revolutionary government come to power. MEK has reformed. However, according to Alireza Jafarzadeh, MEK was the only organization that knew Khomeini’s true colors, meaning that they didn’t collude with the Islamists in Iran. Anyway, many democrats collaborated with totalitarian movements and discovered they were duped. Many democrats in the Fidel Castro’s July 26th movement discovered that Castro was a dictator and were executed by Ernesto [Che] Guevara in La Cabana. Daniel claims that the MEK was “employing an ideological blend of Stalinism and Islamism.” They weren’t. They sought to free Iran from the terrorist government in Iran. He complains that Saddam gave them support. Saddam only allowed the MEK to have bases in Iraq. He didn’t arm them or give them any other kind of material support. But guess what? During the 1980’s, the US supported Iraq against Iran. America’s alienation of MEK as a concession to the terrorist regime was what brought them closer to Saddam. By the way, Saddam was overthrown in 2003 and executed three years later. Iran was a bigger threat than Saddam’s Iraq. I’m no defender of Saddam. He was a mass-murderer. I defended the Iraqi government’s right to execute him in my article ”liberal’s blind hatred of Bush”, saying that the Iraqi government has the right to execute of imprison him because he committed his crimes in Iraq.  Also, many liberals deny that Saddam supported terrorists, while this liberal contradicts them in falsely calling the MEK a terrorist group and saying that Saddam supported them. Saddam did support terrorist groups such as the Abu Nidal group, Hamas, the Palestine Liberation Front [PLF] and other terrorist groups. Also, Saddam gave at first then thousands dollars and then twenty five thousand dollars to families of suicide bombers.

Daniel claims:

The group’s wicked political brew was on spectacular display on theold MEK flag (since abandoned), with its sickle and Kalashnikov positioned beneath a Koranic verse. (Not — to state the obvious — that the mere presence of a Koranic verse in and of itself implies Islamist political commitments, but in this case the shoe very much fits.)

Since abandoned said Daniel. If it’s abandoned, what’s the point of including what’s on the MEK flag? Daniel goes on:

Here you have virtually everything the Right claims to oppose all rolled into one: Islamism, Marxism, terrorism, and Saddam. Naturally, then, neoconservatives would utterly deplore the MEK and everything it stands for, right? The MEK would in fact make an ideal target for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and Terrorism Awareness efforts, no?

The MEK is not a Marxist group. As I said, it seeks to democratize Iran and free Iran. It seeks to free the world from the threat from Iran. The MEK is targeted military forces from the terrorist regime in Iran. Is that terrorism? No. Daniel, the MEK is fighting an Islamist government, the one in Iran. The MEK is not Islamist. Didn’t the ANC [African National Congress] freedom fighters use violence on the apartheid regime in South Africa to win rights for the black majoirty? Yet they’re rightly considered freeodm fighters for that. The MEK is fighting  regime far worse than the Apartheid regimes, a regime that exports terror to impose their backwards interpretation of Islam. The MEK stopped using violence since 2001.

Daniel claims:

Well, no. At least one of the carnival’s acts, it turns out, is rather fond of the Islamo-Stalinist-terrorist cult group, and has repeatedly argued for the removal of the MEK from the State Department’s list of terrorist groups and indeed urged the U.S. government to embrace it. Daniel Pipes, who will be speaking at Tufts on October 24th as part of the Horowitz high jinks, has made the MEK a recurring theme in his writings going back several years: here,here, and here.

The MEK is not an Islamo-Stalinist group. The MEK’s “crime” right now is fighting the Islamo-fascist Nazified terrorist regime in Iran. Daniel claims:

Pipes has also gone to bat for the MEK right in the pages of Horowitz’shouse organ.
But Pipes is far from alone on the Right in championing the MEK. He co-authored the first piece linked to above with Patrick Clawson of the right-wing Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Right-wing commentator Max Boot has argued not merely for the removal of the MEK from the terrorist list but for funding and unleashing it to do battle with Iranian forces — this while casually acknowledging that it is a “political cult.” (More on Boot’s disfigured views here.)

Daniel here complains about Mr. Pipes and a lot on the right championing the MEK. We champion the MEK because it is the main opposition group to the terrorist regime in Iran and is fighting to democratize Iran. Funding MEK to do battles with the Iranian terorrist regime is something I agree with. The MEK being a cult is a myth from the Iranian regime and those who fall for that claim.Daniel claims:

In some cases the MEK plays a stealth role in the media machinery of the American Right. What the FOX News Channel tells viewers aboutAlireza Jafarzadeh when he appears on its airwaves is that he is an “FNC Foreign Affairs Analyst.” What you have to go to the FOX Newswebsite to discover, however, is that Jafarzadeh served “for a dozen years as the chief congressional liaison and media spokesman for the U.S. representative office of Iran’s parliament in exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.” But it is scarcely known that the sonorous-sounding National Council of Resistance of Iran is in fact a front name for the MEK.

Alireza Jafarzadeh himself admits he was the spokesman for MEK. He is one of the biggest heroes in the struggle to free Iran from the terrorist regime. In fact, it was Alireza Jafazadeh himself, who, in 2002, exposed Iran’s nuclear weapons program, using MEK sources to do it.Daniel claims:

Now, it’s true that Jafarzadeh discontinued his post with the National Council of Resistance of Iran–but only when (and only because) its Washington office was forced to close in 2003 as a result of the State Department decision about it being a front for the MEK. It’s not like he had a change of heart.

By change of heart, does Daniel mean what he calls “Islamo-Stalinist?” Yes, I agree Alireza Jafarzadeh hasn’t changed his heart. He did, and still does, want to free Iran from the Islamo-fascist regime in Iran. But no, Jafarzadeh is not an “Islamo-Stalinist.”Daniel said:

If you attend an “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” event, you might want to ask the speakers about this terrorist cult and whether they condemn it. Some of them might — not all neoconservatives agree on the MEK. (See here and here for examples of right-wing criticism of the outfit — though the lines of argumentation are sometimes bizarrely convoluted.)

Maybe, you do want to ask them. But still, why should they condemn a movement that seeks to remove the threat from Iran and free the Iranian people? MEK and NCRI represent the Iranian people’s desire to be free from the Islamo-fascist regime. Mr. Postel admits that many conservatives condemn the MEK, but the next paragraph will show that he says that the fact that prominent conservatives embrace it puts questions as to the “right’s bedfellows.” I may not agree with MEK on every issue. But they are fighting to free Iran form the Islamo-Nazi regime in Iran. For that, they, along with the NCRI, should be praised.Daniel said:

But the fact that several prominent American conservatives have cozied up to an Islamist-Stalinist cult that was on Saddam’s payroll and the State Department considers a terrorist organization — this raises serious questions (to put it mildly) about the Right’s bedfellows and the calculus that determines them.
It suggests the need for a little more terrorism awareness.

I get it. We need “more terrorism awareness” from this leftist propagandist while many of his fellow leftists truly do support terrorists, including Islamo-fascists, and do support America totalitarian enemies, including Castro and Chavez. Daniel wants to cite the State Department foreign terrorist organization list. Guess what, Cuba, that’s right, where the regime is embraced by many leftists, is on the US State department list of states that sponsor terrorism [using Daniel's terminology there, "If the show fits,'' because Cuba really does support international terrorism].Daniel’s article is another desperate attempt from the left to make us in the right seem hypocritical. This article debunks Daniel’s distorted article.

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What Was the Dialogue Among Civilizations?

By Benyamin Solomon, Newsflavor

December 7, 2008

Mohammed Khatami is no moderate. The dialogue of civilizations was a propaganda stunt to make Khatami seem “moderate” and to twist the history of relations of US and Iran to make Iran seem like the innocent victim and America the big bad guy.

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After Assadollah Lajevardi was killed by the Iranian opposition group the MEK [Mujahideen-e-Khalq], Iran’s then-president the “moderate” and “reformist” Mohammed Khatami condemned this heroic operation and praised this man. Who is Assadollah Lajevardi? He was a notorious executioner in Evan prison who executed thousands of innocent people in Evan prison on behalf of Iran’s terrorist regime. He was notorious for his executions and perhaps one of the biggest figures in the terrorism of the Iranian regime. After the MEK heroically killed him [that operation should be favorably compared to the execution of Eichmann and Saddam Hussein], the “wonderful” Mohammed Khatami praised this notorious terrorist. He said:

Once again the evil 
hands of murderers martyred one of the hard-working soldiers of 
the Revolution and a servant of the people and the state. The 
government of the Islamic Republic of Iran will use all its resources 
to fight the wicked terrorists and calls on the intelligence and security 
officials to identify vigilantly the perpetrators of this crime as soon 
as possible to have them punished for their heinous deed.

Yet many useful idiots and naive people want to believe that Khatami wants to transform Iran into a “tolerant” and “democratic” state. Yet what kind of “tolerant democrat” would praise a notorious executioner, calling him “one of the hard-working soldiers of the revolution and a servant of the people and the state” who was “martyred” by “the evil hand of murderers?” In reality, Khatami was one of the oppressors of Khomeini’s regime and publicly supported his goal of exporting Islamist rule to the world. 

He has the very similar views to the Iranian regime including Khomeini and Ahmadinejad. Khatami uses deception to the non-Muslim world to portray himself as a moderate, making statements that would satisfy the west even if they weren’t his true positions. In the dialogue of civilizations is where Khatami blames the problems between the US and Iran as America’s so-called victimization of Iran, telling America,”It’s your fault.” He successfully dupes more naive  westerners with the nice sounding name “dialogue of civilizations.” Of course it sounds nice. It fools more westerners into believing the myth of the “wonderful” Khatami even if they have no idea of the message of it and have no idea who the man was. 

On the hostage crisis, Khatami said:

I regret the hostage crisis . . . and I sympathize with the hostages and their families for their loss and their hurt but this was (also) a revolutionary reaction to half a century of the U.S. taking Iran hostage.

So in other words, well, the hostage crisis was terrible, but it’s all America’s fault. Just say it’s terrible to please the west and then say,”It’s all your fault.”

Khatami said:

I do not deny that there are a lot of problems in Iran. But I would certainly say those are not [worse] than the problems and violations in places like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Let’s condemn the violation of human rights wherever it takes place.

Hey, I have an idea for the “reformist” Khatami. Why don’t you condemn your hero, who is “one of the hard working soldiers of the revolution and the people”, that’s right, the man “martyred” by “the evil hands of murders.” See, to any observer. It sounds like a nice idea. Let’s condemn human rights violations anywhere in the world. Okay. But Khatami is responsible for the many human rights violations of the Iranian regime and praised a notorious executioner who killed innocent civilians.  To anybody knowledgeable about Khatami should know that the “dialogue among civilizations” is a joke, to rewrite the history of America-Iranian relations in a way that portrays Iran as the innocent victim of America, just with a nice sounding name. In the west, he talks about democracy and human rights. In the west, Khatami would condemn the 9/11 attacks [to satisfy the west] while being president during the time that the 9/11 commission reported that Iran aided Al Quada and the 9/11 hijackers. He’d condemn suicide bombings [also just to satisfy the west], while praising Hezbollah as ”a shining sun that illuminates and warms the hearts of all Muslims and supporters of freedom in the world.” Hezbollah was one of the first groups that used suicide bombings. 

While Khatami praises a notorious executioner, he has the nerve to bring Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. The dialogue of civilizations is not an effort to bring peace to America and Iran, but an effort to demonize America with a nice sounding name. 

This deception had the Clinton Administration fooled. The Clinton Administration admitted that they put the MEK on the US State Department list of Foreign terrorist organizations to appease Iran and as a goodwill gesture to this “moderate” [really an Islamist terrorist] Mohammed Khatami. It basically lists a group that is a useful ally to America in liberating Iran and the world from the Iranian regime, which is a global threat, to please a fake moderate who talks about human rights while violating them and calling for “dialogue among civilizations “while playing a crucial role in advancing the clerical regime’s warmongering policies” [ from "Who is Mohammed Khatami?" by Ali Safavi].

Khatami continued working on Iran’s nuclear weapons program and spreading the lies of the Iranian regime like stating that they’re for peaceful purposes when they are built to use nuclear weapons on America, Israel and to help impose Islamism. Khatami still called for the destruction of Israel. 

Khatami is no moderate. He’s an Islamist, with the same apocalyptic ideology of the Iranian regime. He’s one of those Islamists who is using deception to make himself seem moderate. Groups like CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations] are doing the same thing, condemning terrorism while praising terror groups like Hamas and refusing to condemn them by name.

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Iranian Meddling in Iraq an Ominous Threat

By DAVID DREW, Middle Eastern Times
October 24, 2008
As the United States and Iraq struggle to reach a firm agreement over the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq beyond 2011, there are signs that the Iranian regime is working in the shadows to pave the way for a complete U.S. withdrawal and Iraniandomination of this fledgling democracy.

 

Since the 2003 U.S.-led war on Iraq, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Qods Force has been steadily fueling the insurgency by providing arms, funds, and ideological and military training to thousands of young Iraqi Shiites angry with the U.S. presence on their soil.

 

In recent months, the ayatollahs in Iran have been paying special attention to the situation of some 4,000 of their opponents in Iraq's Diyala province.

 

The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), the main group within the democratic coalition working to replace the current theocracy, has been instrumental in mobilizing Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis to recognize the Tehran regime as the mainthreat to the future of their country. Most of the 95,000 Sunnis who joined the Sons of Iraq movement and are currently providing security to their fellow citizens, pledged allegiance to the establishment of a free and democratic unified Iraq only after being convinced by the PMOI that Tehran – not the United States – is their strategic enemy.

 

As a Shiite group espousing secularism, the PMOI has managed to win over the hearts and minds of Iraqi Shiites who otherwise risked becoming pawns in Tehran's strategic conflict with the United States. Some 3 million Shiites endorsed the PMOI's accomplishments in a petition in June which was made public at the group's main base Camp Ashraf in Diyala. The petition rattled the regime in Tehran, coming on the back of a June 2006 declaration by 5.2 million Iraqis in support of the PMOI's presence in Iraq.

 

In response, Iran's unelected Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has put immense pressure on the administration of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to expel the PMOI, and on June 17 the Iraqi government ordered the United States to hand over protection of Camp Ashraf so that it could expel all PMOI members from Iraq.

 

This directive violates the Geneva Conventions and the "Principle of Non-Refoulement."

 

PMOI members have resided in Diyala for over 20 years, and since 2004 the U.S. military determined that they were all "protected persons" under the Fourth Geneva Convention. This determination was made after extensive screening of all PMOI personnel by seven different U.S. agencies including the FBI and State Department. The Geneva Conventions prevent the extradition or forced displacement of protected persons.

 

Regrettably there are reports that the U.S. authorities in Iraq have agreed in principle to hand over security of Ashraf to Iraqi forces despite the Iraqi government's June 17 announcement. Such a handover would itself violate the "Principle of Non-Refoulement," which is enshrined in international law and international humanitarian law. It would also send all the wrong signals to Tehran which would interpret it as a further sign of U.S. impotence in countering its nefarious outlaw activities in Iraq. Both democratic-minded Sunnis and Shiites would see the handover of Ashraf to the regime's proxies as a sign of U.S. abandonment of its promises of creating a stable and democratic Iraq in which law and order is observed.

 

The United Nations has condemned Iran on no less than 54 occasions for flagrant human rights abuses, which include the execution of over 120,000 PMOI sympathizers. Handing over the 4,000 brave men and women of Ashraf to the Iraqi administration as Tehran desires is tantamount to sending them to their slaughter – a stain that no U.S. administration should tolerate on its record.

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should now compel the George W. Bush administration not to succumb to Tehran's unlawful demand.

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David Drew is a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom from the Labour and Cooperative Party.

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U.S. Designates 30 Groups as Terrorists

By NORMAN KEMPSTER, LA Times

October 09, 1997

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Madeleine Albright designated 30 foreign organizations as terrorist groups Wednesday, triggering a law that freezes their financial assets in the United States, denies U.S. visas to their members and subjects Americans who give them money or weapons to 10 years in prison.

The list includes groups operating in the Middle East, Europe, East Asia and South America, adding 18 names to a 1995 directory aimed exclusively at organizations accused of trying to thwart the Arab-Israeli peace process.

Newly listed organizations include the People's Moujahedeen, an anti-Iranian guerrilla group based in Iraq that maintains an office in Washington and has parlayed its anti-Tehran activities into substantial support on Capitol Hill.

One senior Clinton administration official said inclusion of the People's Moujahedeen was intended as a goodwill gesture to Tehran and its newly elected moderate president, Mohammad Khatami. The People's Moujahedeen was once accused of anti-American terrorism but in recent years has concentrated on paramilitary attacks on Iranian targets. Iranian warplanes invaded Iraqi airspace last month to bomb the group's bases.

Albright said the primary purpose of the action is to "put a stop to fund-raising in the United States by and on behalf of organizations that engage in or sponsor terrorist acts. . . . Terrorism is not a self-sustaining enterprise. It needs money and supplies to succeed."

She urged other countries to take similar action, asserting that "by steadily reducing the habitat in which terrorism thrives, we can hope to make terrorists first an endangered species and ultimately an extinct one."

All 12 organizations designated in 1995 were included in the new list. The militant Islamic movement Hamas, blamed for recent suicide bombings in Jerusalem, and Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based group blamed for terrorist attacks on American and Israeli targets, are the best known of the original grouping. Also on the earlier register were eight other Palestinian organizations and two militant Jewish groups established by American-born rabbi Meir Kahane, who was assassinated in 1990.

Organizations listed for the first time include the Basque Homeland and Freedom, or ETA, in Spain; Cambodia's Khmer Rouge; Peru's Shining Path and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement; Japan's Aum Supreme Truth and Red Army Faction; the Colombia Revolutionary Armed Forces; the anti-Turk Kurdistan Workers Party; Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; and Egypt's Gamaa al Islamiya.

Note from the heroic Benyamin Solomon:As you will see what the part in red [I made it read after I cut and pasted this column from the LA Times] says, a senior Clinton Administration official admitted that putting the PMOI on the US State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations [FTO] was a goodwill gesture to then-President of Iran Mohammad Khatami. Though Khatami is no moderate. Calling Khatami moderate is like saying that Adolf Eichmann was a moderate. The listing of the PMOI is lacking in creadibility and was a move to appease Tehran. Khatami praised the notorious executioner Assadollah Lajevardi, said that Salman Rushdie should be executed based on Khomeini's fatwa, praised Hezbollah as "a shining sun that illuminates and warms the hearts of all Muslims and supporters of freedom in the world", and was ever bit an accomplice to the Iranian regime's terroris and oppression. Khatami, like the rest o Iran's terror regime, sought [and seeks] to spread Khomeini's radical Islamic system Valayet-e-Faih, throughout the world, supports the same terror groups the rest of the regime supports, and supports Iran's nuclear weapons program. Under his presidency, Iran continued with their nuclear weapons program, their export of Fundamentalism and terrorism and its oppression of the Iranian people. The fact that the listing of the PMOI was a goodwill gesture to Khatami undermines the credibility [which was already lacking] of the move. It shows that the move was to appease Iran's real terrorists, the regime that rules the country. Khatami is a terrorist. The PMOI doesn't belong on the terror list.

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Ahmadinejad: Israel is Racist and Made a Whole Country Homeless

By Benyamin Solomon, Newsflavor

April 30, 2009

Ahmadinejad, the terrorist madman who is president of Iran, spoke at the UN council on racism summit, accusing Israel of making a whole country homeless and calling Israel racist.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mad man terrorist president of Iran, accuses Israel of racism and claims that Israel’s establishment made a whole country homeless. “Following the WWII, they resorted to military aggressions to make an entire nation homeless under pretext of Jewish sufferings. And they sent migrants from Europe, the United States and other parts of the world in order to establish a totally racist government in the occupied Palestine. And in fact, in compensation for the dire consequences of racism in Europe, they helped bring to power the most cruel and repressive racist regime in Palestine,” said Ahmadinejad at the UN conference against racism. As this terrorist madman president was spewing this BS, many world leaders left. It’s so ridiculous for the UN to allow Ahmadinejad to speak at the conference against racism. In fact, he’s part of a regime that is “the most cruel and repressive racist regime in” Iran. He’s part of a “totally racist government” in Iran that was set up by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979. It’s disgraceful that the UN conference allows a terrorist Holocaust denier who called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” to speak at there. There are many racist regimes around the world, including as I said, in Iran.

In Iran, women and minorities including Arabs are persecuted. In Israel, the Arab minority has equal rights and unlike the Jewish majority, aren’t drafted into the IDF [but are allowed to serve in the IDF since there are plenty of Arabs in the Israeli army]. In fact, let’s see what the Israeli Declaration of Independence, which was read by the first Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion when he declared the establishment of the Jewish state in May 14, 1948, says:

WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.

WE EXTEND our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.

Wow Ahmadinejad, that sounds racist to me, not! Was it Israel that invade five Arab countries? No. It was five Arab countries Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt that invaded Israel, with the Arab League Secretary-General Azzam Pasha admitting that [when the Arab armies start invading Israel] that the 1948 war is “a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” Those Arab armies invaded Israel one day after its establishment, when Israel made it clear that not only will the Arab minority get “full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions,” but Israel will offer the Arab governments and peoples “peace and good neighbourliness.” Israel made it clear that she will “do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.” The Arabs should’ve embraced Israel. It was built by hardworking people [even by some Arabs who helped the Jews build the thriving democracy] on land that Mark Twain visited [prior to the establishment of the Jewish settlements] and described as “the prince” out “of all the lands there are for dismal scenery.” The people who built Israel changed that and made a thriving democracy in an area full of tyrants. Ahmadinejad mentions none of this and twists what happened on its head in order to bash Israel.

Now I will focus the racism in Ahmadinejad and the rest of the regime in Iran. For example, Iran is persecuting their Arab minority. Here’s the San Francisco Chronicle has to say:

For decades, the Persian shahs and ayatollahs of Iran have uprooted Ahwazi Arabs from their oil-rich region in the southwest corner of the country, forcing an estimated 1.5 million people off the land where their families have lived for generations.

The result, Ahwazi activists say, is the occupation of an Arab homeland in the heart of the Middle East that almost nobody knows about — an occupation, Ahwazis contend, that has stripped Arabs of more land than is at issue in the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians.

“They came at me like a pack of wolves,” said Abu Tarek, who asks that his family name be withheld out of concern for his safety.

Abu Tarek is a native of the region that borders Iraq, Kuwait and the Persian Gulf, once known as Arabistan after its ethnic majority but renamed Khuzestan by the Iranian government. As a campaigner for the rights and autonomy of Ahwazis, Khuzestan’s Arab-majority population, he was considered a grave threat to Iran’s national security.

“For a year, they blindfolded me, electrocuted my hands, beat my pe*is and smashed my head against the wall,” he said, describing his torture at the hands of Iranian security during 1987, a year before the end of the Iran-Iraq war. “One time, I fell unconscious for two days, and when I woke up, I couldn’t see out of my left eye.”

So it seems to me that Arab Iranian activists fighting for their rights in Iran view themselves as worse off than the Palestinians living under Israel.

Let’s also focus on Iran’s persecution of its Jewish minority. This is what Jewish Virtual Library says about the Jews living under the Khomeinist regime, which Ahmadinejad is part of:

Again, the Jews live under the status of dhimmi, with the restrictions im posed on religious minorities. Jewish leaders fear government reprisals if they draw attention to official mistreatment of their community. Iran’s official government-controlled media often issues anti-Semitic propaganda. A prime example is the government’s publishing of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious Czarist forgery, in 1994 and 1999.2 Jews also suffer varying degrees of officially sanctioned discrimination, particularly in the areas of employment, education, and public accommodations.

Jewish Journal reports that:

But Jews are not the only victims of the Iranian government’s tyranny. Other religious minorities including Christians, Zoroastrians and Bahais are also prime targets for the fundamentalist Islamic strongmen in Iran’s government. According to Frank Nikbakht, director of the L.A.-based Committee for Minority Rights in Iran, non-Muslims who convert to Islam are not abused but Muslims who convert to Judaism, Christianity, or the Bahai faith face execution for doing so. “Many converts and the advocates of conversion such as Christian priests and Bahai leaders have been executed,“ said Nikbakht in a recent interview with me. Nikbakht added; “however during the past 10 years, in order to avoid international pressure for executing religious minorities, Iran’s Islamic Republic has done the following:

1) Closed down whole operations such as churches and imprisoned church or Bahai leaders.

2) Condemned to DEATH, several priests and Bahais leaders, but not carried out the sentences until their cases were forgotten.

3) Assassinated the person converting Muslims in a Muslim ritual manner by means of multiple stabbings the person in the chest or cutting their throat and dropping their body in front of his/her house where others can see. The government has giving media coverage to these crimes but not arresting anyone of them.

Hundreds of Bahais and dozens of Christians have been executed or killed in these ways. It is happening right now, perhaps two or three every year in order to keep everyone in line”.

Now if these laws and actions toward Jews and religious minorities in Iran are not signs of a totalitarian inhumane regime, then in the world has truly gone mad by not recognizing such evil.

What that article was talking about was how Iran was forcing Jewish leaders there to say that life for Jews in Iran is good in order to not have bad coverage.

Here’s what the Investigative Project on Terrorism [IPT] said:

Two Iranian women have been jailed for practicing Christianity in the Islamic Republic, a Washington, D.C. watchdog group that monitors persecution of Christians reports.

The women were arrested by state security officials March 5, the International Christian Concern reported in a news release.

Alireza Jafarzadeh’s book “The Iran Threat” states that:

Journalists, bloggers, the homeless. ethnic minorities, peaceful Sufi mystics, young people at parties with both genders in the same room, bus drivers who go on strike for better wages_anyone who does not comply with the regime’s hardline fanatic Islamic policies is in danger of arrest, torture and execution in Iran [page 34].

Iran also has a modesty police that harasses women for not being dressed like how the regime wants them to dress.

Ahmadinejad has a history of being a terrorist for the Iranian regime. His call for Israel’s destruction and his Holocaust denial are well-known. But what’s not well known is that Ahmadinejad, during the 1980’s worked as a torturer for the notorious Jihadist Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini. Ahmadinejad was also involved in the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps] terrorist activity. Here’s what Iran Terror reports:

In the early 1980s, Ahmadinejad worked in the “Internal Security” department of the IRGC and earned notoriety as a ruthless interrogator and torturer. In 1981, Ahmadinejad, along with a number of “the Line of the Imam [Khomeini] students, began working in the Prosecutor’s Office and in Evin Prison, where he collaborated with .Mohammad Kachui (Warden of Evin) and Assadollah Lajevardi (Tehran Prosecutor General), both notorious henchmen in Evin Prison. As a vicious torturer, Ahamdinejad led firing squads in early 1980s and personally fired coup de grace at executed prisoners.

In 1986, Ahmadinejad became a senior officer in the Special Brigade of the Revolutionary Guards and was stationed in Ramazan Garrison near Kermanshah in western Iran. Ramazan Garrison was the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards’ “extra-territorial operations”, a euphemism for terrorist attacks beyond Iran’s borders.

In Kermanshah, Ahmadinejad became involved in the clerical regime’s terrorist operations abroad and led many “extra-territorial operations of the IRGC”. With the formation of the elite Qods (Jerusalem) Force of the IRGC, Ahmadinejad became one of its senior commanders.

The book “Iran Threat” also reported that:

Women, who already had few rights and suffered tragic abuses in Iran, also became a target in Ahmadinejad’s government. A typical example was the violent showdown of a peaceful demonstration in Tehran’s Daneshjoo park on International Women’s day in March 2006. One thousand women gathered at the park to stage a sit-in and hold banners with slogans about women’s rights, and they were met by busloads of police, Bassij militia, and antiriot units. When the women refused to leave, the forces began beating them_even elderly women_with batons and kicked them. That is what International Women’s Day taught the world about the lives of women in Ahmadinejad’s Iran.

Ahmadinejad also put pressure on authorities to demand a stricter Islamic dress code, which compelled the courts to announce some new penalties. In Isfahan, for example, the courts proclaimed that Women who did not wear the Islamic hijab head covering would be punished by lashing [page 34].

Under Ahmadinejad’s presidency, the repression in Iran continued. The fact is that the accusations Ahmadinejad accused Israel of is accurate when it comes to the Iranian regime including himself. Ahmadinejad says at the UN conference against racism,”It is all the more regrettable that a number of western governments and the United Stats have committed themselves to defend those racist perpetrators of genocide.”

Israel’s government is not the “racist perpetrators of genocide.” The ones who called for genocide are supported by Iran. Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Iran’s terrorist proxy group Hezbollah, said,”If all the Jews gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”

The Hamas charter says:

The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said:

The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree (cited by Bukhari and Muslim)

Iran backs the genocidal terrorist struggle against Israel. Azzam Pasha was right to call the 1948 Arab invasion of Israel “a war of extermination.” In fact, that’s what the terrorist struggle against Israel, backed by Islamo-fascist terrorists like Ahmadinejad and the radical Islamic Mullahs in Iran, is.

On the other hand, Israel is not calling for genocide, but seeks to protect itself from Palestinian terrorism and is perfectly happy with a Palestinian state that coexists peacefully with Israel. Israel even trains its soldiers not to target innocent civilians. The Purity of Arms, which is in the IDF doctrine says:

“Purity of Arms” (Morality in Warfare) - The soldier shall make use of his weaponry and power only for the fulfillment of the mission and solely to the extent required; he will maintain his humanity even in combat. The soldier shall not employ his weaponry and power in order to harm non-combatants or prisoners of war, and shall do all he can to avoid harming their lives, body, honor and property.

The IDF code of conduct, which Israel, at the request of America, translated for how American soldiers should behave in Iraq, says:

** Military action can only be taken against military targets.

** The use of force must be proportional.

** Soldiers may only use weaponry they were issued by the IDF.

** Anyone who surrenders cannot be attacked.

** Only those who are properly trained can interrogate prisoners.

** Soldiers must accord dignity and respect to the Palestinian population and those arrested.

** Soldiers must give appropriate medical care, when conditions allow, to oneself and one’s enemy.

** Pillaging is absolutely and totally illegal.

** Soldiers must show proper respect for religious and cultural sites and artifacts.

** Soldiers must protect international aid workers, including their property and vehicles.

** Soldiers must report all violations of this code.

Does that sound like”racist perpetrators of genocide” to you? To me, if it is, then I don’t know what isn’t “racist perpetrators of genocide.”

This is not the first time that the UN conference against racism was turned into a bash Israel summit. In 2001, the UN conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban also turned into a bash Israel summit, while the 2001 UN conference was silent about the disgraceful human rights records of Cuba, Syria, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and other dictatorships.

The fact that Ahmadinejad, a mass-murdering terrorist who has a history of torture and killing speaks at the UN conference against racism is a disgrace. In fact, him bashing Israel there is already a disgrace. Ahmadinejad is guilty of aggression. He, alongside with the rest of the Iranian regime, fight to impose their same oppressive form of Islam that they imposed on Iran on the world and supports radical Islamic terrorist groups. Iran also closed down a newspaper for publishing an article that condemns Hamas’ practice of hiding themselves and their terrorist infrastructure in civilian communities and for calling Hamas a “terrorist organization.” Iran is building nuclear weapons in order to wipe out their enemies. In fact, Ahmadinejad seeks to speed up the process for the 12th imam to come out by starting a global apocalyptic conflict with nuclear weapons.

Boycotting the UN conference against racism is one thing the Obama Administration did that I agree with because it’s basically a speech by the Holocaust denting terrorist madman president Ahmadinejad slandering Israel, the country that he vowed to “wipe off the map.” The world leaders were right to leave when Ahmadinejad spewed his anti-Israel BS at the UN conference against racism.

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Maryam Rajavi on Neda

By Benyamin Solomon
Leader of the MEK [Mujahideen-e-Khalq] praises the heroic freedom fighter Neda, who was butchered by the Iranian regime's terrorist thugs. She symbolizes the protestors and their goals of freedom and democracy. Unlike the terrorist Mousavi, Neda is no sham and seeks real democratic change. To see what Maryam Rajavi said about Neda, go to http://www.mojahedin.org/links/other/880403_maryamrajavimessage.wmv

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Why Can’t Obama Just Express Support for the Demonstrations

By Benyamin Solomon, Newsflavor

June 24, 2009

Obama’s failure to express support for the Iranian demonstrators is a disgrace.

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As courageous freedom fighters are out in the streets risking their lives to have democratic change in Iran, President Obama has not voiced significant support for them. Obama is getting closer to denouncing the Iranian regime’s oppression. But that’s just because of the pressure he is getting from critics to denounce the oppression of the Iranian regime.

Obama is now having a leftist policy of do nothing. During these times, Obama had the nerve to say that the US recognizes the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Saying that the US recognizes the sovereignty of Iran is a legitimate statement depending the the context it’s put in. Saying that the US recognizes the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran is giving some sort of recognition to the Jihadist Fascist regime in Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran is what the Mullahs imposed on the population. It’s the Iran where the Valayet-e-Faqih system, Khomeini’s radical Islamic system, is imposed on Iran, with a government that seeks to impose it on the world. Many people will say that Iranians voted for the name in a referendum a little while after Khomeini voted for the Shah. That referendum just allowed Iranians to decide the name. Either or, Khomeini and his goons would’ve imposed the same Valayet-e-Faqih system on Iran and would struggle to impose it on the world. Iran would be the same, but just with a different name. Now that the Islamic Republic name is chosen, the Islamic Republic of Iran is where the Iranian regime has totalitarian control. That statement Obama made was still the wrong statement.

Obama has a duty to express moral support to the heroic demonstrators. Leftists say that if he does so, then it’ll give more ammo for the Mullahs to kill the demonstrators. Isn’t that what’s already happening in Iran? The Iranian regime is beating up and/or killing the demonstrators. Neda was already killed by the Iranian regime and has become a symbol of the demonstrators and their aspiration for a free and democratic Iran. Do leftists honestly believe that the demonstrators would stop protesting against the regime just because America supports them? The fact is that no matter which side America is on, Iranian people had it with the regime. The regime was a very unpopular regime. The regime rigging the election for Ahmadinejad is the last straw.

Leftists fear that if Obama expresses support for the demonstrators, then the regime would then blame America. Isn’t that what the regime is doing? They’re blaming Israel, Britain and America. Their anti-MEK front is even blaming the MEK [Mujahideen-e-Khalq] for the demonstrations, claiming that it was their scheme to start riots after the Iranian “election”.

Iran is already blaming America. If leftists hate think that this will get Tehran to verbally attack America, well I got news for you. Iran already was verbally attacking America. The Iranian regime publicly considers America the Great Satan and has military journals that reveal their plans to launch a nuclear EMP attack on the US. For 30 years [not just under Bush and even now after Obama became President], the Iranian regime has sponsored demonstrations that say,”Death to America” and even had missiles that say that.

Obama can still express support for the demonstrations and say that the US didn’t organize them. When Reagan was President, he expressed support for the Polish freedom fighters who sought to free their country from Communist tyranny and severely condemned the Communist regime for repressing the Polish freedom fighters. He publicly supported Soviet dissidents. Yet they were still portrayed as freedom fighters. History still looks kindly on those freedom fighters. So why can’t Obama praise the Iranian freedom fighters and condemn the Iranian government? As I said in this article, it’s not going to discourage the Iranians from protesting against the Iranian regime. On the contrary, it will encourage them. As many analysts said, at least much of Iran’s population [though not the Iranian regime] is pro-American and look kindly on America. They expressed condolences to America after it was attacked on September 11th.

Iranian demonstrators have many signs in English

, not Farsi. Why? Because they want to send a message that they’re sick of the regime and that they want to free their country. It’s outrageous that Obama, the leader of the free world, would not do more to support the freedom fighters in Iran and to condemn the Iranian regime. Obama does it because he wants to continue the same failed Chamberlain diplomacy that was tried by the European countries and America [yes it was tried by America even when Bush was President]. That diplomacy is where the international community tries to bribe Iran not to go forward with their nuclear weapons program and where they convince Tehran that it is not in their interests to develop nuclear weapons. It gave Iran what it needs to go forward with their nuclear weapons program, which is time. Sure, when faced with pressure, Iran does suspend its nuclear program. When the world is not looking, Iran continues with it. Diplomacy is a failure. Iran doesn’t want to stop their nuclear weapons program. Yet this failed diplomacy is the reason why Obama hasn’t fiercely denounced the Mullahs and expressed support for the heroic freedom fighters in Iran.

The Iranian freedom fighters want to send a message to the free world that they’re sick of the regime and that they want freedom. Yet Obama, the leader of the free world, responds by not expressing moral support for the demonstrations and by expressing outrage toward the regime. Obama is saying that he stands for the right of peaceful dissident and that he is appalled and outraged what is going on in Iran. That’s because of the pressure from the critics. So he has to make statements where he is closer to condemning the regime’s oppression of the pro-democracy demonstrations. These demonstrations are a relief, considering the fact that Iran had a good year, with a new appeasement President in the White House and with events in Iraq looking good for the Iranian regime. It’s pathetic that even European leaders are expressing more support for the Iranian demonstrators than President Obama.

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