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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:08 pm    Post subject: Who is Ebadi? Reply with quote

Who is Ebadi?

July 11, 2004
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In the wake of the United States attack on Afghanistan and the Taliban regime, an Afghani woman, Dr. Sima Samar, was present during George Bush's state of the union address. She was lauded as a women's rights activist on capitol hill, and subsequently was appointed as minister of women's affairs in the new Karzai government.

Less than three months after her appointment, Dr.Sima Samar resigned because she recognized that her post was meaningless and that she could do more on her own than trying to work with the government of Afghanistan. Two years has passed since the so-called liberation of Afghani women and not much has changed in the lives of the women of Afghanistan.

The world tour of Nobel peace prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, has come to an end, without any significant rebuke by the so-called activist of the Islamic Republic's atrocious human rights record. From country to country, Ms. Ebadi reiterated the only message she could that human rights and Islam are compatible. In every one of her speeches she quoted Sadi and Rumi, she spoke of the colours of the rainbow, birds, and clouds. She told her audiences that democracy is a flower that has to be slow to bloom;that has to be coaxed to bloom. Shirin Ebadi is attempting to do what Islamists like Muhammad Abduh in the eary 1900's tried to do: how to be a preservationist and a reformer. A difficult and futile task, Ms. Ebadi's track record so far has received a failing grade from the Iranian community.

Ms. Ebadi has not one a single high profile court case in Iran, all of her so-called clients are either dead or perishing somewhere in Iran's jails. Now Ms. Ebadi is heading back to Iran to defend Mr. Ibrahim Yazdi. The same Yazdi who helped promulgate and bring to frution the same despotic regime that millions of Iranians are facing today.

The only thing that the Nobel committee did when it awarded the prize to Ms. Ebadi, was give the green light for the European Union to escalate its trade with Iran, trade that numbered more than four hundred million dollars last year.

Ms. Ebadi has become Iran's answer to Deepak Chopra; someone should tell her that Iran has enough poets and puppets, what we need are individuals who are committed not to the preservation of Iran's theocracy, but those who are willing to challenge the foundation upon which the system rests. The Iranian people have spoken: Ms. Ebadi is Nobody!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shirin Ebadi's brother works in Khatami's govt. and most of the rest of her family is also employed by the Mullah$. Her priorities are to make sure her family is employed and remains propserou$, human rights are a later consideration Laughing

You look at great historical feminists like Susan B. Anthony, Elisabeth Cady Stanton (my favorite) and Margaret Sanger, each of these women came from a religious background but chose to defend women's rights based on secular laws fighting for equality and reporductive rights. Stanton was openly secular, and Sanger was the daughter of a devout Catholic mother, but she fought for reproductive rights that went against the teachings of the Catholic church. None of these women mentioned Christianity, defended it, attempted to reform Christianity or defended their just demands using Christianity, that is why they were successful. They were not Christian Feminists, and they didn't argue that religion justified their claims or demands and made their demands based on the inherent rightesouness and justice of their cause, not any religious dictates or support for their ideologies. They stood up as individuals representing that which was universally right for all, not defending their clan! For these women promoting their own religious, ethnic and ancestral group was not a priority, doing the right thing was. Now you have Ebadi who wants to save Islam, defend her own religious, ethnic, and ancestral group while making sure her affluent and well off family remains that way under the guise of fighting for womens and humans rights. What an insult to feminism! All Ebadi is promoting is more of the negative cultural conditioning that prevents Iranian women from having any individuality and that teaches them to annihilate their identities, needs and rights in favor of family, religion and clan! Great brand of feminism she's preaching!

And who is she now defending? Ebrahim Yazdi, a man who particpated in great crimes against humanity, who despite his US residency and stay in the US was forced to leave and escape back to Iran 2 years ago because Iranian groups in LA were bringing crimes against humanity charges against him. Ultimately he figured he'd take his chances with the Mullah$ as opposed to international crimes against humanity courts!

Ebrahim Yazdi was Khomeini's right hand man, who presided over most of the injust, inhuman and criminal 30 second kangaroo courts that saw the execution of thousands after the revolution. Prior to the revolution he was in the US were he headed the Muslim Iranian Students Association. He handed out wads of cash and organsied bus trips to bring these students to Washington DC to riot against the Shah during his visit with Carter. He had frequent contacts with Cottam, head of the CIA Iran desk during the Mossadegh overthrow and he was an arch supporter of Khomeini and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Defending Yazdi is like defending a Nazi who sent hundreds and thousands to their deaths, who is one of the main architects of this national tragedy called the Islamic Republic of iran, and that is why Ebadi will defend him.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:54 pm    Post subject: Ebrahim Yazdi will be brought to justice for his bloody past Reply with quote

On the filth Yazdi, "Koroush_Kabir" on Persianfootball.com writes:


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....AND nOT MANY OF YOU KNOW THIS 2 VATAN PARAST MEN. TIMSAR RAHIMI AND GENERAL JAHANBANI, IRAN ACE PILOT AND GENERAL. he told the mollahs u are a bunch of enmies of iranzamin and i will never join u. Timsar rahimi before his excecution took his blindfoolds off and said now. like a TRUE PERSIAN WARRIOR. HE ALSO KICKED THAT TRAITOR YAZDI IN TJHE BALLS.LOL




And upon my inquiry as to how the Yazdi incident happened he says:


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Well it was a nationaly broadcast trial, or a Kangaroo court trial to be exact. anyhow, because the Army was tottaly loyal to Timsar rahimi, khalkhali told Shadravan Rahimi, you Will order the Army to announce there loyalty to khomenie now, Rahimi Replied no i will only take orders My Commandar in cheif Shahansha aria meher mohamad reza pahlavi. then yazdi the coawrd he was slapped Timsar rahimi in the mouth, in turn Rahimi stoodup and kicked yazdi in the balls. When they were bout to shoot him, he was in his full Army Uniform and instead of a mollah giving the orders to shoot he himself SAID NOW AND JAVID IRAN AND SHAH!!. TRUE IRANIAN HERO!





May Timsar Rahimi's memory be cherished by all IranLovers!

Timsar I salute you for your MihanParasti and for defending the government you swore to defend until your last breath!

GOD BLESS YOU!



In regards to the pieace of dirt Yazdi all we have to say is:
Don't think you can escape the treasonous acts you have commited! You won't fool none of us with your dirty ways!
Justice in the name of Iran, in the name of Timsar Rahimi, and any other Iranian that you have ruthlessly executed will be served!



P.S. Some ignorant people say that Yazdi is a "reformer" and some even go as far as to say he is an opponent to the IRI! These outrageously ignorant people should have in mind that the IRI "reformers" are the same sh_t as the conservatives and both have sworn to protect the IRI constitution and their loyalty towards the "Supreme Leader"! If you consider this guy who has innocent blood on his hands as a fellow opponent I say KHAK TO SARETOON! Ebrahim Yazdi is and will remain an enemy to freedom and democracy in Iran and his incredibly bloody past is a proof for that!



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a famous picture of Rahimi at his kangaroo court, he has a beautiful smile on his face and he has both hands raised in the air saying "Only god is my judge". He had sworn allegiance his whole life to guard and serve god, country and Shah. He refused to change that oath, and for that he was killed. His last minutes were a study in being brave, dignified, honorable, courrageous, brave and decent in the face of the greatest injustices and death.

General Jahanbani, who was a very handsome man, entered his court session black and blue from severe beatings. He was a soft spoken, gentle man who had been beaten. He refused to honor the bogus and illegal kangaroo court in progress, so he refused to defend himself or say anything, he was taken out and shot many times.

Yazdi has committed heinous crimes against humanity. Like I said, he had to give up his US residency and leave the US and escape back to Iran, precisely because Iranians were bringing crimes against humanity charges against him. And he's better off with the Mullah$, who aren't really going to hurt one of the heroes of the revolution, not now anyways, than facing a highly publicised court case in the west revealing the full extent of his murderous, savage and inhuman crimes against humanity!

As for Ebadi, you know whos who amongst lawyers based on their clients.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just a quick note, for now:

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"...all of her so-called clients are either dead or perishing somewhere in Iran's jails."



Not all. Those members here who also visit SMCCDI's board may remember my post, about 4 months ago, on the exhibition of Ayatullah Khomeini's personal belongings in a museum in Germany as "Iranian Art".
One of the organizers of the event, whose name I do not now recall but one of you may have taken notes, was a high profile client of Ayatollah Ebadi.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:03 pm    Post subject: YAZDI Reply with quote



Correct me if i'm wrong but is the "animal" on the right Ebrahim Yazdi? (and the mollah on the left is one of Ayatoilet Khomeini's grandsons if i'm not mistaken...)

Evil or Very Mad

He'll face justice soon for the crimes he has done! And especially for slapping Timsar Rahimi before his shameful execution! I get filled with rage everytime I hear about the executions of our lost heroes of IranZamin! Death is too good for these pigs!


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the animal on the right is indeed the filthy butcher of the revolution Yazdi.

He was residing in the US, up until 2 years ago when he was forced to flee and go back to Iran, because Iranian American groups in LA were about to bring crimes agaisnt humanity charges against him.

As you can see, he's back at home with the rest of the Murderous Filthy Mullah$ !


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scumbags - and Ebadi is the defender of these criminals. She won't do a damn thing for Kazemi's son also. SHe is worthless..
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"The animal on the right is indeed the filthy butchor of the revolution Yazdi."


Yes it is, although when wild animals kill, they do not kill to satisfy a sadistic need. Yazdi is with the Nehzate Azadi Party mentioned in the article under "Before the Revolution" in the discussion section. He is Mullah Khalkhali, in fact his equal morally, without the turban.


Yazdi in 1979 (left, with glasses), celebrating State Department's coup against the Shah, with his brother Arafat:



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And the terrorists have been living happily ever after since then in the land of Cyrus the great, off the blood of the Iranian people! And they require a h.e.l.l. of alot more than Zahak in sacrifices of Iranian blood everyday! Heck Zahak was a walk in the park in comparison to this lot!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:01 pm    Post subject: Ebadi- IRI apologist! Reply with quote

Growing Disenchantment With Iranian Nobel Laureate Ebadi, Rôle as Apologists for Ruling Clerics Emerging
Defense & Foreign Affairs - By Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi and Elio Bonazzi.1
Jul 29, 2004


Analysis. The Iranian clerical leadership has benefited consistently in late 2003 and through 2004 from efforts by Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi to present an acceptable face to the world of the country's revolutionary Administration. She had been hailed internationally, initially, as an advocate of human rights in Iran. However, by supporting the clerics, Ms Ebadi's credibility inside Iran, and among the expatriate Iranian opposition, has essentially evaporated. The international media and political arena has, however, yet to note the reality that Ms Ebadi has become a more open apologist for the clerics, and how Iranian society has reacted to her new international celebrity.

Shirin Ebadi, the winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, was never an activist for human rights in Iran; she was known as a lawyer who advocated children's rights in Iran, and she represented the cases of several political dissidents in Islamic courts. Significantly, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize which is decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Swedish Nobel Committee which is the ?parent? Nobel charity ? on the eve of the major scandal involving Norway?s Statoil in which the Norwegian company was accused of having paid large amounts of money as a bribe to the son of the former Iranian clerical Pres. Abbas Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafasnjani's son has for some years been the principal broker of business deals for the Iranian clerical leadership.

When, on October 10, 2003, news broke that lawyer Shirin Ebadi had won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, Iranian dissidents living both inside and outside Iran rejoiced. They were convinced they had finally found an Iranian version of Polish union leader and human rights activist (and later President) Lech Walesa, a recognized leader able to advance their cause in an international arena. Initially, Ms Ebadi, who was in Paris when she heard of her Nobel Prize award, gave the impression she welcomed her new rôle. Her comments were that the Nobel Prize did not belong to her, but to all the people who work for human rights and democracy in Iran. On October 12, 2003, Iranian Pres. Hojjat ol-Eslam (Ali) Mohammad Khatami-Ardakani, warned Shirin Ebadi "not to abuse her new status", while the Administration hardliners accused the Nobel committee of ?meddling in Iran's internal affairs?. An Iranian official, Taraqi, speaking on behalf of the hard-line Islamic Coalition Society, declared: "The prize is a support for secular movements and against the ideals of the 1979 Islamic revolution."

Ms Ebadi was interviewed by the French press, and appearing in public without the mandatory veil, pointed out that ?instead of telling Muslim women to cover their heads, we should tell them to use their heads. We must not accept anything that is rejected by our reason? Ebadi also reiterated her support for a secular system, stating that in case the present cleric rulers did not come out with the idea of change, it would be imposed on them. Upon her return to Tehran, she was welcomed at the airport by a huge crowd cheering her and chanting anti-Administration slogans. On that occasion she demanded freedom for all political prisoner of the Government.

A few days later, towards the end of October 2003, Ms Ebadi completely altered her stance against the theocratic Administration. There is, at this point, no way of knowing if she suddenly changed her stance because of physical threats against her or as a result of pressure from her brother (who is a high-ranking deputy and advisor to Iran?s First Vice-President, Dr Mohammad Reza Aref-Yazdi), or if she simply decided to make the change for personal, short-term benefits. Whatever the reason, she gradually assumed a rôle which can be described as a sort of unofficial ambassador for the theocratic establishment, a presentable figurehead which the mullahs use to convince Western policymakers that dialogue and engagement, rather than sanctions and confrontation, should be preferred when dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A few weeks after her return to Tehran, contradicting what she had said in Paris, Ms Ebadi stunned the Iranian opposition ? which had relied on her as one of the possible leaders of the democratic movement for the secularization of Iran ? by siding with the theocrats in condemning France?s decision to forbid women from wearing the hijab, the controversial head-covering item which has become the symbol of Islamic radicalism.

Still, Iranian opposition elements were prepared to give Ms Ebadi the benefit of the doubt, hoping that her misstep was due to her inexperience in handling her new status and responsibilities as the champion for democracy and secularism. That hope was quickly dashed, however. On December the 10, 2003, Ms Ebadi was in Oslo, to formally accept the Nobel Prize. Iranian dissidents worldwide were still confident in Ms Ebadi, expecting her to expose the human rights violations of the theocratic Iranian Government, denouncing the stoning of women, the public executions, cutting off hands, legs, tongues and removal of eyeballs, systematic whipping and flogging of people, child sex rings and sex slaves for sale in the Gulf nations, the systematic assassination of any form of opposition, and the huge number of political prisoners, which reliable sources estimate to be in the neighborhood of 30,000 (12 percent of whom are either HIV positive or have full-blown AIDS).

Ms Ebadi, however, disappointed the Iranian opposition. In her Oslo acceptance speech, Ms Ebadi appeased the Islamist leadership in Tehran by denouncing the alleged human rights violations perpetrated by the US in Guantanamo against Taliban prisoners. She went even further, attacking Israel and accusing the UN Security Council of double standards, because UN resolutions against Israel are not enforced, while ?in the past 12 years, the state and people of Iraq were twice subjected to attack, military assault, economic sanctions, and, ultimately, military occupation?.

Iranian opposition elements, inside Iran and abroad, were angered and provoked by her speech, particularly when she noted: ?Since the advent of Islam, Iran?s civilization and culture have become imbued and infused with humanitarianism, respect for the life, belief and faith of others, propagation of tolerance and avoidance of violence, bloodshed and war!?

Iranian opposition leaders noted that Islam had been violently imposed on Persians by Arab conquerors. Iranians had responded by creating Shi?ism to differentiate themselves from the Sunni Arabs and since early on they try to ?adapt? Islam to their mystical nature, giving Islam a transcendentalist twist, embodied in Sufism. Until the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Muslims in Iran lived peacefully alongside Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and Bahá?ís. With the arrival in power in Iran in 1979 of Ruhollah Khomeini, all other religions were either banned or severely restricted and their followers persecuted. As one Iranian opposition figure noted: ?Perhaps Ms Ebadi should explain to the families of the students assaulted by Islamic militia in their dormitories at the Tehran University in 1999 what rôle the Islamic ?humanitarianism and respect for life and tolerance? played when their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters were killed by Islamist militants and what kind of ?tolerance and avoidance of violence? is behind the detainment of approximately 30,000 political prisoners, who live in sub-standard conditions in the various prisons of the Islamic regime, starting with Evin, the major political prison in Tehran where Ms Ebadi?s friends and even herself are/were jailed.?

After her acceptance speech, Ms Ebadi toured Europe encouraging European nations (specifically France) to deal with the Islamic Republic using dialogue and diplomacy, rather than economic sanctions. This is exactly what most Europeans wanted to hear. For years, Iranian dissidents demanded the immediate cessation of business dealings between the EU and the Islamic Republic, hoping to debilitate the theocratic Government and to ultimately provoke its fall. Europeans have disregarded this plea by Iranian dissidents, legitimizing the Islamic Republic in exchange for cheap oil and gas. Now that even one of the most prominent ?human rights activist? advocates engagement and dialogue as the ?best weapons? to promote democracy in Iran, European Governments feel that there is nothing wrong in perpetuating the Islamist rule in Iran through economic exchange.

Starting in August of 2003, Iranian dissidents began organizing a mass boycott of the February 20, 2004, national elections for the Parliament (Majlis). The low turnout to the ballots was specifically geared toward penalizing the so-called reformists around Pres. Hojjat ol-Eslam (Ali) Mohammad Khatami-Ardakani, marking a significant victory for the opposition. Iranians were finally able to demonstrate to Western observers that Khatami and his self-so-called reformists had lost their appeal, reiterating the Iranian public?s aspiration for a complete ?regime change?.

See:

Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily, February 23, 2004: Iranian Elections Reinforce Short-Term Clerical Grip; Heighten Political Instability.

Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily, March 2, 2004: Credibility and Legitimacy of Ruling Iranian Clerics Unraveling as Pressures Mount Against Them; The Source of Clerical Ruling Authority Now Being Questioned

A few weeks before the elections, Ms Ebadi sided again with the Islamic rulers, urging Iranians to vote and not to renounce the election. Noone listened. After the elections, however, she said that she did not vote, but sanctioned the official ballot turnout figures fabricated by the clerical leadership, which claimed that 50 percent of the public had cast their vote. Reliable sources however estimate that the real turnout was around 10 to 15 percent nationwide, and much less in Tehran.

More recently, Ms Ebadi made a highly-publicized appearance at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC. On May 26, 2004, the World Bank granted Iran a loan in the amount of $359-million. According to The Washington Post, Ms Ebadi began by objecting to the World Bank?s practice of giving loans to corrupt dictatorships with serious human rights violations. But when a World Bank executive noticed that a reporter from World Press Freedom Day was present, Ms Ebadi was whisked away behind closed doors to continue her conversation with World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn. When she reemerged from that meeting, her tone had softened greatly. In theory, the loan was to help the Government of Iran improve housing conditions for poor and middle-income urban neighborhoods as well as expand access to clean water and coverage of sanitation services.

In practice, however, as the recently discovered frauds related to the UN oil-for-food program in the neighboring Iraq demonstrated, there is no transparent mechanism in place in Iran to guarantee that those funds would be effectively allocated to improving housing and water access. Observers of the financial practices undertaken since 1979 by the ruling clerics in Iran note that it is likely that once again that money will ultimately end up in the deep pockets of the mullahs. In early June 2004, however, a highly-circulated petition objecting to the World Bank?s confirmation of the loan was created and sent out by Dr Mohammad Parvin of the Mehr Foundation for Human Rights. The New York Times, which has been one of the main western media promoters of the Islamic Republic since 1979, then provided Ms Ebadi a pulpit to conveniently exculpate herself; in her Op-ed she essentially states that if the World Bank gave the funds to the Iranian clerics, then it was their decision and that she had nothing to do with it.

Ms Ebadi was in 2004 in the United States for almost two months, speaking at various Universities and other events created by a small minority of Iranian expatriates who actively advocate business dealings and normalization of relations with the clerical Government of Iran. Ms Ebadi appearances in public venues were consistently confronted with the anger of a significant number of Iranians who openly advocate ?regime change? for their motherland; they have come to view Ms Ebadi as yet another device created by the Islamist regime to delay its unavoidable demise.

Just before her arrival to the United States, Ms Ebadi spoke in Toronto, where hundreds of Iranians made reservations to attend her speech and then failed to show up, leaving a large part of the room noticeably empty. Ms Ebadi endured confrontations with angry crowds of Iranians of all ideological stances (communists, social democrats, monarchists, Nationalist Front, etc.) when she was in California, at Stanford and UCLA. Towards the end of her stay in the US, she provided an excuse to cancel her appearance at a fundraising gala organized by IAPAC (Iranian-American Political Action Committee), a highly-controversial association of wealthy, US-naturalized Iranians who promote engagement for trade with the Islamic Republic. IAPAC is opposed by the majority of expatriate Iranians who advocate isolating the clerical leadership from financial dealings with the West. Several days before the proposed IAPAC event, Iranian media outlets urged expatriates to hold Ms Ebadi accountable for accepting the invitation of such an organization. Sensing that she would have to face yet again an angry crowd, Ms Ebadi decided to forfeit the event.

While case workers from Reporter Without Borders and Human Rights Watch?s Sarah Leah Whitson describe the Human Rights situation of Iran as: ?Like the Dead in Their Coffins: Torture, Detention, and the Crushing of Dissent in Iran?, Ms Ebadi blatantly told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations, on Monday, June 7, 2004, and at The Asia Society of New York on June 8, 2004, that ?The situation of human rights in Iran compared with 24 or 25 years ago is much better!? The human rights violations under the Shah were never anywhere near what has been perpetrated by the mullahs. Ayatollah Taheri, the Imam of Esfahan who resigned in the Summer of 2002, condemning the coterie of the clerical leaders, admitted two years ago that the numbers and information regarding the political prisoners during the Shah was unequivocally exaggerated, and that what the mullahs had done could not in any way, shape or form be compared to the political limitations under the Shah.

The Islamist leadership of Iran has been able not only to neutralize the the intent of Nobel Peace Prize awarded to promote democracy in Iran, but by co-opting Shirin Ebadi and making her the champion of its cause, the leadership has acquired new strength and a political asset to spend on the international arena. Pres. Khatami is now discredited and weak; it is likely that Ms Ebadi could replace him as the ?presentable? face of the clerics, an attractive façade which the Islamist rulers could offer to the West while trying to retain power.

It is true that Ms Ebadi, with the advent of the Islamic Republic, was forced to step down from her post as justice president of the city court of Tehran; under strict Islamic law a woman cannot judge men. But it is also true that in another strict Islamic country, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto was elected Prime Minister in 1988, the first woman ever to head the government of an Islamic state. The mullahs of Iran constantly strive to achieve international legitimacy and desperately need economic cooperation with the West and mainly with European nations. There has been some speculation in the Iranian community about a potential candidature of Ms Ebadi to the post of President after Khatami?s mandate expires in 2005. But the way Shi?ism has been established in Iran with the advent of the Islamic Republic, with its reliance on the Marja?eh Taqleed model, which literally means ?Reference Point of Imitation?, irrevocably excludes a woman, no matter how accomplished and internationally acclaimed she may be, from becoming an officially relevant figure in the Islamic hierarchy.

Ayatollah Ali Hoseini Khamene?i, Iran?s Velayateh Faqeeh (Supreme Leader), is the ultimate point of reference and imitation. Lesser ayatollahs, according to Islamic seniority, also share the title of Marja?eh Taqleed; giving in and accepting a woman as the most representative figure of the Islamic Republic would inexorably tarnish the image of being the ?point of reference? of the entire Islamic hierarchy, sending the message that religious integrity can be sacrificed on the altar of political gains. The theocratic establishment in Tehran does not seem to be prepared to pay this high price on the internal front in exchange for a more presentable façade on the international arena.

Ms Ebadi has managed to squander all the initial enthusiastic support shown by Iranian communities living both abroad and inside Iran. She left the US without publicizing the date of her arrival to Tehran, to avoid facing a crowd which would have shown her a very different welcome from the one she received after she won the Nobel Prize. She found her home covered with graffiti accusing her of betrayal.



1. Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi, a native of Iran, is a New York-based writer focusing on Iranian political affairs, and Elio Bonazzi is an Italian-born political scientist, also based in New York.




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PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spenta-jaan,

I found the picture you were referring to in my pic archives:





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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2005 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Afatollah Ebadi is supposed to give a speech, titled ""Human Rights, Democracy and Islam," Laughing at UC Davis on May 17.




To obtain free tickets for the talk, visit the Mondavi Center ticket window on campus or the Web at http://www.mondaviarts.org. You can also call (530) 754-ARTS (2787), but a $5 service fee will be charged.

To order tickets online, go to http://www.mondaviarts.org and click on "Tickets," then on "Purchase Single Event Tickets," then on "Other Listings," and finally on "Shirin Ebadi." Follow the directions on that page.


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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2005 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Khorshid wrote:
Afatollah Ebadi is supposed to give a speech, titled ""Human Rights, Democracy and Islam," Laughing at UC Davis on May 17.




To obtain free tickets for the talk, visit the Mondavi Center ticket window on campus or the Web at http://www.mondaviarts.org. You can also call (530) 754-ARTS (2787), but a $5 service fee will be charged.

To order tickets online, go to http://www.mondaviarts.org and click on "Tickets," then on "Purchase Single Event Tickets," then on "Other Listings," and finally on "Shirin Ebadi." Follow the directions on that page.


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Ayatollah Shirin Ebadi is a bogus celeb and has no credibility (ZERO) with anyone, including all IRANIANS!
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PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2005 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are there any Iranians at UC Davis that could go to this "talk show" and question this traitor? She thinks she can pull the wool over everyone's eyes.
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