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Virtual ActivistChat Mock Trial Grill Against Khatami As Faithful Servant of Islamofascist Terror/Torture Masters
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Is Khatami Pleading Guilty In USA With Highest Level Of Shame As A Faithful Servant of Islamofascist Terror/Torture Masters for Past 27 Years and Crime Against Humanity or Continues in the Path of Deception Of Public Until the true Judgment Day In The Hand of Angry Iranian Youth Victims ?

Virtual ActivistChat Free Iran Mock Trial Model To Grill Khatami , all top Taazi Officials Terror/Torture Masters and Islamofascist Appeasers in the Name Of Detente:


The case of the freedom-loving people of the world Against Islamofascist Terror and Torture Masters For Crimes Against Humanity :
1) Khatami As A Servant, Brain of Islamofascist and one of the chief propagandists of the Islamic Fascist regime to create illusion of being Reformist for public ....
2) Amadinejad
3) Rafsanjani
4) Khameni
5) All top level Officials of Pro Hezbollah Islamofascist Occupier of Iran Security Forces (Basij, Revolutionary Gurads - Pasdaran …..)

Possible example of crimes against humanity: Appeasing Terror Masters, genocide, crimes of conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity according to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and established International Law. Over the past 27 years the Islamic regime's agents, courts, judges and vigilantes have all committed acts of: mass execution of political prisoners, murder, stoning, torture, assault, theft, destruction of property, arson, perjury, falsification of testimonials and material evidence, illegal surveillance, kidnapping, rape, blackmail, fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit all of the above crimes, cover-ups and every other form of butchery and depredation.



Pro Hezbollah Islamofascist Appeasers In Past 27 Years Who Helped Fascists
1) President Carter as Green Belt Islamofascist Strategist in the name of National Interest and Human Rights betrayed US Moral values and principles for Free Society and Secular Democracy by helping Islamic Fascism.
2) Brzezinski as Green Belt Islamofascist Strategist in the name of National Interest and Human Rights betrayed US Moral values and principles for Free Society and Secular Democracy by helping Islamic Fascism.
3) EU3, Russia, China and Japan
4) Kofi Annan (UN)
5) Ms. Shirin Ebadi

All the above accused of betraying the cause of liberty and tried to appease tyranny, Islamist Terrorism (September 11 … ) and for not supporting Free Society, Secular Democracy and for Not Defending UN Human Rights Charter Aggressively .
How do they plead and with what guilt score mark (0 to 100) ?”

Possible appeasers crime examples: support of détente. Détente, a French word meaning “relaxation,” was used during the Cold War to describe a policy approach that was supposed to “ease tensions” between the superpowers. Its detractors—including Soviet dissidents—saw it as a euphemism for appeasement. In Iranian case the G8 Détente with Islamofascist regime in past 27 years for short term financial gains from Islamofascist regime corruptions.



These Islamofascist criminals have no shame and don’t give a hoot to world outcry and condemnation. Nonetheless it is our duty as humans not to remain silent and we the people should take actions to stop Islamofascists NOW.

Possible Freedom-loving Iranian Cases and Charges Against Khatami:

Very Respected Top Iranian Scholar Dr. Assad Homayoun Stated Correctly:
“As the President of the Islamic Republic, by all documented accounts, his tenure was rife with corruption, brutal suppression, illegal incarceration, torture and murder of students and other dissidents, murder of prominent members of the opposition both inside Iran and abroad, continued plunder of national wealth, rampant increase in drug use by the youth, and prostitution becoming a thriving export industry. But of course, there were some achievements as well: The secret development of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, the development of short and medium range missile systems in Iran, and the financing of international terrorist organizations.”

Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29534#29534

- Khatami Era As President: Ms. Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian-Iranian photojournalist, was arrested on June 23, 2003 and was savagely raped and barbarically beaten to death by Islamic regime officials. News agencies reported that Ms. Kazemi's body was buried on July 23, 2003, in Shiraz, Iran, contrary to the wishes of her family, and repeated formal requests from the Canadian government.
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5491
- Khatami Era As President: Saayeh Saeedi Sirjaani: "Mohammad Khatami is my father's murderer"
- Khatami Era As President:Constructing a dam near Passargad that may flood the tomb of King Cyrus the Great along with what is left of the Persian heritage in Passargad.
Comparing to the destruction of two Buddha statues in Afghanistan by the Talibans, this new threat and its consequent loss is beyond any imaginable destruction that have been inflicted on the history of the world. Although these glorious remainders of the Iranian history are a part of this nation?s historical identity, their loss is not by any means confined to them. That is to say, it is not only the Iranian nation that would be deprived of the most important part of its cultural identity; it is the world history that is in danger.
Considering only one fact could convey a powerful message to all of us. Amongst the sites that are threatened to be wiped from the face of the earth lies the tomb of Cyrus the Great, the Archimedean king of 2500 years ago who, in his unification of political systems, brought freedom to all those nations that lived under his lead through his "Declaration of Human Rights." In fact, he is considered as the first human being in power who has advocated for the right of humans to choose and adhere to their values, cultures, religious creeds and trains of thought. A replica of the cylinder of his declaration is now exhibited in the UN building to symbolize the long efforts of our race to exit from the savagery of the animal kingdom and enter into the man-made civilized world. It is the tomb of this father of human rights that is being totally erased amongst many other historical monuments. Source:
http://www.savepasargad.com/european_languages.htm

- Khatami Era As President: Suppression of 1000s of students . 18 Tir is a Students symbolic movement against the dictatorial Islamic Clerical Regime in Iran!
The 18th of Tir (July 9th) is an eternal epic poem of the freedom-fighters' brave and righteous movement against the tyrannical Islamic Regime. We never forget and forgive 1999 painful and horrifying attack of the Islamic authorities against innocent freedom-demanding students. This attack was seen as so brutal and so violent that it brought back painful memories of the Mongolian invasion of Iran. The 18th of Tir is seen as a remembrance of those who stood up against tyranny and were subjected to brutal and inhumane acts of torture and violence by the hands of the Mullahs. http://www.activistchat.com/petition5.html
- Khatami Era As President: The murderous mullahs of Iran have executed another minor. The Heartbreaking And Enraging Story of a 16 Year Old Girl Ms. Atefe Rajabi Executed by the Islamist Mafia Mullah Dictatorship on Sunday, August 15, 2004 in the town of Neka, Iran. Please Visit : http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3661
- Khatami As Top Adviser to Khomeni: from June to September 1988 the mass execution of some 18000 Iranian political prisoners. What was Khatami role as top adviser to Khomeni? If he was not involved why he has not prosecuted those responsible for killing of some 18000 freedom-loving Iranians when he was President, why he did not make an objection to Khomeni? There is no record of Khatami objection to Khomeni.
- Khatami Era As President : In the evening of Sunday, November 22, 1998 a shocking news item was broadcast by the
Islamic Republic News Agency on its international line which was very briefly mentioned at the end of 9 p.m. news program on the first channel of the Iranian television. The news was that Dariush Forouhar and his wife had been murdered by unidentified persons at their home on Hedayat Street in Tehran the night before. In the next morning, Iranian newspapers wrote that Dariush Forouhar, the leader of the Mellat (Nation) Party of Iran and his wife Parvaneh Majd Eskandari had been stabbed to death. Parvaneh was stabbed 25 times on the second floor of her home while she was very ill. She was 60 years old at the time of her death by Regime Agents.
the knife of islamic republic Mafia silenced the voices of two of Iran’s noble children: " Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar. But, it did not silence the aspiration of them for democracy, liberty, justice, and freedom. It not only did not silence, but rejuvenated the voices of Iranians rising to the aspiration of the Frouhars. Knives cut flesh, but cannot cut aspirations. Knives silence individuals, but cannot silence a nation. Knives shorten lives, but prolong resolve of the nation. Those who lowered their knives in the hearts of the Frouhars saw the spill of their blood writing on the soil of our nation: Victory Will Be Ours! The enemies of our country unjustly ruling Iran for two decades are doomed! That’s what that blood said! And that’s what the murderers of islamic republic should take notice of!"
To know more about Ms. Parvaneh Forouhar please visit: http://www.forouharha.com
- Khatami Era As President : As it has been reported by many news agencies, the professionally trained rescue teams mobilized by the Unitred States and Israel were prevented to go to Bam by Islamic regime officials, while only small numbers of rescuers were allowed to enter the city only after the first 24 hours, which is the most critical time for saving people from Earthquake disasters. Rescuers, doctors, money, medicine, and food poured into Iran from over 70 countries, while the Mullahcracy prevented this aid from getting to Bam by creating many obstacles and delays. Much of the disaster aid has reportedly been stolen by the Clerics, their families and other regime officials. Why did the clerical regime wait several hours and in many cases days before allowing offerings of aid to reach the victims? Why do such "leaders" who profess to speak the word of God prevent highly trained Israeli and American search and rescue teams from saving the lives of suffering Iranians? Why did the regime order tens of thousands of Iranians from various cities who had gathered tents and other amenities for their compatriots in Bam to be turned away?
- Khatami Era As President: Millions of Iranian immigrated to other countries to live in freedom from oppression of Islamofascists.
- Khatami Era As President: !00,000 youth forced to prostitutions.
- Khatami Era As President: Millions of Iranian youth forced to use drug to escape from oppression of Islamofascists pain.
- Khatami Era As President: NUKE PLANTS IN A QUAKE ZONE- Building nuclear power stations, especially when designed by Russians and Chinese firms that are subject to no international scrutiny, on the world's most active earthquake zone might not be the best of ideas either for Iran or its neighbors. http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=27980#27980
- Khatami Era As President: No lesson learned by Mad Mullahs from the death toll of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 20 years ago . Based on research by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the report said that of the 2 billion people globally affected by the Chernobyl fallout, 270,000 will develop cancers as a result, of which 93,000 will prove fatal.
- Khatami Era As President: Due to the fact that Iran has vast reserve of natural Gas for over 200 years and creating electric power from natural Gas is at least 20 times cheaper for Iran than Nuclear Power and it is one of the safest way to generate electricity therefore Iran does not need any nuclear power plant.
- Khatami Era As President: Spending over 20 billion dollars of Iranian People’s money for nuclear adventures while high percentage of Iranian people under poverty line without getting permission from Iranian people.
- Khatami Era As President: Lying to International community regarding Regime nuclear adventures.
- Khatami Era As President: Islamofascist Mad Mullahs and Revolutionary Guards Fools Wasted 20 Billion Dollars For Childish Nuclear Adventures Fantasy and Planning For Another Crisis to Survive ...... Creating another disaster for Iran
- Khatami Era As President: Iran refused to hand over to the United States the Iranian intelligence officials who supervised the attack on the Khobar towers that killed American soldiers.
- Khatami Era As President: Khatami continues to support Terrorist groups of Hezbollah, Hamas, and has called for the destruction of the state of Israel.
- Khatami Era As President: freedom of press and assembly was relaxed by the Iranian intelligence and security apparatus to lull the reformists and true democrats into a false sense of security; thousands and thousands of students, journalists, women, clerics, and women started to express their opinions freely. For their foolish faith, many of them paid high price with prison and torture.
- Khatami Era As President: Khatami was president during the biggest crackdown on the Iranian media since the beginning of the Iranian revolution.
- Khatami Era As President: In the evening of Thursday, December 3, 1998, Mohammad Mokhtari, writer, mythologist, journalist and a member of consulting committee of the Iranian Pen Association, who had left home for shopping from Sepah department store in Tajrish square in northern Tehran, went missing. His body was later found near Shahr-e Ray in downtown Tehran on Wednesday December 9, and because of lack of any identification documents his body was transferred to the coroner's office as an unidentified person. His oldest son Siavash identified the body of his father. Source: http://www.aidainternational.nl/informatie%20organisatie/essays/iran/Review%20of%20serial%20murders%20in%20Iran.html
- Khatami Era As President: In the evening of the same day, Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, a writer and translator went missing and his body, like those of others was identified among unidentified bodies at the coroner's office on Sunday, December 13, 1998. Source: http://www.aidainternational.nl/informatie%20organisatie/essays/iran/Review%20of%20serial%20murders%20in%20Iran.html
- Khatami Era As President: On August 29, 1998, Pirouz Davani, and ex-political prisoner went missing. After being released from
prison, he began to publish and distribute pamphlets with his name on them at his own expense. Source: http://www.aidainternational.nl/informatie%20organisatie/essays/iran/Review%20of%20serial%20murders%20in%20Iran.html
- Khatami Era As President: Manuchehr Sanei and his wife Firouzeh Kalantari, who were among the Iranians residing abroad returned to the country in November of 1995 following the government's invitation to the Iranian expatriates to return home. Sanei had extensive knowledge about the history of Tehran. He and his wife went missing on February 17, 1997 and their bodies were found on February 22 around Lashkarak near Tehran Pars bridge, east Tehran. The coroner's office announced that they had been stabbed 13 times on February 19 but in the view of the coroner's office, Sanei had died of heart attack before being stabbed and his wife, Firouzeh Kalantari had died due to receiving head injuries from a steel object. Their bereaved family identified their bodies among the unidentified bodies kept at the coroner's office, on March 22, 1997. Source: http://www.aidainternational.nl/informatie%20organisatie/essays/iran/Review%20of%20serial%20murders%20in%20Iran.html
- Khatami Era As President: On February 23, 1997, Ibrahim (Amir) Zalzadeh, a journalist and publisher, after leaving his office,
went missing on his way back home. The person who last saw him alive, except for the murderers, was a florist in front of Taleqani Hospital from whom Zalzadeh bought a bunch of flowers for his wife at 9 o'clock p.m. His body was found next day which happened to be his birthday near
Yaftabad road in southwest of Tehran. He had been stabbed to death. His body was identified among unidentified bodies kept at the coroner's office on April 2, 1997. Source: http://www.aidainternational.nl/informatie%20organisatie/essays/iran/Review%20of%20serial%20murders%20in%20Iran.html
- Khatami Era As President: In March 1997, Fatemeh Qa'em-Maqami, the chief stewardess of Asseman Airline, was found shot to death in her head. Source: http://www.aidainternational.nl/informatie%20organisatie/essays/iran/Review%20of%20serial%20murders%20in%20Iran.html
- Khatami Era As President: In Early hours of September 12, 1998, Hamid Hajizadeh, a teacher and poet from Kerman, along with his nine year old son, Karoun were found stabbed to death in their beds on the rooftop of their home. Source: http://www.aidainternational.nl/informatie%20organisatie/essays/iran/Review%20of%20serial%20murders%20in%20Iran.html
- Khatami Era As President: Allowing election fraud for Ahamdinejad to become president.

- Khatami As the Minister of Culture and Guidance Ershad : Very Respected Top Iranian Scholar Dr. Assad Homayoun Stated “first high post was as the Minister of Culture and Guidance in 1984. His greatest achievement at the time was the creation of Hezballah in Lebanon. His lesser achievement was the brutal enforcement of Islamic attire and public behavior. Flogging of young girls and women for wearing lipstick or not covering their hair adequately became commonplace. And men were accosted for wearing short sleeved shirts.”
Professor Homa Darabi MD was one of the casualties of this Reign of Islamic Terror. She was a medical doctor specializing in pediatrics, general psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, and was licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey, New York, and California. In 1990, she was fired from her position as a professor at the School of Medicine at Tehran University due to her non compliance to the Islamic rules of Hijab (Covering up of Women). When a 16 year old girl was shot to death in Northern Tehran for wearing lipstick about a month prior to her death, Dr. Darabi could no longer handle the way women were being treated in Iran, she finally decided to protest the oppression of women by setting herself on fire in a crowded square in northern Tehran, on February 21, 1994. Her last cry was
Death to Tyranny
Long Live Liberty
Long Live Iran
For more information please visit Dr. Homa Darabi foundation : http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?ContentID=2137352839&TOCID=2083225413
- Khatami in charge of Iran-Iraq war advertisement resulted 1 million Iranians lost their life and many cities destroyed.


Crime Against Humanity by All Top Level TAAZI Islamist Regime Officials In Past 27 Years:

1. Execution, flogging, stoning and amputation of limbs in public.
2. Mass killings of political prisoners.
3. Assassination of political dissidents outside of Iran.
4. Political serial killings in Iran.
5. Construction of many new prisons holding thousands of political prisoners.
6. Political oppression.
7. Promotion of international and domestic terrorism.
8. Violation of human rights in every category.
9. Lack of civil liberties.
10. Improvement and growth of Iran's Cemeteries.
11. Killing and imprisonment of journalists.
12. Violation of women's rights.
13. Censorship and closure of publications.
14. Forcing Iranians to flee the country resorting in five million refugees throughout the world and "brain drain".
15. Oppression of religious minorities.
16. Filtering the internet.
17. Jamming out of country satellite TV and radio stations.
18. Stealing Iran's wealth by the Mullahs and transfer of funds to abroad.
19. Destruction of Iran's Economy.
20. Widespread poverty throughout Iran.
21. Severe Inflation.
22. Devaluation of Iranian Rial.
23. Increase in unemployment.
24. Increase in the crime rate.
25. Promotion of corruption, prostitution and addiction.
26. Housing crisis in Iran.
27. Malnutrition, retarded growth and increased rate of depression among Iranian youth.
28. Public health crisis in Iran.
29. Making Iran an international "embarrassment".
30. 1979 Occupation of the US Embassy in Tehran and holding hostages for 444 days.
31. Conflict with neighboring countries.
32. Iran-Iraq War resulting in millions dead, wounded, handicapped and homeless.
33. Destruction of Iran's Airline Industry.
34. Causing economic sanctions against Iran.
35. Producing weapon's of mass destruction.
36. Inability to get Iran's fair share of natural resources from Caspian Sea.
37. Promoting regional conflicts in the Middle East.
38. Destruction of Iran's industries.
39. Lack of technological advancements.
40. Air and environmental pollution crisis in Iran.
41. Destruction of Iran’s agriculture.
42. Destructions of fine arts, theater, cinema and music in Iran.
43. Promoting Islamic Fundamentalism.
44. Closure of Iranian Universities under cultural revolution for three years.
45. Attacking University campuses to kill and crack down on students.
46. Violating the constitution of the "Islamic Republic".
47. Hiring hooligans to beat and crack down on Iranian citizens.
48. Improving and selling contraband by regimes elements for additional income.
49. Selling Iranian women as sex slaves in the United Arab Emarets.
50. Attacking Iran’s ancient pre-islamic archaeological sites
51. Attacking Iranian culture and identity, in an attempt to leave behind nothing but Islam
52 - Cinema Rex, The Auschwitz of Abadan



Source URL:
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=24292#24292


On August 19,1978, in the southern city of Abadan, on the order of Ali Khamenei (Iran’s supreme leader) Cinema Rex was set ablaze by Islamic extremist in order to incite riots by blaming it on the Shah of Iran.
This was the most horrific incident of the 1978/79 revolution in Iran, in which according to the official figures 377 people were burnt alive, Unofficially the figures ran as high as six to seven hundred people.
After the revolution in 1979, it was discovered that the crime was committed by the revolutionaries to fuel the publics’ anger.
Hossein Boroujerdi, one of the three people who delivered the chemical fuel to the city identifies Ali Khamenei (Iran’s supreme leader) as the person who provided them with the chemicals. This information is documented in Boroujerdi’s book by the title of “Behind The Islamic Revolution’s curtains, Confessions OF Hossein Boroujerdi” ISBN 3-93524966-7. It is time to tell the story.
Ramin Etebar, MD
An Iranian-American physician ,
Political and Human Rights Activist.

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Crime Against Humanity by TAAZI Islamofascist Pasdar Ahmadinejad:
Based on Taazi definition Ahmadinejad is a Tazzi, and we refer to him as TaaziNejad.


1- Taazinejad plotted many dissident's murder and was directly involved in the 1989 assassination of Iranian exile Kurdish opposition leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou and two other Kurdish politicians in Vienna, Austria. A murderer and Terrorist is not a representative of freedom-loving Iranian Nation.
2- According to Taazinejad himself, he has executed at least 1000 freedom-loving Iranian people in the prison and he was known as “Tir Khalas Zan” literally meaning the who fires coup de grace. Many female former political prisoners raped by Taazinejad Such a dirty person and virus is not president of Iran.
3- Taazinejad is responsible for “Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison” in Iran that would recruit individuals willing to carry out suicide operations against Western targets. Do not allow this Terrorist to put his foot on US soil and enter UN.
4- Taazinejad played a central role in the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran in November 1979 and he was key American hostage-taker for the 444-day.
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ActivistChat Protest Khatami’s Visit To USA With Mock Trial Grill and Appreciate All Contributions By Freedom-Loving People Of The World to document part of the history of Crimes Against Humanity by IslamoFascists.
Activistchat agrees with Sen. Rich Santorum, R-Pa., who said Khatami is "one of the chief propagandists of the Islamic Fascist regime."





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To: International Criminal Court (ICC), Human Rights Watch Geneva, Reporters Without Borders, U.S. President, U.S. Congress, Heads of Free World’s States, the European Parliament, and The International Law Professors, Judges, Lawyers, Prosecutors and Freedom-Loving Activists (Left, Center, and Right)

The ethics of life are the pursuit of awareness about truth for ourselves and others. The ultimate goal is total awareness by increasing public awareness about the truth .

FREE Iran Real Cases Mock Trials declares Khatami, Khameni, Rafsanjani, Amadinejad ... as Islamic Fascists leadership and Occupiers of Iran who are considered as guilty for Crimes Against Humanity according to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and established International Law. They have created Fear Society, Terror and have taken 70 million Iranians as their hostages.

Due to extensive nature of Islamic Fascists leadership crimes against humanity in Iran and outside, therefore we examine Mullah Khatami criminal case record as an example of so called more moderate Islamic Fascist leadership element and master of deception to expose tip of iceberg for our fellow freedom-loving people of the world review, and consideration.

Over the past 28 years the Islamic Fascists occupiers of Iran and regime's agents, courts, judges and vigilantes have all committed acts of: International terrorism, mass execution of political prisoners, murder, stoning, torture, assault, theft, destruction of property, arson, perjury, falsification of testimonials and material evidence, illegal surveillance, kidnapping, rape, blackmail, fraud, obstruction of justice, creating fear society, conspiracy, cover-ups and every other form of butchery and depredation.

Top Iranian scholar Dr. Assad Homayoun regarding Khatami Era :
“It is universally known that the former President has declared himself a proponent of “dialogue between civilizations”. But it is not commonly known that in a number of speeches and pronouncements he has consistently characterized Israel as “a cancer on the body of nations”, and on numerous occasions when officiating at Friday prayers in Tehran, he has led the congregation with slogans of death to the Great Satan.
As the President of the Islamic Republic, by all documented accounts, his tenure was rife with corruption, brutal suppression, illegal incarceration, torture and murder of students and other dissidents, murder of prominent members of the opposition both inside Iran and abroad, continued plunder of national wealth, rampant increase in drug use by the youth, and prostitution becoming a thriving export industry. But of course, there were some achievements as well: The secret development of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, the development of short and medium range missile systems in Iran, and the financing of international terrorist organizations.”
Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29534#29534

Freedom-loving Iranian-American Activist Ms. Saayeh Saeedi Sirjaani:: "Mohammad Khatami is my father's murderer"

Freedom-loving Iranian-American Activist Writer and Poet Mr. Amil Imani:
“More importantly, Khatami is a genocidal criminal who should be tried in a court of law, rather than being received as a high-ranking dignitary. Here is a partial indictment.”
Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8238


Freedom-loving Iranian-American Activist Mr. Pooya Dayanim president of IJPAC:
"Mohammad Khatami was the president of Iran between the years of 1997 and 2004. The State Department listed Iran as the number-one state sponsor of terrorism during those years. Among other things, during the Khatami years, Iran refused to hand over to the United States the Iranian intelligence officials who supervised the attack on the Khobar towers that killed American soldiers. Khatami continues to support Hezbollah, Hamas, and has called for the destruction of the state of Israel." Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29564#29564

Top Iranian Journalist Mr. Amir Taheri , France's leading foreign-policy journal:
” This may well provide an opportunity for the U.S. media to ask Khatami about the atrocities committed by his administration, including the assassination of dissidents, the arrest and torture of thousands of people, including trade unionists and student leaders, the closing of over 150 newspapers and magazines, the banning of hundreds of books and dozens of films, the arming of the Hezbollah in Lebanon, shipping weapons to Yasser Arafat’s terror units and Islamic Jihad, and providing the Jaish al-Mahdi in Iraq with money and arms.
Let us not forget that it was during Khatami's administration that the Islamic Republic speeded up its nuclear program to acquire the so-called “surge capacity” needed for manufacturing atomic warheads.
Khatami would also have to explain whether or not he still regards Hassan Nasrallah, leader of he Lebanese branch of Hezbollah, as “The Sun of Islam shining over the world,” as he put it in a message on July 15”.
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29564#29564

Statement from Senator Rick Santorum Expresses Outrage: "one of the chief propagandists of the Islamic Fascist regime "
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29560

Statement from Senator Brownback:
”Iran has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984, and under Khatami's watch, Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terror. In addition, President Khatami led a government responsible for numerous human rights violations. His government brutally cracked down on Iranians who called for political reforms and engaged in repeated and systematic persecution of religious minorities. He should not be allowed to become the highest ranking Iranian official to visit the United States since the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. " Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29561#29561

Statement from Senator George Allen:
" Khatami’s visa was granted three days after his application when ordinary Iranians are required to wait months for their visas to be approved and when Iranians who have been granted visas have reportedly been detained upon their arrival in the United States and forced to leave our country. " Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29562#29562

Statement from Dr. Michael Ledeen is resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute :
"Khatami is very much a member of the clerical fascist regime. He was the empty vessel into which the Iranian people poured their dreams of freedom when they elected him; now he couldn’t win an election for dog catcher. He presided over brutal repression, including the grisly murders of the Forouhars in 1978 and the mass murders and arrests of student demonstrators a year later."
Statement from Ms. Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and at Touro College Law Center.
"The U.S. visa to former Iranian President Khatami - who wasn’t exactly AWOL during the buildup of Iran’s nuclear program - is not an isolated event. As the pattern of all talk and no action takes hold, this move too will undercut any demand to the international community for immediate, serious sanctions on Iran. If we aren’t prepared to isolate Iran, why should anyone else?"
Statement from Mr. Gary Metz is editor of Regime Change Iran :
" He should be arrested."
Statement from Laurent Murawiec is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute :
"Judgments regarding Iran must be based on the nature of its regime, from Khomeini to today’s Guide Khamenei and Ahmadinejad: the regime of the Islamic Revolution is apocalyptic, millenarian, eschatological. It wishes for the apocalypse that will bring forward the coming of the Mahdi, who will in turn win the great battle with Satan that will extend Allah’s writ to the entire earth. It devoutly believes that the nuclear Holocaust where Israel would perish would hugely advance the timetable of reappearance of the Twelfth Iman, the Mahdi."
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The Rev. Canon Keith Roderick, D.D.:
”In 1984, Khatami declared that Iran was at war with the United States . During his administration Hezbollah was born and he continues to support it. The Anglican Church in Iran was decimated during his presidency. During the last year of his presidency legislation was introduced into the Iranian parliament to adopt a strict Islamic dress code, which not only reversed the progress of individual _expression, but also was designed to segregate Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians by assigning colors that they must wear, reminiscent to the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear under the Nazi regime in Germany. Iranian activists and youth recognize that the “Smiling Mullah” has an appeal to the West, but it is only a façade that veils the insidious failure to bring about authentic change during his presidency.”
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Statement from JCRC :
" His earlier behavior was not any better. As a member of the council under Ayatollah Khomeini, Khatami did nothing to prevent or protest the murder of 3,000 political prisoners in a single week in 1998. In charge of censorship for a decade in Iran, he banned over 600 books and he stated in the Iran daily Keyhan in 1980 that only clergy should serve in government."
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WE, the undersigned, as members of the civilized world, call urgently on the free world to set up a committee to investigate the involvement of the clerical regime in crimes of conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity according to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and established International Law.

We, the Undersigned, therefore demand based on over 28 years evidence:
- That world governments declare the Islamic Clerical Regime of Iran as illegitimate and unfit to govern and expel from UN and all International Institutions.
- That all high ranking regime officials be investigated and prosecuted by respected International Courts for genocide and many other crimes against humanity.
- Mullah Khatami, Khameni, Rafsanjani, Amadinejad ... as Islamic Fascists, Terrorists and International criminals. They must be arrested outside Iran on basis of the following facts:
1- Human Rights Violation, Women Rights Violation, and Stoning Women.
2- Using religion as a tool against the majority who demand for Free Society and Secular Democracy.
3- Threat to global peace and security.
4. Support for Terrorism.
5. Interference in other sovereign nation's affairs, and destabilization of...

In the name of all victims who have suffered, died and currently endure in the struggle for freedom, now is the time to rise and be most vigilant and make your voice be heard.

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They are created from the same essence.
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The others cannot rest.
If you do not care about the pain of others,
You do not deserve to be called a human being."
A Quote from Famous Persian Poet Saadi Shirazi
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:50 pm    Post subject: Senator Santorum Expresses Outrage that Khatami's Visit USA Reply with quote

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Senator Santorum Expresses Outrage that Khatami's Visit to the United States Permitted By Administration



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August 29, 2006
Alum Bank, PA - U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today made the following statement regarding former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami’s request for a visa to visit the United States.

“I am outraged to learn that former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami’s request for a visa to visit the United States has been approved by the Bush Administration. Mohammed Khatami is one of the chief propagandists of the Islamic Fascist regime. He was elected as a so-called reformer, but he presided over a dramatic worsening in the material and political conditions of the Iranian people. During his presidency, the suppression of free speech was so great that the organization ‘Reporters Without Frontiers’ branded Iran “the greatest predator of free press in the Middle East.” When Iranian students demonstrated against the regime in 1999, Khatami’s government arrested thousands of people, some of whom remain in prison to this day.

“I believe that granting a visa to Khatami so that he can travel around the United States and mislead the American people is a mistake. The U.S. government should insist, at a minimum, that authoritative Americans be given equivalent opportunities to speak to the Iranian people. Iran is frightened of freedom, as we can see from their frantic jamming of our radio and television broadcasts. A simple reciprocal agreement with the government of Iran will allow millions of Iranians to hear a message of freedom and hope – this is the least we should demand to allow Khatami into our nation.”

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:53 pm    Post subject: Senator Sam Brownback on U.S. visa for Khatami Reply with quote

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Statement from Senator Brownback:

"It is clear that President Khatami oversaw the growth and advancement of the same nuclear program we now seek to halt. Iran continues to reject requests to freeze its nuclear program. We should not have granted a visa to an individual who helped develop Iran 's nuclear capabilities.

Iran has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984, and under Khatami's watch, Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terror. In addition, President Khatami led a government responsible for numerous human rights violations. His government brutally cracked down on Iranians who called for political reforms and engaged in repeated and systematic persecution of religious minorities. He should not be allowed to become the highest ranking Iranian official to visit the United States since the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.

Allowing a Khatami visit signals that the United States is willing to ignore concerns about nuclear weapons, terrorism and human rights - the very building blocks of our policy toward Iran . I urge the Administration to ensure that U.S. policy remains focused on defending our national interests and upholding our values."



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:16 pm    Post subject: Senator George Allen Calls on State Department to Revoke Vis Reply with quote

Senator George Allen Calls on State Department to Revoke Visa for Former Iranian President
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:44:37 -0400

Senator George Allen wrote:





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 31, 2006
Contact: John Reid
Director of Communications

(202) 224-4746

Allen Calls on State Department to Revoke Visa for Former Iranian President
Sends letter to Secretary Rice expressing his objections

WASHINGTON, DC – In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today, Senator George Allen (R-VA) expressed his objections to the State Department’s decision to grant a visa for former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to travel to the United States . In his letter Senator Allen questioned the State Department’s decision citing the fact that Khatami has lead a regime that is a leading sponsor of terrorism, permitted human rights abuses, and presided over Iran’s secret nuclear program. In addition, the Senator asked that the State Department press for the strongest possible sanctions at the U.N. Security Council in response to Iran ’s continued refusal to cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation of its clandestine nuclear program including travel bans on Iranian leaders.


See a complete copy of the letter Senator Allen has sent to Secretary Rice below:
August 31, 2006
Senator George Allen wrote:
The Honorable Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of State
Washington , D.C. 20520

Dear Secretary Rice:

I write to express my objections to the State Department’s decision to grant a visa for former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to travel in the United States . According to press accounts, there will be no restrictions on President Khatami’s travel and he will be permitted to give public speeches in Washington , DC , and Chicago and may include a speech at the University of Virginia and a visit to Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello .

While I appreciate that we are an open society that is tolerant of diverse viewpoints, I question the benefit of permitting a person who headed a regime that is a leading sponsor of terrorism, permitted human rights abuses, including repression of women and religious minorities, and presided over Iran’s secret nuclear program, which is now the focus of possible UN action, to travel without restriction in the United States. The actions of the Iranian government under President Khatami include the expenditure of billions of dollars on nuclear reactors and sophisticated weapons and the failure to implement reforms that are necessary for Iran to abide by its treaty obligations. Granting this travel visa gives support to the current Iranian strategy of stalling action while it builds its nuclear capabilities and dividing the tentative coalition of states opposing Iran ’s nuclear weapons program.

Additionally, as you may know, I have been a longtime advocate for allowing victims of Iranian sponsored terrorism to seek rightful compensation for their suffering. Allowing a leader of Iran to enter the United States and travel freely is an affront to these Americans, many of whom live in Virginia , and sends the wrong message to State sponsors of terrorism and victims alike. Furthermore, I understand President Khatami’s visa was granted three days after his application when ordinary Iranians are required to wait months for their visas to be approved and when Iranians who have been granted visas have reportedly been detained upon their arrival in the United States and forced to leave our country.

Instead of permitting President Khatami to travel without restriction in the United States , I urge you to press for the strongest possible sanctions at the U.N. Security Council in response to Iran ’s continued refusal to cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation of its clandestine nuclear program. While these sanctions should be targeted at the current regime and spare the Iranian people as much as possible, I believe the array of sanctions should include travel bans on Iranian leaders, a ban on sales of nuclear equipment and dual-use technology that could be useful to Iran’s nuclear program, a ban on extending credits or loans to Iran, and a freeze on overseas assets of Iranian officials, government agencies, and corporate entities that facilitate the importation of equipment and materials for the nuclear program.

The Iranian challenge is a difficult one and I applaud your efforts, and those of President Bush, in taking the lead to raise the diplomatic, economic, political, and possible military costs to the Ahmadinejad regime of its prohibited nuclear activities. However, I believe granting this visa is a step in the wrong direction.
With warm regards, I remain
Sincerely,

George Allen


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:18 pm    Post subject: Visa Not Denied Reply with quote

Visa Not Denied
On Mohammad Khatami’s upcoming visit to the United States.


An NRO Symposium
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzhmNTQ0NDQ3MmIxZDlmZWVlNmViMzE0YjkzMTNiYmM

On Tuesday, as Iran’s current president made clear he has no intention of complying with a U.N. resolution to halt its nuclear program, the U.S. issued a visa to his immediate predecessor, Mohammad Khatami. Should the visa have been issued? Was issuing it the exact wrong message for the U.S. to send Iran right now? Or is there some brilliant diplomacy somewhere at work here? National Review Online asked a group of experts to assess the situation.

Anne Bayefsky
U.S.-Iran policy, spearheaded by Nicholas Burns and Secretary of State Rice, is a train to nowheresville, literally. That’s what the world will look like (starting with the hole in the ground that was once Israel) when Iran has acquired nuclear weapons. Iran has no intention of stopping its nuclear weapons program voluntarily. Only a program of serious consequences, swiftly implemented, in response to its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction will prevent the catastrophe that looms before us.

We know that serious sanctions will not be forthcoming through the U.N. Security Council. China and Russia have made their views on the subject quite clear. But let’s replay the words of Secretary Rice on May 10, 2006. Either Iran can accept a path to a civil nuclear program, she said, or “Iran can defy the international community and face isolation.” And again on May 31, 2006: “It’s a moment of truth for Iran.” Tough talk — but the problem is that nobody takes American huffing and puffing seriously anymore.

Courtesy of the United States, Iranian proxy Hezbollah has just won a U.N. resolution permitting it to regroup and rearm to fight another day. Iran itself has been further emboldened by a resolution that does not even mention Iran, as if the war had nothing to do with it. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been anointed to administer “peace” between Israel and those who want to annihilate the Jewish state. But Annan thinks those who share that destructive goal — and hail from states having no diplomatic relations with Israel — would make good members of his international “peacekeeping” force. Annan himself is now headed to Iran to further cement U.N. ties with terrorists, after his discussions with Hezbollah ministers in Lebanon. One wonders if he is planning to take in “the Holocaust is a joke” cartoon exhibit now playing in Tehran.

The U.S. visa to former Iranian President Khatami — who wasn’t exactly AWOL during the buildup of Iran’s nuclear program — is not an isolated event. As the pattern of all talk and no action takes hold, this move too will undercut any demand to the international community for immediate, serious sanctions on Iran. If we aren’t prepared to isolate Iran, why should anyone else?

— Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and at Touro College Law Center. She is also editor of www.EyeontheUN.org.


Pooya Dayanim
The issuance of a United States visa to Mohammad Khatami, the former president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is an insult to the American people, a slap in the face of Iran’s pro-democracy movement, a mockery of the immigration and antiterrorism laws, and a continuation of the schizophrenic non-policy of the State Department. To see him here, in both New York and Washington, D.C., cities attacked five years ago, will be heartbreaking.

Mohammad Khatami was the president of Iran between the years of 1997 and 2004. The State Department listed Iran as the number-one state sponsor of terrorism during those years. Among other things, during the Khatami years, Iran refused to hand over to the United States the Iranian intelligence officials who supervised the attack on the Khobar towers that killed American soldiers. Khatami continues to support Hezbollah, Hamas, and has called for the destruction of the state of Israel.

During the Khatami era, freedom of press and assembly was relaxed by the Iranian intelligence and security apparatus to lull the reformists and true democrats into a false sense of security; thousands and thousands of students, journalists, women, clerics, and women started to express their opinions freely. For their foolish faith, many of them would pay. Khatami was president during the biggest crackdown on the Iranian media since the beginning of the Iranian revolution. Khatami was president when Jews were sent to prison on charges of espionage. Khatami was president when Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi was killed and Khatami was president when thousands of university students were arrested after the 1999 student rioting. I could go on.

While Khatami gets ready to feast at the banquets being thrown in his honor, Ahmad Batebi, the hero of the 1999 student movement, must prepare himself for another day of torture and beatings in solitary confinement.

In 1999, I met with an Iran desk officer in the State Department. On the door of his office was a cartoon. The cartoon depicted an executioner holding a bloody chainsaw while wearing a smiley face. The caption read: “Khatami’s Iran.” I asked why was it that the State Department did not do something about Iran. I was told that the Clinton administration was distracted by other issues but that one day the schizophrenic approach towards Iran would end.

We’re still waiting.

— Pooya Dayanim is the president of the Iranian Jewish Public Affairs Committee (IJPAC). He is the past director of foreign affairs of the Iran referendum movement.


Michael Ledeen
Giving Khatami prestigious platforms all over America is a dumb move, and it will enormously discourage the Iranian people. For those who believed Bush is serious about regime change, this is a numbing blow. Would FDR have given Goebbels a visa while the Reich was attacking Czechoslovakia?

Whatever the intent, this looks like blatant appeasement and the people in the Middle East will certainly “understand” it that way.

Khatami is very much a member of the clerical fascist regime. He was the empty vessel into which the Iranian people poured their dreams of freedom when they elected him; now he couldn’t win an election for dog catcher. He presided over brutal repression, including the grisly murders of the Forouhars in 1978 and the mass murders and arrests of student demonstrators a year later.

Alas, this confirms my worst fears about this administration. Talk, talk, talk, but when it is time to act, they are still talking. Or rearranging the deck chairs over at the Pentagon in the middle of a war.

— Michael Ledeen, an NRO contributing editor, is most recently the author of The War Against the Terror Masters. He is resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute.


Faith J. H. McDonnell
It is not out of character for CAIR to host mass murdering Iranian ex-president Mohammad Khatami. But should we be surprised that the National Episcopal Cathedral has chosen an Islamist mullah whose goal is the destruction of Israel, under whose regime persecution of Christians flourished, and who ruthlessly repressed Muslim reformers in Iran, to speak about the role of the three "Abrahamic faiths" in promoting peace? Sadly, no, this absurdity is not surprising. The Cathedral and the U.S. Episcopal Church leadership in general have made appeasement and denial tenets of their particular version of faith for some time.

In 1994, the Institute on Religion and Democracy helped lead an international campaign for Iranian Christian leader Haik Hovsepian Mehr, whose speaking out about the death sentence given to a convert from Islam had resulted in his own abduction. Our prayer vigil was at the Iranian interest section of another embassy, just a few blocks from the Cathedral. But this “House of Prayer for All People” has never been a House of Prayer to condemn the evil of persecution, anti-Semitism, and Islamofacism. Rather, it has dismissed the persecuted as unsophisticated or mentally inferior, and sponsored dialogues with the persecutors. — Faith J. H. McDonnell is director of religious-liberty programs at the Institute on Religion and Democracy.


Gary Metz
The State Department that calls Hezbollah a terrorist organization granted on Tuesday a visa to the man who presided over the creation of Hezbollah, the former president of the Islamic Republic, Mohammad Khatami.

The smiling Khatami’s so-called “reformist” movement is dead. He promised he would “reform” the government while remaining committed to “the rule of the clerics.” He lost his popular support when his government murdered or jailed its dissidents and proved unable to make even modest reforms. Last year his movement died when Iranians refused to vote any longer for candidates pre-selected by the regime.

Now he is coming to the U.S. for a “dialogue with the West.” But the regime’s very purpose is to replace a world dominated by the U.S. with their version of Islamic justice. He can no more offer an end to Iran’s one sided war with the U.S. than U.S. officials can negotiate away our commitment to freedom, democracy, and the rule of law.

Fortunately, Khatami said Monday that he will not come if he is subjected to the normal fingerprinting of Iranians visiting America. Someone needs to make it clear that the man, who presided over the creation of a terrorist organization that until 9/11 killed more Americans than any other, will at least be fingerprinted. He should be arrested.

— Gary Metz is editor of Regime Change Iran.


Laurent Murawiec
Granting a visa to a prominent representative of an enemy nation while, by its own pronouncements, actions, and its long-standing practice, that nation’s government is at war with us? Whoever issued it clearly assumed that the beneficiary could sway his peers in a direction we desire.

Unfortunately, Khatami was not able to do that even when he nominally was president of Iran. He just gave the impression that he wished to. Our policy cannot be based on impressions gleaned years ago from an ineffectual figurehead. Iran’s nuclear program did not start with Ahmadinejad, but under the “moderate” Rafsanjani, who also called for the nuclear eradication of Israel, just as Khomeini before him. Iran’s nuclear program continued unabated under Khatami. We cannot invent a pseudo-faction of “moderates” amongst the ayatollahs just because some of us would rather look the other way and pretend it is not so.
Judgments regarding Iran must be based on the nature of its regime, from Khomeini to today’s Guide Khamenei and Ahmadinejad: the regime of the Islamic Revolution is apocalyptic, millenarian, eschatological. It wishes for the apocalypse that will bring forward the coming of the Mahdi, who will in turn win the great battle with Satan that will extend Allah’s writ to the entire earth. It devoutly believes that the nuclear Holocaust where Israel would perish would hugely advance the timetable of reappearance of the Twelfth Iman, the Mahdi.

This creed overrides reality in the strategic perspective of the regime: Tehran is not an actor rationally working in the national interest of Iran and the Iranians. It is serving its ideological mania. It sacrificed hundreds of thousands of Iran’s children, blown to smithereens as they walked to clear Iraqi minefields, with certificates of good Islamic conduct around their necks — by a regime content to expedite them to Paradise. If they do that to their own kids, what of the rest of the world? The Tehran regime recently gambled with the existence of Lebanon just to test Israel’s defenses.

For years, Tehran has been stringing the diplomats along. With her head on the chopping block, Madame du Barry was begging the executioner to give her one more minute. The diplomats beg. But there are no forces within the Tehran regime with which we can negotiate, and wjp might divert Iran from its course of acquiring nuclear weapons.

— Laurent Murawiec is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.


James A. Phillips
It was a major error to issue a visa to former Iranian President Khatami at a time when Iran is defiantly thumbing its nose at the U.S. and the U.N. Security Council regarding its nuclear weapons program. Although Khatami put a softer face on Iran’s blood-soaked revolutionary regime, Iran’s nuclear program flourished during his eight years in power. While calling for a “dialogue of civilizations” Khatami turned a deaf ear to Iranian student reformers who called for long-overdue reforms in Iran but were beaten, imprisoned, and murdered when their peaceful demonstrations were violently crushed in 1999.

Although widely portrayed as a lovable liberal in the Western media, Khatami fully shares the long term goals of Ayatollah Khomeini’s radical revolution. During the recent fighting in Lebanon, he called Hezbollah — the terrorist organization that has killed more Americans than any other group except al Qaeda — “a shining sun that illuminates and warms the hearts of all Muslims and supporters of freedom in the world.”

In addition, while in America, Khatami is slated to attend a fundraising dinner for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a radical Islamist organization that has served as an apologist for Middle Eastern terrorist groups. It is difficult to understand how issuing the visa serves American national interests in confronting Iran’s nuclear program or winning the war on terrorism.

— James A. Phillips is research fellow for Middle Eastern affairs at the Heritage Foundation.


Rev. Keith Roderick

Mohammad Khatami was the president of Iran when that country was identified by President Bush as one of the three in the “Axis of Evil.” Have the secretary of State and the president been advised of a miraculous conversion by Khatami that has earned him a visa to travel and speak throughout the United States? There were only superficial changes during the years of the Smiling Mullah’s presidency; he was no less entrenched in the insidious fascist system of the Islamic Republic than the other ruling members of the religious establishment. Khatami ruled over the largest repression of the media and the student democratic movement in the Iranian Islamic Republic’s history.

The administration is preparing a back-up plan in the event that China and Russia do not accept sanctions on Iran in response to the repudiation of the U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to end its nuclear program. That plan calls for the restriction of travel for the Iranian regime. One would imagine that an emissary, such as the former president Khatami, would be included in such a policy. If the right hand is planning to restrict travel, why is the left hand offering a visa and the opportunity for the Iranians to capitalize on the propaganda and to create confusion by promoting its former president? This is the same president, by the way, who is in lock-step with Iran’s present government in promoting its nuclear program. One can see where Iran has something to gain, but what is the benefit for the U.S.?

As an Episcopal/Anglican clergyman, I am appalled, but not surprised, by the National Cathedral’s invitation for Khatami to participate in a “dialogue” on the role of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims to achieve peace. The forum is destined to be only monologue. Dialogue takes two. Where are the voices of the others, the victims who suffered under the presidency of Mohammad Khatami? During his presidency, the Anglican Church and its leadership in Iran all but disappeared. What is the logic of celebrating the person, ideals, and regime that have been so responsible for the destruction of the Cathedral’s co-religionists in Iran?

— The Rev. Keith Roderick is Christian Solidarity International’s Washington Representative, secretary general for the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights, and Episcopal Canon for Persecuted Christians.


James S. Robbins
It would be a brilliant move if President Bush or one of his chief foreign-affairs officials took the opportunity to really challenge Khatami in a public setting, something along the lines of the 1959 Nixon-Khruschev “kitchen debate” but better managed. And the emphasis should not be on the nuclear issue alone, but also, even primarily, on the aspirations of the Iranian people to be free, and the fear of the regime to allow the Iranians to experience true political freedom. Take Khatami on a tour of the Washington Post and ask him why the regime is shutting down independent media in Iran, that kind of thing. Put him on the spot in a dramatic way. But I fear if there is any criticism of Iran offered it will be limited to the technicalities of the nuclear issue, and presented in the same old stilted fashion. So the Iranian people will think we don’t care about their liberties, and the regime will know it for sure.

— James S. Robbins is author of Last in Their Class: Custer, Picket and the Goats of West Point. Robbins is also an NRO contributor.


Michael Rubin
By granting a visa to Mohammad Khatami, the Bush administration handed the Islamic Republic a propaganda coup. Journalists will fawn and diplomats celebrate Khatami’s talk of tolerance. They will be complicit in projecting a false image of the regime Khatami still represents.

Khatami’s reality is the inverse of his image. To Western audiences, he speaks of tolerance; in Persian, he urges Iranians to mobilize for war. While he maximized the diplomatic gains by calling for dialogue, he channeled the fruits of engagement to different aims.

He constrains dialogue. While the State Department issued 22,000 visas for Iranians in 1997, the year of the call to dialogue, Khatami reciprocated with only 880 tourist visas for Americans. He showed less tolerance for dialogue among his own constituents. In April 2000, Iranian journalists, speculating on the reason for the government ban on the daily Arya, hinted that the penalty was due to the paper’s mention of a series of hangings of political prisoners in 1988, a time when Khatami was the armed forces’ deputy director of ideological affairs.

Perhaps, the Bush administration felt constrained by international opinion. But why concede? What better time to fight back and remind Europeans that, when dealing with Iran, it is important to focus on deeds rather than words.

— Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is co-author (with Patrick Clawson) of Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos.


Rick Santorum
This seems at best foolish and at worst misguided. Mohammed Khatami is one of the chief propagandists of the Islamic Fascist regime. We are offering free speech to a man whose government was called "the greatest predator of free press in the Middle East" by Reporters Without Frontiers. We are welcoming a man who presided over many brutal murders and mass incarceration of people whose only crime was calling for greater freedom.

He has deceived many naïve people into believing that he stands for genuine reform, and that he is a reasonable intellectual with whom productive dialogue is possible. The Iranian people know better. I recently met with a brave student movement leader, Amir Abbas Fakhravar, who had escaped from the Iranian dungeons. His profound wish is that the United States Government be strong, consistent and outspoken about our support of freedom for the Iranian people. Unhappily, this action moves in the opposite direction.

I am opposed to granting a visa to such a man so that he can travel around the United States and mislead the American people. We should insist, at a minimum, that the Iranian people can hear free American voices. Iran is frightened of freedom. They are jamming our radio and television broadcasts, and tearing down television satellite dishes in all the major cities of the country. It seems only fair that we be able to speak to the Iranians suffering under a regime of which Mohammed Khatami is an integral part.

— Rick Santorum is a United States senator from Pennsylvania.


Nina Shea
President Mohammad Khatami is best remembered in U.N. circles, not for human-rights conditions in Iran during his tenure, which were so abominable they were repeatedly condemned by the international body, but for a speech calling for a dialogue among the world’s civilizations and cultures. Thanks to Khatami, who proposed it, at the U.N. the year 2001 is known by the Orwellian designation, “The Year of Dialogue among Civilizations.” This week, Khatami will be back at the U.N. to expound on this theme of dialogue.

He will also embark on a propaganda tour of American campuses and be the honored guest speaker at the National Episcopal Cathedral in Washington. He will use these events to try to mobilize American support for holding a dialogue with Iran — dialogue without conditions of course, just as the current president of Iran favors in the current nuclear crisis.

Iran’s reform movement, which at first counted Khatami among their own, ended up bitterly denouncing him for not merely being ineffective as president of Iran, but for willingly serving as a democratic façade for its oppressive system. He will now be shilling for Iran’s hardline rulers directly with the American public. Khatami’s American travel beyond the diplomatic radius of the U.N. is made possible by a special U.S. visa, the first ever issued to someone of his rank from revolutionary Iran.

It is worth remembering that, Khatami’s insistence on dialogue between cultures notwithstanding, there has been none of it in revolutionary Iran. In addition to being listed as a terrorist state, and one of the triumvirates of the “axis of evil,” Khatami’s Iran was designated by the United States government as a “Country of Particular Concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act — that is, one of the world’s worst religious persecutors. All of Iran’s religious minorities — Bahaiis, Assyrian Christians, Catholics, Anglicans, Armenians, Evangelicals, Mandeans, Jews, and Zoroastrians — have suffered. Their numbers have steadily dwindled as they have fled religious oppression in their homeland; the presence of the ancient Assyrians and Mandeans is approaching statistical insignificance.

The Bahai, who started as a reformist movement within Shiite Islam in Iran in the early 19th century, are seen as heretics. Over 200 of their leaders have been killed by the government, while some ten thousand have been purged from government employment and schools. They have had no rights to property, and can’t officially marry or be buried in their religion. According to law, their blood is “Mobah” — it can be spilled with impunity and no one can be punished for murdering them.

The other Abrahamic faiths, officially “protected” by the state, are forced to abide by Islamic rules and live in great insecurity. Christian and Jewish grocery shop owners have been required to post their religion on their store fronts. Jews, whose numbers have been reduced to about a third of their pre-1979 population, have faced relentless state-sponsored anti-Semitism. Some were arrested and put on trial for spying for Israel under Khatami, until being later freed after international protest. Christians have been vulnerable to apostasy charges, with some imprisoned and others killed by government-linked death squads.

But the persecution that is the hallmark of Iran’s theocratic regime affects not only non-Muslim minorities. Muslims who do not subscribe to Iran’s state doctrine of Jafari (Twelver) Shiism have also been subject to bigotry and persecution. Sunnis and Sufis have regularly been discriminated against and banned from teaching their religion, as well as, on occasion, detained and tortured for their religious beliefs. Those Shiites who dare to dissent from state orthodoxy, too, have been arrested and tried for the capital offense of blasphemy, for the “crime of thinking,” as one Iranian Shiite reformist teacher said at his 2004 trial. Hundreds of newspapers have been shut down and many writers and journalists punished, with some even killed, for their views under Khatami. Shiite women have been harshly restricted and treated as inferiors under state-enforced religious law. Cases of women stoned for adultery surfaced during Khatami’s tenure.

When Khatami speaks next week at the National Cathedral, do not expect tough questions to be put to him about the lack of dialogue among cultures or religious freedom within Iran. It will be a tightly controlled affair to provide a platform for this “man of peace and moderation,” as Khatami was referred to by an organizer for the Cathedral. It will not be open to protestors and concerned citizens. The State Department has advised the National Cathedral to make the event exclusive, “invitation only.”

— Nina Shea is director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House.


Amir Taheri
We should not allow the Khatami visa issue to sideline us from the real issue, which is the Islamic Republic’s strategy to terrorize the Iranian people, defy the international community, and spread its Islamofascist ideology to other Muslim countries.

There is no harm in letting Khatami come to Washington to be exposed to pubic scrutiny.

This may well provide an opportunity for the U.S. media to ask Khatami about the atrocities committed by his administration, including the assassination of dissidents, the arrest and torture of thousands of people, including trade unionists and student leaders, the closing of over 150 newspapers and magazines, the banning of hundreds of books and dozens of films, the arming of the Hezbollah in Lebanon, shipping weapons to Yasser Arafat’s terror units and Islamic Jihad, and providing the Jaish al-Mahdi in Iraq with money and arms.

Let us not forget that it was during Khatami's administration that the Islamic Republic speeded up its nuclear program to acquire the so-called “surge capacity” needed for manufacturing atomic warheads.

Khatami would also have to explain whether or not he still regards Hassan Nasrallah, leader of he Lebanese branch of Hezbollah, as “The Sun of Islam shining over the world,” as he put it in a message on July 15.

What is important is to make sure that the U.S. media have the courage to raise those questions.

It seems that some American political figures, including former President Jimmy Carter, are queuing up to meet Khatami. That is no bad thing, either. All politics is about choice. By begging to meet the head of one of the most repressive regimes in the world, Carter would simply show whose side he is on. Having refused to meet Iranian dissidents, and rejected repeated calls for statements in support of Iranian trade unionists, student leaders, persecuted minorities, and political prisoners, Carter is precisely the person who should hang around with people like Khatami.

— Iranian-born Amir Taheri is editor of Politique Internationale, France's leading foreign-policy journal.
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Jewish groups angry at US over Khatami visit
By NATHAN GUTTMAN
WASHINGTON
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Jewish groups in the US and American lawmakers are protesting the administration's decision to grant a visa to former Iranian president Muhammad Khatami, who was invited to give a series of speeches in the US.

The State Department issued Khatami a visitor's visa with no restrictions, though an official spokesman stressed that he will have no meetings with official US representatives during his visit.

Khatami is expected to give a speech next week at the National Cathedral in Washington, to meet with former president Jimmy Carter and to speak at events at the UN and Harvard University.

The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group representing 51 Jewish organizations, issued a statement expressing disappointment over the decision to allow Khatami into the US.

"He presented himself as a moderate leader, but proved to be no different than the hardliners and ultimately worked in concert with them," it said of Khatami, citing the facts that during his term as president, Iran built up its nuclear program, provided Hizbullah with rockets and supported terror groups.

Jewish activists and Israeli diplomats have expressed their opposition to the Khatami visit in conversations with administration officials, but the US maintained that since there is no political substance to the visit, he would be allowed to come to the US and attend events focusing on the role of religions in promoting peace.

A White House official said Wednesday that the administration expects that Khatami will "face tough questions" from his audiences regarding the behavior of Iran in the past and the present and that he will be asked about human rights abuses that occurred during his presidency.

Khatami will be the most senior Iranian official to visit the US since the Islamic revolution in 1979. The most significant event in his US schedule is his meeting with Carter, whose term was marked by the takeover of the US Embassy in Teheran. The 52 Americans held hostage were only released after Carter lost the 1980 election, a lose that was largely due to his inability to end the crisis.

Several US lawmakers have also protested the decision to allow Khatami enter the country. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehitnen (R-FL), who chairs the House subcommittee on the Middle East, said that "it is mystifying that we would roll out the red carpet for a person who has incited violence against civilians and who has expressed incendiary rhetoric against the United States and our allies."
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:30 pm    Post subject: Khatami: Master of deception Reply with quote

August 31, 2006
Khatami: Master of deception
No man in the world’s contemporary history has had more success in deceiving the world than Khatami.


Khatami has been invited to attend Washington National Cathedral to participate in a
conference on September 5-6 to promote “dialogue”, according to the Rev. Canon John L.
Peterson, director of its Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation.
We at S.O.S. Iran would like to go over this man’s track record as the president of the Islamic
Republic from 1997 to 2005 and ask the hosts of this gathering respectfully to pose a few of our questions to him.
Khatami’s track record:
Iranian people elected Khatami to create an environment in Iran conducive to the following
changes; unfortunately none came to past under his eight year leadership.
• Freedom of political parties and the right to organize, including for those who did not
accept clerical rule
• Freedom for establishment of labor unions and the right of workers to organize freely
and engage in contract negotiations
• Dismantling of the repressive apparatus in all forms
• An end to the assassination of Iranian dissidents living in exile
• Freedom for all Iranians to equal treatment under the law, regardless of religion, sex,
political belief, or ethnic background
• An end to press censorship and ownership laws that restricted press freedom, and free
access to the international media for all Iranians
• Prosecution of those responsible for killing of some 18000 Iranians from June to
September 1988
• An end to the training and support of foreign terrorist groups
Our questions for Khatami:
1. Does he agree with Iran’s new president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the state of
Israel should be wiped out from the face of the earth? If the answer is No, has he publicly condemned this sentiment? Would he like to take this important opportunity to do so now, and to tell the whole world that the vast majority of
Iranians do not condone or support this “anti dialogue” language?
2. During his eight years as President did he advocate the notion of “dialogue” to
Hamas and Hezbollah for settling their disputes with Israel and if not, why not
and would he like to use this opportunity to do so now?
3. During his presidency millions of dollars worth of military hardware were passed
on to Hamas and Hezbollah. Now does Khatami believe these terrorist groups
should be armed with weapons of mass destruction as a deterrent against their
enemies?
4. During his eight years as President he ever make an attempt to change an
Islamic law that was in direct violation of the charter of human rights, like stoning
women or lack of equal rights for woman? Why not?
5. On the subject that seems to be very close to his heart; “Dialogue among
Civilizations”, as President did he make any attempts to have a dialogue with the
Baha'is of Iran? Why not and would he like to do so on his return to Iran?
6. Has Khatami ever acknowledged in public that the Persian civilization has been
an immense gift to the people of this planet, and that the first declaration of
human rights came from the Persian king Cyrus the Great over 2500 years ago?
Has he acknowledged that Cyrus the Great’s contribution to civilization should be
respected in Iran instead of constructing a dam near Passargad that may flood
the tomb of King Cyrus the Great along with what is left of the Persian heritage in
Passargad? Why not when King Cyrus is widely accepted as one of the pioneers
of “dialogue among civilizations” in the history of mankind?
7. Since the establishment of the Islamic regime in Iran the level of corruption,
prostitution among young girls, addiction to drugs and suicide among young
people have been the worst in the living memory. Does Khatami agree that
poverty is the mother of all evils and does he really believe this failed regime
should still be supported?
8. He used to air his frustrations on “forces” that used to work against his “reforms”.
Does he understand now that reforming of “God’s words” is blasphemous?
9. Does he really believe that it is possible to reconcile the absolutisms of radical
Islam with democracy, without mocking them both?
10. Does he really believe that it is possible to reconcile the absolutisms of radical
Islam with God on the helm, with a democratic system of government with
mortals on the helm, without making mockery of them both?
The Islamic regime justifies deceptions of their enemies, in this case the western civilization.
Under an Islamic Shiite principle called “Tagheeyeh” Moslems are permitted to mislead or lie
when signing contracts if they feel that the lie would benefit Islam in the long run.
The Islamic cleric regime in Iran strongly believes that the acquisition of atomic bombs would
accelerate their march to Jerusalem and the return of “Mahdi”, who Shiite theology teaches that
he will return to bring about an earthly utopia by destroying the enemies of Islam once and for
all. We remind all attendees of the Washington National Cathedral event that while the soft
spoken clergy from Iran is keeping them amused, Ahmadinejad the current President of Iran is
paving the way for the return of Mahdi to convert them all to Islam, perhaps more or less the
same way as they forced their religion to the civilized nation of Persia some 1300 years ago, i.e.
through murder and atrocities.
It may interest you to know that upon his assumption of office in Iran, President Ahmadinejad
chaired a formal meeting of ministers and deputies. The first order of business, said the new President, was the ratification of an agreement between the government of Iran and the 12th
Imam, “Mahdi”. Apparently satisfied by this unusual request or demand, all present in the meeting signed the agreement, which was then dropped down the Jamakran well, the expected
location the return of the “long awaited one”, Mahdi.
The invitation by the Washington National Cathedral, granting of a US visa to Khatami by the
American Administration, and the planned meeting between Khatami and ex-President Jimmy
Carter, is a slap in the face of the 70 million Iranian people who have been told by President
Bush, time and time again, that the American government will stand with the people of Iran and
opposes the terrorist regime in Iran. Allowing Khatami to tour the United States and attending
gala dinners is not only ant insult to the thousands of the political prisoners in Iran, and the
mourning families of the likes of Zahra Kazemi, and Akbar Mohammadi but also providing cover
and respectability to the oppressors of the innocent people of Iran .
Be warned, “The Man with the Chocolate Robe" may have some sweeteners in one pocket of
his robe but it is the other pocket that we are worried about.
S.O.S. Iran

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:33 pm    Post subject: JCRC Calls on Washington National Cathedral to Rescind Speak Reply with quote

JCRC Calls on Washington National Cathedral to Rescind
Speaking Invitation to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami

Fri Sep 1, 4:44 PM ET

To: Metro Desk

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20060901/pl_usnw/jcrc_calls_on_washington_national_cathedral_to_rescind_speaking_invitation_to_former_iranian_president_mohammad_khatami309_xml

Contact: Ronald Halber of the JCRC, 301-770-0881 or 301-602-5709 (cell)


WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington sent the following letter to the leadership of the Washington National Cathedral urging them to rescind their speaking invitation to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. According to a Cathedral press release, President Khatami will address an audience on Thursday, Sept. 7.

The JCRC letter calls on the Cathedral to rescind the invitation and states: "His reign, like that of his successor, has been repressive, intolerant, and autocratic. All the evidence contradicts his reputation as a reformer. We feel that the decision to invite President Khatami tarnishes the cathedral's tradition and reputation for promoting tolerance and mutual understanding among all people and is in conflict with its publicly stated mission."

The letter was accompanied by a list of quotes attributed to the former Iranian president indicating his support for the development of nuclear weapons, anti-Semitism and support for terrorism.
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The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington (JCRC) is the public affairs and community relations arm of the Jewish community representing 210 Jewish organizations and synagogues throughout D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The JCRC focuses on government relations, Israel advocacy, inter-group relations, and social justice.
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A fact sheet on Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami is available upon request.
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September 1, 2006


The Very Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III, Dean
Washington National Cathedral
3101 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016


Dear Rev. Lloyd:


The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington is deeply disappointed and dismayed to learn that the Washington National Cathedral has decided to host former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami - a figure who has a long documented record of intolerance, anti-Semitism and human rights abuses. Under his leadership, and continuing today, repeated threats were made to destroy the Jewish state. As a prominent national church it is under no obligation to provide a platform to President Khatami. Quite the opposite; the cathedral's reputation is one of compassion and coexistence with other faith communities. This invitation belies that tradition. We ardently hope that you will consider withdrawing it.

Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami is no moderate. His record is clear: during his time in office Iran expanded its support for international terrorism, pursued the acquisition of nuclear weapons, armed Hizbullah and other anti-Western extremists groups. In fact, as minister of culture, he presided over the creation of Hezbollah.

His reign, like that of his successor, has been repressive, intolerant, and autocratic. All the evidence contradicts his reputation as a reformer. We feel that the decision to invite President Khatami tarnishes the cathedral's tradition and reputation for promoting tolerance and mutual understanding among all people and is in conflict with its publicly stated mission.

At a bare minimum, considering his record as president, his earlier years of public service and the country he represents, he is an inappropriate individual to invite to participate in a discussion on religious tolerance. Your invitation bestows honor upon a dishonorable disseminator of hatred and intolerance.

President Khatami's reign was marked by repeated and public calls for the annihilation of Israel, unflinching progression towards the acquisition of nuclear weapons and the arming and financing of the terrorist group Hezbollah. When most Western leaders condemned Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's virulently anti-Semitic speech to the Organization of the Islamic Conference in October 2003, President Khatami called it "brilliant" and "logical." It was during President Khatami's rule in early 1999 that 13 Iranian Jews were arrested on sham charges of spying for Israel, including a rabbi and a 16-year-old boy. The trial violated all legal norms: it was closed to all observers, the judge served as the investigator and prosecutor, and no evidence was presented. Ten of the Jews were sentenced from 4-13 years in jail.

During President Khatami's rule internal repression continued unabated. Just one year into his presidency, his intelligence services murdered Darioush and Parvaneh Forouhar, leaders of Iran's National Party. More than fifty newspapers were banned, government-funded vigilantes killed unarmed students at Teheran University (with no one ever charged for the crimes) and in an effort to continue to monopolize all control over information to its population, the ban on satellite dishes was maintained and extended to private internet connections. In fact, it was during his rule that Iran accelerated its nuclear weapons program and the ballistic capability to deliver them.

His earlier behavior was not any better. As a member of the council under Ayatollah Khomeini, Khatami did nothing to prevent or protest the murder of 3,000 political prisoners in a single week in 1998. In charge of censorship for a decade in Iran, he banned over 600 books and he stated in the Iran daily Keyhan in 1980 that only clergy should serve in government.

As we have learned from history, one cannot separate the message from the messenger. President Khatami will take advantage of your heartfelt desire to promote peace and tolerance and use the platform to secure legitimacy for Iran's hard line positions. President Khatami may carefully craft his words for your audience, but that deception cannot hide his past actions and outrageous public pronouncements.

In the spirit of brotherhood towards all people, and peace, tolerance and love for all, we respectfully request that the invitation to President Khatami be withdrawn.

Sincerely,

Susan Weinberg, President

Ronald Halber, Executive Director

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:31 am    Post subject: Welcome to the Land of the Great Satan, Smiling Mullah Khata Reply with quote

Welcome to the Land of the Great Satan, Smiling Mullah Khatami

Welcome to the Land of the Great Satan, Smiling Mullah Khatami

By: Amil Imani

Great news! Great news! The deadly confrontation between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to become history. The dove of peace is here in the person of the Smiling Mullah Khatami. Just look at his serene face with and ever-present reassuring smile. It makes you forget all your troubles, doesn’t it?

If by looking at him you are not comforted, it may be the way he is dressed that seems alien—the turban, the cloak and all. Fine. Then let us listen to what he preaches. After all he is a man of the cloth and preaching is his line.

As the past president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, he is fully privy to what goes on in that land, what his co-turbaned colleagues are up to, and what they want from the world. Ever since he ascended to the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, he has portrayed himself as an advocate of moderation, upholder of the rule of law and promoter of the “Dialogue of Civilizations.” For eight years, the long-suffering people of Iran and the world held their breath to see what he would do about the ideals he professed. Unfortunately, the Smiling Mullah turned out to be a genuine mullah—fake to his bones. More importantly, he is a genocidal criminal who should be tried in a court of law, rather than being received as a high-ranking dignitary. Here is a partial indictment.

During the Smiling Mullah’s Presidency, the rule of law was flaunted blatantly from day one.

1. Thousands of dissident students, intellectuals and journalists were systematically arrested, imprisoned and tortured for the sole crime of speaking up against the repressive rule of the mullahs. Many are still languishing in prisons, some have died, and some have simply vanished with no records of what happened to them.

2. During this turbaned fascist’s watch, many students’ lives were extinguished for daring to express their opposition to the stone-age regime. Shamelessly, during the 9 July of 1999 students demonstration, for instance, this man called the Tehran university students “A bunch of hooligans,” while his storm-trooper hooligans, with police support, brutally attacked students in their dormitories throwing some students out of the windows of the dorm’s third floor. Now, he is welcomed at Harvard University to lecture its “hooligans” and faculty on practicing tolerance.

3. Arrested dissidents were denied the due process of law. Those who were granted perfunctory hearings before receiving the guilty verdict were not allowed legal counsel. The few who were granted legal counsel saw even their attorneys imprisoned for defending them.

4. Prisoners of conscience were routinely tortured to extract confessions about the crimes they did not commit. Some of the victims were permanently incapacitated while others died under the brutal torture.

5. No human rights organizations were allowed to inspect the prisons.

6. Women prisoners were often subjected to even greater indignities than men by being raped before being executed, under the cover of marriage. A prison mullah performed the forced marriage ceremony to make it conform to the Islamic ethos.

7. Stealth work on the nuclear program, in clear violation of the non-proliferation treaty to which the IRI is a signatory, proceeded ahead at full speed and with generous funding.

8. Persecution of religious minorities continued apace. Most notably, his government targeted Iran’s Baha’is—Iran’s largest religious minority—recognized universally as peaceful and law-abiding people. Baha’is, solely for their belief, were fired from their jobs, with many forced to pay back the salaries they had received for years of service. Youth were coerced to convert to Islam in order to continue their education beyond high school. Properties and businesses were confiscated, elected officers of the Baha’i communities imprisoned and some executed, their holy places, even their cemeteries were leveled; and, much, much more.

9. Support for terrorism constituted a high priority. It extended not only to the neighboring countries, but as far away as Latin America. Hezbollah in Lebanon was nurtured with funds, weapons and training. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad were assisted in numerous ways, and a professional army of Shiite Iraqis was trained and armed to be used in the present Iraqi theatre. Separately, Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia thugs—the Mahdi Army—is directly funded, armed and controlled by the present Islamic regime, a gift of the Smiling Mullah to his successor—the rabid Mahmood Ahmadinejad.

10. In his devious attempt to lull the world into a false sense of security, the Smiling Mullah floated the notion of “Dialogue of Civilization,” to appear as a man of reason who is willing to reconcile the differences between and among various civilizations through dialogue. This clever ploy was exposed as nothing more than an Islamofascist propaganda tool. In actuality, his side’s dialogue proved to be a diatribe against civilization.



The Smiling Mullah is no less a criminal than other Islamofascists such as his own predecessor, Akbar Refsanjani, Zarqawi, and Osama bin Laden.



Many analysts are rightfully concerned about the danger of Islamic sleeper cells in the United States. They fear that these sleeper cells can be activated at any moment upon receiving orders from their controllers in Iran and Lebanon. Yet, the fact is that the Islamofascists’ greatest assets are the legions of American “Useful Idiots” already actively tearing at the very fabric of our society.

Many universities in the U.S. are bastions and incubators of Useful Idiots. Far left professors do more than teach their subjects of specialty. They feel that they have license to pontificate on any and all matters. That is why they are called “professors.” These self-appointed prima donnas cover themselves with the shield of academic freedom. Academic freedom is like liberty—it can be abused and is abused greatly. That is the price of freedom. Yet, these abusers of freedom, the far left Useful Idiots, will be among the first to be buried under the rubble of the free society’s collapse they work so doggedly to bring about.

The mullahs don’t have to even allocate the money from a single barrel of oil to have these Useful Idiots work around the clock to implode this country from within. They read the papers, they watch the television reporters and they are just happy to bide their time for the New Rome to collapse on itself. If the implosion does not happen, that’s no problem. They will continue on with their work to acquire the nuclear weapons and make it happen. Is this being alarmist or paranoid? Not at all. Besides, one good thing about the being paranoid that the Useful Idiot cannot claim: The paranoid is a survivor. And, we know the mullahs up-close and just too well. Some of our very own brothers, sisters, parents, children and friends have been murdered brutally and without the least mercy by these modern day soldiers of Allah. They are the most vicious fascist killers and we do not—I repeat, we do not—intend to go down passively as their next victims.

_______________________________________________________

Amil Imani is an Iranian-born American citizen and pro-democracy activist residing in the United States of America. Imani is a columnist, literary translator, novelist and an essayist who has been writing and speaking out for the struggling people of his native land, Iran. He maintains a website at
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:42 pm    Post subject: Khatami Must Be Arrested Reply with quote

If the Bush Admin is serious about "War on Terror"
and they wish to support Iranian people for freeing their homeland. then
Khatami must be arrested in Washington by US government and sent to
Iraq to share prison cell with Sadam.


Amil Imani Partial Indictment wrote:
Here is a partial indictment.

During the Smiling Mullah’s Presidency, the rule of law was flaunted blatantly from day one.

1. Thousands of dissident students, intellectuals and journalists were systematically arrested, imprisoned and tortured for the sole crime of speaking up against the repressive rule of the mullahs. Many are still languishing in prisons, some have died, and some have simply vanished with no records of what happened to them.

2. During this turbaned fascist’s watch, many students’ lives were extinguished for daring to express their opposition to the stone-age regime. Shamelessly, during the 9 July of 1999 students demonstration, for instance, this man called the Tehran university students “A bunch of hooligans,” while his storm-trooper hooligans, with police support, brutally attacked students in their dormitories throwing some students out of the windows of the dorm’s third floor. Now, he is welcomed at Harvard University to lecture its “hooligans” and faculty on practicing tolerance.

3. Arrested dissidents were denied the due process of law. Those who were granted perfunctory hearings before receiving the guilty verdict were not allowed legal counsel. The few who were granted legal counsel saw even their attorneys imprisoned for defending them.

4. Prisoners of conscience were routinely tortured to extract confessions about the crimes they did not commit. Some of the victims were permanently incapacitated while others died under the brutal torture.

5. No human rights organizations were allowed to inspect the prisons.

6. Women prisoners were often subjected to even greater indignities than men by being raped before being executed, under the cover of marriage. A prison mullah performed the forced marriage ceremony to make it conform to the Islamic ethos.

7. Stealth work on the nuclear program, in clear violation of the non-proliferation treaty to which the IRI is a signatory, proceeded ahead at full speed and with generous funding.

8. Persecution of religious minorities continued apace. Most notably, his government targeted Iran’s Baha’is—Iran’s largest religious minority—recognized universally as peaceful and law-abiding people. Baha’is, solely for their belief, were fired from their jobs, with many forced to pay back the salaries they had received for years of service. Youth were coerced to convert to Islam in order to continue their education beyond high school. Properties and businesses were confiscated, elected officers of the Baha’i communities imprisoned and some executed, their holy places, even their cemeteries were leveled; and, much, much more.

9. Support for terrorism constituted a high priority. It extended not only to the neighboring countries, but as far away as Latin America. Hezbollah in Lebanon was nurtured with funds, weapons and training. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad were assisted in numerous ways, and a professional army of Shiite Iraqis was trained and armed to be used in the present Iraqi theatre. Separately, Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia thugs—the Mahdi Army—is directly funded, armed and controlled by the present Islamic regime, a gift of the Smiling Mullah to his successor—the rabid Mahmood Ahmadinejad.

10. In his devious attempt to lull the world into a false sense of security, the Smiling Mullah floated the notion of “Dialogue of Civilization,” to appear as a man of reason who is willing to reconcile the differences between and among various civilizations through dialogue. This clever ploy was exposed as nothing more than an Islamofascist propaganda tool. In actuality, his side’s dialogue proved to be a diatribe against civilization.


AFP wrote:
Iran's Khatami says US policies fuel terrorism
by Mira Oberman
Sun Sep 3, 3:08 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060903/wl_mideast_afp/usiranpoliticskhatami_060903154616

CHICAGO (AFP) - Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said US foreign policy is fueling terrorism and warned a conference of Muslims in Chicago of the dangers of allowing "narrow minded viewpoints and practices" to dominate public policy and discourse.

His remarks late Saturday came as Tehran and the UN Security Council head for a showdown over Iran's nuclear energy program, which is suspected of masking an effort to develop atomic weapons.

Khatami is the most senior Iranian to visit the United States since Washington broke off diplomatic relations following the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran.

He did not comment on the current impasse but spoke of the need to promote dialogue and understanding in order to stem the current cycle of violence.

"As America claims to be fighting terrorism, it implements policies that cause the intensification of terrorism and institutionalized violence," Khatami said through an interpreter.

"The power of powers enjoys access to international instruments for securing their supremacy and strengthening their dominance, only seeking total subservience of others," he told the Islamic Society of North America's convention.

He castigated the United States for finding it "more convenient" to deal with despots than democratic regimes that do not serve its interests and he denounced the current "war mongering against Islam and Islamophobia."

"The outcome of such behavior is the cyclical increase and buildup of hatred towards policies implemented by the United States throughout the world, and particularly in the Middle East," he added.

He urged American Muslims to challenge the misguided images of Islam portrayed by the media and politicians so that a more balanced foreign policy can be achieved.

"Public opinion can be rescued from the grips of ignorance and blunder and the domination of arrogant, warmongering and violence-triggering policies will end," said Khatami, a reformist who was president from 1997 to 2005 and whose successor is the more hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Khatami, who founded and heads the International Institute for Dialogue Among Civilizations and Cultures, was granted a US visa on Tuesday even though he was president when the United States declared that Tehran backed terror activities.

He noted Saturday that he was quick to denounce the terrorist attacks of September 11 "since I knew this inferno would only intensify extremism and one-sidedness and would have no outcome except to retire justice and intellect and sacrifice righteousness and humanity."

At an earlier speech Saturday, Khatami denounced terrorists and extremists who "exploit the name of religion" and said they are not people of "true faith."

Speaking to a group of Islamic community leaders at a suburban Chicago mosque, Khatami said a dialogue needs to be created between the secular and religious worlds.

"The people of true faith and the people who are truly concerned about humanity... These two communities can work together," Khatami said in his first public appearance in the United States.

"They can communicate among one another for the betterment and better understanding of the cause of humanity," he said through an interpreter. "The dialogue can help to bring these two communities together."

Neither religions that preach a complete withdrawal from the material world nor the modern religion of science and materialism can eliminate insecurity, Khatami said. Only by finding a "third way" that addresses both the spiritual needs and the material needs can a "life of peace and satisfaction" be achieved, he said.

On Thursday he is expected to address a select audience at the Washington National Cathedral. He will attend a United Nations conference in New York on the "Dialogue of Civilizations" on Friday, which comes five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

He might also meet with former US president Jimmy Carter, whose presidency was marred by the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran.
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Crimes of Khatami

Khatami's crimes as:
1. Minister of Culture & Islamic Propaganda
2. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces for Ideological and Cultural Affairs

Khatami Orders Closure of Daily For Mentioning His Role in Massacre Of Political Prisoners
Iran Zamin News Agency, April 10


The clerical regime's newspapers reported that the Tehran-based daily, Arya, "has been ordered to cease publication on the personal orders of the President and the speedy intervention of the Minister of Islamic Guidance after it published an article on the massacre of political prisoners in 1988." Arya had written on March 4, 2000: "The main way to tackle the issue of (chain political murders) is to go to the past and open the file of the large-scale execution of political prisoners in summer 1988. Another Tehran journal, Gozaresh, further elaborated on the issue on April 8: "The article (in Arya) referred to the fatwa issued by His Eminence the Imam (Khomeini) after Operation Mersad (the Mojahedin's large-scale offensive). The Imam ordered the authorities to issue execution sentences in accordance with Sharia for all Mojahedin prisoners and infidels who are still insisting on their opposition to the state and their support for the Mojahedin." The English-language daily, Iran News, wrote on April 9: "Officials were astonished to see that these prisoners were still insisting on fighting the state and supporting the Mojahedin." The daily added: "The death sentences were issued when President Mohammad Khatami was the deputy chief of staff of the Armed Forces for ideological and cultural issues. He used to implement Imam Khomeini's verdicts in the most serious manner." Khatami's personal orders to shut down a newspaper for a mere mention of the massacre of political prisoners show once again that he, like other ruling mullahs, is frightened of the exposure of the clerical regime's crimes even in the most limited manner, for Khatami, as one of the highest ranking officials of the regime, has been involved in all the crimes of the past twenty years.
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Khatami Involved in 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, FEBRUARY 4


CHILDREN as young as 13 were hanged from cranes, six at a time, in a barbaric two-month purge of Iran's prisons on the direct orders of... Khomeini, according to a new book by his former deputy.

More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in the 1988 massacre - a far larger number than previously suspected. Secret documents smuggled out of Iran reveal that, because of the large numbers of necks to be broken, prisoners were loaded onto forklift trucks in groups of six and hanged from cranes in half-hourly intervals.

Gruesome details are contained in the memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri... one of the founders of the Islamic regime. He was once considered Khomeini's anointed successor, but was deposed for his outspokenness, and is now under house arrest in the holy city of Qom.

Published privately last month after attempts by the regime to suppress it, the revelations have prompted demands from Iranian exiles for those involved to be tried for crimes against humanity. The most damning of the letters and documents published in the book is Khomeini's fatwa decree calling for all Mojahedin (as opponents of the Iranian regime are known) to be killed.

Issued shortly after the end of the Iran-Iraq war in July 1988 and an incursion into western Iran by the Iranian resistance, the fatwa reads: "It is decreed that those who are in prisons throughout the country and remain steadfast in their support for the Monafeqin (Mojahedin) are waging war on God and are condemned to execution."

It goes on to entrust the decision to "death committees" - three-member panels consisting of an Islamic judge, a representative of the Ministry of Intelligence, and a state prosecutor. Prisoners were to be asked if they had changed loyalties and, if not, were to be executed....

According to testimony from prison officials - including Kamal Afkhami Ardekani, who formerly worked at Evin prison - recently given to United Nations human rights rapporteurs: "They would line up prisoners in a 14-by-five- meter hall in the central office building and then ask simply one question, 'What is your political affiliation?'

Those who said the Mojahedin would be hanged from cranes in position in the car park behind the building."
He went on to describe how, every half an hour from 7.30 a.m. to 5 p.m., 33 people were lifted on three forklift trucks to six cranes, each of which had five or six ropes. He said: "The process went on and on without interruption." In two weeks, 8,000 people were hanged. Similar carnage took place across the country.
Many of those in the ruling council at the time of the 1988 massacre are still in power, including President Mohammed Khatami, who was the Director of Ideological and Cultural Affairs.

"The massacre may have happened 12 years ago, but the relevance is that these atrocities are still happening", said Mohammad Mohaddessin, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Iranian National Council of Resistance (NCRI), the main opposition group, who was in London last week to present evidence to MPs.

The NCRI has prepared files on 21 senior members of the regime whom it alleges were "principal protagonists of the massacre", including Mr. Khatami and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's "Supreme Leader"...

Mr. Mohaddessin said human rights abuses were continuing in Iran despite the election of Mr. Khatami, who "presents himself as a reformist".

http://voiceofiran.com
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IHRWG Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of

Mass Execution of Political Prisoners in 1988

September 4, 1998


September 1998 marks the 10th anniversary of the mass execution of political prisoners in Iran at the end of
the Iran-Iraq war. While the exact number of prisoners executed is not known, it is believed that thousands
of people may have been executed. The names of some of them have been publicized by opposition
political organizations, and a partial list was included amongst the 1879 victims of executions in Iran in the
reports of the former United Nations Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights, Mr.
Raynaldo Galindo Pohl (documents E/CN.4/1989/26 and E/CN.4/1990.24), but many still remain unknown.
Even the whereabouts of the remains of most of those executed remain unknown. The execution of such a large number of individuals, within such a short time frame, is an appalling act under any circumstance. What makes this case even more of an atrocity is the fact that the executions were not preceded by proper judicial processes, in violation of half a dozen articles (articles 6 though 11) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), to which Iran is a signatory. Such a widespread, indiscriminate and concerted violation of the most basic rights of a group of human beings must necessarily be characterized as a crime against humanity as a whole. According to a letter written by Ayatollah Montazeri -- the designated successor to the post of Supreme Leader at the time -- addressed to Ayatollah Khomeini, many of those executed had already been 'tried' and sentenced to lesser punishments in the past, or had even been found innocent of commiting any crimes, and had not engaged in any new activities. This act "shows total disregard for all judicial guidelines and the verdicts of judges", Ayatollah Montazeri noted. None of those executed was accorded a public trial by an independent and impartial tribunal. Nor was any accorded legal counsel or the right to appeal the verdict. None was granted the "right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law" as required by article 8 of the UDHR. Noting the recent emphasis by the authorities of the Islamic Republic on the rule of law and building a civil society, the Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) demands from the current administration in
Iran to launch a full investigation into the 1988 mass execution of political prisoners; to provide the public with the number and identity of the victims; and to reveal the burial sight of the victims; to identity those responsible for violating the human rights of the executed prisoners; to establish a tribunal to publicly try those responsible for these executions (which were in violation of the IRI's own constitution and laws); to pledge to punish those found guilty of participation in the massacre of these prisoners. to release the remains of the victims to their families; Furthermore, we demand from the Iranian government: to immediately release all prisoners of conscience. to pledge to provide fair and public hearings/trials by independent tribunals for all prisoners, regardless of their [alleged] crimes and/or political ideology or affiliation. to pledge to provide legal counsel, and the right to appeal court decisions, to all prisoners, regardless of their political ideology and/or affiliation with the government. Finally, the mass execution of prisoners in 1988 is a stark illustration of the detrimental nature of the death penalty itself. We therefore once more urge the government of the Islamic Republic to abolish the death penalty altogether.

Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) September 4, 1998
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UNITED NATIONS
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-seventh session
Item 9 of the Provisional agenda

HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAN

1. In 1995 International Educational Development submitted a written statement (United Nations Document E/CN.4/Sub.2/1995/55) to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (now the Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights) in which we provided information about a person named Jamshid Tafrishi-Enginee. In our statement we pointed out that while Mr. Tafrishi-Enginee had spent about 18 months with the National Liberation Army (NLA) of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, we believed that he was in fact an agent of the regime in Iran with an assignment to gather intelligence on Iranian exiles, to seek ways and means for discrediting them and all opponents of the regime, and to carry out misinformation campaigns against them. Mr. Tafrishi now freely admits that we were correct.

2. Mr. Tafrishi has recently written letters in which he reveals that the Intelligence Ministry of the Iranian regime hired him (apparently paying him $72,000 in addition to travel and other expenses) especially to carry out a misinformation campaign about the NLA, with false accusations that the NLA had itself engaged in violations of human rights or intimidation or extortion of the Iranian exile community. A number of human rights organizations were treated to false testimony and government-orchestrated letter writing campaigns. Unfortunately, some of these organizations may have believed this misinformation. Sadly, this campaign appears to have succeeded in shifting attention away from the serious violations of humanitarian law being committed by the Irani military forces as well as the continuing gross pattern of human rights violations taking place throughout the country. Perhaps if the international community has responded to Mr. Tafrishi as we did - we thought Mr. Tafrishi was so clearly inept for his job anyone could see him for what he was - there would still be strong international action regarding Iran.

3. In other work on the situation in Iran, we have expressed outrage over the staggering number of political prisoners executed in the regime's jails. Now it appears we were conservative in our tally of these executions: Mr. Hossein Ali Montazeri, former designated successor to Khomeini, Iran's Supreme Leader at the time, recently made public shocking documents indicating that as many as 30,000 political prisoners were killed in 1988 alone. Iran's current leaders, including Mr. Khamenei, Mr. Khatami and Mr. Rafsanjani, as well as the officials still in charge of the Judiciary, played the primary role in this massacre.i

4. The documents made public by Mr. Montazeri include the text of Khomeini's fatwa in Summer 1988, which read in part: "Those who are in prisons throughout the country and remain steadfast in their support for the Monafeqin [Mojahedin], are waging war on God and are condemned to execution.... Annihilate the enemies of Islam immediately. As regards the cases, use whichever criterion that speeds up the implementation of the [execution] verdict." Other documents made public by Mr. Montazeri show that on July 31, 1988 alone, about 3,800 persons were killed, only three days after the beginning of this bloody massacre. On the same day, in a letter to Khomeini, Mr. Montazeri wrote: "At least order to spare women who have children and finally, the execution of several thousand prisoners in a few days will not have positive repercussions and will not be mistake-free. . . . A large number of prisoners have been killed under torture by their interrogators. . . . In some prisons of the Islamic Republic young girds are being raped by force. . . . As a result of unruly torture, many prisoners have become deaf or paralyzed or afflicted with chronic diseases."

5. Gross human rights violations in Iran did not end in 1988. In his latest report to the General Assembly, Maurice Copithorne, the Commission's Special Representative on Iran attests to high rates executions and of particularly gruesome torture, continued discrimination of women and religious minorities, and curtailment of freedom of the press under conditions that he calls "truly draconian."ii

6. The continuing flagrant violations of human rights in Iran and the shocking massacres of 1988 are irrefutable cases of crimes against humanity. These violations took place and continue in the course of an on-going civil war and are related to that war. Accordingly, the international community is, under the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and other instruments of humanitarian law, under an obligation to seek out and try those responsible. Such a trial is not limited to a special international tribunal, but may take place in the courts of any party to the Geneva Conventions.iii

7. International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project urges the Commission as a whole as well as its individual members to undertake appropriate action in light of grave breaches of humanitarian law committed by the Irani regime. We also urge the Commission to continue the mandate of its Special Representative. i The state-run daily Iran News, made a reference to this massacre on April 9, 2000: "The decree was issued at a time when President Khatami, was the deputy to the Commander of the Armed Forces Staff in ideological and cultural affairs. He implemented the Imam (Khomeini)'s decree most decisively." ii United Nations Document A/55/363 at para. 13. iii See, for example, Geneva Convention IV of 1949, United Nations Treaty Series Vol. 75, p. 267: "Each High Contracting Party shall be under an obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed , or to have ordered to have committed, . . .grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts.

KAREN PARKER, J.D.
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Two must-read letters about Khatami's visit to the U.S.
1 September 2006

http://www.iranpressnews.com/english/


The Rev. Canon John Peterson
Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation
Cathedral College of the National Cathedral
Massachusetts & Wisconsin Avenues, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Fax: (202) 537-2235


Dear Canon Peterson:

I am writing to you as a veteran human rights activists that represents a coalition of ethnic and religious minorities in the Near East and Canon for Persecuted Christians in Diocese of Quincy. Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami will present an addressing at the Cathedral promoting a dialogue of civilizations.

The concept of dialogue is indeed commendable. Dialogue is a two way discussion. I fear that other voices, many of whom were victims of the government that former president Khatami led, will not be heard. Elected as a reformist, for eight years superficial changes masked his complacency with the despotic and torturous practices of the Islamic Republic. He was elected largely by the Iranian youth that aspired for the adoption of the rule of law and true democratic change. When democratic minded intellectuals, journalists and students embolden by the easing of some restrictions on freedom of press and assembly began to vocalize and push for more freedom, Khatami’s government initiated the largest suppression of the media since the beginning of the revolution and violently put down the 1999 student uprising.

In 1984, Khatami declared that Iran was at war with the United States . During his administration Hezbollah was born and he continues to support it. The Anglican Church in Iran was decimated during his presidency. During the last year of his presidency legislation was introduced into the Iranian parliament to adopt a strict Islamic dress code, which not only reversed the progress of individual _expression, but also was designed to segregate Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians by assigning colors that they must wear, reminiscent to the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear under the Nazi regime in Germany. Iranian activists and youth recognize that the “Smiling Mullah” has an appeal to the West, but it is only a façade that veils the insidious failure to bring about authentic change during his presidency.

Make no mistake, former president Khatami speaks as an emissary of the Iranian regime. His commitment to the rule of the clerics has not changed.

It is unfortunate that the Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation will provide a platform for only one side of this “dialogue.” I encourage you to provide an alternative voice to speak for those who were silenced by his government, or at least, to offer a time for critical questions to be raised. Refusing to include these voices in this “dialogue” would be a terrible betrayal of Iranian Anglicans. It would also be siding with the oppressor against those other minorities who are weak and made dispossessed by a regime that your guest supports. I am willing to represent the perspective of the minorities. Please consider providing an opportunity for a truly authentic dialogue to take place as part of the program that you are sponsoring.

Please respond to this request before Tuesday, September 5.



Respectfully,

______________________________

The Rev. Canon Keith Roderick, D.D.
CSI Washington Representative
Secretary General, Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights



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An open letter about Khatami’s visit to the U.S.
The Esmail Khoi Foundation
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Phone: 770-698-0851

Reverend Canon John L. Peterson, Director
Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation
Washington DC .

September 1, 2006

The Honorable Rev. Peterson:

We learned that you are hosting a speech by Mohammad Khatami, former president and one of the high-ranking officials of the Islamic regime in Iran since it inception in 1979.We are deeply dismayed that the Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation which promotes justice, transparency, accountability and empowerment of women has invited and is honoring this man who is anti-woman, corrupt and responsible for murder of so many innocent people!

Today is the 18th anniversary of massacre of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988, by the Islamic regime. The victims were buried in mass graves without their families and relatives knowing about their burial sites.

During Khatami’s presidency, torturing and physical elimination of political activists, students, writers and journalists continuously actually increased. In July 2003 the Public Prosecutor of Tehran murdered Mrs. Zahra Kazemi an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist in detention. Many pro-democracy students were killed and imprisoned. Writers Saeedi Sirjani, Mohammad Mokhtari, Mohammad Javad Pouyandeh and others were murdered. Ministry of Intelligence agents murdered Mr. Daryoush Forouhar general secretary of Iran ’s Mellat Party, and his wife in their home. All of these happened during Khatami’s presidency. The list is very long and these are just a few samples. For these and other reasons the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has condemned the Islamic regime for severe violation of human rights on 52 occasions in a three years period alone!

According to July 2004 report of International Federation for Human Rights, the Islamic republic of Iran is ranked 160th out of 166 countries in terms of freedom of _expression, and this was during Khatami’s presidency!

Dear Rev. Peterson, how can one promote justice and at the same time honor a person like Khatami, who is responsible for so many crimes against humanity? Please let us understand, how to reconcile this contradiction!

We feel Justice will be promoted if we all try to bring Khatami and his associates to justice under an independent International Court .

You promote empowerment of women, but Khatami and his associates in the Islamic regime are all anti-woman. The Islamic regime has practiced gender apartheid and many women have been stoned to death every year including during Khatami's presidency! Now you are honoring this man!

Dear Canon Peterson, you promote transparency and accountability, but the Islamic regime is one of the most corrupt on the face of the planet. According to an Economist Intelligence report in early 2002(Khatami’s presidency), a corruption scandal was exposed and Shahram Jazayeri a 29 year old business man, confessed he had given money to as many as 60 reformist deputies supporters of Khatami in the Parliament. This included $700,000 to President Khatami, the man you are honoring on September 7th 2006!

Dear Canon Peterson,

The Islamic regime and Mohammad Khatami as its president for 8 years never had “dialogue” with the Iranian people and all attempts for dialogue by the people systematically were suppressed. The regime and Khatami, one of its pillars is against Persian Civilization. During Khatami’s presidency they continued construction of Sivand dam near Passargad, that will flood the tomb of Cyrus the Great and the rest of what is left of the Persian heritage in Passargad. The Islamic regime instead of “dialogue” is advocating that Israel be wiped off the map. How can Khatami who represents, a regime of anti-civilization and anti-dialogue, credibly talk about “Dialog of Civilizations”?

Dear Rev. Peterson,

There is an ocean of blood separating the Islamic regime and 95 percent of the Iranian people. No force can bridge and reconcile this wide and inhumane gap, except the power of justice and liberty. This will happen at the time when an independent International Court is organized and Mohammad Khatami, your guest of honor, and his associates sit on the defense bench and families and relatives of the victims of the regime on the other side. I feel that time is approaching, and we would like to have you as a guest of honor in that Court, to witness the cries, tears and suffering of the men, women and children of God who have suffered and lost so much at the hands of Islamic regime and its cohorts!

Respectfully
Siavash Abghari, Ph.D., President
Esmail Khoi Foundation
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/hossein_derakhshan/2006/08/nuclear_iran_needed_for_defens.htm

Quote:
"We've come to the embarrassing point of having to argue that religious pluralism, political and economic openness, individual rights and freedom of expression are preferable to theocratic dictatorships." -SMB


Agreed, and it can be expanded to include non-theocratic dictartorship in the case of North Korea...as far as the nuclear and WMD delivery system proliferation threat in general is concerned.

If then dictatorships that threaten global peace and security are found to be unacceptable in the 21st century....or dictatorial regimes in general...the debate then is one not of whether to allow them to continue to exist as governments, but how best to toss them and the concept of tyrany itself, into the dustbin of history.

A complex problematic paradox ensues, with millions of lives at stake.

What is desirable and what is do-able is inherent in forming a correct solution.

The "Four Pillars of Inditement" as I call them....being;

1. Human rights

2. Threat to global peace and security

3. Support for Terrorism

4. Interference in other soverign nation's affairs, and destabilization of.
...must be stood up in a wholistic manner, as a case presented before the UN Security Council.
Self supporting in weight of facts, and mutually supporting in their inter-relationship with each other.

While resolution on each may be separate, resolution on the whole must be brought to bear. So that the weight of the international community's decisions will be adequately implemented in a cohesive manner "In Larger Freedom" concurrent with international law, the universal declaration of human rights, and the UN charter itself.

The time is here, and history will be the judge of those who shirk this duty to mankind.

As will it be the judge of the actions taken, both by the regimes and the family of nations.

(end of Oppie's response to a very intelligent assessment.)

Noting that these four pillars are general for all dictatorships as far as reason for their being removed from power...on any one count....not neccessarily all four together...but that is being the case....all the more reason.

Additional -if I may use the term, "sub sections" that are Iran specific in application may be useful.

Franklin Delano Rosevelts's Four Freedoms (basis for UN declaration of human rights) as suggested subsections under Human Rights being:

a. "freedom of speech"
b. "freedom from fear"
c. "freedom from want"
d. "freedom of worship"
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Governor Mitt Romney wrote:
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MITT ROMNEY
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September 5, 2006 CONTACT:
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ROMNEY DENOUNCES KHATAMI VISIT TO HARVARD
Declines to provide escort, or offer state support for trip

Governor Mitt Romney today ordered all Massachusetts state government agencies to decline support, if asked, for former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami’s September 10 visit to the Boston area, where he is scheduled to speak at Harvard University.

“State taxpayers should not be providing special treatment to an individual who supports violent jihad and the destruction of Israel,” said Romney.

Romney’s action means that Khatami will be denied an official police escort and other VIP treatment when he is in town. The federal government provides security through the U.S. State Department.

Romney criticized Harvard for honoring Khatami by inviting him to speak, calling it “a disgrace to the memory of all Americans who have lost their lives at the hands of extremists, especially on the eve of the five-year anniversary of 9/11.”

Said Romney: “The U.S. State Department listed Khatami’s Iran as the number one state sponsor of terrorism. Within his own country, Khatami oversaw the torture and murder of dissidents who spoke out for freedom and democracy. For him to lecture Americans about tolerance and violence is propaganda, pure and simple.”

Romney cited a litany of hateful actions by Khatami, including his support for violent jihadist activities:


During the period of time he was in office, from 1997 to 2005, Khatami presided over Iran’s secret nuclear program. Currently, the Iranian Government under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is snubbing the international community’s request to cease nuclear weapons production.

In the recent conflict along the Israel-Lebanon border, Khatami described the terrorist group Hezbollah as a “shining sun that illuminates and warms the hearts of all Muslims and supporters of freedom in the world.”

Khatami has endorsed Ahmadinejad’s call for the annihilation of Israel.

During Khatami’s presidency, Iran refused to hand over the Iranian intelligence officials who were responsible for the attack on the Khobar Towers that killed 19 U.S. military personnel.

In his own country, Khatami oversaw the torture and murder of Iranian students, journalists, and others who spoke out for freedom and democracy. Khatami relaxed freedom of speech laws giving democracy reformers a false sense of security only to engage in one of the largest crackdowns in the country’s history.

In Khatami’s Iran, there was no religious tolerance. According to the U.S. Office of International Religious Freedom, Iran was one of the worst offenders of religious persecutions. Minorities, such as Evangelicals, Jews, Catholics and others, have suffered.
“Khatami pretends to be a moderate, but he is not. My hope is that the United States will find and work with real voices of moderation inside Iran. But we will never make progress in the region if we deal with wolves in sheep’s clothing,” said Romney.

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Petition 37: A Plea for Justice - FREE Iran Real Cases Mock Trials Against Mullah Khatami, Khameni, Rafsanjani, Amadinejad ... As Islamic Fascists And For Crimes Against Humanity


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To: International Criminal Court (ICC), Human Rights Watch Geneva, Reporters Without Borders, U.S. President, U.S. Congress, Heads of Free World’s States, the European Parliament, and The International Law Professors, Judges, Lawyers, Prosecutors and Freedom-Loving Activists (Left, Center, and Right)

The ethics of life are the pursuit of awareness about truth for ourselves and others. The ultimate goal is total awareness by increasing public awareness about the truth .

FREE Iran Real Cases Mock Trials declares Khatami, Khameni, Rafsanjani, Amadinejad ... as Islamic Fascists leadership and Occupiers of Iran who are considered as guilty for Crimes Against Humanity according to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and established International Law. They have created Fear Society, Terror and have taken 70 million Iranians as their hostages.

Due to extensive nature of Islamic Fascists leadership crimes against humanity in Iran and outside, therefore we examine Mullah Khatami criminal case record as an example of so called more moderate Islamic Fascist leadership element and master of deception to expose tip of iceberg for our fellow freedom-loving people of the world review, and consideration.

Over the past 28 years the Islamic Fascists occupiers of Iran and regime's agents, courts, judges and vigilantes have all committed acts of: International terrorism, mass execution of political prisoners, murder, stoning, torture, assault, theft, destruction of property, arson, perjury, falsification of testimonials and material evidence, illegal surveillance, kidnapping, rape, blackmail, fraud, obstruction of justice, creating fear society, conspiracy, cover-ups and every other form of butchery and depredation.

Top Iranian scholar Dr. Assad Homayoun regarding Khatami Era :
“It is universally known that the former President has declared himself a proponent of “dialogue between civilizations”. But it is not commonly known that in a number of speeches and pronouncements he has consistently characterized Israel as “a cancer on the body of nations”, and on numerous occasions when officiating at Friday prayers in Tehran, he has led the congregation with slogans of death to the Great Satan.
As the President of the Islamic Republic, by all documented accounts, his tenure was rife with corruption, brutal suppression, illegal incarceration, torture and murder of students and other dissidents, murder of prominent members of the opposition both inside Iran and abroad, continued plunder of national wealth, rampant increase in drug use by the youth, and prostitution becoming a thriving export industry. But of course, there were some achievements as well: The secret development of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, the development of short and medium range missile systems in Iran, and the financing of international terrorist organizations.”
Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29534#29534

Freedom-loving Iranian-American Activist Ms. Saayeh Saeedi Sirjaani:: "Mohammad Khatami is my father's murderer"

Freedom-loving Iranian-American Activist Writer and Poet Mr. Amil Imani:
“More importantly, Khatami is a genocidal criminal who should be tried in a court of law, rather than being received as a high-ranking dignitary. Here is a partial indictment.”
Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8238


Freedom-loving Iranian-American Activist Mr. Pooya Dayanim president of IJPAC:
"Mohammad Khatami was the president of Iran between the years of 1997 and 2004. The State Department listed Iran as the number-one state sponsor of terrorism during those years. Among other things, during the Khatami years, Iran refused to hand over to the United States the Iranian intelligence officials who supervised the attack on the Khobar towers that killed American soldiers. Khatami continues to support Hezbollah, Hamas, and has called for the destruction of the state of Israel." Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29564#29564

Top Iranian Journalist Mr. Amir Taheri , France's leading foreign-policy journal:
” This may well provide an opportunity for the U.S. media to ask Khatami about the atrocities committed by his administration, including the assassination of dissidents, the arrest and torture of thousands of people, including trade unionists and student leaders, the closing of over 150 newspapers and magazines, the banning of hundreds of books and dozens of films, the arming of the Hezbollah in Lebanon, shipping weapons to Yasser Arafat’s terror units and Islamic Jihad, and providing the Jaish al-Mahdi in Iraq with money and arms.
Let us not forget that it was during Khatami's administration that the Islamic Republic speeded up its nuclear program to acquire the so-called “surge capacity” needed for manufacturing atomic warheads.
Khatami would also have to explain whether or not he still regards Hassan Nasrallah, leader of he Lebanese branch of Hezbollah, as “The Sun of Islam shining over the world,” as he put it in a message on July 15”.
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29564#29564

Statement from Senator Rick Santorum Expresses Outrage: "one of the chief propagandists of the Islamic Fascist regime "
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29560

Statement from Senator Brownback:
”Iran has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984, and under Khatami's watch, Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terror. In addition, President Khatami led a government responsible for numerous human rights violations. His government brutally cracked down on Iranians who called for political reforms and engaged in repeated and systematic persecution of religious minorities. He should not be allowed to become the highest ranking Iranian official to visit the United States since the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. " Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29561#29561

Statement from Senator George Allen:
" Khatami’s visa was granted three days after his application when ordinary Iranians are required to wait months for their visas to be approved and when Iranians who have been granted visas have reportedly been detained upon their arrival in the United States and forced to leave our country. " Source: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=29562#29562

Statement from Dr. Michael Ledeen is resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute :
"Khatami is very much a member of the clerical fascist regime. He was the empty vessel into which the Iranian people poured their dreams of freedom when they elected him; now he couldn’t win an election for dog catcher. He presided over brutal repression, including the grisly murders of the Forouhars in 1978 and the mass murders and arrests of student demonstrators a year later."
Statement from Ms. Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and at Touro College Law Center.
"The U.S. visa to former Iranian President Khatami - who wasn’t exactly AWOL during the buildup of Iran’s nuclear program - is not an isolated event. As the pattern of all talk and no action takes hold, this move too will undercut any demand to the international community for immediate, serious sanctions on Iran. If we aren’t prepared to isolate Iran, why should anyone else?"
Statement from Mr. Gary Metz is editor of Regime Change Iran :
" He should be arrested."
Statement from Laurent Murawiec is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute :
"Judgments regarding Iran must be based on the nature of its regime, from Khomeini to today’s Guide Khamenei and Ahmadinejad: the regime of the Islamic Revolution is apocalyptic, millenarian, eschatological. It wishes for the apocalypse that will bring forward the coming of the Mahdi, who will in turn win the great battle with Satan that will extend Allah’s writ to the entire earth. It devoutly believes that the nuclear Holocaust where Israel would perish would hugely advance the timetable of reappearance of the Twelfth Iman, the Mahdi."
Source URL for all the above from NRO Symposium:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzhmNTQ0NDQ3MmIxZDlmZWVlNmViMzE0YjkzMTNiYmM

The Rev. Canon Keith Roderick, D.D.:
”In 1984, Khatami declared that Iran was at war with the United States . During his administration Hezbollah was born and he continues to support it. The Anglican Church in Iran was decimated during his presidency. During the last year of his presidency legislation was introduced into the Iranian parliament to adopt a strict Islamic dress code, which not only reversed the progress of individual _expression, but also was designed to segregate Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians by assigning colors that they must wear, reminiscent to the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear under the Nazi regime in Germany. Iranian activists and youth recognize that the “Smiling Mullah” has an appeal to the West, but it is only a façade that veils the insidious failure to bring about authentic change during his presidency.”
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Statement from JCRC :
" His earlier behavior was not any better. As a member of the council under Ayatollah Khomeini, Khatami did nothing to prevent or protest the murder of 3,000 political prisoners in a single week in 1998. In charge of censorship for a decade in Iran, he banned over 600 books and he stated in the Iran daily Keyhan in 1980 that only clergy should serve in government."
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WE, the undersigned, as members of the civilized world, call urgently on the free world to set up a committee to investigate the involvement of the clerical regime in crimes of conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity according to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and established International Law.

We, the Undersigned, therefore demand based on over 28 years evidence:
- That world governments declare the Islamic Clerical Regime of Iran as illegitimate and unfit to govern and expel from UN and all International Institutions.
- That all high ranking regime officials be investigated and prosecuted by respected International Courts for genocide and many other crimes against humanity.
- Mullah Khatami, Khameni, Rafsanjani, Amadinejad ... as Islamic Fascists, Terrorists and International criminals. They must be arrested outside Iran on basis of the following facts:
1- Human Rights Violation, Women Rights Violation, and Stoning Women.
2- Using religion as a tool against the majority who demand for Free Society and Secular Democracy.
3- Threat to global peace and security.
4. Support for Terrorism.
5. Interference in other sovereign nation's affairs, and destabilization of...

In the name of all victims who have suffered, died and currently endure in the struggle for freedom, now is the time to rise and be most vigilant and make your voice be heard.

"Human beings are all members of one body.
They are created from the same essence.
When one member is in pain,
The others cannot rest.
If you do not care about the pain of others,
You do not deserve to be called a human being."
A Quote from Famous Persian Poet Saadi Shirazi
( 13th century Persian poet, from Shiraz the birthplace of Ms. Zahra Kazemi)

"To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men." Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 -- October 30, 1919)

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:01 am    Post subject: Press Conference on Iran; Tomorrow Reply with quote

Press Conference on Iran; Tomorrow

Media Advisory

Who: Torture victims of the Islamic Regime,
Former political prisoners and
Opposition figures to the Islamic regime

What: Press briefing on:
Visit of former President Khatami
UN Security Council crisis

Where:
National Press Club
529 14th St. NW , 13th Floor
Washington, DC 20045

When: Thursday September 7th, 2006
9:00 AM

Contact: Kamran Beigi 1-202-498-4375

Background:

The unprecedented US tour of the former president of the Islamic republic brings with it an opportunity to evaluate the past, present and the future prospects of a regime that is at odds with its own citizenry of 70 million, and is today at the center of an international conflict—stemming from its long record of human rights violations, regional militancy, deceit and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.

A group of recently escaped Iranian torture victims, former political prisoners and opposition personalities, representing varied political orientations will discuss their individual and collective view points and stories.

For further information and arrangement of interviews;

contact: + 1.202.498.4375
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