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PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:57 pm    Post subject: Conference on human rights in Iran and NIAC Reply with quote

Conference on human rights in Iran and NIAC

I received a message from MEHR organization ( http://mehr.org/NIAC_persian.htm ) indicating that NIAC has organized a conference on the issue of human rights in Iran in which some international humjan right organizations like amnesty international and human right watch will participate in that conference.

As much as I am disgusted by shameless activities of a group of Iranians who appointed themselves as "National Iranian-American Council" which is openly in lobbying business for murderous Islamic regime of Iran in United States, I am equally appaled by ignorance of organizations which are supposed to monitor human right abuses and report them to the world. I felt that I could not stay silent and I had to say something to these people who do not live up to their words and their reputation by standing beside lobbyists of murderous regime and then speak about human right! We all need to do our share! here is what I wrote to these people:

Dear Sir,

My name is Sohrab Ferdows and I am an Iranian living in exile since 1986. While welcoming your attention to human rights in my homeland, I would like to draw your attention to couple of points regarding upcoming conference about human rights in Iran with participation/initiation of NIAC.
NIAC which has been founded by Mr. Trita Parsi is in fact an interest group that is following policies which are heavily influenced by Islamic Republic of Iran in direction of protecting and preserving this regime against supressed people of Iran through buying support from international community and corporations.

History of this self appointed representative of Iranian-Americans and its self aapointed leader is full of lobbying attemps in direction which will lead to nothing for Iranian people other than continuation of supression by brutal and murderous regime which has its hands stained with bloods of many Iranians. Your organization and others which have worked very hard in the past to establish a good reputation as the voice of supressed and were successful in drawing attention of world to injustice and cruelty of dictators, should not allow representatives of special interest groups manipulate your good reputation for their own materialistic interests. Please beware of this matter and do not let dictators of Islamic Republic system influence your judgment and compromise your stance on human rights under a barbaric system which has employed most inhumane treatments against defenceless people.

Leaders of Islamic Republic of Iran, in almost every level, have been involved in so many crimes against Iranian people that speaking about violation of human rights by them is taken less and less seriously by Iranians every day passes. Almost every Iranian who has no affiliation with ruling system, in one way or another, has been affected by human right abuse of different degrees from the system which is ruling them in the name of their own religion. Do not let manipulative leaders of Islamic Republic make a mockery of human rights through their numerous foreign based organizations which have been created with the help of huge oil revenue in their possession. This is a very serious matter and may have serious implications on credibility of any human rights watch organization. Please feel free to contact me if you need further clarification on the issues which were raised in this letter.

Best regards,

Sohrab Ferdows
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:01 pm    Post subject: A Mockery of Human Rights by National Iranian American Counc Reply with quote

Parviz Haddadizadeh wrote:
A Mockery of Human Rights by National Iranian American Council (NIAC)
7/21/07


Zahir Janmohamed

Advocacy Director, Middle East and North Africa, Amnesty International USA

Amnesty International

600 Pennsylvania Ave. SE , 5th Floor
Washington , D.C. 20003

Tel: (202) 544-0200 Ext: 318
Fax: (202) 546-7142
E-mail: zjanmohamed@aiusa.org


Dear Mr. Janmohamed:

The news of your participation at an event in Washington , DC on July 26, 2007, arranged by NIAC, has become a source of profound distress among the freedom loving Iranian and Iranian-American community: a community supporting the legitimate aspirations of the Iranian people for a democratic and secular leadership.

What is greatly shocking is that one of the four sponsors of this event formed under the title, “Human Rights in Iran and U.S. Foreign Policy Options”, is Amnesty International. It is shocking because NIAC is an organization that has been lobbying for establishing the unconditional relations between the U.S. and the Islamic Regime of Iran (IR) since its inception, and has not shown any concern whatsoever about the human rights violations in Iran. We don’t need to go far to prove these claims about NIAC.

At a time when terrorist activities of the Islamic regime of Iran (IRI) against the Iranian people and the entire world has been documented, your participation in an event promoted by an organization that openly announces its support for unconditional relations between the US and a terrorist regime, raises serious questions. This is in complete contrast to mission and mandates of the Amnesty international.

Amnesty International is touted as a supporter of human rights and democratic values.

We urge you not to participate in the events organized by the Islamic Regime’s lobby groups that are trying to manipulate the American Political System to legitimize the Islamic Regime.

Everything that this organization does whether it is an event for youth, forming a conference, supporting the anti-war movements, dealing with Iranian/American issues or local politics, it is all directly or indirectly designed to serve one and only one purpose: Establishing relations between the United States and one of the most brutal violators of human rights, the Islamic Regime of Iran. A careful look at the NIAC website, its public statements, public events, and its nonpartisan support of the U.S. political figures who share NIAC vision in dealing with the Islamic Regime, would be enough to show you what NIAC really stands for. Not only does NIAC not deny this, but like all other lobby groups declares very proudly that it does so because of its love for Iranian people!

On the issue of human rights, we challenge you to find one statement issued by NIAC since its formation in condemning the Islamic Regime for violating the basic human rights of Iranians. Not even one single sentence has been issued by NIAC in condemnation of IR for stoning, torture, execution of political prisoners, or the treatment of women and religious minorities. If you check the NIAC website, you cannot find any reference to human rights in its mission statement, goals, programs or anywhere else. None of the many urgent actions issued by Amnesty International to stop imminent execution of political prisoners or stoning of men and women to death, has been distributed by NIAC.

Mr. Trita Parsi, the President of this group was ex-congressman Bob Ney’s advisor who is serving now a 30-month jail term for bribery and lobbying for the Islamic Regime among other things. NIAC was promoting Bob Ney for years as a friend of Iranian people!


It is so ironic that the event organized by NIAC is going to discuss the human rights situation in Iran . This event is a mockery of human rights and an insult to all those who have paid dearly in Iran for standing for their rights.

I would like to urge you to re-consider your participation in this event. It will be heart breaking for many freedom loving Iranians to see that AI is promoting an Islamic Regime lobby group under the banner of human rights.

Respectfully,

Parviz Haddadizadeh
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:36 pm    Post subject: Silencing the Voice of America? Reply with quote

Recommended By Amil Imani
Omid Biniaz wrote:

July 24, 2007
Silencing the Voice of America?Omid Biniaz
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/07/silencing_the_voice_of_america.html

The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) on their web site has announced that it has "taken legal action against proponents of US-Iran war who have waged a defamation campaign against NIAC". Of course as is usually the case with NIAC, the truth is between lines. By legal action, NIAC is referring to a letter written by their own lawyer to Voice of America-TV (VOA). This tactic, commonly known as "cease and desist letter" is typically not the first step in a legal action but an alternative to taking a legal action, aimed to intimidate. NIAC in the same statement has also bragged about having forced VOA to cancel further scheduled broadcasts. If this is indeed true, this is a shocking retreat by the Voice of America-TV that brings disgrace to the free media and discredits the United States in its strive to advance democracy and freedom of the speech in IRAN.


Unquestionably NIAC and Mr. Trita Parsi must be given adequate opportunity on the same program on VOA to challenge Mr. Daioleslam. However, NIAC and Mr. Parsi can not use bullying and intimidating tactics to silence VOA or any one else that questions their motives and operation. In fact, let's listen to Mr. Trita Parsi himself when he so fiercely lectured us about the right of Kamal Kharazi, the mullah's foreign minister to talk in UCLA without interruption by human rights activists:

"Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that cannot be denied to anyone-including a person accused of violating other people's human rights or guilty of representing a government that continues to show inadequate respect for these rights. This is a fundamental principle, as a tit-for-tat approach to Human Rights ultimately belies and undermines the very idea of these rights.....Articulated reasoning, based on sound logic, when put forth firmly and unequivocally, yet without resorting to intimidation and disruption, are likely to achieve the objectives of Human Rights much more effectively than noisy demonstrations. Indeed, threatening and disruptive behavior is essentially inconsistent with the embrace of Human Rights values and principles. Dialogue and respect for the rights of others to express their views- however unpopular, constitute the very foundation of a society that is respectful of human rights.....We need to implement and nurture a culture of mutual respect and dialogue, and, once and for all, turn our backs on intimidation, verbal aggression and intolerance. We strongly believe that, today, this is a pivotal issue in Iran as well as among Iranians living outside of Iran, and we call for a wide exchange of ideas on the topic."
I have one piece of advice for the Voice of America, Mr. Daioleslam and Mr. Trita Parsi. Let NIAC proceed to a real legal action. Iranians would welcome the opportunity to hear Mr. Parsi, under oath, explain his relation with Tehran and a potpourri of felons close to them.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:05 pm    Post subject: TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY? Reply with quote

YARI NATIONAL GROUP wrote:

TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY?

In Europe and America there are thousands of Mullah's apologist/agent and lobbyists, working openly and in secret.

Their mission? To promote and prolong Mullah's ruling in Iran at any cost. Their job is to gather information on opposition to be used by MOIS.

Recruit Iranians in exile, undermine any and all freedom and democracy movement. Infiltrate and destroy within, any opposition formed against Mullah's.

To identify opposition. If pose a danger, eliminate them. Hundreds of opposition leaders and members have fallen prey to their shameful acts.

To form sleeper cells, procure products needed by Mullah's regime banned by UN SANCTIONS Resolutions.

They are posing as Academia, Iran Experts, Iranian so-called Media, Alavi Foundation Nonprofit Organization, Independent and wealthy businessmen, corporations coming from Dubai and Canada and elsewhere.

In Reality all these people are working for Mullah's MINISTRY OF INFORMATION or MOIS.

What are these people doing in Europe and America?

Their acts in Europe and America surely, surpasses the so called "VELVET REVELOUTION" Mullah's are so concerned about.

Isn't it time to start cracking down on these individuals and organizations working as agents on Mullah's in Europe and America?

They say; TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY!

WHEN WILL WE SEE THE FAIR PALY?


STRENGHT THROUGH UNITY

YARI NATIONAL GROUP
UNITED WE STAND. DIVIDED WE FALL


From: YariLosAngeles@aol.com


http://www.radiofarda.com/Article/2007/07/25/f2_Esfandiari-Tajbakhsh-update.html


محسنی اژه ای پیش از این گفته بود که اعترافات تلویزیونی، بار حقوقی ندارند.

افزایش شمار بازداشت شدگان پرونده اسفندیاری - تاجبخش


بعد از گذشت يک هفته از پخش «اعترافات تلويزيونی» هاله اسفندياری و کيان تاجبخش، غلامحسين محسنی اژه ای، وزیر اطلاعات ایران اعلام کرد که «تعدادی از افراد مرتبط» با پرونده اين دو تن بازداشت شده اند.

هاله اسفندياری و کيان تاجبخش، دو پژوهشگر ايرانی – آمريکايی هستند که بعد از ماهها بازداشت به اتهام «جاسوسی»، در حالی که هنوز در بازداشت به سر می برند، در يک برنامه تلويزيونی با عنوان «به اسم دموکراسی» حاضر شدند و از اقداماتی برای «پيشبرد دموکراسی» در ايران سخن گفتند.

اين اظهارات از سوی رسانه ها و شخصيت های تندروی ايرانی به «تلاش آمريکا برای تغيير نظام سياسی ايران، بدون خونريزی» تعبير شد و روزنامه های رسالت و کيهان در هفته جاری گزارش دادند که تعداد متهمان اين پرونده در حال افزايش است.

روزنامه رسالت – از روزنامه های تندروی محافظه کاران – روز شنبه هفته جاری در يادداشتی نوشته بود: «حلقه های ديگر زنجيره پروژه براندازی نرم، با هوشياری نهادهای امنيتی شناسايی شده اند، اما ذکر اسامی آنها به فرصت بعدی موکول شده است.»


«حلقه های ديگر زنجيره پروژه براندازی نرم، با هوشياری نهادهای امنيتی شناسايی شده اند، اما ذکر اسامی آنها به فرصت بعدی موکول شده است.»
روزنامه رسالت

به گزارش خبرگزاری فارس، وزير اطلاعات، روز چهارشنبه و بعد از نشست کابينه، در جمع خبرنگاران، اين گزارش روزنامه های محافظه کار را تاييد کرد.

در اين گزارش، بازداشت شدگان «عوامل مرتبط با بيگانه» خوانده شده اند و به نقل از وزير اطلاعات آمده است: «تشخيص نوع اتهام و جرم اين افراد بر عهده قاضی است.»

آقای محسنی اژه ای همچنين اظهار اميدواری کرد که «اسامی اين افراد و اتهامات آنها» منتشر شوند.

وی در پاسخ به سوالی درباره مرتبط بودن بازداشت شدگان اخير اين پرونده با برخی احزاب يا گروه های سياسی داخل در ايران، بدون اينکه بازداشت چنين افرادی را تکذيب کند، گفت: «عنوان کردن اين موضوع به اين نحو که آنها با حزب يا گروه خاصی مرتبط بودند، غلط است.»

وزير اطلاعات که پيش از اين گفته بود «اعترافات» هاله اسفندياری و کيان تاجبخش، «بار حقوقی» ندارند، اين بار گفت که بر اساس قانون، «همکاری مجرمان با دستگاه قضايی می تواند موجب تخفيف در مجازات آنها شود که البته آنها هنوز محاکمه نشده اند.»

هاله اسفندياری، مدير برنامه خاورميانه مرکز مطالعاتی «وودرو ويلسون» است که در سفری برای ديدار با مادر بيمار خود به تهران رفت و بازداشت شد. کيان تاجبخش نيز مشاور مرکز مطالعاتی «جامعه باز – Open Society» در تهران بود، با اتهاماتی مشابه با خانم اسفندياری بازداشت شد.

همزمان علی شاکری، فعال صلح ساکن لس آنجلس که او نيز تابعيت دوگانه ايرانی – آمريکايی دارد در ايران در بازداشت به سر می برد. مهرنوش سلوکی، يکی ديگر از بازداشت شدگان اخير است که تابعيت دو گانه ايرانی – فرانسوی دارد.

از وضعيت پرونده اين دو تن، در سه هفته اخير هيچ خبری منتشر نشده است.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:51 am    Post subject: Ayatollahs' Lobby In Washington Offering Human Rights As A N Reply with quote


Ayatollahs' Lobby In Washington Offering Human Rights As A Negotiating Item
July 26, 2007
Global Politician
Hassan Daoleslam

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The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and its president Trita Parsi plan to organize a panel in the US House of Representatives on July 26th, 2007, titled “Human Rights in Iran and US Foreign Policy Options” [1]. According to the published agenda, representatives from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch will participate. The sponsors of the program (NIAC and Trita Parsi) are key players in the lobby enterprise of Tehran ’s ayatollahs in the United States . The Iranian regime’s violations of human rights have reached unprecedented levels. Its barbaric suppression of women, workers, students and dissidents, and the stoning of a man after 11 years of imprisonment, have been the subject of broad international condemnation. The reason Iran ’s lobby is organizing the program is twofold:

1. To present “human rights” as a negotiating item on the “engagement” table with hopes to have human rights entities argue for Tehran-friendly rapprochement, easing of sanctions and tolerance of a nuclear Iran . In a nut shell, the lobby’s message is that the more West pressures the regime, the more violent it becomes, hence, lift the pressure.

2. To uphold the Ayatollahs’ friends and inner circles in control of international reaction to Tehran ’s human rights abuses.

The Iranian regime’s lobby has continuously tried to justify the Iran’s clerical behavior and especially its record of human rights violations, by arguing that its cause are external factors and US coercive policies. If the Iranian American scholars are arrested, blame the US administration for allocating funds for Iranian activists. If Ahmadinejad has embarked on a policy of total repression inside the country and antagonism abroad, the blame is on US administration for the famous axis of evil speech and not supporting Khatami.

Ahmadinejad hold the Holocaust conference and declared that “Israel should be wiped off from the map”, Trita Parsi and his cohorts not only did not condemn this anti-Iranian and anti-humanity act, but launched a campaign directed by Siamak Namazi (Parsi’s main partner in Tehran) to blame the fault on “neocon” media which intentionally misinterpreted Ahmadinejad’s declarations [2].

The lobby’s PR tactic on human rights issue in Iran is best presented in Trita Parsi’s own declarations. In 2005, he called for linking improvement of the human rights situation in Iran to guarantee of security of the mullahs and the lifting of sanctions [3].

“While the world has focused on discussions over Tehran 's nuclear capability, human rights in Iran have suffered severe setbacks…..With the rest of the world distracted by the nuclear issue, anti-democratic forces in Iran have clamped down on the Iranian democracy movement……. For Tehran , a nuclear arsenal is only really useful as a deterrent against possible US aggression. Iran does not need a nuclear deterrent against any other Middle Eastern country. …. Only security guarantees from the US , as part of a broader political arrangement, can convince Iran to agree to lasting compromises in the nuclear area.”

The mullahs’ message in this article is clear: If the west does not guarantee their uninterrupted rule (“security”) by providing ample financial resources (elimination of sanctions) and allowing an unimpeded path to super power status through development of nuclear capabilities, the regime will continue to suppress, kill and torture the Iranian people.

Binding accountability for Iran ’s barbaric suppression of the population to nuclear issues and Iran ’s meddling in Iraq per the demands of their US lobby, does the bidding of the ruling ayatollahs. The participation of international human rights organizations in this charade would be a grave mistake.

NIAC, Trita Parsi and The Iranian Regime

Officially founded in 2002, NIAC is one of the Iranian regime’s Lobby arms in the US . In a recent article I wrote about NIAC and its effective role as a lobby node for Tehran ’s rulers [4,5].

In order to better understand the relation between NIAC and Tehran , we should refer to several figures directly involved in its creation. First and foremost, is Bob Ney, a current federal prisoner and former Ohio Congressman. Ney reportedly received bribes from lobbyists and two international arms dealers in a conspiracy to circumvent sanctions to sell US-made airplane parts to Tehran [6-8]. At the time, Trita Parsi was Ney’s assistant in Iran-related matters [9]. Then, there are two of Neys accomplices in his bribery and conspiracy relations with the arms dealers. These two are well-known Washington lobbyists Roy Coffee and Dave DiStefano. Roy Coffee in a letter to the Dallas Morning News in February 2006 [10] justifying his relationship with Ney and the arms dealers, discussed their collaboration with Trita Parsi to create an Iranian American lobby in 2002. In this letter, Coffee described the events following the meeting of his former classmate Darius Baghai (who had just returned from Iran) with Bob Ney:

“From that meeting, Darius, Dave and I began to work with Trita Parsi, another Iranian-American, to try to form a political action committee of Iranian-Americans to pursue a strategy of normalization of relations between the two countries. The 4 of us worked very hard for about 9 months to form this committee.”

One of the most important figures behind the creation of NIAC is Siamak Namazi who along with his sister and brother, control the Atieh Bahar enterprise, a major umbrella firm for several companies in Iran . Atieh’s customers include the foreign corporations who wish to do business in Iran and find no option but to bribe officials. Recent fiascos involving Atieh’s customers corrupted dealings with the Iranian regime (such as Norway ’s Statoil.[12]or the CEO of the French oil company Total SA [13] )has not changed Namazi’s prominent place inside the dominant spheres of power in Tehran . Namazi’s enterprise continues to provide networking and computer services for almost all Iranian banks, parliament, and other important institutions. Namazi’s groups monitor nearly all Iranian economic and political activities and have access to the country’s most sensitive data [14]. One of the Atieh Bahar’s affiliated companies is Azar Energy, which is in partnership with Iranian government in oil projects and is a part of the Mullah’s oil mafia [15].

In 1999, Trita Parsi who was then living in Sweden , and Siamak Namazi, living in Tehran , presented a project in which they explained how to create an Iranian lobby in Washington . This roadmap for creating NIAC and its modus operandi was presented at the invitation and arrangement of Hossein Alikhani at a conference called “Dialogue and Action Amongst the People of Iran and America” (DAPIA) that he hosted in Cypress in 1999. [16]. Hossein Alikhani is a former felon who in 1992, pled guilty to charges of violating anti-terrorist sanctions [17] and spent some time in US federal prisons. Recently Iran ’s ayatollahs promised him the deed for the US embassy complex in Tehran [18] for his pain and suffering in American prisons. The true reason for this very generous $1.0 billion dollar reward should be sought elsewhere.

The roadmap for the lobby in US is described in the paper [19] titled “Iranian-Americans: The bridge between two nations” in DAPIA. This report comprises the manifesto and roadmap of the new Iranian lobby in the US . In this paper, the authors suggest that: “an Iranian-American lobby is needed in order to create a balance between the competing Middle Eastern lobbies. Without it, Iran-bashing may become popular in Congress again.” The “competing lobby” was AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee). The pillars of the road map are: To give the appearance of a citizen’s lobby; To mimic the Jewish lobby in the US; To impede Iranian opposition activities; To infiltrate the US political system; To break the taboo of working with the Iran’s cleric rulers for the Iranian Diaspora; To improve the image of the Iran’s government abroad.

Once NIAC was created in 2002, on November 25, 2002, Roy Coffee and Distefano organized a lobbying training class for NIAC in a restaurant in Washington DC area.[20,21]. On January 29th 2003, Bob Ney organized a fundraising for NIAC [22]. This was at the same time that the two London based felons related to the Iranian government, had hired the Washington lobbyists and were bribing Bob Ney.

On December 28, 2006 the governmental newspaper Aftab in Iran published an interview with Trita Parsi [23]. In his introduction, the editor underlined the role of Parsi’s lobby on behalf of the Iranian regime. Next to Parsi’s photo, the article’s title seems interesting: “The Iranian Lobby Becomes Active”. The translation of parts of the paper follows:

“The conflict between Iran and the West on Iran ’s nuclear file has entered a critical state. The government must now utilize all the possible resources to defend the national interest. In this, we have not paid enough attention to the potentially significant influence of the Iranian American society in moderating the extremist policies of the White House. In comparison of this untouched potential to the influence of the Jewish lobby in directing the policies of Washington in supporting Israel , we see the difference between what is and what could be. The role of unofficial diplomacy (lobbying) has been correctly underlined by experts”

On September 19, 2006, the former head of the Iran Interest in Washington, Ambassador Faramarze Fathnejad thrilled about Trita Parsi and NIAC’s efforts underlined “the importance of relation with Iranian organizations in the U.S. and specially pointed to NIAC and his young leader who is a consultant to CNN and has been very successful in his efforts” [24].

To this date Trita Parsi and NIAC have tenaciously followed their declared roadmap and have worked hard to improve the image of Tehran ’s rulers and pale Tehran unfriendly actions by the West.

Trita Parsi and the violations of Human Rights in Iran

In order to understand the Iranian regime’s goal of organizing the “human rights panel” in Washington , we should first examine Trita Parsi’s past activities on the issue of human rights in Iran . In this regards, Parsi has meticulously followed his boss, Bob Ney. In his famous speech in June 2001 before the American Iranian Council (AIC), Ney criticized the US government and stressed that Iran “has a freely elected president and a parliament”. Ney promised the launching of a citizen’s lobby to educate the American lawmakers about Iran . [25]. In 2002 NIAC was founded. In the next several years, Ney relentlessly opposed every single bill criticizing the Iranian regime. He countered such bills by presenting a rival bill. Naturally Trita Parsi’s role was to provide the “citizen’s support” through sending letters and contacting the lawmakers. NIAC continuously assisted Ney’s defense of the Iranian regime [26].

Parsi’s efforts have not been limited to helping Bob Ney. For instance, in 2000, the human rights activists protesting Kamal Kharazi presence in UCLA, disturbed the Iranian foreign minister’s speech. While Trita Parsi had always refrained from condemnation of the torture, mass executions, rapes of women in prison, and stoning consistently carried out by Tehran ’s mullahs, he was outraged by this event and Kharazi’s deprivation of his rights. He wrote an article “The need for genuine human rights activists” [27].

By selectively quoting statements of the U.N. Special Representative for Human Rights in Iran , Parsi paints a rosy picture of the human rights situation in Iran .

"…significant progress has become evident in a number of areas and sums up the report with the following words: Overall, progress is certainly being made and, in the Special Representative's view, it is very likely to continue, perhaps even accelerate.”

Parsi then harshly criticizes the human rights groups that protested the speech of the Tehran’s Foreign Minister at UCLA:

“It is quite disturbing to witness groups that title themselves as Human Rights activists, openly and blatantly opposing the freedom of speech of an individual, no matter how despised he or she may be…… Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that cannot be denied to anyone-including a person accused of violating other people's human rights or guilty of representing a government that continues to show inadequate respect for these rights. It was therefore a sad spectacle to witness the noisy opposition by these so-called Human Rights groups to Kharrazi's right to free expression at UCLA.”

For Mr. Parsi, “noisy opposition” at the speech of the envoy of an oppressive regime is a “quite disturbing” violation of a “fundamental human right” which “undermines the very idea” of human rights. Nonviolent verbal protests are, for Parsi, a “sad spectacle” of “intimidation” that we should deplore and denounce, but violent, misogynous, and well-documented oppression should be addressed with “respect and dialogue”:

“We need to implement and nurture a culture of mutual respect and dialogue, and, once and for all, turn our backs on intimidation, verbal aggression and intolerance.”

NIAC’s sister organization: CASMII: denying the violation of human rights in Iran

In December 2005, Abbas Edalat, a London based computer engineer, along with several pro-regime activists, founded the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) [28].

On January 6, 2006, Jon Tirman from MIT, one of Parsi’s guests for the July 26th event, hosted a meeting for Edalat to launch CASMII in the US . This new organization was primarily consisted of Mr. Parsi’s circle. Six members of CASMII’s board and advisory (the majority at the time) belong to NIAC and Mr. Parsi’s former organization, Iranians for International Cooperation (IIC). These were M. Ala, S. Mostarshed, A. Patico, M. Navab, J. Fakharzadeh, and D. Pourkessali [29]. Alex Patico, the US coordinator of CASMII, is also listed as one of the NIAC’s founders and its treasurer [30]. Indeed, CASMII is NIAC’s offspring (2 links) [31,32].

Parallel to Mr. Parsi, his cohorts have engaged in silencing the regime’s critics. Two short examples are adequate evidence. One example is included below. In May 2006, one of the anti-war movement’s groups released a petition called “ Iran : Neither U.S. aggression, nor theocratic repression” [33]. In this petition, there was a mild reference to the Iranian regime’s record of human rights violations. CASMII released a statement titled “Opposing Theocratic Repression in Iran or Playing into Hands of US Warmongers?” in which Mr. Parsi’s cohorts strongly condemned the petitioners’ stance against the Iranian regime:

“It is regrettable that your petition caves into US propaganda by devoting more space in its text to condemnation of the Iranian regime, which is to a large extent based on fallacies, inaccuracies and exaggerations, than to opposing the US warmongers. As citizens or residents of western countries, our essential duty is to oppose the aggressive and imperial policies of our own elected governments which we face and can impact rather than present a misleading and condescending picture of the internal situation in Iran and promote our version of "democracy" for a country with a different culture than ours. Rather than joining the bias Western media and condemning Iran for human rights violations… The war crimes and the gross violations of human rights committed by the coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan , the human rights issues in Israel , and the Arab client states of the United Sates, as well as the violations of the U.S. Constitution, international renditions, Guantanamo Bay , and torture, will remain our main area of public focus.”

CASMII’s chief in the U.S. is Rostam Pourzal who like Edalat and Parsi is a strong advocate of Tehran ’s rulers. For instance, in the June 2006, a women rally in Tehran was brutally crashed by the police. The police brutalities were widely reported by international media and human rights organizations. Pourzal came to the regime’s rescues and in under the title “What Really Happened in Tehran ” wrote [35]:

“Contrary to dispatches by news services, I learned from an eyewitness whom I infinitely trust that he saw no beating or gassing of the demonstrators. Now I quote from his email directly: I witnessed a few women protesters being asked by some female police officers to walk away. In response the protestors [sic] started screaming hysterically at the officers and accused them of beating them, an accusation which looked unsound. "Why are you beating us?", shouted a woman protestor at a female police officer, who was visibly shaken and became speechless at such an accusation. Small crowds of bystanders would also converge on these places to see what is going on, as it is typical in the Iranian culture. I did not see any expression of sympathy by these bystanders and onlookers for the cause of the protestors. If, for example, equal rights for women are actually not as popular in Iran as we wish, we would be better off facing the facts and asking what we are doing wrong, instead of inventing excuses or blaming the messenger. I was stunned during a recent visit to Iran to find that President Ahmadinejad is quite popular among women from all walks of life.”

Mr. Parsi’s cohorts in CASMII are so concerned about protecting the image of Tehran ’s mullahs on the human rights issues that even Shirin Ebadi the Nobel laureate is not safe from their attacks. After her call to the international community to raise the human rights issue in their negation with the Iranian regime, Rostam Pourzal, smeared her in his article titled: “Dancing to Western Music”.

NIAC and its sister organizations have rarely raised the issue of human rights in Iran . Nonetheless, like clockwork, those rare occasions parrot several predictable claims, namely that the human rights situation in Iran is improving; that the main reason for human rights violations is pressure from the West or resistance from the victims and the oppressed. Invariably, the recommendations are to increase kindness toward the ayatollahs, to offer more carrots, and to develop pundits of a more Tehran-friendly breed.


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REFERENCES

1.http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=830

2. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/11/news/iran.php

3. Parsi, T., “Reconnecting Iran with Democracy” Financial Times, January 2, 2005.

4. Daioleslam, H., Available from: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27787

5. Daioleslam, H., Available from: http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/04/25/trita-parsi-bob-ney-and-iran%e2%80%99s-oil-mafia-penetrating-the-us-political-system/#respond

6. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10857676/site/newsweek/

7. http://tpmmuckraker.com/ney.php

8. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bob_Ney

9. http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2002/May/Group/

10. http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/archives/013069.html

11. http://www.atiehbahar.com/

12. Intl. Herald Tribune – Europe, “Statoil chairman resigns from anti-corruption group board after Iran bribery case," October 20, 2006.

13. PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD, A. Total CEO held for questioning over company's Iran activities. (March 21st, 2007) available from: http://www.adpdigital.net/

14. http://www.azar-energy.com/

15. http://www.worlddialogue.org/meet4.htm

16. http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cases/63-05.html

17. http://www.asianews.ir/main1.asp?a_id=27078

18. available from: http://www.asianews.ir/main1.asp?a_id=27078

19. http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=2

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

21. http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=29

22. http://www.aftabnews.ir/vdccpoq2biqpp.html

23. http://www.topiranian.com/ngo/archives/009103.html

24. http://www.american-iranian.org/pubs/articles/Bob Ney speech.pdf

25. http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=2

26. http://www.iranian.com/News/2000/September/rights.html

27. http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/

28. http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/70

29. http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/speakers/210.html

30. http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=647&Itemid=2

31. http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=683&Itemid=2

32. Znet, may 18.2006, available from: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10289

33. CASMII, June 11, 2006 available from: [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10407]

34. MRZine 6.18.06: available from: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/pourzal180606.html

35. The Iranians, May 4, 2006 by] [http://www.iranian.com/Pourzal/2006/May/Ebadi/index.html

Hassan Daoleslam is an independent Iran Analyst and writer. He is well published in Farsi and has appeared as an expert guest in the Voice of America-TV as well as other Persian media.



به میز گرد مضحکه ای که بنام حقوق بشر در ایران ترتیب داده شده و توسط سازمان های عفو بین الملل و دیدبان حقوق بشر ارتقا داده میشود اعتراض کنید.



لطفا نقطه نظرات ارائه شده در اتصالات زیر را در مورد شرکت سازمانهای عفو بین الملل و دیدبان حقوق بشر در میز گردی که یکی از لابی گران رژیم اسلامی. نیاک، تدارک دیده است بخوانید:



برای امضاء لينک زير را امضاء کنيد

http://mehr.org/NIAC_AI_HRW.htm









Mission for Establishment of Human Rights in Iran

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Say NO to A Mockery of Human Rights by NIAC

26 July 2007, Washington , D.C.

Dear friend,



Please read the views expressed in the following link about the participation of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in a round table discussion formed by a group that lobby for the unconditional relations between the US and the Islamic Regime:



http://mehr.org/NIAC_persian.mht



If you agree with these views, please sign a petition at:



http://mehr.org/NIAC_AI_HRW.htm



The following letters will be sent to AI and HRW on your behalf:



http://mehr.org/Public_Letter_Amnesty.mht

http://mehr.org/Public_Letter_HRW.mht

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به میز گرد مضحکه ای که بنام حقوق بشر در ایران ترتیب داده شده و توسط سازمان های عفو بین الملل و دیدبان حقوق بشر ارتقا داده میشود اعتراض کنید.



لطفا نقطه نظرات ارائه شده در اتصالات زیر را در مورد شرکت سازمانهای عفو بین الملل و دیدبان حقوق بشر در میز گردی که یکی از لابی گران رژیم اسلامی. نیاک، تدارک دیده است بخوانید:



http://mehr.org/NIAC_persian.mht



اگر با این نظرات موافق بودید، لطفا پتیشنی را که در این مورد تهیه شده دراتصال زیر امضا کنید



http://mehr.org/NIAC_AI_HRW.htm



بعد از امضای پتیشن، نامه های زیر از جانب شما به این دو سازمان فرستاده خواهد شد.



http://mehr.org/Public_Letter_Amnesty.mht

http://mehr.org/Public_Letter_HRW.mht





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July 25, 2007: Trita Parsi and NIAC are trying to silence independent writer Hassan Daioleslam, who worked in Iran until 2001 with Liberation Movement leader Mehdi Barzagan, by sending threatening letters to Voice of America and slanderously accusing him of being "a Marxist Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO) supporter.”

In a statement received today and available at the FDI website, Dailoleslam rejects the charges and details his work raising money for jailed political prisoners and his affiliations with Barzagan’s group.

Today’s posts also include updated information on Parsi and NIAC’s event tomorrow in Washington, DC, with new phone numbers to call to protest a Parsi’s involvement in anything involving human rights in Iran.

The full posts, available with links at www.iran.org, follow:

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July 25, 2007: Policy alert: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and sponsors in Congress will host a panel this Thursday, July 26, that will be chaired by Trita Parsi, a Swedish-Iranian also known as the "mullah's voice" in Washington.

The informal hearing will take place from 12:00-2:30 PM in room B369 of the Rayburn House Office Building tomorrow. In a Frontpage magazine column this week, FDI President Kenneth R. Timmerman explains that Parsi and his group have consistently opposed U.S. Assistance to pro-democracy groups in Iran , and have advocated in favor of expanded U.S.relations with the Iranian regime, making his presence at such a panel a travesty.

This is still time to prevent this from happening. FDI calls on supporters to call Alex Arriega at Amnesty International, the nominal sponsor of the event. She can be reached at 202-544-0200. Alternately, phone Amnesty' Middle East Advocacy director, Mr. Zahir John Mohammad, at 202-675-8755.

Please also call Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D, MD), who booked the room for this outrageous event. His office: 202-225-5341.

There are plenty of authentic victims of Iranian human rights abuses available in Washington , DC for such a hearing, as well as authentic spokespersons for those victims. Trita Parsi is not one of them.

July 25, 2007: Trita Parsi and NIAC are trying to silence independent writer and freedom activist Hassan Daioleslam, who worked in Iran until 2001 with Liberation Movement leader Mehdi Barzagan, by sending threatening letters to Voice of America. As noted yesterday by Omid Biniaz at the American Thinker, Parsi and NIAC were attempting to use "bullying and intimidating tactics" against VOA by fake threats of legal action. Ms.Biniaz welcomed legal action by NIAC, since "Iranians would welcome the opportunity to hear Mr. Parsi, under oath, explain his relation with Tehran and a potpourri of felons close to them."

In a press release in April, NIAC openly slandered Mr. Dailoleslam by calling him "a Marxist Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO) supporter," because an MEK-affiliated website had picked up one of his articles exposing NIAC's ties to the Iran oil mafia. In fact, in a statement released today, Mr. Dailoleslam said that while many Persian-language websites picked up his article, "This by no means suggests I am affiliated to any of them." He accused NIAC of launching a "disinformation campaign to create a smoke screen hiding its disguised relations with mullahs," and stated categorically, "I have never been in MEK or worked with MEK."

It is also worthwhile noting most public references in English to the Mujahedin-e Khalq use the abbreviation MEK, but that the Iranian regime in its publications almost always refers to the group as MKO.

Mr Dailoleslam revealed in his statement that in addition to working with Barzagan in Iran , he was in charge of collecting donations in Europe along with two other members of Barzagan's Freedom Movement, an opponent of the MEK.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shahriar wrote:

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باعث تعجب است که در مورد مصاحبه خانم "شیرین عبادی " که با صدای امریکا انجام گرفت در هیچ کدام از رسانه های صوتی و تصویری و نوشتاری عکس العملی دیده نشد ! گاهی اقداماتی میشود و زیر گوشی از آن گذشت میکنیم .

خانم شیرین عبادی دقیقأ مطالبی را که در دستور کار" تریتا پارسی " بود را مطرح کردند .

در حقیقت این هم خودش نوع دیگری از لابیگری و شگرد جدیدی بود که پس از لابیگران رکاب زن " دوچرخه سواران " حامل صلح بکار گرفته شده است . با اطلاعاتی که من شنیده ام در کنگره امریکا آقای تریتا پارسی در مورد حقوق بشر سخنپراکنی فرموده که بصورت تهدید برای امریکا بیش نبوده . برنامه پیش نوشته این ناپارسی به اینصورت بوده که چنانچه از طرف امریکا و اروپا تحریمی و یا حمله نظامی انجام گیرد جمهوری اسلامی حقوق بشر را زیر پا میگذارد و مردم را سرکوب و زندانی میکند !!!

جای تأسف است اگر اعضای کنگره امریکا اینقدر نا آگاه باشند که این چرندیات این مزدور نا پارسی را خریداری کنند . به همین عنوان دیشب شاهد گفتار بازپخش شیرین نوبل بودم که دقیقأ همین را مطرح کرد و فرمودند اگر هر تحریمی و یا اقدام نظامی علیه ایران انجام گیرد ملت بهای آنرا خواهند پرداخت و رژیم تهران فشار دستگیری و شکنجه و اعدام را برملت خواهد آورد .

باید به این لابیگران بی خرد و مزدور گفت دستگیری و شکنجه و اعدام تا کنون در ایران نبوده است ؟ که حالا با اینگونه

چانه زنی ها و شگردهای جدید بی محتوا دنیا را میخواهید احمق به حساب آورید ؟ من نمیدانم چرا شیرین نوبل هرگاه تیرهای جمهوری جهل و جنایت اسلامی به سنگ میخورد بناگاه به صحنه تشریف می آورند ؟ و حرفهای کودکانه که تنها برای رضایت خاطر قشری بنام "حزب دمکرات"امریکا که برای سرنگونی رژیم تهران نگران هستند و سعی و کوشش میکنند کرده های " جیمی کارتر" برباد نرود مجبور به قبول این چرندیات هستند نه دیگران .

گاهی با خودم فکر میکنم این افکار پلید و دروغ هائیکه این افراد برای نگهداری رژیم ننگین اسلامی استفاده میکنند آیا با درایت است و واقعأ فکر میکنند دیگران از چهارپایان اند ؟ یا نه باورمندی آنها این است که هیچ کسی چیزی نمیداند بجز دست اندرکاران جمهوری اسلامی ؟ زمانیکه دوچرخه سواران را برای پیام صلح از ایران در مدت 2 یا 3هفته به بنیاد ایمان شعبه لس انجلس رهسپار میکنند و از لس انجلس هم 3 یا 4 روزه به کاخ سفید و بلندگوچی های شاگرد پادو رژیم برایشان تبلیغات کافی و تقاضای کمک مالی میکنند . آیا این دوچرخه ها ساخت ایران بود که دور دنیا را کمتر 2 ماه توانست پشت سر گذارد ؟ و یا اینکه دعای رهبر و مالک چاه جمکران همراهشان بود ؟ تصور نمیکنم دوچرخه معمولی بتواند با این سرعت جهان پیمائی کند !!!

بهرتقدیر اگر هر یک از شما هم میهنان نازنینم اطلاعاتی در مورد نشت دیروز تریتا ناپارسی و شیرین نوبل در جائی دیده اید به من را آگاه سازید بینهایت سپاسگزارخواهم شد

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Subject: Trita Parsi (Arab Traitor-Lobbyist-Apologis), are you defending this?
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:27:30 -0700

Shame on You!

On December 28, 2006 the governmental newspaper Aftab in Iran published an interview with Trita Parsi [23]. In his introduction, the editor underlined the role of Parsi’s lobby on behalf of the Iranian regime. Next to Parsi’s photo, the article’s title seems interesting: “The Iranian Lobby Becomes Active”. The translation of parts of the paper follows:

“The conflict between Iran and the West on Iran ’s nuclear file has entered a critical state. The government must now utilize all the possible resources to defend the national interest. In this, we have not paid enough attention to the potentially significant influence of the Iranian American society in moderating the extremist policies of the White House. In comparison of this untouched potential to the influence of the Jewish lobby in directing the policies of Washington in supporting Israel , we see the difference between what is and what could be. The role of unofficial diplomacy (lobbying) has been correctly underlined by experts”

On September 19, 2006, the former head of the Iran Interest in Washington, Ambassador Faramarze Fathnejad thrilled about Trita Parsi and NIAC’s efforts underlined “the importance of relation with Iranian organizations in the U.S. and specially pointed to NIAC and his young leader who is a consultant to CNN and has been very successful in his efforts” [24].

To this date Trita Parsi and NIAC have tenaciously followed their declared roadmap and have worked hard to improve the image of Tehran ’s rulers and pale Tehran unfriendly actions by the West.

in 2000, the human rights activists protesting Kamal Kharazi presence in UCLA, disturbed the Iranian foreign minister’s speech. While Trita Parsi had always refrained from condemnation of the torture, mass executions, rapes of women in prison, and stoning consistently carried out by Tehran ’s mullahs, he was outraged by this event and Kharazi’s deprivation of his rights. He wrote an article “The need for genuine human rights activists” [27].

By selectively quoting statements of the U.N. Special Representative for Human Rights in Iran , Parsi paints a rosy picture of the human rights situation in Iran .
"…significant progress has become evident in a number of areas and sums up the report with the following words: Overall, progress is certainly being made and, in the Special Representative's view, it is very likely to continue, perhaps even accelerate.”

Parsi then harshly criticizes the human rights groups that protested the speech of the Tehran’s Foreign Minister at UCLA:
“It is quite disturbing to witness groups that title themselves as Human Rights activists, openly and blatantly opposing the freedom of speech of an individual, no matter how despised he or she may be…… Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that cannot be denied to anyone-including a person accused of violating other people's human rights or guilty of representing a government that continues to show inadequate respect for these rights. It was therefore a sad spectacle to witness the noisy opposition by these so-called Human Rights groups to Kharrazi's right to free expression at UCLA.”

For Mr. Parsi, “noisy opposition” at the speech of the envoy of an oppressive regime is a “quite disturbing” violation of a “fundamental human right” which “undermines the very idea” of human rights. Nonviolent verbal protests are, for Parsi, a “sad spectacle” of “intimidation” that we should deplore and denounce, but violent, misogynous, and well-documented oppression should be addressed with “respect and dialogue”:

“We need to implement and nurture a culture of mutual respect and dialogue, and, once and for all, turn our backs on intimidation, verbal aggression and intolerance.”

NIAC’s sister organization: CASMII: denying the violation of human rights in Iran

In December 2005, Abbas Edalat, a London based computer engineer, along with several pro-regime activists, founded the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) [28].

On January 6, 2006, Jon Tirman from MIT, one of Parsi’s guests for the July 26th event, hosted a meeting for Edalat to launch CASMII in the US . This new organization was primarily consisted of Mr. Parsi’s circle. Six members of CASMII’s board and advisory (the majority at the time) belong to NIAC and Mr. Parsi’s former organization, Iranians for International Cooperation (IIC). These were M. Ala, S. Mostarshed, A. Patico, M. Navab, J. Fakharzadeh, and D. Pourkessali [29]. Alex Patico, the US coordinator of CASMII, is also listed as one of the NIAC’s founders and its treasurer [30]. Indeed, CASMII is NIAC’s offspring (2 links) [31,32].

Parallel to Mr. Parsi, his cohorts have engaged in silencing the regime’s critics. Two short examples are adequate evidence. One example is included below. In May 2006, one of the anti-war movement’s groups released a petition called “ Iran : Neither U.S. aggression, nor theocratic repression” [33]. In this petition, there was a mild reference to the Iranian regime’s record of human rights violations. CASMII released a statement titled “Opposing Theocratic Repression in Iran or Playing into Hands of US Warmongers?” in which Mr. Parsi’s cohorts strongly condemned the petitioners’ stance against the Iranian regime:

“It is regrettable that your petition caves into US propaganda by devoting more space in its text to condemnation of the Iranian regime, which is to a large extent based on fallacies, inaccuracies and exaggerations, than to opposing the US warmongers. As citizens or residents of western countries, our essential duty is to oppose the aggressive and imperial policies of our own elected governments which we face and can impact rather than present a misleading and condescending picture of the internal situation in Iran and promote our version of "democracy" for a country with a different culture than ours. Rather than joining the bias Western media and condemning Iran for human rights violations… The war crimes and the gross violations of human rights committed by the coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan , the human rights issues in Israel , and the Arab client states of the United Sates, as well as the violations of the U.S. Constitution, international renditions, Guantanamo Bay , and torture, will remain our main area of public focus.”

CASMII’s chief in the U.S. is Rostam Pourzal who like Edalat and Parsi is a strong advocate of Tehran ’s rulers. For instance, in the June 2006, a women rally in Tehran was brutally crashed by the police. The police brutalities were widely reported by international media and human rights organizations. Pourzal came to the regime’s rescues and in under the title “What Really Happened in Tehran ” wrote [35]:

“Contrary to dispatches by news services, I learned from an eyewitness whom I infinitely trust that he saw no beating or gassing of the demonstrators. Now I quote from his email directly: I witnessed a few women protesters being asked by some female police officers to walk away. In response the protestors [sic] started screaming hysterically at the officers and accused them of beating them, an accusation which looked unsound. "Why are you beating us?", shouted a woman protestor at a female police officer, who was visibly shaken and became speechless at such an accusation. Small crowds of bystanders would also converge on these places to see what is going on, as it is typical in the Iranian culture. I did not see any expression of sympathy by these bystanders and onlookers for the cause of the protestors. If, for example, equal rights for women are actually not as popular in Iran as we wish, we would be better off facing the facts and asking what we are doing wrong, instead of inventing excuses or blaming the messenger. I was stunned during a recent visit to Iran to find that President Ahmadinejad is quite popular among women from all walks of life.”

Mr. Parsi’s cohorts in CASMII are so concerned about protecting the image of Tehran ’s mullahs on the human rights issues that even Shirin Ebadi the Nobel laureate is not safe from their attacks. After her call to the international community to raise the human rights issue in their negation with the Iranian regime, Rostam Pourzal, smeared her in his article titled: “Dancing to Western Music”.

NIAC and its sister organizations have rarely raised the issue of human rights in Iran . Nonetheless, like clockwork, those rare occasions parrot several predictable claims, namely that the human rights situation in Iran is improving; that the main reason for human rights violations is pressure from the West or resistance from the victims and the oppressed. Invariably, the recommendations are to increase kindness toward the ayatollahs, to offer more carrots, and to develop pundits of a more Tehran-friendly breed.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:59 pm    Post subject: YARI NATIONAL GROUP Reply with quote

YARI NATIONAL GROUP wrote:

ANOTHER NOKAR MULLAH
AT YOUR SERVICE

For those who have been fighting the Mullah's regime for a long time, Professor Beeman's name is a familiar name.

Many of our compatriots have crossed swords with this guy over his one sided views in favor of his Mullah Masters at no avail.

He was the official "Guest" of the Islamic government and has enjoyed the Mullah's generosity and hospitality to the maximum extent.

The Mullah's teach the A, B, C's of Mullah Republic to all new comers. Specially, the famous 3 C's concept in devotion to Mullah's!

The famous 3 C's offered to all would be Nokar Mullah's; "Carpet", "Caviar" and finally the most important of the C's is the "Cash".

Never believe a word this man will say. We all know which side his toast is buttered and by whom!

It is amazing! All these Nokar Mullah's see the crimes Mullah's commit against our innocent people. Yet, they NEVER mention them and still pursue supporting their Mullah Masters.

Guess the power of money over-shadows their conscience. That is, if they had any to begin with!

STRENGHT THROUGH UNITY

YARI NATIONAL GROUP
UNITED WE STAND. DIVIDED WE FALL



From: William O. Beeman [mailto:wbeeman@...]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 7:14 AM
To: campus-watch@...
Subject: Mischaracterization of my article


Dear Campus Watch,

Cinnamon Stillwell badly mischaracterizes my article published through New America Media ("University of Minnesota's William Beeman Praises Iranian Regime, Ignores Detainees"
July 26, 2007).

I do not "praise Iran" in the article, which Ms. Stillwell has not read carefully. The article explains Iranian communication dynamics, and offers advice for those who would enter into negotiations with Iranians. I explain that elaborate courtesy for both parties is a normal feature of Iranian public communication, and does not imply any actual approval or positive evaluation of the other party--as Ms. Stillwell would have her readers believe. This and other structures of Iranian communication is analyzed in my Language, Status and Power in Iran.

Dealing with the detainees was an issue that was irrelevant to the article, but for the record, I have condemned the holding of Iranian-American detainees Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh in public forums, in print and directly to the Iranians themselves on their own broadcast media. In fact, I am to my knowledge the only person anywhere who has condemned these detentions on Iranian television or radio.

Best regards,

William O. Beeman
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