Press TV: An Iranian-American university professor and senior political analyst, Kaveh Afrasiabi, has detailed US police brutality against him while in custody in Cambridge. Speaking to Press TV in an exclusive interview on Thurday, Afrasiabi said that police denied him his constitutional rights and racially discriminated against him. "They put me alone in van and they drove in full speed and [suddenly] they came to a full stop. And then I went flying into a metal shield and my head smashed against the bar. I was taken by an ambulance to a hospital, where I was diagnosed with severe head concussion and was treated," Afrasiabi told Press TV on Thursday >>>
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funny!!
by tabriz_balasi on Sat Jul 03, 2010 02:45 PM PDTPress TV talking about constitutional rights!!! atleast enemies of the US inside the US have constitutioinal rights. in Iran, regular citizens don't have any rights!
Mr. Afrasibabi or what ever the F*** your name is.. now you have a small idea of how the governement that you support, IRI, treats regular people in IRAN. I wish you weren't that lucky and would be crippled for the rest of yor misirable life.
be an act at all times in the name of Allah.
Why don't they take his "Green?" card away and send him back?
by obama on Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:34 PM PDTSince when he believes in Green? I never understand how the US government works! How can they allow such a die hard and perhaps the agent of IRI live here? Unless, they want to extract information!
Really if he loves the regime, wy is he living here? If I were like that I would have been living in Iran with my family since 79!
I have modified my criticism of him, since for some unkown reason my comment which was the first one here, was removed! Now, I cannot even criticize this IRI stooge Mofkhor!
Islamists at work
by AMIR1973 on Sat Jul 03, 2010 12:37 PM PDTWhile West-residing IRI Groupies on Press TV and Iranian.com go about their usual business of propaganda distractions, their Islamist brethren in IRI and Pakistan go about their own usual business:
//www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/02/suicide-bombers-kill-dozens-pakistan-shrine
//www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/02/irania...
(If the stoning sentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who has already received 99 lashes and spent years in jail, is commuted due to the international campaign, you can expect Niloufar Parsi to write a blog praising the IRI's tremendous Islamic mercy).
Haji Mola
by AMIR1973 on Sat Jul 03, 2010 12:06 PM PDTYou have a case of "Jew on the Brain". It's always Israel with you, Haji. 24/7 it's Israel this and Israel that. Has Israel killed even one Iranian? Even one? Your beloved IRI has killed 20,000 Iranians, and yet you defend them.
"So what if he works for the IRI...."
by fooladi on Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:32 AM PDT"So what if he works for the IRI, millions of others do too.Should they all be treated like thugs ?"
Yes, only a thug would work for the islamic regime.
It's not coming from your boss's pocket
by Mola Nasredeen on Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:15 AM PDTIsrael is not going to pay for it. Israel only knows how to receive and deceive. Your gig is up. Next!
Sister NP and the rest of the Hezbollah servants, are you
by pastor bill rennick on Sat Jul 03, 2010 09:55 AM PDTgoing to set up a bail fund for brother K L A? Or is the fund coming from the IR government and agents directly?
BTW, did KLA build his nuclear expertise while he was taking Marxism and Anarchism course at BU in 1980?
K L A is a charlatan at best!? Just like the rest of the IR agents in US of A!
God bless USA!
afrasiabi
by Niloufar Parsi on Sat Jul 03, 2010 09:33 AM PDTprovides one of the most highly informed and authoritative analyses on the nuclear issue. this is why in 'the land of the free', he will find himself handcuffed in the back of some police van and almost killed. but judging by some of the violent comments here, he is lucky he was not caught by the aipac groupies on this site.
Peace
K. Lotfollah Afrasiabi does not provide any info on
by Everybody Loves Somebody ... on Sat Jul 03, 2010 09:21 AM PDTwhat was transpired between him and the the police officer from the moment he was pulled over until the the time he was handcuffed and put in the back seat of the police car! Did he follow the police officer's instruction? Was he belligerent toward the police officer? Did he refuse to provide his driver's license and the registration to the police officer? We have all been stopped by the police officers before for violating traffic laws but unless you have had prior criminal records or happen to be drunk or rude and obnoxious to the officer you would never ever get arrested! They issue you a ticket and you drive away.
But, the issues with rafigh Kaveh Lotfollah is beyond just an unpaid 25 year-old ticket. This blatant IRI supporter burnt all his bridges back in mid 80's when he left Massachusetts... Now he has come back and all his evil doings are coming back to hunt him...
//mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/afrasiabi0302...
"... My first exposure to Zinn was in his graduate class on Marxism and anarchism back in 1980, when he would occasionally skip classes to fly to other states where his presence for court testimony on behalf of people unjustly incarcerated was needed.
Juggling between his teaching duty and his civic responsibility, which often kept him away from home and his beloved wife, Roselyn, was not easy, but Zinn had the good fortune of having a lifelong companion who was an artist and fully shared her husband's political commitments.
They both attended my wedding and repeatedly came to court when, in 1996, I was subjected to a wrongful arrest at my home in Newton, close to Zinn's residence, by Harvard University police. After proving my innocence, I commenced a civil suit against Harvard, representing myself, which went to a jury trial in 1999, and Zinn was my first witness, followed by CBS's 60 Minutes
correspondent Mike Wallace, both expressing their outrage at Harvard's mistreatment of me. It was largely through the inspiration that Zinn gave me to never lose hope that I managed to take my case all the way to the US Supreme Court -- which, in a close vote of 5 to 4 in March 2003, denied my appeal. I never forget Zinn's reaction when I called and broke the news to him. "Don't worry Kaveh, you will always be the
man who took Harvard to US Supreme."...."
Now let's do an analysis of individuals who hate "groupies"
by Mola Nasredeen on Sat Jul 03, 2010 08:43 AM PDT1. The individual always dreamed and yearned to be a rock star but knows he is not and cannot have his own groupies to do "favors" for him, hence he hates all the groupies.
What's a "groupie"?
by AMIR1973 on Sat Jul 03, 2010 08:33 AM PDTA "groupie" is a term for certain female fans of rock-and-roll bands that do "favors" for band members. I find it a perfect analogy for referring to folks who live in the freedom of the West but like to propagandize on behalf of the most murderous regime in recent Iranian history.
Sargord, once again, you're lying
by AMIR1973 on Sat Jul 03, 2010 08:29 AM PDTErvand Abrahamian's book, "Tortured Confessions" cites a figure of over 12,000 people killed by the regime (about 80% of whom were executed or died in prison under torture, etc) between 1981 and 1985. Just under 2,000 people were executed in 1979 and 1980--Shah's supporters, Bahais, gays, prostitutes, madames, drug dealers, etc (you can read historians such as Nikki Keddie and Shaul Bakhash, Amnesty International, etc.). Estimates vary about the number of people executed by the regime from 1985-1988 (when the killings intensified again), but a rather conservative estimate is 5,000 (other estimates are 12,000 executed by the regime in 1988).
As far as the IRI's "imposed war", Khomeini called it a "blessing" when it broke out; he prolonged it till 1988 (and was so reluctant to end it that he called accepting a ceasefire "drinking the poisoned chalice"); and the IRI gave 12 year-old boys "plastic keys to heaven" and then used them as human minesweepers so it bears a good deal of moral responsibility for their deaths as well. Do you want to quit now or continuing piling lies on top of more lies?
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_executions_of_Iranian_political_prisoners
Where's your source,
by Sargord Pirouz on Sat Jul 03, 2010 08:15 AM PDTWhere's your source, Amir.
And even if it is 20,000 (which I need to see the proof), that's less than the homicide rate and the Imposed War (by a long shot).
So your statement is absurd (as usual).
What does IRI cyber groupie
by Sargord Pirouz on Sat Jul 03, 2010 08:13 AM PDTWhat does IRI cyber groupie even mean?
By "cyber groupie", does it mean the person frequents the internet? Well, all of us do that. And by IRI "cyber groupie" does it mean, we're non-subversive people that frequent the internet?
Huh, it's kind of an awkward term, but rather neutral all things considered.
Much better than being an outright anti-Iran cheerleader! Only the self-hating engage in that.
Sargord, you're lying
by AMIR1973 on Sat Jul 03, 2010 08:12 AM PDTThe IRI has killed about 20,000 Iranians since the day it came to power in 1979 (a rather conservative estimate)--the overwhelmingly majority of whom were not murderers. The Islamists started their mass killings even before they came to power when they burned the Cinema Rex in 1978 and killed 400 people in the process (it was the single bloodiest incident of the revolution). The "imposed war" was imposed jointly by Saddam and Khomeini and prolonged mostly by Khomeini.
But thanks for playing :-)
Amir, Iran's homicide rate
by Sargord Pirouz on Sat Jul 03, 2010 08:07 AM PDTAmir, Iran's homicide rate (low by US standards) is far higher than its executions, and its anti-drug border losses exceed executions as well. So, as usual, your anti-Iran cheerleading is factually incorrect.
But, of course, if you want to go back all the way to 1988, you'll have to include losses due to the Imposed War, which also makes your anti-Iran statement factually correct.
This is what happens when you're blind with hate. A sad lot, these self-hating Iranians.
You need to slow down..
by Mola Nasredeen on Sat Jul 03, 2010 08:07 AM PDTA Warning From The Office of US Surgeon General, Attention: excessive hatred and anger can lead to heart attack.
Excessive, meaning: "Exceeding what is usual, proper, necessary, or normal"
Some haldol for Haji Mola
by AMIR1973 on Sat Jul 03, 2010 07:58 AM PDTDid Gaveh's arrest hit too close to home for our resident IRI Cyber Groupie?
Blinded by hypocrisy
by AMIR1973 on Sat Jul 03, 2010 07:56 AM PDTBeing accused of "hatred" by a supporter of the number one killer of Iranians, i.e. the IRI, is a little funny, no? It's like being called a bigot by a Nazi.
That's right Mola shotor
by Onlyiran on Sat Jul 03, 2010 07:55 AM PDTFirst of all, look who's talking. The guy who "hates" anything and everything that has anything to do with Israel. At least our "hate" is rational. We "hate" a regime that has oppressed, jailed, tortured and murdered Iranians for the past 31 years (and its supporters and clown like you). What's your excuse? You claim to be an Iranian. Yet, you hate another country which is in conflict with another nation which has nothing to do with Iran. What's your excuse shotor?
....
by Mola Nasredeen on Sat Jul 03, 2010 07:50 AM PDTProzac please!
Food For Thought and ... Contradiction ...
by Darius Kadivar on Sat Jul 03, 2010 07:20 AM PDThatred of tyranny is natural and justified
by khaleh mosheh on Sat Jul 03, 2010 07:15 AM PDTAre we now supposed to love rapists and muderers? What utter horse excrement.
This fat pig did not nearly get what he deserved.
Zahedi, they are blinded by hatred
by Mola Nasredeen on Sat Jul 03, 2010 07:06 AM PDTSpewing hatred against anybody who does not think like them works as thrapy for them. Here on Iranian dotcom they get in touch with their hatred and express it. This way millions of dollars is saved for not having to treat them in Emergency rooms of mental institutes.
Shame on you merciless lot
by Sue Zahedi on Sat Jul 03, 2010 06:17 AM PDTThe comments on this incident are so prejudiced, after all, he is a humain being and was unjustly mal treated by the US police, it could have happened to anyone living in the US.
Your comments like"delam khonak shod" etc are so cruel.
So what if he works for the IRI, millions of others do too.Should they all be treated like thugs ?
Please look at yourselves, becuase of all this hate the world is in this state.
What ever happend to compassion and empathy?
But, Ari is the wisest among us
by pas-e-pardeh on Sat Jul 03, 2010 04:13 AM PDTAri said, if what this man is saying is true, it would be wrong to treat anybody like this. The rest of us lost our head and said, in effect, that it is OK to treat IRI people unjustly. Then, what is the difference between us and IRI?
Thank you Ari for making me re-think what I said.
Oil Prices!
by G. Rahmanian on Sat Jul 03, 2010 01:03 AM PDTWith oil prices so low and IRI financially bankrupt he needs to find a better way to make a living.
Poor bastard!
See the German doctor who examined Brother K L Afrasiabi's
by pastor bill rennick on Fri Jul 02, 2010 07:37 PM PDTinjuries!Two Yo-Yo's!
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v1dULEZrwM.
If he was unhappy about his Cambridge MA Jail,
by fooladi on Fri Jul 02, 2010 07:34 PM PDTHe should had requested a transfer to Kahrizak prison, closer to his beloved Qom. I'm sure US police and immigration authorites would had been happy to oblige:)
feckless whineing about racism
by bushtheliberator on Fri Jul 02, 2010 06:45 PM PDTStop the damn whineing, and pay your traffic tickets ;esp. now when all the cops have computer access in their patrol cars.I am an exra- WHITE boy. A drunk re-ended me and got herself arrested, but then so did I on a FIFTEEN year old inspection sticker ticket warrant from a tiny speed trap town> and.yes,if you've studied the US legal system,and are utterly shameless, be sure to bring a neck brace when you visit America.