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I like Dr. Milani,

I've not had the chance to read all his books, he is honest, very objective and unbiased in his writings and assessments.

Not sure, why people attack him, his merits speak for themselves!

Sorry, double post

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I'm totally baffled by many of the comments here!

How can people describe Milani as pro IRI or a lefty?

The guy is a strong supporter of Western style democracy and very much against the clerical rule of the IRI. In fact, he has repeatedly called regimes based on fundamentalist Islam as the biggest threat facing the World presently. And he doesn't think much of the Marxist regimes either. Just listening to the first 7-8 minutes of this clip should tell you that.

His book on Shah is one the most impartial books on Shah's rule, analysing in great detail the good and the bad point's of MRP's period. It is one of the best researched too. And in that book, he is highly critical of the Mullahs brutality and their disastrous mismanagement and ruination of Iran. He argues very strongly for freedom, democracy and Human Rights in Iran and thinks IRIs days are numbered.

Milani is as pro IRI as Khamenei is a champion of Human Rights.

Vildemose Jaan: with all due respect

"Slandering people is really easy"

Then

"Both IRI apologists and neocons seem to hate this guy"

You see, this can be a slippery slop.

Mehrdad

Who is Abbas Milani

PhD from University of Hawaii (hard work!!!)

Visiting professor and not tenured (IMO: as soon as a regime change in Iran, they will hire another informant) at Stanford

Co-director of Iran "Democracy" project at Hoover Institution

Some corporations providing funding to Hoover Institusion:

Exxon-Mobil, Boeing-McDonnell (oil and defense), Koch brothers (oil industry, also funding the TEA party movement), Wal-Mart

//mediamattersaction.org/transparency/?recipientID=157

"Native informant" -- LOL

Based on his unmistakable leftish-sounding gibberish, it's obvious that Brother Payam S has been reading too much of that Arab charlatan Edward Said's drivel. May I humbly suggest that he first become acquainted with our own beloved crap writers Ali Shariati and Jalal Al-e Ahmad before venturing into the nonsense sputterings of West-residing "radical chic" Arab profs. Regards.

Slandering people is really

Slandering people is really easy. I don't think any of you have ever examined the newly declassified archival material?? have you??

Neocon this zio that iis not exactly what I call a counter-argument.   You are entitiled to your opinion but not facts.

Here is a list of his books he has authored.

//www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=abbas+milani&tag=googhydr-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=7874123605&ref=pd_sl_24bg6trqvm_b

Both IRI apologists and neocons seem to hate this guy. He must be doing something right.

What Scholar?

This guy is more of a propagandist, and at best a journalist. He is better off in a right-wing neocon think tank since those are who he works for and relies on for info. I agree with Kashk's assessment of this "native informant".

Scholar?????

Vildemose - can you explain to us what kind of SCHOLAR Milani is?  Yes he teaches at stanford....but he teaches at a Department IR paid to set-up!  and even more importantly what is his education backgropund that makes him more qualified than you and I to teach about Iran and Iranians?????   IR has been quiet successful via grants to create a network of so called college professors (all of them teach about Iran, Islam, Middle East,....) to provide US media and decesion makers with dubious directives.   Granted - in the last 2 years Milani has tried to detach himself from his past but.... 

He is a scholar. He can

He is a scholar. He can substantiate all of his assertions with evidence. Slandering him will change the version of story you've been fed to believe.

I admit

He makes a good story teller, albeit of little substance

Mehrdad

The US suspected that the

The US suspected that the Shah was planning to make a nuclear bomb so the American companies stopped helping the Shah, paraphrasing. It explains then why Jimmy wanted to get rid of the Shah.

First of all …

this guy makes references to so many tidbits of information without giving reference to his resources. Ok, some may have come from de-classified documents, however, what about the info regarding the latest nuclear activities in Iran that could have only been provided to him by Israeli/American intelligence. Point here, foreign ideas become more believable when it comes out of the mouth of a native and so called “expert” in the matter… (BTW, Jewish American Committee in the audience).

Then he goes on and on how US (at least in the 70s) was trying to convince Shah to give more freedoms as “Shah would not have survived if he had a one man rule”. Mr Millani, oil and democracy don’t mix. Please refer to the history of the other oil producing countries in the region, Ghazafi, Sadam, Saudis, …. brutal regimes AND THEY SURVIVED for decades!!! It wasn’t Shah who wanted to give more freedom to the mullahs, it was West’s strategy (as you mentioned yourself) which he had to follow. This also applied at the time to Islamification of Afghanistan and then Iran as being the possible conduits to the Persian Gulf and with a common border to the Communist Soviet Union. Here is Zbigniew Brzezinski giving a pep talk to Mojahedin (the soldiers of God).

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYvO3qAlyTg

Brzezinski : "If they have deep believe in God, their struggle will succeed. That land over there is yours, you go back to it one day because your fight will prevail and you will have your homes your mosques back again because your cause is right and God is on your side." An akhoond could not have charged these bunch of to be Talibans any better than Brzezinski.

Mr. Millani, please keep “your ideas” for US main stream media and spare the Iranians who you accurately referred to as educated people from US/Israeli “noshkhar shodeh” intelligence!

He should have said, the

He should have said, the Pakistani version of James Bond since Khan was a Pakistani who stole the nuclear plant design from Dutch company he used to work for.

Very inormative info.

Very inormative info.

James Bound Indian Version?

James Bound Indian Version?

The sound quality is poor.

The sound quality is poor.