RAJAVI

Re accusations

It's understandable that Mr. Bagherzadeh has depicted his personal account of an event which was meant as an anecdote w/o necessarily having any malicious intentions. It's also understandable that these are one side of the story, since the other side's main party has been dead for decades!

What we need to realize is that both Drs. Bagherzadeh and K. Rajavi were victims of despotic rules of the Pahlavi and IRI regimes and have done their utmost to battle the ruling despots and defend the rights of their victims. Hence, neither Dr. Rajavi is on trial here for what he may or may not have done, nor Dr. Bagherzadeh for his membership of PMOI or the time and terms of his separation from the group! Indeed, even if he (or anyone else, or even the entire organisation) left PMOI and decided to join the secular democratic ipposition today (that means this very day), it would be good news for the opposition rather than grounds for character assassination!

Of course, Mr. Bagherzadeh!

Of course, Mr. Bagherzadeh. You could not care less simply because you are not at the receiving end of the cowardly character assassination, here.

Any decent reader can see the accusations you have made against Mr. Kazem Rajavi are only opportunistic attempts to promote your own cause. Being aware of the success of IR's propaganda against the Rajavis, you decided to use the death of another person to attack him.

"A personal narrative" used in the most opportunistic manner indeed!

Dear Roozbeh_Gilani & G.Rahmanian

I have no score to settle with 'Rajavi family' and I
regard it as an insult to be accused of fallowing the tribal culture of
'family' feuds or believing in guilt by association.

Also,
the story was about Kalantari and not Rajavi (the subtitle of the article
was not mine).  She died last week and I felt it was time to relate an
activity she was involved with and very few (surviving) people knew about it.
To tell the story, I had to relate the role Kazem Rajavi played in
it. 

If
the intention was to talk about Kazem Rajavi, I have had plenty of
opportunities in the past 35 years to do so.   

Finally,
it was a personal narrative, and whether a reader believes it or not, I cannot
care less.

Mr. Bagherzaadeh, my objections to this article:

 1) Not sure what purpose it actually serves, besides possibly settling some scores between you and rajavi family (please note how the known supporters of the islamist regime on this site are trying to take advantage of this aspect of your article, by reading their comments....) 

2) In terms of factuality of your story: as G.Rahmanian so correctly pointed out, Mr Rajavi is already dead (assasinated by Islamist regime's agents...), so is Mrs kalantari (died this month) and Shamlou, even spike milligan! You see, all the witnesses to your account are dead, and one of the dead himself, (Mr. rajavi) is the main culprit in your story....

Long Live Iran and the memory of all martyrs of struggle against past and present despots in our land. 

Death to Islamist regime, Death to Dictator.

اندرباب رجويها

اين قبيله رجويها هر كدومشون كه باشه جز گند زدن به همه چيز كار ديگري ندارند اينها به تاريخ ايران هم خيانت كردند اگر يادتون باشه بعد از انقلاب همه گروهها داشتند فعاليت سياسي مي كردند اينها با افراطي گري و به خشونت كشاندن فضاي سياسي رژيم رو به اونجا رسوندند كه همه گروهها را قلع و قمع كرد خدا نيامرزد رجوي را

Ms. Azad:

Looking forward to reading your article.

As for terrorism that you mentioned in your comment for me, I have this to say:

Terrorism means different things to different people. IR's agents and supporters call PMOI members, terrorists. But they do not see assassinations by regime's death squads as acts of terrorism. They also ignore the constant terrorization of tens of millions of Iranians at home.

To PMOI supporters, however, what the organization did is defined as armed resistance and not terrorism.

Again, as you have correctly pointed out with regards to Khomeini, talk is cheap. One may be a terrorist or support terrorism, but write about peace and peaceful resistance.

As farcical as it may sound, former Tudeh members and sympathizers call PMOI members or its top brass, traitors.

In this article, too, Mr. Bagherzadeh is talking about a project that was supposed to be in defense of individuals belonging to organizations which were labeled terrorist groups by the former regime.

I find it extremely hypocritical when the regime and its mercenaries criticize sanctions imposed by the free world. They somehow seem to be oblivious of regime's sanctions against millions of Iranians living in exile.

GR

For Iraj Khan

My article will be about Hossein B.'s sexism and dishonesty regarding his defense of the Women's Rights. It is not about war or sanctions, etc. If he is dishonest about women (half of the population), I prefer not to trust him. However, no one has to share my views. Please wait for the article. Thank you.

Azadeh

Ms. Azadeh,

I read this blog and I found it interesting for the following reasons:

1. It was written in Farsi

2. It seemed the writer was just Reminiscing about his past.

3. He was revealing the division among the Iranian political activists who were later suppressed and made inactive by Khomeini and his followers. 

Since you mentioned you'll be writing a piece about Mr Bagherzadeh my question to you is:

"Is Mr bagherzadeh for sanctions, assassination and war with Iran or not?"

For G. Rahmanian

In 4 or 5 ways, you have asked the question of why Hossein B. has written this story, why now, what's the point, etc.
I propose that Hossein is trying to fatten "his body of work", by writing 5 articles a month in order to whitewash his membership in the Mujahedin-e Khalgh Organization (MEK), which believed in violence since day one, that is, even during its first 2 years that Hossein pretends to have been the only times he was a member.

There are already a couple of readers who "trust" this man (I'll be publishing an article this year about his dishonesty, using his own articles), because, they say, based on "his body of work"!!! (About the human Rights, the Women's Rights and all the today's fashionable subjects).

This reminds me of Khomeini who kept writing and specially making speeches and sending them to navice Iranians via TAPES. Khomeini, at the end, had a "Fat Body of Work" people liked to hear, thus covering up his true ideology and nature.There are people who are in constant image-making mode and give more importance to quantity than quality and authenticity.

And there are readers who are not capable of theorectical thinking and find Hossein's write-ups, which are often, if not always, without any concept, easily digestable.Stay tuned for my article about Hossein B. in a couple of months.

Cheers,

Azadeh

هر دم از اين باغ بري ميرسد

Unfortunately, Mr. Kazem Rajavi is not around to tell us his side of the story. Like many opposition figures he, too, was "silenced" by regime's assassins.

It is not often that I question the authenticity of stories I read or hear. It was after watching the movie "The Big Fish," that I became even less concerned with the "truthfulness" of the facts presented in some stories. Mostly mundane and irrelevant accounts of events that hardly have any bearing on what I perceive as important. That pertains to my day to day encounters with people as well.

When it comes to issues such as the one Mr. Bagherzadeh has raised in this article and the timing of its publication, though, I strongly believe, one needs to take what are given as facts, with a fistful of salt.

I must admit I have difficulty comprehending the significance of Mr. Bagherzadeh's story at this point in the history of Iranians' struggle against the tyranny at home.

After reading Mr. Bagherzadeh's article, here are the things I would like to know:

Is this the first time Mr. Bagherzadeh has gone public with his story? If so, why did he wait for so many years? It's been 35 years since he claims he talked to Mr. Rajavi about the project.

Even if this is a genuine account of what really happened, what objective is Mr. Bagherzadeh trying to achieve by bringing it up now?

Why is it such a big deal if someone decided to use an idea which, as Mr. Bagherzadeh admits, was not very original, to begin with, and start his/her own organization?

Was Mr. Rajavi's activism in line with the ideals of the organization Mr. Bagherzadeh had in mind? Did he in fact fight for human rights in Iran?

Why should one trust Mr. Bagherzadeh's acount?

What is obvious is that Mr. Rajavi must have done something to deserve the wrath of the ruling Mullahs and their foot soldiers who decided to take his life.

Re the assassination

Yes, Dr. Kazem Rajavi was assassinated in Switzerland by the agents of IRI's intelligent ministry in early 1990s -- a part of the serial political assassinations carried out during Rafsanjani-Fallahian tenure!

Despotic regimes such as IRI and those of Pahlavis are threatened by social intellect, hence see intellectuals as their mortal enemies who try to disrupt their otherwise smooth domination of public opinion! While in democratic societies, secular and democratic political entities are active participants in the political process, despotic regimes' alternative for socio-political discourse is ellimination of political entities alltogether. That is why they first push the political parties and activists underground by illegalizing all political activities, then treat them as criminals and ultimately, try to rule the whole nation by terror!

That is the reason that our homeland has periodically been turned into a prowling field for murderers and criminals such as Reza Shah's infamous executioner, Dr. Ahmadi, Shah's Nasiri, Sabeti and Shaban Bimokh, and IRI's Fallahian, Mortazavi and Lajevardi! Yet, the sad truth is that these criminals are still lauded and seen as heroes by the supporters of these brutal regimes!

A&W, Carl's Jr., Dairy Queen, Hardee's, In-N-Out Burger,,,,,,,,,

McDonald's, Wendy's...

Chester's, Chicken Cottage, Chicken Delight, Chicken Licken, Chick-fil-A, Church's Chicken, Kenny Rogers Roasters, KFC, Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, Red Rooster...

Del Taco, Green Burrito, Red Burrito, Taco Bell, Taco Bueno, Taco Cabana, Taco del Mar, Taco Mayo, Taco Tico, Taco Time...

خدا رحمتش کنه.

متأسفم که کاظم رجوی پدر سوخته بازی در آورد و زحمت کار دیگران رو از بین برد.  دنیا روزی به حسابش می‌رسه، اگر تا حالا نرسیده.  مسعود رجوی هم نوبتش می‌رسه.

Everything is sacred

DON't say DON"T ask

A thing Y'all

ANtelectuals gave away a FREE prousperous nation to a bunch of towel head tugs.

And marg bar sha! gooyan mamlekat ra be baad dadid.

Tabreek           Maziar

What did they prove?

After 33 years, all of these so called political  activist and their partiess  (Tudehee,cherik fadaee,Mojahed and  jebhe melli,nezate azadi!!!! &so on ) proved that they are bunch of arrogant,illiterate,egoist closed minded undemocratic  peopel just like ahmadi nejad.

The result of their action is IR for 35 years

 Altough they did not deserve to be killed,they are no heros.

Assasinated after revolution

Is it true that Kazem Rajavi was assasinated in Switzerland? And if so, who killed him?

Great story Mr. Bagherzadeh

the way i remember it,one bright spot in 1357 was how groups worked together and made political prisoners' freedom number one priority. kazerm rajavi might have thought that a group headed by him wbo had a close relative in prison would be more effective .

thanks for all your efforts on behalf of political prisoners.

Nice one

Please post more of  these stories. 

Believe in a democracy that leaders and representatives are controlled by members at all times.

Knocking on heaven's door

Indeed, in the dark days of Shah's despotic rule, his Rastakhiz farce and his savage torture and murder of political prisoners (a task aptly embraced and excelled by the IRI), the secular political opposition figures and activists were rather victims in a collective sense than culprits (even those who appeared opportunistic at times, e.g. Kazem Rajavi or PMOI as a whole)!

Such problems would not have existed had there been room for a national discourse! But under brutal dictatorships such as that of the Shah and IRI, ethical lines are blurred as conventional modes of political discourse give way to unconventional! Nonetheless, it managed to send one petty dictator (Shah) to the dustbin of history, and is on its way to cast the same fate for the next (IRI)!

میراث خواری

هم مثل پاچه خواری جزو ذات ایرانی هاست که در کنارش هم دوست داریم دکّه و دکّان باز کنیم.  مبارزه با رژیم پهلوی هم خوب نون و آب برای بعضی ها داشت.  هنوز حیرون موندم که صادق قطب زاده در طول سالها زندگی و مبارزه در خارج از کشور، کار و شغلش چی بود و از کجا در میاورد که بخوره؟  کاظم رجوی هم که مشخصه حجره های متعددی زده بود و کاسبی برای خودش داشت.

آقای باقر زاده

آقای باقر زاده کانون ثقل زمینند و دیگر هیچ. خانم کلانتری نیز در خانه سالمندان در ایران درگذشته است.

روانش شادتر از ساز بازار.

گفتم: این غلغلۀ خود به ثریا فکنم

گفت: چهری تو این داعیه بگذار و برو 

خاطره جالبی‌ بود

یاد خاطره‌ای از هادی خرسندی افتادم که میگفت "ما تازه یه رادیو راه اندخته بودیم و ذوق زده رفتیم به ایرانی‌‌های مقیم کشور‌های اروپایی پیشنهاد کردیم که بیان و با ما فعالیت کنن. اونا برگشتن و گفتن ما رادیو‌های خودمونو داریم، تو بیا با ما". البته منظور شما از مقاله چیز دیگه بود. به هر حال خاطره جالبی‌ بود.

Kazem Rajavi is like

his brother Masood Rajavi was not trust worthy!  They both have proved are Khaens.