TRIAL

Can we all agree that we

Can we all agree that we are  all  responsible and we  all have contributed to this mess that is Iran. We are all to blame, full stop. We all have made mistakes. Can we agree that we are all humans and bound to make mistakes? What do we achieve by blaming one another?? Nothing. Is it going to help us to find a way out of our mess?? NO

Time to move forward.

All Oppression Creates a State of War--Simone De Beauvoir

A: it doesn't matter how or

A: it doesn't matter how or where you get your ideas, it is the attitude that matters.

@alimostofi
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Ali dear I don't have a crystal ball to see the future :)

So I must deduct the future usin the past. This is not about politics, this is about Iranian culture my dear!

M: positive thinking. Good

M: positive thinking. Good Thoughts Good Words Good Deeds.

@alimostofi
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بله همینطوره !

تا وقتی انگل داریم که تاریخ رو برامون تحریف کنه به کتاب و حقیقت و این چیزا چرا بچسبیم!

M: you need to forget the

M: you need to forget the past.

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اشکال کوچک ما ایرونیا

ما ملتی فهیم ، بزرگ ، باهوش ، با اراده ، قوی ، غیرتمند و خیلی چیزهای دهن پرکن خفن هستیم!!!

اما یک اشکال کوچک داریم ، آن هم اینکه از تمامی علوم رایج فقط تاریخ را بلد نیستیم ، که آن هم اصلا مهم نیست و تک ماده میزنیم ! و تازه به حول قوه الهی و مدد مقامات عظمی داریم میرویم که کم کم اصلا درس تاریخ و درسهای تاریخ را از بیخ گل بگیریم و کلا بی خیال شویم این صاب مرده را....

دولت مصدق سرکار آمد، مصدق چون مخالف روسيه بود، به عنوان طرفدار انگليس شناخته شد، اما چون عليه انگليس مبارزه کرد، معلوم شد آمريکايي است. مخالف اصلي مصدق در طول سه سال حزب توده بود، و این انگل. يک صبح تا شب هم آمريکا کودتا کرد. بعد از کودتا هم اولين دولتي که کودتا را برسميت شناخت، شوروي بود. توده اي ها هم به شوروي پناهنده شدند، تعدادي از آنها در شوروي بيچاره شدند، تبعيد شدند، اعدام شدند و تعدادي از آنها هم زماني که در شوروي پناهنده بودند، طرفدار اقدامات دولت شاه در اصلاحات ارضي بودند. در نتيجه ما ايرانيان هرگز فراموش نمي کنيم که بايد شعار بدهيم:

مرگ بر آمريکا، مرگ بر انگليس، مرگ بر اسرائيل.

A: I know my history. In

A: I know my history. In fact there is a lot more to all this. We can sit here forever throwing mud at each other. Come on. We know we are not going to do the same. Or is there some insinuation that we are? If there is, then please be clear. We are all Iranians. Forget politics.

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Kazemzadeh's lying machine is back at work again

As Mr Mostofi may not be familiar with the events of 50 odd years ago, I need to explain a few things. First of all the Islamic revolution of 1979, which was achieved thanks to Kazemzadeh's heros'(i.e.  Sanjabi, Bazargan, Forouhar, etc.) intimate collaboration with the Islamists, is globally regarded as one of the least bloody revolutions of the 20th century. Apart from the incident of Jaleh sqaure there were sporadic casualties on both sides of the conflict with "armed" militia fighting against the regular army in the capital and different provincial centres. Soruce of 2900 killed ? 

All other names mentioned here, apart from the unfortunate but inevitable case of Karim Pour Shirazi, went through the legal process (in the cases of Golsorkhi and Daneshian - they were offered royal pardon but was declined by the defendants) as a result of  their manifest activities to overthrow the state through armed rebellion (Roozbeh) coup d'etat (Fatemi) and kidapping the royal family with the intention to blackmail the monarch to abdicate (Golsorkhi and Daneshian). The case of the three students killed in the shooting incident by a haraased and trigger happy soldier  (16th Azar) had nothing to do with the state. The soldier was duely jailed and reprimanded.

But the lyng machine of the Jebeh Melli cronies like our good friend Mr Kazemzadeh, otherwsie the first prime minister under the Qajar -  the sequel (//iranian.com/main/blog/anglophile-3) is well oiled and ready to manufacture brand new or sometimes old falsehood.

They will be credible when...

After this Mr. Nice guy and his dynamic duo arrange a court for the war crimes committed in Iraq in the past 10 years, I will join them in their efforts to prosecute the regime in Iran.

But I don't bet on it. These guys can only get it up for regimes not in line with their arbab's policies. 

A: the key word is

A: the key word is responsibility. Perhaps humility is another good word. Both of them need to be accepted for us to move forward. As I have said over and over again "let's move on". We all make mistakes and we all love Iran. Can you say that that the Shahanshah hated Iran? Did he put anything above Iran? Some Communists say he put himself above Iran. What they mean is that he took a lot of responsiblity, maybe too much responsibilty, for day to day management of Iran. The people wanted him to be responsible and make all the petty decisions because they did not want to take ownership of their duties and responsibilities. But look at Khamenei. He puts Islam and more importantly capital punishment under Islamic law above Iranian culture. That is clearly wrong.

So to go back to the list of people who are part of this tribunal. It is important to have people who are apolitical. We cannot have controversial people.

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Efforts from any faction in the LITIGATION of the crimes

 of the Islamic Republic against the people of Iran should be supported and welcomed.  This is not a sectarian issue and must be at the forefront of all progressive groups and individuals agendas.

Ms. Ebadi, get off your dull horse of Can't Do and like a creative attorney find a way to assist these efforts through your connections and name recognition.  Your inaction is taking on an offensive scale. 

Dear Masoud

May  be the reason for these people not accepting the errors made by the Shah’s system is that those who raised against the Shah and in support of one Khomeini have never been brave enough to accept or apologize for their error of supporting one Khomeini and following him to the hell that is IRI without knowing who he was, what he was standing for or even listening to what he was saying..

Your revolution of 1979 succeeded the day Shahpour Bakhtiar became the prime minster. The man was a member of Jabhe-ye Melli and an advocate of Dr Mosaddegh so in a way people like yourself got what they wanted.

But that was not enough for them so instead of putting their support behind the man they decided to support Khomeini and betray Bakhtiar, I guess because in the end revenge was proved to be too sweet to let go.

Even today, 33 years after that disaster and when you have been proved wrong over and over again you still are refusing to accept your error.

In a way people like you make the work of guys like me more difficult and sometimes even impossible. I have always accepted that there were many errors committed by the old regime, however small in number they were still errors, but when Shahpoor Bakhiar came to power and when Shah heard the voice of your revolution that was when you needed to back off and give reform a chance.

But you and likes of Rajavi, Banisadr, Ghotb Zadeh, Yazdi (and the list goes on and on and on) decided to support one Khomeini. It was that decision which landed us into the hell that is IRI and the dire situation that we are in, even today.

You people never showed any remorse for you error let alone a grain of courage to accept your error or God forbids apologize for it.

In such situations, it is only natural that when the choice is between BAD and WORSE then people will choose the bad anytime. Hence they tend to forget the errors of the last regime and make and idol of Shah.

But unlike you I am not concerned about the person of Shah and what people think about him. What concerns me is the fact that exactly because of errors made by the opponents of Shah and their persistent lack of courage to acknowledge their errors our people are forgetting the errors of the last regime and making an idol of Shah. Which would mean that we have not learned any valuable lesson from the past 33 years hell of or our next generation could repeat those errors at the drop of a hat.

So if not for yourself for the sake of the next generations please stop being so stubborn and defensive and show some courage to acknowledge and accept some of the errors made by your own camp before starting to preach everyone else on their errors and how they need to change   

M: your argument can be

M: your argument can be addressed to any head of state right now. Of course the head of state is responsible. Just as much the CEO of any company is ultimately responsible for the trash to be taken out every night. But what makes the difference is when the people who are appointed to do their jobs do not pass the buck. And that is what happened in Iran. Now I can give a list a mile long of all the people who did not do their jobs properly and implacated their head of state for many countries. Your argument is rather sophomoric.

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A Few of the People the Shah Killed

Dear Mr. Mostofi,

Could you please let us know HOW in the world did the following political prisoners died?

Dr. Hossein Fatemi, JM’s Foreign Minister

Karimpour Shirazi, the anti-Shah pro-democracy journalist

Khosrow Golesorkhi

Keramat Daneshian

Are YOU claiming that the Shah was clueless about these executions?

How about the three students killed on 16 Azar, 1332 (Dec 7,1953), the killings of whom is the Student Day in Iran: Ahmad Ghandchi (JM), Mostapha Bozorgnia (Tudeh Party), and Mehdi Shariat-Razavi (there is a dispute about his politics, it was believed to be Tudeh, but many dispute it; he is the brother of Pouran Shariat-Razavi, the wife of Dr. Shariati’s).

Or the killings of about 2,900 unarmed protesters were killed between June 1977 and the collapse of the monarchy?

Did the Shah prosecute those who murdered the people, or the Shah had actually ordered the military to enter the place with arms and bullets?

Best,

Masoud

M: I used the word

M: I used the word controversial. Mr Falk was blaming the Shahanshah for activities that were carried out by others. Do we blame the Queen of England for what others do? But Ayatollahs openly preach death. So let us be clear. The Shahanshah never preached death. And this was the argument we presented in those forums at Primceton. But we all now know better what the US game plan really was. We knew then. But no one believed us. Lol

@alimostofi
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Dear Mr. Mostofi

If you believe in human rights (and democracy and freedom), then Professor Falk was right speaking against the Shah; and you were wrong.  The fact that later on, Khomeini proved to be much much worse than the Shah does not change the fact that the Shah was a tyrant, there was horrendous repression, and massive human rights violations.

If a person supports the Shah's gross violations of human rights, than that person dos not have the moral high ground and the authority to condemn IRI's human rights violations as human rights violations.  We have to be consistent.  To rape political priosners is WRONG whether SAVAK did it or IRI's MOI and IRGC do it.

Best,

Masoud

M: I was there in Princeton

M: I was there in Princeton when he was criticizing His Imperial Majesty. We were there defending His Imperial Majesty. Need I say more?

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Mr. Mostofi

Dear Mr. Mostofi,

Professor Richard Falk is one of the very TOP scholars of international law and international relations. His politics is democratic left. In the American intellectual context, he is associated with the Nation magazine, which is the oldest magazine of its kind in the U.S.

Professor’s Falk’s presence in this Tribunal would provide it great credibility. The supporters of the VF regime could NOT make their usual propaganda about any criticism of the vf regime as the work of neo-cons, Zionists, American imperialist, and the like. The supporters of the vf regime want to hide the truth about human rights violations in Iran. Some times the supporters of the vf regime  have succeeded with fooling the less sophisticated and have used them as useful idiots. To have someone at the caliber of Professor Falk would bring integrity to this tribunal and will undermine the LIES and propaganda of the vf regime.

I have had the honor of hearing Professor Falk talk at a few occasions. He is a man of utmost integrity. I do not always agree with him. But he is a man who has been supporting human rights in Iran for a long time. The first time I heard him (I think it was in 1978 or 1979), he was talking about the human rights violations under the Shah’s regime.

Masoud

Fantastic

This is fantastic. I fully support this. I hope that the media would cover this. I hope this would become a historical event, that it truly deserves. This is something that all human rights advocates could support.

Thanks for posting this.

Masoud

Richard Falk is

Richard Falk is controversial. Read his views on Israel:

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Falk

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This is long

This is long overdue.  And if Pendare Rouse is against it then it must have already be doing some good.

All Oppression Creates a State of War--Simone De Beauvoir

خانم عبادی حالا دیگه بهانت چیه؟

فرمودید که کار شاهزاده رضا پهلوی در بدادگاه کشیدن خامنهٔ‌ای از نظر قانونی باطل هست و فقط برای کسب محبوبیت سیاسی است. حالا دیگه مشکلت چیه؟ اینجا که دیگه دوستای خودت مثل منین دفتری (نوه‌ مصدق السلطنه و البته رفیق مجاهدین) و  یا کریم لاهیجی (یار غار خودت) پا درمیان گذاشتن. چرا نمیای جلو ازشون حمایت کنی‌؟ 

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