At the same time, within the Iranian Diaspora, some have sought to usurp leadership of Iran's indigenous pro-democracy movement. This has alarmed the leaders of the Green Movement in Iran. Mir Hossein Mousavi warned against "international surfers" seeking to wield their own axe in the furnace of the Green movement in his last communiqué that was issued before he was put under house arrest on Feb. 29.
For all of its mistakes in the Middle East, the Bush administration -- even at the height of its aggressive foreign policy -- understood that delisting the MEK from the State Department's terrorist list would be a dangerous gambit. It would trigger a huge loss of U.S. soft power in Iran, damage Iran's democratic progress and help Iranian hardliners cement a long-term dictatorship. The Iranian people won't forgive or forget such cynical moves. Bitter memories associated with U.S. policies toward the Shah and Mohammad Mossadegh, the prime minister overthrown with covert American assistance in 1953, continue to linger and poison U.S.-Iran relations to this day.
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نسرین ستوده: زندانی روز | Dec 04 | |
Saeed Malekpour: Prisoner of the day | Lawyer says death sentence suspended | Dec 03 |
Majid Tavakoli: Prisoner of the day | Iterview with mother | Dec 02 |
احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Graffiti | In Barcelona | Nov 30 |
گوهر عشقی: مادر ستار بهشتی | Nov 30 | |
Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
محمد کلالی: یکی از حمله کنندگان به سفارت ایران در برلین | Nov 29 | |
Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |
Lets check on weather.com and see which way the wind is blowing
by Bavafa on Sun Mar 27, 2011 07:35 PM PDTThen you will find about Hillary Clinton's crucial direction.
Mehrdad
What it will take
by Hamid Y. Javanbakht on Sun Mar 27, 2011 01:48 PM PDTThe MEK is well organized and well funded. Have their members resorted to violence in protest before? Yes. Does that make them all terrorists? Not necessarily. They remind me of the followers of Malcolm X. What we really need is a Martin Luther King Jr. One can either hate your enemy, or love them into guilt. Few have the courage for the latter, and the former gives at least a sense of accomplishing something. Nonviolent resistance is the only legitamite resistance, lest we become like that we claim to be against.
Mohsen Kadivar, a leading
by vildemose on Sat Mar 26, 2011 04:30 PM PDTMohsen Kadivar, a leading figure in the Green Movement, is visiting professor of religion at Duke University. Ahmad Sadri is professor of sociology and James P. Gorter chair of Islamic world studies at Lake Forest College.
Why o why these people are allowed to teach??? These people are Islamists like Shariati, their mentor. If Shariati were alive he would be on a terrorist list.