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Farah Jaan You'll Make a Great Investigative Journalist ;0)

That said the two brothers seem VERY Different.

Ali Ansari the Academic comes across as a much more educated person that this fellow who is nothing but a crook.

I wouldn't be surprised if the two are enstranged in their relations.

Ali Ansary leaves a debate on Press TV after accusations by IRI Apologist and Pro Ahmadinejad's Academic Kaveh Afrasiabi ( former feature writer on Iranian.com and regular contributor to payvand.com by the way - Kaveh Afrasiabi praising Ebadi prior to her recieving the Nobel Peace Prize ) the other debator is the well known American born Mohamad Murandi ( See interview where Fareed Zakaria contradicts him )now professor of international studies in Tehran:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=YumzgjD-cXM&feature=related

Recommended Blog ( Although Video in question has been removed since):

DOCUMENTARY: Training of the Future IRI Political Elite ( ARTE TV)

FR

thanks for the post, very interesting observations.

Khatami's children

Much that is sad to see these students being arrested and detained in Iran's notorious prisons, there is a different and sinister side to this story that is not  apparent to the readers.

Ever since Khatami and his gang established their grip on power, a number of universities across Europe and the USA were selected and funded by Khatami's government to establish pro-reformist centers of Islamic/Iranian studies. These funding created a number of so called Chairs and academic posts with grants given to pro-Khatami (and now pro-Mousavi) students to do so called research and get a glamorous degree, return to Iran and provide Khatami and his gang with the much needed westernized academic clout.  In Europe, universities in countries such as UK, Italy and Germany, among a few others, were recipients of such generosity.  Universities of Oxford, Durham and St Andrews in the UK were among the proudly funded academic departments with money coming from the Islamic purse. The last one, St Andrews was particularly an interesting case as Khatami visited the place himself and after receiving an honorary doctorate opened the new library for Islamic studies which supplied by Khatami's close friend and Islamic regime's ambassador to Paris, Kharrazi (?). The result of the visist was that Ali (Massoud) Ansari (formerly a lecturer at Durham) whose brother Ahmad Ali (Massoud) Ansari (a cousin of Farah Diba) had defected from Reza Pahlavi's camp (having stolen millions of dollars) to the IRI camp, became a professor of Islamic studies there:

Ahmad Ali Massoud Ansari interview with IRIB:

also see:

//iranian.com/main/blog/tapesh-14

To cut a long story short, these two men Jalaeipour and Abdo-Tabrizi are products of such pro-Khatami funded and favored academic departments whose jobs is to spread Khatami's style of reform of which Mousavi is a by-product.

Sadly for them, Ahmadinejad proved to be smarter. 

FR

It's even funnier how some people want to insult your

common sense by reading the news their own ways. Insulting Iran??? Where did that come from??? "in-Salty" comment perhaps???

It's funny how these people want to insult Iran and still go

and live there. If you don't like Iran then why would you move there? They've very clearly told you that Iran is only for people who like Iran and that you're not welcome.