Reuters: A senior diplomat at the Iranian embassy in Finland said on Saturday he had resigned to join the political opposition movement against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Hossein Alizadeh, who said he was number two at Iran's embassy in Helsinki, became the second Iranian diplomat in Europe to join the opposition movement this year following the disputed presidential election in 2009.
"I have resigned definitively in protest -- I am no longer an Iranian diplomat," Alizadeh said by telephone from Finland.
Alizadeh's resignation was announced on Friday by the Green Wave, founded by Paris-based Iranian exile Amir Hossein Jahanchahi.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the semi-official Fars news agency on Saturday that the issue was being investigated.
"Hossein Alizadeh's posting ended on August 20. But he had asked for an extension of his stay until his children's exams were finished," Mehmanparast said, when asked about reports of the diplomat's resignation.
Alizadeh's announcement followed the resignation in January of Mohammed Reza Heydari, an Iranian consular official in Norway, who claimed political asylum and has since joined the Green Wave opposition movement in exile.
Iran's reformist "Green" movement accuses Ahmadinejad of stealing the June 2009 election from opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and crushing political opponents.
The disputed poll was followed by months of anti-government protests, but there have been no major rallies in Iran since December when eight people were killed in clashes with security forces >>>
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by mehrdadm on Mon Sep 13, 2010 03:24 PM PDT//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100913/ap_on_re_eu/eu_finland_iranian_defects
Bijan
by cyclicforward on Sun Sep 12, 2010 08:55 PM PDTThat is fine. Let it be that way. The more of them quit, the stronger the liberal forces will become. So, let's encourage this guy and the more people will follow suite.
Another traitor (party of wind)! He saw the handwriting on the
by Bijan Douli on Sun Sep 12, 2010 08:29 PM PDTwall! He got what he wanted from IRI, and now he is trying to save his ass and assets that he stole from the iranian nation! He would do the same to the next government.
No wonder we have such a regime when this selfish traitor is called iranian of the day! he is a worm like the rest of iri. he is iranian of shameless!
A positive move
by Maryam Hojjat on Sun Sep 12, 2010 02:13 PM PDTfor Green movement regardless of being a kind of late!
(IT IS TOO LITTLE TOO........)
by Benyamin on Sun Sep 12, 2010 01:50 PM PDTSometimes timing is everything.
I never said the infamous phrase "it is too little too late" what I said was or could be anything but that. If I wanted to say it then I would have finished saying the phrase.
I hope other diplomats who are working for the IRI around the world are going to read "Iranian.com" and find out what people of different spectrum, political and social and so on are writing about IRI on here.
If there are anyone of them(diplomats) in which will resign soon, then I advise them to do it at a time that it will have the most impact both on IRI and impoverished, battered, humeliated and yet proud and heads on shoulder walk tall of Iran.
Had Mr. Alizadeh resigned when his friend did in Norway and when all those things were going on in Iran and people were being killed and arrested and tortured, had he done it then, then maybe and just maybe Taraneh Moosavi wouldn`t haven been raped or tortured or killed or others. Maybe it could have had a ripple effect and many more would have joined and create a huge wave of support and morale to the youths in Iran. and maybe the very same peron(s) raping, killing and torturing proud and brave youths of Iran would have thought twice to do so. Maybe even bigger things could have happened.
After all, they had Khameneie`s jet ready to go, maybe if people like Mr. Alizadeh would have come forward then, maybe the jet would have taken a flight to hell.
So, I say : it is too little too...... you fill in the blank
I do see it as a positive development and for whatever reason he did it. he based his decision on Green movement, then I say it is welcomed.
my 2 cents
by Masoud Kazemzadeh on Sun Sep 12, 2010 01:04 PM PDTThis is great. We should encourage those working for the regime to leave, and to expose the crimes of the regime.
I agree with Roozbeh and divaneh.
MOSAHEBEH BA BBC
by mehrdadm on Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:19 AM PDT//www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IWaw1H0mTs
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by Shazde Asdola Mirza on Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:58 AM PDTHe definitely is pro-Pahlavi :o)
He is no more. He could
by Dariush C on Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:36 AM PDTHe is no more. He could have stayed a civil servant by not getting an asylum. He could have simply gone to Iran and resigned. Then he would be one of many in opposition. They wouldn't have execute him or put him in jail for resigning. But he decided to take the pie while it was still on the table. He did what many have done before him. He is your hero, not mine.
I just want to mention one of the questions I asked in the Auschwitz blog.
In one of the pictures showed some human hair and was written that the Germans were cutting and selling The Jew's hairs to textile manufacturers.
My question was that Germany was invading country after country with uncountable amounts of wealth. Why would they sell some human hairs to make a profit? This is nothing but exaggeration and lies to gain sympathy. I don't deny that the Jews have been massacred by Nazis, but adding some fiction to the facts is just an excuse to make this a money making machine ( as they have) and a license to kill (as they have) for many years since 1945. Then pictures of the shoes and clothing and etc. What? The Germans burned the bodies, but kept the shoes and the clothes perhaps to sell them for profits too? or for souvenirs or be used against them? Do you really think Germans were that stupid and broke?
"He is just a civil servant"
by Roozbeh_Gilani on Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:29 AM PDTWhy dont you just say he was a "khas o khashk", and take it off your chest!
It must be sad being a closet islamist. Just come out and be happy. It happens all the time in SF!
Welcome to the humanity
by divaneh on Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:17 AM PDTCan we be hopeful and assume that to be the tip of the iceberg.
Ham khar ham paloon!
by PArviz on Sun Sep 12, 2010 09:59 AM PDTI wonder why it took him 21 years (the years he served the Islamic regime) to realize he was serving a brutal and murderous regime?
He didn't resign at the peak of the killings by the Islamic thugs. Maybe his time at Helsinki was up and he didn't feel like being sent back to Iran or as a "diplomat" to some African country. In Finland his children were receiving the best education and he was getting used to the Scandinavian way of life over the Islamic one. A true "khomeini sefat".
One of the reasons why the Islamic regime has lasted so long is because "small nuts and bolts like this thug" keep its oppressive machinery going for their personal gains and advantages. Anybody who serves this regime in any way or shape is helping them to stay in power longer. After all that has happened nobody can claim not to have known what was happening and just following orders.
But, all in all, whatever negative publicity about this regime is positive. This is probably the most meaningful and significant thing he has done in his entire life.
Down with the ENTIRE Islamic Republic!
He is just a civil servant in the foreign ministry …
by reader1 on Sun Sep 12, 2010 09:28 AM PDTAny civil servant reading the negative talkbacks on this forum may think twice before joining the opposition forces.
Too late but not too little
by Bavafa on Sun Sep 12, 2010 08:25 AM PDTMore self respecting, self conscience diplomat need to follow and resign their post to isolate IRI.
Mehrdad
I heard Rafsanjani has said
by Dariush C on Sun Sep 12, 2010 07:39 AM PDTI heard Rafsanjani has said that he can't take this situation any more. So I expect to see him and some others getting their asylums. First they rob the country, then they claim to be opposing Ahmadinejad and secure themselves with a residency, then they enjoy the money out somewhere while they are even called a hero. Nice plan.
Benyamin: Better late than never.
by Roozbeh_Gilani on Sun Sep 12, 2010 07:02 AM PDTBut you are 100% right in saying they should had resigned en masse when the bloods were shed on streets of Tehran by islamist thugs last year. But remember that these shows of public protest and division have huge impact on the islamist regime's altready tattered reputation and morale. Islamist regime's increasing weakness and isolation only benefits Iran and Iranians.
I just posted a comment in
by Dariush C on Sun Sep 12, 2010 08:36 AM PDTI just posted a comment in another blog called Extermination/the train to Auschwitz. My posting was deleted in less than two minutes by JJJ and co. Apparently, the truth must not be told in this regard on IC neither. Same old don't ask, don't tell. That is a shame. But what else can you expect from a Jewish run site?
TOO LITTLE TOO....
by Benyamin on Sun Sep 12, 2010 06:30 AM PDTI wonder what would have happened if these "diplomats" would have resigned in mass right when the Thugs were killing innocent youths in the streets of Tehran?
WHY NOW? AND WHY NOT THEN?
One only needs to have a sense of patriotism and human decency
by Roozbeh_Gilani on Sun Sep 12, 2010 06:13 AM PDTto appreciate the motives behind this man's actions.
Hold on to your applause, for now
by comrade on Sun Sep 12, 2010 03:41 AM PDTHow would someone make a living after giving up a job? Who is financially sponsoring the "dissident wave"?
Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
Is this really about
by Dariush C on Sun Sep 12, 2010 03:30 AM PDTIs this really about opposing Ahmadinejad or about residency through asylum? I would have believed them, if they had resigned and stayed in Iran. It is all about self interest.
خوشا به شرفت.
پیامSun Sep 12, 2010 02:23 AM PDT
خوشا به شرفت.