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Let us assume for a moment that the report in the email received by Pourzal is correct, and that the demonstrators were not hit by batons but by flowers. Shouldn’t one consider any effort by the state to stop a peaceful demonstration by women in a park an act of aggression? Isn’t this unnecessary violence?
Or let us pretend that nothing happened in Tehran on 12 June. What does Pourzal have to say about the attacks on protesters in Ahvaz (April 2006) , in Piranshahr, and in Tabriz (June 2006) , or the many attacks by security forces on workers in Tehran, university students in Tehran, Shiraz and Hamedan over the last few weeks?
Weren’t those attacks orchestrated by the same government and the same president Ahmadinejad? Has Pourzal received any anonymous reports about those incidents? Given the length of the article he contributed about the 12 June events, shouldn’t he have used the opportunity to dismiss all those incidents too!?
Clearly Pourzal is concerned that the US might use claims about the regime’s anti-democratic and suppressive policies as an excuse to attack Iran. We share this anxiety, however one cannot overcome this anxiety by denying the realities of the regime’s brutal repression of its own citizens. Can one stop imperialist aggression in Iran by denying or underestimating the extent of dictatorship and repression in Iran?
It is regrettable that your web site has recently become so apologetic about Iran’s Islamic regime. Many of us consider this to be in total contrast to the radical traditions of Harry Magdoff , Paul Sweezy , Ellen Woods... who considered anti-imperialist struggle as inseparable from anti-capitalist struggles and the battle for democracy. Your site’s support for -- indeed, at times, adoration of -- one of the most brutal, militarist factions of the Islamic Republic regime in Iran, and your inaccurate reporting of the economic stance of the Iranian president, whose main allies include German neo-Nazis (an inevitable consequence of his Holocaust denial statements) is an insult to the Iranian working class and its supporters worldwide.
We, Iranian feminist socialist activists are alarmed that your political stance is damaging the reputation of your journal amongst left wing activists inside and outside Iran. Lifelong translators of left wing books and articles inside Iran have either been killed by this regime and its death squads, e.g. Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad Pouyande, or they are in prison for defending families of these dead left-wing writers, e.g. Nasser Zarafshan -- who happens to be a regular translator of your journal’s articles to farsi. And yet you show no hesitation in defending their executioners and jailers such as Ahmadinejad.
We enclose for your attention links to a number of eyewitness statements about the events of 12 June 2006, as well as some of the recent statements by Iranian workers regarding this regime’s continuation of the neo liberal economic policies of the last decade . We can assure you that left-wing activists inside Iran will not rest until they have exposed the sham reactionary anti-western slogans of this president, dished out by your web site as anti-imperialism.
After all, many of us remember the consequences of earlier shallow anti-American sloganising, culminating in disasters such as ‘Irangate’ -- when the ‘anti Imperialist’ Ayatollah Khomeini ended up supporting Nicaraguan Contras through payment for Israeli arms, via none other than Oliver North!! Comment
Ardeshir Mehrdad -Co-editor Iran Bulletin Middle East Forum
Shahrzad Mojab - Professor and director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada
Haideh Moghissi -Professor of Sociology -- York University, Canada
Cyrus Bina - Professor of Economics and Management -- University of Minnesota, USA
Yassamine Mather- Center for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements- Glasgow University, UK
Torab Saleth - Editorial board journal Critique
Saeed Rahnama - Professor of Political Sciences -- York University, Canada
Younes Parsa-Benab - Professor of Political Science at Strayer University- Washington
Mehdi Kia- Co-editor Iran Bulletin Middle East Forum
Nasser Kakhsaz - Poet, Literary critic
Sulmaz Moradi - Socialist , feminist activist
Borzu Fuladvand - Socialist activist
Fereshteh Shoja - Socialist, feminist activist
Faramarz Dadvar - Center in Defense of Freedom & Democracy in Iran-Chicago
Sadegh Tehrani -Socialist activist
Hassan Hessam - Poet
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محسن رضايي در نخستين نشست مطبوعاتي خود پس از اعلام كانديداتوري براي انتخابات رياست جمهوري با بيان اين كه افكار احمدي نژاد را قبول ندارم گفت:گراني در دولت احمدي نژاد دو برابر شد.اگر مسير آقاي احمدي*نژاد ادامه پيدا كند به پرتگاه مي*رويم.
به گزارش جام جم آنلاين وي كه صبح امروز يكشنبه در خبرگزاري فارس نشست مطبوعاتي خود را برگزار كرد در باره هولوكاست نيز گفت: صحت يا عدم صحت هولوكاست بحث پژوهشي است و به ما سياسيون ارتباطي ندارد.
وي همچنين گفت: اگر رئيس جمهور شوم احمدي نژاد را در كابينه ام وزير مي كنم.
محسن رضايي در ادامه در باره اين كه آيا هاشمي رفسنجاني از شما براي حضور در انتخابات درخواست كرده است گفت: براي آمدن به صحنه درخواستي از رفسنجاني نداشتم.
وي با بيان اينکه من سرباز ملت ايران هستم، گفت: من براي انجام تکليف به صحنه آمده ام و تا آخر در صحنه مي مانم و انشاء الله وضعيت انتخابات را از وضعيت رکود فعلي خارج خواهم ساخت.
دبير مجمع تشخيص مصلحت نظام با اشاره به انگيزه نامزدي خود در انتخابات رياست جمهوري گفت: واقعيت اين است که ملت ما به سمت يک دو راهي در حرکت است، اگر مسير آقاي احمدي نژاد ادامه پيدا کند به پرتگاه مي رويم و اگر به گذشته هم برگرديم شکست خواهيم خورد.
رضايي خطاب به نامزد اصلاح طلبان در انتخابات رياست جمهوري گفت: آنها که امروز منتقد قانونگريزي در دولت نهم شده*اند بايد پاسخ دهند که چرا 8 سال توسعه سياسي بايد به چنين وضعيتي برسد.
وي با انتقاد از رويکرد اصلاح طلبان گفت: آنها بين دين و آزادي تعارض ايجاد کردند اما اين تعارض به نفع جامعه حل نشد بلکه رها شد. اگر به سمت گذشته حركت كنيم قطعا با شكست مواجه خواهيم شد. علت شكست اصلاح*طلبان عملكرد خود آنها بود.
دبير مجمع تشخيص مصلحت نظام افزود: اگر مسير فعلي را ادامه دهيم گرچه دولت نهم فعاليت ها و دستاوردهايي داشته است، اما متاسفانه همه اين دستاوردها از بين خواهد رفت ما بايد از اين دو راهي بيرون بياييم و من براي همين آمده*ام.
رضايي استراتژي خود را تشکيل دولت ائتلافي کارآمد توصيف کرد و گفت: اقتدار آگاهانه لازم است اما اقتدار جاهلانه به کشور آسيب مي زند.
وي افزود: من نماينده اصولگرايي اصيلي هستم که قبل از اين جناح چپ و راست وجود داشت. اگر خون برادران من نبود استقلال و تماميت ارضي به ايران باز نمي گشت.
رضايي در ادامه گفت: ما امروز بايد دهها شهيد همت، باکري و خرازي در عرصه فرهنگي، علمي و سياسي داشته باشيم ولي نداريم.
دبير مجمع تشخيص مصلحت نظام سپس به برنامه هاي اقتصادي خود پرداخت و گفت: پول پاشي در کشور يک انحراف بزرگ است با پول پراکنده کردن بين انسانهاي بيکار به جايي نمي رسيم.
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