As a general rule, wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. But it is also true that in all societies there is a strata that takes the side of the oppressors and blames the victims for their resistance. In the current wars of aggression in the Middle East such is the case with the Zionists and pro-imperialists behind Israel. In Iran, we have not been deprived of our share of this political tendency.
To the right of the spectrum known as Iran's reformists lie amorphous bourgeois political groups and individuals, that at the present time of war and destruction try to discourage the Iranian people from giving support to the oppressed nations of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine. As an example, in the opinion of Ibrahim Yazdi, secretary general of Freedom Movement in Iran, a liberal opposition group, "The events in the Middle East will have a negative impact on democracy in Iran." Therefore, in his judgment the overwhelming opposition of the Iranian people and government to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and their heightened sympathy for the plight of close to one million refugees and injured is not in line with his strangely envisioned democracy. Accordingly, his version of democracy is incompatible with compassion and support for the oppressed nations standing up to the oppressors.
Another proponent of a similar ideology is the now infamous and discredited, but well paid, Amir Taheri, an Iranian born collaborator with the neo-conservative and Zionist bloc at Benedor Assoicates who authored the completely fabricated story in the National Post of Canada, alleging that the Parliament of Iran had passed a law requiring Iranian Jews, Christians and other minorities to wear badges for distinction.
Taheri is at it again. In a July 23, 2006 article in the London TimesOnLine, he writes, "The mini-war that is taking place between Israel and Hezbollah is, in fact, a proxy war in which Iran's vision for the Middle East clashes with the administration in Washington." In that pro-Zionist mythology, Mr. Amir Taheri, an old-hand at spewing Israel's anti-Arab, anti-Iran propaganda, laboriously tries to marginalize the fundamental causes of the 60 years of war, intifadas and fruitless negotiations between the U.S.-Israeli camp and the Arabs, with the Palestinian people at the center of the conflicts.
For the sake of clarity, let us pose the basic cause of those conflicts. The response by a non-Zionist and impartial observers would be it is the occupation of the Palestinian territory, Syrian territory of Golan Heights and the Lebanese territory of the Shebaa Farms.
To the right of the spectrum known as Iran's reformists lie amorphous bourgeois political groups and individuals, that at the present time of war and destruction try to discourage the Iranian people from giving support to the oppressed nations of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine. As an example, in the opinion of Ibrahim Yazdi, secretary general of Freedom Movement in Iran, a liberal opposition group, "The events in the Middle East will have a negative impact on democracy in Iran." Therefore, in his judgment the overwhelming opposition of the Iranian people and government to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and their heightened sympathy for the plight of close to one million refugees and injured is not in line with his strangely envisioned democracy. Accordingly, his version of democracy is incompatible with compassion and support for the oppressed nations standing up to the oppressors.
Another proponent of a similar ideology is the now infamous and discredited, but well paid, Amir Taheri, an Iranian born collaborator with the neo-conservative and Zionist bloc at Benedor Assoicates who authored the completely fabricated story in the National Post of Canada, alleging that the Parliament of Iran had passed a law requiring Iranian Jews, Christians and other minorities to wear badges for distinction.
Taheri is at it again. In a July 23, 2006 article in the London TimesOnLine, he writes, "The mini-war that is taking place between Israel and Hezbollah is, in fact, a proxy war in which Iran's vision for the Middle East clashes with the administration in Washington." In that pro-Zionist mythology, Mr. Amir Taheri, an old-hand at spewing Israel's anti-Arab, anti-Iran propaganda, laboriously tries to marginalize the fundamental causes of the 60 years of war, intifadas and fruitless negotiations between the U.S.-Israeli camp and the Arabs, with the Palestinian people at the center of the conflicts.
For the sake of clarity, let us pose the basic cause of those conflicts. The response by a non-Zionist and impartial observers would be it is the occupation of the Palestinian territory, Syrian territory of Golan Heights and the Lebanese territory of the Shebaa Farms.









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