Comments on: The Iranian Government is Targeting the Diaspora, not the United States http://www.parsarts.com/2007/07/01/the-iranian-government-is-targeting-the-diaspora-not-the-united-states/ Pars Arts: Iranian Diaspora Life / Culture / Identity Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Lawrence http://www.parsarts.com/2007/07/01/the-iranian-government-is-targeting-the-diaspora-not-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Lawrence Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:53:14 +0000 http://www.parsarts.com/2007/07/01/the-iranian-government-is-targeting-the-diaspora-not-the-united-states/#comment-139 Nema, you act as if the Islamic Republic was arresting ordinary Iranians. This has nothing to do with the Iranian diaspora and former Maoist Abbbas turned neocon Milani is confused. Let me guess if he went back to Iran he would be an innocent academic too, even though he works for Hoover and briefs the Bush White House on how to overthrow the government? Why has the US press not mentioned ONE TIME that Haleh Esfandiari used to work under Farah Pahlavi and invited her to Wilson center to speak about her new book. If Haleh was serious about Iranian politics and its future then she wouldn't be inviting the wife of a former dictator to Wilson Center. You can not act as if these detentions are occuring in a vacuum. They are occuring in an environment of consistent pressure and attempted subversion by the world's largest superpower which is currently surrounding Iran on its western and eastern border. If US is permitted to detain thousands of Muslims indefinitely in Guantanamo and elsewhere under charges of threatening the national security of their country, I do think the Islamic Republic is permitted to detain a few Iranians who are suspected to be part of a CIA plot, whether those charges are real or not. The paranoia is more than justified. I also noticed in your other article about Imam Khomeini that we shouldn't "judging something based on how it contrasts with the thing we dislike the most." Yet it seems this is exactly what you and much of the Iranian diaspora do in reaction to "political prisoners" in Iran. Half of which end up coming to US and working for the cause of american imperialism. Milani the guy you quoted being one. Ali Afshar, recently another. And the list goes on. Islamic Republic doesn't need to take advice from those who are naive about US ambitions in the region. Know this much, Iran doesn't need the negative publicity, and thus these detentions are being made with a certain amount of knowledge of their activities. Nema, you act as if the Islamic Republic was arresting ordinary Iranians. This has nothing to do with the Iranian diaspora and former Maoist Abbbas turned neocon Milani is confused. Let me guess if he went back to Iran he would be an innocent academic too, even though he works for Hoover and briefs the Bush White House on how to overthrow the government? Why has the US press not mentioned ONE TIME that Haleh Esfandiari used to work under Farah Pahlavi and invited her to Wilson center to speak about her new book. If Haleh was serious about Iranian politics and its future then she wouldn’t be inviting the wife of a former dictator to Wilson Center. You can not act as if these detentions are occuring in a vacuum. They are occuring in an environment of consistent pressure and attempted subversion by the world’s largest superpower which is currently surrounding Iran on its western and eastern border. If US is permitted to detain thousands of Muslims indefinitely in Guantanamo and elsewhere under charges of threatening the national security of their country, I do think the Islamic Republic is permitted to detain a few Iranians who are suspected to be part of a CIA plot, whether those charges are real or not. The paranoia is more than justified.

I also noticed in your other article about Imam Khomeini that we shouldn’t “judging something based on how it contrasts with the thing we dislike the most.” Yet it seems this is exactly what you and much of the Iranian diaspora do in reaction to “political prisoners” in Iran. Half of which end up coming to US and working for the cause of american imperialism. Milani the guy you quoted being one. Ali Afshar, recently another. And the list goes on. Islamic Republic doesn’t need to take advice from those who are naive about US ambitions in the region. Know this much, Iran doesn’t need the negative publicity, and thus these detentions are being made with a certain amount of knowledge of their activities.

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