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stefania



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 11:43 am    Post subject: Silent Media?? Reply with quote

There has been, rightly, much support for the Iranian people in occasion of the 18 TIR.
In Italy, some newspapers promoted the 9th July demonstration, saying "On 9th July we shall be all Iranians".
Well, 18 TIR is passed.
Even these newspapers ,like "Il Riformista" have stopped talking about the Iranians. "Il Riformista" was the newspaper who called for the 9th July demonstration in Italy.
Now, this newspaper and others are silent ..
Do they know that the fight of the Iranian people continues after 9th July??
Do they know that they are being jailed and tourtured still today ??

Well, there is a very good newspaper in Italy, called "Il Foglio", it is pro-italian govt newspaper, but it seems independent.
However, this is not important.
What is important is that it has been dedicating many articles to the Iranian freedom-fighters, even before that "Il Riformista" did.
It is dedicating much of his articles to make the italian aware of the iranian situation since 1999.
While many Western newspapers tell us lies on what the iranian students are ( reformists,pro-khatami, etc..) this newspaper tells the HONEST TRUTH.
It talks about the Iranian satellite Radios, Reza Pahlavi II, the MKO, it tells that Khatamis is as much cruel as the other mullahs, etc..
It seems that this newspaper is written by iranian dissidents.
In reality , this is a honest reporting newspaper.
Many foreign people forget who the major part of the italian newspapers are leftist or however against the center-right wing ideals.

Another italian magazine, Panorama , also reports honestly the iranian facts.
In a recent aticle dedicated to the Iranian demonstrations, it wrote "Here Start the Democratic Revolution".

Also,the famous American scholar Michael Ledeen, writes on Panorama.
And we know who he is.

Well, i'd like to give you the web-site address of the site of "Il Foglio"

www.ilfoglio.it

Here you can also find links to some blogs by italian journalists.

here is one of them , where you can also find links to iran .

www.ilfoglio.it/camillo


another interesting site is a blog.

coseturche.blogspot.com, written completely in english..


Il Foglio recentely has wrote an editorial which title was "We shall be all Iranians till the victory".

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 12:09 pm    Post subject: Yah, it's sickening... yet refreshing Reply with quote

I commend the Italians... the news here is awful! I actually red on the CNN page you can still see it under MIDDLE EAST news --- they aired a report that said "Photojournalist may have fallen" what a bunch of f'in bastards... Now is the time to mobilize... Turn up the music... Everyone needs to get ONLINE... all young all old people.... mobilize mobilize mobilize -- spread the word!!!!! This next week will be all promotion week --- send some advice or straegy for getting the word out.. Activistchat.com needs your support - so if you girls/guys wanna suggest something or help this week - we can target based on countries... Someone hits Italy -- SOmeone hits Netherlands.. Someone hits Canada someone hits US -


Lets do this --- BTW - of course we'll hook you people up who are the first ones to the message board -and help out with the promotion and get this baby going with a free activist shirt or something Smile


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

better stop abusing that caffine kian Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 10:38 am    Post subject: More on CNN burying news ... Reply with quote

Will CNN Never Learn?

July 20, 2003
Iran va Jahan
Gary Metz

Repeating their Iraqi mistakes in Iran.

It appears CNN is once again in the business of burying news stories when their reports might embarrass their host country. If it were not for a student from Iran I might not have heard of this report. Fortunately the world of the Internet makes it increasingly difficult for stories to remain hidden from the public. The story I am referring to was published on gooya.com and while written in Persian it is available on the net. I contacted CNN for a response but they chose not to.

Gooya.com is reporting that an Iranian student, Hamid, provided CNN with video of the attack on the student dormitories by the regime. The student was arrested by the regime and taken to the same prison, Evin where the Canadian/Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was tortured. Kazemi eventually died allegedly under the hands of the regime official Saeed Mortezavi, Tehran's Chief Prosecutor. The story of her murder has been international news for the past week.

But unlike Kazemi whose photos of the Evin prison remain in the hands of the regime, Hamid was successful in getting his footage to CNN. According to this report CNN is refusing to air the student's footage, claiming it would endanger his life. But since they refused to air the footage the story has not received international attention and his life is now in grave danger.

It was reported that as the regime's enforcers arrived to arrest Hamid, he ate additional footage to keep it from the regime. They report that this young man was then taken to Evin prison where the same official responsible for the death of Kazemi ordered immediate surgery in the prison to retrieve the footage in his stomach. Since that time, due to infections caused by the surgery they were forced to move him to a hospital where it is reported he has four different infections.

Apparently CNN has not yet learned it lesson about protecting tortuous regimes. Just a few months ago CNN admitted that it sat on a variety of news stories in Iraq that would have exposed the nature of the Iraqi regime (New York Times, Editorial | The News We Kept To Ourselves, by CNN producer Eason Jordan).

In both cases they use the same excuse that they are protecting the lives of their sources of information.

In reality, the only thing keeping the regime from killing this brave Iranian is international awareness of his situation. The regime needs to maintain the illusion of respect for human rights to provide the Europeans and Japan with an excuse for further economic ties. If CNN were to broadcast this report and attribute it to him it would provide him with the notoriety needed to keep him from being one more unnamed student executed by the regime. It is time for CNN to stop protecting this regime in order to maintain its office in Tehran. When journalists sell out their ethics for rating it destroys the value of a free press to protect the innocent from corrupt governments.

I hope CNN will reconsider its position on this story. It may save a life and perhaps redeem the soul of that network.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:35 am    Post subject: Hey - Reply with quote

Hey Sudi, how are you? - Everythingn fitting well?

Smile

We are extremely extremely pissed about the regimes actions in burrying Zahra Kazemi - we are designing a petition that should be out today!


How's everything going in your neck of the woods?

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Kian jAn. Doing good and enjoying the merchandise Smile

Sorry for the late reply; I've been off-line since yesterday morning.

All is good in DC. Busy working and not much else Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:48 pm    Post subject: - excellent - Reply with quote

sudi wrote:
Hi Kian jAn. Doing good and enjoying the merchandise Smile

Sorry for the late reply; I've been off-line since yesterday morning.

All is good in DC. Busy working and not much else Smile


Sudi, glad to hear! Yah - finally speant most of the day at the poolside just pondering and planning. Are you well connected with the Persian community in DC? How's the job situation down there -?

heh - lots of questions.. well maybe not - only two -
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