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Movement's Coordinator lauds President Bush in VOA interview

SMCCDI (Information Service)
Feb 16, 2004

http://www.daneshjoo.org/smccdinews/article/publish/article_4102.shtml

The SMCCDI Coordinator, Aryo Pirouznia, lauded President Bush during an interview re-broadcasted, this morning (Iran time), by "Voice of America" for Iran. This interview which was made in reference to the Movement's Public letter, to the US Executive Chief and at the occasion of the US "Presidents day", was originally broadcasted, by VOA, on Sunday evening.

In this interview made with the VOA Persian service's anchor, Behrooz Abassi, Pirouznia explained that the original copy of the letter was delivered to the White House, on Friday by FedEx, and that the copy of the letter was also posted on the Movement's website and mass e.mailed. He explained that "we judged the time has come, once again, to express our gratitude to Mr. Bush, at the occasion of the Presidents day, as he has shown at several occasions his public support of the Iranian nation and the Student Movement."

"We intended as well to let the Movement's dismay being expressed as their are few among US legislators that are pushing to establish relations with a falling regime. We reminded, in this letter to the President, that such actions are undermining his policy which is so welcomed by the majority of Iranians" He emphasized.

On the question of Mr. Abassi about the Movement's position on the Feb. 20th elections, Pirouznia added: "We haven't issued any specific statement for calling on People to boycott these sham elections as this is to give too much price to something that is doomed to fail anyhow. Of course in the last months we have requested the boycott in several of our statements issued for other purposes in reference to the Islamic regime. I remind you that from the day 1 of the so-called reforms and all along these years, the Movement's position , expressed so many times in its statements, calls and interviews , has been that SMCCDI do believe that no real reforms can ever be made within the frame of ideological regimes and that we qualified the sham reforms as a masquerade intending to buy time for the regime. That's why we have called, since July 1999, for the Civil Disobedience against this regime in our essay which became later famous under the name of the Third Force and which predicted ourdays and better days to come".

The integral version of this interview can be listened in Real Audio (from the minute 36 till 44 of the VOA program) at:

http://www.voanews.com/real/voa/nenaf/fars/fars0300a.ram

The Public letter to Mr. Bush can be read at:

http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_3128.shtml
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It was a pretty good letter... America must follow through in support of the Iranian people if we expect democracy to spread throughout the region and the world!
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