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Oppenheimer
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:49 am Post subject: |
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"Iran UN Protest 2005" to rally in New York on Wednesday
SMCCDI (Information Service)
September 13, 2005
Iranian secularist opposition groups are gathering, in New
York, to protest against the presence of the Islamic
regime's President at the United Nations. These groups are
forming the "Iran UN Protest 2005" (IUNP2005) Coalition
which includes the National-Secular Party, Iran Society,
Marzeporgohar Party, Alliance of Iranians (TX), National
Iranian Congress, Social-Democrats, Iranian Council,
Free-Thinkers, Pan-Iranist, Iran of Tomorrow and the SMCCDI
as the main organizer of the action.
Activists and members of IUNP2005 are flying or driving
from several North American and European cities, such as,
Dallas, Los Angeles, Paris and Toronto in order to be
present at the rally which is scheduled from 09:00 AM till
05:00 PM (US EST) on September 14th.
The event will be taking place at the "Dag Hammarskjold
Plaza" which is located by the UN at the junction of 1st
Ave and 47th East. The entry to the park is allowed only
from doors located at the junction of 2nd Ave and 47th East
The regime's secularist opponents are intending to
denounce, in a common voice, the presence of Mahmood
Ahmadinejad as the self proclaimed 'symbol of Iranian
Nation' and the persistent human rights' abuses by his
illegitimate and unpopular regime which is usurping the
Iranian People's Chair at the UN.
Ahamdinejad was also part of the Islamic commnado group
which stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and took 52 American
diplomats as hostage for 444 days.
Several dozens of Iranian supporters are expected to join
them due to an active media campaign made, in the last
three weeks, on the popular Persian speaking NITV and KRSI.
Tens of American supporters are also expected to join as
several advertisements have been published about the event
in the today's local newspapers, such as, the New York Post
and the New York Sun.
Several other Iranian groups, such as, the "National
Council of Resistance" which is the political umbrella of
the Marxist-Islamist Mojahedin of People (MKO or MEK) group
are also going to protest the same day. Their leadership
intends to use the occasion in order to claim popularity
and to request from the US State Dept. to remove their
terrorist label. In that line, various invented names, such
as, "New York Committee Against Ahmadinejad" or the self
called "Iranian Americans of Texas" or "Iranian Americans
of California" are used to attract more Americans and to
help the organization to reach its goals.
Many Iranians had hoped, till the last minute, that the
controversial group would have learned from its mistakes
and would have avoided using such symbolic day for its well
known unpopular goal of imposing itself as a viable
alternative for the future of Iran.
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Oppenheimer
Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 1166 Location: SantaFe, New Mexico
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:32 am Post subject: |
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But, Liberty, the focus right now should be on the regime and how to get rid of it, not on how it originated. If you are truly a friend of Liberation for Iran, you will focus on that goal, with the rest of us. If you are an enemy of Liberation, you will attempt to distract and divide the great coalition that is forming against the mullahs.
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Dear Rasker,
3 weeks ago petition after petition called for denial of visa, and if I could find my post again among all these topics I'd post it, but I said something like "it would serve just as well if he were to come, so the international community may call the IRI to account, face to face in the forum of nations." Urging folks that would be no doubt upset with the US for issuing a visa to consider the logic involved.
Herein twofold ways lies the greatest opportunity the opposition has had in these months since the faux election, to:
1. Shrug off the despair and depression caused by this "election", and action and hard work is a healthy cure, for purpose has been focused.
2. The opposition in general (and I include all groups) has an an opportunity to focus intent (as in all paths lead to the same destination like a spoked wheel in converging on the center) and it is this that provides the opportunity for common discourse to overcome personality conflicts that have divided the opposition, as well as idological and political differences.
Now it is probably too much to expect that groups with a track record like MEK will be accepted as brothers in arms....but the reality is they too have helped bring the opposition in general to this destination. Shrugging off the past is like peeling an onion, it's not painless, but each layer is a little closer to the center
Just because they provided info that exposed IRI nuclear activity does not mean they are king of the hill....in fact, no group can claim that...including the monarchists.
This is a test, call it a "post-regime" test. A test to see whether the Iran Nation can come together in one voice for one day, for one purpose.
And that purpose is not simply to protest the IRI, but to show the world, its representitives, and the general public at large that there is indeed a cohesive and cooperative resistance to oppression and tyrany.
This is exactly that "standing for your liberty" the President vowed America to stand with...not just in word, but in deed. And those deeds begin in the building you folks will be outside of.
He'll be there as well, speaking forth in line as host nation, after the outgoing GA president -Ping, The incoming GA president, and the Secretary General Koffe Annan....
As for me, a man of means by no means, don't even have bus fare...but as they say in the wild wild west, "someone's got to stay behind and mind the fort."
In any case, I'll be there in spirit, and I've done what I can to help prep the battlefield to make sure no IRI creates an "incident" that would reflect badly upon my friends among the opposition or on my country as host to the UN. I can assure you the regime will try to stage something, but security will be waiting and ready for it, pre-empting their opportunity.
But please stay alert...
I wish all safe travels, fair weather, and much success.
only have one last bit of advice...be kind to the natives.
You'll most likely be running into folks protesting Zimbabwe's leadership, and other totalitarian regimes....environmentalists, and folks with causes of all sort, not to mention the native New Yorkers
In short it's going to be the biggest international Block Party in a decade.
If someone would be so kind as to make a sign that says,
NO Planet of the Apes!
In reference to the monkey's global agenda, I'd really apreciate that.
We all know how that movie ended......
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Once again a reminder for extra placards, signs etc. for people showing up without it. |
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Liberty Now !
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:05 am Post subject: --- |
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Rasker wrote: Quote: | Jimmy Carter's brand of 'nit-pick your friends - give your enemies a free pass' foreign policy stance has no doubt been a disaster not only for Iran, but for the Middle East as well (Russians into Afghanistan, mujahideen armed by US and into Afghanistan, mujahideen outlast Russians and turn to other targets etc). See my post "Thanks A Lot Carter", over in General Discussion.
But, Liberty, the focus right now should be on the regime and how to get rid of it, not on how it originated. If you are truly a friend of Liberation for Iran, you will focus on that goal, with the rest of us. If you are an enemy of Liberation, you will attempt to distract and divide the great coalition that is forming against the mullahs. |
dear rasker, I get your point.
I'm not trying to divide the coalition. the more power to them for uniting. it's about time!
but I happen to truely believe in letting the truth shine through. as persians we believe in fighting darkness with light as well.
I believe exposing the truth about the origins of islamo-fascist will weaken them more than any amount of bombs.
why?
because it will expose them first and foremost to the masses that blindly follow them! this will help weaken their trust on the ayatollahs.
I'm amased why others don't see it that way.
it's the simplest method to strip the God fathers of International Terrorism of their "legitimacy" in the hearts of their followers.
can you imagine what will it do to all those hizbollahis in iran if khomeini were to be exposed for being on brit's payroll in Najaf? if someone who grew up in Najaf can confess this to me, so can so many others who also lived there.
but the world keeps turning a blind eye to all this and more.
we all know the 79 coup and khomeini's arrival into power would not be possible without certain powers pushing for him behind the scenes.
it's politics. so what if they expose their support to khomeini. they can say we've done it. it turned out to be a big mistake. and it's politics.
no one will accuse them more than they already do!
but imagine the effect it will have on the psyche of the islamists and fundamentalists.
it will surely make for an shock and awe amongst their supporters, hundred fold the size of any nukes thrown at them.
the difference being: any attack will only make them rally around the cause even more, yet stripping them of their legitimacy and exposing them as some cheap spies used by powers and thrown away - as the political norm we all know and accept- would NOT, I repeat, NOT gain them more sympathisans, but DEEPEN an already existing DISGUST amongst many muslim moderate nations felt towards the ayatollahs and their fascist terrorist cause/ fatwa/ paths.
the reason I keep mentioning this, and will continue to do so, is not to condemn west (what good will that do? what's done is done.) but it's for the reason I've just explained.
hoping that somehow, the word will get out, and the ayatollahs will be exposed for not being sent from "allah" to unite the muslims for jihad towards an islamic empire, but merely cheap cunning spies who worked for money or power time and again, and encourage people to get killed for a bogus cause which is none but their own reign on the masses and for money!
(it's true this will make them good politicians, but remember the hizbollahis don't vote for them, they die for them. and once they don't trust them, they wont be killing themselves for ayatollahs' bogus cause)
anyhow. I don't think carter got the guts to do it. he rather terrorists continue rally around their cause. so. back to the nuke talks! _________________ Paayande Iran |
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Oppenheimer
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:34 am Post subject: |
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"Iran UN Protest 2005" to call on World's leaders for
Iran's Freedom
SMCCDI (Information Service)
September 14, 2005
"Iran UN Protest 2005" (IUNP2005) Coalition is to call, in
few hours, on World's leaders to back the Iranian Nation in
its legitimate aspiration for ending the tyrannical and
terrorist rule of the Islamic republic regime and to elect
a secular political frame in a "direct" UN and US monitored
referendum.
The gathering is to take place from 09:00 AM till 05:00 PM
at the New York's "Dag Hammarskjold Plaza" which is located
by the UN at the junction of 1st Ave and 47th East. Members
of the IUNP2005 are to speak from 09:30 AM till 11:00 AM
time of reading the final resolution.
The rest of the program will be focused on displaying the
Islamic regime's crimes and to show to the world the evil
nature it. Later in the day, a floral crown will be
deposed by the SMCCDI's Coordinator, Aryo B. Pirouznia, at
the "World Trade Center Memorial" in order to cherish the
memories of those killed by the Islamo-Fascists on
September 11, 2001.
The IUNP2005 Coalition is formed by the National-Secular
Party, Iran Society, Marzeporgohar Party, Alliance of
Iranians (TX), National Iranian Congress, Social-Democrats,
Iranian Council, Free-Thinkers, Pan-Iranist, Iran of
Tomorrow and the SMCCDI as the main organizer of the
gathering at the UN.
The regime's secularist opponents are intending to
denounce, in a common voice, the presence of Mahmood
Ahmadinejad as the self proclaimed 'symbol of Iranian
Nation' and the persistent human rights' abuses by his
illegitimate and unpopular regime which is usurping the
Iranian People's Chair at the UN.
Ahamdinejad was also part of the Islamic commando group
which stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and took 52 American
diplomats as hostage for 444 days.
Several dozens of Iranian supporters are expected to join
the IUNP2005 event due to an active media campaign made, in
the last three weeks, on the popular Persian speaking NITV
and KRSI networks.
Tens of American supporters are also expected to join as
several advertisements were published about the event in
the Tuesday's issues of local newspapers, such as, the New
York Post and the New York Sun. The ads have generated a
flow of call from sympathizers who are expressing support
for Iranians who are looking to free themselves and to dry
out the source of state sponsored Islamist terrorism.
http://www.daneshjoo.org/publishers/currentnews/article_2761.shtml
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Liberty Now !
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:48 am Post subject: Antar Entered! |
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can't sleep.
the ANTAR already Entered New York!
http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=35540&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs
LONDON, September 14 (IranMania) - Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York on an official five-day visit to attend the 60th regular session of the UN General Assembly, according to IRNA.
Ahmadinejad, heading a high-ranking delegation, was welcomed by Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN Mohammad-Javad Zarif, heads of Iran's institutions in the United States and a number of Iranian cultural figures.
Talking to reporters at John F. Kennedy Airport, Ahmadinejad said he would announce his plan on Iran's nuclear program on Wednesday.
"I will outline Tehran's stance and proposals on key regional and international developments in two speeches at the United Nations General Assembly," he said.
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He is also scheduled to meet with Iranian nationals and elites residing in the United States. ![Exclamation](images/smiles/icon_exclaim.gif) _________________ Paayande Iran |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone that has access to CIA or FBI please inform them that, they should take pictures of all the Iranians that are meeting and greating this monkey; keep them under surveillance and consider them as "sleeper cell". |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject: The NYC Demonstrations |
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Rasker wrote: | The NYC Demonstrations thru Regimechangeiran.com
picture thru freeandseculariran yahoogroup
I have been told by leaders of the Iranian opposition leaders that there are approximately 7-9,000 demonstrators present at the UN to voice their opposition to Iranian President Ahmadinejad's presence at the UN. They dispute that he actually represents the Iranian people.
I was told that there were also speakers including Ken Timmerman speaking at the event.
I will report more later.
PS Ahmadinejad in NYC
I just caught a glimpse of Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN and I believe I witnessed Condolezzza Rice walking out of the session in an apparent protest.
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: Former US Hostages and Victims of Torture Point Finger |
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Former US Hostages and Victims of Torture Point Finger at Visiting Iranian President
Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-14-2005/0004107606&EDATE=
NEW YORK, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Several former U.S. Embassy hostages,
Iranian victims of torture and the Iranian Committee to Pursue the
International Crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Committee on IRI
Crimes), held a press conference condemning the New York (UN) visit of Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, identifying him as a
perpetrator, practitioner of, and an agent of international terror.
Making this case through powerful, first hand, testimonials and accounts
of their experiences with Ahmadinejad, were former US hostages, who were held
in captivity, in Tehran, for 444 days; actual victims claiming torture at the
hands of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; a member of the Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party
detailing, and implicating, Ahmadinejad in the assassination account of their
Secretary-General; and Dr. Manouchehr Ganji, Founder of Committee on IRI
Crimes, himself a former United Nations Rapporteur on Human Rights.
"Many of my interrogations were at odd hours, after midnight, during which
Mr. Ahmadinejad advised me that they knew of my handicapped son's name,
address and school," said former US hostage, Col. Dave Roeder (Ret.). "They
had full knowledge of my son's school pick-up and drop-off schedules,
threatening that my wife would receive his small body parts, by mail, if I did
not cooperate," he added. "I was in Tehran, I was there, I saw him
[Ahmadinejad] for months and months, I can tell it was him. No one can tell
me otherwise," said Bill Daugherty, also a former hostage, in Tehran, whose
point was to challenge any skeptics of his and his fellow hostage's accounts
and recognition of Ahmadinejad.
Internationalizing Mr. Ahmadinejad's portfolio of crimes, Dr. Morteza
Esfandiari representing Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party indicated that they
and the Austrian authorities are in possession of detailed and extensive data
and information implicating Mr. Ahmadinejad's personal involvement in the July
12, 1989 assassinations of Mr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou -- the Secretary-
General of the Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party -- and two of his colleagues
in Vienna, Austria.
Fearing for their lives and personal safety, a gruesome accounting of the
1989 kidnapping and assassination was presented on behalf of Mr. Abass
Gholizadeh's family who, subsequent to several failed attempts, was kidnapped
by the Islamic Republic's intelligence agency in Turkey. In an ordeal, widely
reported by the Turkish media, Abass Gholizadeh was kidnapped, while on a walk
with his wife, only to be found by the Turkish police, three months later,
badly mutilated and tortured, floating off the coastal waters of Istanbul.
This account, including the involvement of the Tehran regime, was widely
reported by the media, which, in addition to prior similar acts, resulted in
the recall of Iran's then-Ambassador to Turkey, Mr. Manucher Mottaki, who is
currently also in New York with Ahmadinejad. "This crime including several
other assassinations of Iranian dissidents, in Turkey, were committed with the
full knowledge and, in fact, supervision of Mr. Mottaki who today enjoys full
diplomatic courtesies in this very city -- as Mr. Ahmadinejad's prized Foreign
Minister," said Dr. Manouchehr Ganji, making the presentation at the behest of
Mrs. Gholizadeh, whose assassinated husband worked with the Flag of Freedom
Organization of Iran, which Ganji headed.
In addition to various other accounts offered by former US hostages,
Messrs. Kevin Hermening, Col. Chuck Scott (Ret.), Don Sharer, as well as their
attorney, there was first hand testimony by a former Iranian national, Mr.
Joseph Pirayouf, relating his story of intimidation, arrest and torture, in
Tehran, at the hands of Mr. Ahmadinejad leading to, among other injuries, the
fracture of his jawbone. At the time of his arrest, in 1979, Mr. Pirayouf,
owner of a taxi company, had been assisting Americans to exit Iran, which was
found to be offensive by anti-American zealots like Ahmadinejad.
"The presentation today portrays just a small sample of the kind of
criminal behavior the leadership of the Iranian regime has systematically
pursued," said Dr. Ganji, author and an authority on international law and
human rights. "Iranians, particularly those suffering at home, appreciate the
distinctions that are being made every day between them and the clique of
criminals that are ruling them. We heartily welcome the former American
hostages' decision to stand with those Iranians struggling today, in quest of
freedom and a secular democratic system of government based on international
covenants on human rights. "
After the 1979 revolution, the twenty-three year old Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
became Ayatollah Khomeini's universities' representative in the Student Office
for Strengthening Unity, which played the command and control center for the
seizure, and subsequent occupation, of the US Embassy for 444 days. Later in
the 1980's he joined the Revolutionary Guards and eventually helped create the
infamous Qods Brigade, which is today, still tasked with the super-secret
special terror operations dictated by the clerical leadership. Just this
summer, he was handpicked and declared winner, by the regime's Supreme Leader,
Ayatollah Khamenei, to replace the outgoing President Mohammad Khatami.
SOURCE Iranian Action Committee
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject: Ex-Hostages Demand CIA Release Its Report on Iranian Preside |
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Ex-Hostages Demand CIA Release Its Report on Iranian President
By ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
September 14, 2005
Source: http://www.nysun.com/article/19982
WASHINGTON - A group of former American hostages is demanding that the CIA turn over a classified report that they say wrongly cleared Iran's new president of his role in interrogating them during the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran that began on November 4,1979.
Incensed that the Bush administration failed to investigate properly Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's role in the hostage crisis, they have launched a campaign ahead of his speech this week at the United Nations to hold the Iranian leader to account.
A September 9 letter from four of the former hostages to the chairman and ranking member of the House International Relations Committee - Reps. Henry Hyde, a Republican of Illinois, and Tom Lantos, a Democrat of California - said: "Now Mr. Ahmadinejad will be granted a visa to address the United Nations, and we will be left to wonder to what extent our Government honestly, completely, and in good faith, investigated his involvement in the crimes committed against us. After twenty-five years, it appears we are being used once again for someone else's political agenda."
Since winning a presidential election in June that three of his opponents claim was rigged, the ascendancy of Mr. Ahmadinejad has bedeviled the Bush administration. Soon after the news of his election victory, former hostages came forward and told members of the press that they remembered the former engineering student as one of their interrogators. Last month, the State Department granted Mr. Ahmadinejad a limited visa, waiving immigration law restrictions that prohibit individuals even suspected of having ties to international terrorism from entering the country. The Iranian president's visa restricts his movements to a 25-mile radius surrounding the U.N. headquarters building.
In an interview yesterday, a retired Air Force colonel, David Roeder, one of the signatories of the letter, recalled how in one interrogation session Mr. Ahmadinejad sat in a room and watched as his questioner gave the location and time that his son in Alexandria, Va., caught his bus for special-education classes and then threatened that his wife would receive fingers and toes of his son if he did not cooperate. "He did not say anything at the time, but it was clear Ahmadinejad was in control," Colonel Roeder said.
Colonel Roeder was livid last month when he read in the Washington Post that a classified CIA assessment concluded that Mr. Ahmadinejad did not play a major role in the hostage crisis, particularly since he said the report was leaked as the State Department's Iran desk officer had just started interviews with the former hostages.
"I am upset with the CIA that they leaked a classified document calling me a liar," he said. "If someone is going to tell me I'm wrong and I know I'm not, I would bet my life on it, I should at least have access to the data that led them to that conclusion."
A CIA spokeswoman yesterday said she would not comment on the matter because the report is classified. Another administration official, however, said the agency determined that they lacked the evidence to "conclude definitively" on Mr. Ahmadinejad's role. "It was similar to the Scottish court's not proven judgment," the source said.
In another letter, lawyers representing the 52 former hostages are asking for a meeting with America's ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, asking him to "assist them in finally calling Iran to account after 25 years," according to a letter their lawyers wrote Mr. Bolton on September 9. A spokesman for Mr. Bolton yesterday said the ambassador's schedule is full and he regrets he won't have time for the former hostages.
The former hostages will hold a vigil today in front of the United Nations to protest the visit of Mr. Ahmadinejad to New York this week. Their efforts will be joined by more than a dozen Iranian-American organizations who plan demonstrations this morning and a press conference that will feature testimony from the wife of a former guard to the late shah, Abbas Gholizadeh, who Shahnaz Gholizadeh says was kidnapped, tortured, and killed in Turkey at the direction of Mr. Ahmadinejad in 1992.
In an interview, she fingered the new Iranian foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, who at the time of her husband's murder was Iran's ambassador to Turkey, as playing a role in Mr. Gholizadeh's abduction and killing. "It is impossible for people to pull something off like this without the use of an embassy. They need room to torture people, and cover and protection," she said. "I have no doubt they ordered the murder. Ahmadinejad's job was to do these things."
Mr. Ahmadinejad was for nearly two years an intelligence chief for the unit of the revolutionary guard alleged to plot assassinations against Iranians living abroad.
"I am asking them not to burn another family," Ms. Gholizadeh said. "My children and myself are taking medicine for depression. We are free to speak our mind here, that's why I love America." |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050914/photos_ts_afp/05091419090
Demonstraters protest Islamist Mullahs Selected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations World Summit at a rally in Dag Hammarskjold UN Plaza in New York.(AFP/Nicholas Roberts) |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject: AFP: Thousands protest Iran president's attendance |
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Thousands protest Iran president's attendance
From: Agence France-Presse
September 15, 2005
SEVERAL thousand Iranian exiles protested in front of the UN headquarters overnight, denouncing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a "terrorist" as he attended the UN summit of world leaders.
"Iranians think Ahmadinejad is not their representative, he's a terrorist," said Bahman Badiee of the Iran Society of South Florida.
The vast majority of demonstrators were members of the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), whose president Maryam Rajavi lives in exile in France.
The NCRI is the political arm of the People's Mujahedeen (MEK), which has been fighting the Islamic government in Tehran since the mid-1980s.
The MEK has been branded a terrorist organisation in both the United States and EU, and Mr Rajavi is leading the campaign to have the label removed.
The protestors carried banners reading "No to terrorist Ahmadinejad" and "Terrorist Ahmadinejad - Out of UN," but Mr Badiee stressed the protestors also carried a message for the international community to leave Iran's future to Iranians.
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"We tell the world leaders ... you can't make the decision on what you want to do in Iran ... make some deals or start a war," he said. "We don't want appeasement. We don't want war. We want to change the government."
Mr Ahmadinejad was due to address the UN summit, with Iranian officials saying he would present new proposals to defuse suspicion over Tehran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
The United States is hoping to use the three-day gathering to rally support for possible UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic for resuming sensitive work on uranium conversion.
"Ahmadinejad not only represents a terrorist regime, he is himself a terrorist," said Hamid Dara of the New York Committee Against Ahmadinejad, just one of the exile groups from around the US that participated in the demonstration.
"He has ordered executions. He's a former commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard," Mr Dara said. _________________ The Sun Is Rising In The West! Soon It Will Shine on All of Iran! ![](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y212/rasker/mullahs_lg.jpg) |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:51 pm Post subject: US Ex Hostages |
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AP - Wed Sep 14, 5:35 PM ET
Barry Rosen of New York, left, and Kevin Hermening of Wausau, Wisconsin, center, holding pictures of themselves taken while in captivity during the Iran Hostage Crisis, take part in a silent vigil outside Iran's mission to the United Nations in New York Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005. The event protested the visit of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, to the United States. A photograph of Bert Moore, right, taken while in captivity as a hostage during the Iran Hostage Crisis, is held by his son Bob Moore, who was at the vigil in memory of his father who died five years ago. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg) |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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And here's a pic of the MKO section of the demo from Iranfocus:
![](http://www.iranfocus.com/uploads/img432814c5b8f86.jpg) _________________ The Sun Is Rising In The West! Soon It Will Shine on All of Iran! ![](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y212/rasker/mullahs_lg.jpg) |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't know there were so many brain washed MKO in the US. What a SHAME....... |
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