Comments on: Sahimi: the extremist roots of the anti-NIAC campaign http://www.lobelog.com/sahimi-the-extremist-roots-of-the-anti-niac-campaign/ Personality Blogs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:25:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Hassan Daioleslam http://www.lobelog.com/sahimi-the-extremist-roots-of-the-anti-niac-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-93156 Hassan Daioleslam Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:33:16 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=314#comment-93156 Dear Mr. Lobe, Two remarks: Does your ardent defense of Parsi and NIAC have other motivations than peace and progress? For instance, this email of Parsi to Tehran on March 22, 2006 trying to hire someone from the Atieh Bahar Company: "Does any of your staffers in AB have time to write a weekly columns for IPS and get $150 or so a piece? They are looking for good English writers that can write for IPS on a range of issues. tp" Is Atieh with its multiple business partnership with the Iranian regime and its business with international oil companies considered as part of the peace movement? Secondly, Why don't you bother to report from both sides? At least, try to learn from the Neocon journalist Eli Lake who dedicated long paragraphs to Parsi's declaration? You smeared me several times and do not mind to repeat what the Iranian regime's friends tell you. Dear Mr. Lobe,
Two remarks:
Does your ardent defense of Parsi and NIAC have other motivations than peace and progress? For instance, this email of Parsi to Tehran on March 22, 2006 trying to hire someone from the Atieh Bahar Company:
“Does any of your staffers in AB have time to write a weekly columns for IPS and get $150 or so a piece? They are looking for good English writers that can write for IPS on a range of issues. tp”
Is Atieh with its multiple business partnership with the Iranian regime and its business with international oil companies considered as part of the peace movement?

Secondly,
Why don’t you bother to report from both sides? At least, try to learn from the Neocon journalist Eli Lake who dedicated long paragraphs to Parsi’s declaration?
You smeared me several times and do not mind to repeat what the Iranian regime’s friends tell you.

]]> By: Steve Caudill http://www.lobelog.com/sahimi-the-extremist-roots-of-the-anti-niac-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-91200 Steve Caudill Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:26:42 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=314#comment-91200 I find it interesting that the prime critics of NIAC are either disgruntled Iranian-Americans who couldn't hack it in their efforts to start their own Iranian-American advocacy (note I didn't write 'lobbying') organizations, as well as members of terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq, supporters of the irresponsible spendthrift Junior Shah Pahlavi, and Tudeh, the Iranian Communist Party. These same insidious Chalabi wannabe types were also in the forefront of the criticisms of Iran's June presidential elections. What hypocrisy, to see these most undemocratic ne'er-do-wells criticizing democracy in Iran, while we heard barely a peep of protest about the much worse fraud in Afghanistan's recent presidential elections (or for that matter the U.S. presidential elections in Florida in 2000 or Ohio in 2004.) One more thing about the Pahlavis, the website iranian.com has gone on record to note that the Pahlavis have never contributed in a meaningful way to any charity - whether Iranian-related or other. I find it interesting that the prime critics of NIAC are either disgruntled Iranian-Americans who couldn’t hack it in their efforts to start their own Iranian-American advocacy (note I didn’t write ‘lobbying’) organizations, as well as members of terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq, supporters of the irresponsible spendthrift Junior Shah Pahlavi, and Tudeh, the Iranian Communist Party.
These same insidious Chalabi wannabe types were also in the forefront of the criticisms of Iran’s June presidential elections. What hypocrisy, to see these most undemocratic ne’er-do-wells criticizing democracy in Iran, while we heard barely a peep of protest about the much worse fraud in Afghanistan’s recent presidential elections (or for that matter the U.S. presidential elections in Florida in 2000 or Ohio in 2004.)
One more thing about the Pahlavis, the website iranian.com has gone on record to note that the Pahlavis have never contributed in a meaningful way to any charity – whether Iranian-related or other.

]]> By: Jon Harrison http://www.lobelog.com/sahimi-the-extremist-roots-of-the-anti-niac-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-91178 Jon Harrison Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:29:17 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=314#comment-91178 Many Iran hawks are hypocrites, agreed. I still say these machinations will not move public opinion polls on the issue of war, nor will they have any effect on the Obama administration. Kudos to you for exposing this, but it's not on the public's radar screen. Many Iran hawks are hypocrites, agreed. I still say these machinations will not move public opinion polls on the issue of war, nor will they have any effect on the Obama administration. Kudos to you for exposing this, but it’s not on the public’s radar screen.

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