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Monday
April 23, 2001

Public life and private life

Regarding Setareh Sabety's comments, "Nothing to hide", I think you have now painfully understood my point.

If you want freedom of speech and a civil society, which is supposedly the reason that you do not live in Iran, then you have to distinguish between an individual's public life and private life. Otherwise you will bear the consequences of your indiscretions sooner or later.

Whether it is Reza Pahlavi or Ali Kamenei or any other public political figure, his political agenda should not be debated on the basis of whether he is gay or his aunt had a boyfriend.

Which one of you guys have set Reza Pahlavi to task on the substance of his poiltical opinions? Have you at all critically looked into the subject of Velayat Faghih or a monarchy or a republic?

You keep slinging unsubstantiated, undocumented, utterly false mud at people and when you are faced with hard facts about your own personal lives you scream for the heavens.

To set the record straight:

1- I do not personally know Mrs. Sabeti but I did make a point to research her background.

2- I do not have any political affiliations with any monarchist groups.

3- Neither myself nor any member of my family have ever had any relationship with SAVAK.

4- Regarding my anonymity, unlike Ms Sabeti, I do lead a boring uneventfull life, i.e I was not at the same time a lesbian in New England, admire Ayatollah Khomeini and raise my children in the United States. I therefore have reason to be afraid for my life.

5- I have not threatened Ms Sabeti with anything. But since she attacks other people personally I reminded her of the inconstinency of her opinions with her personal life.

And one last word for Mrs. Sabeti's "surrogate mother": Do you mind telling us Mr Javid whether it is true or not that the Aftab television that you worked for in New York was set up by the Islamic Republic's Mission to the UN? Is it not true that the Aftab television was financed by the Bonyad Mostazefan?

Kerman01

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