Left overs
Leftist radicals not only ruined
their own lives, they ruined the life of a nation November 25, 2004
iranian.com
If Iranian.com were to give awards to the most foolish
blunders committed by its feature writers, Maziar Behrooz would
be an instant winner of the much deserving
title: "Fool of the Year."
In his article, "Iran's
guerrillas", Behrooz,
an assistant Professor of history at SFSU, in an attempt to sensationalise his
essay, begins by recalling a TV series aired on the Iranian national TV in the
early seventies (it was actually shown in 1969 but this is nothing compared to
what is to follow). Behrooz, himself a sympathiser of the militant left, writes:
During
the early 1970s the National Iranian Radio and Television (NIRT) began
broadcasting a new American TV series named "The
Guerrillas." The series was a not-too-well produced
story about allied commando operations behind Nazi lines
during the
Second World War in Europe. It was dubbed in Persian but
then the name
of the series was translated gurilha which can only mean
gorillas in Persian. What possible relation there might be
between commando
operations and the mighty ape was left to the imagination
of poor Iranian viewers. Such was the sensitivity of the
imperial
regime
of Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi to the term guerrilla (cherik
in Persian) that the NIRT had to resort to such ridiculous
innovation.
Ridiculous
innovation indeed, but by our tin-pot Professor himself
and not the NIRT! Allow me to explain. As a TV and film buff,
who
remembers the golden oldies of pre-mullahs Iranian TV, I
should know that the full title of the series referred to in
the above
paragraph was Garisson's Gorillas AND NOT Guerrillas as so
carelessly purported by the blundering Behrooz. Therefore,
NIRT had correctly
translated the title by shortening it to Gorillas. But our
tin-pot Professor does not stop here by making such and
proceeds to make
more utterly stupid claims. He continues with showing the depth of his ignorance about the
meaning of the word Gorilla. By asking why should Gorillas (as
in apes) have anything to do with a bunch of killer commandos,
he commits a second blunder, this time showing his poor knowledge
of English vocabulary.
 In fact, if the double-blundering Behrooz
had an average command of English, which is the minimum expected
from any average academic, or had he bothered to looked up Gorilla
in any English dictionary he would have found that the term means
(apart from an anthropoid ape): Thug and Goon, which are precisely,
who the Garrison's Gorillas were: a bunch of convicted criminals
and killers who were hired to wreak terror behind enemy lines in
return for Presidential pardon - a kind of TV version of the Dirty
Dozen. The Gorillas were headed by one Lt.Craig Carrison, hence,
the title of the series, Garrison’s Gorillas (see the poster).
What I demonstrated above may sound like a light and ludicrous
slip-up but this was, and still is, the true face of the Iranian
left: falsifying the facts and making hugely erroneous claims to
stir up emotions and in the process adding more names to the list
their victims. To them this is just another game. To their recruits,
it was a life laid in waste for no good reason. They not only ruined
their own lives, they ruined the life of a nation.
The guerrillas
that Maziar Behrooz describes them in such affectionate terms
were no other than the forefathers of the present day Al-Qaeda,
and
other minor terrorist groups. They showed no regards for human
lives and in their madness they maimed and murdered hundreds
of law abiding and innocent citizens of our homeland. They were
not
independent, politically or financially, as Behrooz so timidly
avoids admitting.
They were often hiding in safe houses and remote
places and had an arsenal of weapons supplied to them by their
paymasters. So were they really free from foreign influences?
I direct the readers to the scholarly work of the late prominent
writer and journalist, Siavash Bashiri, whose Ghesseyeh Savak
(The
Tale of Savak) is the most authoritative document to date on
the origin and operations, links and loyalties of these terrorist
groups
who ironically dug out their own graves by paving the way for
the mullahs to brutally finish them off.
What Maziar Behrooz
is afraid
of admitting, lest his comrades become upset, is that these
groups, whether Marxist or Islamic, were funded and fuelled directly
by Cuba, Libya, Iraq and Syria and indirectly had the blessings
of
their Godfathers in Kremlin. The weapons and trainings were
provided
by the Palestinian terrorist organisation in their camps
in Lebanon such PFLP, headed by George Habash (for the Marxist
groups)
and
the Al-Fatah, headed by Yasser Arafat (for the Islamic factions).
Both groups were members of the PLO.
 The question that Behrooz and his comrades in arms should ask
themselves is not why the Left failed in Iran. It is evident that
a movement so fundamentally alien to the culture and credo of the
people could never survive. The question that remains to be answered
is why a group of Iranians are still attracted to such un-Iranian
causes. The answer, I must say, lies in the treasonous minds of
these people and their deeply rooted hatred of their own culture.
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