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The presence of Milani in both these documents marks the identical parasitical forces that seek to distort and destroy a grassroots democratic movement in Iran, which is launched against both foreign intervention and domestic tyranny. In Washington DC, Milani helps the US Congress contemplate and plot economic sanctions, covert operations, and even military strikes in order "to help" the democratic movement in Iran, while in Tehran, Iranian counterparts weave together a phantasmagoria of foreign intervention, velvet coups, and "cultural NATO", as they term it, in order to discredit that very movement. In Washington DC, Milani and his co-panelists seem entirely ignorant of the fact that their very gathering, ipso facto, was in complete denial of -- and in fact criminally damaging to -- that grassroots Green Movement; while in Tehran, a mere suggestion of that Washington hearing was enough to discredit even more the movement. While on the surface the Washington meeting was in opposition to the kangaroo court in Tehran, they are both in fact completely identical in their militant disregard for a people and their democratic aspirations.