A response to F. Leverett and H. M. Leverett’s Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Metropolitan Books, 2013. By Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s former president and Mahmood Delkhasteh Recently, the authors of Going to Tehran argued that “the United States will have to pursue rapprochement wit ... Continue reading »
Banisadr to Khomeini:"The Shah was not overthrown in order to be replaced by a worse system." In an article which was published on Persian BBC,[i] Ali Amirhosseini recently revealed some information which shed light on why Khomeini conducted a coup against the first President of Iran. Ali was the person who delivered messages between Banisadr an ... Continue reading »
We live in an equilibrium of pain and pleasure, happiness and sadness. As my friend said once, living is nothing but the response to these two stimuli. We try to repel pain and suffering, as happiness and pleasure attract us. However, is it as simple as that? I mean, can we always identify what and where pain and pleasure are? And even if we do, ... Continue reading »
Is it just for children?! Did I tell you about the night when Sky lost Moon? No? No, I don't think I did. I'll make it brief.Moon wanted to be a mother, but could not. Mother Nature had forbidden her to have a child as one moon was enough for the people living on the Earth. There was to be only one - like the Sun, like God. Yet to be a mot ... Continue reading »
Because of the importance of the information in this article, I published it on Counterpunch: “In a personal interview, Banisadr revealed that Hamilton told him if there had been a clandestine deal between Reagan and Khomeini, all governments in the last twelve years would be considered illegal, and that this would be extremely harmful for the p ... Continue reading »
A few days ago Banisadr published an article about Argo:‘Argo’ helps Iran’s dictatorship, harms democracy http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2013/0305/Argo-helps-Iran-s-dictatorship-harms-democracy/%28page%29/2 A day after that Robert Parry, the renowned American investigator published an article in support of Banisadr's cla ... Continue reading »
Banisadr's article about Argo is going to be published in numerous papers and sites. Hufffpost is just the start of it:"The film has drawn public attention once again to this terrifying episode in both Iranian and U.S. history. However, by falsifying, misrepresenting and taking critical facts out of context, it delivers a pro-CIA message at the co ... Continue reading »
Seyd Hussein Navab Safavi was a young Iranian intellectual and a close advisor of Iran’s first president, A.H. Banisadr. Now, more than thirty years after his execution in 1981, for the first time the man who was his cellmate in Evin prison has broken his silence to speak out about Hussein’s final days. One revelation of this disclosure was that ... Continue reading »
"از جمله مشخصات فرهنگ آزادی، راستگویی می باشد چرا که دروغ، زبان خشونت است و فریب. کسی که دروغ می گوید، اینکار را به قصد فریب طرف/طرفهای مورد خطاب است که انجام می دهد و البته کسی که دروغ می گوید، طبیعتا برای طرف و طرفهای مقابل حقوقی قائل نیست و آنها را به عنوان انسان، صاحب حقوق و کرامت نمی داند." بارها از نویسنده انتقاد شده است که چرا دروغهایی ر ... Continue reading »
The Iranian Revolution should be seen as a process. While (as with many revolutions) it is easy to date the end of the Pahlavi regime in 1979, it is harder to determine the terminus of the Iranian revolution, if one exists. This problem is not specific to Iran. For instance, there is a range of competing opinions about how to determine the termi ... Continue reading »
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