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are courts everywhere are kangaroo courts

all of them are kangaroo court, even here in the good old US of A. If you have noticed anything in this country court lately every since the "war on terror" started, then there is no questions that kangaroo court exit right here. Anytime you see a young black or Hispanic young man go to jail for many years for drug possession you notice the kangaroo court. Notice the young back boys in Jena Louisiana. Enron thieves go to jail and not shown in orange coverall but a black official are shown repeatedly on TV in jail outfit. All government are repressive in one way or another. Some are smarter than the other. this country is smarted than most. Russian police pushes and shoves and here we sent the F B and I to visit you in the place of work in suit and tie of course. In Iran they attack you in the Street. Here we use I, R and S to check your bank account. just a different way of doing thing, but it's done everywhere. All government are like Mafia. Just don't cross them and you be OK.

I don't want to protect

I don't want to protect khalaji, I don't know what he is doing but this doesn't legitimize derakhshan's act.
As Khalaji says in a free country, the freedom come with responsibility.When my accusiation without proof can put someone in danger, the law should prevent it.
and this is exactly what Khalaji is doing, please stop saying nonesense and just picture the situation as a legal fight, then let your conscious judge.

Drakhshan gang at work!!!

From the comments posted here I see that Drakhshan gang along with IRI agents are already at work. You can recognize them one by one from the vocabulary that they use.
Mr. Khalaji, don’t let this guy get away with it this time. He has to pay some of his debt soon or later.

Boo hoo - if ya can't take the heat...

What a crybaby this Khalaji is! "Oh! I took a high-paying job with the Israeli lobby and this one guy with a blog said I was an idiot and now I'm so sad!" And he asks his rich, right-wing lawyers to sue this guy who has a blog who's saying "You know, Khalaji is working for the Israeli lobby..." As others have said - the Iranian Chalabis are now all smelling blood. They fill their pockets, and run around Washington hoping for a bit of meat to chew on. They take jobs with pro-Israeli think tanks and buy expensive suits with their paychecks, as they count down the days for the bombing of Iran to begin. Save it, Mr. Khalaji - we know your game. You're a pathetic traitor - at least be a man and take the flak, since you're being paid so much to do it.

Khalaji et al.

I sent this email a while ago to the Donkey's Party list and frankly I think no one had enough "hoseleh" to read it. The email was originally in response to one -out of many- of Khalaji's policy watch reports and articles advocating economic sanctions against IRI. I think thesedays even the key players of the Project for the NEW AMERICAN CENTURY are avoiding the language that directly advocates war. Mr. Khalaji is no exception to this. After all what is Mehdi Khalaji but a simple employee of a Washington neo-conservative think-tank? He hangs around with the Israeli military experts at work and drives his Lexus-SUV (which I believe is now a Jaguar ), but if not him, then who? Here is the email:

I sometimes wonder if our friends such as Mr. Khalaji and the gang of the native-informant experts (trained in Sorbonne and all) are aware of the historical role they are playing (I mean they are certainly very well aware of the mainstream political language when they call the members of the Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, Bus Drivers). Khalaji's tone in logically advocating sanctions as the only solution to Iran's problem reminded me to remind him of the good old Iraqi situation (I am doing some research on the matter so that I might be able to pursue some friends to write on Iraq in Persian to raise some awareness on the situation). I was reading Tyner's " The Business of War: Workers, Warriors and Hostages in Occupied Iraq" some time ago and wondering if the ignorance of our native-informants in world history is at all contributing to the sort of writing we are witnessing on Iran. Aside from Tyner's main thesis that the actions of the Bush administration reflect a continuity with earlier administration namely the American imperial expansion through intervention, Tyner used a rather over-used metaphor of the Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four that I felt I had to share with Mehdi:

It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest in his capacity as an administrator. It is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones; but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of doublethink. Meanwhile, no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world.

At the same time I was writing this email I was also wondering if it is even worth writing anything in line with my student activist work and effects of advocacy of sanctions and what happened to Iraq (and how many children died each year ...) which I thought I should spare you the rowzeh since arguments as such is old news for the members of this list. I suppose it is the "Manifest Destiny" of our friends Ramin Ahmadi, Akbar Atri, Mehdi Khalji et al. (natives of the third world) to be part of the greater "Manifest Destiny" and I suppose it makes little or no difference who is lying and why! After all before our friends decided to be "active" in making the world a better place it was President Polk who in 1848 made sure to legitimize US actions in Mexican war by saying that the land gained by the US is of little value to Mexico and with US domination the land will be of "great benefit to United States, the commercial world and the general interests of Mankind" (Tyner, 2006, p.35). In the same line of arguments President Jackson thought of US expansions as "extending the area of freedom" and President McKinely argued that the war on Philippines was not a conquest but a move for love of freedom and for the sake of humanity (ibid). Of course if one looks for "manifests" one finds "manifests" in the 1992 commissioned writings of Paul Wolfowitz (a good friend of Iran and Iranians) for then secretary of defense Richard Cheney where he argued that that American military power can be used to punish the use of weapons of mass destruction even in conflicts that otherwise do not directly engage US interests" (Tyner, 2006, p.50). Further Wolfowitz suggested that "an unchallenged American Hegemony in the world" is needed and "pre-emptive military force can be used to maintain this position (ibid). Ironically enough those who pushed for sanctions on Iraq were the same ones who pushed for military action and were the same ones who pushed for further economic liberalization after the invasion of Iraq to institutionalize the norms of neo-liberal governance in such way that benefits the US long term plans in the region. So, for example after the oil for food program, the CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) ended Saddam's "protectionism" including the subsidies on fertilizers, pesticides which adversely effect Iraq's food production and depended Iraq on imported food now compromising 25% of Iraqi government's revenue in the form of the imported monthly food basket (See Herring and Rangwala's "Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and its Legacy " 2006, p.222). The case for Iraqi agriculture seems to be a criminal one as far as I am concerned with the CPA now banning seed saving and sale of genetically modified seeds arguing that the farmers have to pay patent holders their share (Herring and Rangwala, 2006, p.240). This is particularly interesting when it becomes clear that the patent holders are none but the multi-national companies such as Bayers and Dow Chemical and the century old farming systems of the Iraqis is of no value in this new global world order as they have never registered their patented agricultural methods in any international legal body. Of course the CPA is too involved in caring for the benefits of all US-businesses and while it is allowing for the %100 foreign ownership of all businesses in Iraq (except for those involved with natural resources initial processing, i.e oil), it make sure that those trades are liberalizing enough to only allow US-friendly companies or processes to gain benefit from them (Herring and Rangwala, 2006, 227).

I was also wondering how people become native informants and experts? Is the training at Sorbonne or merely visiting Sorbonne? By the way, what does training at Sorbonne mean? Do universities now train experts and give them a title of "trained at Sorbonne?" While I understand that those who need "experts" will find experts, I really think we should be more critical of native informants and think thank experts short cutting the academic processes and the tenure-tracks!

Khalaji, is this a joke? Do you really believe this?

. من ناگزیر مقامات مربوطه آمریکایی و کانادایی را در جریان این امر گذاشته‌ام. با این همه، حسین درخشان - چه از وجود این ای-میل‌ها آگاه باشد چه آگاه نباشد - مسئول مستقیم هر اتفاقی است که هر جای جهان برای من بیفتد.

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Translation: I have briefed US and Canadian officials. Whether or not Derakhshan is aware of these emails, he is directly responsible for any incident that happens to me anywhere in the world.

Kids Fighting

I don't know much about either one of you but it seems that more than anything this is just a silly fight, very much like kids fighting. It seems that mullahs do have a connection with God after all, because all their oppositions are busy fighting each other.

Personally, I think you would be better off resolving this out of court.

Mehdi Khalaji helps bring on Richard Perle's Orgasm/bomb on iran

I can't believe any iranian would work for Richard Perle.... but We have Amir Fakhravar and You Mehdi Khalaji and Reza Pahlavi. These people don't care about iran and are exploiting iranians who come to their side and there are even stupider iranians who are chanting in favor of the NEO CONS! iranians deserve their shitty leaders look at who we turn to in the states.... other blood thirsty monsters like richard perle and wolfowitz who will orgasm once the first bomb goes off on Iran just like they did when it happened in Iraq.

Canadian court in Toronto is a kangaroo court

Are you new to Canada? Are you familiar with the human rights violations and homeless problems in Canada? Toronto is a god forsaken frozen city with injustice being piled on the immigrant community. We need to inform the immigrants all over the world not to be fooled and don't go to Canada and Toronto because you'll be trapped. Courts in Toronto are based on British system and are there to only enslave immigrants and serve the Queen. Stop the lies! tell the truth about Canada!

Ali23 that's such an

Ali23

that's such an original response, va ali.

i wounder how does it feel like to live in your binary universe.

A.

I support you

I think this is perfect lesson for Hoder, at least from now on, he will think twice about what he writes and make sure he can later defend it in court. I think the best approach would be play hardball in court, give him some hard time, then dismiss the case after his apologies.
I think even writing style of Hoder and his followers here, and their comments is enough for an independent to figure out the respect and weight of both sides.

Iranian Chalabi's have already applied for the job

Iranian Chalabi's have already applied for the job. The adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University Trita Parsi, and soon to be dr. Niki Akhvan, Dr. Abbas Milani, and Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi. Let us start a petition against Trita Parsi. He did it for Rob Sobhani! He shouldn't be permitted to get a job at JH.

Any "Iranian" associating with or being in the close enough area of NIAC so much as breathing the same air as they, should not be bothering with Iranian liberation. They are IRI agents.

راجع به کدام

راجع به کدام دروغ حرف میزنی بی پدر و مادر؟ اینکه داری برای موسسه واشنگتن کار میکنی؟ اینکه موسسه واشنگتن رو لابی اسراییل درست کرده؟ اینکه موسسه واشنگتن رسما از تغییر رژیم از ایران و حمله نظامی و تحریم دفاع میکنه؟ اینکه خود تو از تحریم اقتصادی بر ضد کشورت دفاع میکنی تا همون بلایی سر ایران بیاد که زمان صدام پس از جنگ اول خلیج فارس اومد؟ اینکه دفاع تو از تحریم اقتصادی ایراان یعنی از گرسنگی و بیماری مردم میلیونها نفر از مردم ایران؟ اینکه موسسه واشنگتن زیر نظر پرل و ولفوویتز و کلاسون و بقیه جنایتکارهایی که مسوول حمله به عراق و قتل عام مردم بیگناه عراق بودن اداره میشه؟ اینکه تو توی سخنرانی دیک چینی که توش ایران رو به حمله نظامی تهدید کرده توی همین موسسه واشنگتن نشستی و براش کف زدی؟

مردک خائن کثیف فرومایه پست و لجن و خوار و ذلیل. تو ارزش هیچ برخوردی بیشتر از تف رو نداری. هیچکس هم حاضر نیست بیشتر همون یه دونه تف بیشتر وقتش رو برای کرم کثیفی مثل تو هدر بده. این تهدیدها رو هم خودت درست کردی که خودت رو مظلوم نشون بدی. هر خری میتونه ازین تهدیدها برای خودش درست کنه و بفرسته.

Iranian Chalabi's need apply.

Any "Iranian" associating with or being in the close enough area of Neo-con so much as breathing the same air as they, should not be bothering with Iranian liberation. I for one do not care who they are and what they call themselves. This should be a the pure at heart Iranian not "Iranian" operation.

Please, now Niki wants to

Please, now Niki wants to teach us about "freedom and responsibility"? She is a deadly IRI interference agent. If Niki knew the first thing about responsibility, she would not be advocating for IRI and calling it "CASMII." Nor would she be providing phony "expert" advice and speaking on every Iranian American's behalf. You are a Mullah lobbyist penetrating U.S. Political System. Niki! You are shooting your self in the foot with your aggressive attempts to silence everyone for pointing out the obvious. Now even more people will be looking into CASMII and NIAC and your past and present endeavors.

Oh, please, so now Mehdi

Oh, please, so now Mehdi Khalaji wants to teach us about "freedom and responsibilty"? How come these same guys who advocate "freedom" by deadly foreign interference are also the same ones are always misusing their power to curtail the freedoms of anyone who disagrees with them?

It Khalaji knew the first thing about responsibility, he would not be advocating crippling sanctions and calling it "diplomacy." Nor would he be providing phony "expert" advice to a neo-con organization like the Washington Institute.

Khalaji is shooting himself in the foot with his aggressive attempts to silence Hoder for pointing out the obvious. Now even more people will be looking into Khalaji and his past and present endeavors.

شما اول خودت رو معرفی کن

آخه مادر قربون بچهاش بره، ما که شمارو نمیشناسیم که دلمون بسوزه یاشهوتی بشیم! داری واسه خودت شهرت جلب میکنی؟

lets not take sides

I think we should not take sides here, lets these too hezbolahi folks fight each other, that would be nice to watch.
It is not our fight.

Everyone should start writing about Khalaji's treason

If you just surf for a few hours in the comment section of different weblogs, forums, websites or even on Youtube, you'll always find all kinds of violent threats that people make towards eachother. It can be about a sensitive political matter or just about football. It is not something new and something to play the victim for.

Most people despise the fact that you are working for a neo-con think tank with a bunch of criminals who are constantly plotting against Iranians. And we didn't need Hossein Derakhshan to tell us that.

As a matter of fact, Hossein Derakhshan didn't say anything new, he just repeated the things that everyone is saying about you everytime your name comes up in a conversation.

The Irani an bloggersshould not give in to Mr Khalaji's bullyings. He can not shut everyone up by lashing out at one.

Agh Mehdi, you are an IRI

Agh Mehdi,

you are an IRI agent. we know it and you know it.

kio gool mizani jigar?

also...

if you are living in west then you are an Ey-ranian mooftkhor too.

Real Javad agha

hehe, here is me, the real Javad agha. Thanks God our computers have unique ID and JJ can check them. hehe I tried to challenge these idiots with their silly posts, but they run away. They are back again.

Anyway, no one likes neo-cons. They have and are destroying the whole world for the benefit of a small group. I hope for you that your sueing money does not come from AIPAC or similar PACs. Otherwise, you won't have peace.

I am glad the court will be held in Canada because there might be less neo-cons.

I suggest to get 4-5 of known Iranians (Ben, Q, Ala, JJ, and few others) together to mediate and resolve this damn thing.

I support you

Mr. Khalaji, I support you 100%. It\\\'s about time to teach this hoder guy a lesson.
He is a real moftkhoor.
you are my hero.

Oh I forgot

sorry I forgot to add one more line:
بچه ننه

Hey man!

Your mentality is still geared towards IRI. Here you can say whatever you want to. What you said about responsibility and freedom is based on the same principal that IRI argues against intellectuals to crack down on free thinkers. What IRI say is exactly is that, for each speech comes the responsibility, where in the US, speaker is not held responsible for his speech. So what you say is a made up statement about speech and responsibility and it is inspired by IRI mentality. I am sure you have used it before in Iran against your victims. So I ask the readers to provide Hossein Derakhshan with information on the- know-about of Mr. Khalaji's victims in Iran. Mr. Khalaji, you have a slim chance to win against Hossein because you have to prove to the court the physical link between Hossein and people who threatened you. However if Hossein is smart enough would follow your footsteps back in Iran to find your victims. Now this is a real case for a court. People Help Please!    

کدوم حکم

کدوم حکم دادگاه؟ تو که فعلا فقط شکایت کردی و هنوز دادگاه حتی وارد دادرسی هم نشده. همیشه همینطوری سر مردم رو شیره میمالی؟

این تهدیدهای قلابی رو هم اگه بخوای خودم میتونم صدتای دیگه هم برات بفرستم که ببری توی دادگاه اشک بریزی.

خلجی جون، مشکل خود تویی که داری برای نئوکان ها کار میکنی، نه کسی که راجع به این موضوع فقط نوشته. حالا با زورگویی میخوای یارو رو از هستی ساقط کنی. بکن. ولی مردم خر نیستن و میدونن حق با کیه و ظلم با کی.

هیچ دادگاهی به توی با این شکایتهای بچگونه ات حق رو نمیده. شهر هرت که نیست.

Neo cons are stupid

You are a neo-con and anti Iran and the Iranian people. Don't cry wolf here for sympathy when you want to kill the Iranian people so googoosh can come and sing in one of your future cafe's. You are a sell out and winy little ass. write back and defend yourself instead of running to Daddy "uncle Sam". Little baby...

Is it true that you don't

Is it true that you don't even have a high school diploma, you never finished anything in Qom's seminary and you are not a PhD student in Paris or anywhere else, unlike what your biography suggests? Is it true that you were fired from Radi Free Europe (Radio Farda) and BBC Persian because they realised all these lies in your resume?

Is it true that you flee

Is it true that you flee Iran, because you didn't want to pay your first wife's Mahrieh and that Special clerical court in Qom was after you for that, not anything political?

مردک شارلاتان.

مردک شارلاتان. بیخود از بقیه مایه نگذار وقتی خودت پات گیر افتاده بخصوص از زنها که همه خوب میدونن با یک نمونه حی و حاضرش یعنی ماه منیر چه کرده ای.

درخشان در مورد تو یکی هیچ دروغی یا اغراقی نگفته و تمام حرفهاش هم مستنده. یعنی میخوای بگی تو به مامانی ترین آدم های روز زمین داری مشاوره میدی که چطور مملکتت رو بهتر نابود کنن؟ یعنی ریچارد پرل و ولفوویتز اصلا دلشون نمیخواد آزارشون به هیچکس برسه و هیچ مسوولیتی هم در قبال این همه آدم بیگناه که در عراق کشته شدن ندارند؟

بیخود مطلوم بازی در نیار و موضوع رو عوض نکن. مساله اینه که تو در کنار بزرگترین قدرت مالی و نظامی جهان نشستی و به کمک پولی اون رییسای آدمخورت از یه بی نوای مستقل که فقط یادآوری کرده که توی برای چه جونورهایی داری کار میکنی و چجوری داری به مردم و کشورت خیانت میکنی. حالا اون شده مسوول جون تو که توی واشنگتن نشستی و میخوای کسی رو که نقدت کرده خفه کنی؟

درخشان اشتباه زیاد کرده توی این مدت، ولی در مورد توی شارلاتان خاين دقیقا زده به هدف و تو هم با واکنشهای بچگونه ات دقیقا داری حرفاش رو تایید میکنی.