Petty role model

While Mr. Bush wages war against ‘evil’ he is inspiring malice at home


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Petty role model
by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
12-Oct-2007
 

One of America’s greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, recruited a group of advisers from the prestigious Columbia University – they were known as ‘Brain Trust’. In their first one hundred days in office, the Brains Trust helped Roosevelt enact fifteen major laws beneficial to the country. Regrettably, today, Columbia under the leadership of a petty role-model, Lee Bollinger, is losing its prestige and has become a place of hate and discrimination. A noose was found in a lecture room of a black female professor.

America’s intolerable past is re-awakened at this prestigious university because Bollinger demonstrated to the world that under his leadership, Columbia is not a place of learning, truth-seeking and exchange of ideas, but rather where the powerful are permitted to dominate not as a result of their intellectual capabilities, but due to the interest groups that give voice to their authority.

The United States is going through a critical juncture. It is the leadership in the White House that sets the mood for the tragic incident at ‘Jenna 6’ and the audacious people such as Bollinger to surface in the manner in which they did. Throughout America there is a reappearance of nooses because hate-filled ‘God-fearing’ leaders have publicly announced by way of example that attacking those we feel are weaker, disdainful, or inferior, is the acceptable solution. Mr. Bush’s genocide in Iraq, his neglect of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and Bollinger’s disgraceful treatment of Iran’s president, Mr. Ahmadinejad, the next nation that is the target of Mr. Bush’s genocidal attack are such examples.

So once again, the ugly monster of bigotry that had been dormant is stirred in this country. During the Cold War years, as America was competing with the Soviet Union to win over the ‘hearts and minds’ of the free world, it faced the same monster – The Jim Crow Laws and segregation. How could it brag of democracy, human rights and the American Dream when blacks had no rights? It set out to correct its tarnished image through diplomacy. One has to wonder what will be done in today’s world where the truth is not so easily buried.

While Mr. Bush wages war against ‘evil’ he is inspiring malice at home. Bollinger’s ‘petty’ performance has brought wickedness to Columbia. Thankfully, the students of Columbia are resisting the evil temptation. Surely one must wonder why it is that there is not the same unity to resist the hatred they are brewing towards Islam. Does a Moslem have to have his/her head in a noose before we take action - Is the red, white and blue not solid enough to cover religion?

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich has lived and studied in Iran, the UK,
France, and the US. She obtained her Bachelors Degree in International
Relations from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She
is currently pursuing her education in Middle East studies and Public
Diplomacy. Soraya has done extensive research on US foreign policy
towards Iran and Iran’s nuclear program. She can be reached at sorayau@earthlink.net


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What is going on here? Is

by Jim (not verified) on

What is going on here? Is this all what you all know about democracy and freedom of speech?
Poor lady just a posted nothing against you individuals, but you attacked her like wils African dogs.
relax please.
you can have your persoanl post. Your name your picture, your ideas and we all shall read.
If you have nose job done or you are ugly, fine, don't worry. If you are a SAVAK or MKO or ZIonist then your attacks are clearly politically motivated so you would be Asian dogs. Sorry you are not from Africa.


Jahanshah Rashidian

Short views

by Jahanshah Rashidian on

Dear Mr Bahai,

Unfortunately, you went too far by generalising my short comment tackling one single point.  I do not refute what you or any patriotic and democrat mentions. Supposedly, the IRI is not the only evil, it dose not solve our problems; there are a number of unfair things that we can add if we were engaged in a general debate. But, I wrote a limited comment only about the IRI’s people abroad. I am sure that about it I am right. Regarding other issues you mentioned, you just past an emotional judgement over me. I oppose to every entity or idea which is injustice, undemocratic, racist, and chauvinist. I hope after the fall of IRI, we have to be pragmatically work out a democratic constitution for our new generation. Moral and politics must render in our democratic country an ethic entity.Now, what else we can do except firstly root out the seeds of ills all together? Should we denounce this moral task or forget the whole thing for the sake of the IRI and its different followers?If we are aware, conscious, but victim of IRI’s atrocity, let’s speak up our it without unnecessary polemics; let’s be more democratic than our heritage of traditions and religiously conditioned behaviour.As I have always mentioned, I am for unconditional democracy without any added title, therefore I believe in political pluralism, even if our society can in the beginning hardly digest it. What concerns the future; I am an Iranian-German simple citizen with no political ambition at all. All I do as a freelance writer, I try to develop the truth about the lack of democracy, Human Rights, and secularism in the world.What I prefer to be tackled by a democratic movement is the following. The IRI must be internationally isolated. In another word, all diplomatic, cultural, and sport contacts with it must be banned. All foreign accounts of IRI’s seniors and their related institutions abroad must be frozen. Their mafia activities in the Persian Gulf and around Iran must be internationally under controlled. International mandates must be issued against IRI’s officials for their crimes against humanity.So, there are many other ways that can be proposed on IRI’s officials, but neither military nor economic sanctions must be accepted. The UN and the Council of Europe should be demanded to approve resolutions putting the IRI and the political Islam on an equal status of fascist, racist, and criminal organisation. Such resolutions are not either beyond the legal competency of these organisations nor the judicial facts. This is an active contribution to elaborating a charter of principles for an IRI’s isolation.

In the meanwhile, such an Iranian democratic movement would try to oppose any military and blind economic sanctions on Iran.  


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What is going on here? Is

by Jimmy (not verified) on

What is going on here? Is this all what you all know about democracy and freedom of speech?
Poor lady just a posted nothing against you individuals, but you attacked her like wils African dogs.
relax please.
you can have your persoanl post. Your name your picture, your ideas and we all shall read.
If you have nose job done or you are ugly, fine, don't worry. If you are a SAVAK or MKO or ZIonist then your attacks are clearly politically motivated so you would be Asian dogs. Sorry you are not from Africa.


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To: Mr Jahanshah Rashidian

by bahai007 (not verified) on

Mr. Rashidian
You would say you represent a typical "opposition" to the IRI government today. Correct? Suppose a change in regime occurs and you and the likes of you take power in Iran. Is this how you are planning to treat those who may oppose your views, and you diagree with their view? If yes, shame on you. If no, why are you calling people names and doing what amounts to "Shaboon Bimokh" techniques to stifle the opposing views? Don't you think your techniques are more like what SAVAK did under the Shah and we all know the rest of the story? Isn't that method what the civilized world dispises? If you were not an educated person ( which I assume you are educated), you may have an excuse, but why you Mr. Rashidian? People can have opposing views and that is perfectly fine. That is what makes the world beautiful and interesting and make it work the best. Look at US today. With the similar stifling of opposition, that once great nation is falling apart!. No wonder Akhonds are firmly in place today in Iran. They see you and the likes of you as their "oppositions", and they say "no chance". I as a petriotic Iranian, who loves and respects every Iranian to his death say "no chance" to you and the likes of you as well.

Ahmad Bahai


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Re: Who are pro-IRI (to: Jahanshah Rashidan)

by asghar_ghatel (not verified) on

Mr Rashidan,
You forgot to label those who like yourself are members of the "$75M Club". There are plent in US and I am sure many more like you in Germany.


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To: Jahanshah Rashidiii : Did you east your wife's ... again

by shah_parast (not verified) on

Hey man,
You are too hot this AM, did you east her ... again this morning? Go wash your mouth and don't do these bad things again you bastard. If you want to eat anything, eat my ass.

Shahanshah Aryagooz
(from underground in Egypt)


Jahanshah Rashidian

Who are Pro-IRI?

by Jahanshah Rashidian on

The IRI spends a high budget for its networks abroad. Plus, it has set up a system of  money laundering to finace to hampering the activities and unity of Iranian opposition abroad.

The IRI not only has Islamic centres like Alavi foudations, Taweeds, Mosques… run by bearded / veiled Islmists, but also organises and hires agents, jihadi murderers, lobbyist groups, media networks, and sold intellectuals abroad who tactically should not seem bearded / veiled Islamists—some may look like as extravgent as our coquettish Soraya. These people should achieve the tasks that the first group cannot or should not fulfill, therefore are likely camouflaged.  

 

A typical pro-IRI- group in the West is CASMII to which Soraya and a clique of traitors belong--they are active on this site (Iranin.com).

This IRI’s lobbyist group now abuses the conflict between the West and the IRI to defend the IRI.

For them, the IRI is the safeguard of Iran and represents Iranian people against the “warmongering West”. They unconditionally supports the IRI and regards the Mullahs’ regime the most democratic and popular regime in the Middle East—see Mr. Ommani’s articles on this site.

Their anti-American phobia is politically their only common platform with the Mullahs, regardless of all IRI’s crimes against humanity.    

To this group belong the followin categories:

 

-A number of old Stalinists, Marxist-Leninists who never bothered about human issues or individual democracy.

 

-Some ex-collaborators of the regime in the first decade of repression with link or sympathy for Tudeh-Party and Fedayeen-Majority.

 

-Ex-Islamists, Muslims, traditionalists who turned the back on the IRI for any reasons and now can be bought or recruited again.

-Disappointed and unsuccessful Iranian intellectuals, tramps and vagabonds abroad who have nothing to lose except their dignity…

They all flirt for different motives with the IRI or their outsider factions.  


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re: Kaveh N was tortured by ....

by shah_parast (not verified) on

Agha Kaveh N.
During the torture, did they hit you in the head with a bat or with the dick of a big soldier? If it was the latter, did the soldier gave you a "roodeh shoor" afterwards? If you are not familair with that term "roodeh Shoor" it means the soldier touched your bottom with a bar of soap or bar of butter (any type, even margerine would work) and then you know what he would do to your bottom with his dick? Did he do that too? You poor thing. That is what CIA taught SAVAK during Shahansh Aryachees and it used to be done by SAVAK agents to iranian prisonors under the HIM Shahanshah Aryagooz.

Shah Parast


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I Kaveh N. , was tortured by US Government in Bangladesh

by kaveh_n (not verified) on

I now state that whatever I have stated on iranian.com was under duress and I said those while I was being tortured by US Government in Bangladesh. The fact is that I take money from Israleis to write against Iranians on iranian.com and other fora.

Thank you,
Kaveh N.
(witnessed by Jamshid, Olagh, and host of other anti-iranian parasites)


jamshid

Re: Stop-Bush

by jamshid on

Olaagh, YOU are the first one we DON'T trust. The crap you are giving us here is OLD, way way too old. It's like you are trying to sell us a 1950 model toaster, or trying to sell us your baba's used and smelly shoes. Olaagh in harfa maale ghadima bood ke melat khar mishodan. to engaari soozanet gir kardeh va hanooz dar 30 saal pish dari dar ja mizani.

 

ajab olaaghieh


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Hypocrisy is nothing new for AmeriKKKa

by stop-Bush (not verified) on

what you mention isn't even half the story a teeny tiny fraction in fact. During the 60's FBI violated many people's civil rights. Not only that but FBI actually shot people who were opposed to the war in Vietnam, planted agents who got the groups to do stupid things or sell drugs to them so they could be arrested. American soldiers (especially blacks) experimented upon with new biological weapons. FBI killed many black leaders and tried to blackmail Martin Luther King to kill himself. Of course many believed that they succeeded.
CIA developed new super-addictive drugs and sold it to poor inner city school kids financing horrible brutalities in Latin America. Your own SAVAK was trained by the best and bloodiest with brutal track records in Colombia, El Salvador, Chile and Africa. It's no joke. The highly developed scientifically produced methods of torture, violent repression and media manipulation were exported to all US puppet regimes.
If you are interested in a tiny fraction of what went on (and still goes on) in this country read this book called "It DID happen here" by Bud Schultz
//www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/2462.html

Case after case it shows the government brutal attack on free speech and free assembly. It makes this country just like soviet union or communist China. And all this was without the official PATRIOT or wiretapping rights that US Government now has. You can be sure it is still happening.
Just ask the "guest" at Gitmo, 90% of whom have done absolutely nothing. Poor souls have been driven insane by years of psychological and physical torture.
This is America and you have to have the courage to point out reality. Never trust the US government. Never trust any government.


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A Civil Campaign

by Mr Civil (not verified) on

Guys, I think JJ may have a point, so please refrain from writng such things as:

keer, koss, koon, kosskhol, kooni, keeri, fuck, dumbfuck, motherfucker, dicksucker, maadarjendeh, kharkossdeh, bache kooni,koon pareh, kosspareh khaar, zan ghahbe, reedam, goozidam, shaashidam, gaeedam, asshole, ass licker, ass sucker, shithead, shitface, keere ba'd az jalgh, keere shagh shodeh, kosse aabdar, koose khooni, keeram to kosset, keeram to koonet, keeram to dahanet, aabam to halghet, aabam to cheshaat, ...

and many many more words and expressions that you can think of. Actually, I would like to invite you all to complete my glossary of such words by adding your own contributions to the above list. Believe me it is all for a good cause. Obviously, there are always excpetions and you may wish to say which ones you think should be allowed.


jamshid

Re: Colonel H

by jamshid on

It is strange that Soraya who has had the opportunity of knowing Mr. Shafaa turned out to become such an imbecile herself. I have great respect for Mr. Shafa. Have you read his book called "jeaayaat va mokaafaat"? It's truely a great read.

 

Soraya reminds me of the bankrupt intellectuals who deceived idiots like me to go to the streets and chant slogans against the shah and get beaten up by soldiers while these bastards were selling the country to Khomeini. I SWEAR IF I ONLY KNEW THE TRUTH BACK THEN... I am mad as hell specifically at Soraya's type because her type lied indiscriminately about the Pahlavis and took advantage of the naive youth of those times.

 

The funny thing is that Khomeini made them all pay! Of course this Soraya seems to be one of those who was eating from the "shah's toobreh" and now from the "IRI's akhor".

 

There is a word in Farsi... That word is veghaahat... There is a better one too... and that one is ghebaahat... Both words describe this lajan who call herself educated.


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My Dear Jamshid,

by Colonel Hemayat (not verified) on

 yes, Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich!!! is the step daughter of Shafa, her real father was a corrupted royal army officer who got kicked out of the army and her mama remarried with Shafa, that is why she is so full of hate towards pro-Pahlavis. She also has had a bad nose job and a pair of cheek implants!!

Some one claimed she is a journalist, what her credentials?  She has studied in Iran, Uk, France, US, and Australia, and yet she only has one bachelors degree!!!!!! Wow the brain on her!!! Or maybe it means she took summer courses in junior high schools in the above mentioned countries!!!To my opinion , we are at war, true Iranians against the theocratic government in Iran. GW.Bush and his buddies have taken our side, FOR WHATEVER reasons they may have. We have to take advantage of alliance to the maximum. It is that simple, enemy of enemy is my friend, any move, word, action against IRI has my full support, anyone who throws shit at IRI people has my support, I would kiss their hand.I don’t fucking care what GW Bush has done to the US, Americans can deal with him their own way , I have only one objective and that is to free Iran, so short of bombing  Iran, I am ok with all the options. Any Iranians who criticizes the US current policy towards IRI is a dumbass and / or a traitor.

 Jesus motherfucking Christ, IRI, will be giving up huge parts of the Caspian Sea to Russians next week to get more protections from Russia, that is our sea, our land and they are giving it away, and then we have a Iranian cunt who feels sorry for Ahmadinejad!!

 As I said before , it has become fashionable , and trendy, a sign of mental intellect, and a way to make a name for oneself,  to be anti-Bush. And Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich falls into this category.And FOAD! Eat shit and die, Pahlavi is alive, H.IM. is deeply worshipped by his people, one day , we will bring his remains to his land and build the greatest monument for H.I.M and his son, Pahlavi III will have a part in Iran’s future whether you like or NOT.And Sara, NO, I don’t talk this way @ home? Got no malice towards my mother, my sister, my wife and daughter, only towards the enemies of IRAN.

 


Kaveh Nouraee

To Tonya

by Kaveh Nouraee on

Tonya,

 

 

You are absolutely correct when you say that neither Americans and Iranians are are should be proud of every moment in our respective histories. You are also correct that there is a tremendous amount of hatred in many posts that you find here, mine among them. Perhaps if you knew from where it stems.

 

 

We Iranians have been blessed with so much, yet apprecate very little if any of what we have. All of our natural resources are being exhausted or otherwise taken for granted. The revenue generated by the petroleum industry alone is enough to reinvigorate the economy five times over, yet it is being embezzled right out from under everyone, ensuring that the future of Iran will be darker than her present.

 

Iranians have a highly educated diaspora as you may know. So many Iranians who live very well. I'm not referring to those who were employed by the monarchy and left with funds obtained under questionable circumstances, but rather the ones who came to the U.S., Canada and Europe. They take full advantage of the economic and academic opportunities these free societies provide, while criticizing the very country that are hosting them and giving them these opportunties in the first place. There was a post from Curtis mentioning living in the US and being able to criticize it as a protection afforded by the constitution, which I absolutely agree that it is. However, defecating in the same place where you eat is not.

 

We proudly show off our PhDs. MBAs and BMWs. Unfortunately, some people have taken those things for granted. NONE of those things were obtained in Iran. They were obtained either in the US, Canada or Europe. We are here, away from our homeland, our culture, our traditions, our families. We have opportunities here that we will probably NEVER have in Iran. The opportunity has been lost, if it was ever there in the first place. We cannot live in Iran the way we do here. We may be US citizens or permanent residents, but we have to remember that we are still guests here, and sometimes unwelcome ones at that.

 

 

Some of these people who have their resumes at the bottom of their posts have multiple degrees, but not one ounce of class.

 

 

 


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To: gol-dust

by Islam is poison for Iran (not verified) on

To: gol-dust - How can you tell that she is anti IRI? Go ahead, I am listening?


gol-dust

Soraya a true patriot

by gol-dust on

All of you traitors who attack her, you'd better get lost! she is not defending the IRI, she is defending her motherland that you are betraying! she is a liones, you cowrds! she has more balls and inteligence than most of you guys who never reveal your real names! you probably have no intention of ever going back! shame on you for supporting godfather cheney and lieberman for attacking my people! you should be ashame of yourselves! wait a minute, may be you are MEK or shah's old boys! i hate the mollahs, but i would die to save iran and iranians anytime!


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I do not agree with you on

by MAJ (not verified) on

I do not agree with you on all the points that you have made,( to me it hints a little at being pro IRI and not enough pro Iran) nor do I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bollinger deserve to be mentioned by their names only whereas the two who do not deserve extra politeness directed at them, be called "Mr".-- Who?? Both Bush and Ahmadinejad!
Am I being "petty"? -- Sure I am.
Isn't being "petty" and using the word in vogue these days?


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Great writing for dumb people

by Hassan Rohani (not verified) on

Unbelievable... no wonder Iran is so screwed up for dumb cunts like you on the payroll of IRI.


jamshid

Re: K1

by jamshid on

"...the gift of shaboon bimokh and the CIA coup det in 1953 to Iranians..."???

That was your comment K1. Now go back to Curtis's comment and read it again. You are one of the drugged ones he is talking about. Do you honestly think that our Persian behavior was shaped only in 1953? What about the past 2500 years? What about Islam? What about the rest of our history?

Imbecile.


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yet again Col. Sanders shows his true colors

by sara214 (not verified) on

Colonel of KFC...you say you were a proud member of Savak? What an accomplishment! You should go back to Iran, and see what happens. Yet again, you are putting down people, especially women, and attacking their appearances and using sexist remarks and commenting about lewd and disgusting acts b/c you have nothing with substance or anything intelligent to say. You never asked a fellow Iranian's question from a previous blog: Do you speak to your wife, or daughters with such malice? Do you constantly verbally and sexually harass them? Please don't hide from the question, answer it since you have so much time to waste being on the internet, and do nothing but comment on people's blogs.


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Re: Are people reading the same article (from Curtis)

by K1 (not verified) on

Curtis
I think you described us iranians well. In my opinion, the reason may be that over the 36 or so years under the shah, since people were not free to participate in the political process and therefore treated as nothings, they do not know ho to do that when they are free, and many do not understand social responsibility, the way freedom is to be excersized, etc. This article is a good case in point; it provides a point of view that many may share and many others may disagree with. As you can tell, we iranians don't even know how to react to something we may disagree with. Those who are against the views of the author, are treating the author as a worthless piece of ... and some of those who agree with her, are reacting harshly to those as well. This is the gift of shaboon bimokh and the CIA coup det in 1953 to Iranians; sad as it may sound.

Regards.

K1


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true freedom

by Curtis (not verified) on

Anyone who thinks you can't live in America and criticize it at the same time does not understand our constitution.


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Thanks JJ for the ability to

by Anonymous34343434 (not verified) on

Thanks JJ for the ability to have threads. These IDIOTS are so full of it. Yeki az yeki bad tar.

Nourani...to bazam harf zadi??? bache beshin zer nazan. Ki az to porsid aslan?


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Time to be modern.

by Islam Buster (not verified) on

Time to be modern.


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are people reading the same article?

by Curtis from Simi (not verified) on

They say if you are delirious or drugged up you see things that don't exist, your whole perception of reality is altered. No matter how much you concentrate, you can't stop seeing ghosts. This is my hubmle explanation about Persian people. In my (Very limited) experience with them at work, they are professional and progressive people *most of the time*. But when talk turns to Iran or politics, they become like druggees, insisting on things that aren't there and shoving their opinion down the throat of anyone in their path. They want people to believe patently rediculous things without any proof. Actually the proof is supposed to be that they are Iranian and you are not, so therefore they know better. But in every case where I have researched the issue, their opinions turned out very biased and outdated, even demented. The responses to this short piece are classic persian thinking.

just my $0.02


jamshid

Re: Colonel Hemayat

by jamshid on

Are you sure this imbecile Soraya is the step daughter of Shafa????

 


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Thank you for your wonderful article

by abbas_Milani (not verified) on

Thank you Soraya. We are all proud of you.

Abbas


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Fallujah genocide is the face of US Hypocrisy

by AnonymousNot (not verified) on


Kaveh Nouraee

Foad........What happened to your spelling?

by Kaveh Nouraee on

All kidding aside, your posts, as disagreeable as they are to some (read: many) are usually clearer in both content and context. Your spelling and grammar are sub-par today.

 

 

 

Again, in all seriousness, do you honestly expect any regime change to come about through any peaceful process? The Pahlavi monarchy is more than 28 years in the past, yet you are still applying for the position of judge, jury and executioner (Kholkholi's old job, may he rot in Hell, that miserable, giggling, Arab-loving mutant). The murderous IRI is the issue at hand. This woman is proclaiming her love and support for this outlaw regime with her posts. Additionally, while I certainly will not argue with the fact that U.S. policy leaves a great deal to be desired, acting like a teenage groupie of Ahmadinejad, and treating him with respect while living in the very country that she loathes is hypocrisy in the extreme.


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