goldensong

More than a little irresponsible

Your gleeful tone in reporting and connecting things and people and gossip makes it seem as though you are hoping that the Green Movement would implode.
What you are referring to here appears to be a set of personal exchanges and opinions by Rudi Bakhtiar and Hooman Majd on Facebook. I don't see how you can go ahead and take these personal exchanges over Facebook and make it sound like it is the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran's activity and official position.
The International Campaign has worked hard and come a long way to defending the human rights of Iranians. I don't know what your motives for attacking the campaign are, but your contempt for the organization shows.

Working hard for khamenie.

Mr Majd is suffering from some hearing and vision and moral problems.here is the person want to blame or creat the refit among people and Mr,Reza Pahlavi II always had a supporters and still does and will because only with his vision could be one unified country and path to freedom.

Majd's nonsense is called tunnel vision

All he is seeing is that the "revolution" didn't happen and now people have given up.  Has that ever worked anywhere?  When people rise up against a dictatorship they don't end it when the dictators say to end it.

Sure the movement is dormant right now but it is not dead.  Life is getting worse in Iran not better.  Inflation is worse not better.  Unemployment is worse not better.  Lack of personal freedom is worse not better.   

Everything is sacred

And My Personal Opinion ...

On The Turn Coat to King and Country :

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LmromTu-I

And Houman Majd's Newsweek Article

The Great Revolution That Wasn’t by Houman Majd

Full Text : ( Your Link to Rudi's letter does not work)

Thank God for modern technology which documented what Mr. Majd effectively chooses to forget. Mr. Majd completely neglects to mention that within hours of the polls closing on June 12, 2009, Revolutionary Guard forces stormed Mousavi's campaign headquarters and shut it down, but not before confiscating boxes of documents and computers, which they subsequently used to arrest many of the Green Movement's key players, thus crippling the movement.

Nor does Mr. Majd report on the horrific deadly attack on the Tehran University dormitories in the dead of night on June 15, 2009 (three days after the elections), where innocent students (19 and 20 year olds) were pulled out of their beds, some beaten, some jailed, and several killed.

Mr. Majd, furthermore, chooses to ignore all of the murders, rapes, and tortures that have ensued in the prisons of Iran, be it Kahrizak, Evin, or others in the aftermath of the "clumsy" - as he puts it - elections.

Not one word from Mr. Majd of the despicable "show" trials, where prisoners were over and over again forced to give false confession out of shear fear for their lives. Not a sentence about the subsequent unjust sentencing where 20 year old Mohamad Valian received a death sentence for throwing three stones during a protest. Not a paragraph about poor 19 year old Arash Rahmanipour who was executed in January for the charge "Moharebeh" or “Emnity with God.”

Mr. Majd also fails to mention (in any of his writings) that Iran is now number one in the world when it comes to executions That number quadrupling under Ahmadinejad's reign. Nor does he allude to the fact that Iran's prisons now house more journalists than any other country. One third of the world’s journalists in prison are inside an Iranian prison. I hope someone at Newsweek will ask Mr. Majd, why he was allowed to travel to Iran from the United States a month ago, and move about the country freely, when so many journalists remain in jail, most without proper legal representation? Just read the benign article he wrote upon his return and you will see that again he neglects to reveal any facts about the brutal subversion of the Green Movement by this government.

I would like ask Mr. Majd why, with his unfettered access, he didn't try to interview Hossein Taeb, Commander of the Basij Forces during the time of the June elections and the person directly responsible for the brutal crackdown on Iranian citizens, be it men, women, children, grandmothers, or grandfathers who took to the streets in June?

Why doesn't Mr. Majd write about Gholam Hossein Mohsen Ejei, the Minister of Intelligence at the time of the elections and the man directly responsible for the detention, torture, and extraction of false confessions from hundreds of human rights activists, journalists, and reformers in support of the Green Movement?

Mr. Majd, who enjoys the kind of access no other foreign journalists enjoy, should have reported on the atrocities ordered by the head of Iranian Police, Ismail Ahmadi Moghadam. Surely the Tehran University students deserve an answer as to why he ordered that bloody attack on their dorm rooms in the dead of night, an attack so violent it left five students dead?

Or how about Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran's Prosecutor General at the time of the June elections, responsible for sending detained peaceful protestors to the Kahrizak Detention Center, where four died and many were tortured?

The Green Movement hasn't been hijacked by anybody. If I can jog Mr. Majd's memory, and his “friend” in Iran who makes this ridiculous claim, Mr. Khamenei, On June 19th, just one week after the elections, during his Friday prayer speech, was already blaming foreign powers for the Green Movement, simply because Iranian all over the world decided to protest alongside their families, friends and loved ones in Iran.

The fact is this blame game is a game this government plays well, and foreign powers would have been blamed for the Green Movement even if no one outside of Iran had worn a green wristband or attended a protest. Ahmadinejad even tried desperately, to blame the death of Neda Agha-Soltan on the CIA! When that theory was refuted, the government blamed the doctor who was by her side when she died. And when that didn't lie didn't fly, they said she was an actress and now living in Europe. Her poor pained family can and have attested otherwise.

Of course the Green Movement is being blamed on outside forces! That’s not a new strategy by this un-elected government. But to say that the movement has been hijacked? Well, that’s just irresponsibly perpetuating a lie and a true disservice to the Green Movement, which is more alive than it’s ever been. That’s why Mr. Majd, the jails of Iran are STILL filled with real journalists, and heroic human rights activists. That’s why there were more police and basij forces out on the anniversary of the Revolution in February than ever before. That’s why the government continues to insist the Green Movement is the movement of the hated MEK. The Islamic Republic is doing everything in its power to devalue the Green Movement out of fear, because contrary to Mr. Majd’s assertion, Khamenei no longer “enjoys a fair measure of support.”

It seems to me, the likes of Mr. Majd, and there are a few of them, who close their eyes to the gross human rights violations that are happening RIGHT NOW inside of Iran and print nonsensical finger pointing drivel, only to keep the door open to be welcomed back by this brutal government, is a much bigger problem than any opposition group in Diaspora.

I like Sadjadpour. Majd not so sure. Rudi on & off on occasions.

Everything is sacred