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MRX

I agree with you totally. They should apologize to the people of iran for the lies that they told them. Those lies cost people of iran so dearly, and changed the direction of a country that could otherwise be so advanced by now. I really believe in this proverb:
Kheshte avval chon nehad memar kaj,
Ta sorayya mirevad divar kaj.
We could see it easily from day 1 that revolution was no revolution for freedom and justice, but was a coup by deception; when they executed so many of shah's generals without a fair trial so quickly; when khomeini ordered women to put on hejab without asking people what they preferred; when ... That is when these now-victims should have objected and stopped supporting that deceptive serpent.

it seems like, it's

too little too late for some of these folks. Never mind that some of these guys participated in all/some the attrocities that were commited by this regime, but also the fact that to this date, these guys never even bothered appologizing to the families of the people who they hurt themself, makes you wonder if they have truly changed.

Jamshid

I hear you, but I am very dubious about real character of these victims, lest they turn into victimizers the first chance that they get. Remember, likes of khomeini, rafsanjani, rajaii, ....; they were mostly imprisoned by the shah, then played the role of victims, and then used their victimized status to gain power and victimize a whole nation far more ruthlessly than what they themselves had received before. We have to be very careful not to be deceived again by pretended victims.

Re: Baghi

I agree with Fair Judge. Baghi was a revolutionary who later became reformed. He began exposing the mullahs and their campaign of "deceit", a campaign which started well before the revolution.

He asked "Why shouldn't everyone know the true number of martyrs during the revolution?" He criticized the government for hiding the true numbers in order to "protect" khomeini's reputation.

That's because Khomeini, in his cassette taped speeches which were distributed among the people during the heat of the revolution, repeatedly stated that more than 600,000 (yes, six hundred thousands) were killed by the Shah since the demonstrations had begun. That would be two percent of Iran's population in those times.

However after a comprehensive research of archives in bonyaade shahid and in other sources maintained by the Islamists themselves, Baghi concluded that about 3000 were killed during the last two years leading to the revolution's victory.

He made similar conclusions about the Jaleh Square incident. During the revolution, khomeini and Islamists claimed that 10,000 were killed in that incident. Baghi brought that number down to 97. 

Ironically, the Shah's regime reported that number to be 96. This could hardly be just a coincidence.

Today we should support Baghi and anyone else who break ranks with the Islamists. Wanting him to "taste his own medicine" is neither  a politically mature thing to say, nor strategically correct in our fight against the IRI.

Baghi and Ganji are different

It is true that Baghi was a revolutionary and quite active during the revolution and this was a bad decision on his part. But he saw the light and he changed his ways and joined the civilised world.

He then devoted his life to improving human rights in Iran and campainging against capital punishment in Iran. He is different to Ganji in the sense that Ganji is an opportunist who has always tried to achieve his own political aims. But unlike Ganji, Baghi is not in it for his own personal benefit.

Baghi now talks sense and this is a rarity in Iran. He should be listened to as his ideals can improve the Iranian society's understanding of human rights.

I wish him well.

Sympathy? Why?

I have a hard time sympathizing with likes of baghi and ganji. They were part of the regime who brutalized iranians for years, they kept quite and cooperated with the regime in their oppression since the revolution, now they have turned into human rights activists because they have not been getting along with their masters anymore, or maybe they were not getting their share of power and wealth. Maybe they deserve a taste of their own medicine.