Quintessential Questions

Craig

"Several lobbyist for China were convicted and sent to prison as a result of that scandal."

I checked your link , no mention of prison term, they all served community service or did house arrest. Totally different from prison term.

and what about Joe Lie Berman ?

NIAC Must Be Doing Somthing Right for bringing out the reaction

of the resident reactionaries.

Misinformation: NIAC lost its anti-defamation lawsuit against Hassan Daioleslam

Fact: The lawsuit is ongoing and is expected to go to trial in 2010. Daioleslam's motion to dismiss the lawsuit was denied by the US District Court in November 2008. "The Court concludes that defendant's statements are capable of conveying a defamatory meaning," the Judge ruled.

Q, keep on informing and exposing.

Q and Vildemose

Q, you're back at it, spinning IRI misinformation -- good for you. Those of us who know you for what you are, are glad to see that you're openly supporting another parasitic organ of the IRI, that being NIAC, headed by Trita Parsi.

I like the following joke, written by you: "I don't agree with everything NIAC does, but they and Parsi were a valuable voice for the Iranian community against the neo-fascists who nearly attacked Iran during the Bush administration. They support peace and dialog, so do I."

I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my chair! "A valuable voice for the Iranian community." Read: A valuable voice for the Islamic Republic of Iran.

That was a good one!

VILDEMOSE -- Please don't be fooled by the NIAC and Parsi, who's a snake oil salesman fronting as the voice of reason and peace. I often agree with your posts and think you're very intelligent, but think for yourself -- people like Q are the enemies of a free and democratic Iran, because people like Q actively SUPPORT the IRI in EVERY ONE of their posts.

So, think about it, why would a blatantly pro-IRI blogger be supporting Trita Parsi???

I submit to you that Trita Parsi (Mr. Green Card II), is in the long line of vatan foroosh (traitors) who promote the cause of the IRI, like Ebrahim Yazdi, the first Mr. Green Card, who fooled another democratic administration in 1978 into believing that Mullah Khomeini was the "Iranian Ghandi."

The job of these jackals is to obfuscate the truth -- and the truth is that the IRI represents the forces of evil and darkness -- to put it succinctly, their job is to extend the life of the dying beast that is the IRI. Everything else is pure dissimulation.

LONG LIVE THE GLORY OF KUROSH 

Craig Jaan Who You Gonna Call ? ;0)

What do you do When you meet Resident Aliens ? 

You Call the Ghostbusters !

LOL

PS: Love your Challenging Style ! Keep Up the Good Job !

Q & vildemose

Note to Editors: Considering the walking slander machine that Craig is, I see nothing wrong with Capt_Ayhab's post.

Amongst other things, he accused me of being in the KKK. That's both slanderous and racist. Especiallyconsidering he's called me "redneck" before, and that is an ethnic slur. I don't think his bigotry is at all funny, and I think the fact that he routinely accuses others of bigotry just makes it worse. I don't expect the moderators to delete his abusive comments but I do intend to keep flagging them. 

vildemose,

Is a green card holder considered to be an American???

Nope. I think the correct term is resident-alien. He's a foreign national with legal residency in the US.

Surtout Respirer à pleins poumons L'Air de MON Q ...

C'est En Effet Tres Sains ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX9SPTSY1iU

LOL

Thank you Q

Thank you Q for this blog and the e-mail which exposes Timmerman real good.

Fred has given his usual non-sense, I am surprised MasoudA and Amil have not posted anything yet.We need to support NIAC which has a small budget and few people working for Iranian right whereas AIPAC has a budget of over $300,000,000 and a staff of 400 people.  AIPAC members have been found to do all the wrong things even against the U.S. such as stealing technology secrets.

Here is The Real Green and tritas green

I think at one point there is a glimpse of trita running away... //www.youtube.com/watch?v=och26QdEEF8

Yes that must be it; the reason neocons ran away was the puny niac. The Green will accept nothing less than total dismantling of the islamic regime and its goons.

OKtaby 

 they and Parsi were a

 they and Parsi were a valuable voice for the Iranian community against the neo-fascists who nearly attacked Iran during the Bush administration

I totally agree that's why I like him. I do believe he wants peace and does not want the US involved in a stupid and unwinnable war. Having said that, I have my doubts about you wanting real long-term peace in the region.

vildemose,

maybe if you get out of a narrow-minded black/white thinking, a lot more things will make sense to you. Just a humble suggestion.

I don't agree with everything NIAC does, but they and Parsi were a valuable voice for the Iranian community against the neo-fascists who nearly attacked Iran during the Bush administration. They support peace and dialog, so do I.

Do you?

Note to Editors: Considering the walking slander machine that Craig is, I see nothing wrong with Capt_Ayhab's post. It is not profane and if you are going to consider a third-order insinuation like that "racism" than you will have to shut down your site.

Programmer, the Green movement was founded by IRI officials

like former prime minister and former speaker for majlis. none of them have said they are against "IRI". they are reformists. they are against hardliners like Ahmadinejad and lately Khamenei.

it started with the elections remember? the IRI elections.

This is starting to sound

This is starting to sound really suspicious if Q is defending Trita. I like Trita Parsi and I really hope he is protecting some American special interest group and not the Islamic Republic....

Programmer and others

it seems to be the judge has already found problems with the allegations of lobbying being unfounded. what can change later?

i am curious, however, Programmer Craig, what do you think is happening really? why would Trita Parsi be secretly working for IRI? what's the motivation?

i canot see a credible scenario.

Is a green card holder

Is a green card holder considered to be an American???

The Largest Target of AIPAC/Mojahdin/monarchists is Obama

"Fact: The campaign against NIAC is coordinated by far-right neo-conservatives and figures associated with the Iranian terrorist organization the Mujahedin-e Khalq. While their attacks have been directed against NIAC, the larger target of the campaign is President Obama and his efforts to pursue a new foreign policy in the Middle East.

The aim to prevent Iranian Americans from contributing to US foreign policy on Iran was clarified by neoconservative Middle East scholar Martin Kramer at a panel at an AIPAC conference in the spring of 2009.

Kramer argued that Iranian-Americans tend to still have family in Iran and are therefore easily intimidated into backing Tehran. Describing the arrest of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari, Kramer said:

"The entire episode suggests the ways in which Iran can have behind the scenes leverage over Iranian Americans, many of whom occupy key positions in the think tanks and are even being brought now into the administration...What this means is that we have to be extremely cautious about what we take away from Iranian Diaspora communities when it comes to understanding Iran. Many of these communities desperately want access to their own country. And it dramatically tilts their analysis toward accommodation."

Neoconservative activists and the MEK supporters working with them long for a resurgence of the heavy-handed, pro-war and anti-diplomacy approach of the Bush years - an approach that is sure to fail and destroy any real chance of democracy in Iran. That is why they are engaging in a smear campaign: to win back political influence by any means necessary.  By destroying the reputations of individuals and groups that support Obama, the goal of neoconservative activists is to undermine Obama's whole presidency and begin paving the way for their own return to power.

For more information see the page "Who's Behind the Smears"

ID

What do you know about the green movement? 

I know that the green movement is opposed to the IRI, which seems to be more than you know since you aren't opposed to the IRI yet claim to be in the opposition!

Last time you spoke of the greens, you were confused...

Yes, well, I get confused easily when I see people who seem to be supporting both the IRI and the opposition to the IRI. Maybe one must be Iranian to understand how such stances are possible? :o

Ayhab

flagged you for being abusive and racist. I think that's the first time I ever flagged you. I'm tired of you complaining about everyone else while you are one of the worst offenders. From now on I'm not replying to any of your comments with anything but flags.

Green card

According to Times article Parsi is a green card holder.

//www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/13/exclusive-did-iranian-advocacy-group-violate-laws/print/

Craig

What do you know about the green movement? Last time you spoke of the greens, you were confused and worried they might hit you over the head in LA! 

Please don't extend your legs beyond your rug  ;-)

IRANdokht

vildemose

Is he a citizen or not?? 

According to weekly Standard and several other journalists:

//www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/1...

1. Trita Parsi claims to speak on behalf of Iranian-Americans, but he
is not an Iranian-American. Parsi is not a U.S. citizen; he holds
passports from Iran and Sweden. Parsi's allies claim his critics have
unfairly questioned Parsi's loyalty to this country--or accused Parsi
of dual loyalties. If Parsi's loyalties are divided (and it's not clear
that they are), then they are divided between Sweden and Iran.

The answer is "not"

Q & ID

Which part of "the judge merely declined to dismiss it" are you not understanding? The only way a judge would ever dismiss a lawsuit before it even makes it to court is if it was obviously frivolous. You seem desperate to act as if the case has already been not only tried but won. Why is that?

ID, I'm gratified that you've gone back to hanging out with the usual suspects on this website :)

How long will it be before you start posing as a "Green" again? Or do you really think nobody notices when encourage and praise the regime goons on this website?

Craig

you note[ They better hope they don't have people like me on the jury]

Thanks heavens for US judicial system, with all its short comings it is quite capable of weeding out biased and bigot potential jurors from the jury pool and kick them out.

Of course unless you wish it was pre 1950, somewhere in Alabama and you were sitting on a jury stand for some KKK members, then you would have passed for sure.

What is it about due-process that you still don't get despite being borne to this land?

-YT 

Once again Craig, pay attention

The judge merely declined to dismiss it.

Yes!
AFTER REVIEWING DAI'S "EVIDENCE" OF TRUTH.

what's been dug up so far I'd say it isn't looking good for NIAC.

I'd say you really have no clue what evidence is, and don't really care to understand since you are clearly biased. Which is why...

They better hope they don't have people like me on the jury

Nobody will ever let you serve on the jury.

Fred: From what Trita

Fred:

From what Trita Parsi would say during his interviews, I was under the impression that he is a naturalized American. My understanding is for non Americans presenting themselves as Americans is grounds for legal action by the federal government.  

Is he a citizen or not?? 

The question is: who is defending Trita not-parsi? and why?

answer: the usual suspects and because they are vatan foroush. 

OKtaby

Thank you Q

When the neocons and AIPAC are helping the Mojahedin to make such accusations against NIAC, they make me feel even more proud for being a member of this organization. 

There is a time to choose whose side we want to be on! I choose to support NIAC and the Iranian people whether in Iran or in US.

Thank you for exposing this treacherous alliance.

IRANdokht

Q

From your own link, Q:

In April 2008, Parsi and NIAC brought a case to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that Daioleslam had "published numerous false and defamatory statements that characterize [them] as agents of the Iranian government."

If NIAC can be proven to be acting as an agent of the Iranian government, then the statements are neither false nor defamatory. And NIAC would therefore lose this case. The case has not been heard. The judge merely declined to dismiss it. From what I've seen just today of what's been dug up so far I'd say it isn't looking good for NIAC. They better hope they don't have people like me on the jury :p

Craig, pay attention

His ruling merely means that if the defendant cannot prove his claims were truthful that they would constitute defamation.

No, genius. You don't need a seperate ruling for that. And furthermore your statement is simply false. You can still lie, but not quite defame legally speaking.

Judge said he didn't see enough evidence. The "truth defense" made by Dai is that the case should be dismissed because the allegations that he made against NIAC are true, and therefore not defamation.

Dai provided the evidence that was supposed to prove hi allegations are truth.

The judge has ruled that they are not true it specifically says he is "parsing too closely" and there's no merrit to "working for IRI". The case can still go on and it's possible Dai is found not guilty of defamation, but not based on truth.

Perhaps his lies wouldn't rise to the level of defamation. That's what he can hope for.

Actually, there's another possiblity. Dai may not have provided his evidence (a stupid move when filing dismissal based on truth defense) yet, and maybe he will do it later. But so far there's jack squat.

Read, genius, read before you lecture the grownups.

Fred

Didn't Trita Parsi found NIAC? And doesn't NIAC mean "National Iranian American Council"? If he's not Iranian-American that seems highly unethical, at the least.

ahmad_ & Q

Ahmad,

During the presidential election of 2000 Al Gore was accused of having financial support from the Chinese Government. Did anyone check to see if all those lobbyists were Naturalized American or not ?

It was 1996 but that's a good question!

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_ca...

Several lobbyist for China were convicted and sent to prison as a result of that scandal.

Q,

Your so called "victory" was the judge declining to dismiss the case as being without merit. His ruling merely means that if the defendant cannot prove his claims were truthful that they would constitute defamation. The case itself has not been heard yet. Haven't you been corrected on this before? You're not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you?