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The Europeans have always been like that and will always be like that. You should hope for nothing from them. Anything you get from this group is by your cunning, nothing else.

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Iran Dokht jaan,

Good questions. I do not know how those papers works were done. I hope this thing goes to trial, so that the public would know exactly what has been going on.

Best,

MK

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Killjoy jaan,

First and foremost, thank YOU so much for all your writings at iranian.com.

In my visits to Europe and interactions with Europeans, I have noticed that by and large, they combine their own excessive greed, a view of Middle Easterners as dictatorial, and a lack of ethics and morality in foreign relations (perhaps due to their own historical past in connection to Nazism, colonialism, and collaboration with Stalinists), the Europeans have no problem with making huge money from trade with the fundamentalist terrorist regime and looking the other way when the terrorist regime kills IRANIANS. As long as the terrorist regime kills, tortures, rapes IRANIANS, then the Europeans seem to have no concern.

Many Europeans have this racist view that Middle Easterners lack the desire to have freedom, democracy, and human rights. In this racist view, good things such as civil liberties, democracy, human rights (or socialism), are not appropriate for Iranians. In this racist view, Iranians deserve dictatorship, brutality, repression, and oppression, as though we are somehow genetically or culturally inferior to all other human beings and human communities that have overcome their past histories of dictatorship and repression; and have embraced modern, democratic and progressive values and systems.

I hope that the U.S. government as well as the European governments make a concerted effort to close down all the front groups for the fundamentalist terrorist regime.  They should begin with finding which are the front groups, and then proceed legally against them.  The primary difference between al Qaeda and the fundamentalist terrorist regime controlling Iran is that the fundamentalist regime has control over our oil and natural gas and has billions and billions of dollars. If it is immoral and unethical to have good relations with al Qaeda terrorists, then it logically follows that it is immoral and unethical to have good relations with the fundamentalist terrorist regime ruling Iran.

It is OUR job to condemn all those who value money and profit over the human rights of the IRANIAN people. The fundamentalist terrorist regime and greedy Europeans have a common interest in contradiction to the interest of the Iranians who want freedom, democracy, and human rights.

Again, thank YOU for all you do against the terrorist regime.

Best,

Masoud

Dear Masoud,

Thanks for the news article. I wish I could say, better late than never.

It's a shame the terrorist regime in Tehran has been allowed to turn some European countries and the U.S. into its own backyard for so long.

بازداشت رئیس بنیاد علوی در نیویورک

Let them catch these bastereds. I was given an educational grant by the Pahlavi foundation, and couple of yeras after the revelution these bastereds wanted me to pay them back what Pahlavi foundation granted me to complete my education. Can you imagine?. The bastereds instead of continuing the good work of the foundation, they decided to pocket the money for their greed and benefit.

Funny business!

It sure is suspicious Masoud jan. How would a property change hands in this country without proper paperwork? if the owners were the Pahlavis, then all these years the property's taxes and income were transferred to Boniad-e Alavi's name without any legal document? or did they sign it off to this entity 30 years ago? but why would they?

Maybe someone should let RP know, this is his chance! or maybe that was the whole idea?  who knows...

IRANdokht

my speculations

Iran Dokh jaan,

I had NOT followed this case, so I really do not know much. I suppose Alavi Foundation may have claimed that it was a private entity independent from the state in Iran. In other words, it is an autonomous charity organization not connected to the state of Iran. If that was their argument, then I suppose Reza Pahlavi or the Pahlavi family had a legitimate claim that it belongs to THEM and not to the Iranian state. In other words, if a charity entity is a private entity independent of the Iranian state, then that entity does not belong to the state and belongs to the family which set it up for its purposes. If that was the legal argument presented by the Alavi Foundation, I wonder why the hell Reza Pahlavi did not sue to get control of this private non-state entity set up by his father?

Inside Iran, Pahlavi property was seized by the government, but in the U.S., if that property was private (out of the state’s control), then how could the Iranian government own/control it? But if the Pahlavi foundation was a STATE charity or entity, then Reza Pahlavi or Pahlavi family did not have a claim on it and it belongs to the Iranian STATE. If this later is the legal case, then the STATE in Iran currently under the control of the fundamentalist terrorist regime owns and/or controls it. So, I am baffled, how the hell, anyone with a straight face could make the argument that Bonyad Alavi was not connected with the fundamentalist terrorist regime.

Is there a third category? I like to hear from supporters of the fundamentalist terrorist regime or anyone else about this. I really do not know what argument they have.

Could the al Qaeda have a charity organization in New York? If al Qaeda could not, then how the hell the terrorist regime ruling Iran could have a charity organization in New York?

Why FBI or other U.S. government agencies did not take action against Alavi Foundation earlier? I have no idea. I guess that the FBI was monitoring the activities of the Alavi Foundation to see who are the persons in contact with it. These are my guesses. I have no factual stuff, just my speculations.

Best,

Masoud

Masoud jan

When there is such an obvious disconnect, I have a tendency to believe in conspiracy theories, so... maybe the timing was right?

I know I know, blame it on listening to AirAmerica and KPFK too often ;-)

IRANdokht

I am surprised that it took soooooooooooooo long

Before the revolution, Bonyad Pahlavi, a foundation with huge assets, was set up by the Shah for his interests. It owned huge assets in NY. After the revolution, the assets of the Bonyad Pahlavi (inside and outside Iran) were seized by the new regime and given to the Bonyad Mostazafan. The assets of Bonyad Pahlavi/Bonyad Mostazafan in the U.S. were give the name of Bonyad Alavi.

The managers of Bonyad Alavi were claiming that they were not owned (or controlled) by the fundamentalist regime.

I am surprised that it took sooooooooooooooooo many years for the FBI to do something about these folks.

for real?

So I guess this clip was not a joke after all...

IRANdokht

heee heeeee

 بنیاد یادشده در سه دهه‌ی گذشته پیوسته از سوی مخالفان جمهوری اسلامی ایران به «رصد فعالیت‌های اپوزیسیون در لوس‌آنجلس و واشینگتن، تقویت جنبش‌های اسلامی در سراسر خاک آمریکا و نهایتاً کمک به هواداران نظام» متهم بوده و در میان این مخالفان به عنوان «لانه جاسوسی» شناخته می‌شده است.