And yet the one place where Moslems are cynical about Iran is in Iran itself, where the regime relies on a narrow base of support amid a state that (despite its vast oil reserves) is in economic shambles. Thus, the supreme irony of the Middle East is that the place where anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism are least potent is in the Iranian heartland.
The Progressive American-Iranian Committee (PAIC) wishes you a wonderful
and prosperous year in 2009.
We hope that all our demands for a better life in the US and a free and
democratic Iran come true. We will work together to turn our hopes into
reality and all our efforts into great achievements.
PAIC
The human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said: “Ahmadinejad’s apparently reasonable words are pure propaganda. His actions are devoid of love, justice, humanity and brotherhood. They involve the brutal repression of his own people.”
The application of shari’a makes it possible for the government to control the private sphere of citizen’s lives, and their personal interactions. Choice of spouse is regulated by law.
The Resolution cited inter alia documented cases of torture; the high incidence of executions and juvenile executions without proper legal safeguards; the persecution of women seeking their human rights; discrimination against minorities and attacks on minority groups like the Baha’is in state media; and the violation of a wide range of political rights.
While there are some reservations about the limited number of people surveyed (only 400) and the format of the questionnaire, we should however, welcome the results as the Iranian-Americans have in large numbers pointed to the common roots of their concerns. The results show in a clear way that the Iranian-American’s concerns are directly caused by the Iranian regime.
The Council on Foreign Relations and Brookings institution advisory report on the Iranian nuclear program and the policy to contain Iran. We advise our readers to study this important document co-written by Gary Samore, one of the most respected and influential experts in the US.
واضح است که تفاهم متقابل بین مردم ایران و امریکا از یک طرف تحت تاثیر سیاست های واپسگرایانه داخلی رژیم اسلامی ایران و از طرف دیگر به سیاست خارجی این رژیم در حمایت از تروریسم جهانی قرار گرفته است.
اگر ما عامل رژیم ایران را حذف کنیم، هیچگونه عدم تفاهمی بین توده های مردم امریکا و ایران وجود نخواهد داشت.
Parsi did not stop here. He decided to found his own organization in 2002 and set up the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). Here too, the success story is amazing. He inspired so much confidence that less than a month after NIAC was founded, the National Endowment for Democracy gave him a grant. Normally, it takes at least 2 month for NED just to process a grant application, but here the whole process was accomplished in record time. Over the next few years, NED granted him about 200.000$.
ASSO CORP. co-owns a property on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan with the Alavi Foundation of New York, a non-profit Iranian charitable organization. The Alavi Foundation, originally known as the Pahlavi Foundation, was created under the Shah of Iran in the 1970s.
