Analysis: Iran's Ahmad Chalabi? - Claims Iranian students favor U.S. intervention

World Peace Herald ^ | 10/6/2006 | Jacob Russell

[unspun]

Analysis: Iran's Ahmad Chalabi? Claims Iranian students favor U.S. intervention

By Jacob Russell UPI Correspondent

WASHINGTON -- Amir Abbas Fakhravar may be the "Ahmad Chalabi" of Iran, said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, founder and director of the Syracuse University's Middle Eastern Studies program and Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School.

Fahkravar was arrested several times for his political activities while still a student in Iran. He wrote a book in 2000, while imprisoned, called "Inja Chah n ist," or "This Place is not a Ditch." The book follows the last months of 1979 to 2000 in Iranian politics, though no leaders of the Islamic regime are named. His writing style is what he calls "magical realism", similar in nature to Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm."

The book got him eight years in prison. He spent eight months, or 222 days, in solitary confinement. After four years, taking advantage of a few days furlough to take his medical exams, he escaped and fled to the U.S....

[unspun]

Backgrounder for what is going on in Iran, tongight. There may be more here than just scattered protesting....

[Patrick1]

What the Iranian people want is of little matter. What is important it seems is what CNN and NYT think. Pity.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump and cross post.

[Flavius]

Iranian students favor U.S. intervention

so im confused, in 70's students took out shaw to create caliphate of unprecedented proportions

now new students are new bright hope bringing peace and candy everywhere they go

not buying any of it good thing no one is asking anyways

[Jet Jaguar]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1715620/posts?page=263

[yldstrk]

I am certain the Iranian people want freedom from the authoritarian domination of crazy people. The problem is the same as with any Islamic population, they need an authoritarian government because reason means little to them. The Islamic religion relies on authority and eschews rationality or reason. Democratic principals rely on reason. That is why Judeo/Christian countries can live democracratically--reason is the common thread. Islamic couontries are authoritarian--reason must be taught first.

[Dan Evans]

There are different kinds of students. Think of an American campus. It is controlled by the left but half the students are conservative.

[oolatec]

Let the "Iranian students" intervene on their own behalf. If Iraq has shown us anything, it's that people in the region don't appreciate a gift when they are given one.

[iminamood]

Isn't Chalabi the fellow who told us there were wmds?

[TWohlford]

I stopped listening to Iranian college students sometime after the American embassy was stormed, and those inside taken hostage for, what, 444 days?

I was once told that the Iraqis would be waving flowers, etc too. Many no doubt wanted to, but the 10% that insists of being violent make it difficult to find them.

[Dan Evans]

Isn't Chalabi the fellow who told us there were wmds?

Everyone in Iraq was lying to everyone else about WMD. Even Saddam thought he has nukes.

But so what? The Islamic regime in Iran has to fall. We have to take the risk.

[Zeroisanumber]

Right. After a 4000-year history of martial pride and fierce resistance to invasion, the Persians are just going to roll over and die the second that our tanks hit the border.

I'm not going to get our boys killed just to put a bunch of the Shah's old cronies back into power.

[pawdoggie]

Let the "Iranian students" intervene on their own behalf. If Iraq has shown us anything, it's that people in the region don't appreciate a gift when they are given one.

Amen. When the Khomeinists were fighting the Shah in Iran, they had no trouble obtaining weapons and bomb-making materials to carry out their "revolution". If the Iranian students are at least as dedicated (and willing to put their lives on the line), let them show it. Then they might worth some (discreet) US assistance. Otherwise they're a deception operation, like the Soviet-run "The Trust" of the 1920s or the infamous "Iranian Moderates" during the Carter and Reagan Administrations.

[SunkenCiv]

"Today, Iran remains the world's primary state sponsor of terror -- pursuing nuclear weapons while depriving its people of the freedom they seek and deserve. We are working with European allies to make clear to the Iranian regime that it must give up its uranium enrichment program and any plutonium reprocessing, and end its support for terror. And to the Iranian people, I say tonight: As you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you." -- President George W. Bush, State of the Union 2005

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050202-11.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1715620/posts?page=287#287

[Rumple4]

Isn't this guy wanted for something ??