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Why Paint False Picture of Iranian Resistance?

Why Paint False Picture of Iranian Resistance?

Kambiz Assai
March 22, 2012

This is the question that has been on the table for some time now and one which certainly needs to be answered. The answer will no doubt yield to reveal many yet undiscovered connections, which could well match the revelations made by the wiki leaks.

The fact is that the stances taken by the US State Department has perplexed all those advocating human rights and justice throughout the world. The baffling has somehow aggravated recently, thus causing even more riddle for everyone. The State Department has for long chosen to follow a different path to that taken by the UK and all other European countries, and has decided to even ignore the ruling of the US Court of Appeal, when it did not suit its policies.

But the matter does not end there. It seems that you have to follow the route to the end if you get on the wrong train, no matter what the cost might be. As it happens to be the case, the State Department has decided to crush even the most well-known US personalities from both the Democrat and the Republican parties.

The matter has not yet stopped and it has indeed even gained momentum during the past week. Quoting undisclosed sources of the US State Department, two US official media entities, NBC and Foreign Policy, recently made slur attacks insulting the main Iranian opposition movement and a group of US personalities that have been challenging the US appeasement policy towards Iran.

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One last example that I saw was the article published in Foreign Policy. The writer Rogin repeatedly went over inaccurate facts, which he did not care to look into. He continued his inaccuracies when he described the MEK's twenty-seven-year base at Camp Ashraf as "its secretive Iraqi home." Camp Ashraf has never been secretive but it has always been open to everyone. From May 2003 until January 2009, the Camp was controlled by the U.S. Army, and many friends of the MEK, as well as Iraqis of all ethnic and religious backgrounds, visited the camp, as did journalists from around the world. The only thing "secretive" about Camp Ashraf has been the al-Maliki government's cooperation with Iran's Qods Force to isolate and suppress the residents of Ashraf.

It is indeed very unfortunate that the fight against terrorism and democracy has turned into a witch hunt which can only serve the very terrorists; this time the theocratic dictatorship in Iran, which has no doubt served to provide the financial as well as the ideological support needed for all terrorist activities.

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