Roxana Saberi interviewed
Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who was sentenced last month in Tehran to eight years in prison on a phony charge of spying and then released, is interviewed on National Public Radio. (The charge that she illegally bought wine was phony too.)
Among other things, she talked about political prisoners she met in Evin prison who have not received as much publicity as her case did.
“Many of them are still there today; they don’t enjoy the kind of international support that I did. And they’re not willing to give in to pressures to make false confessions or to sign off to commitments not to take part in their activities once they’re released; they would rather stay in prison and stand up for those principles that they believe in.”
Comments
| 1 June 2009, 2:36 am |
Cunt
| 1 June 2009, 4:17 am |
Who types a nice old word for the clinical-sounding vagina on its own and what can it mean?
Is it meant to be rude, and – if so – why?
| 1 June 2009, 5:43 am |
Roxana Saberi, is a talented, brave and, although it may not be PC to say so, beautiful journalist. I am overjoyed that she was able to return to the United States so swiftly after the pathetic trumped-up charges against her of spying and buying a bottle of wine (or was it a Spy Wine Cooler) were dropped.
I think the point Rockall666 is making is that the Islamic Republic of Iran presents a conundrum for the far left, not to mention a perfect place where they can perfect their near-perfect skills of double think. The far left adores Iran’s anti-American and anti-Israeli credentials as well as its support for Jew-hating Islamo-fascists such as Hamas as Hezbollah. The far-left also approves of Iran’s murderous and destabilizing role in Iraq. But of course the mad mullahs were also responsible for imprisoning and killing, nay decimating, the left in Iran. Once the Shah was overthrown, and an Islamic theocracy was established, the Islamists quickly saw to it that their quondam allies on the left were effectively disposed of, silenced or imprisoned. How the far-left in the UK, and the West in general, is able to deal with this contradiction is a wonder to behold. I think it must be something to do with quantum mechanics in the same way that a sub-atomic particle can apparently be in two places at the same time until the very instant when you try to locate it precisely.
| 1 June 2009, 1:37 pm |
The far left adores Iran’s anti-American and anti-Israeli credentials as well as its support for Jew-hating Islamo-fascists such as Hamas as Hezbollah. The far-left also approves of Iran’s murderous and destabilizing role in Iraq. But of course the mad mullahs were also responsible for imprisoning and killing, nay decimating, the left in Iran. Once the Shah was overthrown, and an Islamic theocracy was established, the Islamists quickly saw to it that their quondam allies on the left were effectively disposed of, silenced or imprisoned.
It is already well established that anti-American and anti-Israeli positions of the mad Mullahs of Iran trumps any and all ‘perceived’ abominations.
Such was the far left at the beginning of the second world war when the worshipped Stalin signed a non aggression pact with Hitler.
Evidently on autopilot. Possible?
Who are the political prosoners in Iran? Evangelical Christians, Trotskyists or embittered liberals?
Iran reminds one of the Aesopian fable about the frogs who tired of King Log and begged Zeus for a new king. When they got King Stork, they howled with dismay but they were unable to effect a second change.
Life under the mullahs sounds far from enjoyable, but the Iranian Leftists and liberals did everything in their power to get rid of the Shah.