Barack Obama is reportedly "dismayed" over the sentencing of Roxana Saberi to eight years in an Iran prison on a charge of spying for the US. It's hard to think of a young girl like that being locked away for so long. It makes you want to look hard at the facts being presented.
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UPDATE: 3:00 PM - From VOA:
Saberi has been visited in prison by her parents who say she is in good health. She has books to read, and she has the prospect of a "fair appeal".
And I take back my comment that you don't hear any criticism of the trial being held in secret. Hillary Clinton had the gall to complain that Saberi's trial was "not transparent" in the face of all the "not transparent" trials of Muslims.
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Why do the Iranians think there are US spies in their country? Well, for starters, let's look at the history. In 2000, then U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine K. Albright said:
"In 1953 the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular Prime Minister, Mohammed Massadegh. The Eisenhower Administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons; but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development. And it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs." (Wikipedia)Yes, the good old democracy loving US of A overthrew an elected government and reinstated the monarchy. Why? Well it could have something to do with the fact that Iran's government had just nationalized the oil industry.
Eventually the Shah was kicked out and elections were held. But if you Google the words "velvet revolution" you'll find that the US has never stopped trying to foment internal dissent in Iran.
(Not to mention that Iran is crawling with Israeli spies as well, and all that money that the US has funnelled into Israel - much of which has no doubt returned home in purchases of components for nuclear weapons - and all the saber rattling may well be in order to keep Iran intimidated and distracted from internal matters.)
No one could be more velvet than an itty bitty pretty Miss Dakota. But six years is a long time to be researching a book, Iran must have thought. Besides, why was her father living in the US? Could it be for the same reason as many other Iranians who were monarchists and had to flee along with the Shah?
Is it coincidental that Saberi was arrested in January and in February the Persian press comes out with this: US dropping Iran Velvet Revolution plans? Notice that the article is well substantiated by comments from America's own news media.
Put it all together and it's little wonder that Obama is making conciliatory noises. And you certainly don't hear any criticism from the west over the fact that the trial was held in secret, not when the US holds secret trials and so does Canada and the UK, and secret trials were (are) held in Afghanistan for former Guantanamo inmates, all of these countries being partners in crime *.
You think Iran is evil for being paranoid about spies? Remember what Canada did when it felt threatened by Japan? We locked up all the Japanese residents in internment camps with no trials at all!
As an aside, four words in this paragraph in the Persian press article stand out sharply:
ABC news also exposed that Washington has been secretly funding and directing Jundullah militants to "stage deadly guerrilla raids inside the Islamic Republic, kidnap Iranian officials and execute them on camera" all as part of a "programmatic objective to overthrow the Iranian government".People who have suspected that the much publicized beheadings carried out by so-called enemies of the west's "freedoms" were actually staged by the CIA/MI6 will know which words I'm talking about.
Reza Saberi told National Public Radio (NPR) that his daughter was tricked into making incriminating statements.
Tricked, not tortured like arrested Muslims tend to be everywhere else. And she's been allowed to talk several times to her parents on the phone.
Since there is a general respect for women in Iran and Ahmadinejad himself has issued orders that Saberi be well and fairly treated, and in light of all the reasons Iran has been given by the west and Israel to suspect she is a spy, I don't feel inclined to worry too much about Miss Dakota. She'll have plenty of time to get her book written.
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* This just in from John:
HAITIANS OVERWHELMINGLY REJECT ELECTORAL SHAM
Read more about it here: More observers than voters
Haiti is yet another country where the US has overthrown a democratically elected government and where Canada does the bidding of the US.
The US and Canada undermined Haiti’s democratically elected government for years before helping organize its overthrow in 2004. They then offered extensive support and training to an unelected interim regime that oversaw a bloody campaign of repression aimed at Haiti’s majority political movement, Fanmi Lavalas. Effectively prevented from participating in the elections that finally took place in 2006, Fanmi Lavalas is again being excluded from senate elections scheduled for 19 April 2009.Kudos to the good sense and courage of Haitians! The rest of us should be taking a page from that book!
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3 comments:
Thought I would send you this link to an article on the overthrow of the democratically elected Iranian PM Mossadegh. It has some interesting background information on what brought about the coup and details of the event itself.
I need hardly point out that Mossadegh's overthrow came about as the result of a CONSPIRACY (there's that word again) between Britain's MI6 and the CIA, and that one of the vital elements of their plot was to use false-flag type attacks on Iranian religious leaders and mosques to make it look to the generally devout Iranians that Mossadegh was anti-Muslim, in league with atheistic communist elements in Iran and intent on making Iran into an atheistic, communist state like the USSR.
Here is the link to the article,
"A 'great venture': Overthrowing the government of Iran".
Quote:
Churchill later told the CIA officer responsible for the operation that he 'would have loved nothing better than to have served under your command in this great venture'.
There is something ancient, something vitally human in Persia (Iran).
Despite the brain muddling and bone cracking tirades of religious impositions and history’s maliciously scripted tides, all of humanity can look to that part of the world and find the origins of elements of us all.
It is small wonder that the Zionists with their feverishly perverted supremacist desire to kink history and humanity to their service want nothing more than to wipe the place from the pages of history through the utilization of grotesquely disingenuous and absurd vilification with the vile hope for pitiless and apocalyptic war.
Much like the presentation of this trial in our controlled media, the pathological Zionists continue to project the fetid contents of their souls onto others.
The posturing outrage over this trial in light of what western nations have been doing to people in the past decade and indeed throughout their histories could almost be ridiculously amusing if the greater intent was not so vicious and potentially deadly.
The subjective lens through which the West projects the negative of Iran while conveniently white washing our own seething multitude of sins is despicable.
Youngfox: I apologize for taking so long to post your comment. (You are as eloquent as ever!) Somehow a few comment notifications ended up in a junk folder. I must be more vigilant!
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