“John Limbert was a hostage in the 1979 embassy takeover in Tehran.”
I am well aware of John Limbert activities in Iran including but not limited to his time as hostage. You need to dig deeper to get the full picture.

With regard to your support for no sanctions:
I do not know you to suggest you are or you are not a regime sympathizer. But I know you are day dreaming if you think green ribbons will bring about demise of the current regime which then leads to democracy.

With regard to NIAC:
Future will show its true nature.

With regard to; “It’s not easy to undo a 2500 year absolutist cultural tradition.”
I have news for you It DID NOT, it only change uniform from 3 or 2- piece suit to mullah robe and turban. Proclamation like that is scary and tells me we have not learned anything and we are doomed to repeat the 1979.

Babak,

Please do not invoke Vietnam. It is ridiculous. If you read my comments carefully you will see that I suggested that organizations whose members live in democratic society and have no clue about daily struggle in Iran cannot and should not decide for Iranians. I want them to leave Iran alone.

Remember Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi and his bogus insider information about Iraq and the road to democracy? NIAC seems to be reincarnation of Chalabi with different strategic direction. One thing is terribly similar though; its claim of knowing what works in Iran.
No one but Iranians living in Iran knows what works for them not you and not any of us who can write and speak freely and have enough to eat.

Pedestrian,

Read what I wrote for Babak, dude. Do you not get enough traffic in your blog?

John Limbert was a hostage in the 1979 embassy takeover in Tehran. You’re spreading baseless FUD about him and the NIAC. I too, like most Iranians, am against sanctions and war. Am I an agent of the IRI too?

Yes, I am proud of what our parents did in 1979. They shattered an autocratic institution, the monarchy, both from the political sphere and from national psychology. It’s not easy to undo a 2500 year absolutist cultural tradition.

In the next few years, our people will hopefully shatter another one that has plagued our country. Fundamentalist and autocratic Islam and thereby page the way for a free democratic society, as envisaged by our forefathers during the constitutional revolution.

Anyway, I think this statement from the NIAC response to the Times article best characterises what’s happening here:

“The judge denied Dai’s motion to dismiss the case on 18 out of 19 counts. Realizing this, the defendants have decided to maliciously leak those documents to a reporter at the Washington Times, Eli Lake, in an attempt to litigate the case in the media rather than in a court of law.”

Remember, it was the NIAC that started this lawsuit knowing full well that it would be under the full scrutiny of the court to prove it is not connected with the government of Iran. Maybe we should wait for the ruling of the court before we let ourselves be spun by neocons and MEK members.

How do you propose to stop the killing and hanging of Iran best asset, Iranians youth and educated? You wrote one time that you were proud of what your parents did in 1978 and 1979. Who in his/her right mind would be proud of that? What did Iranians gain from Khomeini occupation? Thirty-Five million Iranians have been born in captivity. How many more million have to follow their faith before people like the 100- member NIAC organization to wake up? NIAC members are thousands of miles away and have no clue what people are enduring in Iran. NIAC and other interest groups need to leave people in Iran alone.

John Limbert is on NIAC board of Director. We know Limbert was and is sympathetic to the mullah regime in Iran. Limber wife is an Iranian. I would be interested to know her family connection to the regime. Does anyone know that or does anyone know her maiden name?

And NIAC’s reponse to the Times article:
http://www.niacouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1551&Itemid=59

The MEK has had a policy of trying to defame anyone who opposes war and sanctions against Iran for some time. They would like to see the US invade Iran and place them in power because they certainly wouldn’t get elected in a democratic Iran.

No, I saw it first thing this morning. My immediate reaction is that these serious charges deserve more than a thinly-sourced attack on NIAC posing as “news” — Lake’s piece as a “reputable” journalist follows a loud campaign in The Weekly Standard to take down NIAC.

Given both the significance of the case and the politics around it, I am working through material before (hopefully) posting an analysis on Saturday.

S.