From: hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem)
Subject: Re: NBC Nightly News, Tue. Dec. 22nd
Reply-To: hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:57:42 GMT

In article <saied.725063150@cwis>, saied@cwis.unomaha.edu (Saied*) writes:
> hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem) writes:
> >In article <saied.725044615@cwis>, saied@cwis.unomaha.edu (Saied*) writes:
> >> 
> >>   
> >> For those of you who receive this message on time, the
> >> NBC Nightly News will have a four-minute segment on
> >> Iran tonight. (The Nightly News will begin at 5:30 CDT.
> >> The segment will be aired at the end of the program.)
> >> 
> >> Subject: The NLA and the Resistance's recent exposure
> >> of the regime's wasting of billions of dollars on
> >> nuclear projects.
> >> 
> 
> >Saied, you should get them to do a balance story on the Saudi's waste of
> >money on U.S. arms, the waste of U.S. taxpayers' dollars to feed the
> >Israeli war machine which includes atomic weapons, etc.. You might also
> >get them to mention that if it were not for U.S. sanctions, Boeing Corp.
> >could go ahead with the proposed deal to sell over $1 billion in
> >passenger planes to Iran Air, thus providing jobs to American plane
> >workers which are for peace rather than for manufacturing warplanes. 
> 
> First, I do not have the power to tell the NBC what to air.
> Second, I am sure the Resistance's intensive political/diplomatic
> activities in the U.S. may have had some impacts on the NBC's
> program (if it fact is to be aired).
> 
> With respect to Saudi's waste of money on arms: well, I am from
> Iran and thus concerned about the people of Iran. In addition,
> unlike you, I am not nosey about and would not like to interfer
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> in the affairs of other countries. I leave it to the Saudi activists
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> and/or the U.S. activists to loud their concern about the Saudis
> and/or Israelis military programs.
> 
> Hey Brad, there are a lot of problems with your society. Why
> don't you begin doing something about it instead of spending
> your time justifying the policies of the terrorist, repressive
> Khomeini regime?
> 

If you are not "nosey", as you put it, why are you so pleased with MKO's
interference in U.S. affairs or their request that the U.S. government
interfere in Iran's affairs? 

As far as your last statement, I do what I can. Furthermore, you are
wrong if you think that I am trying to justify actions of the IRI. I am
only trying to point out MKO hypocrisy. 

I agree with you that Rafsanjani's military budget is a waste of money
but in comparison to similar spending in the region it is not
outstanding. It is amazing that no outcry was made years ago when he
first announced his plans. Don't you find this a little hypocritical? I
recall when the State Department held a press conference on this subject
about a year ago I was shocked. Imagine! I had known about Rafsanjani's
budget long before this from reading Kayhan Havai, etc. Now here was the
State Department holding an official press conference as if the CIA had
just uncovered some secret plot! 

There are people in this country who would like to do to Iran what the
U.S. did to Iraq. MKO is feeding them with excuses (I watched the NBC
"news" piece. Was it the MKO which got them to use the term "Islamic"
bomb? Who do you suppose is responsible for that?). If you care about
your country, I think you should watch what you do. Has Saddam Hussein
left office? Over 100,000 Iraqis have died and the country is in ruins.
This is the force you are playing with.

Brad Hernlem (hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian