From: saied@odin.unomaha.edu (Saied*)
Subject: Re: More Support and Recognition for the Legitimate Resistance
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:27:18 GMT

ramin@crchh467.BNR.CA (Ramin Moshiri-Tafreshi) writes:
>Ali Soltani writes:

>>
>>I can see all the internal and external supporters of Akhound Rafsanjani
>>are really burning and start to regurgitate the "the very well respected!!"
>>Keyhan Havaai.  Besuzid.  ...
>>

>I am not talking on behalf of everyone.  Personally,  I believe that we have to
>learn from the past and our experiences.  I remember before the revolution in
>(1979) people used to say "bAlAtar as siAhi rangi niest!".  They believed that
>we cann't probably get a new system of government which would be worse than
>that of the Shah.  In other words,  it can only get better, no matter what.

>Our experience shows that IT SURE CAN GET WORSE.  We now have a runaway
>inflation in Iran,  the new generation having been executed, killed in the war
>or handicapped due to it, ... .

Ramin, 

Of course you should be cautious as to whom you should
support or trust. The experience of the Khomeini regime
has made all of us to think twice before we trust any
one else. No doubt, Khomeini was a true charalatan.

At the same time, you should respect your own intelligence
and your ability to choose between good and bad by
examining all true facts before yourself. What you don't
want is distortion, lies, mis-information.

With respect to the National Council of the Resistance,
you have to study its program, its plans, its constituent
organizations, thier background, etc. The fact that
the organization and personality members of the NCR come
from diverse backgrounds should say something about their
respect for democratic values. Has it ever occurred to you
that the NCRI is the largest, the most diverse, and the
lenghtiest political coalition in Iran's history?

>From what I have learned,  "bAlAtar as siAhi rangi HAST!".  With the history
>behind the Mojahedin,  and their support of/by Saddam,  they are not suited
>to control Iran.

The above are all mis-information:

	* The Mojahedin never expressed support for the Iraqi
	  government except for its peace and cease-fire proposals
	  during Iran-Iraq war.

	* There is no evidence that Iraq or any government has
	  given support in terms of military or financially to
	  the Mojahedin.

	  With respect to political support and recognition, the
	  Mojahedin seek every government and organization's 
	  support because that would imply the condemnation of
	  the Khomeini regime.

	  Furthermor, even if the Mojahedin receive financial
	  support from anyone, as long as the do not compermise 
	  their position, then so what? The Mojahedin have not
	  compermised any of the principles or items of the NCRI
	  program that was established ten years ago.

	* The Mojahedin have niether stated nor want to control
	  Iran. They are just one meber of the NCRI whose goal is
	  to established a democratic system in Iran.

>Mr. Rajavi's agenda is to get even with regime.

No true.

>I don't 
>believe that it will go beyond the revenge for being forced out of Iran after
>being part of this goverment

Another mis-information. The Mojahedin were never part of the
Khomeini regime. They run for offices, like any other political
party, but they never actually held any position or office.
From the very beginning, they were an opposition group.

>while it was using chemical weapons on the
>Kurds.  I clearly remember Mojahedins' strong and complete support of the new
>government when Kurds were being killed.

No Ramin, the above is incorrect.  The opposite is true.
The Kurdish leaders have always aknowledged that. The
Kurdish Democratic Party was one of the first to join
the NCRI. The largest faction of the KDP is still a
strong supporter od the NCRI. In fact, the KDP recently
published a list of Kurdish victims of the Khomeini
regime. A special copy, signed by Mr. Gadani, the KDP
leader, was sent to Mr. Rajavi. Mr. Azodin Hosseini,
the spiritual leader of Kurds, is also a supporter of
the NCRI.