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Setting the Record Straight on Voice of America

October 17, 2007 - 1:02 am - by Ali Ghaderi and Karim Abdian
Nastaran
2007-10-19 21:25:03

This smacks of nothing more than the same story that has crippled Iranian opposition throughout the years in exile; this kind of approach is the exact reason why Iranian immigrants have ghetto’ized’ themselves and it’s the stuff that makes them not be taken seriously, as activist or simple opposition member on the international political scene. These two writers speak for no one but themselves. Some of the people that these amateur writers have mentioned are extremely decent people and their abject attack on these people is the sign of that “paralysis of the exile” and the hyper-emotionalism that thrives among the diaspora. Anyhow this is extremely flaky “analysis” and frankly, I’m shocked you guys would put this stuff up and pretend that it’s some kind of strong voice emanating from a larger Iranian opposition.