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Iran's Oil Mafia

Posted on Jul 9th, 2007 by Danesh : Inter-Religion Co-Existance is Must Danesh
Iran's Oil Mafia
By Hassan Daioleslam
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 16, 2007

Robert William (Bob) Ney is a current federal prisoner and a former Ohio Congressman from 1995 until November 3, 2006.  On October 13, 2006 Ney pled guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff lobbying and bribery scandal.  Ney reportedly received bribes from Abramoff, other lobbyists, and two foreign businessmen - a felon and an arms dealer - in exchange for using his position to advance their interests.

Conspicuously missing from this dossier of disservice to the country was Ney's assistance in the creation of a Washington-based lobbying enterprise for the Iranian theocratic regime, The National Iranian-American Council (NIAC).  NIAC is part of an extensive US lobbying web that objectively furthers the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  This article will address the creation of NIAC, Tehran's role, NIAC's connection to Iran's oil mafia, and NIAC attempts to penetrate US political system.


Creation of NIAC


The National Iranian-American Council (NIAC) was founded thanks to the efforts of four non Iranian-Americans:  Roy Coffee, Dave DiStefano, Rep. Bob Ney, and Trita Parsi. Coffee and DiStefano, both Washington lobbyists, were investigated by the Justice Department for arranging a trip to London for Bob Ney, where he met a Syrian arms dealer and convicted felon involved in a conspiracy to circumvent sanctions to sell US-made aircraft parts to Tehran.

Roy Coffee sent a letter to the Dallas Morning News in February 2006 to justify his relationship with the two London-based felons.  Part of the letter discussed the founding of NIAC:

"Back in the spring or summer of 2002, a good friend of mine from law school, Darius Baghai, had just returned from visiting relatives in Iran for the first time since his family left before the revolution. He spoke with me about how the economy of Iran was humming .......From this, I took Darius in to visit with Mr. Ney. What was to be a 15 minute meeting became a 1 1/2 hour meeting as they spoke passionately about their hopes for the Iranian people. They also spoke in Farsi a great deal - I'm sure talking smack about me. From that meeting, Darius, Dave and I began to work with Trita Parsi, another Iranian-American to try to form a political action committee of Iranian-Americans to pursue a strategy of normalization of relations between the two countries.... The 4 of us worked very hard for about 9 months to form this committee."

At the time, Trita Parsi was a Swedish-Iranian graduate student in his early twenties, best known for ties to Iran's ambassador in Sweden.  A successful self-promoter, he soon attached himself as a part-time aide to Congressman Ney before he was appointed president of NIAC.

The New Lobby

NIAC's predecessor, the American-Iranian Council (AIC), was established in the 1990s with backing from multinational oil companies. For many years, it spear-headed  pro-Tehran  lobbying effort in the US. 

AIC president Houshang Amirahmadi had  been an active pro-Tehran player since early 1980s. While residing in US, he was also a presidential candidate in Iran's elections, and officially collaborated with different Iranian institutions and notably the foreign ministry.  In 1999 and 2000 Trita Parsi was helping Amirahmadi to organize lobbying events in Washington.

In 2001, the pro-Iran lobby in the United States became intensely active to prevent the renewal of the Iran Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA), and to lift U.S. sanctions on Iran.  Despite extraordinary pressure from the lobby, ILSA passed overwhelmingly.

Prior to his imprisonment in March 2007, Bob Ney  led Congressional efforts to defeat ILSA and initiate Tehran-friendly policies in concert with AIC. Disappointed and angered by the ILSA vote, Ney began to plan for the next battle of the war.  

"The ILSA vote doesn't look very promising, but that doesn't mean the struggle should stop on this entire issue. It is a matter of education and re-education and people getting together and forming a citizen's lobby to make sure that members of Congress and their offices are educated on this issue," Ney told AIC in a June 2001 speech.

While Ney was hard at work "forming a citizen's lobby," Trita Parsi claimed that the majority of lawmakers voted against their true wills.  In a tone apologetic to Tehran, he expressed his hope that the Iranian regime understood that he and his colleagues had worked hard to prevent this result:

"Hopefully, Tehran will recognize that an honest attempt was made to defeat or at least weaken the sanctions. The call for a review and Speaker Hastert's pledge to insist on Congressional action based on the review must also be interpreted by Tehran as a step in the right direction" (Iran Analysis July 2001 Peyvand Iran News)   

This failure to block the renewal of ILSA in 2001 marked the start of a new era for the pro-Iran lobby in the United States.  The lobbyists recognized that they must broadly reach out to Iranian-Americans.NIAC was created to put those plans in motion.


Trita Parsi was the regime's trusted man within the new network. Tehran's faith in Parsi was so profound that in 2003 when Iran decided to send a highly secret proposal for negotiations to the White House, Parsi was called on to arrange the delivery of the message through Bob Ney to Karl Rove.   Parsi, moreover, was among the few chosen men (along with Mahallati, Iran's former  ambassador to UN) to present the results of a shady Tehran-friendly poll of the Iranian population which indicated the popularity of Iran's nuclear program.

Trita Parsi and the Regime's Inner Circle

During the eight years of Rafsanjani's presidency, which ended in 1997, the Iranian regime had attempted without success to attract the Iranian Diaspora to its cause. Khatami's presidency recharged Tehran's efforts.  With the Supreme Leader's direct involvement, the High Council for Iranian Compatriots Overseas was created in 2000.  The President heads the Council, and the Foreign Minister serves as its deputy director.  The Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance collaborate to implement the decisions of the council. 

The objective was to create a network of organizations to infiltrate and seemingly represent the Iranian community abroad, and promote policies favorable to the Iranian government.  Tehran anticipated that this strategy would neutralize opposition activities abroad and legitimize the new lobby.

State-sanctioned Iranian newspapers started a campaign to promote Trita Parsi and NIAC.  Pro-government publications outside Iran followed suit. The former head of the Iran interest in Washington, Ambassador Faramarze Fathnejad, was thrilled with the efforts of Trita Parsi and NIAC, and underlined "the importance of relation with Iranian organizations in the U.S. and specially pointed to NIAC and his young leader who is a consultant to CNN and has been very successful in his efforts." The Iran Ambassador even claimed 20,000 strong membership for NIAC (while only 150 is claimed by NIAC itself)!

But token rhetorical support would not alone turn an inexperienced graduate student and a corrupt Washington politician into a lobbying enterprise.  Entities with ample financial resources and direct access to Iran's top leaders had to enter the scene. This is where Siamak Namazi, an important figures of this new lobbying enterprise and a prominent member of the Iranian oil Mafia, enters the scene.

Trita Parsi and Namazi worked closely on developing the details of a grand plan to create an Iranian-American "Citizen's Lobby." They traveled to Iran together  They organized joint conferences and meetings. In 1999, they co-authored a seminal paper, that provided the roadmap for the organization that later became NIAC. 24

Namazi, along with his sister Pari and brother Babak, control the Atieh enterprise in Iran and its  three sister companies Atieh Roshan, Atieh Bahar and Atieh Associates, as well as numerous other direct and indirect partnerships, including Azar Energy, Menas companies in England, Atieh Dadeh Pardaz, FTZ Corporate services and MES Middle East Strategies..   Particularly noteworthy is the fact that Baquer Namazi  (their father) is the Chairman of Hamyaran, identified by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as a "resource center" in Tehran for Iranian non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Atieh claims to be a "fully private strategic consulting firm that assists companies better understand the Iranian market, develop business and stay ahead of [the] competition."  People familiar with the oil industry in Iran understand the coded language, After all, rulers in every country in the Middle East use outside consultants to negotiate the discrete terms of lucrative oil contracts.

Atieh's customers include the foreign corporations who wish to do business in Iran. One Atieh Bahar customer, Norway's Statoil, has been publicly identified as a participant in a scheme to bribe Iranian government officials  by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice. A number of high officials in the company were fired and the company had to pay tens of millions of dollars in penalties to the US and Norwegian governments for "payments to an Iranian official in 2002 and 2003 in order to induce him to use his influence to obtain the award to Statoil of a contract to develop phases 6, 7 and 8 of the Iranian South Pars gas field."

The most recent debacle of Atieh enterprise was in March 2007 when the CEO of the French oil company Total SA was charged with having bribed senior Iranian officials  to secure contracts.  Total is a major customer of the Namazi's Atieh enterprise.

Tehran's trust in Namazi is further evidenced by the fact that his company provides the network and computer services for almost all Iranian banks, the Majles (parliament), and other important institutions. Namazi's groups monitor  nearly all Iranian economic or political activities and have access to the country's most sensitive data. This is a clear indication of his prominent place inside the inner circle of power in Tehran.

While representing Tehran, Namazi, disguised as a scholar travels to the US to seemingly pursue academic activities . He succeeded so well that the Congressionally-funded National Endowment for Democracy awarded him a Reagan-Fascell  Democracy Fellowship  in 2005.

This link between the Iranian oil Mafia and "scholarly" pursuits in the US is hardly isolated. Three former Iranian deputy foreign ministers currently live in Boston posing as "scholars": Mohammad Mahallati who was also the Iranian ambassador to the UN in the late 1980s,   Farhad Atai and, Abbas Maleki. In addition to his diplomatic past, Maleki has been one of the most important figures within the Iranian oil Mafia.

The Roadmap

In 1999, Parsi and Namazi presented a joint paper titled "Iranian-Americans: The bridge between two nations"  at a conference organized by the Iranian government in Cypress.  This report contains the manifesto and the  roadmap for the new Iranian lobby in the US.  The authors argue that "an Iranian-American lobby is needed in order to create a balance between the competing Middle Eastern lobbies. Without it, Iran-bashing may become popular in Congress again."

The "competing lobby" was AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee). The pillars of the road map were:

  • To have the appearance of a citizen's lobby
  • To mimic the Jewish lobby in the US
  • To impede Iranian opposition activities
  • To infiltrate the US political system
  • To break the taboo of working with the Iran's cleric rulers for the Iranian Diaspora
  • To improve the image of the Iran's government abroad24.

In their report, Namazi and Parsi acknowledged that problems of organizing a pro-regime lobby within the Iranian-American community:

"This group's role has not been utilized any where close to its potential, however, for several reasons: A good portion of them were against the IRI [Islamic Republic of Iran], therefore would not do anything to help."


"The point is, [Iranian Americans] were  not about to form a lobby group that would benefit the establishment in Tehran, or benefit the Iranian-Americans themselves as a community, nor was it for the most part interested in forming a pressure group against the Islamic Republic."

This was also underlined by Roy Coffee, one of the NIAC's founders:

"We [NIAC's founders] found that most Iranians do not want to get involved in politics because of their experiences in Iran during and after the revolution. They have come to this country to make a better life for themselves and their children and don't want to get involved."

The lack of participation by the Iranian American community in this lobby has been overcome with a sophisticated machine of professional lobbyists and "friendly" circles who favor a rapprochement with the Iranian regime.

Tehran's Advice: Mimic Jewish Lobby in Washington

One of the hallmarks of the new lobby was its desire to rival the "Israeli Lobby" in the United States. This aspiration led to the creation of  the Iranian American Political Action Committee (IAPAC), loosely modeled after similar organizations created by  AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee)Three of IAPAC's board members came from the AIC's leadership.

In their 1999 paper, Parsi and Namazi analyzed at length the techniques used by AIPAC, and suggested that the same approach should be taken to create an Iranian lobby in Washington:

"Creating similar types of seminars and intern opportunities to Iranian-American youth may not improve Iran-US relations in the short run, but it will help integrate the Iranian-American community into the political life of America. In the long run, a strong and active Iranian- American lobby, partly established through these seminars and by the participants of these programs, may serve to ensure that the US and Iran never find themselves in violent opposition to each other again."

Trita Parsi has been reciting this comparison to the Israeli lobby since the late 1990's, about the time that the High Council was formed in Tehran.  At the beginning his tone was more contentious and resembled the mullah's usual rhetoric, but more recently he has toned down his anti-Israeli remarks, at least in English.

The government-owned newspaper Aftab published an interview with Trita Parsi on December 28, 2006 that underscores Parsi's efforts on behalf of the Iranian regime..

Translation: "The conflict between Iran and the West on Iran's nuclear file has entered a critical state.  The government must now utilize all the possible resources to defend the national interest.  In this, we have not paid enough attention to the potentially significant influence of the Iranian American society in moderating the extremist policies of the White House.   In comparison of this untouched potential to the influence of the Jewish lobby in directing the policies of Washington in supporting Israel, we see the difference between what is and what could be."

Siamak Namazi began sounding  similar themes.:

"I propose that we should start showing up to the leadership training seminars and other events organized by the American-Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) for their youth. Not only will this create an opportunity to learn the fine skills of community organization and grassroots lobbying, but it also takes away from AIPAC's ability to spread misinformation about Iran through a deliberate campaign to further its own political agenda."

Not Lobbyists?

As Ney's criminal bribery and lobbying fiasco became more public, NIAC's president Trita Parsi began to downplay NIAC's lobbying activities. (NIAC is registered as a 501 c3, to which certain legal restrictions apply.)  Furthermore, being lobbied by a former aid would have added to Ney's already complicated situation. Asked in 2005 whether his group lobbied the US Congress, Trita Parsi told an interviewer:

"Our group does not do any lobbying at all. We do not contact the Congressmen to support or oppose a bill."

Since its creation, however, NIAC has strived to penetrate the US political system in accordance with the roadmap Namazi and Parsi established in 1999. As the Washington Post reported on June 25, 2006: 

"The NIAC helped persuade a dozen conservative House members to sign a letter to President Bush earlier this month calling for unconditional negotiations with Iran's regime."

The external communications of Parsi and other NIAC leaders shed further light on NIAC's lobbying activities.

"The NIAC members have educational and experimental knowledge on the lobbying process and politics in America."

".. we must establish connections on Capitol Hill to establish early-warning systems about proposed votes or bills that may oppose the best interests of Iranian-Americans."

Bob Ney, Roy Coffee, and Dave DiStefano arranged numerous workshops, training classes, seminars and speeches in which they themselves and others with experience prepared members and affiliates of NIAC to lobby and influence Congress.  Parsi, Namazi and Ney organized public gatherings and discrete and exclusive $1,000 per plate fundraiser events.  They even developed a training manual for lobbyists, a copy of which was sent to this writer by a former NIAC member.

NIAC itself admits that "In 2002, Congressman Ney benefited from letters sent by Iranian-Americans through NIAC's Legislative Action Center in support of his resolution on US-Iran relations."

Infiltrating Congress

Trita Parsi, Namazi and their backers fully intended to infiltrate the US Congress.  One of the methods they boast of involves recruiting young Iranian Americans to serve as Congressional interns or pages by offering room, board and financial incentives.  NIAC's website brags of success stories in this venture.

NIAC claims to have drafted the young Iranian American Press Secretary for Rep. Marcy Kaptur to help in improving the lobbying skills of NIAC members and affiliates.   Similarly, an Iranian American student in the University of Minnesota received a financial scholarship in his senior year and becomes an intern in Senator Norm Coleman's (R-MN) Washington office.  Another intern, a graduate of University of South Florida, was placed in Congressman Jim Davis' (D-FL) Washington, D.C. office.  Expanding the operation to penetrate the US political system, NIAC has now formally implemented a paid trainee program and is actively in search for unwary Iranian American youth.

Conclusion

Since the early 1990's, Tehran has embarked on developing a sophisticated lobbying enterprise in the United States.  Iran's government has devoted significant manpower and financial resources to this cause.  This lobbying enterprise consists of a complex, intermingled web of entities and organizations with significant overlap of leadership, and heavy involvement of the notoriously mafia-like inner circles of the Iranian regime.   Disguised as scholars, many of the former Iranian government officials reside in the US and constitute an important piece of the lobby machine.  NIAC and its major figures, such as Bob Ney and Trita Parsi are effective nodes of Tehran's efforts to manipulate US policy toward self-serving ends.

Hassan Daioleslam is an independent researcher and writer who has worked closely with two experienced investigative reporters inside Iran to explore and expose Iran lobbying enterprise in the United States.

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دادگاه ویژه روحانیت Ø­Ú©Ù… اعدام آیت اÙ

Posted on Jun 12th, 2007 by Danesh : Inter-Religion Co-Existance is Must Danesh

خبر فوری: دادگاه ویژه روحانیت حکم اعدام آیت الله کاظمینی بروجردی را صادر کرد

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به گزارش منابع موثق ØŒ روز يك‌شنبه Û²Û° خرداد ماه Û±Û³Û¸Û¶ اولين دادگاه رسمي آيت الله كاظميني بروجردي Ùˆ بيش از Û¸Û° تن از يارانش در سه شعبه‌ از دادگاه ويژه‌ÙŠ روحانيت واقع در خيابان زعفرانيه‌ÙŠ تهران، بطور غيرعلني Ùˆ بدون برخورداري از حق داشتن وكيل برگزار گرديد. بعد از تفهيم اتهامات ØŒ حكم اوليه‌ÙŠ اعدام آيت الله بروجردي Ùˆ Û±Û· نفر ديگر از متهمين پرونده ØŒ ابلاغ گرديد Ùˆ ساير متهمين به مجازاتهاي سنگين Ùˆ طولاني مدت محكوم شدند . بنابر گزارش نزديكان آيت‌الله بروجردي، اتهامات وي بيش از Û³Û° فقره بوده كه اهم آنها عبارتند از:

۱- محاربه و اقدام عليه امنيت ملي

۲- برگزاري سخنراني و تحريك افكار عمومي بر عليه نظام

۳- نامشروع خواندن "ولايت فقيه"

۴- نايب وزارت اطلاعات ناميدن فقها و مراجع تقليد

Ûµ- متهم كردن بنيانگزار Ùˆ رهبر انقلاب به بدعت‌گذاري در دين Ùˆ دروغگوئي

Û¶- ارتباط با چهره‌هاي شاخص ضدانقلاب Ùˆ جاسوسي براي آنها از اوضاع داخلي كشور

Û·- متهم كردن مسئولين بلندپايه نظام در كوتاهي نمودن نسبت به حقوق Ùˆ مطالبات مردم Ùˆ استفاده از واژه‌ÙŠ "ديكتاتوري ديني" به جاي "جمهوري اسلامي" در مصاحبه با راديو Ùˆ تلويزيونهاي خارجي

۸- ساختن دين جديدي به نام "دين سنتي"

۹- سوء استفاده از لباس روحانيت

۱۰- استفاده از سلاح سرد در روياروئي با مامورين قضائي و نيروهاي انتظامي و ...

بگزارش شاهدان عيني ØŒ آيت الله سيد محمد حسين كاظميني بروجردي در حالي كه آثار ضعف جسماني Ùˆ جراحات شديد بر بدنش كاملا مشهود بود Ùˆ به شدت از بيماري پاركينسون رنج مي‌برد Ùˆ به سختي سخن مي‌گفت، قاضي Ùˆ دادستان را مخاطب قرار داده Ùˆ در دفاع از خود Ùˆ يارانش به اين گفتار بسنده كرد كه :

من در سالهاي Û±Û³Û·Û´ Ùˆ Û±Û³Û·Û¹ نيز به علت فعاليتهاي مستقل مذهبي كه با استقبال عمومي مواجه شده بود زنداني شدم. جرم حقيقي من مسائل سياسي Ùˆ امنيتي نيست. اختلاف من با حكومت، اعتقادي ست. اين حقير بدعتي در دين ايجاد نكرده‌ام بلكه ‌پيرو اجدادم Ùˆ علمائي چون آيت الله العظمي بروجردي ØŒ شريعتمداري Ùˆ خوئي هستم كه مخالف التقاط دين Ùˆ دولت بودند Ùˆ "ولايت فقيه" را نوعي شرك مي‌دانستند Ùˆ اتهامي بيش از اين را قبول ندارم Ùˆ از دادگاه محترم مي‌خواهم امكان انتخاب وكيل Ùˆ مناظره در فضاي آزاد را برايم فراهم سازد.

لازم به ذكر است آيت الله بروجردي بارها از نهادهاي بين‌المللي تقاضاي كمك كرده است،اما تا كنون اقدامي عملي جهت حمايت Ùˆ احقاق حقوق وي Ùˆ يارانش صورت نگرفته است . بدينوسيله به سازمانهاي مدافع حقوق بشر Ùˆ خبرگزاريهاي جهاني هشدار مي‌دهيم كه تاريخ در برابر هرگونه سكوت Ùˆ بي‌توجهي شما، قضاوت تلخي خواهد داشت.

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پيام تبريك شوراي هنرمندان بمناسبت س

Posted on Mar 18th, 2007 by Danesh : Inter-Religion Co-Existance is Must Danesh
 

بنام خدای ایران آفرین

پيام تبريك شوراي انقلابي هنرمندان و هنركاران مستقل ايران

بمناسبت سال 1386 -  سال كوروش كبير

همقطاران مبارز!

كارگران و كشاورزان، زحمتكشان انقلابي!

هموطنان گرامي!

سال‌نو خورشيدي خيامي در حالي از راه مي‌رسد كه يكي از تاريكترين سالهاي عمر اين ملت چونان لكه ننگي بردامن تاريخ ايران در پشت سر باقي خواهد ماند. 1385 سالي انباشته از خودسري‌ها Ùˆ قانون‌شكني‌ها Ùˆ اجحاف Ùˆ زورگويي بود، سالي كه در آن ملت بي‌پناه ايران همچنان قرباني بازي‌هاي پيچيده قدرتهاي بزرگ با دولتمردان نالايق كشور ما بود.

سال 1385 در شرايطي گذشت كه دكتر ناصر زرافشان وكيل شجاع Ùˆ وطنپرست كه بجرم نابخشودني دفاع از حقوق مسلم خانواده‌هاي قربانيان قتلهاي دولتي پاييز 1377 Ùˆ حق ملت ايران براي آگاهي از تمامي حقايق پنهان‌مانده اين قتلها در حبس Ùˆ زنجير بود تا آخرين ثانيه‌هاي حكم ظالمانه قوه قصابيه‌ÙŠ جمهوري اسلامي را با فتوت Ùˆ پايمردي Ùˆ با پشت‌سرنهادن فشارها Ùˆ شكنجه‌هاي  Ø¬Ø³Ù…اني Ùˆ رواني تحمل كرد. باشد كه رهايي دكتر زرافشان در آخرين روزهاي اسفندماه 1385 نويدبخش فرارسيدن بهار رهايي جوانمردي Ùˆ شجاعت از بند خفت‌پذيري Ùˆ سكوت Ùˆ ظلمت باشد.

اما 1385 هميشه هم با رهايي زندانيان وجدان Ùˆ عقيده همراه نبود، اين سالي بود كه اكبر محمدي زنداني ماجراي كوي دانشگاه در 1378 بدليل سهل‌انگاري تعمدي مسوولين زندان اوين كشته شد Ùˆ جسد او پنهاني در محلي دور از دسترس خانواده‌ Ùˆ دوستانش دفن شد تا برگزاري هرگونه مراسمي براي سوگواري بر جوانمرگي او ممنوع Ùˆ يا عملا موقوف شود.

سالي كه گذشت، سال سقوط هرچه بيشتر اخلاقيات در ميان حكام جمهوري اسلامي Ùˆ رواج قانون‌شكني Ùˆ بزهكاري بود. سالي كه شهرام جزايري‌عرب متهم نورچشمي مسوولين بلندپايه Ùˆ فرزند دلبند اقتصاد Ùˆ عدالت (بروايت جمهوري اسلامي) در آخرين هفته‌هاي پاياني آن از ويلاي اختصاصي‌اش در زندان اوين مودبانه Ùˆ باشكوه!! بخارج از زندان نقل مكان كرد تا هزينه‌هاي سنگين بازداشت بي‌ثمر او بر شانه‌هاي نحيف دستگاه قضايي جمهوري اسلامي بيش از اين سنگيني نكند.

 Ø³Ø§Ù„ 1385 همچنان سال بازداشتها Ùˆ شكنجه‌ها بود. سال تنهايي ملت قهرمان ايران Ùˆ خصوصا طبقه زحمتكشان در نبرد با فساد Ùˆ ستم دستگاههاي امنيتي، انتظامي Ùˆ قضايي كشور نيز بود. سال ادامه بازداشتهاي غيرقانوني، ضرب‌Ùˆ‌شتم متهمان Ùˆ بازداشت‌شدگان Ùˆ لجام‌گيسختگي قضات Ùˆ ماموران Ùˆ مسوولان فاسد دستگاه قضايي بود. سالي كه در آن شاهد استمرار حبس Ùˆ بند Ùˆ شكنجه هزاران ايراني بوديم آنهم تنها بدليل نداشتن امكانات مالي Ùˆ رانت Ùˆ نفوذ سياسي. سال 1385 ده‌ها هزار ايراني به دلايل واهي Ùˆ يا ارتكاب به جرايم كوچك به زندان ‌افتادند Ùˆ به بدترين Ùˆ سنگين‌ترين مجازات‌ها محكوم شدند در حاليكه فرزندان Ùˆ اعضاي خانواده‌هاي عضو باشگاه هزار فاميل آزادانه به چپاول اموال عمومي Ùˆ پولشويي در خارج از كشور مشغول بودند.

در سالي كه گذشت همچنان كارگران Ùˆ كشاورزان Ùˆ همه زحمتكشان ايراني در كنار هنرمندان Ùˆ فرهيختگان هموطن خود زير فشار فرساينده Ùˆ خردكننده اقتصادي Ùˆ ناامني اجتماعي Ùˆ قضايي با افسردگي Ùˆ ياس دست بگريبان بودند. هرگونه اعتراضي برعليه تباهي Ùˆ ستم طبقاتي با سركوب پاسخ داده شد Ùˆ در مقابل براي جلب توجه Ùˆ همكاري اقشار فرومايه Ùˆ اراذل Ùˆ اوباش،  Ø¯ÙˆÙ„ت جمهوري اسلامي از پرداخت هيچ باج Ùˆ خراجي فروگذار نبود.  

1385 سال شكست دون‌كيشوت انقلاب اسلامي در آغاز هزاره سوم بود. عامي‌مردي احساساتي‌كه در اوج بحران پرونده فعاليتهاي مشكوك هسته‌اي جمهوري اسلامي، همه قدرتهاي بزرگ را بمبارزه مي‌طلبيد اما در نبرد با بهاي گوجه‌فرنگي Ùˆ سيب‌زميني در پايتخت ام‌القراء جهان اسلام مغلوب مشتي دلال Ùˆ واسطه Ùˆ سلف‌خر محصولات كشاورزي شد. دولتمردي كه خيلي‌ها هنوز گمان دارند قادر است خاطره‌ÙŠ اسطوره‌اي شخصيتهاي شجاع Ùˆ وطنپرستي مانند مرحوم دكتر محمد مصدق Ùˆ شهيد رجايي را دوباره زنده كند، اما در كمتر از يكسال دولت او در برابر تب Ùˆ لرز ناشي از عفونتهاي يك اقتصاد بيمار در بستر احتضار افتاده است Ùˆ بوي الرحمن از گريبان چاك خورده‌ÙŠ آن بمشام مي‌رسد.

سال 1385 سال زشت ادامه توهين Ùˆ تحقير ملت ايران بود. ميليونها ساعت برنامه راديويي Ùˆ تلويزيوني Ùˆ هزاران مقاله Ùˆ صدها كتاب Ùˆ چندين فيلم پرخرج در مخالفت با اقدامات درست Ùˆ غلط جمهوري اسلامي ساخته شد Ùˆ ميلياردها نفر از ساكنان اين سياره‌ÙŠ بيمار بر عليه تمدن Ùˆ فرهنگ ايراني مسموم شدند.

1385 سال مصاحبه‌هاي عوامفريبانه‌ÙŠ رجال Ùˆ رجاله‌ها با رسانه‌هاي دست‌آموز خودي Ùˆ اربابان مطبوعات بين‌المللي براي فرار از مسير سيلاب مهيب تشكيك Ùˆ ترديد مردمي بود كه امروز بعد از نيم‌قرن كه از كودتاي ننگين امپرياليستها براي سرنگوني دولت ملي محمد مصدق مي‌گذرد بازهم خود را همچنان مالباخته، خانه برباد رفته، دلشكسته Ùˆ نااميد در برابر خطر تهاجم قدرتهاي جهاني تنها Ùˆ بي‌ياور مي‌بيند.

 

اما سال 1385 تنها سال اين همه خفت Ùˆ زشتي نبود. امسال شاهد عقب‌نشيني دولت جمهوري اسلامي در برابر ياد Ùˆ خاطره شهيدان Ùˆ ايثارگران وطن در سالهاي پيش از برپايي جمهوري اسلامي بوديم. ديديم كه راديو تلويزيون دولتي ايران در برابر عظمت انقلاب جهاني ملت ايران براي كنترل منابع طبيعي Ùˆ انرژي زانو زد Ùˆ از ياد Ùˆ خاطره سترگ دكتر مصدق‌ Ùˆ شهداي جاويد تاريخ معاصر ايران همچون دكتر سيدحسين فاطمي، شريعت رضوي Ùˆ دكتر علي شريعتي بمثابه ستونهاي غيرت Ùˆ حميت ملت ايران ياد كرد. سال 1385 سالي بود كه بعد از سي Ùˆ چند سال بار ديگر با ياد Ùˆ خاطره Ùˆ آرمانهاي شهداي مقاومت ملي ايران برعليه استيلاي قدرتهاي جهاني تجديد پيمان كرديم.

سالي كه ملت ايران بار ديگر خروش هميشه توفنده شهيد خسرو گلسرخي را شنيد كه از سيماي عوامي‌گري Ùˆ خدعه Ùˆ تزوير جمهوري اسلامي رو به آسمان سرد زمستان امسال دوباره فواره زد كه:   " من در اين دادگاه براي جانم چانه نمي‌زنم! "  Ø§Ù…سال در خيابانهاي اين همه شهر بي‌دروازه Ùˆ غارت‌زده ايران ما، خيل زنان Ùˆ مردان به جان آمده از فقر Ùˆ فساد Ùˆ فحشاء به هزار زبان فرياد زدند: مرگ بر استبداد! مرگ بر تباهي عشق در چپاول ايمان‌فروشان! مرگ بر بندگي Ùˆ اسارت!  Ù†Ø§Ø¨ÙˆØ¯ باد زندان روان پريشان گريخته از حجره‌هاي نمور!

 

اما 1386 بايد سال ديگري باشد Ùˆ بايد كه فرداي بهتري باشد تا فرزندان ما از اينهمه خطا Ùˆ تبه‌كاري ما درگذرند، والا مرگ خودخواسته از استمرار اين زندگي بهتر است. به پيشنهاد تعدادي از فرهيختگان وطنپرست 1386 سال كوروش‌كبير نام گرفته است. بياييد با ابرمردي ميثاق به بنديم كه انساني خداگونه از جنس ما Ùˆ هموطن ما بود. انساني كه همچنان از فراز افق فرداي تمدن بشريت راه را به همگان نشان مي‌دهد.  بياييد پيمان بنديم كه در اين سال چنين كنيم:

•1-    حداقل يكبار چند اثر از گنجينه جاودانه ادبيات فارسي مانند شاهنامه را بخوانيم.

•2-    نام فرزندان Ùˆ موسسات Ùˆ محصولاتمان را از شاهنامه فردوسي Ùˆ ساير كتب تاريخي Ùˆ اسطوره‌ اي ايران انتخاب كنيم.

•3-    بهنگام زيارت قبور شهداي ملت ايران، شاخه گلي آراسته به يك قطعه روبان سياه نثار كنيم تا پيامي باشد براي پيمان ابدي ما با آزادگي Ùˆ تجديد عهد ما باشد با سوگ از ياد نارفتني دفن شدگان اين خاك كه زنده‌ترين عاشقان ساكن آسمان هستند.

•4-    فرهنگ Ùˆ هنر Ùˆ ادبيات اصيل ايراني را دوباره در زندگي روزمره‌امان زنده كنيم. از مجموعه امثال Ùˆ حكم Ùˆ ضرب المثلها Ùˆ استعاره‌ها Ùˆ تشبيه‌هاي مشهور ايراني براي بيان مقاصد Ùˆ مفاهيم گفتگوهايمان استفاده كنيم.

•5-    فارسي را روان Ùˆ محكم Ùˆ سرشار از تكلمه‌ها Ùˆ نكته‌هاي طناز برزبان برانيم. بياييد از ادبيات هجو Ùˆ هزل براي تحقير تكبر Ùˆ تفرعن رجاله‌ها Ùˆ سياهي لشكرهاي بزدل حاكم بركشورمان سود بريم Ùˆ به تيغ ستمگري Ùˆ ناجوانمردي آنها يك دشت بيكران از لاله‌هاي  شاداب هديه كنيم.

•6-    به تاريخ اديان ايران بازگرديم. تاريخ تازه‌اي براي وطنمان بسازيم. مردي Ùˆ شجاعت را سپر تباهي Ùˆ ناجوانمردي كنيم تا چهره‌هاي زشت Ùˆ پليد ستمگران Ùˆ غارتگران به يك نگاه قابل تشخيص باشد. بياييد دامن وطن را از دروغ Ùˆ تهمت Ùˆ حقارت پاك كنيم،  Ø¨ÙŠØ§ÙŠÙŠØ¯ با لبخند بر چهره‌ÙŠ درد،  Ø§Ø³ØªÙˆØ§Ø±ÙŠ Ø§ÙŠÙ…Ø§Ù†‌ جاودانه‌امان به خورشيد را فرياد كنيم
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7- بياييد همه زشتي‌هايي را كه بر دامن مادر وطن ما انباشته شده بزداييم. بياييد وطن را دوباره بسازيم! دوباره Ùˆ هزارباره بسازيم بي‌هيچ خستگي Ùˆ افسردگي!

 

شوراي انقلابي هنرمندان Ùˆ هنركاران مستقل ايران ضمن تبريك Ùˆ شادباش بمناسبت سالگرد پيروزي تاريخي، انقلاب جهاني كنترل منابع طبيعي Ùˆ انرژي Ùˆ سالروز قيام ملت ايران براي ملي كردن صنعت نفت، فرارسيدن سال نو را به همه هنرمندان Ùˆ زحمتكشان هموطن تبريك مي‌گويد Ùˆ ياد Ùˆ خاطره شهداي ملت ايران Ùˆ زندانيان Ùˆ اسراي آزاده را ارج مي نهد Ùˆ براي همه‌ÙŠ ايرانيان Ùˆ فارسي زبانان سال خوشي را آرزو مي‌كند.

 

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توضيحات شوراي انقلابي هنرمندان و هنركاران مستقل ايران در خصوص نامه سرگشاده اين شورا به رييس جمهوري آمريكا و هشدار به مقامات آن كشور در خصوص عواقب خطرناك و ويرانگر حمله به ايران.

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هموطنان و همقطاران عزيز!

ايرانيان غيور وطنپرست!

در هفته هاي اخير هجوم اخبار اعزام نيرو، تسليحات و تداركات جنگي آمريكا به منطقه در كنار تهديدات و تبليغات وسيعي كه جورج بوش رييس جمهور و اغلب مقامات دولت ايالات متحده براه انداخته اند، چنان است كه بزودي صداي طبلهاي جنگ و تهاجم نظامي آمريكا و متحدان آن عليه جمهوري اسلامي به بهانه اقدامات مشكوك آن در زمينه كاربرد تكنولوژيهاي هسته اي و موشكي بگوش خواهد رسيد. چنين بنظر ميرسد كه آمريكا درصدد است در شمال منطقه ژئواستراتژيك و ژئوپولتيك خليج فارس ميدان نبرد تازه اي را با هدف توسعه حوزه نفوذ و تحميل دكترين نظم نوين جهاني و نيز اعمال تغييرات مورد نظر آن كشور در رفتار دولت ايران بگشايد.

 

بزعم دولتمردان Ùˆ جنگ سالاران ايالات متحده اين رشته عملياتهاي تهاجمي نظامي Ùˆ سياسي با چنان سرعتي به موفقيت خواهد رسيد كه موجب حيرت Ùˆ سلب امكان واكنش بموقع Ùˆ مناسب جمهوري اسلامي Ùˆ نيروهاي هوادار آن خواهد شد. در خصوص قطعيت موفقيت اين طرح چنان اعتماد به نفسي بچشم ميخورد كه انگار جورج بوش انتظار دارد ايرانيان وطنپرست Ùˆ آزاده از شنيدن اخبار هجوم نيروهاي خارجي ذوق مرگ بشوند Ùˆ براي استقبال از نيروهاي متجاوز بيگانه به استقبال آنان  بروند Ùˆ پيش پاي فرماندار آمريكايي ايران! كه لابد از كاخ سفيد بسمت كاخ گلستان رهسپار خواهد شد تا ضمن سكونت در پايتخت ام القراء جهان اسلام به مصالح عاليه نظام مقدس اسلامي ما نيز هرچه بيشتر نزديك باشد، گاو Ùˆ گوسفند قرباني كنند!!

 

براي شناسايي Ùˆ ارزيابي عوامل تهديدكننده Ùˆ پديده هايي كه شرايط موجود را باعث شده اند Ùˆ نيز برآورد انتظارات Ùˆ توقعات طرفين از نتايج وقايع Ùˆ حوادثي كه پيش روي ماست ساعتها بحث Ùˆ گفتگو با اساتيد خبره Ùˆ تحليلگران مطلع Ùˆ وطنپرست متبحر در امور استراتژيك، روابط بين الملل Ùˆ امنيØ