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| Kerry's Iranian connection |
| 2004-09-16 |
| With his presidential campaign faltering, the last thing Sen. John Kerry needs is publicity linking him to a dubious lawsuit filed by one of his top financial backers that seems intended to silence a prominent Iranian pro-democracy organization. But unfortunately for the Democratic presidential nominee, that's what's coming his way. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #4 sounds like a television commercial to me. |
| Posted by: 2B 2004-09-16 9:57:21 AM |
| #3 Is the mutual interest equation: We won't confront your nuclear and radical religious "business as usual" and you guys be our friends? Sounds like a deal made in |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-09-16 9:27:21 AM |
| #2 Kerry's address to the CFR from Dec 3, 2003 is an interesting read for the unqueasy. Here is an excerpt that covers Iran: "...Iran also presents an obvious and especially difficult challenge. Our relations there are burdened by a generation of distrust, by the threat of nuclear proliferation and by reports of al Qaeda forces in that country, including the leadership responsible for the May 13th bombings in Saudi Arabia. But the Bush administration stubbornly refuses to conduct a realistic, non-confrontational policy with Iran, even where it may be possible, as we witnessed most recently in the British-French-German initiative. As president, I will be prepared early on to explore areas of mutual interest with Iran, just as I was prepared to normalize relations with Vietnam a decade ago. Iran has long expressed an interest in cooperating against the Afghan drug trade. That is one starting point. And just as we have asked that Iran turn over al Qaeda members who are there, the Iranians have looked to us for help in dealing with Iraq-based terrorists who threaten them. It is incomprehensible and unacceptable that this administration refuses to broker an arrangement with Iran for a mutual crackdown on both terrorist groups." |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-09-16 4:07:20 AM |
| #1 "Now, Mr. Nemazee's lawyers are demanding that the student group's attorneys provide information on communications between Mr. Pirouznia and Bonafsheh Zand-Bonazzi, another prominent Iranian pro-democracy activist, whose ailing, elderly father has spent much of the past year in jail for having the temerity to criticize the regime." I am not a lawyer but it sounds as if the pro-mullah plaintiff is demanding a court-ordered fishing expedition as a means of extortion against the defendant. Doesn't sound kosher to me. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-09-16 3:51:23 AM |