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| Iran activist launches opposition support scheme |
| 2010-03-20 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian opposition activist Amir Jahanchachi unveiled a new project on Friday to provide financial and logistical support to movements opposing the Islamic republic's hardline regime. The scheme, dubbed the "Green Wave," aimed to create organized "cells of resistance" to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Jahanchachi told AFP in London, where he lives. "At the present time, the (opposition) green movement on the streets... is not structured, does not have a clear direction, and above all has no leadership to clinch victory," said the businessman and writer, 49. "What I want to do and what we are going to do, is transform cells of discontent... into cells of resistance," he added. Opposition groups "will contact us and if they need something for concrete projects, we will help them," he said, adding he had resources for those seeking to topple the Iranian regime. Specific plans included organizing long strikes in sectors such as transport to "bring this regime to its knees," said Jahanchachi, whose father was the country's last finance minister under the shah. The opposition activist stressed his new project was "not another movement, not a new party" and was aimed at supporting existing groups which oppose Ahmadinejad. |
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