Hypocrisy of NYT Lobbying for Tehran Over Iranian Resistance

NYT’s continuous demagoguism against honorable US officials who have stood beside the Iranian resistance is a dreadful job that will not be forgotten and is an example of batting the victim instead of the criminal.

I had just returned from watching the video of a special memorial ceremony which was held in one of the centers of the Iranian resistance in Europe in respect of the late Danielle Mitterrand France’s First lady in the 80s and early 90s and to honor the high humanitarian values of this great lady who passed away last week in her 82. She who was a very well known freedom lover whose last message to Ashraf people (the center for the Iranian resistance in Iran which is now in grave danger of another massacre) was mentioned in that video said:

“Ashraf is the victim of all kinds of new intangible walls, the wall of oblivion, then the lies, and the deadly silence, and the blockade of food and medicine and medical supplies, and the interdiction of specialized medical teams to care for the wounded innocents, the target of barbaric attacks, and as if this was not enough, they installed 300 hundred loud speakers to torment and break the will of the innocent, and feeble, yet strong residents of the camp, and the electronic jamming of their means of communications with outside world.”

Being in my thoughts about this lady who had been always behind the Iranian resistance and defending its delisting as a terrorist organisation even before various courts in UK and EC had ordered for their delisting and the lack of any evidence for such labelling; I came across another article from the New York times which these days is referred to by the Iranian community as Mullah’s times. The article” For Obscure Iranian Exile Group, Broad Support in U.S.” published on the 26th of November is an absurd, genuinely disgusting, foul, aimed at discrediting those who have supported the Iranian resistance by accusing them to have received funds for whatever they have said in support of the Iranian resistance. It however fails to come across the main issue which is the fact that camp Ashraf the main concentration of the Iranian resistance members- some 3400 of them including 1000 women- are in danger of another massacre before the end of 2011, and various campaigns including a sit-in in front of the UN office in Geneva for the past 215 days are aimed at raising awareness about the plight of innocent, armless Iranian opposition to the fanatic mullahs which some 120000 of them have so far been executed in Iran, are now in danger and the main excuse for the new treat is that the US government had put their organisation in the terror list in 1997 illegally and without any evidence accepted by over twenty consecutive courts in Europe and US just to appease the mullahs. A decision which has been due to be reviewed for the past 15 months by the decision of the federal court in Vermont that could not find any legitimacy for this accusations.

I felt very angry to say the least that when everyone including some 97 members of the congress are pointing at the US secretary of State and emphasizing that if the name of PMOI is not taken out of the list immediately and some specific actions is not taken to protect the armless people in camp Ashraf in Iraq, they will definitely be slaughtered given the deadline of December 31th by the proxies of the Iranian government in Iraq and given two previous massacre that has left 47 killed and more than a 1000 badly injured. At this very moment, NYT or better the Mullahs Times is targeting those who have expressed concerned over the policy of appeasing the criminal mullahs and in other words is willingly or unwillingly approving their massacre by its dubious and full of lies (to say the least) article.

I need not to answer the lies in the article about the history of violence of the MEK, or giving money to the high US officials to lobby on its behalf, etc. Maybe I prefer to refer back to the late Danielle Mitterrand’s letter to the people in Ashraf whom she refers to as symbols of hope and ends her message to them by referring to the same accusations of NYT’s article by saying:

“.. that's what distinguishes the executioner from the victim, the jailer from his prisoner: some are preparing for the future while others destroy the present. The future, my dear and tender friend of Ashraf, the price of your sacrifice, but you are not alone: he must also reckon with the example you set for all the oppressed, and with the message of hope you have written with your blood that awakens the conscience of Humanity”

Perhaps if NYT would have seen her letter before publishing this message would have put her name among those who have been paid by the Iranian resistance!

NYT may also want to add to the list, over 4000 members of the parliaments from the majority of 27 European countries, and the majority of Senate in the United States who have given their sincere support to Ashraf and have asked for the delisting of the MEK to the list of officials and...who have been paid by MEK!!!

Also recently Amnesty International has issued an Urgent Action calling upon all humanitarian people around the world to take action and to prevent another massacre in Ashraf. I wonder why NYT is “destroying the present” instead of joining those “who are preparing the future”? I suggest that you send your journalist stationed at the White House on the 12th of December to see how many Iranians are rallying there asking for an end to the 15 years of appeasing the mullahs and in support of MEK and Ashraf. Then maybe you will refer back to your lies in the named article and feel some shame for writing such lies about the lack of support for a popular movement in Iran. Mullahs Times is really such a deserved name for you.

ENDS

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