BFF   

“The 39-year-old, the deputy head of Iran’s Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC), was taken seriously ill in 2010 after being kept in solitary confinement in Tehran’s Evin prison for a month. Since her arrest, she has developed an undiagnosed epilepsy-like disease which causes her to lose control over her muscles temporarily during the day. In September 2011, she was sentenced to 11 years after being convicted on three charges: acting against the national security, membership of the DHRC and propaganda against the regime…………. On Sunday, another human rights activist and lawyer, Abdolfattah Soltani, was sentenced to 18 years after being found guilty of anti-government propaganda. Among many of Soltani’s charges is “endangering national security” by accepting a German human rights prize. Kaleme also reported that Iranian journalist Nazanin Khosravani who has been sentenced to 6 six years went to Evin prison on Monday to endure her jail term. According to the opposition website, the Green Voice of Freedom, Khosravani has worked with banned pro-reform newspapers such as Bahar, Norooz, Dorane Emrouz, Kargozaran and Sarmayeh. Another Iranian journalist, Ali Mousavi Khalkhali, was picked up by security officials on Friday, his cousin has confirmed to BBC Persian. He is reported to have been arrested on charges related to propaganda against the regime. …………”



“Propaganda against the regime“: Iran and most of her neighbors have this one thing in common. What they all don’t want is politics, for how can there be politics without some “propaganda” against the regime?  And how can the regime, including Ali Khamenei, know they are screwing up the country without people telling it so?
Ayatollah Khamenei ought to take a sabbatical, come and spend a year or two in the United States, see how Obama gets pummeled by all the “propaganda” ads and statements against him in this election year. May he can study the “Citizens United” case and all the super PACs.
Oh, he should bring the Saudi king along; they can share an apartment at The Watergate. They can talk with Santorum and Gingrich about politics (forget Romney; he’s not interesting enough). They won’t even have to address AIPAC, not yet .

Cheers
mhg


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