(A guest post by Mina Khanlarzadah)
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett traveled to Iran and some
other countries in the Middle East. They visited Tehran University
and talked to the students there to find out about the political
atmosphere of the country. They didn’t see any of the imprisoned
students, obviously because they are held in the prisons. They
didn’t see any of the escapee students, obviously because they are
hiding out of view. They didn’t see thousands of imprisoned
people, obviously because they are in jail. They didn’t get to see
the journalists, human rights and women’s rights activists because
they are either forced into exile, held in the prisons or fleeing
from one town to another to avoid arrest. Did they talk to Sohrab
Erabi’s mother? Did they talk to any members of the Mourning
Mothers? Did they talk to Zhila Baniyaghoub, a women’s rights
activist and journalist, who was imprisoned after the election?
How about Jila’s husband Bahman Ahadi Amoee, an economic
journalist, imprisoned from June 2009? Did they ask Jila what she
thinks of the political situation of the country that has kept her
beloved one in jail from June 2009 despite his health condition?
Did they talk to one of the students in this video who were beaten
up and arrested three nights after the 2009 June election in a
dormitory of Tehran University? Did they see any of the workers
who have been unpaid for a considerable number of months? Did they
see the family of the imprisoned Mansoor Osanloo, the one who only
wanted an independent union for him and his fellow workmates with
wages about the poverty level (his income was less than a third
the poverty level)? How about Farzad Kamangar the teacher who is
imprisoned for his union activism?
full article:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/some-thoughts-on-the-leveretts-in-iran/
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