(Iranian activist)Ganji's Next Strike Likely at U.N. (+ meet w/Chomsky)

[Rose Siding]

CAIRO, Egypt — Iran's most famous opposition figure, Akbar Ganji, is due to arrive in New York on Saturday on a trip where he will lead a hunger strike in front of the United Nations and attend a meeting with the leftist MIT political science professor Noam Chomsky.

In his visit to America, however, Mr. Ganji will not be meeting with any American government officials. He is seeking an audience with Secretary-General Annan......Mr. Ganji's visit would have presented a chance for the Bush administration to show its commitment to Iran's secular democracy movement....

But Mr. Ganji's refusal to meet with the administration, while holding court with one of the president's most virulent and partisan critics, sends a clear message to Iran's leading mullahs that many in the Iranian democratic opposition are not interested in the $75 million that Congress promised them earlier this year in a special appropriation.
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Mr. Ganji's meeting schedule is contrary in spirit to that of Amir Abbas Fakhravar, a student activist who arrived in Washington in May and has since briefed reporters at the American Enterprise Institute, as well as State Department officials. Vice President Cheney's staff has scheduled a meeting with the student leader.

http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=35817

[David__77]

1. This is important and a source of struggle right now.

MEK, or the Mujehideen, are slavishly sucking up to and collaborating with the U.S. warhawks. It's crucial that progressive Iranians struggling for their own country not collude with the U.S. or its plans. They mustn't follow the lead of nation-sellers like "Iraq National Congress" and other U.S. tools and puppets.

[Imperialism Inc.]

2. Partisan?

How is Chomsky a partisan? For what party?

Not a bad article. Just picking nits.

[bobbieinok]

3. meeting at Am Enterprise Inst = meeting with right to far right

Isn't this a 'political agenda?'