Richard Perle meeting with Iranian dissident in undisclosed location

[kpete]

May 9, 2006 Edition > Section: Foreign

Iranian Dissident to Seek Support For Opposition

By ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
May 9, 2006

Less than 24 hours after one of Iran's leading dissidents and authors escaped to a neighboring state, the former chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle, interrupted his trip to central Asia to meet with him in a cramped hotel room.

The meeting between Mr. Perle and Amir Abbas Fakhravar on April 29, in a location both men have asked not appear in print, may end up being as important as the first contacts between Mr. Perle and the ex-Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky in the 1980s.

Like Mr. Sharansky with the Soviet Union, Mr. Fakhravar is making an appeal to the world to support the cause of Iranian freedom.

Mr. Perle first made contact with Mr. Fakhravar while he was first in prison and the two have kept in touch since the Iranian student leader went into hiding. They have spoken regularly for three years and Mr. Fakhravar is hoping to use Mr. Perle's contacts in America to build solidarity for his country's democratic movement.

more at:
http://www.nysun.com/article/32367
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[texasleo]

1. here we go again

Why is that man allowed to walk our streets?

[wordpix]

2. I hope Fakhravar's intel from Iran is better than Chalabi's from Iraq

[Roland99]

3. NRO interview with Fakhravar (is he the Iranian Chalabi??)

http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/steorts200602130807.asp

NRO: What do Iranians think of George W. Bush?

Fakhravar: The people of Iran, especially the youth, are so admiring of Bush and his administration for siding with the people of Iran rather than the government of Iran. No other leader of any government, even the Europeans, took this stand. All the youngsters support him and love him, and we want to express our deepest gratitude for him and his administration and what they are doing to liberate us.

NRO: Are you receiving any support from the U.S. government?

Fakhravar: I cannot mention who, but I'm definitely communicating with some people in the U.S. government and have established contacts with people in the Bush administration.

:puke:

[Roland99]

5. More on Fakhravar (GEEZ! Is this guy a narcissistic asshat or what?!?!)

http://www.nysun.com/article/20865?page_no=2&access=330791

Mr. Fakhravar believes that he and other student leaders, such as Ahmad Batebi - who is also wanted for arrest by the Iranian authorities - represent the true leadership of the country's student movement. "Only people like us are in a position to lead and a few others who are still alive and in the prisons. The regime knows how much we bring to the table and that we are popular with students and how much we have power, and they want to eliminate us physically," he said.

Mr. Fakhravar then said that he felt close to President Bush and other American leaders who share his opinion regarding regime change for Iran."We feel in our heart and our mind that we are close to the leaders of the great countries like America, those who think this regime can no longer possibly remain and should be removed. We think as the leaders of the student movement are bonded with these leaders in the West that these leaders should help us financially to cover our expenses. It is the least expensive way get rid of this regime."

[grytpype]

6. Sounds like Bush is more popular in Iran than here!

He ought to go over there and be their president, I'll pay for the ticket (one way of course).

[Lerkfish]

8. actually, Chalabi was the Iranian Chalabi

:)

[Roland99]

10. Well, he dealt with intel on Iraq, not Iran. He headed the INC.

[Lerkfish]

13. humor.

I was making a joke in reference to how it is believed Chalabi has connections to Iran and that was why he fed Bush disinformation.

[Roland99]

14. Ah...I need to get my funny bone x-rayed

:)

[lutefisk]

9. I thought you were joking- then I checked the link

He's discussing the "hopes of the Iranian people." Apparently they want to be carpet bombed, or better yet nuked, by the Americans. At least that's what the ones living in California claim.

"...we will welcome you with open arms and open hearts. People are counting the minutes for this regime to be over and gone."

[grytpype]

4. Here we go.

I bet this guy had a very interesting story about massive stockpiles of nerve gas and bioweapons.

[lonestarnot]

7. Yes we have to move this along for the 6/6/6 deadline.

[Junkdrawer]

11. ..and it's a Tuesday this year....

:scared:

[lonestarnot]

16. And Tuesday significance is?

[Junkdrawer]

17. Tuesday, September 11, 2001 n/t

[lonestarnot]

18. Oh I thought your reference was to June 6, 06

[Junkdrawer]

19. June 6, 06 is a Tuesday. n/t

[lonestarnot]

20. Tuesday Tuesday, new rendition of Mama's & Papa's Monday

Monday?

[xchrom]

12. mr perle busy setting up the next move in the neocon game.

[dipsydoodle]

15. Does this also feature in the film

The Brothers Grimm ?:rofl:

Preumably the half wit is too young remember SAVAK :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK

[Emit]

21. Re: Manda, who introduced Perle to Fakhravar

As noted here in the story in the OP:

Mr. Perle first got in contact with Mr. Fakhravar in 2003 through a contact in Los Angeles who asked that she only be referred to her by her first name, Manda. Manda, who emigrated to America from Iran in 2000, sought out Mr. Perle through contacts of her father, who served as a high official in the Shah's government toppled in the 1979 revolution.

From link in OP


Looks like Manda might be Manda Ervin:

Establishing a Misinformation Network

On this basis, Vice-President Dick Cheney instructed the Office of Special Plans to work on the destabilization of Iran. This body, based at the Pentagon, worked on the misleading information regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction <14>. It is currently focused on propaganda against Iran and Syria. Following the plan used with the Iraqi National Congress, several organizations were contacted and recruited: Ramin Parham’s Iran Institute for Democracy; Roozbeh Farahanipour’s Glorious Frontier Party (Marza Por Gohar), Manda Zand Ervin’s Iranian Women International Alliance, Aryo Pirouzni’s Students Movement for Democracy in Iran.

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:laUYTfUwgOIJ:www.voltairenet.org/article30049.html+Manda+Ervin+RIchard+Perle&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

International Alliance of Iranian Women

In Iran today, there are fifty million young people who, due to the Islamic republic, who do not have a future in front of them. The European countries, which have spoken constantly about the importance of human rights, have only followed their own financial interests in Iran. The regime in Tehran has signed agreements with the Europeans that would never be tolerated in a democracy. Consequently, European governments have done their best to keep the mullahs in power. The Iranian government is a dictatorship that has less to do with ideology than the pursuit of profit. The most effective course for the United States is to support the people of Iran and human rights there.

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:OOxKsjdYwMwJ:www.iranwatch.org/privateviews/AEI/perspex-aei-townhall-120303.htm+Manda+Iran&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4

The National Iranian American Council

www.niacouncil.org

Washington DC, October 27, 2005 - The American Enterprise Institute and its resident scholar, Michael Ledeen, hosted a five-paneled discussion titled "The Unknown Iran: Another Case for Federalism?" The idea behind the conference, Ledeen explained in his opening statement, had come about through his realization that "only 51 percent of the population of Iran is 'Persian,' as they call it."

Prior to opening the conference, Ledeen dismissed allegations that AEI seeks to dismember Iran by pointing out that the think-thank hosted similar conferences on ethnic groups in Iraq prior to the US invasion of that country. Rather, "the panelists, who think of themselves as Iranian, seek to educate the American Public," he argued.

The conference and the ensuing chaos, which one audience member described as "Jerry Springeresk," demonstrated - in spite of Ledeen's assurances - major differences between the panelists on the central issue of Iran's identity and unity.

While Manda Zand Ervin, founder of the Alliance of Iranian Women, emphasized Iran's national unity and attributed ethnic tensions in Iran "to the repression of the Iranian regime," others put equal blame on the previous Iranian regime. Rahim Shahbazi, vice president of the Azerbaijani Societies of North America, accused both Iran's Islamic and Monarchic regimes of having conducted "cultural genocide for the last 80 years on two-thirds of Iran's population."

Shahbazi went on to declare that Turks have inhabited "Tabriz for more than 7,000 years. Since 5,000 BC, Tabriz has been the capitol of Turkish dynasties, of which the Qajars was the last."

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:FjAoxQnDV_cJ:batr.net/neoconwatch/archives/2005_10_01_neoconswatch_archive.html+Manda+Ervin+Richard+Perle+Iran&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4