[lbo-talk] Fwd: Why the left should take the Iran issue back from the neocons

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Postel demands that the left say what Shirin Ebadi among others do.  Well,not only would it be the simplest thing to find people on the left doing so*,but some of us have been working with people like Ebadi on Iran:http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=8982http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=8313We naturally work best on the issues over which we have some chance of makingthe most difference, namely in terms of reducing the threat to Iranians from ourgovernment.Indeed, Postel acknowledges this: "The number one thing we can — and must — do here is to prevent the U.S.
government from taking any military action against Iran. That is the
Mother of All Issues right now."*Postel is smug and moralistic, which is curious.  He himself knows that the followinghave been involved in campaigning on behalf of Iranian dissidents:Kwame Anthony Appiah, Zygmunt Bauman, 

					Dipesh Chakrabarty, Noam Chomsky, J.M. Coetzee, Juan Cole, Umberto Eco, Jürgen Habermas, Leszek 

					Kolakowski, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Martha Nussbaum, 

					Orhan Pamuk, Charles Taylor, Tzvetan Todorov, Immanuel 

					Wallerstein, Cornel West, Howard Zinn, and Slavoj Žižek.These are some of the left-wing intellectuals who have supported Ramin Jahanbegloo, who wasinterviewed by Postel before he was banged up by the government.
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