On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Doug Henwood wrote:
> > An excellent statement signed by the who's who of the Iranian
> > intelligentsia.
>
> What a bag of crap.
I'm confused. This looks like exactly what you'd want MR to support. It looks like a complete turn-around. It's a statement in support of Moussavi and Karoubi and the Green Movement; in support of free elections (spelling out all the preconditions, like free assembly and media); freeing all political prisoners; and it calls for the dismissal of Ahmedinejad by a Parliamentary vote. For good measure, it refers to the regime as the "aggressive ruling autocrats."
And I don't know most of the people who signed it, but I do see one of them is your pal Hamid Dabashi.
Did you dismiss it on reflex just assuming it was the old stuff? Or am I missing some deep dark shadow here?
Michael