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Iran Nationl Front Stood
Firm on Principles_ By Kourosh Zaiim , Member of INF Central Committee
_ Feb. 7, 2004 |
I can't help but make a few facts known to those who think JMI in Iran is
nothing but a conservative and mild reformist organization.
After the revolution, JMI was the fastest growing political organization.
People trusted an old true and tried organization who stood up Shah's dictatorship
and many of whose members had spent years in Shah's prisons.
JMI daily paper, Payam, was among the highest circulation papers. Its
issues sometimes sold up to 100 times the price.
In 1982, when JMI organized a huge demonstration against the regime of
clerics, Ayatollah Khomeini called it "Mortad". In Islam, a
mortad person can be punished by death. Subsequently, several leaders of
JMI were jailed and tortured.
After the release of its key members, since its party offices were also
confiscated, and any political activity banned, about 50 of the JMI
die-hards formed a clandestine group called "good will"
commission. They put out such Elamiehs and Statements or night letters
during those very dark years, that would still send chills down your
spine, "even in the States," when you read them.
Again, some were jailed.
Subsequently, in order to overcome the ban from political activity, JMI
(through late Ali Ardalan and some designated members) together with
Nehzate Azadi formed a joint temporary organization "for Defense of
Freedom and Rule of the people". A famous letter to, then president,
Mr. Rafsanjani, signed by 90 JMI, NA and other nationalists, caused another
wave of arrests, prison and torture.
Please read JMI Statements of Position on all national and international
issues over the past years. You don't have to leave your safe haven and
come live in this god-forsaken country, in order to realize how dangerous
for JMI members has been and how brave one must be to even call himself a
JMI member in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Even the name of JMI is banned
from being published in the media, except in disgrace. One must be mad, or
passionately in love with Iran to be an active member of JMI in the
Islamic Republic.
You may read some my recent interviews about JMI situation in Iran in
order to get a better insight.
On the other hand, love and devotion and patriotism aside, look at the
quality of JMI political and position statements. During the past 20
years, JMI has almost never been wrong in assessing political situations
and never afraid to take a stand.
Before you judge, please do some reading.
Ba Geramidasht,
Kourosh Zaim
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