By Kayvan Kaboli and Hassan Daoleslam
On September 25th 2008, five American religious groups will host the Iranian president Mahmood Ahmadinejad, as they did last year during his 2007 visit to the UN.
It is safe to assume that the purpose of the dinner won’t be a group interfaith prayer session. This event follows a series of trips by some American religious groups to Tehran. In fact, when these groups are not busy hosting Ahmadinejad here, they are hosted by him in Tehran.
The "American Friends Service Committee" and "the Mennonite Central Committee," two of Ahmadinejad's dinner hosts in New York, visited Tehran in early 2007.
These "peace" trips became fashionable after Ahmadinejad's ascendance to the presidency in 2005. The main organizer in the U.S. is the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) which has already arranged eight other trips since 2005. For example, their May 2008 trip to Iran was locally organized by the "Islamic Culture and relations Organization," a governmental agency whose activities encompass a broad range from PR campaign for Tehran to assisting terrorist operations.
Prior to the religious delegation’s arrival in Tehran, Rassouli, the head of Iranian host agency, declared: "The goal of this trip is to soften the negative image that the US media is spreading about Iran.” He predicted that the visitors would speak positively about Iran.
Upon their return from Iran, these delegations behaved as the PR agents for one of the most brutal regimes on earth. Their trip diaries are ludicrous and disgraceful. They remind one of the Cold War era visits to the Soviet Union when the returning visitors praised Stalin and the joyful Gulags. Read more ...
On September 25th 2008, five American religious groups will host the Iranian president Mahmood Ahmadinejad, as they did last year during his 2007 visit to the UN.
It is safe to assume that the purpose of the dinner won’t be a group interfaith prayer session. This event follows a series of trips by some American religious groups to Tehran. In fact, when these groups are not busy hosting Ahmadinejad here, they are hosted by him in Tehran.
The "American Friends Service Committee" and "the Mennonite Central Committee," two of Ahmadinejad's dinner hosts in New York, visited Tehran in early 2007.
These "peace" trips became fashionable after Ahmadinejad's ascendance to the presidency in 2005. The main organizer in the U.S. is the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) which has already arranged eight other trips since 2005. For example, their May 2008 trip to Iran was locally organized by the "Islamic Culture and relations Organization," a governmental agency whose activities encompass a broad range from PR campaign for Tehran to assisting terrorist operations.
Prior to the religious delegation’s arrival in Tehran, Rassouli, the head of Iranian host agency, declared: "The goal of this trip is to soften the negative image that the US media is spreading about Iran.” He predicted that the visitors would speak positively about Iran.
Upon their return from Iran, these delegations behaved as the PR agents for one of the most brutal regimes on earth. Their trip diaries are ludicrous and disgraceful. They remind one of the Cold War era visits to the Soviet Union when the returning visitors praised Stalin and the joyful Gulags. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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