Abbas Ali Kadkhodai, speaker for the Guardian Council, defended the controversial statements of Ayatollah Jannati who has alleged that Iranian opposition leaders have received money from the US.
ISNA reports that when asked if the head of the Guardian Council has provided the judiciary with any proof, Kadkhodai said: "You must ask Mr. Jannati himself."
Ayatollah Jannati recently alleged that he has documents proving opposition leaders have received a billion dollars from the US through Saudi intermediaries to topple the Islamic Republic regime.
Abbas Kadkhodai added that financial support of the US and the West for the opponents of the Iranian regime is a common affair. He went on to say that Ayatollah Jannati "has made certain statements and he must be in possession of documents." He added whenever the people who were involved in these allegations are brought to trial, "he will present his documents."
Two of Iran's opposition leaders, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, have both condemned Ayatollah Jannati's allegations and also called on the Shiite clergy to demand proof for these allegations.
source: Radio Zamaneh
Filling us with sadness but above all with many wonderful memories, the news reached us that British historian Tony Judt has passed away on Friday. He was a public intellectual known for his sharply polemical essays on American foreign policy, the state of Israel and the future of Europe, and died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 62.
Shervin Nekuee, chief editor of TehranReview, considered Tony Judt as his intellectual mentor and a very kind and engaged teacher. Only some months ago, Shervin went to New York to go and see Tony Judt. They discussed the Green Movement and the current crisis in Iran. After their long conversation, Judt wrote down some of his afterthoughts in the following letter to Nekuee. Tony Judt also write about ‘Edge People’ for TehranReview – a great article strengthening our belief that Judt’s extraordinary intellectual legacy will live on forever.
His death was announced in a statement from New York University, where he had taught for many years. The cause was complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, which he learned he had in September 2008. In a matter of months the disease left him paralyzed and able to breathe only with mechanical assistance, but he continued to lecture and write. “In effect,” Mr. Judt wrote in an essay published in January in The New York Review of Books, “A.L.S. constitutes progressive imprisonment without parole.”
The New York Times has written this obituary which is doing justice to the very full life Mr. Judt has led.
From The Guardian, we bring you some remarkable and lasting words by Mr. Judt. May he rest in peace.
On society: I think what we need is a return to a belief not in liberty, because that is easily converted into something else… but in equality. Equality, which is not the same as sameness. Equality of access to information, equality of access to knowledge, equality of access to education, equality of access to power and to politics. We should be more concerned than we are about inequalities of opportunity, whether between young and old or between those with different skills or from different regions of a country. It is another way of talking about injustice. We need to rediscover a language of dissent. (London Review of Books, 25 March)
On his illness: It is not as though you lose the desire to stretch, to bend, to stand or lie or run or even exercise. But when the urge comes over you there is nothing– nothing – that you can do except seek some tiny substitute or else find a way to suppress the thought and the accompanying muscle memory. (New York Review of Books, 14 January)
On Israel: The Middle East peace process is finished. It did not die: it was killed. Mahmoud Abbas was undermined by the president of the Palestinian Authority and humiliated by the prime minister of Israel. His successor awaits a similar fate. Israel continues to mock its American patron, building illegal settlements in cynical disregard of the “road map.” The president of the United States of America has been reduced to a ventriloquist’s dummy, pitifully reciting the Israeli cabinet line: “It’s all Arafat’s fault.” Israelis themselves grimly await the next bomber. (NYRB, 23 October 2003)
On dying: The meaning of our life … is only incorporated in the way other people feel about us. Once I die, my life will acquire meaning in the way they see whatever it is I did, for them, for the world, the people I’ve known. (New York magazine, 7 March)
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