Reply to Ianus - The Left Has Always Betrayed
Reader comment on item: [William Blum and] Al-Qaeda's Leftist Brigade
in response to reader comment: The Left Has Always Betrayed

Submitted by Behrouz Azarnia (Sweden), Jan 25, 2006 at 05:38

Dear Ianus, you wrote:

"Isn't it a little exaggerated statement? Wasn't it the Khomeini regime that exterminated the godless Tudeh between 1982 and 1984 according to the detailed information on the party leadership and membership provided the mullahs by the CIA, if I am not mistaken?"

I wrote: "The Left acted as the intelligence arm of the barbaric Islamic regime leading to the death of tens of thousands of Iranians. When Khomeini built his own intelligence he targeted the Left and executed thousands of communists who had killed thousands of Iranians for Khomeini's regime." What exaggeration? It is a pure fact.

The detailed information on the party leadership and membership was sold by a Russian diplomat to the MI6 not CIA. The "diplomat" was a KGB agent in charge of leading the Tudeh communists. The relationship between Islamists and the British Intelligent Service has a long and shameful history and it continues today as in the past.

Iran and Iranians have suffered enormously inflicted by Islamists, monarchs, communists and foreign powers.

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