[Dean's World] Dave Price: More Pro-Freedom Ripples From Iraq?

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Posted by Dave Price:
More Pro-Freedom Ripples From Iraq?
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1187628004.shtml


   Remember that [1]pro-democracy Syrian group? Grass-roots freedom
   fighters are apparently sprouting up like we've sown dragon's teeth in
   Iran, as well. From [2]the Guardian, of all places:

     Analysts believe PJAK is the fastest growing armed resistance group
     in Iran. As well as the 3,000 or so members under arms in the
     mountains, it also claims tens of thousands of followers in secret
     cells in Iranian Kurdistan. Its campaigning on women's rights has
     struck a chord with young Iranian Kurdish women. The group says 45%
     of its fighters are female. Iranian authorities regard the group as
     a terrorist outfit being sponsored and armed by the US to increase
     pressure on Iran.
     On a recent visit to PJAK camps in the Qandil mountains the
     Guardian saw no evidence of American weaponry. The majority of its
     fighters toted Soviet-era Kalashnikovs. In an interview Biryar
     Gabar, a member of the leadership committee, said the group had no
     relations with the Americans, but was "open to any group that
     shares our ideals of a free federal democratic and secular Iran."

   There's that "democracy" thing again. And "secular" too? And
   pro-women's-lib to boot? The left is going to have a hard time
   rejecting them as tools of American imperialism.

References

   1. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1187205513.shtml
   2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2152325,00.html