Tuesday, October 21, 2008
A curious tidbit from Iran
In today's Iran News Round-Up by Michael Rubin, Ali Alfoneh, and Ahmad Majidyar, there is this curious aside:
Former Islamic Republic foreign minister Ebrahim Yazdi: "One of my grandchildren is active in the [U.S. presidential candidate] Obama campaign and asked me to meet Obama, but since I did not consider a meeting with Obama proper, I abstained from doing so...prior to the revolution we had secret activities, but in present circumstances we don't believe in secret and opaque activities [meetings with the U.S. presidential candidate]..."
Any Farsi readers out there who can validate the translation in the link? How about journalists willing to ask the Obama campaign whether it proposed or discussed a "secret" meeting with Yazdi?
2 Comments:
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Tue Oct 21, 09:36:00 PM:
Farsi ain't good enough for a proper translation.
But my first thought here is, 'meh, conspiratorial crap.' Den of Spies, and secret CIA tortures, and organ harvesting, and all that bullshit that makes up the Islamic Revolution's raison d'etre mythology.
And "but in present circumstances we don't believe in secret and opaque activities" is absurd.
By 
, at
Tue Oct 21, 11:20:00 PM:
Surely the fact (if it is a fact) that somebody so close to Iran's leadership works for the Obama campaign is just as important as alleged secret meetings.
