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August 25, 2012
Honorable Dana Rohrabacher
101 Main Street, Suite 380
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
RE: Rep. Rohrabacher Urges Secretary Clinton to Back Freedom
from Iran for Azeris
Dear Representative Rohrabacher,
The New Iran, Inc., is a grass root opposition group with
members who are Iranians living inside and
outside of Iran, and some are also residents of the state of
California. We are disappointed and
incredulous by your recent letter to the United States Secretary
of State, Hillary Clinton, whereby you
have requested that American government help separatists in
Iran; stating that borders of nationscomprised of cultural
minorities such as Iran are mere library maps, that since
Azerbaijan politicians
think of expanding their territory, they may be justified to do
so since they have kinship similar to those
Azeris who live in west and east Azerbaijan region of Iran.
The New Iran, a democratic opposition movement to the Islamic
Republic, believes in five essential
principles and protecting existing territorial integrity of Iran
is one those principles. Your suggestions
have insulted our members as well as many Iranian nationals.
Your letter contains many factual errors regarding Iran and the
Azeri ethnic group. Your historical
recollection of Azerbaijan and Iran is simply wrong; in the
19th
century during Russian expansionist acts
of war Iran lost territories of Georgia, Armenia, and
Azerbaijan. During the history of Iran, dynastieshave come and gone
and some have been Azeri, Kurdish, and others. Our history refers
to all of them as
Iranians. Your recommendation for a secessionist foreign policy
approach as a solution to the tyrannical
regime in Iran is naive and uneducated. A countrys map is as
powerful a symbol of national unity as a
flag; and that national unity in Iran includes multi-ethnic
make-up of Kurds in the northwest, Arabs in
the south, Baluch in the southeast, and others.
Strategy of breaking up nations in the Middle East into smaller
nations by emphasizing their ethnic
heritage is not a new idea. Professor Bernard Lewis, at the
Bilderberg Meeting in Baden, Austria, on
April 27-29, 1979 "proposed the fragmentation and balkanization
of Iran along regional, ethnic and
linguistic lines. In May of 2009 at the AIPAC annual
conferenceJane Harman (Democrat-California)
explained how to "handle Iran," promoting "separation" of ethnic
groups in the country, with the goal of
increasing dissent. During the Bush administration, the plan was
"limited covert action carried out by
proxy, in the case of the Baluch, through Pakistans
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate and in the
case of the Kurds by the C.I.A. in cooperation with Israels
Mossad." The C.I.A. provided weapons aid and
training to the main Kurdish rebel group in Iran, according to
U.S. journalists, Jon Lee Anderson and
Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker and Borzou Daragahi of the Los
Angeles Times. On 27 December
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2009, Selig S. Harrison, at the New York Times, wrote
aboutTehran's Biggest Fear. According to
Harrison, the biggest threat to the ruling ayatollahs and
generals in Iran comes from the separatist
groups in Kurdish, Baluch, Azeri and Arab ethnic minority
regions that make up some 44 percent of Iran's
population.
"Iran will not become another Yugoslavia. The issue for Iran, is
not country-making (nation-making),
Iran's democratic political movement does not accept such
backward schemes, we condemn any such
endeavors to break up Iran's territorial integrity; such schemes
will raise the wrath of Iranian people,
and will be considered betrayal even by Kurds and Azeris of
Iran.
Sincerely,
Dr. Bijan Karimi
Acting Executive Director
The New Iran
[email protected]
cc:
Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
US Department of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520
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