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Guevera kids in Tehran: 'Che would have supported Iran'
By Farshid Motahari Sep 23, 2007, 2:49 GMT
Tehran - Nobody will ever know whether Marxist revolutionary Che Guevera, who was killed in 1967, would have viewed Iran and its clergy system as a close ally against the United States.
Two of his children, however, firmly believe that their legendary father would have been strongly supportive of the Islamic republic and its current standoff with the United States over Tehran's adamant continuation of its disputed nuclear programmes.
'Che would not only have approved our trip to Iran but also (would have) supported the country in its current struggle against the US,' Camilo Guevara said through an interpreter in a meeting with students at Amir Kabir University in Tehran.
Camilo, 45, and his sister, Aleida, 46, were invited to Tehran by the non-governmental Cultural Alliance Centre and the Islamic Students' Association of Tehran's Amir Kabir University, with the aim of building a bridge between the two rather contradictory systems of Iran and Latin America in general and Cuba in particular.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office as Iranian president, Iran has formed close relations with several Latin American states, including Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, despite grave ideological differences between Islamic Iran and the secular, socialist governments.
'We are witnessing a global political awakening with Iran and Latin America emerging as the front-runners of this new movement,' said Morteza Firouzabadi, secretary of the students' association, said in the Tehran meeting.
Although all the Iranian students at the meeting were from Islamic associations, they praised Che Guevera as if they were followers of socialist ideology.
Maysam Ghaffouri, head of the Cultural Union, said that like Islam, Guevera's ideology knew no boundaries, and his struggle transcended geographical boundaries.
'There might be different cultures and different standpoints, but at the same time there are also common aspects which should be strengthened,' said Aleida Guevera, who just like Iranian women wore a long coat and scarf to hide her hair and body contour to conform to Islamic dress codes.
She gave as an example the sanctions imposed by the United States on Cuba for the last 45 years, and recent threats by Washington to expand sanctions against Iran through the United Nations Security Council over Tehran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.
'Although we (Cubans) are not as rich as Iran and have no oil, we nevertheless resisted for over four decades. I have learned that the Iranian nation is resistant, too, and that is a very important common point between our two nations,' she said.
The Gueveras came to Tehran during the fasting month of Ramadan, when eating and drinking is forbidden in public during daytime. According to one of the students, they wanted to at least try fasting, too.
Camilo and Aleida, two of Che's five children from his second wife, Aleida March, whom he married in 1959, also visited the shrine of the late leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in southern Tehran.
Camilo called it a 'global necessity' to form an anti-US front - without regard to nationality, religion or race - a mission that is in line with his famous father's ideology and enthusiasm for exploring different countries and peoples.
'Since the revolution and the imposed sanctions, Cuba learned who the real enemies and the real friends are,' Aleida said. 'Iran is definitely one of Cuba's new friends.'
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Something Che has in common with the current government of Iran: They both murdered people.
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Did these geniuses ever take a look at how the Russians and chinese treat religous groups?
How about ethnic muslims in chechnya?
This is the stupidest f--king thing I have ever read.
It is Che Guevara, not Guevera (... ara! )-- it must have been an American who compiled the story, the poor slobs simply can't spell, thanks to their 'superior' education system which breeds morons by the millions.
Apart from the drivel in the article, Che Guevara indeed would have massively supported Iran against the US-kleptocracy -- but I trust, he would not have held back either vis-a-vis the mullahs in regard to their sharia-treatment of their own people, there is a reek of the dark ages when it comes to the sharia.
Yet, the Iranians can only change that for themselves. We in the world must understand, however, that the US-kleptocracy will use any excuse (even sharia) to get and maintain a foothold in those parts of the world, where there is something to be taken, especially when oil and gas are to be carpetbagged. Iraq will result in 10,000 US-goons dead and 100,000+ cripples, before the people will rise to put an end to this madness. The oil law will not be passed by Iraq, Iraqis and Iranians will see to that.
Attacking Iran will likely have no US-sailor ever leave the bottom of the Persian Gulf, the closure of the Straight of Hormuz, and the untimely demise of the US-thugs who terrorize the Iraqis to the North.
America, how about conserving energy?
= 'We are witnessing a global political awakening with Iran and Latin America emerging as the front-runners of this new movement,' said Morteza Firouzabadi, secretary of the students' association, said in the Tehran meeting. =
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Bush was right in this sense: he's the best 'uniter' the world has yet seen in the last ~ 220 years of the existence of the thug-nation.
'RogérSep 23rd, 2007 - 07:21:03
It is Che Guevara, not Guevera (... ara! )-- it must have been an American who compiled the story,'
Poor reinlet, eer 'Rogér' our naval gazing euro-troll who got deported and was cheated out of the American dream buy his own incompetence and lousy personality... Farshid Motahari works out of Tehran, probably a revolutionary guard shill since they control the media over there. So if you weren't such a lazy socialist welfare case you would have used the American invention of the internet to go over to the American invention of Google to find out where the author of this POS was from before you made a fool out of yourself by calling him an uneducated American. He is an uneducated Iranian. He just writes what he is told or else he gets the noose.
'the poor slobs simply can't spell,'
He wrote with one eye on the American designed spell check.
'Che Guevara indeed would have massively supported Iran against the US-kleptocracy '
Sure, arrested adolescent Trotskyites will support anything, including a murderous 3rd century theocratic terrorist regime over a successful capitalist democracy. Oh well, socialism and communism have a failure rate near 100% yet idiots still want to try it. The Bolivians knew what to do with Che.
'Attacking Iran will likely have no US-sailor ever leave the bottom of the Persian Gulf,'
So we have sailors on the bottom of the persian gulf? Theocratic thug-ocracy Iran is a cesspool and so is your brain, both need to be flushed.
'America, how about conserving energy?'
Nope. :-D
Sum uv us prefer to spel ourselves insted uf leting Bill Gates du it fer us.
You, on the othu hand, rely on an american to invent a machine to du it fer yu.
How fukin stupid duz that make yu Roger? I'd rather spell badly than be th moron who needs a machine to du it fer him.
By the way, th lousy american education system,trained the people who invented the airplane, the model T, mass production, the electric light, the telephone, modern research and development, the crawler tractor, the transister, micorprocessors, television, digital flight controls, variable flow hydraulic pumps, got us to the moon, built the internet, the PC, countless IT tools hard and soft, cured polio and invented zillions of drugs...
...so take a long hot shower and stick that up your shaft.
The only way we'll get new enrgy sources is when we run out. This being the case, go buy the biggest f--king SUV you can!
By the way, is anyone having problems buying energy?
'...so take a long hot shower and stick that up your shaft.'
Like he showers...
Why wouldn't the children of a man who murdered thousands say that their father would support a Muslim regime that murders thousands? It all seems perfectly logical.
Did'nt the cia murder Che in Bolivia?
'Did'nt[sic] the cia murder[sic] Che in Bolivia?'
Nope, moron, the honor belongs to the Bolivians.
They personally didn't murder Che. But then again, finding evidence that the CIA has done ANYTHING dastardly is near-impossible.
The people who died at the order of Guevara were collateral damage. He wanted power and stability to an oppressed culture. He and his cronies saw and understood what the western world could do to nearly a whole continent over the prospect of profit.
Our CIA set up many of the governments he helped or attempted to overthrow.
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thanks for nothing monsters and criticsSep 23rd, 2007 - 04:00:49
Marxist/islamist/idiot nexus...
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