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\u201cIran: Fact & Fiction\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

On December 8, 2007, CNN\u2019s Special Investigations Unit started televising \u201cIran: Fact & Fiction\u201d with Campbell Brown and Frank Sesno. Currently, the scheduled showings are 7 and 11 P.M. (Eastern Time) on December 8 and 9, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

The major theme of the program is missed opportunities by political leaders in America and in Iran for peace. After years of television programs on the Fox News Channel and elsewhere promoting America\u2019s worst enemies, the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) who want to bomb Iran, this CNN program provides some attempts to learn from past missed opportunities for peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran helped America fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, Fall 2001<\/span><\/p>\n

Following September 11, 2001, the Islamic Republic of Iran helped America fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. CNN provided only a few of the examples of Iran\u2019s help, such as providing safe passage for humanitarian supplies going to Afghanistan and offering to work with the American military in providing military training for a new government in Afghanistan. How did President George W. Bush thank Iran for Iran\u2019s sacrifices and help? In his January 2002 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush said that Iran is a member of the axis of evil. James Dobbins, a former State Department official, reported the extent of Iran\u2019s help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Unsigned 2003 Memorandum<\/span><\/p>\n

Switzerland passed to the American government an unsigned 2003 memorandum from the Iranian government suggesting in detail ways to resolve differences between Iran and America. This television program showed only a portion of the 2003 memorandum. That portion included a discussion of the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists. Brown and Sesno did not explain that President George W. Bush had used the MEK as a pretext for the Iraq War in 2002 and then protected America\u2019s terrorist enemies at Camp Ashraf, Iraq in 2003. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nicholas Burns, responsible for Iran at the State Department now (but not in 2003), appeared to lack knowledge of, and interest in, the 2003 memorandum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), expressed her satisfaction that the Swiss official who passed the Iranian memorandum to American officials lost his job. She noted that America\u2019s ambassadors to Iraq and to the United Nations meet with Iranian officials but nothing results from the meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brown and Sesno should have interviewed Michael Rubin at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), author of \u201cThe Guldimann Memorandum: The Iranian \u2018roadmap\u2019 wasn\u2019t a roadmap and wasn\u2019t Iranian\u201d (Weekly Standard, October 22, 2007).<\/span><\/p>\n

Trita Parsi, National Iranian American Council (NIAC), regarded the Bush Administration\u2019s failure to respond to the 2003 memorandum a missed opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mohammad Khatami\u2019s Election as President of Iran, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

This program included details of the efforts of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who served in the Clinton administration, to respond to the opportunity provided by the election of Mohammad Khatami as President of Iran in 1997:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Albright gave speeches responding favorably to themes expressed in Khatami\u2019s speeches.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. America relaxed visa restrictions on Iranians.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Iranian scholars were permitted to visit America.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. America wrestlers competed in Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Albright gave a speech admitting American errors to a meeting of Professor Hooshang Amirahmadi\u2019s American Iranian Council (AIC). <\/span><\/p>\n

This program included an appearance by Kenneth Pollack, formerly with the National Security Council, who noted that Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader responded unfavorably to America\u2019s friendly overtures. Brown and Sesno failed to disclose relevant details about Pollack, such as:<\/span><\/p>\n

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1. Pollack is the author of The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. Pollack has admitted that he understands very little Arabic. <\/span><\/p>\n

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2. Pollack is the author of The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America. At the end of this book, Pollack admitted that he has never been to Iran and does not know Persian (Farsi).<\/span><\/p>\n

Trita Parsi explained correctly that it was a mistake for America\u2019s political leaders to reach out to only one person or one faction in the Iranian government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Sesno explained correctly that many Iranians do not trust America\u2019s political leaders because of American support for the Shah of Iran and of American support for Saddam Hussein against Iran in the Iran-Iraq War.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, Brown and Sesno did not mention that President Bill Clinton had given a speech to the World Jewish Congress (WJC) on April 30, 1995 pleasing Zionists with trade sanctions against Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nuclear Inspections<\/span><\/p>\n

IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei noted that Iran\u2019s work with centrifuges is a political act. He reported that Iran does not allow surprise inspections or as complete access to its nuclear facilities as it did in the past. His advice for America was to \u201ccool it\u201d. While some American political leaders want a pressure cooker to explode, a cooler approach could result in being able to trust Iran in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former United Nations inspector David Kay regarded current Iranian leaders as dangerous but expressed the view that America has a 6 to 8 year opportunity to achieve a secure basis for peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, no one made comparisons with Israel, India, Pakistan, and with North Korea. America\u2019s current political leaders have rewarded countries who did not even sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). North Korea is an evil communist, totalitarian regime guilty of torturing and of murdering Christians and persons who attempt to flee from North Korea. Many nuclear analysts that North Korea will never comply with agreements to end its nuclear weapons program.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008 Presidential Candidates<\/span><\/p>\n

Joe Klein, author of \u201cIran\u2019s Nukes: Now They Tell Us\u201d (Time magazine, December 6, 2007) noted that there is a real opportunity now for an opening with Iran, but President George W. Bush will fail to seize the opportunity. Klein predicted that the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) will hurt the saber rattling Republican presidential candidates. Rudy Giuliani, with a staff of neoconservative advisers, might be hurt the most. Among the Democrats, Hillary Clinton could be hurt because of her vote on a Senate resolution. Iranian leaders are hurting the opportunity by enriching uranium and by supporting Hezbollah. However, Iran is not building nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Gergen agreed that Republican presidential candidates who have supported President George W. Bush\u2019s excessive war rhetoric will be hurt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday December 8, 2007 – 09:13pm (PST) Permanent Link <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>London Meetings with Members of Parliament, November 22, 2007 <\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Sheldon Foote,November 23, 2007 <\/span><\/p>\n

On Thursday, November 22, 2007 (Thanksgiving Day in America), some Members of Parliament experienced separate talks with questions and answers by Professor Raymond Tanter [President, Iran Policy Committee; promoting the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists] and Professor Paul Sheldon Foote [opposing the MEK terrorists and neoconservatives]. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Conservative Middle East Council (CMEC) arranged for my meeting with Members of Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cmec.org.uk<\/span><\/p>\n

The following is my PowerPoint outline submitted to the Conservative Middle East Council (CMEC) following the meeting. My talk covered many, but not all, of the topics in this outline during the time period available for the meeting with some Members of Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n

US Division of Foreign Policy Towards Iran<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Sheldon Foote<\/span><\/p>\n

Academic Credentials<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Professor of Accounting, California State University, Fullerton<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 BBA, University of Michigan\u2014Ann Arbor; MBA, Harvard Business School; Ph.D., Michigan State University<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Marriage in Iran<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Married an Iranian khanam in Tehran, Iran, 1968<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Met my wife in London, 1967, when we worked at the Chief Foreign Branch of Barclays Bank (Fenchurch at Lombard streets)<\/span><\/p>\n

Military Service<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Army lieutenant, Vietnam War<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Volunteered and served in Vietnam, 1968-1969, to fight communists<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Real veteran and conservative, not a neoconservative chickenhawk<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Irandoost<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Lover of Iran<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Persian language studies, Harvard University, 1971-1972<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Professor Richard Frye, Greater Iran<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Sir Roger Stevens, The Land of the Great Sophy<\/span><\/p>\n

International Work Experience<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Government of Norway, Oslo, 1967<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Barclays Bank, London, 1967<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 U.S. Army, Vietnam, 1968 \u2013 1969<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 American Embassy, Tehran, Iran, 1970<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

International Work Experience 2<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2022 Citibank, Lebanon and India, 1972-1973<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Singer Sewing Machine Company, Greece, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco, 1974 \u2013 1975<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

International Work Experience 3<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 1994 \u2013 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 English language teaching, Islamic Republic of Iran, 1995, 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Fraud consulting, Oman, 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n

Republican Party Credentials<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Lifelong registered Republican, never a neoconservative admirer of Trotsky or of communism<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Elected: Los Angeles Republican County Central Committee, 1990<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Republican Party Credentials 2<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2022 Republican candidate for California State Assembly, 1992<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ron Paul<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Republican Congressman: I support for President in 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Libertarian Party presidential candidate, 1988<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cNeo-CONNED\u201d speech to Congress, 2003<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Patrick J. Buchanan<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Right From The Beginning, 1988 political autobiography<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2022 Neoconservatives, claiming to be former communists, cannot dupe real conservatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patrick J. Buchanan 2<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 A Republic, Not an Empire (2002)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Real American conservatives support setting an example of how to have a great republic at home, not how to invade other countries to steal resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Patrick J. Buchanan 3<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Where the Right Went Wrong (2005)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Neoconservatives (Neo-Trotskyites) are not anti-communist because they opposed the Soviet Union after Stalin\u2019s murder of Trotsky.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Patrick J. Buchanan 4<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cWho are the neoconservatives? The first generation were ex-liberals, socialists, and Trotskyites, boat-people from the McGovern revolution who rafted over to the GOP at the end of conservatism\u2019s long march to power with Ronald Reagan in 1980.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Justin Raimondo<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Director, Antiwar.com<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Former public office candidate: Libertarian and Republican parties<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2022 Articles critical of neoconservatives (Trotskycons) and of MEK<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Justin Raimondo 2<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2022 Book: Reclaiming The American Right<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Claes Ryn<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2022 Professor, Catholic University of America<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2022 Book: America the Virtuous<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2022 Parallels between neoconservatives (neo-Jacobins) and the Reign of Terror of French Revolution<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lew Rockwell<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Libertarian articles critical of neoconservatives and of MEK posted at LewRockwell.com<\/span><\/p>\n

Renew Diplomatic Relations<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Bruce Laingen, Republican and highest ranking diplomatic hostage in Iran, has supported talks and diplomatic relations with Iran<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Example: March 6, 1998 PBS News Hour<\/span><\/p>\n

End Western Support of Terrorists<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 There are no good terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Western countries need to stop all operations of Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Close Camp Ashraf, Iraq<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 September 2002: President Bush used MEK as pretext for Iraq War.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 2003: American and coalition forces attacked Camp Ashraf.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 2007: America protects its communist enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

End Trade Sanctions<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 President Clinton, a Democrat, at the World Jewish Congress Dinner (New York City, April 30, 1995) announced he would sign executive orders stopping investment in Iran. <\/span><\/p>\n

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End Trade Sanctions 2<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Clinton thanked Edgar Bronfman, a major shareholder in Conoco, for stopping Conoco from investing $1 billion in Iran\u2019s petroleum industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Clinton noted Bronfman\u2019s Zionist ties.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

End Trade Sanctions 3<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cI know he was the President of the World Jewish Congress, the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations.\u201d \u2013Clinton, April 30, 1995 <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

End Trade Sanctions 4<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 The West has promoted trade and investment involving tens of thousands of factories in Communist China.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 China has millions of political prisoners and executes many for religious or political beliefs.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

End Trade Sanctions 5<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has a policy of nonintervention<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Contrary to neoconservative lies, real conservatives are not isolationists. We support world trade, not endless wars.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Condemn Zionist Racism<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cA million Arabs are not worth one Jewish fingernail.\u201d \u2013Rabbi Yaacov Perrin at 1994 funeral for Baruch Goldstein, charter member of Jewish Defense League who murdered 29 Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Stop Strangling Iran<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Neoconservatives lie about exporting democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 European powers crushed Persia\u2019s 1906 Constitutional Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Iranians struggled for democracy a century ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reject Zionist Claims to Palestine<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 For an honest history of the 7th Century conversion of King Bulan and of the Khazars to Judaism, read Chagall\u2019s Target.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Ashkenazics were descendents of Noah’s son Japhet, not Shem.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Finns, not Semites and not \u201cChosen\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Do not reward NPT non-signers<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty non-signers:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 India<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Israel<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 North Korea<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Pakistan<\/span><\/p>\n

Stop Stealing Resources<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 The 1872 Reuter’s Concession (or Reuter Concession) described by Lord Curzon as ‘the most complete and extraordinary surrender of the entire industrial resources of a kingdom into foreign [i.e. British] hands’ <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Newspapers published editorials and articles expressing shock at Baron de Reuter\u2019s concession from Persia\u2019s Shah.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Stop Stealing Resources 2<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Shah of Iran squandered the wealth of the Iranian people for the benefit of American interests.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Shah of Iran abolished political parties and created a one-party totalitarian state.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Interlock: The untold story of American banks, oil interests, the Shah’s money, debts, and the astounding connections between them <\/span><\/p>\n

book by Mark Hulbert<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Stop Stealing Resources 3<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Stop using the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and other international organizations to control and impoverish countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stop Stealing Resources 4<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Neoconservatives lied about exporting democracy and fighting terrorism in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Be honest about petrodollar warfare: \u201cIt is the crude, dude.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Contact Information<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Professor Paul Sheldon Foote<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Department of Accounting<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 California State University, Fullerton<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 PO Box 6848<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Fullerton, CA 92834-6848 USA<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 (714) 278-2682<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Email: pfoote@fullerton.edu<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Skype Name: paulsheldonfoote<\/span><\/p>\n

Blog and Political Forum<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2022<\/span>http:\/\/360.yahoo.com\/paulsheldonfoote<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/traitorsusa\/<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Paul shedon Foote, December 08, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n

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