The Neo Hezi's

Amir.irani-tehrani.com: Neo-Hezis = The New Hezbollah

Since the mid 90s, a group of what I refer to as “Neo-Hezis” have infiltrated the Diaspora and exile communities that up to that point were made up of, for the most parts, refugees and asylum-seekers running from the Islamic Republic.

This new group however, has no problem with the government of Iran. That is, if one talks to them, they might complain and say all sorts of bad things about the regime, but they don’t fail to regularly visit the home-base and to represent the interests of the Islamic Republic either openly or covertly in the United States and Europe.

I am not sure if these people are just plain dumb or retarded, or really smart and calculating, but they seem to be programmed like machines to use any and every opportunity to knock the exiles and the refugees and portray the Islamic Republic as a democratic government, or one on its way there. So, I am not sure if they are too stupid to realize that this is just a bad joke, or if they don’t care. In any case they do seem to be quite banal.

In private conversations and off the record some of them claim “fear” as their driving motivation… But this fear apparently is not great enough to prevent them from returning ever and again to Iran under the rule of fascist fanatic’s “republic.” What they make most use of in their propaganda is the general accepted prejudice that something called a “republic” is always good, and a “monarchy” is always bad… The language of these Neo-Hezis is designed to work with the axioms of the hegemonic discourse particularly within the so-called intellectual circles… So, they sell themselves as of the “liberal” and “leftist” persuasion.

Now, one of their leaders in the blogosphere, who precisely because of this uncritical discourse is being celebrated all over the place (currently in the Frankfurt Book Fair) is Hossein Derakhshan, or “Hoder”: see www.hoder.com. READ MORE

Following president Ahmadinejad’s moment of honesty, Hoder has launched a two pronged attack, one aiming firstly to argue literally for the crowning of the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khamenei as a quasi-Shah of Iran, and next to bring back the Constitution of 1905 which limited the powers of the king!

Honestly… this IS what he has written on his Persian blog… Now, the other prong of this strategy involves sustaining and perhaps even increasing the attack on Reza, the son of the last actual Shah of Iran, and on everyone who has ever come close to him - including some who have up to quite recently been Neo-Hezis themselves…

The urgency has come because the Foreign Office has felt that if for nothing else, to save face in the international community, they must distance themselves from the Iranian government - a relationship they had justified until now by calling the Neo-Hezis, “reformists”…

Not being able to continue supporting the fascists ruling Iran for their national interest following Ahmadinejad’s moment of honesty means a great loss for Britain in Iran - they had been able to avoid this until now. If the likes of Hoder cannot manage to bring back the lie and the pretence in a convincing fashion through their propaganda, Britain might have to look for different colonial clients to support… But as far as Her Majesty’s government is concerned, anything is better than the restoration of the Pahlavi rule…