A Mother's Lament

Calling for the release of NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari.

By Christopher Dickey | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Jul 4, 2009 | Updated: 11:04  p.m. ET Jul 4, 2009

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  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 07/06/2009 5:49:39 AM

    the world is reverberating with the AGONIZED CRIES OF AFGHAN ,PAKISTANI AND MUSLIM MOTHERS AND SISTERS AND FATHERS WHOSE SONS AND DAUGHTERS HAVE DISAPPEARED INTO THE TYRANNICAL CAVERNS OF AMERICAN TORTURE CHAMBERS FROM BAGRAM TO GITMO BAY IN AN ABYSS OF SHEER EVIL -

    ARE THEY LESS THAN ANIMALS OR THEY HAVE NO HUMAN INSTINCTS AS THE WERE BORN MUSLIMS -
    ONE IRANIAN HERETIC BECOMES MORE VITAL THAN THOSE THOUSANDS MISSING THANKS TO THE MOST OPRESSIVE TYRANNICAL REGIME IN THE WORLD -AMERICA ITSELF

    TIME FOR DIVINE INTERVENTION INDEED -INSHALLAH

    • Posted By: brydges @ 07/08/2009 2:15:56 PM

      You are the reason those mothers are crying. Ignorant scum like you brought the war to your lands. We have an expression "mess with the bull and get the horns."

      • Posted By: j.n @ 07/08/2009 8:45:54 PM

        You are one ignorant human being,or should I eleminate the word human.

  • Posted By: Indigo7 @ 07/05/2009 11:45:38 AM

    This is one more example of oppressive regime under the guise of Democracy. Young protesters being shot in the streets and journalists being silenced.

    • Posted By: j.n @ 07/05/2009 4:02:11 PM

      Protestors being shot in the streets,do you remember Kent State?.

      • Posted By: brydges @ 07/08/2009 2:12:54 PM

        decades ago, we used to have slaves too should we condone other countries that promote slavery?

  • Posted By: j.n @ 07/06/2009 4:35:17 PM

    You mean like when the US had it's dictator the Shaw in,right after the CIA helped oust the democratically elected government of Iran.

    • Posted By: siroos @ 07/07/2009 9:32:07 AM

      I'm getting fed up with this old worn out false story of Mossadeq and his "Democratically elected government". What in the world do you know about Mossadeq as a person? How can you be so sure that he was so democratic? After all, he ruled for a very brief time - not even a year. And during that brief time, he succeded to dissolve the parliament - A violation of the Iranian constitution! And then he staged a rigged referendum where 99.9% of the people supposedly voted "yes" to his rule! Any referendum where 99.9% votes for the same alternative is just so obviously rigged and fraudulent! Mossadeq was not democratically elected - The Shah chose him, as he chose all his other prime ministers! Furthermore, the coup against Mossadeq FAILED! It was the publishing of the Shah's decree that led to a popular uprising against Mossadeq's shortlived regime. Mossadeq was an autocrat who didn't tolerate other peoples' views. During his short-lived reign, he ordered the clamp down on protesters. The Shah had nothing against Mossadeq, and he chose him as his prime minister precisely because he knew that he strongly favored the nationalization of Iran's oil industry. What the Shah didn't realize was that he was dealing with a man who had personal interests and hang-ups intertwined with his political ambitions. Mossadeq was a member of the former royal house of the Qajar dynasty which ruled Iran for several hundred years before the Pahlavi dynasty replaced it. He harbored great hostility against the Pahlavi monarchy for personal reasons. It's very annoying to see how scores of people have turned such a man in to a national hero of mythical proportions! And it's equally as annoying to see how the western media continues to mass produce false information about that period of Iranian history - portraying the Shah as s U.S. and British marionette. I guess this kind of misinformation serves to bolster U.S. / British egos, while discrediting the Shah's rule, which one saw as a threat against U.S. and British hegemony in the region.

  • Posted By: mickiyud @ 07/07/2009 4:41:28 AM

    he is my favorite. I was really surprised that thousands of hotties contacted him on a celeb dating site called ____ xrl.us/bez42d _______ .Is he really looking for something there?

  • Posted By: OutsideLookInside @ 07/06/2009 1:02:02 PM

    To jbz7879 : US should flatten Okistan and Afghanistan and get rid of people like you, hopefully Iran will become a secular state and ally of US as they were before mullahs steal the revolution

    • Posted By: j.n @ 07/06/2009 4:38:33 PM

      You mean like Iran was when the US had it's dictator the Shaw in ,right after the CIA helped overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran.

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 07/05/2009 4:18:50 PM

    it seems the election fever is over in iran and usa too with the anglo-saxon islamophobics squarely put in their place and squirming like rabid dogs -
    just like the operation sandsrorm failed in 89 -this conspiracy against iran has collapsed like a house of cards and now it is time for reckoning -
    what about the mothers who had their young sons torn away BY THE VILLAIN MIR MOUSSAVI ,who sent a million young boys to be consumed in killing fields of iraq -
    and now with the blessing of every harlot and harlequin from iran who are nothing but heretics and traitors -HE IS A REFORMIST -
    i think the people who damaged public and private property in iran should receive severe islamic sentences -
    also the vulgar and excessively tainted western media needs a snub as they have even made a mockery of a tragic private death -
    that too of a tragic figure of a superb artist who i am glad at least died in the true faith -alhamdolilla -may allah bless him and punish all the villains and demon's seeds who plot against iran ,pakistan and the ummah -
    let god be the judge of what is right and wrong as there is no better justice than divine justice -

    i have heard on iranian media that neda was killed in the presence of a english doctor who immediately left tehran after and is wanted for questioning in iran -his escape by itself indicates what some of the anglo-american iranians were upto in iran post-election .

    creating a chaotic frenzy on orders of their western masters but they failed -alhamdolila

  • Posted By: j.n @ 07/05/2009 3:54:50 PM

    What about the humanatarian workers being detained in Israel,including former congresswoman cynthia McKinney,I gues since Israel did the kidnapping that will not make the news,what a bunch of low lifed media we have in this country.

  • Posted By: mjkoch @ 07/05/2009 11:19:28 AM

    If Iran is defanged and their rush to nuclear weapons is halted then Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas will have no where else to go to pursue their terrorist activities. Without Iran`s arming, training, and funding terrorist groups and nations the chance of a real peace and rapprochement in the Middle East will be that much closer to reality.

    Iran is the major obstacle to solving the Israel-Palestinian and the Israeli-Arab conflicts and the sooner Iran is dealt with the sooner all peoples in the region can realize the dream of peace.

  • Posted By: Aditya Mookerjee @ 07/05/2009 3:29:16 AM

    Perhaps, the two nations, Iran and the United States should not harbor enmity towards one another. Otherwise how could a journalist of Newsweek, one of the premier weekly publications in the globe be arrested? It is not as if Newsweek subverts governments. Newsweek is critical of the United States administration, too. Indeed, Newsweek can be less opinionated in it's journalism, but Newsweek has high standards which it adheres to. Members of the responsible press should not be detained. I hope that the respective gentleman is released in good time, and he finds happiness in his release.

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