Hoder and the "useful idiots"

Shortly after our efforts to publicise the plight of arrested Iranian women activists and promoting their 1 million signature campaign, there was a couple of lines on Hoder's blog, in Persian, below a link to my post on this subject.

The translation of the two lines on his blog is:

"The participation of monarchists in women's campaign"
"Its these kinds of actions that makes movements inside Iran threaten the national security"

As usual I was happy to see Hoder write about something we had done. Whenever he gets annoyed about something we do, it means what we have done has been worthwhile. Hossein Derakhshan, aka Hoder, is the spoiled child of a wealthy Bazari member of the very conservative Islamic Coalition in Iran. His first wedding ceremony was performed by no other than the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, himself. Hoder wants to enjoy the joys and comforts of living in the West and at the same time for daddy to remain rich and wealthy in Iran, in order to support his life style.

What is Hoder's role? Simply put, to present an acceptable face of the Islamic Republic to the Western intellectuals. His mission is to show the world, that despite the Islamic Republic being a religious apartheid, with the exception of a few fine tunings here and there, its actually an ok regime!

The type that were described by Stalin, as one of my readers once pointed out, "useful idiots", is his target audience. Hoder knows how to "play the game" and win over these "useful idiots".
To "play the game", you have to be anti-American, look trendy, and justify the wrongs in the Islamic Republic by pointing the finger at the West. Once you "play the game" right, the "useful idiots" will be won over.

So why is Hoder annoyed with what we did in South Bank University? Because we told an audience, who were active in womens rights campaigns, about what was going on in Iran. We were, in fact, a mixture of Iranian monarchists and non-monarchists. We were there to tell the audience about the Iranian activists, no one promoted monarchy in Iran or otherwise, as this was not the issue on the day. Finally to suggest that by telling the world about Iranian activists who have been jailed for a peaceful protest, will "turn the movement into threatening national security" just goes to show how intellectually bankrupt, Hoder and his "useful idiots" really are :))