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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (2908)	8/4/2007 11:00:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 4152

Iran's Kurds want regime change in Tehran Washington Times: The exiled president of Iran's largest Kurdish opposition group appealed for U.S. political and military support for its campaign to topple Iran's Islamic regime and create a new democratic, federal government in Tehran. In his first visit to Washington, Rahman Haj-Ahmadi, president of the three-year-old Kurdistan Free Life Party, told The Washington Times that the Iranian regime faced a growing internal challenge to its power from the Kurds, Azeris and other restive minority groups. Mr. Haj-Ahmadi, who lives in Germany, said his movement, known by its Kurdish acronym PJAK, was forced to take up arms and retreat to the rugged highlands along the Iran-Iraq border in self-defense against the central government. "We certainly would not take to the mountains and live such a difficult existence if the regime allowed us to pursue our struggle politically," said Mr. Haj-Ahmadi, speaking through an interpreter, in an interview Wednesday. PJAK, he said, has only limited contact with the U.S. government, but he appealed to Washington to push Iran harder on its human rights record and said his party would welcome American military and financial aid to carry on its fight. "We obviously cannot topple the government with the ammunition and the weapons we have now," he said. "Any financial or military help that would speed the path to a true Iranian democracy, we would very much welcome, particularly from the United States." ... Iran's leaders, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accused the United States of secretly funding PJAK and other minority resistance movements as part of a campaign to undermine their regime. Mr. Haj-Ahmadi dismissed questions of whether PJAK was part of a master plan to create new "Greater Kurdistan" in the region. "Right now, for us, democracy inside Iran is the issue," he said. "We will work with whoever we can to establish a just, democratic federal government to replace the Islamic regime." ... We should be actively helping these people. We should be giving them the same kind of support we gave the Kurds in Iraq when the Saddam despots were in charge. Iran is a hostile power with an unpopular government and these guys can help us change that. POSTED BY MERV prairiepundit.blogspot.com