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The letter to the Guardian by leftists criticising Iran is signed by the infamous communist terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, 'retired professor of law' (I wrote here about her praising Charles Manson's murder of Sharon Tate) and her equally dreadful husband Bill Ayers.
Mr Obama's political career was launched in a fundraiser in her drawing room, just so you know.
I am certainly no admirer of hers but rereading this post I see she was quite right when she said in 2010 in an interview:
"The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world."
I am certainly no admirer of hers but rereading this post I see she was quite right when she said in 2010 in an interview:
"The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world."
But her anti-imperialism has softened.
Sami Ramadani, an Iraqi-born British academic and leftist, said this about the letter.
Another left-wing Britons Iranian academic said this.
Sami Ramadani, an Iraqi-born British academic and leftist, said this about the letter.
Shameful anti-Iran letter by some professors who should know better. They equate the struggle for survival of a besieged nation with US-Israeli wars of genocide. Their pretext: “we reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism”.
They shockingly ignore the fact the US and Israel have publicly threatened to end Iranian civilisation and bomb it back to the Stone Age. A threat that clearly implies using nuclear bombs against the people of Iran.
Surely, the professors know there is nothing hollow about Iran’s 47 years of struggle for survival against US imperialism and Zionism.
We all recognise the ideological and political differences and conflicts accompanying the 1979 mass revolution that overthrew one of the world’s most brutal regimes dominated by US imperialism and Israel. However, regardless of one’s own ideological view, the reality was that a vast majority of the Iranian people backed the new state and its new constitution.
The current US-Israeli wars of aggression also testify to the reality that a vast majority of the Iranian people are resolutely defending their state and nation.
The professors must also know there is nothing hollow about the US and Israel brutally besieging Iran since the 1979 revolution to stifle its political and economic independence and return it back to semi-colonial humiliation and subjugation.
They hypocritically neglect noting that Mossad and CIA agents were lethally used in the streets of Iran in preparation for launching the June 2025 Israeli war on Iran and the February 2026 US-Israeli war.
In the unworthy tradition of hollow virtue signalling, the letter will appease the imperialist socio-economic system and its academic and media establishment.
Whether consciously or not, the stance of the professors adds ‘leftist’ grit to the mills of US-Israeli wars of genocide against the Iranian, Palestinian, Lebanese and Yemeni people.
The people and nations of the region need solidarity and not hollow posturing that is inevitably used to justify Imperialist-Zionist genocidal wars of aggression.
Another left-wing Britons Iranian academic said this.
Much has already been written about the hypocrisy of this letter. But one claim deserves particular attention. The authors repeat the story that Israel struck the ‘transgender section’ of Evin prison, purportedly housing 100 transgender prisoners. This false story circulated internationally after it was reported by the New York Times, before later investigations found no evidence to support it and the key source denied ever making the claim attributed to him.
Having spent my PhD years researching HIV in Iran, a subject that necessarily involved studying the legal, social and healthcare realities facing transgender people, I know full well that transgender people are not imprisoned in Iran for being transgender. Iran legally recognises transgender people and permits gender reassignment surgery. Furthermore, there are no dedicated prison wings housing 100 transgender prisoners.
Yet people who were willing to uncritically repeat such an implausible story are now writing open letters to Iranian prisoners, as though they possess a deep understanding of the people they claim to write to. It is another reminder of how often narratives about Iran are constructed from assumptions and second-hand mythologies, rather than from serious engagement with realities on the ground.
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