Disgusted Iranians Form Aid Committees, Warn Against Misuse Of Aids
SMCCDI (Information Service)
Dec 27, 2003
Tens of thousands of Iranians and students have formed local committees in order to collect aid and provide help to the rescapees of the deadly quake which has killed thousands of Iranians in the Kerman Province. Disgusted by various reports stating about the catastrophic conditions of the Bam and Jiroft residents and the lack of real attention and support from the official circles, money, food and materials are getting collected in order to be shipped from main Iranian cities by trucks conducted by their owners or voluntary drivers.
Many Iranians, not concerned by politic till now, are showing anger and voicing up with many already against the regime.
Unprecedented courageous public accusations are made against the regime and its leaders by angry Iranians. Many of them are qualifying, publicly, the regime and its leaders as "bunch of thieves and murderers mainly concerned by spending Iranians' money for Terrorism purposes or to place it abroad rather than spending it for the sake of the People".
Talks are made in public cabs and buses, in the streets or on the campuses on the need of a "wide scale revolution which will purify Iran from mullahs and their collaborators".
The deadly Kerman quake and the increasing number of deaths, due to the incompetency of the regime, have contributed to cut off the last few moral barriers which were existing among some Iranians for wishing a radical change in Iran no matter the cost will be.
Abroad Iran, local committees are getting formed in most US and European cities by Iranians and their friends in order to collect aid and to transfer it by "secure ways" to Iran and the quake's rescapees. Iranians remembering how the regime's men confiscated and sold, in the black market, the aids made in the last decade to Roodbar's quake's rescapees are avoiding all official channels by preferring to send via family members these aids or by giving them to well known and respectable organizations, such as, "Mercy Corps." or "Doctors Without Borders".
E.mails are circulating on the net asking from anybody wishing to help to avoid giving them to groups known for having "close relation" with the regime. The main accused are the self called "Iranian American National Council" (NIAC), the self-called "American Iranian Council" (AIC) and religious foundations, such as, the Los Angeles based "Iman foundation". The anger of the Iranian Diaspora has increased against these pro-regime lobby groups as the head of the AIC has used the quake's occasion for again asking the end of sanctions against the clerical regime.
It's to note that the main heads of the NIAC, AIC and Iman foundation have been working hard in order to help the establishment of relations between the US's consecutive administrations and the repressive clerics by trying to make believe to American officials that Iran's becoming a Democracy and that the regime has legitimacy among Iranians.
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