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The 34-year-old was imprisoned for more than 800 days on false spying charges in a case reminiscent of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian mother who was also held under brutal conditions in the same prison until she was released earlier this year.
In the early stages of her imprisonment, Dr Moore-Gilbert recalled how her interrogators accused her of working in Iran as a spy before she had actually arrived in the country after misreading a calendar. The mix-up was based on Iran using a different calendar to the Western Gregorian calendar.
"They're not necessarily talented or skilled," she said. "They are not well versed in security, geopolitics or counter espionage - they are blundering idiots really. Some of them are smart but they're brainwashed.
"I watched the movie about Johnny English in Farsi in my cell, and I thought, that is the Revolutionary Guard - the Iranian Johnny English. Most of the time, they are blundering around arresting innocent people because of brainwashing and conspiracy theories."
"I had been calling for my case to be made public from the first few months of my arrest, I was telling my family on the phone - go to the media, get it out there, don't keep it a secret. But unfortunately that wasn't listened to," she said.
"I don't see any evidence of hostages being treated worse in prison [after going public]," she said. "I noticed that great attention was placed on my medical situation after the arrest became public."
To help process her ordeal and raise awareness about Iran's roguish hostage programme, Dr Moore-Gilbert has written a book, 'The Uncaged Sky', recounting her imprisonment, which was released in April.
Asked about the UK's handling of Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case and of other Britons who are still being held by Iran - including London-born conservationist Morad Tahbaz - she described it as "shameful."
"It's inexcusable for the Brits to make a deal that was so advantageous for the Iranians, who at the end of the day were getting $400 million of frozen money [from an unpaid tank debt] despite the sanctions in exchange for innocent people."
In perhaps the most dramatic twist of her ordeal, Dr Moore-Gilbert discovered that her husband - who had been "robotic and withdrawn" in their prison phone calls - had been having an affair with another academic while she was in jail.
A useful idiot or useful fool is a pejorative description of a person, suggesting that the person thinks they are fighting for a cause without fully comprehending the consequences of their actions, and who does not realize they are being cynically manipulated by the cause's leaders or by other political players.[1][2] The term was often used during the Cold War to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and psychological manipulation.[1] A number of authors attribute this phrase to Vladimir Lenin, but this attribution is not supported by any evidence. Similar terms exist in other languages.
While the phrase useful idiots of the West has often been attributed to Vladimir Lenin, he is not documented as ever having used the phrase.[13] In a 1987 article for The New York Times, American journalist William Safire reported about his search for the origin of the term. He wrote that a senior reference librarian at the Library of Congress, Grant Harris, had been unable to find the phrase in Lenin's works. Safire was also out of luck contacting TASS and the New York headquarters of the Communist Party. He concluded that, lacking solid evidence, a cautious phrasing must be used, e.g., "a phrase attributed to Lenin...".[13]
In 1959, Congressman Ed Derwinski of Illinois entered an editorial by the Chicago Daily Calumet into the Congressional record, referring to Americans who travelled to the Soviet Union to promote peace as "what Lenin calls useful idiots in the Communist game".[14] In a speech in 1965, American diplomat Spruille Braden said the term was used by Joseph Stalin to refer to what Braden called "countless innocent although well-intentioned sentimentalists or idealists" who aided the Soviet agenda.[15]
Writing in The New York Times in 1987, Safire discussed the increasing use of the term useful idiot against "anybody insufficiently anti-Communist in the view of the phrase's user", including Congressmen who supported the anti-Contras led by the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the Labour Party in the Netherlands.[13] After United States president Ronald Reagan concluded negotiations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev over the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, conservative political leader Howard Phillips declared Reagan a "useful idiot for Soviet propaganda".[16][17]
In the end of 2016, the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright[18] and the Editorial Board of The New York Times applied the term to President-elect Donald Trump.[19] Michael Morell, former acting CIA director, wrote: "In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation."[20] Michael Hayden, former director of both the US National Security Agency and the CIA, described Trump as a "useful fool, some naif, manipulated by Moscow, secretly held in contempt, but whose blind support is happily accepted and exploited."[21]
The Economist published a 2023 article titled "Vladimir Putin's useful idiots"; it describes "Useful Idiot narratives" pushed by Putinversteher that support Putin's aims and denigrate his perceived enemies.[22]
The Serbo-Croatian term korisne budale, which may be translated as useful idiots or useful innocents, attributed to unnamed Yugoslav communists, appears in a 1946 Reader's Digest article titled "Yugoslavia's Tragic Lesson to the World", written by Bogdan Raditsa. Raditsa had served the Yugoslav government-in-exile during World War II, supported Josip Broz Tito's partisans but was not a communist himself, and briefly served in Tito's led Provisional Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia before leaving for New York.[23] Raditsa said: "In the Serbo-Croat language, the communists have a phrase for true democrats who consent to collaborate with them for [the sake of] 'democracy'. It is Korisne Budale, or Useful Innocents."[24] In his 1947 book Planned Chaos, Austrian-American economist Ludwig von Mises wrote that the term useful innocents was used by communists for those whom von Mises describes as "confused and misguided sympathizers [of the revolutionary idea]".[25]
They [capitalists] will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries and, by supplying us materials and technical equipment which we lack, will restore our military industry necessary for our future attacks against our suppliers. To put it in other words, they will work on the preparation of their own suicide.
To speak the truth is a petit-bourgeois habit. To lie, on the contrary, is often justified by the lie's aim. The whole world's capitalists and their governments, as they pant to win the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the above-mentioned reality and will thus transform themselves into men who are deaf, dumb and blind. They will give us credits . . . they will toil to prepare their own suicide.
Although it's been awhile since someone qualified for the Title, just when you think we've finally settled into being reasonably sane, the bright light in our toilet of stupidity comes on once again, and we put forth our own example of why Darwin was right.
He calls himself an "exiled Iranian businessman" which would mean that he was a businessman in Iran, but No, he came out in 1979 like everyone else. He became a businessman (and insane) after that. But aside from bad grammar, he is also now interested in the formation of a Green Wave (how original!) of resistance, and apparently thinks that the way to save Iran is to simply outspend the IRI.
His business according to Market Watch is apparently corporate takeovers, "...Mr Jahanchahi was instrumental in toppling an executive at Havas, the advertising group, last June. That paved the way for Vincent Bollor, the flamboyant corporate raider, to take control." So if we assume that the IRI is merely a corporation, and Ahmdinejad and the mullahs are the CEO and Board, that makes Chahi our Trump.
The plans from his widely advertised "luxurious home" in London (did you get that IRI?), includes "flooding the country with money" to "bring this regime to its knees" and "setting up a Farsi-language radio station to broadcast into Iran".
But the most telling example of insanity is the comparison of himself to Charles De Gaulle who was also exiled in London in 1940 and spoke out against the Nazis during WWII. Because if you think about it, and know how to use Photoshop, you can easily see the similarities.
This guy puts his MONEY where his MOUTH is. That makes him a lot more respectable than the FREE LOADERS who do the opposite and MAKE MONEY out of PRETENDING to oppose the ISLAMIST unREPUBLIC. That includes various Californian Radio & TV stations, much of the web sites that run ads and so on and so forth.
Just for your weird taste in men you need to get a brain check. Quit the drugs that make you see the reality of the world through the prism of a cartoon character. Here is a clue for you...eroonman... is in fact....are you ready? sure you'are sitting down?..he is...Krusty the Clown! There now you have it. While I am at it, get some help for your hair color.
As far as I can tell you are hiding behind an alias to pour your vitriolic prose on people you have never met and never known. I wish you had the same courage as Mr. Jahanchahi to stand up in the middle of broad daylight and have the gumption to just say a few words about the evils of the Islamic Republic of Iran (even) from exile. The truth about you may be quite different since one could suspect you being on the IRI payroll to broadcast irrelevant information not to say blatant lies about Iranian activists. Your feable attempt to start a slogan on A. Jahanchahi in Farsi is as pathetic as the empty content you have posted here that is nothing but a waste of space. The depth of your analysis is at par with a high school student trying to decipher complex geo-politics questions. Whether one is an ex-IRI diplomat leaving the revolutionary sinking ship or an activist trying to bring the world's attention to the horrific human right abuses inside Iran they all deserve their place in the sun and our collective appreciation for the efforts they are putting to save the nation. Eroonman (one needs to double check the verasity of your claim to manhood as well) you are indeed ...pathetic!
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