I don't know why brother Kianollah is being so coy here about his disdain for the reformist movement.
Here is an excerpt from Kianollah's
thoughts on Big Soccer. Please note that it wasn't the news of women and youth being beaten that caused anguish to his gentle soul, but watching the valiant brothers of Special Guards being waved to as they bravely patrolled the streets.
...vojdan kilooee chand, dadash?
"Btw, it may sound corny, but when the convoy of special forces was moving on Niayesh freeway, a couple of cars honked their horns and waived at them and for some reason the scene made me a bit emotional, making me almost choke with tears. I personally hate the fact that after an election that was so open and so vibrant, a bunch of rumor mongers and sore losers have tried to throw this nation into chaos."
Ey la'nat bar in pool ke mardom baraash che kaarha mikonand. Baradar Kianollah, you have a law degree and speak English quite well. There will always be job openings for people like you under a different administration. I promise you.
Don't be so nervous.
What brought tears in my eyes was what I mentioned, which is not what you understood. I saw the faces of the troops being to the streets, and know the faces of the people who they might be confronting. And I hate the fact that we are where we have been taken. Where my countrymen may be put against another in violence.
As for your innuendo and slander, I don't work for any administration in Iran. But my firm does perform services for a state owned company, and its through these contacts that I have learned that most of the government bucreaucy is against Ahmadinejad. If my interest was what you want to suggest, I would take a position very different than the one I have taken.
As for supporting reforms, I did and still do. I still consider Khatami a much needed voice for Iran when he was elected and have no regret supporting him during the 1997-2003 period. I did not support Khatami's stance on Iran's nuclear program after Bush and company, but otherwise I liked the fact that he made "rule of law" and "democracy" and such concepts a central part of the political discouse in Iran. I do believe in those concepts, although if I did rate Ahmadinejad as some might, I might also feel like Abedzadeh. But I don't view him that way. I have not seen him to be a reactionary. The positions that have caused him to be vilified are not ones that earn him such disdain in my book. Indeed, in some cases such as the nuclear issue in particular, the opposite. In fact, anyone who has actually read my manuscript, should know why, since my ambitions for Iran have been to see a democratic government under rule of law, with Iran being a powerful country once again.
So that there is no doubt about my motivations in taking the positions I do, let me say what is well known anyway by whoever wants my services here: I am not religious; I do not pretend to be; I do not pray or fast; I strongly supported Iran in the Iran-Iraq war, but on most other issues, did not approve the direction my country was taking after the revolution until the rise of the reform movement; I supported Khatami strongly; I have generally supported Ahmadinejad in his confrontation with the West; I was undecided in this election but certainly not because I was not appreciative of Ahmadinejad standing up to those who wanted to throw Iran into chaos and/or rob of its nuclear rights; I support Iran having a vibrant "loyal opposition" in the guise of the reformists, but I strongly oppose the events of the last few days and do not want to have anything to do with them. These are my views and the win me no friends here or elsewhere, because they are NOT calculated to win political friends. They are calculated to express my honest felt viewpoints on what is in our national interest and calculated to insist one one point that matters a lot to me: my right to express my views regardless of what anyone else thinks of them.