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...ISA speaker, who wished to remain anonymous, accused CIAFI of misrepresenting the Iranian people, and said Berahini is a CIA agent...
...ISA protest began as the crowd entered the MIT lecture hall. CIAFI members who were sponsoring the meeting distributed leaflets warning the audience of threatened violence and assault from the ISA activists...
...public safety," CIAFI sponsors originally barred ISA activists from the meeting. Members of the audience eventually voted to permit the ISA members to enter the meeting and present their own speaker...
Berahini and Chomsky rebutted the ISA speaker. Berahini said that neither he nor the ISA represent the people of Iran, "the people who were fighting in the streets of Tabriz." He defended his credentials as a poet and an activist against the Shah, and said his goal at MIT was to expose the "violation of human rights" and plight of Iranian political prisoners to the American people...
Chomsky added he thought the bickering of the ISA over the credibility of Berahini detracted from the main issues of the evening and "turned a lot of potentially sympathetic Americans off" to the issue of human rights repression in Iran...