Not really my friend either.
This article has so much goodness it is hard to know where to begin.
It seems that Iran held a conference titled “Che like Chamran”, to compare the lives of Mostafa Chamran and Che Guevara, they went to so far as to invite the son and daughter of Che who live in Cuba. Things did not go well.
The very first Iranian speaker at conference said in his remarks that:
"The people of Cuba, Fidel (Castro) and Che Guevara were never socialists or communists. Fidel has several times admitted that he and Che and the people of Cuba hated the Soviets for all they had done”.
''Today communism has been thrown into the trash bin of history as it was predicted by Ayatollah Khomeini", Ghasemi told the conference and added that the only way to save the world was through the “the religious, pro-justice movement’’.
Bad move.
Aleida Guevara, Che’s daughter followed with this:
An indignant Aleida, however, started her own address “in the name of the people of Cuba”. “We are a socialist nation”, she asserted. She also said the people of Cuba were grateful to the Soviet Union and there had never been any discord between the two nations, as mentioned by Ghasemi. She advised him to “always refer to original sources instead of translations to find out about Che Guevara’s beliefs”.
“My father never talked about God. He never met God. My father knew there was no absolute truth”, Aleida said, responding to Ghasemi’s speech. The coverage of her address by state-sponsored news agencies like ISNA was brief and excluded most of her contradictory remarks.”
It seems hatred of the west was not enough to unite these two groups and:
“After Aleida Guevara protested from the podium against perceived distortions of her father’s ideology by the first Iranian speaker, Haj Saeed Ghasemi, the four-day “Che Like Chamran” conference, that started Sep. 25, was aborted and the Latin American guests whisked away.”
I can’t help but laugh.
