Ramin Jahanbegloo hides his NED service on CBC's The Hour

Ramin Jahanbegloo claims, in a recent interview on CBC's The Hour, he was never involved in anything political and he was only arrested because he was a Canadian as well as an Iranian citizen and that they told him he was a spy only because he carried a Canadian passport. What an honest and innocent man!

Jahanbegloo on CBC's The Hour

But seriously, if serving at a federally funded program, known as the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program, at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is not political activity, then what is political activity?

If a sovereign country is not supposed to prosecute or at least be suspicious of someone who has served at the heart of its enemy's intelligence apparatus (Allen Weinstein, a founder of the NED' said once that a 'lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,' then what is sovereignty?

If ramin jahenbegloo was never involved in politics, then how one could ever describe his writings for the NED's journal, journal of Democracy:

• Jahanbegloo, Ramin. "Pressure From Bellow." Journal of Democracy 14, no. 1 (January 2003): 126.

• Jahanbegloo, Ramin. "the Role of the Inttelectuals." Journal of Democracy 11, no. 4 (October 2000): 135.

Jahanbegloo's ties with NED is so public now that it's unimaginable how a CBC producer have not possibly run into it. Why everyone is ignoring to mention this, while it was exactly what the iranian authorities publically anounced for Ramin Jahanegloo's arrest, and also Jahanbegloo himslef confirmed it in an interview in Tehran after his release?

Who do you think have the guts to raise this finally in Canada?

P.S: The CBC had used my photo of Jahanbgeloo on the screen in the back, without my knowledge and since the CBC is a commercial channel, it has violated the Creative Commons license, attributed to it. If we can't sue the CBC for their PR-style journalism toward Jahanbegloo, maybe we can sue them for using this picture. Anyone? :)