Bakhtiar's killer being freed from French jail. by Milota Sidorova

If everyone is free to say whatever they want, that's called democracy. But if everyone acts whatever way they want, that's not even anarchy. No government on earth could accept such a thing. I wouldn't find more appropriate words to describe the work and spirit of Shapour Bakhtiar, influential Iranian political scientist, writer and ex-Prime Minister before Khomeini took over the country. For all his life Bakhtiar fought for democracy and human rights even under monarchy constitution, but this will brought him exile in France and assasination in Paris 1991. One of three killers was caught and was prooved it was Ali Vakili Rad, supporter of Khomeini regime. He was arrested ! by French police and sent to jail to serve a life sentence. But 19 years later, Ali Vakili Rad is being freed and is ready to move to Iran facing no further problems. Vakili Rad himself proved that was going to be heaven after years of hell. Let him be on his own, the most interesting thing is French attitude towards Vakili. It seems there could be more than just simple liberalization of a prisoner. Along with Vakili Rad coming back home, there is French teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss who was imprisoned by Teheran last year. Reiss is coming back to France at the very same time. Although any official confirmed it was well prepared prisoner swap, the fact it would be just a coincidence is hard to believe. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad required prison exchange if France wanted to see Reiss freed again.So far, France has released more prisoners involved in Iran related cases. One of them was also a man trying to kill Bakhtiar in 1980.

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