Shahin, Yes having beer with Milani and talk about Marxists / Lenninists / Maoists / Vahdat e komonisiti, Etahdieh komonisiti, Paykar, and... of the 70's is really called for. 

He drinks Cab though.  

I met him in person and he signed one of his books for me at Sherkat Ketab. 

Shahin is our official NIAC detector. But I think she is a highly regarded scientist.

 

About Sabeti documentary . It is definitely worth watching. As I said you can watch this from many angles. 1) Sabeti himself, 2) just hearing the evens post 28 Mordad, 3) the motive.

 

For me the interesting part was 2) just the chronological events of almost 3 decades and listening to it without a prejudice. Sabeti himself or the motive for this mostanad is secondary to me.  

 

I watched it all and I actually listened to each part very closely as many times I had to rewind.

 

I do listen to the post documentary tahlils which is going around. Like to hear a balance of Abbas Milani, Aarash Azizi, Amir Taheri, and Iraq Mesdaghi's take on this.

 

There was one balanced debate in Manoto which included some guy titled as Dabir kol hezb komonist Iran. They kept asking him what should have SAVAK done differently with armed terror elements of chap.  And he kept dodging the question. 

 

Anyways, in general other than the Tudeh party with its affiliation with Soviet, the rest of the groups like chereek Fadaei and all were just bunch of lost irrational idealistic individuals who just had everything wrong.