EVEN HIS SUPPORTERS THINK HE'S DANGEROUS?:

Kerry Iranian fund-raiser repudiates him on Tehran: Under oath, warns Islamic regime can't be trusted with nuke material (Art Moore, 10/18/04, WorldNetDaily.com)

Hassan Nemazee, 54, a New York investment banker and former board member of a pro-Tehran lobby, delivered a one-hour deposition today in New York City in a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Aryo Pirouznia, leader of the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iraq.

Nemazee charges Pirouznia with defamation of character for accusing him of being an Iranian government agent. In a countersuit, Pirouznia contends that supporters of the cleric-led regime are funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Kerry campaign.

In his deposition today, Nemazee acknowledged he has raised about $500,000 for Kerry.

But he said if the Democratic nominee had asked him his view of the Iranian regime, he would have said it should be trusted with no other intention than to build nuclear weapons. [...]

"We should have a transcript and videotape of it soon; it will be very important for the American people to see this," said [Jerome Corsi, a consultant to Pirouznia,] who also is co-author of the best-seller challenging Kerry's Vietnam War record and post-war activism, "Unfit for Command."