To Keep Mick Alive

"...a bone marrow transplant for any chance of survival of living to see Kathryn's fifth or sixth birthday. I call on you my fellow Iranians to at least give me a shot at that chance. If you are a full-blooded Persian male and are willing to take a simple blood test I might get that chance."

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One of my readers whom I have come to know and have a great respect for... is an Iranian woman residing in Canada. She is a PhD in mathematics education and has a realistic view of the world. I asked for her permission to post parts of her e-mail on my blog...

Iran Verses United States... Iran verses Israel!

"We had some guests over for lunch. One of the gusts started talking about Ahmadi Nejad and why he thinks that Ahmadi Nejad is better than Bush (well this was not a surprise) and why he thinks that Ahmadi Nejad is a logical, reasonable person and he kept praising him for being strong... This blew my mind! Ahmadi Nejad being logical? Being strong... Being logical? Being true to Iran? If Israel had nukes, we should have it too, he said... America doesn't have democracy... It is like Iran but not much better he said... I was getting mad... I pleaded to my lefties friends; I said say something to this man but in reply they said well... he is right, why should Israel have the nuke? We should have it too... they agreed that US has a bit of democracy though! But their hate for Israel is so strong that they like Ahmadi Nejad!!!! Anti-Semitics! These are some Iranian intellectuals for god's sake. What should we do dear Sheema? Why are these people blind to the facts? It seems as if they have some sort of paralysis of intellect. They look and smell and talk like intellectuals, but their ideas are bizarly out of date and not updateable!"

به روایت تصویر می نویسم تا یادم نره... شیمای زن ایرانی که نمی تونه و نمی خواد که در مقابل ظلم و ریا ساکت باشه... غیر از اینکه امروز هست... قبلا هم بوده...زمانی که زندگی باز هم برایم پریدن... دستم را به لب طاقچه زدن و قد کشیدن بود...