Losing Iran?

It is too early to say that and I hope the U.S. talk with Iran will not result in security guaranties for the Iranian regime but it reminds me of Iraq in 1991. The massacres of Kurds in the north and Shi'a in the south by Sadam's forces. Is it what is happening here? I guess with so many pimps begging for U.S. to talk with a regime that commits human rights violations against its own people we can't expect too much. After all when the Iranian regime rejects the offer the United States can say it has tried everything!

  

 

Amir Taheri stands by his report

Guy Dinmore: US President George W. Bush and Tony Blair, the UK prime minister, have received separate background briefings from Iranian opposition activists, including one visitor to the White House on Tuesday who caused a storm earlier this month by reporting Iran had passed a law requiring Jews to wear special identification.

  

 

Iran: Special Offer

Iranian citizens are butchered, processed and packed but hey let us watch the World Cup!

Nothing happens. I walk by the Central Park
Next to nothing, and the no flight zone is
Just nothing yet throat slides over throat,
Bullets shut and blood drops. Here nothing happens
But I write to keep nothing from overloading nothing.

  

 

Condoleezza Rice: "Washington willing to join other nations in negotiations with Tehran if Muslim republic agrees to stop nuclear development."

What about the Iranian regime's human rights abuse cases?

  

 

نامه سنديکای شرکت واحد تهران به دبيرکل سازمان بين المللی کار و دبير کل فدراسين جهانی کارگران حمل و نقل


در این نامه نوشته شده است که صد و پنجاه نفر از کارگران شرکت واحد به دلیل اعتراضات صنفی بیکار شده اند و از دریافت هرگونه دستمزد و حقوقی محروم شده اند.

  

 

Iran Focus: "The United States will fall from its global stature and global power will end up in the hands of Asian countries in the next decade, a top Iranian official said on Tuesday."

Imagine that! If instead of U.S. troops there were religious fundamentalists with their human hating mindset, and Chinese or North Korean soldiers marching from one country to another!

  

 

Iran: Freedom March

Ethnic groups with the same nationality identify with each other based on common grounds. They can be united through their linguistic, behavioral, cultural, or religion. A nation can stubbornly clung to the belief that regardless of abusive treatment of its ethnic groups and minorities, a national front will be an absolute and unchangeable factor at all times. It is unfortunate that a country like Iran is not more known for its originality as well as today's reality. A Westerner may be well educated on Near Eastern studies, familiar with the past and present conflicts in the Middle East as well as Iran's unique geopolitical influence yet not have the vision to see the layers of the Iranian society. Azeris constitute around 24% of the population. This is an influential minority with strong ties to bazaar, military, and other important organs. This is not a minority that this or any other regime can mistreat and get away with so easily. We are witnessing an era when religious and secular ideologies have lost their social base to a great extent. The only thing that can glue the multi-ethnic Iranian society is nationalism. Of the existing brands of nationalism, the one based on pre-Islamic past is too ineffectual or out of touch with current realities while the Mossadegh nationalism is rather irrelevant in the age of globalization. Ethnocentrism has the greatest potential to fill this void. A national awareness based on respect for the diversity of the Iranian society and decentralization of power is needed. The Islamic regime cannot be part of the solution as it is the biggest obstacle to creation of such national awareness. Otherwise the future could look bleaker than ever.

... ah! and don't forget I am 25% an Iranian Turk!

  

 

وقتی همه ایدولوژیهای وارداتی (چپ و راست) و بازی مذهب شکست خورده اند و ملی گراها هم با بازی غیر قابل ملموس کوروش و داریوش هزاران سال پیش، نتوانسته اند گذشته را در امروز به زور وارد کنند... وقتی هیچ رهبری اپوزیسیونی وجود ندارد و اگر هم که چیزی باشد و یا کسی... هنوز طعمه بازیهای شکست خورده هستند... وقتی در دنیای امروز که در حال جهانی شدن (گلوبالیزه شدن) هست و سرمایه ها از کشوری به کشور دیگر منتقل می شوند ... مصدقیان هنوز در دوره ضد استعماری شصت سال پیش غوطه ورند... آنهم در حالیکه ایران به شکلی که امروز می شناسیم در حال فروپاشی است ... وقتی بزرگترین دغدغه جوان ایرانی داشتن آزادیهای فردی هست... و بازار و اقتصاد آزادی که همراه آن وی هم بتواند حق زیستن و انتخاب و کار داشته باشد... تنها مسیله ای که می تواند مردم یک مملکت را به جوش و خروش دربیاورد مسیله قومی هست. کاریکاتور مانا نیستانی هم اگر نبود... حرف و حدیث و مورد دیگری همین عکس العمل قومی را می توانست در همین امروز ایران، پدید بیاورد. چشمهایمان را به روی چه حقیقتی می بندیم؟ یکسال پیش رهبران ترکها، بلوچها و کردهای (هنوز) ایرانی در خارج از کشور به جلسه نشستند...

وقتی در مملکتی تغییر حکومت می شود... همیشه آن عده که می بینند نمی توانند به تنهایی جنایتکاران رژیمی را از ارتکاب جنایت بازدارند و تحمل زیست و کنار آمدن با آن را هم ندارند، وقتی قدرت تغییر به صورت ملی ندارند به تغییرات فردی دست می زنند... مثل بسیاری از انسانهای ایرانی که از ایران یا با گرفتن مهاجرت و یا با پناهجویی به ممالک دیگر رفته اند... امروز هم این اقوام ایرانی پس از سالها سرخوردگی و تحمل جنایات رژیم ایران دست به کاری زده اند ... تا شاید بتوانند حداقل آزادی قومی خود را تامیین کنند...

همه چیز باید مفهوم عملی داشته باشد حتی ملی گرایی...

  

 

Iranian democracy conference to convene at US Senate

Kurdish Media: In the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, representatives of many of Iran's numerous ethnic groups come together to discuss the current situation in Iran and the future of the nation. Attendees include the leaders of Iran's two major Kurdish parties, Mustafa Hijri of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and Abdullah Mohtadi of the Komala Party of Iran, as well as representatives of other organizations that form the Congress of Iranian Nationalities such as Baluchistan Peoples Party, the Democratic Solidarity of Ahwaz, Organization for Defense of the Rights of Turkmen People, and the Diplomatic Commission of South Azerbaijan. Dr. Roya Toloui, who recently arrived in the US after traveling from Iran to Turkey, and other prominent human rights activists is also in attendance.

  

 

...according to this blog Abed Tavancheh, a student at Amir Kabir university and a blogger may have been arrested.

  

 

More on the Uprising in Iran can be read... here... and more blogging on what I call the Freedom March later today.

  

 

Next time anyone wants to get published without a petition signed against him for falseness, he can try them!

No need to contact Nicholas Keung Immigration/Diversity Reporter for a retraction unless you are paying taxes!

  

 

امروز حالم خوب نیست. دیروز پدر و برادر دوستم رضا تو ایران کشته شدند.

  

 

Looking Back at Iraq

Victor Davis Hanson: But just as importantly, what did these rare Americans not fight for? Oil, for one thing. The price skyrocketed after they went in. The secret deals with Russia and France ended. The U.N. petroleum perfidy stopped. The Iraqis, and the Iraqis alone — not Saddam, the French, the Russians, or the U.N. — now adjudicate how much of their natural resources they will sell, and to whom.

  

 

مرگ حق است. آنچه ناحق است، له شدن و کشته شدن به دلیل داشتن اندیشه، باور و عقیده ای متفاوت از اکثریت است.

اینجا را حتما بخوانید...

  

 

" راوی: کدام تشکل کدام مبارزه کدام انقلاب بدون رهبری کسی کار از پیش برده ؟ و حالا چه کسی می تواند این رسالت را بر دوش بگیرد ،زمانی ست که هر کسی فقط آرمان های خودش را عنوان می کند و تصور می کند دیگرانی که با سرنگونی رژیم موافقند اصلا" حق اظهار نظر ندارند."

  

 

Iran

Last night I was watching Mr. Corsi talking about Iran. The way he was describing Shi'a Islam and Mahdi was a bit offensive. I thought to myself why does he think his religion, faith or idealogy is any better! There maybe thousand and one little hilarious facts in any religion or ideology that one can point out but than I remembered something. What other country, what other faith at this time and age does what the Iranian regime or the Shi'a Muslims do? If Cambodia comes to mind remember they weren't in power for long! Has there been any regime or group of people in the past thirty years that have done the crimes against humanity and remain in power for twenty seven years? China? Well! The Chinese have cultural and social freedom. China is a major power and can soon pass the United Stated as an economy power! In the past twenty years its economic growth has helped millions out of poverty. What does it say about us? We judge the Can Film Festival, smoke cigarettes and pose for Western writer's latest books, attend numerous fashion shows or Concerts (in Iran or in Exile,) when the Iranian regime has been funding suicide bombing and training Palestinians and Lebanese volunteers, training Iranians in Iran, and hanging, execution and stoning have the first say in our country! What civilization! What humanity! What judgment! What Modernity!

Here are just a few names of the arrested Iranians in Miandoab: Vahid Ghavi Bazoo, Gholizadeh, Abbas Khialinejad, Mir Sajad Mousavi, Behgam Mohammadi, Milad Tavakoli, Ahmad Jeddi, Nader Amani, Samsam Mohamadivash, Nader Amani, Mohsen Amiri, Tohid Rostami, and more...

... and Islam maybe the religion of Peace (to some) but it sure isn't going to expand from Iran!

  

 

Kopi Luwak

Iran is a tricky place for the Western Media! We hear about a small village in the middle of Europe, Africa, or Asia... any place or group of people but when it comes to Iran and Iranians... well! Guess what! We are cursed! When something is going on in Iran... there is always something of more importance happening somewhere around the world! If 1000 people are killed in Iran today... they are of less importance compared to what the news of Monkey Bean Coffee maybe to the media!

  

 

54 Baha'is arrested in Iran

Bahá'í World News Service: Iranian officials have arrested 54 Baha'is in the city of Shiraz, the Baha'i International Community has learned. It is one of the largest number of Baha'is taken at once since the 1980s. In the 1980s, some 200 Baha'is were killed or executed. Thousands were arrested and hundreds were imprisoned, many for long periods.

  

 

Iran: Revolutions Don't Wait for Calendar Dates

You are not getting the point. It is not about the ribbon in Amir Taheri's article or the tasteless humor in Mana Neyestani's cartoon. It is about the readiness of a multi-ethnic nation to explode. Wake up and smell the gunpowder. Revolutions don't wait for calendar dates. Many times they happen over seemingly unimportant things. An attempt by the Romanian government to evict a dissident Hungarian Reformed pastor led to fall of Ceauşescu's regime. Probably few Romanians knew about the existence of the pastor before he became part of that nation's history. The Islamic revolution started from an article in the daily Ettela’at. It is time for students, workers, and minorities to rise up in a coordinated fashion. The mullahs will find it increasingly difficult to continue their rule. The mullahs know it and are therefore scared to death. That's one of the reasons why they are literally begging to talk to the Americans. The idiots think that the Americans are planting the seeds of the revolt or that talking to the Americans will demoralize the people. They are wrong. The mullahs’ rule has expired because the mullahs don't belong to this age. They belong to an age when stoning, mutilation, and blinding were considered norm. The tolerance of the Army and the Pasdaran to obey "shoot an kill" orders is limited as demonstrated in Qazvin's unrest in 1995. Therefore the regime has to rely on its thugs (i.e. Basij), but the effectiveness of that force is limited too. A coordinated move will bring down the regime. What is the opposition doing these days? Where is Reza Pahlavi? Is he still in Falls Church Safeway store? Or is he planning his next interview with another News Channel?

  

 

The protesters in Tabriz. This is so much more than it looks! Who knows maybe Mana Neyestani has started a whole new revolution! After all the last revolution started with an article published by Ettelaat newspaper! The thing is... a small and to some people an insignificant matter can bring on the change!


... and we all know about Ceauşescu!
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Photo from the Student committee of human right reporters website

  

 

Akbar Ganji: "Trotsky wrote "Betrayed Revolution" thinking Stalin had betrayed the ideals of the Bolshevik revolution. But no one betrayed the Russian revolution and what took place was the exact realization of the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary ideology. The classical all-encompassing ideological revolution is an irrevocably big mistake. [Such] Revolution does not lead to democracy and does not create freedoms. Therefore, the 1979 revolution was not betrayed. It was the objective realization of the 1970's discourse. The experience of the 1979 revolution guided us all to the fact that without reason and thinking we cannot go past our childhood and become democrat adults."

  

 

This demonstration in Tabriz is extremely important. As I wrote before... this maybe the beginning of the end! This is not just anything! The cartoons were printed and published by the Iranian regime's Newspaper against the Iranian Azaris/Turks.

در ادامه ی اعتراضاتی که علیه چاپ یک کاریکاتور در روزنامه ی ایران صورت گرفته است، روز دوشنبه شهر تبریز شاهد تظاهرات گسترده ای بود که بنا به گزارش ها به درگیری با مامورین انتظامی انجامیده است. این گزارش ها حاکی است که گروه هایی با طرح شعارهای جدائی طلبانه کوشیده اند، این تظاهرات را به سمت دشمنی میان مردم ایران سوق دهند

همونطوری که چند روز پیش اینجا نوشتم این می تونه آغاز پایان باشه

  

 

Eli Lake reports: The regime in Tehran has been more brutal to its opponents in recent months. A video surfaced over the weekend of the leader of Iran's striking bus drivers, Mansour Osanloo, discussing and showing the results of his torture, including a gash on his chin and a hole in his tongue, at the hands of his jailors earlier this year. The torture of Mr. Osanloo was first reported by The New York Sun in March.

  

 

A Few Facts About Religious Minorities in Iran

webgardian: "Jewish, Armenian & Asyrian communities have lost more than fifty percent of their members after 1979 revolution. Most of these people left Iran because of discrimination. I remember in 1990's food stores run by religious minorities had to put a paper on their door: This store is run by a religious minority....why is that? Because for many Islamists religious minorities are "Najes" or dirty!!! Christians & Jews lost their own private schools and Islamic government controls all. To get a job first thing is to believe in Islam & Theocracy (Velayate faghi). If you are a Moslem and you are not a believer you can pretend to be a good Moslem but for somebody who belongs to other religion... game is over...or better I say game never starts. Other minorities such as Bahais or Sunnites or Evangelical Protestants or Sufists...get persecuted too."


I might add the Babies and Bahais in Iran get executed.

  

 

اگر كسی گمان برد جامعه و نظام سياسی با نشستن و بازی با مفاهيمی نظير آزادی، جامعه مدنی، تساهل، رواداری، حقوق بشر، سكولاريسم و تفكيك عرصه عمومی از عرصه خصوصی دموكرات خواهد شد، آب در هاون می‌كوبد. حقوق بشر برای حفاظت ازكرامت انسانی و اصل خودگردانی (autonomy) انسان‌هاست. اما به صرف گفتن و نوشتن درباره مفاهيم كرامت و خودگردانی، انسان‌ها صاحب كرامت و خود گردان نمی‌شوند. آزادی بيان بر مبنای حق سخنگو در ابراز ديدگاه‌هايش، حق شنونده در شنيدن آن ديدگاه‌ها و خير جمعی يك جامعه‌ آزاد توجيه می‌شود. اما به صرف نوشتن درباره حق آزادی بيان و مبانی توجيه‌كننده آن، جامعه از حق آزادی بيان برخوردار نمی‌شود. باور بدون عمل، باور نيست. نمی‌توان مدعی باور به ارزش‌ها و آرمان‌های انسانی شد، اما برای تحقق آن‌ها قدمی به پيش برنداشت.

اکبر گنجی

Akbar Ganji speaks about Human Rights and Simin Behbahani, Iran's top woman who stands tall and fights the Iranian regime's injustice from inside the country.

  

 

Ya Allah!

A few nights ago we were at an Iranian party. We just had finished dinner and not to have the food reverse its path... I had to bite my tongue twice and look P straight in the eyes not to even think about exposing our cover! After all we can't tell everyone we don't support his or her Anti Semitic, anti human state of mind. I couldn't believe my ears when this well educated Iranian woman who was in her forties, has lived in the U.S. since her teen years, is married to an American... went off to tell us... 9/11 was planed by the U.S.! And the Jews, a.k.a. top executives were called on the phone to not arrive on time! Being I... I couldn't bite my tongue any more and had to let it run over the dinner table: Well! You know! I think it's because the top executives are always lazy ass! That's why they didn't come on time to get killed!

  

 

Food and nothing else!

The little girl was invited to a birthday party earlier today. The food was great but nothing for me to eat! I don't eat pork and I don't drink alcohol. I asked the host, a beautiful dentist, if she has any thing that doesn't have pork in it! She didn't and I had four hours of food free-starving stomach and a big bad headache from thirst and hunger!

Today I thank Lord for letting me to be an Iranian. At least I don't starve when visiting fellow countrymen! If nothing else.... feeding the guests with thousand and one Iranian cuisine is the one thing we come on top!


After all we care for the ghormehsabzi's la'ab more than our political prisoners!

  

 

Iran to offer incentives to Europe for recognizing nuclear right

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said on Wednesday that Tehran would offer economic incentives to the European Union in return for its recognition of Iran's right to enriching uranium for peaceful purposes.

Oh! Well! Lets play some leap frog !

  

 

For the new readers who don't know the case with my parents it will look as if my mother, who passed away from breast cancer a year later, never got to visit me in the U.S. At the time my parents applied for the U.S. visa my mother was a Danish resident with an Iranian passport. My parents wanted to help me during my difficult pregnancy but being Iranian nationals both were denied US visa to travel together. They had to travel one at a time.

Meanwhile my hope for these two very bright Iranian women but with a bit of a twisted mind who make claims of situations they are not fully aware of (this and this one) is happiness and health and less weed. Although one may consider the fact that weeds do a good job keeping skunks and raccoons away and are especially popular in gardening!

  

 

Iran Enlists Allies in Nuke Program Battle

Iran is enlisting Syria and the militant Palestinian Hamas group — both also deeply at odds with the United States, Israel and some in western Europe — as allies in the battle over its disputed nuclear program.

Ah! and their Surrealistic Love Triangle...

  

 

Will any Iranian blogger stand by Christians and jews in Iran? Will Shirin Ebadi rise to denfend Christians and jews while touring in America? Will the human right's activits in Iran protest? Did you know this attitude started during Khatami years? That Armenian shops had to post a sign saying that they are Christian to warn Muslims buying food from them and Armenians are not allowed to hold any government jobs. And I am not even writing about the Bahaies here!

Let us see if anyone even mention it!

طبق قانون جدیدی که به تصویب می رسد هموطنان مسیحی و یهودی ایرانیمان مجبورند که آرم نا مسلمان بودن از خود آویزان کنند! و البته این موردی است که از زمان خاتمی شروع شده و مثلا مغازه های ارمنی در ایران باید بیرون درهایشان می نوشتند که غیر مسلمانند. حالا ببینیم آیا شیرین عبادی درحالیکه در آمریکا در حال سخنرانی است از این مسیله صحبتی می کند؟

... اگر این قانون روزی پیش بیاید که مطرح شود و به تصویب برسد... چند نفر لب به اعتراض می گشایند؟

  

 

Iran's new law would require non-Muslim insignia

Chris Wattie: "Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims."

... even if the insignia story is not true... this is what the Iranian Bahaies, Jews and Christians go through...

  

 

... these links were sent by one of my readers...

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and yes! I do have fundamental diagreement with people who are driven primarily by hatred towards US and anti-US'ism. I may agree or disagree with US policies but my main concern is Iran and its future.

  

 

Niki Akhavan is having a bad day because of my recent posts and making it seem as if my concerns were family matters! But than I can see why she is all bottled up! After all she is married to Raed Jarrar. The same Raed Jarrar who according to this American blogger has been "the guy who glories in and counts and laughs at the deaths of American soldiers, is sitting in the Bay Area, awaiting his green card interview after marrying Niki Akhavan, and now he is trying to figure out how much money the US owes the Iraqi people in general and the JARRAR FAMILY in particular." I guess for Niki Akhavan it is a family problem! Her Husband's case has been sent to the Homeland Security Office!

  

 

In response to Niki Akhavan's comments regarding my recent post "One Iranian at a Time?" I say:

Laughable is the assertion that attending a meeting in the US congress is equivalent to promoting war against Iran.

As for answering your questions...

Here is what I would like to work on.

(1) Understand US visa and immigration policies toward Iranian citizens.

(2) Identify whether the aforementioned individuals have taken advantage of a loophole or special treatment.

(3) Bring it to the attention of ordinary citizens and politicians how someone like Nahavandian, who could indeed have a mission to coordinate terrorist acts on the US soil among others, can enter this country without much problem or scrutiny.

(4) Leverage this awareness to help close down the loopholes or end "special treatments."

In the end, I don't know how long Niki Akhavan has lived in the US but she apparently doesn't have a clue about the way this system works. Citizens' actions, particularly if directed through proper lobbying channels, could wield enormous power in this country. It is a shame that the wealthy, and therefore potentially powerful, Iranian community should allow itself to be subjected to such cynical views.

  

 

Begining of the End?

The Iranian regime's Newspaper published this article recently and this is one of those things you simply sense is the beginning of the end!

تشدید اعتراضات علیه اقدام روزنامه "ایران"


"به دنبال توهین روزنامه ی ایران به هموطنان ترک و در ادامه ی اعتراضات علیه این توهین، فروش این روزنامه از روز چهارشنبه از سوی فروشندگان روزنامه در ارومیه تحریم شده و قرار است تجمعات بیشتری در این شهر برگزار شود. در دانشگاه آزاد تبریز اجتماع اعتراضی بزرگی تشکیل شد و در دانشگاه تهران نیز گروهی از دانشجویان دست به اعتراض زدند."

  

 

My mother, a resident of Denmark but an Iranian passport holder was denied visa to visit me during my extremely difficult pregnancy. The US embassy in Copenhagen told my parents "One Iranian at a Time". The question is why the IRI supporters and appeasers fly in and out of US like it is their second home but everyone else is denied a student or tourist visa!

  

 

Culture of lying
Iranians lie just as a simple way of talking

Ben Madadi: "In a society in which lying is not just permitted but also encouraged, for the sake of pleasantness and politeness, what generations and generations have created and fostered is far worse than what they had probably desired. It's a well-documented fact that it's much better to live with the truth, especially when you need to live pretty long, than to indulge in the sweet accepted fallacy. Why do we need to show exaggerated politeness while we can just show some politeness without lying? The issue, as I mentioned earlier, is not just about politeness but about its greater implications. A society that tolerates lies and also encourages them in one case can very hardly defend the truth, or condemn the lie, in another case."

...just wondering...is Ben short for Benyamin?!

  

 

beforethislife: "Rain drops were dancing all over today, on the tree tops, my car's hood, the washed black roads and on the grey wavy waters of marina; they were dancing and hopping to their own tune.... Why both people and raindrops disappear, one way or another and both are forgotten sooner or later? Then what makes a human different from others?"

  

 

Shirin Ebadi and her Turquoise Coma


Shirin Ebadi is just one more Iranian woman who has written her autobiography to save the world! She calls it Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope! Lady! It is because of people like you that Iran is in a Coma!

With all these rainbow colors of revolutions and movements going on… I can't resist calling Shirin Ebadi's latest, Turquoise Coma.

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My friend e-mailed me saying:

"I thought you will kick out of this!" meaning Reza Aslan's article on Shirin Ebadi's book (here)... The title of his article combined with Ebadi's latest will be... The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts!

  

 

چند روز پیش ان پی آر که یک رادیوی جا افتاده با ژورنالیستهای نسبتا بی طرف هست داشت راجع به نامه احمدی نژاد ریس جمهور منتخب رژیم صحبت می کرد که بله! این نامه را آیا می شود به عنوان قدم ایران به سمت ایجاد ارتباط با آمریکا دانست! چیزی که رعشه آور هست از این همه خامی و کم فکری در غرب... این بی توجهی نسبت به جنایات و آدمکشیهای رژیم ایران هست. مشگل من به عنوان یک انسان ایرانی.... با این رژیم مشگل آزادی و دموکراسی نیست. مسیله من با این رژیم قتلها و آدمکشهایی هست که انجام داده اند. اعدام بهاییان، افسران ارتش و کارمندان سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت، مارکسیستها، کمونیستها، مجاهدین خلق، نویسندگان و خبرنگاران، همجنسگرایان و سنگسار. شاید تنها کسی که تا حدودی در این زمینه... همفکری دارد سایه سعیدی سیرجانی باشد...

A few days ago there was a journalist talking on NPR ...about Ahmadinejad's letter to the U.S. president. The journalist was saying... well! Maybe this is a start btw Iran and U.S....bla bla bla!... to me it is sickening to see/hear these people in the west have the tendency to ignore the true nature of the regime! The Iranian regime has committed crimes against humanity. My problem with this regime is not lack of democracy or freedom in Iran! It is the killings of writers, Bahais, Mojahedin-e Khalgh, the Communists, the Monarchists, the Marxists, the raping of virgins before execution, the hanging of homosexuals, and the stoning. The only other person... I know does see it like I do and maybe even better... is Sayeh Saeedi Sirjani.

  

 

دوهفته پیش یک ژورنالیست آمریکایی برای مصاحبه آمده بود خونه و بین حرفهای سیاسی و غیره... نحوه پختن ته چین و برانی بادنجون رو هم نوشت!

  

 

"When I come across one of these malcontents (someone who often suffers from the tragedy of knowing just enough about a subject to make them dangerously ignorant), I wonder what in their personal lives led them to have so much hate and fear. When I look at my beautiful baby boy of less than 4 months, I can assuredly testify that people are not born with hate and fear. It must be culturally taught."

Daniel Y. Harris

  

 

...am working on this poem... tonight...

Nothing

Nothing is all I am
Nothing overloading nothing
Closing the doors,
Opening an extra into an empty space,
Nothing ensues but a further war.

The bombs, lights that blind and Damascus,
Burning after Tehran. Sisters calling in despair,
Brothers callous the arms of infidels. Nothing happens
But children die, and journalists are filming for a deadline.

Nothing comes after nothing but I,
Kneel, cry for nothing,
and still the no shepherd birds burn at flight.

Nothing happens. I walk by the Central Park
Next to nothing, and the no flight zone is
Just nothing yet throat slides over throat,
Bullets shut and blood drops. Here nothing happens
But I write to keep nothing from overloading nothing.

Sheema Kalbasi

  

 

THE EMERGING IRAN - SUDAN AXIS

Judith Apter Klinghoffer: "The Sudanese president congratulated the Iranian government and people on their “recent nuclear achievement.” He said his country believes that the “God Almighty has been helping Iran and no one can harm that country.”"

  

 

Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where they cut off your ear
If they dont like your face
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home

We don't have one friend who doesn't hate George Bush and his administration. Funny enough they are Europeans or Iranians who have taken the flight from Iran to the West on Prince Ali's magic carpet!

ما یک دوست و معاشر نداریم که از بوش و دولت حاضر بدش نیاد و فحش نده! جالب اینجاست که همه این دوستان و رفقای ما یا اروپایی هستند و یا ایرانیهایی هستند که سوار قالیچه سلیمان از ایران خارج شده و به غرب آمده اند.

  

 

Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi is to be executed in a few days. He is one of many political prisoners in Iran. Please sign this Petition. Think of it as your good deed of the day.

  

 

After reading Trita Parsi's latest I can see why he is perusing for a dialogue between the Iranian regime and the U.S. government! He sees the regime in Iran has a theocratic nature!

  

 

Sheema Kalbasi: Of having a world full of foes and no friends, I choose a life without friends than sticking inside a damp matchstick in order to appease those who take other people's right to freedom of speech!

  

 

Samira Mohyeddin blogs: "is it not absurd to compare zahra kazemi to ramin jahanbegloo?... of course all the media and various talking head intellectuals are doing so. yes they were both born in iran and they both held/hold canadian citizenship... but the similarities end there Jahanbegloo will be released and that will be that and Micheal Ignatieff will become prime minister and Gordon Venner can keep his post and the canadian wheat farmer will not have to suffer."

  

 

Natural handyman


Like the word definition, my masculine and feminine characteristics have been confusing not only myself but those around me as well! First I wasn't sure if I could be a good handyman! In order to exercise my talents and skills... I moved at a snail's pace under the sink and started working on the stuff I didn't even know their names in any language! While repairing the first set of stuff... the tools and equipments (those I don't recall the names either!!) kept falling on my forehead and eyeballs... when the intense intimacy with the masculine world left me breathless, I decided (as in the loud fashion statements of some post modern Iranians) to allow myself and accept my gender bender qualities and quantities!

As of today... I am officially a handyman!

  

 

Sabrina Tavernise: "Many of the chanting Iraqis were from the Tweisa neighborhood, where support for the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr runs high. Mr. Sadr has frequently channeled the anger of impoverished Shiites against American and British forces."

Apparently after the helicopter crash in Basra... some people found it amusing enough to chant and celebrate! I can't get it... how... one can cheer for someone's death... even if S/he had murdered that person's loved one!

بی بی سی: "پس از سقوط هلی کوپتر ( انگلیسی در بصره) درحالی که لاشه آن در آتش می سوخت، جمعيتی از عراقی ها در نزديکی محل حادثه به شادمانی پرداختند."

حرکات عجیب غریب و جلف! من که موندم از این طرز فکر! آدم در مرگ هر کسی... حتی قاتل پدرش هم که باشه که رقص و پایکوبی نمی کنه!

  

 

Everyday
Take a Lantern
Keep it bright
As the lightsource
Of your mind-
Again and again,
Take the inexhaustible fire
As the hopeful cord
of your heart

Komitas(1869-1933)

  

 

بلوزش را بالا کشید و روی پشتش جای شکنجه ها را نشان دارد. رابی-نگاه آبی، رو به من کرد و خواست که سوالهایش را ترجمه کنم... بپرسم که "او" کجا وچطوری شکنجه شده بوده است. رابی آمریکایی، افسر مهاجرت سازمان ملل در اسلام آباد بود. یهودی الاصل و زبان هندی و اردو را بدون لهجه مثل زبان مادریش حرف می زد. عاشق غذاهای تند و دهن سوز بود و موزیک شرقی می نواخت. تنها فرزند خانواده اش بود... "او" ی ایرانی ... ولی فقط به یک زبان تکلم می کرد... زبان درد و هیچ سازی هم نمی نواخت جز تار شکسته هایش!... و لباسهای رنگ و رو رفته اش... همیشه بوی عرق و غم می دادند... خواهر شانزده ساله "او" در تظاهرات مجاهدین در تهران دستگیر شده بود و سالها زندانی بود. خواهر دیگرش هم اعدام شده بود. "او" مدتی پس از مصاحبه اش با رابی، به کانادا مهاجرت کرد... اما مطمینم جای زخمها و سوراخهای پشت "او" با مهاجرتش ترمیم نشده اند... "او" ... فقط یکی از انسانهای ایرانی بود که به جرم عضویت در سازمان مجاهدین خلق (منافقین؟) در ایران شکنجه شده بود و بعد ها هم که از فعالیت و همکاری با مجاهدین خلق دست کشیده بود برای مدتی در اردوگاههای خاص در عراق توسط خود مجاهدین زندانی شده بود.

دیروز که مطلب مربوط به ولی الله فیض مهدوی را (به انگلیسی گذاشتم)... که تا چند روز دیگر حکم اعدامش را ماموران رژیم می خواهد به اجرا دربیاورد... یاد "او" افتادم و تکه و پاره های تنش ...

  

 

سبزها آبیها

به تو فکر می کردم. به لحظه هایی که می آیند و چشم باز نشده می پرند. به تو فکر می کردم و خرگوشهایی که با سفید و لکه های خاکستری لابه لای کاجهای پشت خانه می جهند. به هیزمهای آتش نشده از پارسال که دولا در گرمای ظهر روی هم برشته بافته شده اند. به تپه و بوته هایی که اینجا و آنجا در خلسه فرو رفته اند. به تو فکر می کردم و لحظه ای که رفت و باز برنگشت تا دوباره بگویم بیا! بیا با هم کمی چای چوپونی بنوشیم! آتشی بپا کنیم و کتری سیاه و دود زده امان را با آب و بسته ای چای لیپتون بگذاریم تا قل بزند. زیر خاکسترها ی داغ هم تا رفتن و برگشتن از کوه، سیب زمینی بگذاریم...

اینجا... هر روز بهار، گلهای نارنجی و بنفش و قرمز و زرد را با دستانم کاشته ام و دستکشهای باغبانی ام و کلاهت را به روی دسته های فرغون وارونه می اندازم.

زیر باران و زیر آفتاب... سبزها و آبیها... ی جهان...

  

 

Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi, an Iranian political prisoner is supposed to be executed on May 16. Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi, 28 was arrested in 2001 and subsequently sentenced to death in a kangaroo court. Following the execution of Mojahedin member Hojjat Zamani on February 7, the regime announced a few days before the Persian New Year on March 20 that it would carry out the execution of Mr. Feiz-Mahdavi during New Year holidays.

  

 

Christopher Hitchens: "No, what worries me more about Ahmadinejad is his devout belief in the return of the "occulted" or 12th imam and his related belief that, when he himself spoke recently at the United Nations, the whole scene was suffused with a sublime green light that held all his audience in a state of suspended animation. This uncultured jerk is, of course, only a puppet figure with no real power, but this choice of puppet by the theocracy is unsettling in itself. So is Iran's complete lack of embarrassment at being caught, time and again, with nuclear enrichment facilities that have never been declared to the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency."

  

 

Young Girl Is Disciplined by Imam After She Steps on His Carpet

She dared to walk on the prayer carpet of Moustafa LAZRAK, a "f’qih" and imam... while he was praying. How beautiful is Tolerance, Peace and Love of this Most Holy Man.

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I like what the immigrants in the U.S. did! They showed their card can't be played! I wish... I could say the same thing about Denmark... where every election... is decided by injecting even more drops of despise in the dark-ugly-immigrant ducklings' and ducks' body!

  

 

My friend of twenty seven years (we went to the same pre-school and are still best friends as of today...) has started blogging in English ... Here.
دوستم که بیست و هفت ساله (از دوران آمادگی و دبستان) ... با همه اختلاف نظرها و تفاوتهای عقیدتی و دیدگاههای اجتماعی ... با هم رفیقیم... وبلاگنویسی رو شروع کرده... سپیده

  

 

سه شنبه ها و پنج شنبه ها


سه شنبه ها و پنج شنبه های امسال رو از همه روزهای زندگیم بیشتر دوست دارم... سه شنبه ها و پنج شنبه ها روزهایی هستند که دختر کوچولو رو از کلاس تکواندو میارم و سر راه تو پارکینگ یک کافه ماشین رو پارک می کنم. دست همدیگر رو می گیریم و می ریم با هم نوشیدنی و کیک بخوریم. بین شیر وانیلی و شیر کاکایو یکی رو انتخاب می کنه و بعد می دوه به طرف مبلهای سبز و مخملی و با شوق و ذوق می شینه. با آهنگی که از بلندگوهای کافه پخش می شه آواز می خونه و پاهاش رو تکون می ده و نی رو توی شیرکاکایوش فرو می کنه، مک می زنه و مزه مزه می نوشه. گاهی هم مثل امروز که بارون به پنجره های بلند و قدی کافه می خوره ... از گوشه چشم به زحمت می شه... ماشینها رو تشخیص داد که پشت چراغ قرمز توقف کردند... دختر کوچولو هم که صدای باد نگرانش می کنه... با هر صدای باد و بارون برمی گرده دو زانو روی مبل می شینه و چونه اش رو روی لبه مبل می گذاره و پشت سرش رو نگاه می کنه... بعد دوباره برمی گرده تا بقیه کیک و شیرکاکایوش رو نوش جان کنه...

سه شنبه ها و پنج شنبه ها رو از بقیه روزهای زندگیم خیلی بیشتر دوست دارم... بخصوص وقتی به یادم میارن... تجربه های زندگیم... اینقدر فراز و نشیب داشته که بتونم ببینم... امروز چه کفتارهایی در حالیکه لبالب در سکون فکری غوطه ورند... به بهانه ایسمها و لوژیها و پست مدرنیسمهای خود ساخته کف می زنند... و البته که فرق ملحفه تمیز رو از ملحفه کثیف نمی دونند... و چون توی دستها شون سر آدمی که توسط مامورهای رژیم موقع فرار از مرز کشته شده رو مجبور نشدند ساعتی نگه دارند... با قهر و آشتیها و چشمک... هنوز مشغول بازی دست رشته هستند!

سه شنبه ها و پنج شنبه ها ی قشنگ عمرم رو به خاطر همه نقطه ها و حرفهاشون دوست دارم... و خوشحالم که یادم می اندازن... همیشه سه شنبه ها و پنج شنبه های زندگیم پر از شیرکاکایو یا شیر وانیلی و کیک سیب و سر انگشتهای نوچ دختر کوچولو نبوده!