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 From: MoeReplying to 63 letters -- in one night By Moe May 30, 2002 The Iranian I've been up for the last 5 hours straight replying to every one of the letters in your letters section of early friday morning May 24. Don't ask me why. As if that wasn't enough, I've collected all my responses and am sending them to you. Again, don't ask me why. It's been a fun experience. I've always wanted to sound out (ie, blurb out) at the letter I was reading. And now I have. At every one of them!! Ahhhhh... I feel better now, as if I've actually accomplished something today (er, don't ask me what!). At least I'll have some juicy emails to sort through this weekend. I'm off to bed... But before I go, some stats: -- Messages replied to: 61 -- Messages I enjoyed replying to 58 -- First message send @12:33 am -- Last message @ 4:07 am -- Total time replying: 3 hours 34 minutes -- Pee breaks: 1 -- Cigarettes smoked: 5 (sorry!) -- Drinks consumed: Two large glasses of orange juce, one Chivas and Coke. -- Food: 1/2 pt. baby carrots, about 10 oz. white California grapes (sour :( -- Other things: Watched Charlie Rose (intermittently), listened to Mr. Holakooie for 2 hours (I think that 44-year-old lady SHOULD have another kid if she so badly wants to), and Iranian traditional music. -- Replies received already: 5 (including one succinct one: "Who is Moe?" :) -- Death threats: 0 -- Things i've learned: Never to become the editor of my own paper :) From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:33:02 AM To: deep0909@rediffmail.com Subject: If the whole world converted to Islam will the fighting stop? that's a pretty superficial and self-serving reasoning. if it wasn't so hopelessly shallow and, well, elementary (as mr. holmes would say), i would at least point out the flaws in your so-called argument. but i shan't bother. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:41:15 AM To: fulaad@hotmail.com Subject: Gloating reza jon, come on man, give us a break. nakone to khodet RP hasti -- ha! aye kalak!! anywho. yes, i have heard his majesty expressing to an american journalist (don't recall the program now) that he would like to see his daughter become the queen (ie, head) of iran. now i know you're going to say "he only said to LIKED to see that," .... like any father wants to best/most for their kids. If you believe that, then i guess you would believe anything anyone tells you.. right?! come on, read a little (just a little) between the lines. come on .... i know you can do it. let's excercise our god-given faculties of perception and deduction. let's not cower to our baser, sentimental sensitivities. i'd be happy to hear what you think about what i said. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:44:56 AM To: ssarrafa@bay.csuhayward.edu Subject: Tragic NO -- the real tragedy would be if his majesty ever returned to iran as the head of anything except his own household. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:50:23 AM To: pia9122001@yahoo.com Subject: I have one word for you: LEAVE come down man -- an as American that you so rightfully are proud of, you should exercise a little more tolerance for the freedom of speech of others -- esp. if they are completely opposite of yours. you make a good point about feeling for all of humanity. but realize some tragedies have gone on longer and perhaps somehow touch a particular nerve for some people. your points are well made, if only a little too abrasive. and as for your solution to LEAVE: please!! that's the kind of response i would expect from the most ignorant, red-necked, and bigoted of americans. strive to be better. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:52:07 AM To: parissas@yahoo.com Subject: Almost choked on my pie look on the bright side....as a starving college student, you don't have to worry about your weight!! cheers. BTW: if i ever donate to the iranian.com, i'll put in a couple of extra bucks for you too :)  From: moeDate: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:03:06 AM To: Makes me want to fling dung Subject: stunned indeed, reading YOUR letter makes me hopeless -- but not for long. i'm going to venture a guess that you or your ancestors had a hand in running the old government.....right into the ground, that is!! it's not hard to guess, judging from your bloated, racist, egomaniacal, and utterly indefensible ramblings. if i wasn't on a mission (of sorts -- no it's not what you think) -- i would just glaze over your empty profundities. as it is, i will reply in like manner -- .... on second thought, i shan't drag myself down to your level. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:11:01 AM To: esfandiaryabol@yahoo.com Subject: Moosh bokhoradet salam aghaye abol -- khahesh mikonam be man begid ke shoma 90 saletoon hast. Otherwise, i can't fathom picturing any sane person saying the things you are saying..... ghorboonet besham, amma i would rather sit with a just, humane arab than next to you, any day!! peace. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:15:29 AM To: KaavehAAHANGAR@aol.com Subject: Niemöller's words and thanks for sharing.... the problem is that some people within our midst believe that some other people (namely arabs) are less than other people. usually, but not always, these are the same people who believe in the superiority of the some aryan race and some historical crap 2500 years ago. time we grew up... like to see more of your writings....cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:18:19 AM To: HFarzin@EES-Corp.com Subject: "10 O'Clock News" trick are you nuts....they both need to lose weight. i think you're just trying to find an excuse NOT to pay....relax buddy.... they're not doing for money. sit back and enjoy....nobody's after your wallet. :) cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:19:36 AM To: Brockee@aol.com Subject: Correct title: CIA agent salam, yazdi, cia?! please share with us -- if he really is, we all should know it!! thanks. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:22:13 AM To: MNavab@mednet.ucla.edu Subject: People are extremely busy salam, i truly hope you don't rely solely on the iranian.com (and it's lax editorial policy -- what editorial policy?!) for education -- but ucla isn't a bad place for it. cheers, BTW: next time, please be so kind as to include a constructive example along with your critisim. thanks. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:25:54 AM To: nhashemi@primus.ca Subject: Weakness of democratic ideas aghaye hashemi aziz, yek kari kardid ke nazdik bood phd ro behetoon nadand. hopefully, your phd committe doesn't read the iranian.com. the result of the poll was based on about a 100 votes -- you seem to have missed the irony in that. you make good points, except for point #3, which i couldn't make head or tails out of. but, again, the premise is misplaced. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:27:04 AM To: mandana27@yahoo.com Subject: Most famous character in Iranians' life thanks for the input --- next year, please vote during regular polling hours -- 8 am -- 6 pm. cheers. the polling steering committee From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:28:15 AM To: negar.razbani-tehrani@lmco.com Subject: Is this a joke or what? i seem to have missed that too!!! [but don't worry, i didn't vote]. anyways, good eye. BTW: are they siyah?! :) cheers From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:30:29 AM To: leyla_hashemi@hotmail.com Subject: Taking sides hafez --- you mean like a hafez class? in london? please share more... i love hafez . . let's compare notes... cheers ps: to balance your aiding siamack, i'll volunteer to aid/encourage jj -- god knows me needs to lose a few too!! From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:33:03 AM To: Azadehdoost Azadehdoost Subject: Really touchy about their Alazahrat well said..... the infamous 19 supporters. looks like a new generation of shabans is taking the helm. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:35:18 AM To: Haskin@ny.tishman.com Subject: He deserves it tim, oh please, come on man. of all the people in the world that need help, you've picked poor, poor RP!! isn't that a little disingenuous?! i think a little hungry boy/girl "deserves" your help more than this pompous ass. (sorry!) any way, i'd be glad to chat if you care to. i really like to see where the trouble is. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:38:07 AM To: dokhtarabadani@yahoo.com Subject: Did not fool me then, will not fool me now your wounded words come out loud and clear. i'm sorry for what you have suffered -- please continue to speak ... though some would like to remember our history 2500 years ago, they all too often want us to forget our history of 50 or 25 years ago. let's not let that happen. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:42:35 AM To: thenaseris@attbi.com Subject: Incorrect to say Azeris speak Turkish thanks for a well-founded and argued letter. may we know your expertise/profession also? thanks and please write again . loved the nonjudemental, informational tone of your letter. cheers From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:45:23 AM To: khadjari@hotmail.com Subject: "Baleghorbangoo" people merci....well said. BTW: choghok means little gonjeshk, no? is that a dialect. cheers  From: moeDate: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:47:48 AM To: mmehranpour@etrade.com Subject: Letting your pen free on behald of setareh (not officially), i want to thank you for liking her poem. BTW: would you care to suppor the Free Setareh from Harassment fund?! details coming soon.... From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:48:34 AM To: hhakimi@online.no Subject: Superb i know -- weren't they great. i liked #2 specially. shoma chi?! cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:50:19 AM To: Gus_Naghdi@HUD.GOV Subject: I ordered the CD hi gus, i haven't listened to amr diab too much, but would like to. can you make ALL their tracks available on Morphius, Gnutella, or similar sites. thanks. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:52:07 AM To: hhakimi@online.no Subject: Stupid remark about Iranians aghaye hakimi, khodetoono narahat nakonid. in ahmaghya aslam arzeshe johare khodkare shoma ro nadarand. please have some golgov zaboon and calm down. rooz khosh. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:54:29 AM To: none1344@juno.com Subject: Judging Iranian culture by a domestic problem well said, nice, and calm, and some historical facts, to boot. merci. btw: i thought it was: a person who lives in a glass house, shouldn't have a cow for a pet!? is this wrong?! From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:00:09 AM To: cluz@concentric.net Subject: Have I watched too many X-Files re-runs? oh my god, dear chris, you not only have watched too many x-files, but also too many star treck, voyeger, jerry springer, dan rather, and the like. first, i think (i think -- i couldn't really make head or tail from your letter) that you may (may!) have 1979 and 1953 mistaken. the US never overthrew the shah -- they overthrew the popularly elected prime minister mossadeq in the 1953 coup. then the people of iran ... most of them... overthrew the shah. as for sources on the internet, iranian.com history section is a good start. otherwise, get a book man -- any good used book store will have books on iran in the mid east history section. i recomend "fall of the peacock throne" and "paved with good intentions" for starters. well, the only consolation is that -- you asked!! cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:04:22 AM To: dan6428@yahoo.com Subject: Whose the instigators of terror? Hi Dan, Oh god, you sound just like the evening news.....regurgitating the same propagandist b/s they keep repeating. can you not come down from your high horse and re-evaluate the situation..... i'd be ok if you came to the same conclusion. but the tone of your letter leads me to believe it's anger not reason that's speaking. i don't refute anything you've said in your letter since i didn't read it thoroughly. just wanted to make the point above. love to hear back from you if you care to. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:05:28 AM To: asghar_massombagi@hotmail.com Subject: Open your eyes pal short and to the point, merci. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:06:31 AM To: moe Subject: Don't make me get out my Photoshop again! you're too funny, if you may say so myself. cheeers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:11:04 AM To: hassshamloo@netscape.net Subject: Just referring to the cause salam hassan jon, brother you lost me from the get go!! what the @#$*# are you talking about? what is the cause? can you please try and speak less like Hafez and more like Mansour Hallaj? don't worry, we won't hang you. (don't quote me on that!) cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:18:20 AM To: vahid@ottawa.com Subject: Persians should never rule out non-Persians vahid jon, ghorboone dahanet! only an engineering student could make such a fine, well-argued, deductive points. and only 20!! my, my -- me thinks we have a genius in our midst. i say an engineer for the next president!!! cheers. (ps: i'm an HKN myself!!) From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:22:43 AM To: ben@persianoutpost.com Subject: Drive to use Persian salam, well said and argued points about the persian culture and heritage. although i would disagree on the use of Farsi. screw the world, let them call our language by what we call it. i can imagine a statment like "the persian language is farsi." so that persian becomes the qualifying adjective of language, rugs, poetry, etc. that denotes its heritage. thanks for your letter. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:23:39 AM To: amanda_waleh@hotmail.com Subject: Faride Raiat sorry -- i don't know her. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:31:12 AM To: res0sjjm@verizon.net Subject: Vital concern for what is to become of the Middle East thanks for your letter, now and 4 years ago, which i went and read. (thanks to jj for the link.) yes, indeed Bush scares me like no one since Reagan, with his gong-ho, hidy ho, attitude. and more. Reagan was shallow and he knew it. This guy Bush is shallow too, but he thinks he actually knows something about the world that the rest of us don't. And that's scary!! Anyway, thanks for speaking again, and please don't wait another 4 years.... voices of reason and human solidarity need to be heard more than ever. peace. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:35:13 AM To: danaee@adelphia.net Subject: Israel will bring the wrath of God It's sad that we don't have more of a say in our foreign policy. The PACs and lobbies seem to have that well under control. Still, i think we should make our senators answerable to their votes on foreign policy. if sept. 11 showed anything, it's that we are not isolated from the world at large, nor from our own policies abroad. thanks for your letter. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:39:42 AM To: mohammadijohn@yahoo.com Subject: Criticism of Israel not anti-semitic well stated, thank you. perhaps some day you would care to speak to the racism within our own culture towards certain groups. sincerely.... From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:45:05 AM To: moftaki@hotmail.com Subject: Readers are indifferent aghaye moftaki, there is nothing wrong with the iranian.com readership (statistically speaking, at least). judging by the stats, the site gets about 35,000 unique visitors (not just page hits) per week. [the stats are viewable by all]. if they each donated $1 a week, JJ would be filthy rich and have many more friends than he currently has (which is already many). so i'd say, not to worry ... just pitch in your $1 along with you $0.02, and everything will be fine. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:47:20 AM To: m01beheshti@hotmail.com Subject: If you are genuinely sincere what it means: "less BAAAAD!!" please to explain me. merci khayli. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:49:25 AM To: m01beheshti@hotmail.com Subject: I will be watching you! >> remember, you are MEN - and you can do anything you want and achieve everything!! oooh, if that isn't a sexist faux pas, i don't know what is. you better duck mr. beheshti as there'll be some flack coming your way.... talk about the battle of the bulge!! From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:51:09 AM To: kambiz555@yahoo.co.uk Subject: People are too lazy merci, kambiz jon for the suggestion. JJ is rather busy now (i'm guessing) -- would you mind doing this for him. khayli khayli merci..... BTW: you have to make it so that each person gets only ONE vote.....you know how "patriotic" the monarchists are. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:54:13 AM To: heartless_mill@hotmail.com Subject: I'm only 17, but... salam millad jon, my my, you sound just like you ol' man. that's ok though. when you get older and learn to think for yourself (this is not a put down -- we all go through these stages), i will be more than happy to hear what you have to say. in the mean time, don't forget : a mind is like a parachute....it works only when it's open. ghorbaneto, amoo moe From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:58:05 AM To: persianparadise@hotmail.com Subject: Get out and vote i hated my first grade teacher...what are you talking about!! they were more concerned about how they looked and kissing up to the parents of the rich kids. i swear, the discrimination engrained in many of us can be traced back to those early years....notwithstanding your teacher may have been the exception. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:00:47 AM To: Taghdiri.Celia@scrippshealth.org Subject: All he is trying to do is free a nation salam celia khanoom, by your letter i must guess you to be a young person. is that correct? there are generally two categories of people who support RP. the old staunch monarchists.....and their kids. am i right, or am i right. please correct me otherwise. if you want to have a serious discussion i'd be happy to do it. remember, any good idea will stand the test of reason. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:02:44 AM To: Masoud1962@aol.com Subject: No wonder you have lost many decent people Looks like we need to lose another reader. care to guess who?! From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:07:06 AM To: HFarzin@EES-Corp.com Subject: This young man is intelligent salam dr. farzin, yours was one of the more sound letters in support of RP that i've seen. but surely, you don't mean to select a leader (esp. after all we've been through this past century, not to mention centuries past), based on the few accolades you have of RP?! do you?! don't you think we expect better? and don't tell me there isn't one. perhaps, we haven't looked hard enough, or we've been looking for leader in all the wrong places. i'm still amazed at how many of us are still looking without, and not within, to solve our problems. eradatmandly.... From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:09:31 AM To: alisarshar@hotmail.com Subject: Anything posistive about Pahlavi boro baba, yek chizi begoo ke ma'ni dashte bashe. it's not so black and white aziz. besides, jj, along with being the editor-in-cheif of the iranian.com, is also a human (and coincidentally, a member of the hair club for men!! -- just kiddin!) and can speak his mind, can't he?! cheers From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:12:13 AM To: arsalan_shirzad@yahoo.com Subject: Says it all you are baaad brother....baaad!!! :) you get my vote for the most ingenious iranian.com letter writer of the week. that's 1 vote, so far. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:16:48 AM To: ben@persianoutpost.com Subject: Foreign concept you are right, we're not used to concepts like iranian of the year. i mean, can you imagine asking such a question during any of the monarchies of the past 2500 years!!! the answer is clear, of course....as there is only one answer. i suppose the same is true about the current regime. it's time we learned that it's what we the people think that matters, not who sits at the top of the food chain. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:18:08 AM To: AGheytanch@aol.com Subject: DEATH TO TERRORISM "Death to terrorism" -- spoken like a true believer!! I too am glad you no longer consider yourself an Iranian. Peace. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:19:19 AM To: aboloorian@answ.com Subject: Nursing care You may want to contact the local iranian yellow pages. THere are two, one of them is by Pezhvak corp. (www.pezkvah.com). good luck... From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:20:32 AM To: aliash@rocketmail.com Subject: Unfortunate year for politics A no-confidence vote is just as strong as any other. Perhaps jj should add "no one" to the list next time. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:22:39 AM To: irina@u.washington.edu Subject: Badly in need of books Thanks for the info. I just printed the list and will hit my used bookstore (sorry, it's all my budget allows) to look for them and will take some with me this summer. Anyone else wishing to help out could contact JJ. Thanks again. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:27:23 AM To: si575@hotmail.com Subject: I wonder why Hi -- come on you're being too dogmatic in your criticism. Just read it again, and i'm sure (i hope) you'll see what i mean. Come on....just be a little self-critical. Do you see anything wrong with your email? Anything at all?! try again....read it one more time....slowly, relax. How about now!? From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:28:53 AM To: mehralikalami@hotmail.com Subject: Simply fascinating oops, looks like i missed it. will make sure to go back and read it. thanks for the comment. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:38:04 AM To: raha_nr@hotmail.com Subject: Traditional Iranian clothes Here's some from a recent fashion show in tehran: //www.roozi.com/photos/fashion/1.htm On ancient costumes: //www.parthia.com/parthia_arts.htm Remade photos from the Qajar period: //iranian.com/Arts/2000/April/Ghadirian/index.html Hope that helps. Cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:41:29 AM To: Michael.Jalili@dowjones.com Subject: Do not compare US, Iran The Jetta?! man why didn't you get a Honda Accord or Accura. Jettas the pits. Sorry - just my opinion. cheers From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:46:15 AM To: FarzodS@aol.com Subject: Refuse to be mistreated, politely Hi Farzod jon, very clever (some might say sneaky) of you (an Iranian male, I presume) to pass the buck to our esteemed compatriots of the opposite sex. your call for disobedience kinda reminds me of what Rosa Parks did back in the 50s when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white person. and of course, she is a hero, as she rightly should be. All the same, i'm note sure if your contention isn't on shaky ground. I think we pretty much agree to "random" searches when we purchase a ticket, albeit it's far from random. But the bias needs to be proved systematically, not just by random acts of defiance. My $0.02. cheers. From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:50:15 AM To: elnazzz@hotmail.com Subject: Meymun i think you made a MEGA point . tastefully interspersed with judicial use of the four-letter word. that's a 10! (ie, perfect score in verbal gymnastics) btw: i just looked outside and saw the moon...in the month of may...go figure!!!! ps: don't try to read into that...i don't know what it means what do you except at 4 am !!? From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:59:26 AM To: Mihandoust1@aol.com Subject: Yes, indeed aziz, you seem to forget that the very words your beloved RP repeats are plagiarized from our first constitutional revolution which the monarchists and his grandfather so ably (and with ample aid from foreign powers) dismantled and trampled. and so again in 1953. you know, it is no mean feat to bash the current regime, for it has many, many faults, not the least of which is the concept of velayate-faghih. but to equate the wrongs of the current regime with high praise for RP and what he represents (historically -- not what his spin doctors are feeding him) is making a major leap of faith. i'm afraid it just "does not compute," in the words of Hal. sincerely.... another iran doost From: moe Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 4:02:04 AM To: Kerman01@aol.com Subject: Bogus Oh mr. kerman 01 -- now i am completely convinced. afterall, how could 28 people possibly be wrong. thank you for pointing this important poll to me. heck, now we don't have to have a referendum.... cheers  From: moeDate: Friday, May 24, 2002 4:07:32 AM To: LIDA@sheybani.freeserve.co.uk Subject: Always awake > monarchists have always been the ones awake and with real views i'm hurt. it's 4 am and i'm still awake. i've read all (yes, all) the letters in today's letters sections and responded to all of them (yes, all!). there's got to be one (one!) "real" view in all the letters i've sent. i mean, if nothing else, the laws of probability would dictate. or do you refute them too?! BTW: if you care to send me Amir's letter, i'd be happy to comment on it, and if you wish, to lobby JJ for its publication. (but i must warn you, i sway no more hold over him or his judgements than you, perhaps. in facts, i'm still cross at him for not publishing a few of my own masterpieces, eh, i mean, pieces.) cheers.
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