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Friday * We deserve it What a nice God ["Quit whining"]! If my God were to write such a letter to us Iranians, I think he would be more direct and a little harsher. I think we'd deserve it. * Khamenei In my opinion the Iranian of the year should be Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For better or for worse he has had the single most important impact on Iranians as a whole. Through his backing of the ruling establishment and efforts aimed at maintaining the status quo in Iranian politics, and also through the powers bestowed upon him by the constitution, he has managed to affect all of us in some shape or form. It is also my assumption that he will continue to do so for as long as the constitution is kept in its present form, where the Velayat-faghih and Guardian Council feed off of each other evading any form of checks and balances of power. Part of the magic of democracy is the pluralism and sense of accountability that is inherent in such a system of government. When the lack of such concepts and the absence of a system of checks and balances is guaranteed by the constitution, one branch of government becomes more powerful than the rest and is more prone to authoritarianism and at times abuse of power. Granted, people like Akbar Ganji and others like him may come and ruffle the feathers of the ruling establishment from time to time, but until the constitution is not changed, NOTHING WILL CHANGE. A.D. * Saltanat talab I am sorry to say that the tone of your article ["Organized corruption"], I mean, using informal words like, molla, "enemies of Islam" and such, shows that you have written the article in a nervous, confused state and the reader gets the sense that you are one of those "Saltanat Talabhaa" who are absolutely hated by ALL Iranians. I am also sorry for The Iranian that spreads these kinds of articles, bringing it's reputation under a big question mark! Hope all people who love Iran will try to think REALALISTICALLY and IDEALLY, instead of wasting time, telling old stories that all Iranians are really tired of hearing. MB * Excellent Excellent article ["Organized corruption"]. I always enjoy reading your commentaries, and articles. Have you thought of writing an article as to why the Iranian people always look for an strong leader to follow blindly? Shahryar * Unusual shallowness I have always seen at least one reason why an article or story was published in iranian.com. But this story baffles me ["Just Breathe"]. It reminds me of stories that were published in "Zan-e Rooz". Actualy I take that back, those stories always had some adventure in them. I guess both have an unusual sense of shallowness. The introduction to this story is much more interesting than the story itself. I am not a professional criticque, but I bet this peice of writting lacks most of the required structure of what makes a story. Again, it's more of a shallow essay than a story. Maybe it is fitting of Tehrangeles. * Provoking expression I read the letters in response to your article about "Not without my mom". I must say at the time when I read the article I did not think too much of it and did think it was rather childish. But now that I have read the responses I must congratulate you in achieving what every editor/journalist in my opinion should aim for; "provocation of expression of opinion". It is nice to belong to a nation that has so much feeling to express even if a great deal of it has to come from their guts. I look forward to reading more outraged letters in response to your future articles. * If we could be more tolerant After reading several letters in this section I noticed many extreme words like "I was disgusted ... shame on you..." or "Now that I read this I don't even want to relate to this magazine" or things like "a molla is a molla: all Iranians should hate mollas..." There is a lot of intolerance in the feelings portrayed here. It seems that we want to stick to one idea, person, or group, and we don't want to tolerate anything else. I understand the sense of insecurities that we all feel. However, if we relax our restrictions a bit, respect each other's opinions, and challenge each other without suppressing our opponents in thought, then we may achieve better solutions to our problems. * Don't apologize "Oh no!" I thought, "Not a parody on 'Not without my mom'" BUT, I was glad to see the piece and, hey, maybe it's not what the mainstream Pahlavi supporters like to see. It was still FUNNY. The most important thing is how in the world do you come up with those pictures? My mother and I stared at Mahvash's picture for long moments and wondered at history and how amazing life is, in general. Keep up the good work and don't write an apology. If we had to shut up everytime because of objections from the staunch right and its annoyingly squeeking wheels (that I hope would just rust and come to a screeching halt), we wouldn't have this free press which serves all FREE MINDED Iranians and Iranian -Americans. HEY! SHAME ON THE CLOSED MINDS! (That's my slogan for the year). * What's so bad about humor? I write this in reply to many people who seem to have had the sad experience of feeling tricked or disrespected with the April Fools article in Iranian.com ["Not without my mom"]. Come ON people! What is so bad about humorous articles, funny images and cartoons? After all there are so many cartoons about chadori women on The Iranian and no one has ever claimed being disrespected on behalf of all the believers of the chador. I want to congratulate you on your free medium and wish this one Iranian publication that seems to be able to stand on its feet without the threat of being shut down by religious conservatives inside or outside Iran. I hope it continues its success story! * Taking it so personally I cannot believe some of these negative responses regarding "Not without my mom". These people should get a grip; what happened to their sense of humors??? Why are they taking this JOKE so personally??? Did this prank press a button or what??? I thought this was the funniest joke I have ever read on your site. Thank you for making me laugh so hard!!!!!!!! * Buch of morons I am totally disappointed in your professionalism in reporting such an idiotic April Fools story ["Not without my mom"]. I do not think it one bit funny, I rather think that is sad that a bunch of idiots and morons are running your newspaper. Why don't you learn to be more careful of what you're making fun of? After all there are many Iranians who do wish something major could happen in Iran for the better of our country. Hay, "no skin off your nose", after all what an idiot like you cares what happens to our people in Iran, so long as you can sit on your fat ass and write BS about Mr. Pahlavi or any other person. Thank you, And by the way, don't bother sending yours truly any of your BS in the future. * Dug your grave I have respected The Iranian online so much that I have told all my friends about it, until now, with the article by Shaban Bamokh ["Not without my mom"]. Your selection is a disgrace and shameful. Please discontinue my service at once. You have dug your future grave. * Most Iranians are like you In spite of the fact that I don't have enough time, I had to respond to your ugly April Fools piece ["Not without my mom"]. Actually, I was very happy when I saw your email, because I thought that your news is true. But when I opened the site and looked at the stupid photo (somebody who looked like a woman), I found that, again, I have been taken in. Now, I can understand why Iranians, with such a history and clever people are in such a disaster. It's a shame that you are Iranian. If you were in Iran and saw the living conditions of the people you would never have sent such a stupid message to others. I think instead of sending such foolish articles to others, you better think about more important matters. Like why our people are in such a situation? Why some thieves (akhounda) are governing us in the new millennium? Why? Because the majority of Iranians are like you, cool. Nothing is important for them. I wish your newspaper and site were a place for increasing and improving liberty. Please don't send me such news again. * Best anti-monarchists can come up with? What a distastefull, unfunny and obnoxious April Fools joke this was ["Not without my mom"]. Doesn't anyone at your site have the decency not to publish garbage like this? Is this the best the anti-monarchists can do these days? * Saved Persepolis, but not Bahais Ms. Amini's letter, "Saving Persepolis", brings all patriotic Iranians a great sense of joy to know of the numerous countrymen who care so much about our heritage. After reading about Mr. Nosratollah Amini's act of courage I was so overwhelmed by pride. But that did not last very long. Once again, I was reminded how our National Front compatriots only reminisce the of part of history that they want us to remember. Mr. Amini, a nationalist, did not care to protect the rights of other religions. National Front leaders never showed any courage to save the lives of people associated with the Shah or members of Bahai Faith. This is in sharp contrast to the record of Reza Khan. Reza Khan, later Reza Shah, built the foundation of a moden state and allowed many Qajar courtiers and religious minorities participate in serving our Iran >>> FULL TEXT * Veghahat In response to Fariba Amini's letter, "Saving Persepolis": After the 1979 revolution, there were some talks about the destruction of all pre-Islamic monuments (and traditions). But some of the wiser mollahs like Talleghani stopped this nonsense. At the top of the list was, of course, Persepolis. But the main move against Persepolis was organised by Dastgheib (Imam Jomeh of Shiraz) and not by Khalkhali, as Ms Amini claims! Khalkhali was in Tehran and was too busy executing people >>> FULL TEXT * Adab az keh aamookhti? Mr. Babak Babakan ["Veghaahat"]: I don't know who you are and I wish not to know. It seems to me as your letter indicates, you have lived in a Western democracy for a while. But you have not learned one bit on how to have a polite dialogue with one of your compatriots, especially a lady. You use the word "Vaghih" and assume that I am lying. This line of thought is unacceptable among civilized people. And I consider myself one civilized person. Let others judge you >>> FULL TEXT * You make us look bad I read your lame excuse for an article ["The hell with romance"] and here are my comments: 1. Lay off categorizing all Iranian men as being incapable of romantic behavior. Just because you have difficulties with it doesn't mean we all do. You know, there are Freudian roots for what you're experiencing, pal. You should check it out. I am sure it is nothing you don't already know, but don't be ashamed to admit it. 2. Stop thinking with your other head, and you'll be surprised of the outcome. That MIGHT happen if you grow up and start thinking with your brain - chalk doesn't count! >>> FULL TEXT
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