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April 21, 2003

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* Taranehaye khoob

Salam Khanom Azam Nemati,

Meekhaastam tashakor konam az shoma bekhatere taranehaye khoob az gozashteha.

M.H.

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* Don't understand it, don't attack it

Dear Hossein,

I enjoy your cartoons, yet was offended by few of them.

Aziz... making comments about public figures, politicians, governments, cnn or who ever else is not only bad, but also "saazandeh". We are all trying to make ourselves and our country better. Do you really think all of us "ex-patirats" or iranian-americans are the same? Do you like it when Americans generalize all of us Iranians into one group?

My biggest problem was with your post-iri cartoons. Will "gherti" and "hamjensgara" women come back to Iran? How are we different from Iranians inside Iran? Don't gherti or homosexual women exist in Iran? What's wrong with being a lesbian? They are also god's creation. There is no education about homosexuality in our country or culture, and so I don't expect you to understand it... but if you don't understand something, don't attack it. Not knowing is "jahl" and by making comments about issues you don't understand, it looks like you are more like the "Jaahel" you've depicted in your cartoons.

You are a fantastic person and very talented.... but you are being criticised for making comments about issues you are not very well familiar with. Good cartoons come out of the artist's great imagination AND their full understanding of the situation. I hope you are not forming your ideas about the Iranian-American community or the homosexuals from watching Sattellite TV. If that's so, you are misinformed.

Pedram Missaghi

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* So far from mutual understanding

I have received a hate call and a hate e-mail yesterday and today from Iranian expats telling me that if I don't like it here in the USA, I should move back to Iran or move somewhere else. Amusing since I am not an Iranian and afterall I am just exercising my right of free speech! Leadership free of critics is dictatorship... it is the duty of every freedom loving individual to voice their opinion but must we be so hateful about it? Is this the kind of world we really want where we all despise eachother?

You see how this war has created poison? Here I am, a lover of persia being attacked now by persians. As much as I love the fact that your website offers a forum for much needed public debate albeit only for those of us with an emotional interest in the Middle East rather than mainstream America, I have never seen so much hatred and poison flying back and forth in the articles and the letters. We have become like the dragon teeth soldiers of the Greek mythology fighting eachother not noticing that it was the outsider Jason who tossed the rock at us.

It makes me sad that we have now gone so far away from anything resembling reconcialition and mutual understanding and I am telling you that the violence comes from the top down. The puppet master is making us fight eachother like the old divide and conquer technique of the former British Empire.

We all know that "democracy" can't be imposed on a people esp not from the outside by a power whose motives are far from transparent. I wish in such a troubled time a simple prayer for peace between us all. Each of us has something valid in our point of view...it is time for the peacemakers to step forward and show some leadership.

Brian Appleton

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* Our neighbour's misery is our misery

I can't help but notice that again another supporter of Israel (Brenda Shaffer:"Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity") is trying hard to create ethnic strife and misery in order to weaken our country.

It is essential that Iranians propose a roadmap to regional stability and cooperation and establishment of a Common Middle Eastern Economic Zone to be modeled after the European Union.

In this new entity, not one ethnic group will be the majority and everyone is forced to respect other minority's sensitivities out of self interest.

During centuries, Europeans slaughtered one another while England and it's allied groups played one nation against the others and profited. The same happend and is still happening in Palestine and the whole of the Middle East.

The Iranian goverment did the right thing by not bowing to pressure and refusing to be oppertunistic against the Iraqi nation. This will be the first cornerstone of a long lasting project of Community building. We are all in it together and our neighbour's misery is our misery and our neighbour's happiness is our happiness.

The future Middle Eastern Economic Union should extend it's hands of friendship to European Union, Japan and to Russia, the latter acting as a corridor for commerce to the former, thus reducing the importance of our dependence on shipping as we do not have any command of the open seas.

The answer to Neo-Conserfascist's Evil Empire plan is a change of rules where not the domination of the open seas but the domination of other nation's hearts is the strategic goal.

A. Shoja

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* If Iraq fell in a month, Iran would fall in a week

Recent events in Iraq show distinct evidence of attempts at the disruption of the peace and security of Iraq by Iraqi Mollahs with both connections to the Iranian regime and a physical presence in Iran, notably the Hakim gang. Outright calls to Iraqi Shia's have been made encouraging and inciting them to engage in violence and subversion against groups seeking a free and democratic Iraq and against the United States armed forces attempting to provide security for the transition to democracy and freedom.

The main catalyst for this unprovoked Iranian/Iraqi inspired Mollah call to violence and subversion has been the wise foresight of the United States and its allies in denying an opportunity for Hakim's mafia to wrap its tentacles around Iraq (hence preventing another tragedy such as the one witnessed in Iran for the past 25 years.) However, the only true guarantee to an end to this mischief is for the United States to seek out and destroy its roots which translates into a regime change in Iran, the fount and source of extremism and anti-democracy in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon.

Instead of disengaging U.S. aircraft carriers and sending them back to the U.S., President Bush should order these crafts to re-engage off the coast of Iran and its port cities, and instead of demobilizing U.S. troops in Iraq, those troops should be remobilized to the Iranian border. I assure the United States that if Iraq fell in one month, Iran would willingly fall in one week. And if the Iraqi's don't want American technology and services, the Iranians gladly do because frankly they have had it with 25 years of substandard Russian, Chinese and Korean goods.

And if the Iraqi's don't want the Americans to buy their oil, the Iranians happily seek U.S. dollars in preference to the bartered garbage they are offered by Indians and Africans. THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM LIES WITH THE CONTINUED PRESENCE AND EXISTENCE OF THE MOLLAH REGIME IN IRAN...LIBERATE IRAN AND YOU LIBERATE THE WORLD FROM THE FEAR OF MOLLAH INSPIRED EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM.

Hamid Boroumand

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* About Muslim women

i'm LUCELIA...i living in Brazil and i would like to know about Muslim....and a woman. Geat for u attention!

Lucelia

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* Great loss for Iraq and the World

Dear Mrs. Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian, [Did anyone care?]

I read your excellent article on the predicament of the lost and looted treasures of the Iraqi Museum of Baghdad . This is certainly one of the worst sideeffects of this War. As Much as I am happy that Saddam is overthrown, I am sad to see the human and archeological casualties, which in the latter case could have probably been avoided given the precisioon with which the American administration and Army were informed on their wheareabouts. [See "Lost forever: The National Museum of Baghdad"]

This was a great loss for both Iraq and the World, and as you said many Persian Items were also lost. As a civilization Persians also were inspired not to say copied many of what was part of Mesopotamian Culture and Architecture.

The last Time I visited Persepolis was as a teenager in Spring 1979 I believe, with my classmates. As you suggested the infamous Mullah Khalkhali wanted to raze Persepolis with Bulldozezrs only to be resisted by Quashgais. I nevertheless remember that some Aechemenid profiles were damaged with their bierds virtually cut out of the stone relics. This is a shame and truly a great loss for humanity.

From what appears many looters are bringing back items, and it is said that archeologists can repair and restore some items destroyed but the vision of the famous Winged Griffens beheaded was a shear shock. Such an action most probably another "stupid and avoidable accident" will certainly leave its stigmas on the collective memory of people. It is not something that can be ignored or set aside as minor. I do hope that the experts of the UN and the archeologists can very quickly render a precise report on what are the losses and casualties.

As for the Library of Baghdad which contained rare manuscripts I am afraid that it has now joined long lost Library of Alexandria. As for Al Jaezera ignoring the predicament of the baghdad Museum or Library I am not surprised from Channels which in both form and content simply copy CNN with their share of plastic surgery and cosmetics to catch the eye and not the mind and to which no one can genuinly relate. That is not my personal definition of modernism and progress.

Darius KADIVAR

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* Dahanam badjoory aab oftad

I have to admit that while I was reading your article [Tastes of paradise], I swallowed so many times (Akheh dahanam badjoory aab oftadeh bood) that I think I will have a dry mouth for days to come.

I just want to say Thank You thank you and mersi.

Kazem

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* We might be ignorant but not stupid

I am an Iranian student in University of Florida. I was born in Tehran but my Grand-parents are Azari from Zanjan. I am proud to be Azari. I was doing a research on Babak Khoramdin, our great Persian hero.

Please, look at this stupid website that claims Azari people are Turk, not Iranians. These liars are just making up the whole thing while Iranian are still silent. I want you to tell everyone to send emails to these liar people that we might be ignorant but not stupid like them. In there, they say Babak was Turk. Well, Turks came to Iran about 200 years after death of Babak....so, it is just a big lie.

I hope Iranians will get up someday against these liars. by the way, because I don't believe in these fake people in north of Aras River I used Azari instead of common word Azeri in English.

Long live Iran

Megabiz, a Patriot Azari Iranian

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