January 6, 2003
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* Takhteh Nard match
You suggested a chess
match between Iran and the U.S. Can't we have a Takhteh Nard match on-line for
all your readers, if you guys can organize it (or some one else)!
Reza Izad
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* Not your kind of low class woman
Esmaal Aghaa's article [Haft
Khaan] I laughed so hard and loud that made few of my colleagues curious enough
to come by and ask me what was I laughing at. I have always had great fascination
with the "dash mashti" style of talking because in my college days I drove
all over and had the opportunity to be told by some of these "dash mashtis"
how they felt about women's driving when I would stop by at the teahouses located
on the roadsides. I found their direct and honest approach refreshing and quite entertaining.
I thought despite their tough exteriors they were actually very "pro-women"
and quite the real men that respected intelligent women!
I loved your take and judging from your picture (I can read people's energy and
personalities by looking at their pictures) you have never seen someone of my caliber
up close and personal. I admire your sense of humor and your courage to compare your
small and very boring world to mine. For the record dash esmaal, I am 5' 3 and wear
shoes with at least 4 inch heals. That make me 5' 7 which is the height of average
Iranian man with one difference. I have an imposing and intimidating presence. I
guarantee that you would be so overwhelmed if you meet me in person that you would
faint. Of course you are not that lucky because even on my good days I would not
even consider talking to someone who takes pictures with an imaginary icon!
Your kind of low class, illiterate and desperate woman only lives either in your
small imagination or somewhere in your neighborhood.
Regards,
Azam Nemati
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* Best help: good legal representation
The "What's
next?" photo essay was very informative. By the way with regards to the
14th Amendment to the United States which states, "No State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States;nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law..." It is an Amendment to the Constitution that deals
with the States ( ie. California).
The INS is supervised by the Department of Justice, a Federal entity. The 5th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution applies here. "No person shall... be deprived
of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..."
The Constitution begins with the Preamble which states "We the People of
the United States..." And with regards to the 5th Amendment, the courts have
recently held that the Constitution and the U.S. Amendments are only applicable to
U.S. Citizens. As of recent, a green card holder can lose their green card status
for committing a felony and be deported to their country of citizenship.
During WWII Japanese Americans were stored in concentration camps in California.
The government at the time viewed them as a threat to the United States. What is
odd is that even though California is on the west coast, Hawaii is much closer to
Japan and Hawaii never put its Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII.
The Constitution in rare cases can be suspended due to National Security issues.
The best way to aid Iranians Immigrants is to help them get good legal representation.
Friends and family members should also show up to their immigration hearings as moral
as well as spiritual help and serve as character witnesses if possible.
Allen Alagheband
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* Those casual remarks breed hate
We gladly signed your petition to President Bush yesterday concerning the detention
of Iranian men.
We browsed a bit thru the other comments when we found two remarks by a Marcy,
one of them was "i dont care if you all get sent back to iran. more jobs for
REAL americans, not some turban wearing cab driving job stealers".
She might just be one of those highly uneducated trailer trash people (which this
country unfortunately has far too many) and it would be easy just to disregard it,
but her e-mail adress is from the peacecorps, a government-funded institution - mparkhurst@peacecorps.gov. We think it's
exactly that kind of attitude that has to be stopped immediately - it is hard enough
to convince the government of their incredible mistakes they make right now.
But those casual remarks breed hate all too easily and create a hostile environment
that might be too hard to change if we let it just slip thru. We e-mailed the peacecorps
and would like this incident to be investigated further. We don't want to fund some
racist idiots with our taxes. We'd just like you to know about it, maybe you'd like
to write the peacecorps or so.
In the meantime, we hope (and vote) for a better government - and maybe one day
even Americans can find Iran on a map!
Thank you for your efforts,
Andrea K & Mike L
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* Don't play this "I love US shit" with us
I am responding to your letter [?] sent in response to the article [My
last trip to the United States] that touched on discrimination of Iranian/Canadian
citizens I found the tone of your letter very arrogant.
It seems like you have been living on Mars to know who much hatred the world (europe,
africa, asia) feels about Americans (I guess that would include you since your new
idiot president has been in power).
Just look at the demonstrations against the US in Germany, Italy and UK. So please
don't play this "I love US shit" with us.
And by the way in Canada we may not drive cars or buy luxary houses but at least
we don't fear that our child will be shot by a sniper in the street or if a loved
one has a heart attack, the doctor will require documentations from an HMO before
saving their life.
Pesare Gol
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* Will certainly unmask deceit
Assal Badrkhani is right in expressing dismay and fear against the anti-immigrant
onslaught in America ["Oppressed
once more"]. Assal, a 19-year old Iranian-American girl has the tenacity
and wisdom to know her rightful role and suggest a clear course of action.
Where are other so-called political leaders like Reza Pahlavi? Taking a break
from a boot licking session and joining the ranks of commoners may help this royal
highness and likes of him come down to earth and learn our pains as an immigrant
community in America.
Moments like what we are experiencing will certainly unmask deceit and help us
pinpoint our true friends from ordinary opportunists.
Hamid
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* "Really Rudi, what's so funny?"
I too am annoyed by Rudi Bakhtiar's constant smiling at obviously tragic stories
[Moody
Rudi]. I don't think she should smile at all, unless she's doing the occasional
fluff piece. I was afraid to turn on CNN the other day to find her say, "Hundreds
of innocent Iranians were thrown in jail by INS officials," smile, wink, wink.
I, like Massombagi, do not want to put her down -- I'm proud that she's made it
big. But somebody has got to clue her in on the fact that she's not hosting Wild
On E! and that she's a news anchor on a serious and widely-respected network. She
tries to be too cute and that irritates me to no end.
I'll forgive her nasal-I-had-a-nose-job-voice. But her appearance (hair, clothes,
and glasses) are distracting. I don't notice or remember what any of the other CNN
anchors are wearing, probably because it's a nice conservative business suit. But
Rudi really is moody. She has short hair one night and long hair the next (what,
did her hair grow 10 inches in one night?
That Persian egg shampoo must really work. Couldn't they get her hair extensions
that matched the rest of her hair?). She wears contacts one night and horrible black-rimmed
glasses the next. Did she really forget her contacts or is she trying to be trendy?
I don't remember noticing anyone else's glasses on CNN. I won't even go into her
clothes--let's just say I'm glad there's a blue bar at the bottom of the screen to
cover her cleavage. I have to admit that when I watch her announce the news, I don't
hear a word she says -- I'm too distracted looking at her hair and makeup and glasses.
I'm analyzing her unnecessary smiles, winks, head and facial movements and gestures.
If I'm ever in Atlanta, I'll have to ask, "Really Rudi, what's so funny?"
Anonymous
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* Tyrannical theocractic rule, that's the problem
In response to "Challenging
the Government of God", by Ahmad Sadri
By reading the title of the article, an open-minded reader could be forgiven for
assuming that the writer might be seriously arguing against the theocratic tyranny
of the clergy in Iran and, perhaps, for a secular and democratic system of government,
befitting the 21st century.
But, one soon realizes that such an expectation from a self-proclaimed "religious
intellectual" is perhaps a bit too much - and that Mr. Sadri is still riding
on the bandwagon of the lame "reformists".
Even though Mr. Sadri appears to be criticizing the "fundamentalist Islam"
(is there any other kind? - whre is it?), especially that of the Iranian brand, he
(perhaps unwittingly?) also somewhat glamorizes it by calling it "innovative"!
He writes "Iranian fundamentalists ....have expropriated aspects of such
Western and yet anti-liberal ideas as Marxism, Fascism, Syndicalism ..
for concocting their own nativist syntheses".
He goes on to explain how Islam (especially Iranian brand) is anti-modernity (and
incompatible with the 21st century society). Yet, despite all that, and having babblled
on and on for seven pages, he fails to distinguish between IRAN and Islam; and between
the problem of Iranians (with Islamic Republic) and the problem of the possible reformability
or otherwise of Islam.
It was my intention to give a more comprehensive response to this article of Mr.
Sadri, but having now read my dear compatriot Mr. Amir Irani Tehrani's response ("Sultanate
of reformists", in The Iranian of 18th Dec), which I enjoyed enormously,
I feel that it would suffice if I simply quoted Amir here, as saying: "I
don't know what it would take, but as an Iranian I have to ask the professor to reform
his useless religion on his own time and apart from its connection to Iran".
Yes, Mr. Sadri, the problem of Iran and the Iranian nation is not how long (decades
or even centuries) it may take for Islam to "re-form" or whether Islam
is or is not capable of reformation, into a more tolerable and civilized religion
compatible with modernity and democracy, but it is their current misery under the
tyrannical rule of the only theocracy in the world in the 21st century.
I sincerely hope (for the sake of the poor masses who happen to believe in religion)
that the enlightened theologians, such as Mr. Sadri himself, and other "religious
intellectuals", such as the ones that he has mentioned in his "challenging!"
article, will succeed in reforming their Islam. BUT, please, do it away from
Iran and let the brave, intelligent, liberal-minded and democracy-seeking young
generation of Iranians find their own solution to their problem - which has
everything to do with the theocratic rule in Iran but nothing to do with Islam or
reform of Islam .
Rashid Sardar
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* Shiite clergy are half a millennium late
Mr. Ahmad Sadri and other "Islamic reform minded advocates", [Challenging
the Government of God]
"Understanding the reform movement in Iran is predicated upon understanding
the particular brand of Islamic fundamentalism which it aims to modify" and
the particular aspects, and unjust vested privileges, of the 1979 revolution, that
the Khatami gang want to make eternal, you forgot to mention.
One is free to believe that the debates currently taking place in the seminaries
of Qom are actually the dawn of a new era and not the repetition of age old intramural
discussions that the Shiite clergy has had for at least 700 years without reforming
itself. It is however illogical to state that Iranians should delay integrating with
the rest of humanity and improving their economic position because the Shiite clergy
are only half a millennium late in reforming themselves and meaningful change must
only start in the religious sphere.
Did the Japanese wait for the Shinto priests to reform? Did not Spain modernize
despite a non-reformed Catholic church? Why should not Iranians like so many others
benefit from the experiences of the rest of humanity? Whether Shiite Protestantism
succeeds or fails, the issue still remains that even a reformed clergy is neither
representative of the entirety of Iranian culture nor are they the most qualified
citizens to conduct the affairs of the state.
Since Russian cannons awoke Iranians to a changed world after a coma of a thousand
years at Turkamanchai, we Iranians started the tireless effort of meeting the challenge
of rational and scientific modernity. Iran's biggest enemies have not been foreign
but homegrown: superstition, fanaticism, and ignorance. The social ills crystallized
today in Khomeini's Islamic Republic.
Sincerely,
Amir K. Sheibany
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* Obscene insolence
I wonder where the hell you are from, but the picture
you put on the home page of your web site (a herd of sheep with "the iranian"
word in the picture!!!) is an obscene insolence for Iranian community. PLEASE *remove
it* from your web site.
Angry,
Ali Bolourian
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* ma iraniha khodemoon midoonim ke goosfandim
mikhastam azatoon bekhatere ahangai ke tooye bakhshe Ey
Iran-e iranian.com gozashte boodid tashakor konam . makhsoosan inke moddati bood
man donbale ahanhaye mihani migashtam va midanam ke gerd avari hame inha dar yek
ja kare asani nist.
amma yek mas'ale i ke mara azar midahad, aksi hast ke balaye safhe gozashte'id.
ma iraniha khodemoon midoonim ke goosfandim vali khob bezarid hadde'aghal bazdid
konandehaye dige motavajeye mozoo nashan! behtar bood be jaye in goosfandhayee ke
mahiyate ma ra bar mala mikonand akse koorosh ya darioush ra balaye safhe migozashtid.
ba tashokkor baghboon.
Hossein Mohammadshahi
Web: //bagh.persianblog.com
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* Why I married a wonderful American lady
I saw this article in Iranian.com from H. to Dear Abjeez [Materalistic
Iranian men]. I think Iranian girls and women are more materialistic than men,
that is why I married to a wonderful American lady. All Iranian and Iranian-American
women I knew cared about were money, my occunpation and a palace to live. And if
you don't have any of these, you're out.
Nader Sharifi
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* The real Christ was a Mithraist
I enjoyed your humorous article [Truth
shall triumph]. I just have to bring up a point that might be minor in the context
of the article but quite major in absolute terms. Maji is the variation of "Mogh"
the holy men of Mithraist faith. The Parthians were Mithraist. The kings of Ashkani
dynasty were from Parth and all Mithraist. The religion of Mithra spread from Iran
to Europe and the rest of the world. It became the official religion of the Roman
Empire.
The real Christ was a Mithraist with a message of brotherhood from Iran and most
likely born about 200 years before the jewish person assumed to be the christ (See
Zabih Behrooz, et al). Therefore, assuming there ever was a comet (most likely Halley's),
a jew was born out of wedlock, the three Moghs had nothing better to do than chase
the star that led them to the bastard child, and all this happened in a Mithraist
period, the Moghs could not have been Behdin (Zarthushti).
Siamak
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* 9/11: Sick with paranoia
I have seen it all now! My son was shopping for CD's on Queen St W (Toronto) and
brought home something from a band called Trench Coat Yuppies. Their songs are about
Terrorists hiding in caves getting stoned and fucked, while they send out Ladybugs
to spy and poison us with anthrax!
The events of 9/11 has made some people sick with paranoia, that has not been
seen since the "Red Scare" in the fifties. George W is going to attack
Iraq because he's scared shitless of them. The "Brown Scare" is real! I
bet Bush wont eat pretzils during the NFL play-offs this year!
Muhammad Singh
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* Her majestiy's mind must be truly engaged
As an Iranian woman i would like to thank shahbanoo for still and forever being
a real fighter and a strong leader and a builder as a real Queen. Lately I felt in
my heart to just talk to my Queen and thank her for being where i am and who i become,
just because one day, she desired to put time to improving Iran's art and culture.
I did send her majesty an e mail to show my availability to continue on that step(with
desire and knowledge of my responsibilities) knowing less that the effect of what
happening to the students in Iran must have her majestiy's mind truly engaged. As
an Iranian i will also put some time and effort in solving this trouble too. i will
attend walks and speeches to make a difference.
however I like to take this opportunity to thank our Queen for always being an
inspiration to us Iranian women . Above all I will be praying for our country to
stand firm in this battle against humans rights .
Fatemeh Borhani ( Azad )
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* Zafaranieh
I really enjoyed your piece "Anjaa
Tehran bood"
I was born in Shemiran and went to elementary and middle school on Zafaranieh
Street. My mother and family live on Pesian. I go back once or twice a year. In fact,
my American wife, my son and I will be in Tehran soon. It was kind of nostalgic to
see mention of my old neighborhood in your writing.
Keep up the good work.
Bahman Bagheri
Dallas, Texas, USA
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* I love to see them
Dear Abjeese, [Materalistic
Iranian men]
I live in San Francisco and not in LA. However I am agree with you about money
loving or as you said Pozy culture among L A- Iranian. But I think it is mostly the
wrong definition of success that creates this problem. Even successful people in
LA like Brad Pitt and Jennifer A. do not go for Pozy culture. One needs creative
energy and dicipline to become successful.
I do not know... I really love Iranian culture and just seeing fellow Iranian
makes me happy, I love to see them even in night club and bar.... just anywhere ,
so I think we should not discriminate againest eachother , but include eachothe,
thanks.
FKH
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* Haideh & the revolution
I just like to conform that the Haideh
song you featured was one of her early songs and a sound track for a movie way
before 1978. The movie was about Shah taking the lands from the land owners and giving
them to farmers. Being a song track was the reason that song was never release on
Haideh's albums. After or during the revolution that song was released for two reasons:
1. Sounds very related with Iran's situation at the time.
2. Because of revolution there was no law to stop it from being released.
I hope I have been a help.
Ramin
EDITOR'S REPLY: It has been corrected
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* Cheering up our generation
Dear Siamack, [Private
thoughts]
You are one of a kind. Please keep up the good cheering up of our generation.
Cheers,
Julian Hamedi
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* Do not let these people win
Once again Mr. Kadivar has written a very informative article which at the same
time made my blood boil [A
dialogue in art]. Stupid, intolerant and backward Iranians got their way for
a short time. When are those of us who claim to be progressive, democratic and open-minded
are going to stand up to these hooligans? Those who live in the cushion and protected
La La land of the Westernized-Iranian communities assume that we are safe from the
embarrassing and ludicrous beliefs of some of our fellow Iranians because we live
in the "West". Well, think again.
Do you know that a group of college students in my community had arranged for
a stand up comedian to perform in our area and had to cancel? You may find this hard
to fathom but, a few very educated, well off Iranians had called the young man who
heads the student group and threatened the young man (they did not have the balls
to call me because they know me too well and how I would answer).
The show had coincided with "Ghadar nights" which the Shiite Moslems
believe Ali ,their leader was injured and one of these night died. They went ahead
and committed to buying 50 tickets to show their support if the program was rescheduled!.
I was the one that had to send the e-mail regarding the cancellation.
However, I made sure in my very nice e-mail I exposed the group's backwardness
and made sure that I mentioned that nowhere in the Koran is indicated that on this
night you must cry. I went further and mentioned as a person who had read the Hadith
and the Koran there is no mention of not having fun or laughing during Ramdan either
and this backward idea is strictly written in Mafatih by an Iranian.
I can not tell you about the scores of supportive e-mails I received from people
that wanted to know what they could do to help stand up to these "menace to
our community). I went one step further and showed up at a memorial and purposely
kissed a few men in front of the people from the group and brought up the subject
(while their leader stared at me) and said, I hate Moslems who give Islam a bad name
because they are stupid and illiterate so they resort to threats by phone calls (looked
the man right in the eye as I said it).
You may ask what is the relevance to this article. Very simply for you to stand
up and do not let these people win. In my case last NowRouz was also around Ashura
and these people had threatened to interrupt the celebration at the university which
was supposed to take place. I was very sick and due to the fatal car accident I had
been in my neck and back hurt really bad, but I made a very conscious effort to call
everyone I could and ask them to come and made myself drive an hour to be there.
I danced the night away despite the pain. The group who had threatened did nothing.
Get mad and make a difference. Contribute to these kind of cultural projects. I am
by cutting one dinner outing for my son and I.
Please do the same so the success of this dance group will be the slap in the
face for those idiots. Mr. Kian, the hell with Azarbayjan and those who "let
you down". Learn your lesson, hire people who are committed and use the rich
and beautiful landscape of Iranian literature for your "tales".
Regrads,
Azam Nemati
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* Where's Foroughi's grave?
man davood ghasemifard az azaye saite shoma hastam. moghime kharej hastam va chand
roozist be iran bargashtam.
be donbale mazar va mahale dafne khanandeye irooni FEREYDOON
FOROUGHI hastam. lotfan adrese daghighe mahale dafn ra barayam befrestid.
ba tashakor va emtenan
Kiana
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* English with a definite Farsi "accent"
We are in the process of creating a new publication for the second and third generation
Iranians in America. The publication will be published in the Los Angeles area and
are soliciting articles and stories from you.
The publication is in English with a definite Farsi "accent" on how
we view things. If you have any articles you would like to share please email them
to us for our review. No fees will be paid but you will have our gratitude and we
will gladly send you a copy of the monthly newspaper at no cost.
Please send your articles to aashnews@yahoo.com
Thank You
Editor
Aash Publication
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* Listen and dream
Thanks very much for dissemination of IAR
radio. I truly enjoy listening to it while I work and have a chance to dream
about our home land.
Harry H. Solhjoo, MBA, Ph.D.
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* 6 foot 6 Iranian??? How did that happen?
Howdy va Salam from Texas. I was rooting for the Buckeyes [Pretty
ridiculous thought] because my girlfriend is a Buckeye. But I did you know that
one of the key offensive line men for Miami was an Iranian brother from Canada! Sherko
is a Kurdish name. 6 foot 6 Iranian??? How did that happen?
See his info below.
Farzad Bozorgmehr (aka Zod Mehr)

Sherko Haji-Rasouli
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
High School:
J.A. MacDonald HS
Height / Weight:
6-6 / 326
Position:
Offensive Line
Experience:
3L
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* He was violent and selfish
If you read both Not Without My Daughter and For the Love of a Child you
will find many positive examples of Iranians. Moody lied to Betty. He promised her
that they would only be in Iran for two weeks and would return to America. He did
not discuss the matter with her and say he wanted to try living in Iran. He arbitrarily
decided they had to stay. He also did not discuss his feelings about Mahtobs religion.
Again he just decided on his own that she would become a Muslim. Betty is criticized
for going to Iran in the first place. If she had refused she would have been criticized
for refusing to visit her husbands home with their daughter.
The fact is that Moody left a lot to be desired. He was violent and selfish. (A
lot of American men have similar traits. ) If Moody had talked to Betty they might
have been able to reach a compromise. For example they could have stayed in Iran
during the school year and spent summers in America. Since Moody had already agreed
to have her raised as a Christian he should have kept to that but Betty should have
allowed her to learn about the Muslim faith as well. It was Moodys arbitrary decisions
and refusal to consider Betty's feelings that caused the problem. I did not get the
impression from this book that all Iranians are bad. As stated before there were
many examples of positive acts and traits. The fact that many American women are
happily married to kind and loving Iranian men does not make Betty's story a lie.
You say it was wrong for Betty to take Mahtob to America and away from her father.
What if Moody had succeeded in getting Betty on the plane to America and then had
not allowed her to return thereby keeping mother and daughter apart. Would that have
been okay? As I see it Betty had no choice but to do what she did. The book made
me interested in learning more about Iran and Islam. The government is not to my
liking and I don't plan to convert to Islam (not that it is bad it's just not what
I personally believe. I am a Christian. I have Muslim friends. )
There are many aspects of the culture which I found appealing both in Betty's
books and in other publications. Someone from a posh avenue in England who came to
live with a family in a large city slum or poorest Appalachia would get a different
view of America than someone from the same area going to a nice suburban town. Yet
it is all America. I think the story is true and Betty did what she had to do. It
did not give me a bad impression of Iranians as a whole.
Stars Scout
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* Shahanshah Aryamehr was a kindhearted man
I was almost 7 when the so called "ISLAMIC" people came to my country
and destroyed it. Why? I tell you why because they were (AKHOONDS) and they didn't
belong in a modern country anymore and god forbid this could not happen. I love my
country and even though I wasn't more than just a child when the regim changed I
still Love my KING AND MY QUEEN.
They represented my country IRAN the way it was supposed to be represented, but
these so called muslims were powerhungry and did not have a home, and back then we
were not hungry...have you guys heard of the fact "keep iranian hungry and arabs
full" -- well unfortunatley that's what happened to us. WE WERE ENTIRELY TOO
FULL. well we got what we deserved, some of us left the country for one reason or
another.
My parents left Iran when I was 13 or 14 years old. Now Iam 30 and married with
two girls. I married to an american guy and it's so hard for me to explain to him
why I love my country so much and why my kids have persian names. MARAL va NOOSHA.
WHY? cause they are half me, and Iam iranian even though I can't go back to iran...one
because of the fact that I have an american husband that is not a muslim and two
because I am a monarchybeliver.
Some people might think what does she know, true I was a child when monarchy left
my country, but I know it didn't turn to the better. Let me tell you what Shahanshah
Aryamehr was a kindhearted man and that's what got him out of his precious country.
He build apartments for the poor who lived in Halabiabad and does any of you know
what the poor homeless people did with their apartments that they got for free? ANYBODY?
Sell I know....they sold them and moved back to halabiabad. I told my american
husband that when the Rezashah II goes back to Iran I am going to. wether you want
to follow or not but I'll go. I was 7 when the regim changed but to this WHEN I hear
EY IRAN EY MARZE PORGOHAR EY KHAKAT SARCHESHMEYE HONAR... I stand up and sing with
it and that's my way salute my country and my king.
Tori Haney
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* Cash for Israeli hostages info
Hello, I look for any information about the three Israeli soldiers who are held
and kidnapped by the hizbulla on October 7, 2000. We try in any way to get them or
to get the basic information about their conditions.
If you have any information about them please tell us. We pay for any information
(if it's real ) or any proof about these three young boys who have been suffering
for more than two years.
Please help us.
Regards,
Eyal Avitan
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* Many would say Iranians are crazy!
I read the article about Emame
Zaman; as you know when we want to explain something from some one,we should
present the sourses and the time.I belived that your website would be a professional
website,but regards to this aritcle you showed something against,why you want to
show these stupid words at this time?
Why you want to present that "shiite" believe in the silliest words?
you know that regards to your website's name "Iranian" many people in the
world would say that Iranians are crazy!!! maybe you want it !! instead of these
things try to present some useful and valuable articles fro the new Iranian generation,if
you believe them,the generation which they don't have idea of their country's history.
do it!!!
Regards
M.Mirani
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* It wasn't funny
Many did not realize Arya Abedin's "Press
the button" was in fact political satire -- NOT to be taken literally.
He has expanded his introduction to make this point clearer. Here are emails about
the article, including some from those who misunderstood the author's intention:
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* Gullible, or runs the vehicle of a foreign government
I was most amazed to read your recent article [Press
the button] published in iranian.com, and as I was reading it, I thought of several
issues, one being the naivety of the writer, or indeed his/her dependency to outside
powers who can not tolerate peace and progress in Iran.
I questioned the writer's authenticity and faithfulness. I thought has he /she not
seen other countries with the exact criteria mentioned in the article, but yet having
difficulties well beyond what the Iranian are facing at present. I find it very ignorant
to believe that the writer has missed to see countries with exact measures in their
constitution, yet not adhering to the very basics of running a society. I also found
it very difficult to miss that there are countries in this world with almost exact
political systems as Iran tries to implement, yet are considered to be an example
of democracy by the writer.
I hence came to the conclusion that, either the writer is very gullible, or runs
the vehicle of a foreign government.
What Iran needs are people who are prepared to be honest, truthful, hardworking,
and start correction from themselves and have no link to the outsiders.
Wishing you clear vision
Farhad Jafari
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* Propagates Islamism by opposing it
This article has one huge mistake [Press
the button]. It propagates Islamism and fundamentalism by opposing it, and badly
defending the fight against terrorism.
I bet you are a fundamentalist Islamist. Read Shirin Sadeghi's, "Defending
Something I Am Not." You might have something to discuss about in your first
year composition class. By the way, the world is not what you think it is.
Roodabeh
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* Emergency cranial CAT scan is in order
Mr. Abedin, [Press
the button]
Thanks for sharing your brilliant proposal with us. I'm sure the true "axis
of evil" trio namely Mr. Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and Cheney agree with you 100%.
I suggest you take a chill pill and call your psychiatrist in the morning. Perhaps
scheduling an emergency cranial CAT scan is in order.
May god help your soul,
Daniel Pourkesali
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* More like Ariel
I shockingly am surprised and disgusted by seeing such a
stupid and silly article in your valuable print. [Press
the button]
Several months ago was similar idea but paid advertisement
in NY Times, by another Zionist organization called Rand, name of the author Leonard Piekoff.
How can you print this piece of rubbish for free? If you did that for free, and if
you got paid, then it makes sense to you for a few hundred dollars to go to a war,
and that especially would be world war III.
This idiot covers himself inside the name Aria, while his
name is more like Ariel.
S.D.
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* Best of luck in Madonna studies
What an interesting, and clearly humorous, article [Press
the button] on dealing with the Axis of Evil by Arya Humdinger or whatever: are
you the member of an evil sect from Planet Mars or just another American undergraduate
with "bright" ideas and a need for counselling? And yet you seem to be
able to spell.. well, best of luck with your studies, whatever they may be (Madonna
studies maybe, or woodwork and dress design?)
Alidad Vassigh
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* Obviously a total psycho
Why do you publish such an article "Press
the button" in your web site? Don't you have any decency? Freedom of speech
is good, but writing such horrific articles should be prohibited. The writer is obviously
a total psycho, he has no value for human lives, and the worst is that he is an Iranian.
How can he allow himself to write such sadistic things??
Mr Abedin, I would suggest you to have your brain checked. You are an "oghdei"
and total freak! Everybody knows the real reasons that motivate the US to go to war
in those countries: control of oil and gas supplies, domination of weaker countries
and their policies. They are directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of
millions of innocent people.
Mani S.
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* Made me want to puke
In regard's to Arya Abedin's "Press
the button";
Reading your 'essay' made me want to puke. Typical young 2nd generation Iranian living
in the US/UK....you don't seem to care about the existance of the barbaric Islamic
government in Iran or how much the people of Iran currently suffer. Instead of worrying
about what goes on in your native land, you go on rambling with your anti-American
propoganda.
I think if you would translate your writing and send it to Kayhan newspaper's headquarters
in Tehran, they would gladly publish it for you.
Kamran
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* Inciting nuclear holocaust?
Who are you to let this idiot put his criminal drivel on-line? Your entire enterprise
is an insult to the human race. Surely you don't assume "freedom of speech"
as your pathetic excuse for inciting nuclear holocaust?
Please remove me from what ever the hell it is that sends your vile curse my way.
Genuinely revolted by "the iranian,"
C Kia
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* Awesome
Saman, [You
asked for it]
These cartoons are awesome. You sure have proved that a cartoon paints a thousand
words. Thanks for supporting the student uprising in Iran. Damet Garm.
Kiana Sol
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* Koodoom site?
bebin, kAri nakon biAm sorAghet, un eynaketo bedam zarre zarrasho GHURT bedi.
in deegeh bAreh Akhareteh dAram behet migam... un site ro vardAr mAdar jende. magar
inke vAghean tanet barAyeh yeh darseh dorost hesAbi bekhAre!
me yu
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* Consult your revolutionary brethren
Nice article regarding one of the best college bowl games in recent memory [Pretty
ridiculous thought].
Regarding the question you posed to the reader at the end of your article (when
was the last time you killed someone?), maybe you should consult your revolutionary
brethren whom are continuously taking lives of innocent freedom loving Iranians as
we speak.
... just a thought
Regards,
B.K.
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* Killing was never good
I wish you could say the same thing to Mullahs [Pretty
ridiculous thought], not now that they are forced to disappear, but at the time
that you were helping them.
Yes you are right, now, killing is not good. But it never was good, not now nor
at the time that Imam thing appeared. What about those people that were begging Imam
thing and his followers, please stop killing. The Fanatics never did. Did they? Who
is apologizing to those people who were against killings from day one?
I wish Iranian could discuss their own problems first, and then discuss Bush. It
is a very wrong tradition, that Iranian and especially the backward ones never face
challenges directly, and have no guts to admit their failures (like Revolt of 1979).
Thanks,
Arash
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* Who did "Ey Iran"
I was just visiting your site and noticed some discrepancies regarding the feature
on patriotic songs
which need your attention.
In 1944, my father, Rouhollah Khaleghi composed the music and Hossein Golgolab
wrote the words to Ey
Iran. Later, I arranged the music for orchestra and choir and it appears on the
cassette tape called "Meye Nab" which was recorded in 1990 by me.
The Ey Iran recording
you listed under Hossein Alizadeh and Hossein Sarshar has been taken from the same
recording.
Thank you,
Golnoush Khaleghi
Editor's note: This mistake has been corrected.
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* Iranian restaurateur dies in London
Just wanna let u know that unfortunately Mr
Nader Haghighi passed away after a heart attack and it shocked everyone...
Taraneh
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* Could not claim best wine, but cheers anyway
Couple of interesting experiences about name Shiraz and wine.
About 26 years ago I took a course in Islamic History (needed an easy "A"
to finish my Nuclear Engineering degree). To my surprise the professor was a pale
faced gentlemen from Canada (about as Anglo as you can get). He asked me where I
was from, I immediately replied "I AM FROM SHIRAZ.. I MEAN IRAN". Typical
response from a 19-year-old from Shiraz.. He immediately presented me with a couple
of facts.
1. Shiraz is where the drink sherry was invented?!! fact or fiction, not sure.
2. During the invasion of Spain the lead generals where from Persia which they brought
with themselves wine makers and musicians (therefore brought sherry and the tar).
3. He pulled up a map of Spain and pointed at a very small village called "Shiraz".
Life goes on and about 20 years later I landed in South Africa for an assignment.
One night out, another Anglo Gent / client start talking about our separate worlds.
Funny enough, this African has spend some time in Shiraz and had bought carpets there.
The next day I presented him with a small gift that I brought to give to clients.
In an instance he presented me with a bottle of wine called Shiraz. We had covered
my life history the night before and I had told him I had not been able to go back
to Iran since I left it in the early 70's. He suggested I visit the great Cape Town
area specially Stallenbach (home of Africa's MIT) where this wine is grown. To my
disappointment Stallenbach was not like my hometown Shiraz (it was incredibly more
beautiful -- more like southern France). My hopes of finding another Shiraz was all
dashed and as a Shirazi I could not claim that we have invented one of the best wines
in the world.
However the silver lining is a bottle of Shiraz a week will keep our blues away.
Specially in these days of Middleastern bashing.
Regards,
Freidoon Rastegar
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* Beneath any elegant Persian lady
Dear Mr. Glunk, [Bubba
in German]
I would like to bring this to your attention regarding republishing Ms. Nemati's
article [Make
it your bible, bubba] in your online journal. Although you have every rights
to publish that or any other article you wish, respectfully, I and many other readers
of Iranian.com believe that the article was beneath any elegant Persian lady (as
expressed in some letters to the editor, some truly contemptuous).
Not that's so-called a big deal, but still bringing such a banal article to spit
light ...... is offending to some of us Iranians. An article that I guess even in
the author's own taste was semi-satire (I hope), getting too much publicity as a
serious suggestion, underrepresents our culture and in particular our women -- who
are already misrepresented by the other end of the social/political extreme.
I believe the article very much vulgarized not only our women but even the subject
of "love and marriage in the eyes of Persian ladies". I was surprised by
that given that the author otherwise seems like an accomplished intellectual. Funny
it is that when I read it and felt sorry about it, tried to console myself that no
foreigner would read it and now.... it's even getting republished in German! I thought
I was old fashioned and male, but those who bothered to write to the editor were
mostly female as I recall.
Please feel free to quote this letter on your site if you wish.
With warmest regards,
Hassan Shamloo
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