Letters
Jan 2-5, 2001 / Dey 13-16, 1379
Today
* Discrimination:
- Complain to the Iranian government
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* Kurdistan:
- In the path of foreign armies
* The Iranian:
- No bleeps
- Superior site of an excelsior echelon
* Iranians:
- Are you better than us?
* Model:
- Bacheh Abadan
* Iran:
- Ban on parties may make us think
* Identity:
- African-American-Iranian?
* Discrimination:
- Fingerprinting: Serves no purpose to humiliate
- On discrimination & race
- Will not sit back and shut up
- So naive
- Time to take responsibility
* Racism:
- The problem is violence, not Iranian
men
- Feminazis are on the move
- Modern slaves
- Zoozehaaye ertejaaee
- You are dead wrong
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Friday,
January 12, 2001
* Complain to the Iranian government
There is nothing illegal about the U.S. government's security policy,
not even in singling Iranian-passports, Iran-bound and persons of Iranian
origin for the treatment. The national security argument is paramount and
will probably be upheld by the courts. This is no different than the imposition
of trade restrictions, travel restrictions, or hauling in the Iranian students
at the time of the Carter presidency to answer to the INS officials.
Security aside, the policy also irritates the Iranians in the hope that
the vexation will then force the Iranians to force their government to
mend its ways. Well, may be instead of viewing these incidents as a sort
of due process violations by the United States government, the aggrieved
need to complain directly to the Iran Interests Section in Washington,
the Iran Mission at the U.N., and the Iranian Foreign Ministry in Tehran.
No matter how one slices it, the suffering of the Iranians in this area
is linked to the Amercian displeasure with the Iranian government >>> FULL
TEXT
Guive Mirfendereski
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Thursday
January 11, 2001
* Fingerprinting: Serves no purpose to humiliate
On Mr. Ali Noshirvani's letter ["Time
to take responsibility"] I would like to comment from an American
(non-Iranian) perspective...
Whether or not some people believe that it is reasonable and just for
the U.S. to exact a punishment upon ordinary Iranians for actions real
or imagined which were no fault of their own, I believe that the policy
does great harm to the U.S. and its interests. It serves no purpose to
humiliate people who have no ill intentions toward the U.S. If anything
it destroys amity and creates enmity >>>
FULL TEXT
Bradley Hernlem, PhD
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* On discrimination & race
In response to Ali Noshirvani's letter ["Time
to take responsibility"] in which he justified discrimination
against Iranians due to events such as the U.S. embassy hostage taking
and "support for terrorism": I would like to point out that I
as an individual had no role in any of that, so I as an individual am quite
justified in blaming and condemning discrminatory conduct based on my ethnicity.
What you're espousing is guilt-by-ethnic or historical-asssociation >>>
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John Mohammadi
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* The problem is violence, not Iranian men
I think Iranian men are fabuolous, and as a personal preference, I couldn't
imagine being with a non-Iranian. Most Iranian men I have met have been
successful, passionate, caring, loving people. I have nothing against Iranian
men. I DO have something against weak people trying to oppress or discriminate
against people who are different from them to gain a sense of power or
superiority, whether these people are men, women, Blacks, Whites, Iranians,
non-Iranians, heterosexuals, or homosexuals >>>
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Dokhi Fassihian
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* In the path of foreign armies
I enjoyed reading your article on Hawraman (Owraman) ["People
of Oraman"]. It seems that you have partially traveled along the
Sirwan River... This route that you have taken was once traveled by the
13,000-strong Greek forces who went to Iran to help Bardia (the brother
of Kambudjia who attacked Egypt) to become a Persian King. History says
that Bardia was defeated and the Greeks took the Sirwan route to return
to Armenia and then Greece. They lost 3,000 of their men along the Sirwan
River. How? >>>
FULL TEXT
Mohammad Bat-haee
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Wednesday
January 10, 2001
* Feminazis are on the move
It's quite enlightening to witness the race debate culminate to such
new compromises ["Thank
Gof for..."]. I personally have nothing against individuals from
different races and nationalities conjoining in holy matrimony as long
as the interests surpass that of the phallic nature.
However, I see that the argument has taken a slight twist. It's not
really about Darryl
and Maryam's controversial interracial marriage anymore, rather Iranian
females have found themselves a sufficient excuse to unleash their psycho-sexual
frustrations upon the infamous "Iranian bigot cowards". In other
words Iranian men >>>
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Reza
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* Modern slaves
It boggles my mind how we as Iranians are discriminated against just
as bad as Blacks and yet we are in such deep denial about it. We think
buying a big house and a BMW qualifies us as being a member of the "majority"!
It makes me sad to read some of the racist letters sent to your site.
It reminds me how ignorant we really are; how based on this very ignorance
we gave away our country to radicals.
Just remember that we are the modern day-slaves in this country! Do
not put yourselves above any other race!
Haleh
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* No bleeps
Congratulations to you for printing the letter
by "Unlimited Madness". It shows that you are not afraid
to print four-letter words that in other media such as broadcasting would
have been "bleeped" out.
But more than the content of this letter I was fascinated by the pseudonym
of it's author. Unlimited Madness is obviously a contradiction in terms.
For madness can not have limits >>>
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Farzan Navab
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* Superior site of an excelsior echelon
My nomenclature is Hazzan. I compliment you fervently on this fabulous
forum for Farsi and non-Farsi followers. I have just recently been cognizant
of these transmissions.
I am an IranAm living just east of A2, Michigan (a defacto colloquialism).
I find this superior site of an excelsior echelon.
In summation: Merci (Farsi/french), mamnoon, shokria (Urdu), shokran
(Arabic), salamat tata (Malay), kamsa humnida (Korean), she she( Mandarin),
and thanks (English) for sustaining here for us Iranians, et al... Khoda
hofez, and masalam (Happy Eid al Fitr).
Ali & Mahnaz Mafee
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Tuesday
January 9, 2001
* Zoozehaaye ertejaaee
Naameh (kaaboos!) ertejaai-ye Bahraam ["We
are not negroes"] raa khaandam va moo be tanam raast shod!! In"mojood"
kheyr-e sarash zaaheran pezeshki ham mikhaanad va dar aayendeh mas-oolliyate
moaalejeh va darmaan-e mardom raa be ohdeh khaahad gereft!
Beh raasti, khatar-e aayandeh-ye jaame-ye Iran, divaanegaani az ghabil-e
in Bahram-haa hastand, va fekr mikonam keh roshanfekraan raastin-e Iran
baayad raah-e besyaar hassaas va nachandaan aasaan-e khaamoosh kardan-e
in zoozehaaye ertejaa va Nazi-fascisti va nezhaad parastaaneh raa biaaband.
Baayad beh in javaan ablah yaadaavari kard keh 55 saale pish, donyaa
baraaye afkaari shabih nazariaat-e ishoon, bish az 30 milioon koshteh daadeh
ast va digar kaafist!
Dariush Radpour
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* You are dead wrong
As I read these letters about race and racism, I am flabbergasted about
what these Iranians think makes them Iranian. I haven't been in Iran for
more than 10 years now. But the Iran I remember consisted of Turks, Persians,
Gilakis, Arabs, Christians, Jews and many other ethnic and religious groups.
Am I the only one that remembers this?
Please remember that Iran is bigger than Tehran! Being Iranian means
so many things. And it is not limited to the Shi'ite Muslim religion and/or
the Persian tongue. Have we really forgotten who we are? >>>
FULL TEXT
Sahar Nahrvar
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* Are you better than us?
Having read the article by Mr. Farid Moghadassi "Weekend
millionaires", here's my 2 cents: There is partial truth in what
you wrote. But you did not even take the time to include a short sentence
that obviously not all Iranians are the way as presented by those few in
your article.
Thus you're leaving behind an impression of negative generalization
(and in this process also leaving an impression, though inadvertently,
that you may think you're better than all other Iranians).
These kinds of superficial people are present in every nation and society,
and not specific to some Iranians.
Kaveh
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* Bacheh Abadan
Cameron
Alborzian is bacheh Abadan! His father was born in Ababan. We went
to school together in Abadan and in England. His father was a great sportsman;
I rememeber he used to read the sports news on the BBC Persian Service.
He used to work at Shiraz refinery for many years. An old friend. He now
lives in England.
Bahram Javid
Monday
January 8, 2001
* Ban on parties may make us think
On the arrest of party-goers in Tehran [News,
Cartoon]:
When I saw the news of the arrests on New Years Eve I said to myself, well
maybe now people will stop and think a little. I must say as awful as it
might sound I was not altogether unhappy. There was in fact a little inner
smile that betrayed a certain meanness that I rarely see in myself. How
can you be amused at the arrest of fellow Iranians? I asked myself. Here
is what I came up with >>>
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S. Mashadi
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* Will not sit back and shut up
What Mr. Ali Noshiravani, inadvertently or selectively, overlooked in
his letter ["Time
to take responsibility"] is the fundamental reason Iranian people
have historically disliked, and even hated, American foreign policy...
As an Iranian-American and a Board of Supervisors member of the Persian Watch
Cat, I do not plan to sit back and shut up if and when I am subjected
to these discriminatory acts. Of course, I am only speaking on my behalf
and my views do not necessarily reflect those of the PWC. I will continue
to fight ignorance and injustice. In my local community, I endeavor to
educate Americans about the contributions Iranians have made and will continue
to make to all of humanity >>>
FULL TEXT
Ziba Marashi
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* So naive
It is indeed tragic that some of our people are so naive. They allow
themselves to be brainwashed by the American propaganda monster machine
["Time
to take responsibility"].
The U.S. government is by far the biggestt state-sponsor of terrorism
in the world. Of course, they don't use the "T" word for their
activities. Instead, they call it "covert operations" >>> FULL
TEXT
Nazer Nazeri
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* African-American-Iranian?
Under the "Iranian of the Day" index, I noticed the picture
of T.J.
Houshmandzadeh who happens to be a wide receiver for the Oregon State
Beavers varsity football team. This guys is supposedly an African-American-Iranian,
but there is no information on his name, his family background, his ethnicity,
his parents ethnicity (his mother has an American name) and whether he
is Iranian...
Maybe one of the nurses in the hospital where he was born made a mistake
in the delivery room and sent his mother the wrong baby >>>
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Adnaan Sheikh
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