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Spare me your excuses Zion...

I have simply addressed the pro-IRI anti-zionists in my last comment.

Dear Zion, we weren't born yesterday. Why were you addressing that specific sub-group? Was anybody talking about Zionism? Is the article about Zionism? Spare me your excuses. You tried to deliberately connect the two issues trying to say anybody anti zionist must also be pro-IRI. It's classic conflation for which you and other zionist apologists are famous. Don't play stupid, you lose what little respect you have.

The comment by Kamran that I praised said nothing about Zionism, or Zionists. You are the one who keep reading yourself into things. Now that you mention it, I do notice the "sudden" appearance of non-Iranian pro-Israelis like yourself "zerti" showing up after someone mentions Israel, but I have never wined about it, or tried to stop it. I'm not afraid of Zionists. And if they are too paranoid to think not one thread can go without mentioning them, than by all means, keep bringing it up. It will only damage your own cause.

The request for IP disclosures is also a nice touch. Very revealing. In one hand is the hypocricy involved that fascinates me. If the United States of America or any other free Western state demanded such a thing to prevent the loss of human lives and prevent terrorist attacks and murder, you lot would be the first to cry out fascism.

What the F&*)* are you talking about? How do you know what I would do or when I would do it? For your information, the US government already has the ability to get any computer information from anywhere and by all accounts it is happening. Even if they are not breaking the law, they can get a court order and get whatever they want from JJ for offenses a lot less severe than "lives" being lost. I do approve of that. So, once again, you are making stupid arguments based on false assumptions.

Exposing IP addresses (which is already done at Wikipedia and other places) is not at all comparable. This is a valuntary board run by a private entity. If you don't like it, you don't have to leave messages here. But if you do commit libel (which is a legal offense), you should be ready to defend yourself in court if challenged. IN other words: put up or shut up.

Can you handle that? Or are you one of the cowards who wants to be able to slander people with impunity?

FYI. I'm all for Reza Pahlavi standing in elections, and so are the Mullahs. The fact is Pahlavi couldn't get elected dog catcher of Ghazvin, in a fair election. He is not at all popular inside Iran and his supporters are keenly aware of this fact.

Have you ever asked yourself why he doesn't TRY to stand for elections in Iran? If he had the slightest chance in hell, he would do so publicly and at least embarass the IRI. But he is too afraid they will accept it!

Anonymous4now-ye aziz

Thanks for responding to my comment.

You are absolutely right that anyone who comes to power may turned it into something personal, and become a dictator. But, there is one important point here that you may not have recognized:

The people whom I mentioned have shown, by their bravery, by staying in Iran, and by accepting to pay the price in order to try to change the system, that they may be true democrats.

In contrast: Not only Reza Pahlavi has never done any such thing, he has also shown that he absolutely has no understanding of what has been happening in Iran. When asked about his opinion about the 1953 coup, his standard answer is: "History should decide that." But, when asked about the 1979 Revolution, which has happened much more recently, he starts his usual litany of "this" and "that." To me that implies evading an honest answer. To me, that indicates that he does not even accept the notion that his father committed many crimes. To me, that means that if he ever comes to power, he will be just as arrogant as his father, that "we" do not do anything wrong.

Yes, I agree with you that we must rally around a leader. But, that leader must come from within Iran. The role of the Iranians in exile is, in my opinion, supporting that leader, someone that Iranians WITHIN the country, trust.

The most important role of Iranians in exile is to become a voice for Iranian democrats within Iran. Those whose voice has been supressed. Those who have no voice because they are jailed, or were murdered.

did you notice they deleted the video?

A video was posted by a woman with last name Welch (something like that) and I made some expose on the issue and the fact that she as the poster and all those in the video were Anglophils trying to fool us Iranians again! Damn, they removed the video! Now I know who are working for the British or at least my list is getting longer.

I will keep an eye on you!

I have no comment about this article, because Reza Pahlavi is very irrelevant and no one should wast any time on a lard ass!

#1 most commented article!!!

afarim Soraya Khanum!!!

THE LADY IS A TRAMP...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-6bp5M_5n8&feature...

Chalabi ? and Turds who don't know who he is

Jeez you turd, Ahmad Chalabi was/is a secret agent of the Islamic Republic. He was the one who was giving U.S bad information regarding Iraq regarding nuclear weapons (he was misinforming the U.S) and a great influence on U.S attacking Iraq, and not Iran. I really don't know why you keep bringing him up, saying we don't "need a Chalabi"...you don't even know who this man is, and what his role was. Get informed before you make more of a turd of yourself.

Sorry you exist

OUHHHHHHHHH you have serious complexes! I wish they had taken 16billion dollars. You are so ignorant, and damaged!

P

Again with the Palestinian Thing!!!

Again with the Palestine thing.....God...

Akheh be shomaha che marboot Kaseyehayeh as ash daghtar?

Why don't you discuss Iran's social problems such as addiction, unemployment, homeless children, etc...... instead of constantly shedding tears for Palestine?

As I have said time and time again on this site, the last time that Palestinians had any contact with the Iranian population was when they were fighting alongside Iraqi soldiers in the Iran-Iraq war. Now I know that some of you will jump in with a comment such as "what about America that was supporting Iraq"?

True, there was the US, Europe, all the Arab nations (well almost all) who also supported Saddam and supplied him, but all of these parties arguably had a reason for doing so. The West wanted to protect its interest in the Persian Gulf (I'm not debating whether or not those interests were legitimate), Arab countries in the Gulf were afraid of the expansion of a revolutionary Iran, and other Arab countries had the same fears (i.e., Jordan)...but what about the Palestinians? A year earlier, the people of Iran had made the Palestinian issue one of the main rallying cries of their revolution. They welcomed that asshole Arafat with open arms as the first foreign leader to visit Iran, they had no country that would be afraid of Iran's expansion, but these ingrates then turned around, took Iraq's side and sent troops to fight the Iranians on the battlefield.

When are you morons going to get this through your thick brainwashed, hateful skulls? Regardless of how much you kiss their asses and massage their balls, Palestinians (and Arabs in general) are NOT our friends. They never will be. Stop being their water boys. You talk about Palestinian suffering...trust me, when Iranians were suffering, having their homes bulldozed by Iraqi troops in Khoramshahr, when they were being taken prisoner and raped in their hometowns by the invading Iraqi army, when they were being blown to pieces by indiscriminate bombing of their towns, and when they were being forced to live 14 people at a time in a two bedroom apartment as war refugees (like my relatives had to) and when they were being humiliated for being war refugees, these same Palestinians that you numb nuts are willing to sacrifice your lives and your country for were celebrating the great victory of "Arabs" over "Persians" in the street of Kuwait, Riyadh, Doha, Dubai, Manama, etc....Also, at the same time, Arafat was making plans to take over Khoozestan, call it Arabestan and give it to his people as war booty of the great second Qadissiyeh...

Khak to sar-e-hamatoon...yek mosht vatan foroosh -e-ahmagh keh nemidaneed maslehat-e-keshvaretoon va mardometoon kojast!!!!!

Mammad Jaan

You concluded that Reza wanted to be king and I said I had heard him say he does not want anything for himself that people don’t want.  Your statement was uninformed but you based your analysis on it.

You then suggested that he may be saying it now but when he does have the power, he will grab it.  Any one of the people you named could do the same too.  The point of my argument was that we all need to rally around a figure head to defeat this regime, the more factions are included the more checks and balances are set in place to prevent any one person or group from having the authority or the man power to take over.  Those in Iran cannot affect much because they will be liquidated the moment they try to rally people around them.  

I am not against having any of the names you mentioned lead a coalition, but I would not exclude Reza either, just because he inherited the name of Pahlavi.  We have to start somewhere and start to agree on somethings.  As an Iranian internationally known, he can be an asset. 

All Soraya wants

 108 idiots have responded to her mambo jumbo crap!

Anonymous4now and Zion

Dear Annonymous4now:

You can consider me as uninformed; that is fine with me. Of course, your opinion is based only on you not liking what I say. Otherwise, I just cannot see which part of what I said indicated my lack of information.

But, tell me, do we lack potential leaders that we must resort to a man like Reza Pahlavi, who has lived his entire adult life outside Iran, and has never done anything useful in his life, not just for for his country, but also for himself, something that he can point to and say, "this is my life's accomplishment(s)"?

If it is a question of being recognizable, we have many good people: Akbar Gangi; Emad Baghi; Shirin Ebadi; Naser Zarafshan; Mohammad Reza Khatami, Ahmad Batebi, Ahmad Zeidabadi, ... Each and every one of them is better known than Reza Pahlavi. Each and every one of them has lived in Iran, and has tried to do his best, according to his abilities, for his country. I know you may consider them as unqualified, simply because they have worked within the system, but Reza Shah was also an army officer working within the same system.

It does not matter that Reza Pahlavi has seemingly said that, he does not want to be the Shah! He does! Politicians say anything. Remember what Ayatollah Khomeini promised when he was in Paris?

Besides, if Reza Pahlavi is such a magnet, why have the people not rallied around him? Even in exile, most people, except for diehard royalists and monarchists, do not take him seriously. And in Iran, he was written off a long time ago.

Zion:

When Zionists dismantled the apartheid regime in the West Bank; when they stopped killing innocent children, elderly, and mothers; when they stopped stealing Palestinians' lands; when they stopped stealing water resources of the West Bank and Syria, and when stopped destroying Lebanon again and again after failing to defeat the rag-tag "army" of Hezbollah (this is not what I say, this is what the Israeli commission on the latest Lebanon war said two weeks ago), then they have every right to demand a referendum in Iran with Reza Pahlavi on the ballot. But, before that, they are unqualified, simply because they do not have the moral credibility, track record, or standing. In fact, many of them must be put on trial for crimes against humanity, just like some of the mullahs in Iran.

Crimes by Palestinian terrorists are reaction to over 40 years of occupation, if not since 1948. At the same time, Israel was supposed to have been established for a moral reason. But, Israelis have been anything but moral in their treatment of the Palestinians.

Pre-emptive nuclear doctrine

Trigger a MidEast nuclear Holocaust to defend "Israel" (//www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19...).

The zionist plan for the Middle East (//theunjustmedia.com/the%20zionist_plan_for_t...).

U.S. waging Israel's wars (//www.counterpunch.org/heard04252006.html).

A Clean Break: Strategy for Securing Israel (//www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14...).

Soraya Ulrich

Once this regime falls, you will be found. It doesn't matter if you have a foreign citizenship. You will be brought back to Iran to be tried in public for treason. Will you be able to avoid it? No.
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Your sentence? For those mullahs who are behaving well in prison, you will become their whore, their reward.
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Which is fitting, since you are whoring for them right now.
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If this regime falls, where will you hide from us?

The War Against Tolerance

Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem, Zachariah Anani and now zionist Reza Pahlavi and Company(//www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/11/697...).

Re: Zionists and neocons

Why is it that you guys think that you have the right to talk about anything as long as your beloved Israel and it's US supporters are killing, oppressing, tormenting, displacing and starving innocent Muslims in Palestine?

Also I don't think you need to worry anybody wiping Israel off the map. Israel will wipe itself off the map all by itself.

30 Years on ...

And Reza Pahlavi Reigns Supreme. 30 years on and still the mention of Pahlavi name causes a hell of a stir. You say how? The evidence is openly in front of your eyes. 30 years on and still nobodies seek to become sombodies by debating him.
30 years on and the truth is marching on ...

Mammad Jaan:

Once again you have managed to impress us with you impeccable scientific know how but, with all due respect, your uninformed view of politics.  

I am not a supporter of Reza Pahlavi, but in order to set the facts straight and show the dogma with which you enforce your arguments, I have to make a few points.  Your psudo-analysis of the catalyst argument does not hold much water, because a catalyst in politics is only used in a figurative sense and does not have the precise definition you have in mind.  Your analogy falls apart rapidly.   Your mind set is reminiscent of the leftist propaganda mind set that some Iranians, are still not honest enough to fess up to. 

Reza Pahlavi has, on several occasions, announced (I have not read his books but have heard him in interviews myself) that he has no intention of taking power and his only whish is to help the Iranian nation get rid of this regime and then determine its future form of government through a referendum.  He has also said that he would be ready to serve his nation, if called upon.  He can be a catalyst for change for a people who are fragmented and at odds, ideologically, if his presence and his name can help mobilize people, against this regime.

  You say:

“The only reason Reza Pahlavi is even somebody recognizable is that he is a son of the Shah. That is all.”

But that is exactly why he can act as a catalyst.  He is known by all Iranians and can easily have access to Iraninas insdie and outside Iran and proliferate his message.   

“I challenge anybody to point to one accomplishment or qualification of this man”

Don’t let your hatred of the Shah carry over to his son, who after all, you claim has performed no task in life, never mind an atrocious act that would tick you off so badly.

If he could act as the catalyst for change in Iran, by mobilizing and uniting the opposition groups, I think that would be enough achievement for a life time, wouldn’t you agree? 

Pro-IRI anti-zionists

Firstly, I have simply addressed the pro-IRI anti-zionists in my last comment. I did not say anything about other varities of anti-zionists, nor did I accuse anyone in particular of anything. If you are NOT a pro-IRI anti-zionist, then my question was not addressed to you.
If you feel it is addressed to you, then it is certainly not my fault.
Secondly, the last thing I want is for Zionism to be included in every single discussion on an Iranian website. This is precisely my point, please stick to your own problems and stop dragging Zionists and Zionism and Israel into ever single damn topic that comes up here. So when people like Kamran actually start talking about Zionists and Israeli agents (the comment I now see people like Q have actually enthusiastically endorsed), it is not I who am dragging Zionism into this. Once a few people stand up and express their thoughts and thus destroy the monopoly of speech that you are used to allocate for only yourselves, then all of a sudden this is a Zionist takeover of the website by Israeli agents. Very revealing mentality. This is what you mean by Zionist take over of America and the world as well, isn`t it? People respond to you propaganda misinformation and manipulation of truth, and you start whining about Zionist conspiracy.
The request for IP disclosures is also a nice touch. Very revealing. In one hand is the hypocricy involved that fascinates me. If the United States of America or any other free Western state demanded such a thing to prevent the loss of human lives and prevent terrorist attacks and murder, you lot would be the first to cry out fascism. When it comes to people expressing their opinions, how ever, this is the only thing you can come up with. Good job.
You can`t respond to the logic, can`t tolerate free challenge of your dogmas, so immediately the Gestapo mentality comes to the surface to make people `vanish` from the website. Like wiping states off the map, I guess, the same mentality. One actually gets a feeling of what horrible suffocating environment the people inside Iran must be going through.

Now how about anwering my simple question. Are you willing to advocate a free referendum including people like Pahlavi and other candidate or not?

All I can say is we want change and it ain't Reza Pahlavi

All Soraya had to do was write an article on Reza Pahlavi and within less than 24 hours there are already close to 100 comments posted on this website.

To: David Etebar or ET

For those who are politically astute, read, watch, and listen to the words said, it is obvious to most people what Reza is up to. If you have not figured it out yet one very easy, simple no brainier search on Google will give you an insight.

You also speak of Hamas and Hezbollah as being terrorists – well let’s see who has placed them on this list: (1) Israel, (2) the Bush Admin; (3) the neocons; (4) the Zionists (5) Tony Blair; (6) Nicolas Sarkozy and the rest of the “axis of evil party”.

One man’s terrorist, is another country’s freedom fighter, and resistance group. Maybe while we are at it, we should also provide the definition of State Terrorism – all of the members of the “axis of evil party” will fall into that category far out beating the terrorist activities of Hamas and Hezbollah by million folds.

As for the rest, why are you people still so enamored with the Pahlavis and Reza? He has no credibility whatsoever. Sorry, just because his father was the late Shah, does not make him an authority on Iran nor eligible to seek a position within Iran.

He left Iran when he was a child, he has no clue about the political and social changes within the country, has not participated in any of the problems that the Iranian people have gone through as they have fought for Iran with their blood and life.

This guy has been living a comfortable life here in the U.S., he hasn't worked one day in his life; and has been taking it quite easy with all the money that his father stocked up in the banks around the world. In fact while his wife works, he does the grocery shopping, takes care of the kids and is simply a harmless, obedient house husband.

Just because he wears a tie and a suit and is used by the neocons to make a speech at a prestigious university, does not place him on any pedestal or an invitation to gain a place in Iran’s history.

As Barack Obama says, “WE WANT CHANGE” – WE WANT HOPE and WE Don’t Want the same old, same old individuals and their cronies back. This totally eliminates Reza P., his friends, buddies, “All The Shah’s Men”, and their cronies from the list.

Change will come from within Iran, by an energized, intelligent, astute, Iranian who can capture the hearts and minds of the Iranian people; one who understands their needs, their wants, and their customs, is not a sell out, or a servant to any foreign government, and is willing to walk the walk alongside the Iranian people from “Sea to Shining Sea”. Hope will come, and change will take place…

Get off this Pahlavi craze and move on...

Dariush Kadivar, Reza Pahlavi, and Soraya Sepahpour

Everything that Dariush Kadivar says is in one direction only: Justifying and advocating why Iranians should rally around Reza Pahlavi. He has been saying this for years. Just read what he says in this column. Yeah, Dr. Mosaddegh was a good man, but, ... Yeah, Khatami has no blood on his hands, but, .... So, who remains? Since nobody is good enough for him, we are left with his favorite, Reza Pahlavi! Not only does he advocate this - which, by the way, he has every right to - but also does it with impoliteness, like, yawn ... to which he is NOT entitled to. What the hell does yawn mean? Is it difficult for this man not to act so "smart" and be polite?

What Kadivar has been saying is that Reza Pahlavi can be a catalyst for regime change in Iran. Kadivar does not have the foggiest idea what a catalyst is. Let's see what a catalyst is and whether Reza Pahlavi can be a catalyst. As a chemical engineer, I have worked with actual catalysts for 30 years.

1. A catalyst only facilitates a certain reaction, but does not participate in the reaction. But, Reza Pahlavi wants to be part of the reaction. He has made it clear that he wants to get to power in Iran.

2. A catalyst acts completely independently - that is why it is a catalyst - but in Reza Pahlavi's case, he does not act independently, rather he acts in the direction in which protecting the interests of Israel and the US, not those of Iran, have the highest priority. As Soraya points out, why do you think he is supported by the neocons? Is it because the neocons have Iran's interests in heart? Of course not! See what they have done to Iraq.

3. A catalyst gets poisoned quickly and must be replaced. In Reza Pahlavi's case, and more generally in all monarchical regimes, the poisoned catalyst - the mornarch - cannot replaced until he is dead, is killed, or overthrown.

4. A catalyst is usually made of rare materials, like platinum. In Reza Pahlavi's case, not only is he not rare, he is completely ordinary. In fact, there are plenty of Reza Pahlavis or aspire to be. What is extremely rare is a true nationalist and patriot, like Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh.

He has only a Bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and he received it in 1985 not by attending USC, but because his father gave USC $7 million in 1970s. He has never worked a single day in his entire life. Therefore, he does not know how and under what difficult situations people earn their living. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and is living off the money that his father had gotten out of Iran before he was overthrown. He has spent his entire life in exile. He has no idea about Iran.

The only reason Reza Pahlavi is even somebody recognizable is that he is a son of the Shah. That is all. I challenge anybody to point to one accomplishment or qualification of this man to lead Iran, or even be a leader of the opposition.

Leftists !!

Dear Iranians -

Be aware that our biggest problem is not the Iranian Islamists - but the Iranian Communists who are still fighting Capitalism and the American Imperialism at Iran's expense.   They seem to have no concerns over the ongoing genocide in Iran. 

 Mrs. Ulrich - you may be interested to know - about 40 Iranain youth committ suicide or are suicided! in every 24 hours, in Tehran alone.   Good luck on your war against the capitalists. 

wow, I don't know where you

wow, I don't know where you get your "facts" but you're way off base, to say it politely!!
It sounds you're on the akhoonds' payroll to be talking so highly about these bastards!
who are YOU to claim that "most" iranians like this regime???!!! Everytime I have visited iran, 99% of the people are cussing and cursing the mullahs! What is so great about this brutal, murdering regime?:
-the country is floating on oil, and gasoline has to be rationed!!!!
-the currency has been devaluated so much by inflation that doctors have to work 3 jobs to make ends meet- while the mullahs siphon away billions in oil money to buy real estate in canada and fund arab terrorists in lebanon and palestine!!( I wonder how rafsanjani-aka kooseh- has bought half of toronto??!! I don't think is with pistachio money !!!
-tens of thousands of people have been killed just for opposing these bastards- people are hung on cranes in the street, limbs are cut off, women are stoned, dissidents have been murdered in broad daylight in paris and turkey, etc.etc
-and let's not forget that shameful war with hussein- before these illiterate mullahs pillaged our homeland, the arabs didn't dare stare toward our borders!!!millions of young iranians died for nothing!
the reality is that nowhere in islam does it proclaim that akhoonds should rule a nation- iran deserve a democratic government that represent the people.
you should be ashamed of yourself to defend these idiots!

To: David ET (Re: irrelevant)

David,
You seem to believe too much of the propaganda and made-up stories about Iran and IRI that you find on "youtube" and the traditional media. Those of us who have been there and also those of us who know of the history of how US and "its allies" try to enslave other nations first starting with propaganda to create a negative image, don't beleive almost all of it. Use your brain man! Don't you remember the made-up stories about Iraq? Lord should help you with some upstairs (and help with with some large sums!!!).

Answer to Q

That's not my role to defend Khatami and or the Reformists .0). Its their Job to convince me or others who do not share their point of view after all.

As for Soraya I have not read a single unbiased or timely argument to date from her. Her arguments are based on prejudice against monarchists in general and against Reza Pahlavi in particular based on accusations which are not new.

I would nevertheless like to add that I personally am against any form of treat to be given to the Islamic Republic by the next American administration which most probably will be democratic with Clinton or Obama as President.

I am not against holding talks with Iran BUT not in a way that would mean to enhance the regime's life span longer. For instance I am firmly against the idea of America acknowledging the events of 1953 as responsible for the Islamic Revolution of 1979 as it was suggested by Madelaine Albright a few years ago. It is of historical knowledge that the US administration and the CIA restored the Shah after the AJAX operation. However it is not up to the governments of both nations to substitute themselves to Historians as to the nature of this operation since some would consider it as a Coup and others as a Restoration. National Scars need to be healed by the People themselves and not politicians seeking artifical solutions particularly if it has to concern today's Iranian leadership elected only due to lack of choice rather than a fully democratic procedure.

The so called "Coup" or "Restoration" ( depending on which terminology you accept) or the "Islamic Revolution" are Historical events that have shaped and influenced Iran's political identity and destiny in the past century and to this day. Their reality is not to be proven but their legitimacy, importance or any moral assessment about these events is the role of historians NOT politicians. The people should be free to draw their own conclusions or opinions in this regard.

That does not mean that political personalities should not be allowed to express their views in regard to these events but lets not confuse issues.

What we all seek is a democratic future for Iran and an environment where Human Rights are respected. Iran has failed on both accounts in the past 30 years. The Role of democratic Regimes and people is to help people who are deprived of this privaledge. As such an American Administration elected upon a Free pole seems to me more legitimate than one elected in dubious circumstances as is the case in Iran. Politicians are not Angles and will act upon what will comfort their majority. But people and particularly in our case Iranian democrats can influence and advise the next American administration in how to deal with Iran in ways that will push the Islamic Theocracy towards pleaing to the large majority of Iranians who want to see a democratic society and fully respecting Human Rights. If in a first stage this implies supporting reform like in the SOVIET Union under Gorbatchev why not ? but we should not be NAIVE. We need to exert as much pressure to force the Islamic leadership to be accountable to its own people and not its thugs or current ideology of Terror and suppression.

That is why I do not think that censoring Reza Pahlavi, left or write wing wing parties ( which are not supporting terrorism) or any other unarmed opposition groupe ( Unlike the MKO for instance that is labled as a terrorist organization and is seeking legitimacy and respectability in recent years but still functions as a religious sect)  to express their opposition or dissatisfaction is correct. After all an opposition is meant to be opposed. What is important is to keep an eye on what they suggest as a political alternative and if this is in lines with democratic ideals and values. If not then they can be criticized or debated in the light of facts and not suppositions and false rumors.

Best,

DK 

n.zanincanadai1 .... IP address

This is from you previous comment for me:


"Now, you seem reasonable, this month's boro gom show award of the month is still up for grabs."


You forgot to mention that award are mostly for coward people that they show their opinions ten times under one article with different anonymous names and different genders. Of course these people never want their IP to be published, otherwise they should take that awards and go to the hell.

Have a good day!

irrelevant

Author writes: "Terrorism is the definition given by the neo-cons to those they wish to master"

Last I checked the dictionary and history books, terrorism goes back many centuries back and before neo-cons or even US existed!!

and yes the regime in Iran is a terrorist regime. After nearly 30 years of observing (if not experiencing) all the films, photos and reading the news of all the tortures, killings, imprisonments and terrorizing of Iranians  not to mention supporting or creating Hamas and Hezbollah , I doubt if any unbiased person can deny that.

If neocons or anyone else take advantage of this situation created by the terrorist regime that does not mean that we can or should deny that the Islamic regime in Iran IS a terrorist regime and the fact that Reza Pahlavi or anyone says says that by itself s NOT a proof that the person want "neocon" "masters" !

Your opinion piece loses

Your opinion piece loses credibility, past the first paragraph, because of the bogus number of dead you have thrown in your equation. Lancet, in 2006, published a 650,000 number of dead which they have recanted by saying their scientific methodology of coming up with that number did not stand rigor.  I would be careful, if I were you, to throw the million number around.  The war is barely 5 years old.  With 365 days in a year, a million killed, would suggest that 548 Iraqis have died each and everyday of the past 5 years.  Besides, the IBC (Iraq Body Count) project contended that if the 650,000 number released in 2006, were true, it would necessitate a vast conspiracy by the local Iraqi authorities to issue death certificates to the families of the 2.5% of the population, supposedly killed, but not record them officially.  I think we can agree that it is a gross exaggeration, at best.  Besides, the majority of those killed in Iraq have perished as a result of Al-Qada car and suicide bombings, or Shiite-Sunni, religious divide.  There were 12 Million Iraqis who voted for the current regime in Iraq, Don’t forget that.      

If you have beef with the Pahlavis, then that’s your prerogative, but to defend the IRI and object to calling them a terrorist regime, you are being as disingenuous as those “traitors” you are so willing to label.  If we forget about the aid and abetting of global terrorism by the IRI for a minute, at the very least, you would have to accept that they have terrorized the Iranian populace, wouldn’t you?  How can you over look, close to 30 years of cruelty they have unleashed on Iranians, to propagate your political agenda, which you accuse others of doing?  I was surprised to hear from a journalist who has left Iran recently, and for good, that this “ self-appointed traitor who has surrendered his reins to the neo-cons”  does speak for the youth in Iran, who don’t remember the previous regime but only know of it through the collective memories of their parents’ generation.  All in life in relative and compared to the tyranny of the IRI, the imperfections of the previous era seem too distant and more tolerable, for the people living the IRI terror, on a daily basis.   As Darius Kadivar suggested, you should take you eyes off of you books and lend your ears to the cries of Iranians, to get a better picture of what they want and who speaks for them.        

Dear Q: There was a

Dear Q:
There was a technical problem...that award is yours ok...no one else's. I forgot to mention that comment was for you.

Also remember, no matter who one supports on this site, no matter what kind of lie is told on this site, we still tolerate you...and the world hasn't ended. So, hers nakhor, accept the award, go to the after party and mingle with the rest of the IP requesting panranoid schizoids here and just have a ball.

If you have a problem with a

If you have a problem with a spefic "lie", write an article and state all your sources.

People come here to say whatever they want, as many times as they want, in as many ways as they want, under any name that they want. Pinch me, it's a dream called FREE SPEECH!!!!! I must be dreaming.

You are the recpient of this month's
"boro baba to dige ki hasti" award

Dear Maziar, She Lies, therefore, She Exists

You are a sensitive and honest person BUT please remember that Ms Ulrich is doing what she needs to do in order to keep the Islamic State of Iran surviving by creating a continuing state of fear from a "war" which she knows full well is impossible to occur. Remember what that German liar, meaning Dr J Goebbels, Herr Hitler's propaganda chief whose job was to keep the Nazi State perpetually on a war footing, used to profess:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economical and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Now, replace the State by the Islamic Republic of Iran and Goebbels by Ulrich. At least Goebbels was a genuine German!