Iranian of the Day

Thx Benyamin, it is all those things

and reminds us of the endless sorrow & regret that is Iran of today. This will pass too and we shall rise again. 

OKtaby

تاج‌زاده خطاب به قاضی: نیازی به دادگاه نیست، حکم را صادر کنید

پارلمان‌نیوز: دادگاه مصطفی تاجزاده عضو ارشد سازمان مجاهدین انقلاب اسلامی و مشارکت امروز برگزار شد.
به گزارش پایگاه خبری فراکسیون خط امام(ره)مجلس«پارلمان‌نیوز»،فخر السادات محتشمی‌پور درباره دادگاه امروز همسرش گفت:« آقای تاج‌زاده طبق روال گذشته و همانطور که پیش از این در دادگاه قبل اعلام کرده بود، ضمن رد کلیه اتهامات، از حق دفاع خود استفاده نکرد.»
وی افزود:«تاجزاده ضمن تشکر از وکلای محترمش به خاطر زحماتی که کشیده بودند، به ایشان نیز اجازه دفاع نداد و گفت که قاضی می‌تواند حکمش را صادر کند و این را من در پایان دادگاه قبلی هم گفتم.»
Read the rest here: //parlemannews.ir/?n=8298

WoW

Oktaby, That is an amazing poem, sad, hopeful, happy, joyful and painful all at the same time!

Thank you for the link

Iranians Live in denial

Monarchy is the worst form of government for Iranians, except for all others. 

Since in Iran it has been proven that monarchy approaches both
freedom and the democratic ideal far better than democracies... as we
see in Iran under the shah vs islamic republic.

This is a Painful Truth for pro-democrats, to accept that the
islamic republic is a democratic reality that the majority wanted and
brought it about.

Democratic governments do not guarantee freedom, in fact it is a
false belief that democracy and freedom go hand in hand and can only
come about by looking at selective evidence and not the entirity of
data across the pages of history.

Islamic Republic as most people know is more democratic than even
the state of Israel.  Unlike Iran, Israel was brought about by only
considering the views of the jews and not all the people living in the
area. 

At least Islamic republic was created by the democratic principal of
majority rule while allowing all the various views to be represented. 
The democratic Islamic Republic is however a tyranny since it's
inception until today, unlike Israel which does provide Freedom for
Jews.

What the Green movement does not address, because most Iranians are
not conscious of, is that Iranians want Freedom more than democracy,
the kind of freedom they enjoyed for the first time from the Shahs
era.  Iranians tell their children how much better life was in the
hands of the shah and his team and they miss this very much within
Iran. 

And in a perfect world Iranians would want both freedom and
democratic government, but at a gradual pace that is relavent to the
possiblities of the iranian people, while not sacrificing their
Freedom. Today they don't even have freedom to go to the next step.

And that is what they are lacking, Freedom, the ability to have
choices without coercion, manipulation and deceit.  Real choices
however unappealing that will enhance ones life, not undermine it.

To think that Iranians blew away the Shah that worked his entire
life to bring them Freedom that they had not enjoyed before, to the
point where unlike 95% of the world in 1983 Iranians would have enjoyed
guaranteed health care, education and employment or government
assistance if no work could be found is shocking.  I live in America
and we don't have Freedom that good.

I hope people learned that Revenge is not so delicious. And that
true success is learning to enjoy life and not feeling inadequate
because some people are becoming extremely rich and then being
vindictive, mean and nasty. 

Another Argument in Favor of a Restoration ;0)

Nagoftam ? ...

LOL

Reza Pahlavi's message on the Anniversary of the 1906 Constitutional Revolution in Iran:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFjjjGwEDkQ

Shapour Bakhtiar's speech for the anniversary of the Constitutional Revolution and REGIME CHANGE (1989, Hamburg Germany):

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8k6arXHado

As layer after layer is destroyed, the realization of a historic

mistake sets in....

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRgSqIVUkuw

OKtaby