Iranian of the Day

WOW! Only a RUSTA-EE doesn't get it no matter what you say!

I guess, they don't call it Rustai for nothing! Rusat-ee, FARSI BILMIRAN? NI YA BAJI? KAT DAN GALIRAN? HARDAN BOORDAN GALMISHAN? DAY DEE GIZ ADEEN NADI, DAY DEE BAY YOOM DI, DAY DEE GIZ .....DAY DEE OLMAZ OLMAZ ........

This Rustai is really out of this movement. There are times that you have to talk to your heart that guides you rather than a twisted logic! I'd bet this Rustai is one of those who never intends going back to Iran anyway, so why is she wasting her and our time here?

VATAN PARASTI IS NOT TAUGHT IT IS IN YOUR VAINS, in your DEL! The reason she doesn't get it, is because it is not in her heart. So don't waste trying to explain it to her! You don't give up on your VATAN!

You can take the donkey to the water, but you cannot make him/her drink! LONG LIVE IRAN DOOSTAN! 

What is the role of students?

 Good question:

 //www.dsp.org.au/node/168

They seem Depressed/ Would they put up a Fight??

Truth be told, when a student makes a consciouncious decision to skip an exam, it depends on two things.

One, there are enough students boycotting, that why the profs can't flunk them all

Or, the student has just given up.  He is hopeless, bi omid and depressed.  In such a case the student forgoes everything and is really in severe depression, he is willing to just die for the cause.

My questions is this, for a rebellion to succeed, do you need motivated people who actually are looking for what tomorrow brings or do you need people who are so down they are ready to die?

Lesson of history

Thanks to JJ and Jason Robards (Ballad of Cable Hogue is my favorite Robard's) for your response to my question. As a matter of fact both of you gentlemen confirmed my deepest concerns

Here is what JR says: " University students are always in the fore front because they are young
, educated and are the hope of the future . Rebellion against the Shah
started in the universities too ."

And here is what JJ says: "That's a display of courage and a firm
belief in human dignity, the stuff that brings about change. Nothing
would change if they bowed their heads, took their exams, got a job and
worked hard for that dream BMW."

Principally I agree with you but not pragmatically. Now think carefully gentlemen. Wouldn't you have given the same answers thirty one years ago, if asked the same question?And what happened? Those young, educated, freedom and dignity loving students of thirty years ago, the hopes of the future - those champions of change who were perpared to sacrifice their lives, let alone their exams, rallied behind who? Change, yes they brought about but then what?

Students, by your admission, are full of hot air, romantic adventurism and recklessness. Things they changed, thirty years ago, but for far worse. 

I am not undermining the struggles and idealism of students but they should be channeled to the right direction. Don't you think the real change should be spearheaded by the man on the street who is at the sharpest receiving end of the socio-economic injustices, instead of the young, idealistic, educated but not experienced, univeristy students who thirty years ago blindly followed a dream but woke up to a nightmare? 

Farah

livelihood and that BMW !!!

7 years a go a fresh graduate, let's say a medical practitioner would make 90,000 toman and if she chose so called "shahr ya dehestan-e bad ab o havaa" she would then make something like 140,000 toman. I am not aware of today's salary rates for post graduate doctors. But, I am sure Ahmadi has doubled the salarys, if not more! You can make a living out of it, but to plan your future!?

Livelihood you say! How much does an average apartment costs anywhere in Iran, or a second used car these days? let alone a BMW!

Why they are out there? They don't live in Iran!  they find themselves living in a twilight sone ...

حق گرفتنی است نه دادنی

واقعا که این شعار چقدر در مورد ایران صحت دارد. سی سال مردم ایران زیر ظلم وستم سلطانی ولایت وقیح آخوند خامنه ای و همکاران کمر خم کرده بودند و امید در دل مردم مرده بود ولی به خواست خدا بعد از انتخابات تحولی عظیم در مردم رخ داد و امید دوباره به دلهای مردم برگشت. اکنون در نقطخ حساسی از تاریخ ایران قرار گرفته ایم و اگر با تلاش و جدیت این حرکت سبز خودجوش مردمی را به سرانجام مقصود نرسانیم روزهایی به مراتب تاریکتر از قبل در انتظار مردم ایران خواهد بود.  اکنون که حرکتهای ملیونی مردم و دانشجویان لرزه بر اندام این رژیم جهالت م جنایت انداخته است همه ما ایرانیان با غیرت با تمام آنچه در توان داریم باید به این جنبش کمک کنیم و آنرا تا پیروزی کامل و استقرار یک حکومت سکولار و دمکراتیک تنها نگذاریم. روز 22 بهمن نزدیک است و در این روز ما ایرانیان با غیرت با آمدن به خیابانها شعار مرگ بر دیکتاتور را در سراسر ایرانزمین طنین افکن خواهیم کرد

Civil Disobedience

With what little measures they have at their disposal, and even that at great cost to their security and to their future, these students are fighting back and protesting the invasion of universities by Basijis who have killed and injured and arrested their classmates at universities all over Iran.  My hat's off to them for their courage.

Read this BBC Persian article about the subject:

//www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/2010/01/100110_l...

Courage

Farah Rusta, the last thing on the mind of these students is their future careers and livelihood. They are standing up for their colleagues in prison. They are defying a regime that is trying to silence them. That's a display of courage and a firm belief in human dignity, the stuff that brings about change. Nothing would change if they bowed their heads, took their exams, got a job and worked hard for that dream BMW.

Diploma or Freedom?

   Getting a diploma is far less important than getting rid of tyranny . Particularly in a system where you can not find a job wheather you are degreed or not . University students are always in the fore front because they are young , educated and are the hope of the future . Rebellion against the Shah started in the universities too .

Why exams?

Who is damaged by boycotting exams? For some, particularly the final year students, this may mean a significant delay in earning their livelihood. It has always puzzled me as to what purpose such a boycott would serve more than a self-inflicted wound? 

Farah