Iranian of the Day

Aynak: Your first post, my sentiments exactly

And to all of us who are so quick to judge… what have we done. It may not be a bad idea to look inward once in a while before jumping to criticize others.

Some of the folks here are die hard 'shahzadeh" fan… ask yourself… what has he done with all the wealth and supposedly influence.

Mehrdad

For us, we know what she did was not that significant

we know that she was basically a space tourist so that is not huge but her story might inspire 6-7 year old Iranian girls.

Re:Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

"The short of it is that she got a ride. Why are people so angry at her?
It was a neat thing to do. Better to be famous for this than being Paris
Hilton!!" 

Oh, you are now talking like an IRI agent :)  I truly believe there is a serious complex within some of us.   The standard is "me".   Whoever has accomplished more, must have done something wrong.  Whoever has done less, I have the grace to show my benevolance by feeling sorry for them.

Some of it understandble:  In despotic systems where the rules of the games have never been clearly defined, if you do well, you always get a finger pointed at you for doing some hanky panky under thte table. Mostly justified too.

But where the rules are more clearly defined, this resentment generally does not exist.   In U.S I find it amazing that even those who can never practically be  making a 6 figure salary are worried about taxes on people who make 8 figures.   I talked to one such person, and he said:  "You never know, one day I may make it there".

For some in our culture, they never get over that complex.   If I read, one piece with a convincing counter to my 2 cents in this thread, I would have accepted the criticism.   But the hostility by the permanent opposers well evident in this thread, tells more about the perptual resentful state of the writers than anything else.

Demo

Fair enough. The whole Earth is a speck of dust; all right. But to me it is all there is. Actually for most part the 20 miles radius around us is pretty much all most of us deal with most the time. So this speck of dust is all I have :-)

Of course a great space ride does not make you insightful. I don't think anyone claimed it.  The short of it is that she got a ride. Why are people so angry at her? It was a neat thing to do. Better to be famous for this than being Paris Hilton!!

A Veiled Prophet of Sweetness

"It was her money and she did what she wanted to. I know some prefer she gave it to "Palestine" or some other Islamic terror cause. Well she didn't. How about the billions Islamic Rethuglic steals or gives away?"

Who is bitter here now?? No "Fun", however, to debate a "Prophet" of "Veilderness" for a "khan of Universe.". Khan's point is all about "Insight." A space ride does not buy that. Could not find the equivalence in "Persian"  for "Einstein" but he certainly knew what "ignorant" meant in Deutch. The earth is still a dot with or without "Palestine" & "IRI." Monies are pieces of "Papers" with "Veiedless Devils of Universe" faces on them regardless of their exchange titles & their quantities!!! 

What has she done since her

What has she done since her being "lost in space"??

Re: Souri thank you!

What is your dream? 

aynak

From your previous posts here, I deducted that you are a pro-IRI.

No surprise that you are proud of Anousheh Ansari because she and her father are the big allies of the IRI government.

and Yes, I don't care about her at all.

My post was only for the dastmal be dast like yourself!

Re:Souri I really don't care about her

Enough to make a post, no?  We are our worst enemies.

Demo Khan

Bitter aren't we? It was her money and she did what she wanted to. I know some prefer she gave it to "Palestine" or some other Islamic terror cause. Well she didn't. How about the billions Islamic Rethuglic steals or gives away?

PS,

1) I don't care what Einstein says.

2) Regarding "Jahl": we say "na dani", maybe you need to brush up on Persian!

A Planet of Nix

With the fact that the planet earth is less than a dot in magnitude in the infinite universe & that a ticket fare to travel right above the earth is $20M, while millions are dying of hunger within that planet, let's read some of the comments here again: 

Being the first Iranian in space??? She was our first ambassador there, close to stars??? She is original ??? She has the most positive message for all Iranian girls (Really??)??? She has the most positive message for all Iranians (WOW??)??? She is saying: Dare to Dream (More WOWs)???

No wonder Einstein believed that there was no limit to "human's JAHL."

I really don't care about her

Seriously!

To me sheis just a rich woman who has realized her personal dream with the help of her money!

That has nothing to do with being a woman and still less with being an Iranian. 

And I'm very happy for her that she could do whatever she wanted to do.  I wish I could do the same :)

She makes me feel proud as an Iranian, Because:

1-She is original

Originality is a word that does not have a good Persian equivalent.   Right there, that should say something about what we are and where we need to improve:  Be it thinking, singing, how we approach problems and solving them, writing ....   Originality can not be quantified but admired.   It is the ingridient behind all human progress.

More important being original in something positive and not notorious.

On this account for an Iraninian woman, heck no Iranian heck no, middle-eastern?   heck no Asian woman ? .....   to be the first to step in space is originality at its best.

2-She has the most positive message for all Iranian girls:

In a country were women don't even have the most basic right of what to wear?   where to go? what profession to choose?  with laws from stone age, she is showing in action, THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!    Think of the 9 years old girl in Iran, that is forced to wear that scarf to tell her from the get go:  She is Less.   And look at the message of free floating in space Anousheh to that same girl!  No thre is no limit.  Even though they are trying to force me to think otherwise!

3-She has the most positive message for all Iranians:  Since she achieved all this, by her effort but as important, by the FREEDOM she is granted living in a country that does not put arbitrary restriction on her, while we know how our best talents in Iran is in prison or goes to waste because of a brutal backward system of government, she is really showing:

For the SKY to be the limit you have to be FREE!

4-She is saying: Dare to Dream.

That she should follow her interview by that very powerful song of Ziba Shirazi (Zann) is also telling about who she is.

5-She is a contributor to good causes.   This whole notion of philanthropy although not a original concept in the west, in our culture could use a lot of originals like her to push further. She is doing great there as well.

Don't hate her because she is successful

Don't hate her because
she did/achieved something you are not capable of of comrephending the meaning of.

Love her, for showing what we are capable of, not just in terms of becoming successful professionally or financially outside our home land but to do something that is meaningful.

Love her, for showing a different picture of us Iranian, not to the rest of the world, but to our kids!

I showed Anoushes video of doing the space walk to some Iranian kids:  (5-8 years old girls), the reaction was:  wow, is she Iranian?!

And for that I am proud.

She went to space as a

She went to space as a woman, with Iran in her mind, a lion in her heart and the sun in her words. She was our first ambassador there, close to stars.

No need to fight for the kind of flag.
Look at the moon, not the finger…

Prophet

Indeed. If I can refer to what Frood Fouladvand said, The 'Sun and the Lion' flag will represent our polticial flag internationally and the 'Derafshe Kaviani' will represent our national hostorical flag. Either will suit me.

Demo

How dare you comparing Anousheh Ansari with Meg Whittman? Whittman is a crashed failure. Ansari successfully rose and soared  above politics.

Re: Flag

Simorgh Jan, I always preferred "Darafshe Kaviani". The Sassanid flag. That to me is the true flag of Iran. Not tainted by the "green"colors of Islam. Lion and Sun is a good flag. But the real flag was the purple flag with the four pointed star.

Flag

Being the first Iranian in space, other than Ayatoilet Khomeini (whose face was on the moon) was a great achievement regardless of whether the privilege was bought or not. However, what Ms Ansari really needs to apologise for, is refusing to put the emblem of the Lion and the Sun at the centre of the Iranian tricolour because she "did not want to be political". The Iranian flag IS and ALWAYS will be the flag pre-Islamic Republic Lion and Sun emblem regardless of where you stand politically. Even the MKO has finnally accepted this.

A Green-less interview

Some go to politics to become rich, some get rich enough to stay away from politics.

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

Going Way Too Much Above

Some travel too much above their heads to buy all the attentions & they still fail. Meg Whittman, for instance, spent 160 millions dollars to buy the CA governorship & Anousheh Ansari paid 20 millions dollars to Putin to travel a few kilometers above the earth & to be a guest in Oprah TV Show afterwards. The first lady is already forgotten & the second is still desperately trying to be somewhere out there!!!  

There are already

There are Many succesful Iranians like her, it's just that the western/American media doesn't like to talk about them.

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"They are not afraid of the ideology alone, but of the detemination and will of the men behind it"

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Hope one day

Hope one day we will witness much much more Iranians of that caliber. I am proud of her achievements