I have never heard of American Global University, but the fact that they would take back their honorary degree because Mirfetroos is proposing such criminal/insane idea, is very refreshing. I particularly like the proposed deadline for returning degree.
It is great to see even an unknown institution, would not want to be associated with these dumb/warmongering ideas.
Congratulations to all supporters of Mirfetroos, (I think there are few on this site).
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According to the letter submitted by this institution:
One needs to understand that the granting of an honorary degree is based upon the grantee’s honorable and deserving qualifications. One of these, as stipulated in American Global University‘s (AGU) Honorary Degree Granting Policy, category I, is the grantee’s devoting himself or herself to humanitarianism and striving toward the goal of establishing peace throughout the world. However, shamefully and disappointingly, you wrote an outlandish letter to Senator Lindsey Graham announcing your agreement with a military attack by the world powers, including the United States upon your own Fatherland, Iran. In your letter, you unjustifiably advocate bringing down the Mullahs’ Regime by military force instead of asking Senator Graham to support the Iranian people to revolt in order to topple the Regime. By doing so, you have potentially unleashed a monster in the form of global economic and political disorder, not to mention the many Iranian and American lives that would be lost. However, I’m confident that unfortunately, arms sellers on both sides would benefit from such a conflict.
Mr. Mirfetros, being a good writer does not make you a good human being. Adolf Hitler was a good artist, but he will only be remembered because of his hideous crimes against humanity. Mr. Mirfetros, you and your loved ones are living under the security umbrella of France, a civilized and powerful country. Therefore, you have the luxury of feeling secure about your family and yourself. However, it would appear from your letter that you do not care about millions of innocent and defenseless Iranian men, women, and children who would suffer the unspeakable horrors of a war initiated by the world powers who would use their military might in obliterating much of Iran’s population, together with the precious few comforts and possessions that they have.
Lastly, your encouragement of a military attack on Iran is so preposterous that you do not deserve to keep the honorary doctorate that was heretofore granted to you by AGU. Therefore, your honorary doctorate is hereby revoked effective as of the date of this revocation email to you. Be forewarned that henceforth affixing, signing, or printing your name by any means and in any manner with Dr. and/or introducing yourself as Doctor in any manner based on the AGU honorary degree is both a legal and moral violation of the university’s rights. In this eventuality, legal action will be taken, including attorney and court fees.
You must return the honorary degree to AGU no later than December ۱۵, ۲۰۱۱, otherwise the revocation will be published in educational periodicals, in at least one local newspaper in your city, and also on AGU‘s website.
Dr. A. Samadani, Ph.D., President
American Global University
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by Aria on Sat Nov 26, 2011 09:28 AM PSTDr. Mirfetros is a Sorbonne graduate.
He is a courageous individual who has stated historical facts together with a fair analysis about 1953 that indeed if Mossadegh was the hero of the Iranian Oil Nationalization but his overthrow despite some involvement by UK and US had other major factors, including Mossadegh’s own doings (dissolution of parlimant), society’s fabric, the threat of communism and army’s reaction and others.
His analysis based on historical facts is not appreciated by the old school believers that 1953 events were nothing but the work foreign powers.
It is sad that if one disagrees with your point of view one goes far to discredit you by ridiculing and belittling you, the LoL approach.
Let’s say that he does not even have a Phd. or even a High School diploma, but his analysis of events shows the great quality of his work. There are many who provide great academic and scholastic research works. But, there are not too many who have the courage to challenge embedded thoughts in the national psyche. Dr. Mirfetros, regardless of his academic background (A Sorbonne graduate) is that individual who has shed light on the truth about 1953.
That's hilarious VPK
by aynak on Fri Nov 25, 2011 05:14 PM PST"Don't bother with them at all I say. A degree is meant to
indicate you got a skill. Not you are liked by someone. Would you hire
an honorary engineer. Would you go to an honorary MD! Well if it means
nothing then why bother with it.
The idea is absurd and an insult to people who bust their *** getting
the real thing. Oh I am an "honorary" Ph.D. in mathematics but I don't
know anything past high school algebra. Who am I going to delude"
So true, who would want to visit an honarary doctrate in medicine :) But I suppose it is OK to get political advice from a guy who could not get a real degree, but likes to have a say in the faith of millions.
Don't do honorary
by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Fri Nov 25, 2011 02:59 PM PSTDon't bother with them at all I say. A degree is meant to indicate you got a skill. Not you are liked by someone. Would you hire an honorary engineer. Would you go to an honorary MD! Well if it means nothing then why bother with it.
The idea is absurd and an insult to people who bust their *** getting the real thing. Oh I am an "honorary" Ph.D. in mathematics but I don't know anything past high school algebra. Who am I going to delude.
I hope this is a lesson to
by MM on Fri Nov 25, 2011 02:34 PM PSTI hope this is a lesson to those institutions who are very cavalier in awarding honorary degrees. These institutions, basically are telling the awardee to behave the way they like otherwise they taketh away.
Even UMass's final decision on Mugabe came about after student demonstrations on campus, and forced the university to withdraw the honorary law degree they had given to the criminal Mugabe.
I still don't agree with retractions, and think that the institutions should make their requirements more stringent, but I also understand the old Persian proverb "baad aavardeh raa baad bebarad".
So be it. Good blog, Aynak.
Well what happened?
by aynak on Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:22 PM PSTThe Die hard Mirfteroos fans where given a task to prove my fabrication:
That Mirfetroos had a golbai degree from a golabi University which has since asked him to take it back.
Either I am fabricating this (according to some people here), or Mirfetroos was infact served a notice? At any rate, the minimum they could do to answer the question: What happened to the doctrate degree.
Is he or is he not holding to it? Why was it removed from his web page?
lol, no, I just saw it! No
by Parham on Fri Nov 25, 2011 04:42 AM PSTlol, no, I just saw it! No need to get into self-therapy now! So what was the first joke about?
Well Parham
by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Thu Nov 24, 2011 06:37 PM PSTI guess you don't like my jokes. It's alright no one really does except for my daughter. Such is life; I will persevere.
PS:
it was one of the reasons my wife divorced me. Or was it the other way. The Turkey wine is getting to my head. She HATED my Iranian jokes. With a passion.
Tagiyyeh
by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Thu Nov 24, 2011 04:13 PM PSTTagiyyeh ba noon mishe tangiyeh :-)
I want an answer for both!
by Parham on Thu Nov 24, 2011 04:12 PM PSTI want an answer for both! You got me curioser and curioser now! : )
Parham Jan
by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Thu Nov 24, 2011 04:01 PM PSTThat is thesis question you don't expect me to tell you now do you? But here is one I will be happy to answer if you don't know.
Why should you never do Tagiyyeh in a bakery?
Beats me. You tell me!
by Parham on Thu Nov 24, 2011 03:38 PM PSTBeats me. You tell me!
Parham Jan
by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Thu Nov 24, 2011 03:07 PM PSTI have lost contact with the guy but will see if I could dig the information up. Meanwhile you could just send me some money and I will print your dog Ph.D. What is his or her name? I promise to make it be official and inexpensive.
Do you want it in Hajiology or Hizbolahlogy. But your dog needs a thesis not to be confused with feces. What does a dog do stuck in a desert with a Camel and no cold shower?
VPK
by Parham on Thu Nov 24, 2011 02:39 PM PSTThat's actually a good idea. I would also like to get one for my dog! Do you know which university it is??
Aynak
I know, I saw another article in English today. It's true that all of this doesn't make Mir Fetros any more credible than he was before anyway!
Anonymous Observer
So what's with the gheyrat over Mir Fetros? Anything we should know? What if this all turns out to be true? You'll agree there is a chance, right?
How bad is AGU?
by Anonymous Observer on Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:37 PM PSTIt's so bad that its president can't even spell his own name on a letter retracting an honorary PhD. :-))
BTW, I found out what Aynak's two other "sources" of information are: his Facebook page and his Yahoo Mail's "spam" folder.
PS- no one should take a blog seriously that has a title that begins with " LOL."
MM: AGU
by aynak on Thu Nov 24, 2011 11:22 AM PSTI don't think I would ever send my kids there either. But if he parades himself with a Golabi degree as VPK pointed out, he should be ready to lose it as well. Unlike real Phd, the honorary one are like "loans" that can be retrieved. Please do a search on honorary degrees for a list of many retractions .....
Aynak
by MM on Thu Nov 24, 2011 11:04 AM PSTI objected to Mr./Dr. Mirfetroos's reasoning on an attack on Iran. I described it as saying to bomb the one billion hungry folks in Africa since 6 million / year will die anyways!!!
However, I do not agree with retracting Mirfetroos's PhD since one way or another, Mirfetroos had achieved the minimum requirements of AGU for a degree (real or honorary). The only reason that seems reasonable for the retraction of a degree is if the institution finds that the person had cheated or forged data for the degree. The retraction of the dgree in an opinion-oriented piece like Mirfetroos' case just reflects badly on the University itself, as well as the folks who get degrees there.
Just my opinion.
Parham I have 2 other
by aynak on Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:43 AM PSTlinks, from where I got the original news. Thanks for posting the 3rd. I purposely did not include the link (at a minimum, these folks shold be curious why his site changed, no?) But regardless of if retraction is true or false, (and it kind of baffles me some bozos here would accuse me of fabricating this, where as I take my screen name more seriously than Miefetroos takes his real name). At any rate:
These are the facts:
As of 2-3 weeks ago, Mirfetroos had the name American Global University in his personal web site, and mentions having a "Doctorate of Honor" and not honarary doctrate from this prestigous school. :)
Now this has been removed from the site. (Several sites have posted the letter which I posted, and his reference to this degree has since been remove, I asked these die-hard fans, but they fail to at least search).
I only visited his site to see why people refere to him as "Dr.", because nothing I read by him was worthy of a credible Phd in social science, history or otherwise. To be honest, I thought may be he is a medical doctor. The source of my interigue was his writing about 53 coup.
At any rate two things are of importance:
Someone encouraging an all out war with Iran, promoting himself as a doctor, for this particular segment, who if you told snow is white they would disagree, but accept what this guy says without question.
If this school is a money making device (which from all evidence it is), how come the doctrate was good up until couple of weeks ago?
Again, if you look at Mirfetroos site, he is trying to gain credibility by association:
Mention of Sorbonne without any actual related work.
Mention of "Iranian Universities" again without any actaul result
Mention of Ostad Yar Shater.
This is as sleezy as it can get. Now, I would not care someone posing themseleves as whatever they so wish, but when he writes nonsense like he has in "Auseeb Shenasi" and now his master piece of pomoting a preemptive war, while his family is safe in Europe (according to the letter), that's where I draw the line.
Parham Jan
by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:03 AM PSTI know some guy who got a Ph.D. for his dog from an online "University". He got it all framed and everything :-) Sort of a waste of money if you asked me but he didn't ask me so its wall decoration.
I know it doesn't, I'm just
by Parham on Thu Nov 24, 2011 09:53 AM PSTI know it doesn't, I'm just posting as is -- and we all know about the Internet. However, that gives it some credibility, doesn't it?
And you might be right about Mr. Samadani. The web site of the "Global University" (or whatever) doesn't look serious at all either!
In any case, it all shows the "aabaki boodan" of the entire thing -- from the honorary doctorate, to its alleged withdrawal.
Guesses piled on
by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Thu Nov 24, 2011 08:13 AM PSTWe have a guess at a person. Who might have got an honorary Ph.D. from somewhere. Then it might have been retracted. Who might have gone to Iran. Perhaps to have chelo kabab which is available right down the street in America.
Boy it must be a slow Thanksgiving Weekend. Does any of this matter? People should get their degrees like the normal way. Then nobody takes it away and you like get a diploma. Or a thing you put on the wall. And the university will verify it.
If you talk too much they are not allowed to retract it. Because it is not a gift. You earned it. Prizes; honors; awards are political and have no meaning. Get a real thing and you don't have to worry.
Parham - the link doesn't prove authenticity
by Anonymous Observer on Thu Nov 24, 2011 07:00 AM PSTIt's the same text, complete with the misspelled name of the purported author of the letter. It looks like junk that one gets in Facebook or email. What I suspect is that someone sent this forgery to Aynak via his Facebook page and Aynak, in abundance of joy and rapture, decided to post it as a blog without any regard to it's authenticity. That's why he refuses to provide his source.But anyone can put anything on the Internet these days.
The owners of this site should not be featuring slanderous and forged documents.
But even if the letter is in fact authentic, there's another perfect explanation for this aside from the author's principles. Samadani sounds like a Persian name. Mr. Samadani probably travels to Iran every Summer for vacation, and / or for the consumption of homemade chelo kabab and piaz. When he gave his friend, Mr. Mirfertoos his honorary degree he never thought that he would write such an essay and make the poor Mr. Samadani and enabler (in IR's mind) of such blasphemy. When he realized this abomination, he promptly wrote this CYA letter so when he arrives at Imam Khomeni Airport next summer he can have an explanation for this less than desirable situation.
Here you go
by Parham on Thu Nov 24, 2011 03:16 AM PST//www.melli.org/1390/09/03/%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B...
if the origianl article was
by hamsade ghadimi on Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:18 PM PSTif the origianl article was not logically valid, if the conclusion of article (necessity of war with iri) is not accepted by most iranians, and if a meaningless honorary phd from a fraudulent online university is not enough, why would one publish a fake article to debunk the author? and why would i.com feature such slanderous post?
is it a sign of desperation?
I rest my case. :-)
by Anonymous Observer on Wed Nov 23, 2011 08:37 PM PSTNow we know who's the fraud around here. :-)
I put forth the letter, and who signed it
by aynak on Wed Nov 23, 2011 08:27 PM PSTDon't be so lazy AO. You take it from there, and prove me wrong :)
BTW, I know for you it is hard to put 2 and 2 together, but why can't you ask the Dr. himself how come the mention of "Doctorate of Honor" has disappeared from his home page, which I posted below?
What's the source of this "letter" Aynak?
by Anonymous Observer on Wed Nov 23, 2011 06:18 PM PSTcan you please provide us with the link? Otherwise, we may even think that you wrote it yourself. :-)
Also, what's the harm in contacting Mr. Samadani and asking him about the authenticity of this document? You seem to be pretty confident, so please go ahead and contact him and verify it.
A very inappropriate
by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Wed Nov 23, 2011 04:02 PM PSTpost I just read:
Iran must still be bombed back to the stone age so its god fearing people can pray in caves like mohamed did. LOL
The post above is 100 as bad as anything Mammad might have said if not much worse. Sir, maybe you have no family in Iran but I do. I suggest you tone down the belligerent rhetoric. Advocating mass murder and violence of that scale is very obnoxious.
Do you have any family in Iran? Do you want them dead? Do you have any human feelings at all.
NIAC also offers honorary Ph.D. degrees in the following areas:
by Oon Yaroo on Wed Nov 23, 2011 04:00 PM PST1) Appeasing IRR Policies,
2) Lobbying Strategies to Keep IRR Criminals in Power for 30 More Years,
3) Misrepresentation of Iranian-American Communities,
4) Stopping IRR Sanctions,
5) Israel Bashing Policies.
At a nominal fee of $1000, NIAC will mail your Ph.D. degree upon receiving your online application.
At an optional price of $100, a khatam frame signed by Ayatollah Khamenei and sprayed with Ghamsar Gollab will be provided!
"Dr.Mirfetroos" has complied
by aynak on Wed Nov 23, 2011 03:55 PM PSTPlease note that "Honor Doctor from American Global University" has already been removed from Dr's great accomplishment. Of course for the hard core bomb bomb campaigner who find the news unbelievable, trying to verify indepdently any piece of information is contrary to their religous belief ;) appears to be a moneumental task:
From his web-page:
//mirfetros.com/fa/?page_id=2
(The very same Tar-Nama, had "docotorate of honor from American Global University, up until a couple of weeks ago).
The only question remains the blackhole due to some folks calling him a doctor now. I know logic/following through/verification of information is not really your forte, but could one of you Mirfetroos groupies explain why he is called "Dr" now?
Would he become "ex-Docotr"? Note from the above site, that he did spend time around Sorbonne, at coffee shops and the aroma of coffee may have helped him become more qualified in research particularly those that pertain to people's uprisng during 1953. Also please note that he once brought tea for Ehsan Yarshater, so that also qualifies him to use the name of Ostad YarShater in his bio.
Some folks will believe whatever they want to believe
by AMIR1973 on Wed Nov 23, 2011 03:47 PM PSTAnd there are a number of such gullible and/or disingenuous people on this blog "Ooohing and Aaaahing" about it too. I wonder how many of these people saw Emam's face in the moon back in the day? Just curious.