Persian Realm

I like Jon Stuart and his satire its very good overall

though the choice to bring a criminal of such a scale to his show is very poor taste.  Now it must be saidt is in line with liberal democrats in the usa like carter that love the IRI in power in Iran and want to do everything to prevent the democratic progress of Iran and make the work of any group that can bring that about more difficult.  So for me what the US govt is doing is the  despicable action.  JS is not aware of the politics behind this man or his own country.  Being misinformed is not a crime.  Better luck next time, Jon, it would be a pity to see you invite and cheer on or give a platform to the new Himmlers in the world. 

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Ebrahim Yazdi

Ramin

Yes Ramin, lets go with the gut instinct! Who cares about the law? Lets do it jack bauer style!

Nice comeback, Piaz!

What a worthless post. If you didn't know, there's an arrest warrant for Rafsanjani for his involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina, but that hasn't done any good in putting him behind bars. So, no, I'm not about to waste my time indicting sheepeesho mullahs in western courts, it would be a total waste of time, much like responding to the likes of you. 

May all IRI supporters burn in hell for their crimes against humanity. 

Safa Ali Nope Nojeh Coup Was After the Revolution ...

It was carried out by Mohagheghi and several other loyal officers of the Imperial Army who with secular elements and some pre-reformsits of the Bazargan Era tried to forment the Coup to topple Khomeiny.

Sadegh Gobtzadeh was accused of taking part and was executed after a brief Trial:

Ghotbzadeh's demise

BOOK:Sadegh Ghobtzadeh, The Man In the Mirror by Carole Jerome (1987)

I believe that is when the Bazarghan Party was banned !

Kakoo Abarmard Jaan "Secular & Religious" System ?

thank you for your comment and interest Abarmard Jaan,

But may I Remind You that That was Precisely the Status Quo of Iran under the Pahlavi's Already ?

//iranian.com/Pictory/2003/February/s1.html

Shah and Son Reza visit Shrine :

//iranian.com/Pictory/2004/August/p3.html

That was actually the Shah's  "Mission for My Country" to respect Traditions and push for Secularism at the Same Time.

So Please Explain to me How in the Devil YOU and Your Firends ended up supporting the Revolution ? To Replace The Pahlavi Royal Dynasty By a Turbaned One with Khamenei as Crown Prince "usurping" the Turban in the place of Montazeri the "Legitimate" Crown Prince ? ...

During the Last  Shah's Reign ALL Religions Were Respected to a large extent including to a lesser extent the Baha'is ( despite the Hostility of the chi'it Mullahs who are in Power Today) but their rights and security was guaranteed by the State as any other Shahrvand Irani (even if there could have been exceptions to the rule ) :

SHAH AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE:

Shah welcomes Pope

Zoroaster commemorative coin

Jewish community

Armenian community

So were ethnic Minorities:

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah Pays Respect to Baloutch Sunni Minority (1970's)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Shah meets Kurdish Representatives (1948)

SHAH AND WOMEN RIGHTS:

In addition Unlike His Father Reza Shah ( Known even today as Reza Shah the Great) who imposed on all women to take off their Hijab starting by giving the example with her own daughters and wife:

So that others would not feat being beaten or called Whores in remote villiages when doing the same.

Women: Harem, streets

First Secular Girl Schools (1935):

//iranian.com/Nostalgia/2001/July/school.html

First Iranian Women's Association

that prior to his reforms put women in the same conditions as Afghan Women and their Burquas :

Iranian women, Early 20th century.

His Son However The Last Shah Allowed BOTH the Hejab and Non Hejab Women to CO EXIST !

THAT WAS HIS MISTAKE !

The Same Women Who benefitted from these progressive advances including and I should say Particularly the MOST EDUCATED AND NAMAK NASHNAS Went and Protested EAGERLY for KHOMEINY as IMAMEH ZAMAN.

Women fans of Khomeiny

I can name a good number of my fathers colleagues who hypocritically did precisely that along with their wives endorsements.

EDUCATION A LA HAMID DABASHI does Not Guarantee Intelligence !

I mention this Clown Who with his Army of IRI Apologist THINK TANKS want to now High Jack the Green Movement They NEVER Predicted But On the Contrary FEARED until it became inevitable and Now want to say that what is going on in Iran is Not a Revolution or Demand for Regime change but a Civil Rights Movement.

//iranian.com/main/2009/nov/bitta-mostofi-and-sadra-shahab

Unfortunately for Hamid Dabashi, Soraya Ulrich Sepanpour and the others like minds ...

WE DON'T ALL HAVE ALZHEIMERS ! :

La Preuve :

Abbas Milani:

HISTORY IN FOCUS: Abbas Milani on Iran's Century Old Struggle for Democracy

Azar Nafisi :

MADAME AZAR NAFISI EN FRANCAIS ! ;0)

And on Why Crisis is Good for America and The World and on her becoming and Iranian American :

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbmbVpF8c_4

Nor ARe We Dabashi's STUDENTS TO BE PATRONIZED !

Does the following Slogan Ring a Bell to these Gentlemen and Gentle Women ?

"NAH GAZEH NAH LOBNAN JANAM FEDAYEH IRAN"

And They HAVE THE GUTS TO EXCLUDE OTHERS like The Monarchists or Jomhurykhahs to demonstrate with the Shiro Khorsheed Flag thanks to the Tireless Efforts of YOUR Favorite Lobbyists ?

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=och26QdEEF8

Whose Founder Was Hardly 5 years old at the time of these Events and comes across as an Expert on Iran which he left and never lived under the current Regime to experience first hand what it means to live in a Religious Theocracy he claimed was Democratic ?

//iranian.com/main/2009/nov/trita-parsi

Pahlavi Dynasty will be remembered FAR MORE than ANY Previous Dynasty in Iran for Promoting women Rights but also that of their opposite genders be it on social and economic well bning and equall opportunities: ! Thanks to which so many got "Bourses" aka "Pensions" and government Help to become Doctors and Engineers in the US and Europe and any other progressive University

Only to come back and become Revolutionaries LIKE MR. GREEN CARD YAZDI !

The Same Ashraf Everyone seems to hate continued to spearhead what her own Father transmitted to her during his own reign to promote Women Rights and Social advances :

WOMEN RIGHTS: Princess Ashraf Chairman of Women Status Commission (1965)

And in that she was Not alone ...

Women's Day: Mahnaz Afkhami Pioneer Feminist (1975)

Women's Day: Farah, Jihan, Mahnaz Tehran (1970's)

Women's Day: Reza Shah and Son visit School Girls (1930's)

Women's Day: First Women to Attend Tehran University (1940's/1950's)

Women in the navy, late 70s

Women athletes, 1958

First women navy cadets

Women's Day: First Women to Attend Tehran University (1940's/1950's)

Eminent Persians: Mahnaz Afkhami International Women's Conference in Mexico City (1975)

We Even had women Ministers

Female Ministers in Pahlavi Era (1970's)

Way In Front of YOUR Khaleh Sooskeh's :

Rahnavard & Soroush ( Ranked N°3 THINKER in the World ? )

Who are we Kidding ? Jon Stewart Maybe NOT ME !

Eminent Persians: Mahnaz Afkhami International Women's Conference in Mexico City (1975)

Eminent Persians: Mahnaz Afkhami International Women's Conference in Mexico City (1975)

EMINENT PERSIANS: Poetess Parvin E'tesami Greets Iran's Crown Prince at Library (1940's)

YOUR LEGACY UNDER THE MULLAHS :

YOU and The Mullahs on the CONTRARY Started Imposing YOUR MEDIEVEL LAWS Gradually and Subtly on TV and then is Schools

School uniform: Hijab

 that gave Rise to the Women Demonstrations CUT Short by a VIOLENT Clampdown as today we see in Iran for the slightest anti government demonstration.

(TAKE A LOOK JON STEWART While You Are At it ) :

Right to choose: First protests against mandatory hijab

Then the political opponents:

Khomeini critisizes opponents of Islamic Republic

Then it was the Religious monorities you excluded from social life :

From Babylon To Beverly Hills (Jews who fled Iran after the Revolution)

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: Vendetta Against Anglican Bishop in Iran (1980)

As for the Bahai's No need to show you the references you are big enough to find testimonies widely on this website ...

Iran's Oil Revenues in the past 30 years was FIVE TIMES SUPERIOR TO THE SHAH's TIME ! What have YOU Done with it ?

Except Enriching YOUR CLERICAL ARISTOCRACY:

Millionaire Mullahs FORBES

All You Gave the People was DESTRUCTION, an 8 Year War with a Million Dead and amongst them the Children YOU Guys Sent Promised Heaven with a Plastic Key around their neck so they can clean up the mine fields with Khomeiny's benediction ...

Even This War could have been won much earlier had you not executed these Brave Officers in the first place !

YOUR REVOLUTION WAS NOT HIGHJACKED BY THE MULLAHS !

You gave it to them wholeheartingly and NAIVELY like the Ever Clueless Irandokht who claims she supported Bakhtiar but then Follows the Wind where it blows strongest.

Boro Baba You Guys WERE NEVER DEMOCRATS BUT NATIONALISTS WITH  RELIGIOUS TREND !

Look at YOUR other Reformist Candidate Rezaie speaking to Bani Sadre about how to deal with Anti Revolutionaries :

Anti-Revolutionaries

Mass executions of 1988

Even YOUR Cultural Policies STINK:

Artists Rights:

BINOCHE FEMME DANGEREUSE! By Darius KADIVAR

IRANIAN FACING CENSORSHIP by Darius KADIVAR

WHY AM I STILL BEING KEPT HERE? By Darius KADIVAR

HOSTAGE TO TEHRAN By Darius KADIVAR

Same Thing for Your Historical Reviosnisms that have created outcries amongst all TRUE Democratic Iranians and Humanists :

Iran, Jews and the Holocaust The beneficent legacy of Persia remembered by Abbas Milani (San Francisco Gate)

The Shah accused you of being Marxist Islami and Everyone including Monarchists laughed at him ...

pictory: Yazdi, Castro and Pretty Interpreter (1978)

pictory:Yazdi Meets Castro, Cuba (1980's)

The Shah had Just One Shaban Bi Mokh :

Sha'ban "Beemokh" Jafari

YOU HAVE AN ENTIRE ARMY OF SHABAN's Who Own the Country and the Economy like a Mafia Band with money in Russian and European Banks ...

Even people from Yazdi's own camp understood what a Hoax this regime has become far ealier :

Amir Entezam the Longest Political Prisoner in Iran Facors a Referandum for REGIME CHANGE and warned people that these elections would be a Farce :

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: Amir Abbas Entezam Chained to Hospital Bed (1990's)

Just Like What Reza Pahlavi has been suggesting

LASTLY I AM NOT FOR REVENGE OR EVEN THE EXECUTION OF ONE INDIVIDUAL REGARDLESS OF HIS OR HER CRIMES OR RESPONSABILITIES ! 

HOPE FOR THE FUTURE:

I SEEK THE TRUTH AND WANT TO SEE JUSTICE PREVAIL IN OUR ANCIENT AND NOBLE LAND ONCE AND FOR ALL IN THE FORM OF A SECULAR DEMOCRATIC FORM OF GOVERNMENT !

My Prefernce Goes Obviously for a Restoration of the Monarchy but in the Constitutional Form because I believe it will be both a symbolic gesture of National Reconciliation with our Traditions and Historical Identity and at the same time a promise for a better future !

This was outlined NOT by Reza Pahlavi But Shahpour Bakhtiar the last legitimate Prime Minister of Imperial Iran Himself who paid the price for his loyalty to King and Country as we all know it ...

But Some Like You and Others are Still TOO Stubborn to understand !

Shahpour Bakhtiar last Public Speach speaks about conditions and Blueprint for Regime Change :

And Warning Us already in the 1980's against the IRI Lobbies in the US and Europe (1984):

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jKXWRzs-Mg

Reza Pahlavi simply has taken the Mantle where Bakhtiar left it :

REZA'S CALL: An Iranian Solidarnosc by DK

And RP's Speach on the Constitutional Revolution:

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

May GOD PROTECT HIM in this Sacred Mission and make him succeed :

Otherwise We May ALL End Up Not with Another IRAQ BUT an EX YOUGOSLAVIA on the Brink of Explosion !

GOD FORBID !

Now if You Prefer this Constitution ... :

Beheshti on constitution

Be My guest Go Ahead and Fix It !

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkmV-fa9-rg

BUT IT's NEVER LATE EVEN FOR YOU FOLKS TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE :

(Audio/Video) Reza Pahlavi New Book (A TIME OF CHOICE) Q&A With French Media

As Bakhtiar Said :

"Iran Harguez Nakhahad Mord" !

My Opinion Too !

Best,

DK

PS: LASTLY FOR SOME OF YOU FRANCO PHILES ADMIRORS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION : FARAH WAS NO MARIE ANTOINETTE :

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah visits compatriots inflicted with leprosy (1970's)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah Helps Clean Village Sewage System (1970's)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah visits village wives and children (1970's) 

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah Greeted affectionately by girls in Luristan Province (1975)

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Farah and Quashgai Kids (1976)

And Shah No Louis XVI:

ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE: Shah and Soraya Share meal with worksman's family (1956)

Ramin, there is something

Ramin, there is something called the rule of law, without it you're just like the people you hate. Of course some peopel cant handle laws that dont complement their mindset. 

instead of channeling all your anger and frustration and attacking people on a website how about bringing Yazdi's case to a court of law? Since you seem to have all the facts, there shouldnt be a problem referring him and his buddies to an indepdent body that will listen to you?

Moosir and Irandokht, shameless propagandists!

MP writes, "You are no judge. Let a court decide." You are no juge either (are you?), but that doesn't ever stop you from indicting the Shah, and others, like GWB at every turn.

"Hypocracy," look it up, and while you're at it, give a look at the word "shameless."

Irandokht, you always -- ALWAYS!!! -- promote the cause of Hezbollahis, no matter what! Here, you write, "Yazdi has not been convicted of these crimes, lets not be the judge and jury on people's case."

Khomeini and Khalkhali were never indicted in any official proceedings also, so by your phony, self-serving logic, we can't charge them with any crimes either! You also have charged George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld of war crimes, but have they ever been convicted by a judge and jury?

Of course, we all have the right to hurl these sorts of charges in the COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION, so long as we do not engage in slander and defamation! And in a defamation case, as any 1st Amendment lawyer will tell you, the truth is a defense!

And it is TRUE that Yazdi helped usher in the age of darkness in Iran, and he did conspire to murder thousands, including the likes of General Rahimi, who deserved much more than a kangeroo court presided over by a freaking blood-thirsty, dahati HANGING JUDGE!!! 

I wonder

So General Rahimi and Mohagheghi were both in the Nojeh Coup, my grandfather was also in that coup and he was tortured and executed by revolutionaries after it failed.  My dad always tells me that the coup failed because some douche bag that was supposed to be on our side was actually a double agent and defected to the Islamic Republic.  I always wonder who it was, and if he is still alive.

I don't see anything wrong with what he says

Whenever I see an interview with him, I see my political views match his talks. Now the difference between what he does! And what he says is not my job to judge. I agree with his ideas and he is not in any political position or power for me to be "against" him (And he is not running either).

Interestingly I would argue that the best route for Iran is gradual change and this party (however it doesn't have any public support) would be a good transitional stage, somewhere between secularism and religious system.

Such an intelligent response

Such an intelligent response Darius khaan. Well done.

Shifteh Ansari Jaan he must've bargained Kentucky Fried Chicken

He must've bargained Kentucky Fried Chicken for his freedom in order To Get out of Prison !

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlC5e7rCbPM

I was said it was the favorite dish of the US Hostages Takers back in the good Ol' Days too.

Yes Siree !

LOL

IRANdokht & MOOSIRvaPIAZ ... If you say so ..

Che Sera  Sera ...

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

LOL

yes, let's not be

yes, let's not be judgmental! is that so?  the hell with him and 7 posht og jad o abadesh! M....G...beh bood,  forsat talab bood, ja..shi balad bood o kard, haram zadeh bood !!! tof be oon roh-e past o nangin-e palidesh ...

Dear DK

I believe Ebrahim Yazdi was freed and returned to hospital two days after his arrest in June.

//www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4409117,00.ht...

Irandokht

So You agree with MP !!  wooow what a surprise.   Go back an see your posts - you hardly ever post anything other than to play cheerleader for our local Hezis here.   Fekr mikoni ba dasteh koorha tarafi? 

But on this rare occasion that you have actually come up with a commnet of your own - 

Which Court do you think could have/should have tried Yazdi and where?   Has Khamenei been convicted in any courts - or should we consider him innocent until the regime changes and he is put through a court?  

I agree with M&P

I don't like Yazdi, never did. But there are two issues that you don't seem to consider DK jan. 

As M&P noted, Yazdi has not been convicted of these crimes,lets not be the judge and jury on people's case.

I also think that Jon Stewart whose show correspondent Jason Jones was the last person to interview Yazdi before his arrest could have called him a lovely man based on Yazdi's encounter with the Daily Show crew. 

Don't you think you're being over-sensitive and too emotional about this? It was just a simple comment baba jan;-)

IRANdokht

No proof

It is interesting that as soon as we bring up Shah's people's murdurous past, you jump in to claim that there is another side to this story which we havent been told but as soon as names like Yazdi come up you are so quick to judge that they are all murderers and such.

Yazdi in his own words: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn7EoeJSzUo

Innocent until PROVEN guilty. If he was guilty then why are you guys writing about him instead of referring his case to a US court of justice? Or the internation court of justice? He travels outside Iran many times. 

You are no judge. Let a court decide. 

I hope

If Yazdi has a cancer, it  is a uncureable and a painfull one.

Great workd DK jan. Did you

Great workd DK jan. Did you send this to JS?

I agree, Yazdi is a murderer

As I have said in some other blogs Yazdi is a murderer that must be brought to justice.  Incidently his son, Yousef, went to the same high school (Iranzamin International School) I went to. In fact he was in my economics class in 11th grade and i remember how all of us used to dislike him for the devastating and destructive revolution his father had help unleash on iran. How Ironic that Yazdi comes back from exile and enrolls his two children in the  most exclusive high school in Iran and yet has revolutionary aspirations and talks about Islamic Justice and democracy, but his children have to have an education better than the masses he purports to want to bring salvation too.  Bunch of hog wash.  The likes of Yazdi are hypocrites and in his case also a murderer.  I hope he will survive long enough to be put to trial with the rest of the islamic thugs