Farhad Kashani

I agree with your point of view &

your response to those ignorant commentators who tried hard to divert the purpose of you blog.

Payandeh IRAN

Down With IRI the Enemy of IRAN & Iranians 

K.N.

You pass the list after your JIUYS colleague to check if all have been said? Tarde venientibus ossa ! janam.


There is at least one point in my list of 5 that corresponds to you, han? K[UC]N-is is a town in Turkey, you know. LOL


F.K. you want a link from this site which empirically shows that you match exactly every point (except the last one :) ) of my list?

Kaveh

Nobody has to subscribe to anything that I say, or anyone else says for that matter. I never made any claim about my opinion being better or worse than anyone else's. In fact, there is no such thing as bad, good, inferior, or superior opinion. What do exist  are opinions that are connected with facts on the ground, or with the fantasy land.

I fail to see why you made the comment about what I said. I, like everyone else, expressed my opinion. You disagree? So be it. Care to comment about the content of what I said? great! I'll respond. Do not care? Fine with me. But, what you said just does not make sense.

Mammad

Kashani, Kashani!

The more you write, the more it becomes obvious why you are not considered an expert! If you were getting attention from any medium, you would not write and lament about why you are not considered as such.

Do not accept my words about the U.S. Media. Do the research yourself. Just take a look at the 4 leading newspaper in the U.S. Let's talk about the editorial page the sets the direction of a newspaper:

(a) The Wall Street Journal: Extreme right wing

(b) Washington Post: Somewhere between right and neocon (cheer leaders of Iraq war)

(c) The New York Times: Center, and center-right

(d) The Los Angeles times: Strictly centrist.

The 1st three supported the illegal and criminal invasion of Iraq. The 4th one, I do not remember.

Why did Bush get hammered? Because even the Republican Party got sick of him. They did not bring him to their Convention in Minneapolis. They just wished he and Cheney disappear in thin air. Republican candidates for Office - any Office - ran away from him. Even john McCain, who had voted with Bush 90% of the times, ran away from him. Bush was universally despised!

Regarding AIPAC: You did not answer the question: Assuming that NIAC is a lobby for the IRI (which it is not), so what? Why is it that AIPAC can run with an agenda representing the fascists and neo-fascists like Netanyahu and Lieberman, but NIAC not do the same for IRI? Why is that regimes like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Turkey, Korea, and China can have lobbyists in Washington, but not the IRI? Answer the question.

The point is: All the nonsense by the Zionists, monarchists, and right wingers like you about NIAC is just that, nonsense. When they begin complaining equally (not even that, just somewhat!) about AIPAC and other lobby groups, then I'll buy their complaints about NIAC or CASMII (neither one of which is a lobby) as legitimate. 

Mammad

farhad i did not say you not

farhad
i did not say you not going, i say if you are going, it would not be farhad kashani on your pasport. i know iran, they would hang by the balls. maybe you go to iran by compeletky diffrent name and you have all the connection in iran, you are an expert but by the end of day you can not come to tv and swear at akhund and become frequent visitor. my emphasis was iranian opposition figurehead, come on, be fair they can not go to iran frequently.also i did not claim to know iranian mood but you get a sense of it.

Oh yes and MY personal requirement for an expert

I require a few things only.... i don't care much if that expert agrees with my views. I just want him or her to speak Persian. Read and write it. Understand basic things about the culture - that being anti-Israel is not anti-Semitism. That asking for people to not meddle is not the same as being pro-regime. Just the basic stuff. 

To use the wise words of ARYAMEHR NYC

"For those with an eternal hard on for the monarchy", you will probably never be satisfied. Farhad, these are horrible requirements. I just wonder if you're as critical of Israeli lobbies? bla bla bla war bla bla bla bla war war on Iran bla bla bla bla bla defend ourselves of course! bla bla bla bla bla. 

You yourself are guilty of the stuff you are stating here. You have blamed anti-bush people for stopping regime change in Iran (haha), you have blamed the evil English and the Queen. CoME ON! Be consistent 

Expert Schmexpert

There aren't really experts on Iran. It's more like people with opinions. And as for those opinions:

Babak123: is your opinion worth more because you have been to Iran in the past 20 years? If so, how come we don't see you on TV voicing them?

Mammad: Are your views the ones we should all subscribe to? What is it about your views that makes them so much better than everyone else's?

L.K.: You will never be taken seriously if you refer to your alma mater as "college school".

Amit: People on this site come across as embittered because they are. As far as getting to the base of what's really bothering them, good luck. It seems to change with the direction of the wind.

Lavashak: Iranians can be divided into more than 2 groups. It's more like 70 million people with 71 million ideas going in an equal number of directions. More time is spent patting ourselves on the back than actually accomplishing anything.

KB: Everything you posted, direct it at yourself and see if you can answer any of it.

Captain: I read and re-read this, and I don't see any "hate of Islam". I clearly see a hatred of those who have twisted and prostituted Islam to serve their nefarious purposes, but not of Islam itself.

Mr. Kashani: Over the years I have found that people are self-proclaimed experts on just about everything, whether it's politics, sex, sports, finances, or how to grill the perfect kabab. It's just that in the case of Iranians, we always have to be right, and everything else be damned. And until that mentality changes, this debate will go on and on, long after the Energizer Bunny drops dead.

Ari

I second that motion.

Thanks

-YT

Dear Ari

Well said!

Kashani

Obviously you, besides being expert in anything, and everything, can also read minds.

Most all of your arajeef are nothing but hatred, just go take a look at news you  submit.  

You say all the carp you post are a mere criticism? If so you are so detached that it is not even funny. These are headlines YOU have placed on news today only:

Dude your hatred of IR has blatantly turned you to hatred of entire Iranian Nation and Islam as a whole. I at times wonder how you can live with this much darkness and hatred within you. Your dislike of IR has turned you to a pathetic hatemonger, the type that discredits any and every opposition to brutal regime of akhunds.

You are not helping any cause, actually there are no differences between likes of you and IR goons, You two are only in opposite spectrum of HATE.

Lastly Kashani, you are yet to answer my question, is your article criticism of LEFT or a genuine[lol] pursuit in trying to find what makes a true Iranian Expert?

-YT

P/S:  I have a suggestion for you, don't make further fool of yourself by trying to read my mind.

The expert game

Farhad jaan, You are wrong

Arabo Ommaties are the real experts on todays Ommatie occupied  Iran(V-ran) since only them & their tokhmo tarakeh (in & outside V-ran) have full access to all the holes they buried patriots , stoned women , hide mullah,s cash stack, comouflaged checks & ballances  & dumped bodies  . So my friend , you may know about their deeds to the country but the Ommaties have the deeds for the country . it,s all about geography , they have the keys ;)  

Cheers pilgram !!! 

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IRANdokht jaan,   As

IRANdokht jaan,  

As usual, you keep criticizing me without explaining exactly what you’re saying. This time also I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. What part of my article has to do with GWB?

  Capt ayhab,  

First off, calling my article a “demonstration of hate of Islam” is a sign of 1- You suspecting Islam’s credibility and truth, because if you were confident of it’s nature and it’s message, you wouldn’t be attributing anything anyone says to “hate of Islam”. 2- A tool to silence anyone who criticizes Islam. This is a barbaric medieval tool that IRI has been using for 30 years now. It has lost its effectiveness!

And as for your other points, I’ll make it simple for you: anyone who defends the IRI, who apologizes for them, who victimizes the IRI, who blames Iran problems on anyone but the IRI, who blames Iran US or Iran Israel or frankly, Iran – World, animosity on anyone but the IRI, which is a byproduct of the Socio-Cultural-Political imbalances in the Iranian society, is NOT an Iran expert. Anyone who blames “Zionists” for Iran’s problems, anyone who yells for the U.S to make a move, but not a word about IRI making a move to improve the relations (which I don’t think that improvement will benefit the Iranian people in the long run, short run maybe), That person could be a leftist, or a right winger, liberal, conservative, centrist, Muslim, atheist, …anyone! However, it is not a secret that Islamo Socialist are the ones who do all the above mentioned in much more frequency than non-Islamo Socialists.

The statements by people

The statements by people like babak123 and Mammad shows their true character (or lack there of!) and how pathetic they sound by thinking this is about “me, Farhad Kashani”! I’m not even gonna get into how much, when and how I get media attention. The trick they want to use to divert attention from the point of the story is not going to work with me guys! That’s the best they could come up with trying to answer me logically! This the extent of their lack of ability to understand the simplest concepts!

My point in this article is exactly that, people like Mammad, with utter disrespect for the opposite argument, and astonishing lack of character and civility during an exchange of ideas, get media time and others don’t!! How big of a travesty is this!!?? I’m glad that he replied, because he is one of the people I’m talking about in this article!!!

Babak123, out of curiosity, how did you come to this conclusion that I don’t visit Iran frequently? Because I disagree with your view on Iran? Share us your “expertise”! In addition, are you saying everyone who visits Iran shares your exact view about what’s going on there? Are you making that claim?

Also, “expert Mammad”, maybe you can use your “expertise” and answer the following:

1-     If “objective people and experts”!! Like you believe that U.S media is dominated by “right wingers”!!!, then, how come Bush got a constant beating for 8 years by the same media? Wasn’t Bush a “right winger”????!!! (I’m not even gonna discuss how unreasonable that Bush bashing was, and how unreasonable it is to call him a “right winger” in the traditional sense)! Also, to people like you who have no ability to analyze things, anyone who opposes the Left and IRI regime is automatically an “extremist” or “right wing” or “Zionists”! Anyone who opposes the regime must be pro Israel! You guys intentionally use those labels to discredit people, but what you don’t realize is that the joke is on you! People are not stupid and realize the game you play. Trust me!

2-     Not factual.

3-     Your obsession with AIPAC is a result of a sick obsession with Israel. That obsession is a symptom of lot of things which I’m not going to get into. Secondly, I don’t care about AIPAC. Only dominant leftist media have exaggerated the influence of AIPAC. Blind anti Israeli, which is part of a blind anti Americanism, is a Leftist trait. Third, at least AIPAC doesn’t claim it’s not an Israel supporter, but NIAC, using sneaky tactics  (common among the left) never says it is an IRI supporter. So who is the hypocrite here?

4-     Nonsense.

L.K:

1-     If I didn’t love my country beyond Akhoonds, why am I calling for a mullah-regime-free Iran? If I didn’t love it, why would it matter to me?

2-     I have the right to defend myself against attempted bullying by some people here. If you get to read my postings, you see that I never insult anyone unless I get insulted first. I do that because I am aware that these Islamo Socialists have always bullied and silenced Iranians using those insult tactics. Well, I’m not cool with that, and I will give them a taste of their own medicine, so they can stop bullying people.

3-     A successful nation, and people, praise themselves when they do right, and criticize when do wrong. I want Iran and Iranians to be successful, so I think they need to fix certain things. We are not perfect people, no one is.

4-     What on earth are you talking about? What “enemies of Iran” and how did I make friendships with them? Furthermore, the biggest enemy of Iran right now is the IRI.

5-     Grow up.

Is it coincidence that

Is it coincidence that almost all the Iranian experts on Iran, with the exception of Triat Parsi, are all related to a **mullah** in Iran in some way shape or form?

We don't know much about trita's family background because his name is probably a made up name but if one were to dig furhter, I'm sure we'll find some of kind of Akhoondzadeh relation.

master of arts

see how I said your name?

But when you write your name as masterofarts, and yek irani writes his name as yekirani, and given the type of messages you both write, one might get the wrong impression of the message trying to be like the messenger.

Kashani

I guess I am not getting your point of the blog. 

Is it to construct a requirement list of the qualification for a person to be recognized as [expert]? Or is it a criticism of [left]?

Perhaps this is just another thread to demonstrate hate for Islam. But lets see if I am understanding your motive here.

1. It seems to me that your version of Iran expert must NOT be a [leftist].

2. He/she can not have any affiliation with IR[understandably].

3. College or higher degree is NOT required.

4. They should have [inside access] to IR system, which contradicts your rule #2[no affiliation with IR]

5. He/She can NOT be a Muslim, because according to your kind all the Muslims are this and that.

6. No affiliation with NIAC.

7. They can not be extremist[left I assume].

8. It is ok to be right extremist.

9. Any media who deals with sensationalism is not acceptable, But I presume Fox News is ok with you?

Well dude, this is eliminating everyone with the exception of You , Sean Hanitty, and ShaAban BiMokh.

May I assume Rush would be the leader here for this group of so called Iran Experts?Any role for Chaney joon?

Do you care to enlighten us further?

-YT

The only requirment to be an

The only requirment to be an Iran expert is having direct access to the officials in Iran. You could be a degree in engineering but if you have access to the officials in Iran (due to your Islamist credentials and loyalty to allah), you're considered an expert by the State Department.

If you don't have access to the officials in Iran, as far as American realists (read, oil mafia) are concerened, you don't exist even if you have all the experties on Iran.

Amit: Your problem is that

Amit:

Your problem is that your equate Iran and the Islamic Republic as one and the same. The Theofascists ruling over Iranians don't represent the Iranian people or the nation.

The un-Iranian Islamists in charge could not care less about Iran or Iranians. Their allegiance is to Ummah and Allah. They would destroy all of Iran and Iranians in a heart beata to fulfill their Islamic duty of establishing unified Islamic government/ummah in the region.

You must not be Iranian.

Iran's and Iranian's interests and well being are not one and the same as the Islamic Republic of theofascist

Mr Kashani aziz

Can we do without hate, fear, war now that GWB and his mentality were defeated by the majority and popular vote? 

The whole world wants to move forward with peace except for the usual suspects. Why can't you stop cheering them on Farhad jan? Iran experts are not only the ones you agree with! Most people have already explained and answered your question. I only want to know why you keep questioning/labeling/negating people who are more qualified than you.

Fred: you crack me up bekhoda :o) but next time you want to discuss someone who's been interviewed multiple times about Iran, and the next time you want to question his expertise, stop for a second and ask yourself, when did anyone ever ask you to speak for or about Iran?

IRANdokht

The absolute minimum requirement...

The aboslute minimum requirement is that an expert should NOT be an islamist or an IRI supporter or a supporter of the Devolution of 1979 in any shape or form. Islamists are the most dishonest, immoral, lying, and deceitful people on the planet who sold Iran cheap to a 1400 year old cult of murder and deceit and agression against iran, only to be in power and fill their pockets. Islamists, hard and soft, are prisoners of their ideology, a failed ideology who brought 30 years of disaster to the country of iran and have not even had the guts to stay there but ran away. Whatever they say, even under the shadow of being iranian, is for islam and against iran and anything iranian, sometimes overtly such as when ridicule pre-islamic iran, or covertly when they praise post-islamic aggressions of Omar and Islam. They have a vendetta against iranian culture and nothing short of total disintegration of iranian culture satisfies them. An iranian expert cannot be an islamist. In fact iranian and islamist are two contrdicting terms and an oxymoron as one cannot have allegiance to two opposing ideas or nation and ommat. Anytime an islmaist expresses an opinion, all have to watch for the agenda behind his/her expression and the harm that s/he is aiming at iran. They are the neocons, or islamic zionists of our time as they portray others to be when they fall short of any logical argument.

Down with islam and viva iran. Iran will not get any better until all islamists are placed under tightest leach as reza shah the great did.

There is a prime requirement

For being an Iran expert- which is not to be a war mongering psychopath wishing death and destruction of Iran and Iranians.

Not really rocket science. 

Dr. Strange Fred

Dismantling Fred's gibberish is a necessary task. He states:

"The pro-Islamist nuke campaigner says".

What "nukes" is he talking about? Iran's non-existent nuclear weapons? Or Israel's actual and real nuclear weapons? Is Fred aware that Iran's civilian nuclear program was started by Shahanshah Aryamehr Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Fred, was Aryamehr an "Islamist"?

Dr. Strange Fred further asserts (without any evidence whatsoever, as is his norm): "The Islamist nuke lover's defense of NIAC lobby and its conjoined twin CASMII lobby in other istances is confirmation of their true nature."

How is one even supposed to comprehend that statement when the English that Fred displays is so utterly illiterate? What do the non-Islamist and non-existent "nukes" of Iran tell us about the "true nature" of the NIAC and CASMII organizations? Surely, they tell us more about Fred's barely disguised desire for the U.S. and/or Israel to attack Iran?

Who are you to ask who?

Really, who are you to ask “who is an Iran Expert”?

You alliance is with other governments, you do not care about the wellbeing of Iran and Iranians and have e no idea what is going on inside Iran or how Iranians feel about their society, politics and economics. To you Iran is a piece of real estate that your daddy lost and you want it back.

You are not qualified to ask anything concerning Iran.

Any way its spring break next week so go do your homework instead of writing this nonsense here, you can have fun next week if you finish your studies this week.

Amit

You are right, it is confusing. Here is my take.
Iranians CAN be divided into two parts. Those who have found a base and want to be Iranian and those who don't have a base at all. They are "sellouts" who think everything coming from real Iranians, villages and towns are backward and stupid.
They are here to confirm their behavior. Some of them have never even been to Iran. For example, they left when they were 8 or 10 and now they ARE acting as experts of Iran.
The point here is confusing but I think the page wants to gather those who hate any positive sign about Iran in to one place without them being ashamed. Thinking that if there are enough of them, like three or four, then they are correct to think the way they do.

I will not point my fingers at anyone, you figure it out for yourself.
Also, I have read some of your comments and I agree with you on major issues. Unlike India, most Iranians just complain and won't lift a finger to help their people inside. I guess this is another way to get out of a guilt trip, to just nag. Their hate for the government has gradually become the hate for the country, that anything good for the people is bad to them because it's under this system.
It's really weird and strange but you'll catch on soon enough :)

I am confused

Are the people in this site angry because the Iranians are portrait badly or nicely? Are you saying that these people who are talking on these channels are making Iran look bad or look good? And why?

I don't get any information from the main article or the commenter as what exactly is the problem. The same issue exists for all other areas of the news, right?

How about this: Those who think that Iran should be presented in a dark(er) light write DARKER
and those who think Iran should be presented in a brighter image say BRIGHT.
Forget the expert idea, let's see what is the base that is bothering you guys. Just curios. Thanks.

Where is the proof?

Who says NIAC, CASMII, Houman Majd, Ray Takyeh, Vali Nasr, etc. etc. represent and reflect the MAJORITY VIEW of Iranians in general and/or the realities on the ground?!! what proof does one have? where are the results of the polls or surveys conducted which justify this?

Dr. Strangelove

The pro-Islamist nuke campaigner says:

"Even if NIAC is a lobby for the IRI (which it is not), so what?"

The Islamist nuke lover's defense of NIAC lobby and its conjoined twin CASMII lobby in other istances  is confirmation of their true nature.

Frankly this is the worst

Frankly this is the worst garbage I've read in a long time.

The key for an Iran expert is not to represent the views of every single person. It is to reflect the majority view and the realities on the ground.

Go learn something before you write garbage and waste bandwidth.