Jahanshah Javid

Blanket Sanctions

Are not helptul. I just wrote a blog regarding sanctions on rugs and pistachios. Would someone please tell me how banning Persian rugs or Pistachios will bring down IR? If they want to bring down IR they need to  ban the real thing: Oil. 

Shameless plug for my blog: //iranian.com/main/blog/veiled-prophet-kh...

In addition to ban importation of refined gasoline. Now that would bring the IR down like a rock. But banning Rugs does not help. The poor sucker in Tabriz or Qum weaving rugs is not a terrorist. Nor is the guy growing pistachios. Banning these things will not to the least bit bother Khamenei or AN. They could care less. In fact they just as soon have Qum produce Mollahs and not rugs. I rather see Quom produce more rugs fewer Ayatollahs. Won't you?

As for the pistachios that is a direct hand out to the California growers. I will refuse to eat any pistachio not grown in Iran! I already bough what I could and put them in the freezer. When I run out if I cannot get any more Iranian grown pistachios then f*** the California company. I rather not have any.

Free market my ass the only free market these guys believe in is a monopoly. They should be free to sell and free to keep out thier competition.

Mollah jaan

Mollah jaan,

Ziyad joosh nazan. Barat khob nist. What I wrote in this blog is what many of the smart readers of this site knew about you. You were not doing a very good job hiding your ulterior objective. It was, and is, too obvious. What I did show was to make it very explicit and allow you the opportunity to explain why you behave 100% like an employee of the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army.

There is no similarity between your posts and the policies of Mousavi and Karrubi. Your posts have been 100% different than the policies of Mousavi and Karrubi and similar to the policies of the hard-liners. Mousavi and Karrubi constantly attack Ahmadinejad and his policies. But you do the exact opposite of what Mousavi and Karrubi do!!!!!! You never attack the supporters of Ahmadinejad and those who promote Ahmadinejad’s policies!!!!! You have had the opportunity to attack those who promote the policies of Ahmadinejad on a daily basis (e.g., Nilofar Parsi) and those who explicitly support Ahmadinehad (e.g., No Fear, Iran Military Forum), but you are have been totally silent on these!!!!!!!!

Calling opponents what the hard-liners call Mousavi and Karrubi is another example of your exact same modus operandi that is used by the IRGC, Keyhan, Basij, and the hard-liners. Khamenei and Larijani say that Mousavi and Karrubi support fetneh. Zionists support fetneh. Therefore, Mousavi and Karrubi are supported by Zionists and further Zionist agenda. In actual fact, Lebanese Hezbollah publically supports Khamenei and Ahmadinejad. And the U.S. and Israel support the fetneh (in our language the Green movement). Hard-liners and YOU have the same mindset and language and logic.

To call for sanctions does NOT make one a Zionist. Otherwise, Nelson Mandela and ANC would be zionists. Otherwise Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress who used economic boycotts against the British colonial masters would be Zionists. The use of economic sanctions is one of the main methods of struggle. It has been used against the racist regime in South Africa, against the military dictatorship in Burma, and against the fascist fundamentalist terrorist regime ruling Iran. You have the right to oppose the sanctions on the fundamentalist regime. But it is FALSE to call support for sanctions against the fundamentalist regime being a Zionist. The fact that Israel supports sanctions on the fascist fundamentalist terrorist regime is not germane whether or not one should support sanctions as a method to undermine the terrorist regime thus enabling the Iranian people to overthrow the terrorist regime.

I disagree with Fred on many issues as I disagree with our monarchists on many issues. But I also agree with them on many issues as well. I do regard Fred as one of the most valuable contributors on this site. I disagree with many of his posts, but he does a good job undermining the fascist fundamentalist terrorist regime. That is why the supporters of the fascist fundamentalist regime hate him so much.

You can jump up and down and call my any insult you so desire. Your insults does not change the fact of YOUR behavior.

The question is why YOU do NOT do what Mousavi and Karrubi do???? At the same time, YOU do what the hard-liners do?????? Isn’t it logical to conclude that you are pretending to be a supporter of Mousavi and Karrubi, but in fact you are not a reformist, because you do NOT act like what Mousavi and Karrubi do and act like Khamenei and Larijani????????

According to YOUR own words, you support the government in Iran. Therefore, you are in fact a supporter of the fundamentalist regime. In YOUR behaviour you act exactly like the hard-liners. It indicates that you support the hard-liners.

MK

MK, The only thing rattled here

is your own tail that you're taking to bed. 

As I said before you are full of hot air with no substance. The technique you use against the ones who disagree with you is called ''Demonizing the opponent". So anybody who disagree with your outdated pathetic views about political change in Iran is a 'mozdoor' while you who write notes of appreciation to Iran's enemy as I stated below is a 'vatan parast'.

It's titled: 'A Note of Gratitude to Fred' and you write "I regard Fred as one of the most valuable contributors to this site. "

  //iranian.com/main/blog/masoud-kazemzadeh/note-gratitude-fred

this is the same FredCo that produces 2 blogs a day on this website in support of Israel and pushes for the starvation and destruction of iranian civil sociey through sanctions.

The world is standing on its head according to you. Zereshk! 

Roozbeh jaan

Roozbeh jaan,

The Iranian.com is one the main and one of the largest Iranian sites in the English (and Persian) language where various Iranians can participate. Because the fundamentalist regime is an extremely dictatorial system, does not allow free and democratic elections, and terribly represses freedom inside Iran (including using prison, torture, and rape), it NEEDS to: (1) do all it can to also intimidate dissidents outside Iran; and (2) project the image that large sectors of the Iranian people support it.

The regime has long sent its agents abroad to spread its influence and to silence the dissidents including the large scale assassinations of Iranians. It would be utterly naive to assume that the terrorist regime would not have its agents at the Iranian.com. The regime itself has stated that to further advance their efforts on cyber space, they created the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army. This is in addition to those they had infiltrated abroad.

The question is who is an actual employee of the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army on this site? And who is simply a supporter of the IRI? And who is merely a useful idiot?

One way to guess is to simply read the content of their posts and look for a pattern and see whether or nor it corresponds with the interests of the IRI and what the job of IRGC-Basij Cyber Army or Ministry of Intelligence is.

I can see how my posts in this blog have badly rattled them. It shows the effectiveness of my posts in this blog. And your proverb captures the whole thing very well.

Best wishes,

Masoud

MK, you have a very active imagination

but are short on memory.

why?

have you forgotten the blog you wrote in appreciation of FredCo, the mouthpiece of Israel on IC for its anti-Iranian comments? I have not and it's still there. It's titled: 'A Note of Gratitude to Fred'

and you write "I regard Fred as one of the most valuable contributors to this site. "

  //iranian.com/main/blog/masoud-kazemzadeh/note-gratitude-fred

You are pathetic, this is the same FredCo that produces 2 blogs a day on this website and pushes for the starvation and destruction of iranian civil society through sanctions.

I haven't seen any, Masoud

What I've seen mostly consists of middle-aged expats. 

I do see Iran military fanboys on Iran military-related forums, and there are a few that might possibly be IRGC-Basij Cyber Army . But there's no way of knowing for sure and they number less than a handful. And they're certainly not putting a day's work into it. The ones I'm talking about are under 30 and basically cheerlead Iran's military. And they're not participants anywhere else, like IC. 

Face it: not every expat is a seditionist. And not every Iranian is a self-exile--I'm not.

Some of us advocate peace and US directed rapprochement toward the Islamic Republic of Iran. I know you hate hearing it, but we're not all irreconcilable extremists like yourself.  

چوب رو که بر میداری.....

Masoud has obviously touched a very raw nerve here! Since his comment, suggesting there are paid agents of Islamist regime of Iran on this site, Molla nassrullah and his buddy seem to have gone berserk, and have not stopped calling him zionist, joooo, etc. 

Guys! Masoud is only saying what we all know and is blatently obvious from your daily old boring blogs consisting of cut and paste of Islamist regime's Kayhan or Etellat ministry of propaganda bulletins! Just get over it, stop crying and go get some rest...

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

Rahmanian jaan

Rahmanian jaan,

It is the JOB of the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army to attack the democratic opposition (and other opposition groups). It is THEIR job description. They are paid to sit behind computer day in and day out, and attack those who oppose the fundamentalist terrorist regime.

The members of the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army take different characters in cyberspace. Some are outright hard-liners, some pretend to be reformist, some pretend to be leftist, some pretend to be this or that. The objective is clear: to attack various opposition groups by various means.

The duty of the opposition is to counter the activities of the supporters of the fundamentalist terrorist regime and their employees. When we are attacked by the supporters of the regime, that shows that we are doing the correct thing.

Best regards,

Masoud

IRGC-Basij Cyber Army?

You're deluded, Masoud.

I haven't seen any trace of confirmed IRGC-Basij Cyber Army participation on IC. 

The reason? No need. Why put forward resources to kibitz with self-exiles? You folks are long gone. You don't matter. You're irrelevant. It would be a big time waster. Face it: they're happily rid of you.

Dr. Kazemzadeh: What a waste of time!

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Bad Mollah

Mollah,

YOUR words and YOUR writings are exactly like those of the hard-line elements. YOU repeatedly call those who oppose the regime as doing the work of Zionists. This is used by the hard-liners, who repeatedly say that the fetneh is the work of and to the benefit of the Zionists.

Listen to Larijani and see that his words and your words are similar.

//iranian.com/main/2010/dec/selling-iran-enemies

In conclusion, you use language that is the language of the hard-liners. You attack those that the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army attacks. You do NOT attack those that Mousavi and Karrubi attacks. Mousavi and Karrubi attack Ahmadinejad and his policies. YOU do NOT do what Mousavi and Karrubi do. You, on a daily basis, do exactly what IRGC-Basij Cyber Army does.

If you are a reformist, then stop acting and using the language of the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army, and begin acting and using the language of Mousavi and Karrubi. This means attack those who promote Ahmadinejad and his policies such as Nilofar Parsi, No Fear, Iran Military Forum, and the like.

I hope this is helpful.

MK

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Dear friend Maziar,

My analysis (and that of JM) is that as long as Mousavi and Karrubi stand up to Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, I (and JM) will support them in their resistance. If they stopped their resistance to the hard-liners, and began cooperating with them, then I (and JM) will criticize and condemn them.

We, democrats, advocate the replace of the fundamentalist terrorist regime with a secular democratic republic. The reformists advocate making reforms in order to preserve and prolong the rule of the fundamentalist regime. Therefore, there are serious differences and contradictions between democrats and reformists. However, at the present time, we believe that while the reformists are under attack from the hard-liners, we should either support them or at least not attack them. This is our analysis. You and many others can disagree with it. 

In other words, we believe what Karrubi and Mousavi are doing are positive and deserve support. 

Best regards,

Masoud

Dr. Kazemzadeh: What a waste of time!

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Here kazemazdeh who tries again to be smarter than what he ain't

A question for which I don't have an answer: How someone like kazemzadeh, saying he's from (hum) a democratic mouvement for Iran can be so narrow minded and dictatorial in his behavior? No wonder why Iran is in deep shit, if democratikemoon in babasst digeh baghieh mikhan chi bashan!

MK Khan

I'm not a "2 atisheh" politician of any sort just a simple guy who loves the country where he was born in (living in my happy past only) and wishing a happy future for my land and it's peoples.

Back to your statement about the REFORMERS and ....

the truth is Islamic republic can not be reformed and the said gents are from the dayeryeh akhoond themselves (karrubi and mussavi and...).

this is another"KHODEE'H-TAQIYEY" made by the akhoonds (MAL'OONS) to keep peoples

licking sumagh for a time being.

sorry for my "zire diplom" analogy of the situation. 

happy new year.      Maziar

MK, Dogs attack people,

Read your own comments.

Criticizing a governments policies or her undemocratic ways is different than asking for it to be overthrown, specially when there's nothing viable to replace it. Who's is going to replace the Islamic Republic of Iran?

Your organization?

Who is going to protect the borders? A few merchants in the bazar and in 'Farang'.

Have you forgotten what happened after Revolution? Iranians were super lucky for not being divided into many pieces although they were attacked and invaded by Saddam and his supporters.

The bloggers that you have mentioned are being attacked constantly and I have my differences with them on some points. But non of them are advocating the violent overthrow of Iranian government while the Zionist groupies, monarchists, Mojahedins, an the ones blinded by hatred are. I oppose the last group.   

Kazemzadeh, a serious request

It's quite laughable for you to perscribe what some other human being "should" be doing to live up to your limited understanding of the norm in some class.

But regardless, since you continue using this shameful and tasteless blacklist to package your McCarthyist accusations (of course with no proof), I will have to insist to be on it.

Go ahead Include me next time you whip out your blacklist to show what kind of a "democrat" you really are.

Mollah Behaving Badly

Mollah,

You are NOT a reformist. Mousavi and Karrubi spend much of their time ATTACKING Ahmadinejad. They just attacked Ahmadinejad’s economic program on subsidy cuts, .......

YOU do NOT do what Mousavi and Karrubi do. YOU do what IRGC-Basij Cyber Army and the Ministry of Intelligence employees do: you spend your time attacking the opponents of the regime.

If you were a reformist, then you would do what Mousavi and Karrubi do: attack those posters (e.g., Nilufar Parsi, No Fear, Iran Military Forum, etc) who day in and day out post propaganda in support of Ahmadinejad and his policies.

In sum, you pretend to reformist while you BEHAVE what is the job description of IRGC-Basij Cyber Army is.

:-)

MK

MK, You're so paranoid

You need therapy to get over your condition.

Look IC is not a classroom and we are not you're students. You cant intimidate us. Stop name calling and demonizing others it wont change anything.

As for a strong centeralized government to protect Iran's borders is concerned, Yes I do believe in keeping Iran's borders safe and free of terrorist infiltration. People like you don't have the courage to go back to Iran and protect Iranians. 

Where were you when Saddam attacked Iran? Were you hiding somewhere or were you Saddam's helper ala Mojahedin?  

Iran without a strong centralized government will be attacked, occupied and divided into different pieces. Your deep hatred, lack of 'intellect' and knowlege about the recent Iranian history stops you from seeing farther than the keyboard on your computer.  

Iranians don't trust and need likes of you. You're the one who writes in praise of FredCompany on this website, self confessed Zionist who advocates for the starvation and destruction of the Iranian nation. You probably are fantacising about the day when Israel would attack Iran. You have nothing to contribute but hatred and warmongering. 

By the way,

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Rahmanian jaan

Rahmanian jaan,

Thanks.  I just read it.  Wow, it is amazing.  From now on, the title of Khamenei should be "the Supreme Pimp."

Best,

Masoud

Mollah

MK: How about you set up a court to investigate those posters who pretend to be not employees of the fundamentalist terrorist regime by are employees of the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army or the IRI Ministry of Intelligence, whose job it is to attack opposition and write propaganda for the jihadis on this site???????

You can begin with Iran Military Forum, No Fear, Kharmagas, Molla and his Shotor, ?????

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Mollah: I expose anybody who comes here and screams his head off to overthrow the Islamic Regime of Iran. Iran is surrounded by sharks and you come over here and talk about overthrowing the central government of Iran who is protecting the borders and keeping terrorists out?

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MK: I rest my case. You in YOUR own words, admit that you attack those who want to replace the fundamentalist terrorist regime. You in YOUR own words support the "central government of Iran."

What YOU do here is exactly what is the job description of the employees of the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army and the IRI Ministry of Intelligence.

:-)

MK

Dr. Kazemzadeh:

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MK, Stop lynching the ones who disagree with you

You and people like you are full of hot air,

why?

When was the last time you were in Iran shouting on the streets for democracy and human rights? You and people like you are incapable to see and understand the geopolitics of the Middle East. Your activity on this website and elsewhere is no different than Zionist groupies who wish Israel drop an atomic bomb on Iran.

I expose anybody who comes here and screams his head off to overthrow the Islamic Regime of Iran. Iran is surrounded by sharks and you come over here and talk about overthrowing the central government of Iran who is protecting the borders and keeping terrorists out? Do you even understand what it means? Do you know why Saddam attacked Iran? Are you so blinded by hatred  that cannot see this fact?

Did you serve during the War with Saddam or were you hiding somewhere? Where you even living in Iran? You live in your fantacies and nightmares when it comes to Iran, Iranians and the Iranian Reform Movement for gradual change. For your information the Reform Movement inside Iran has its own leaders and activists and they are not calling for the overthrow of the regime. Unlike you.

I don’t have to attack you or the ones whom you call ‘opposition’ I ridicule you and your ideas. 

Roozbeh

Roozbeh jaan,

Ti bala mi sar. Baaleh.

Ti jana ghorban,

Masoud

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Mollah,

You keep repeating the exact same nonsense. You do not learn. Re-read my responses to your earlier nonsense. Calling Hitler, "fascist," or calling the fascist fundamentalist terrorist regime, "fascist fundamentalist terrorist regime," or calling the KKK, "racist," is NOT demonizing them. It is calling them what they ARE. You are like a KKK member who says he is being demonized.

There are laaaaaaaaaaaaarge number of Iranians who risked their lives marching and shouting: "marg bar dictator," marg bar asl velayat faghih," "esteghlal, azadi, Jomhuri IRANI," "na sharghi, na gharbi, Jomhuri IRANI," "ean mah mahe khoneh, Khamenehi sarnegoneh." What I have been trying to do, to the best of my abilities, is to echo their voices and their demands. The pro-democracy posters and I are their voices on this site.

You and the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army employees are the voices of those who are oppressing and repressing our people.

I only can read a small fraction of posts here. I have not seen you confront those who spread propaganda and take the side of Ahmadinejad. I have seen your posts repeatedly attack the opponents of the fundamentalist terrorist regime. Show me your posts attacking Iran Military Forum, No Fear, Kharmagas, or Nilofar Parsi. These posters write and support Ahmadinejad on almost daily basis. WHY you do not attack them, but constantly attack the opponents of the fundamentalist terrorist regime????????????????????

If you are a reformist, as evidence, at least stand up to those who promote and propagate the side of Ahmadinejad once a day. For one month, you stop attacking the opponents of the fundamentalist terrorist regime, and instead concentrate on attacking those who write on this site and promote Ahmadinejad and his policies. Then, I will not regard you as part of the IRGC-Basij Cyber Army. Fair?

Sleepy man

I take Dr Kazemzadeh over you any day of the week. At least he does not yawn all day long. Maybe it is because he does not have nightmares about his deeds all night long.

VPK, your Islamophobia gets the better of you again

I realize you are in pathological need of attacking me without substance however you possibly can, but what does this have to do with the revolution?  

maybe you should read the comment below by MK before you speak, what a concept hey?

His own attacks on Mollah, and the "black list" he has created  is absolutely self-righteous and self-agrandizing to a comical degree.

Q: You call Dr Kazemzadeh

"Self Righteous" yet at a million times more so yourself. At least Dr Kazemzadeh is decent enough to be willing to work with others. A while ago you were demanding JJ remove opposing views.

When he rightfully said no you started bashing other people. What is this thing with you? The revolution failed and is a total loss. We need another government. Now I am sorry if you do not like it. But it is the truth.

Funding of media outlets

I like to raise a related issue, which hopefully help Iranian.com as well, the issue of funding.

The best thing about media outlets, like iranian.com and balatarin, as opposed to payvand.com or gooya.com is that they  are 2 way medias.     That is,  they allow feedback for any given post, instantly.   If you look at even yahoo.com, or some sites in Iran, they are either moderated or turn on comments, but what appears to be a decision by the editor, the best example is tabanak.ir and kaleme.org.

gooya.com is changing its policy, but it is still in the stone ages (90's) in this regard.    payvand.com, went backward.   They allowed comments, and decided to stop it, many years back.  

iranian.com has been able to maintain certain amount of sanity, while allowing freedom of expression.

I think it can go even further, by listing its full financial statement on line, including the source/percentage of its funds.   Total expenses, etc.

This type of transparency, will

a:Set a new standard and code of behavior for all media people.

b:Removes any speculation

c:Help prmote accountability at some very basic level.

Thank you JJ for informing us about these ads, and the policy of iranain.com

pirouz you are not your usual jolly mood today, I detect

No I wasn't there in 70s they only allowed Iranian-Russian Tudehis to tour the police-state soviet republics back then!!! But I got there in mid 90s and than in early 2000, and I saw what 70 years of ideology can do to a once proud people mind and their pockets. Ex-Soviet red army personnel were begging in the streets of Moscow, and I never saw that many beggars in one city in my life, indicative of 70 years of mismanagement and abuse. So I don’t think you had no any Idea what was going in your “Workers Paradise” when you where touring it, how old were you then? This almost comical if I didn’t know you are dead serious about legitimacy of the Soviet system and its cliché (Mini-Me) the Islamic Republic system.

I tell you the old Iranian proverb which goes something like this; “Some music (noise) is only good listing to from the distance”. Also pirouz, define loser? than I tell if which one of us is the real one.

Kazemzadeh, thanks!

I haven't heard such self-righteous, self-gratifying delusion since the Shah claimed "it is my revolution too"!

LOL.

They say when someone feels powerless and impotent, they retreat to a cartoon like fantasy world where they are the center of the Universe as the celebrated "hero" whose DUTY is fighting for truth and justice, and others (conviniently of different political opinion) are villains.

I bet you like movies and video games too, huh professor?

Nothing wrong with healthy imagination, provided you don't lose your grip on the real world.

At least when we caution against well-funded pro-Israel/anti-Iran operations on public forums, we have evidence to back it up.