Letter from Iran

To Bruce Bahmani:

I don’t know if your blind display of loyalty to the American Empire will satisfy Homeland Security or not but at least it should be worth a nicer cot than the others at the Interment Camp.

By the way have you considered writing for The Weekly Standard? Because I’m sure they are looking for saps like you.

Reply to: Your Reply:

Nothing you say or have said suggests that you support the IRI. Obviously you are smarter than to do that.

But more obviously, you are a true and blessedly naive patriot.

Really? You watched Arabs take out the twin towers and thought the US would attack Iran? Because I and about 99% of Iranians here, didn't even consider that for one minute. Maybe 2% of us posed the "Japanese Interment" conspiracy theory, but that's about it.

So you packing up and sticking your quivering head into the sand of Iran, like a frightened Iranian Ostrich (unfortunately unlike the Asian Cheetah, this animal is not extinct yet), is proof your position is to be at least questioned. Especially here on this forum, that allows it, one you insist on posting on.

a) The "illegal" war in Iraq has ended, Afghanistan is next (true it was a waste of time)

b) Guantanemo is in the process of closing. Sorry, you cannot simply free everyone in there. Probably for good reason.

c) Many wall street baddies are being prosecuted. Sorry it takes longer than on TV.

d) Obama is far from a warmonger, but even the close proximity you grant him, is part of the democratic process of continual correction. I know you want perfection Aziz-Joon, but they don't have that toy at WalMart for your Maman-joon to buy for you (yet). Until then, you need to wait for heaven for that. Here on earth, in the planet called "reality" there is an ongoing struggle to "achieve" perfection. We may never get there, but the democratic process and system is so far the best vehicle to ride in that direction.

Me calling you a collusionist is primarily due to your incorrect assertion that war with Iran is certain. This is precisely the kind of mass hysteria inducing control statement that the islamic-military-industrial-bazar-complex that you sir, "work for", uses to control folks and induce fear. Fear that trumps your desire to object to your continued oppression.

Wake up, and for God's sake stop watching so much Iranian TV news, and pick a different side than you did in 2001.

Again, Iran getting bombed, if it happens, will only be Iran's fault for testing and tempting it's fast slipping fate, on this most unarguable of points.

The poisoning of innocent Iranian children will be from Iranian radiation coming from Iranian Uranium. If you are so worried about that happening, put it back into the ground and stop playing with it!

a) You don't know how to play with it.
b) If you keep playing with it, it will go off, either on it's own or from a US or Israeli attack they warned you about!
c) You have NO BUSINESS playing with it for electricity WHEN YOU HAVE 500 YEARS OF NATURAL GAS TO USE!!!

Hala hey bargard o biya ba een argumenteh ahmaghaneh keh, mah beh energy-eh atomi va isotope hayeh bimarieh saratani niaz darim!

Vaghean!

Actually, Dude, since you over reacted to 9-11 so quickly, it is perfectly in your nature to over react to this fear as well. In an ironic way, you will have been correct and right to move there in 2001, if the US or Israel bombs Iran now.

Personally I'm planning on moving to Machu-Pichu in 2012. Somehow being at the heart of the Inca doomsday prophesy sounds like the best place to be when the really big one hits.

Oh, and seriously, I love You Man.

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To Bahmani

I challenge you to find a single sentence in everything I have posted on Iranian.com over the past years that shows my support for this regime. I am certain you won’t find anything. So either post a retraction or cut the crap.

If I take an antiwar position and you presume this automatically means defending the regime that is your problem, not mine.

Your rabid hatred of this regime makes you come across like a drooling child screaming for more baby food. Write something constructive instead of spewing jibberish.

America’ might and influence comes in many forms….

Just as US military is an instrument to follow and execute the polices made in Washington, VOA is no different other than only they use soft arm as oppose to bombs and tanks.

VOA, a tool that was created to broadcast US propaganda into homes of their adversaries has been banned by law to be broadcast into America and its own population.  Once wonders WHY.

  As to go and blaming the bombing ahead of its event, only goes to show and proof one’s [lack of] judgment and [lack of] objectivity in arriving in those judgments.

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad

Bombing will be Iran's fault

We all know that the US and Israel resort to bombing when they are pushed past a certain point in the argument. Saddam learned this with his nukes when Israel bombed them.

The question now remains, is Iran this daft to tempt this well known certainty?

The fact that Iran is pushing it's luck in the face of the US and Israel, is actually Iran's fault! And yours too if you stick to the ridiculous notion that you appear to be defending.

At the end of the day. A fully oppressive and tyrannical government like the one you are barely able to breathe under, is wrong.

May I remind you, here you are, actually arguing that it is OK for Iran's leaders to risk the lives of Iranians over a principle that is utterly indefensible.

Do you actually think Iran and Iranians should be so low and crass as to use the retarded threat of nuclear war to co-exist in the world? Are we that un-evolved?

Finally, I find it highly ironic (but unfortunately typical of out-of-touch and ignorant and arrogant Iranian pseudo intellectuals like you), that you would post such a ridiculous piece, on a website THAT IS BLOCKED BY THE VERY GOVERNMENT THAT YOU SO DEARLY AND CLEARLY DEFEND!!!

In fact even posting your support veiled as criticism of the US, is an illegal act, punishable by jail time in Evin.

So while I can admire and congratulate your courage and bravery to risk your life by posting on this illegal site, I hope you get the point, that you are really really really on the really wrong side of the argument, if you continue to insist that Iran getting bombed for having Nukes is the fault of the US.

Some countries like the US (maybe China) are Super Powers. They've earned that through a long period of global domination.

Some countries like Iran (when it was Pre-Islam Persia), used to be Super Powers, but squandered that by staying tyrannical and (adopting Islam) and not shifting over to Democracy when they had the first chance to do so.

This iteration of Iran is an ugly, belligerent, sneaky, back stabbing, get someone to do your dirty work for you (Hamas, Hezbollah), always have a plausible alibi, always keep a shit-eating grin on your face as you hold hostages for money (1979 and Hikers), illegitimate, utterly unearned dictatorship.

These are irrefutable facts. These are valid criticism of what this Iran has done to kill off what's left of it's international reputation.

Yes, the US has done it's fair share of poking Iran in they eye. Yes we all know about Mossadegh and the UK/US conspiracy.

But at the end of the day, Mossadegh was arrested by Nasiri, an Iranian. And his name graffitied on the walls of Tehran as a communist by Shaaban-bi-Mokh, an Iranian. And the rumor mongering articles written in Iranian newspapers to discredit Mossadegh, by Iranian journalists.

At some point we, all of us, Iranians, pro- or con-, need to come to grips with this very ugly character that we have developed (funnily enough, ever since we "adopted" eslam), of being less than patriotic, and having lesser principles of right and wrong, and having a minimum sense and standard of what national loyalty means.

Happy Yalda!

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The truth

The real truth lies in between two versions of it.

Anyone in 2012 thinking IR is 100% right or VOA is 100% right is an idiot.

Ignorance equals blood on your hands

Bombs do not distinguish between the IRI and Iran.

On Iranian.com anybody that advocates an antiwar position is automatically branded an IRI supporter, which is almost always based on presumptions.

The only collusion that is taking place is by American-Iranians that are ignorant of how they are supporting those that want to destroy Iran.

“A pimp for

“A pimp for fascism”

 //blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/georgegalloway/2011/12/lets-just-hope-god-is-merciful-chris.html

Information is the currency of democracy. ~Thomas Jefferson

It's not enough that faith claims to be the solution to all problems but is now demanded that such a preposterous claim be made im

Mr. Mohammad Alireza,

Mr. Mohammad Alireza,  "Stockholm Syndrome" indeed! (as Mr. Bahmani rightly suggested here...) 

You have been so brainwashed by I.R. that now you are expressing empathy and have positive feelings towards your captors (I.R.)... Or maybe you are one of them to begin with!!! Anyway,  Shame on you...  Forget about United States and others... PAY ATTENTION to the crimes against humanity (for over 32 years!) committed directly by the Islamic Republic Regime in power against unarmed and peaceful Iranian citizens!  What is this ridiculous blog here? You write well in English, but are you insane or perhaps you think Iranians and sane people of the world are ... ?

In any which case, I suggest you seek help from a psychologist/psychiatrist immediately and ask for some medications while at it... 

برو بابا دکونتو جمع کن

نشستی تو اروپا و بلبلی میکنی. یکی یکی میان سراغ همه تون. 

is it so difficult to understand

that if you ask a US federal or state government oficial why someone who worked for them was fired,they will not respond? I don't think so but it evidently is out of grasp of some Iranians.

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MA: Do you support

IRI is not Iran. Do you understand that concept?? 

MA: Do you support IRI??

Yes or no! If you are, you are considered a domestic enemy of Iran. Why do think you are any better than Voa?? If you support IRI and in anyway have blood on your hands to prolong the tyranny of IRI, then you're the enemy of Iran, a traitor. Your commeupance will come sooner than later...Your anti-imperiasm bs will not mask your anti-Iranian (pro-IRI) treason. 

 Information is the currency of democracy. ~Thomas Jefferson

It's not enough that faith claims to be the solution to all problems but is now demanded that such a preposterous claim be made im

And you are a collusionist coward

Sorry, selling out to Iran is just way far worse. I mean you know that right? I hope so, otherwise I can easily forgive you for being just one more sad example of those typical conflicted Stockholm Syndrome Iranians (sympathizing with his kidnappers). In this case with the added sad affliction of Turrets.

What you so easily forgot to understand in your mad flight to run away from your paranoid fears of a 911 anti-Iranian retribution (which never happened by the way, so, uh sorry for your knee-jerking that one!), was that at the end of the day, what America is selling is Democracy and freedom. Maybe true, selling it at the the end of a rather sharpened stick, but that is Iran's (and apparently your misguided) choice to pose and argue that in the 21st century, with the boundaries and scientific realities of the Universe known for certainty, that insisting on using a quaint, rather poorly written, romantic poem, is a far better way to run a country, than the simple freedom of choice that Democracy offers.

Forgive the US for not getting and accepting this retarded idea, and for worrying about your alternative plans, as a serious threat to peace and everyone's security. Because people like you, when faced with the proposition that what you think turns out to be Oh so totally wrong, tend to snap.

Especially get this, that America and Americans cannot ever accept any alternative to Obvious Moral Certainty.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. Democracy and Freedom are right (not perfect but right), and Iran's crazy ideas are simply wrong. You know this. A simple test proves it. Pick ANY test YOU want.

Like it or not, Iranians, in spite of what Khamenei says that God told him to tell you, have the right NOT to choose Islam as a natural governance system. Especially since God has not EVER appeared himself, to everyone, to tell everyone, that you don't need to elect one, Khamenei is the Supreme Leader in charge.

If God EVER showed up to say this, I would be right there with you buddy. Until then, I have to stick with sanity. Or until "Faith" stops costing cash.

You see, you are so oppressed, that you've actually been taught to think oppression is a kind gift that you get from God. It feels so good when the Basijis stop beating you, that you almost look forward to it.

But bow to God now. Because I just said the word "God", and you need to keep re-inforcing the reflex. Other wise someone might see you hesitate, and not take your prefabricated piety serious enough.

Yes, Democracy is certainly flawed and does not even try to guarantee you entrance into heaven. But Democracy has built in mechanisms to right wrongs, and fix what's broken. As soon as the people (not God, or his self-appointed minions you prefer) decide something needs to be fixed.

Your obviously preferred system, which you have no choice but to admit and accept as merely classic 19th century flawed Marxism, with a hefty yet sneaky dose of Islam thrown in to smooth out the ridiculous parts with splatterings of "Faith", that you have just blessed as better than Democracy, doesn't in fact allow for ANY improvements. Because Islamic Marxism operates from the very basis of perfection. Which is in fact the very same sin of Vanity in Islam, as well as every other religion that Islam has taken it's ridiculously obvious cues from.

But it certainly appears (since you can't get out of Iran to come to the US now) that you'll just have to wait until you are allowed to be given the keys to heaven as determined by your Supreme Leader, the cartoon that is Khamenei, to find out, that they won't in the end, in fact ever let you in.

Because at the end of the day, the brave and just and above all the right, get in. And the weak, cowardly, and hilariously wrong don't.

I would plan on meeting you at the gates just to see the stupid look on your face when you get there and realize all this, as you are turned back, but unfortunately I am planning on going to hell, where my father is already waiting for me. :)

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