Islamic Republic take note!
Islamic Republic take note!
05-Nov-2008
Come what may, last night the great American nation in its infinitely evolutionary wisdom elected a half American half Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama as its 44th president. I like to use this momentous occasion to start a series of short sporadic take a note entries.
Note one: As far as the Islamic Republic is concerned the children born to Iranian mothers and Afghan fathers in Iran are not considered Iranian, denying them even the pittance of the rights granted to other Iranians. Please note the 44th U.S. President’s father was Kenyan.
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Kambiz
by Shahriar Zangeneh on Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:35 PM PSTThank you for the Jalaldin Farsi exception. I’m familiar with his bio including the cold blooded murder of a villager that he has committed. You might want to add to your list of exceptions the current head of the Judiciary and a host of other IRI apparatchiks who were born outside Iran and some to non-Iranian parents .
FYI, under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 regardless of where the actual birthing takes place any child born to a U.S. citizen parent automatically becomes a U.S. citizen.
Ali Larijani was born in Iraq and he could be President
by Anonymous8 (not verified) on Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:08 PM PSTNEXT FALSE RUMOR PLEASE!
FYI/Islamic Republic:millions of Afghani refugees lie forgotten
by Darius Kadivar on Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:47 AM PSThttp://www.iranian.com/main/news/2008/11/01/islamic-republic-millions-afghani-refugees-lie-forgotten-world
Cyrus’ mother is a Tajik, and his father is originally from northern Afghanistan. They met in Iran as refugees and settled down in Yazd, where Cyrus was born. Although it is the country of his birth, Cyrus is not a citizen of Iran. The 19-year-old has been working at the hotel for several months now, but illegally: officially designated an Afghani refugee, he is only allowed to work as a manual laborer, far from mainstream Iranian society. “I cannot go to university, I cannot buy a house...
I hate to disappoint you BUT there was an exception
by Kambiz. (not verified) on Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:25 AM PSTThe case of Jalaledin Farsi (born to Afghan parents in Afghanistan)) who was a presidential candidate in the first presidential election of the IRI. He was only disquaified after it was shown that he was born outside Iran, though he carried Iranian passport. Nonetheless this didn't stop him from becoming a memeber of Majles!
In other words his Afghan parantage didn't disqulify him from running for the office of the president. It was his place of birth. Not too different from the US laws!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalaleddin_Farsi
Heaven forbid Lance
by Shahriar Zangeneh on Wed Nov 05, 2008 07:02 AM PSTI’ve not forgotten. In an effort to show how absurd, cruel and out of date IRI is I chose to highlight this particular scenario where their usual lame excuse of religion, cultural or even linguistic differences cannot be used. By mistake the intensive adverb “even” was left out before “the children born to Iranian mothers and Afghan fathers…”.
Shahriar, Don't forget the rest of us!
by LanceRaheem on Wed Nov 05, 2008 05:42 AM PSTIt's not just the children of Afghan fathers and Iranian mothers that are denied Iranian citizenship. Any child of an Iranian mother and a foreign father are denied this basic right. I know because my mother is Iranian and my father is American. Iran and its leaders treat us all like garbage because it has no regard whatsoever for Iranian women. Those terrible women who have the audacity to marry a man who is not Iranian must be punished, and what better way than to hurt the ones they love most, their children.