Shifteh Ansari

this was an amazing man. pure and simple.

i hate religion and i don't consider him a man of faith. i just consider him a good human being. he makes me proud to be iranian and his words and actions spoke louder than any filthy politician who has ruled or yearns to rule iran. 

the way he put aside power, money, and leadership for personal growth is commendable in any age. i wish we had more honest men like him in the world. his reflections on faith and regret were some of the most wonderful words ever spoken.

Manbarbesuzan

it is perfectly a legitimate question, I was thinking the same the other day! Gorb-e Nar-e yesterday, a Hero today! :-)

Happy holidays to you all

 -F

Maybekhor jan

People did call him gorbeh nareh, yes, but the times have changed, many events have taken place and people have moved on and changed with the events, as did Mortazavi himself. There are of course always those who jump on the bandwagon, and those who go with the wind, but many responses in relation to Mortazavi's death and his status within the movement are genuine and justified, even if new.   

You might like to read in the link posted below "the other side of Montazeri", his reply to having been called ghorbeh nareh :)

 You are neither senile, nor unjustifiably bitter in my book.  Who, with an ounce of love for Iran, wouldn't be anxious and questioning at every step of the way?

The other side of Montazeri

LOL Shifteh

You crack me up. 

Sorry emshab komak naboodam. I'm burnt out with work and all the anticipation :/ 

Of course I am bitter

But isn't my question legitimate?

Meybokhor

I don't know whether you have gone senile.  But I do know that you are very bitter.  Have some more mey and go easy with those matches.

خبر فوري : تحصن در دانشگاه شهيد بهشتي

This is not related to Ayatollah Montazeri's death.  It looks like students are resuming their several-week-old protests, but I'll leave it here for now, hoping that it would be read.:

//harferishe.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post_2...

(سه شنبه , 1 دي ماه , ساعت 12:42) از يك ساعت قبل دانشجويان دانشگاه شهيد بهشتي در اعتراض به بازداشت شمار زيادي از هم دانشگاهيان خود در روز دانشجو و روزهاي 17 و 18 اذر و ورود نيروهاي سركوبگر در اين روزها به دانشگاه تحصن گسترده اي رو آغاز كرده اند . نيروهاي حراست در ابتدا اقدام به محاصره ي انها نمودند كه با توجه به حمايت كليه دانشجويان و پيوستن شمار زيادي از دانشجويان به دانشجويان متحصن موفق به شكستن حلقه ي محاصره شدند با وجود تهديد و ارعاب نيروهاي حراست (به اخراج از دانشگاه و اخراج از خوابگاه ها ) تعداد دانشجويان متحصن هر لحظه رو به افزايش است .

Is it me going senile?

Is it me going senile or isn't this the same Ayatollah dude that almost everyone rediculed op until 3-4 years ago, calling him Gorbe Nare?

It's not him I am attacking here but the morde-parast group of Iranians who can overnight change color and principles.

Mana Neyestani's brilliant cartoon

//zamaaneh.com/zamtoon/2009/12/post_241.html

ضرغامی، ضرغامی، مردی نمایش بده!

Dasteshoon beh khar nemiresseh....

RT: @XTRABallots Officials Raid Home of Ahmad Qabel,Close Companion of AyatollahMontazeri

Dear Shifteh: your relentless assault on forces of evil is great

Every voice counts! Every action counts!

موج بی پایان جمعیت در تشییع پیکر آیت الله منتظری

چند شیرزن در قم: ما دلیل شورشیم، دیکتاتور میکشیم !!

Nikahang Kowsar's cartoon

//www.roozonline.com/persian/cartoon/cartoon-...

RFE: The car of Iranian

RFE: The car of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Musavi was attacked by “plainclothes men” on motorbikes as he was returning to Tehran from the service in Qom and one member of his entourage was injured, one of the websites said…A reformist website, “Kaleme,” said Musavi’s car was attacked while he was returning to Tehran from the funeral and the car’s back window was smashed in the attack.  “On the way back from Qom to Tehran before noon…a group of plainclothes men riding motorcycles attacked the car carrying Musavi, as a consequence of which one member of Musavi’s entourage was injured,” “Kaleme” said.  “One of the assailants shattered the back window of the car carrying Musavi,” “Kaleme” said, adding that one of the attackers was also injured in the incident.

NPR: Weekend Edition supervising senior producer Davar Iran Ardalan received word that Tajbakhsh’s lawyer was told by officials that the Iranian-American scholar is considered a “national security threat.”

Historians and the History-Maker Ayatollah Montazeri - Akb Ganji

//www.roozonline.com/english/opinion/opinion-...

Sorry if it is a repeat هو کردن موقع پخش پیام رهبر و سردادن شعار

//www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/12/ayatollah-montazeris-funeral.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tehranbureau+(tehran+bureau)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Cartoon - آزاد شد

//www.roozonline.com/persian/cartoon/cartoon-...

Arash Ashurinia's photographs

//www.khosoof.com/archive/493.php

ضرغامی، ضرغامی، مردی نمایش بده!

ام القرای ولایت فقیه (قم) با شعار "خامنه ای قاتل است، ولایتش باطل است" به لرزه در آمد / ضرغامی، ضرغامی، مردی نمایش بده!

سال هاست که جمهوری اسلامی، قم را ام القرای جهان اسلام و ولی فقیهش را ولی امر مسلمین جهان می خواند. ولی در مراسم خاکسپاری آیت الله العظمی حسینعلی منتظری باز هم ناراست بودن این ادعا و نادرست بودن اخبار صدا و سیمای کودتا به جهانیان ثابت شد و آبروی نمانده ی دروغ پردازان ولایت بیشتر از پیش رفت. به ویژه وقتی که مردم سوگوار هوشیارانه فریاد می زنند که "دیکتاتور نگاه کن، عزت خدادادیه" آن گاه می توان پی برد که مردم در این سال ها هیچگاه فریب تبلیغات دروغ بوق های ولایت را نخورده اند و گرچه آنان می خواستند که  آیت الله منتظری را در فراموش خانه های ظلم پنهان کنند امروز می بینند که او محبوب است و ولایت مطلقه ی فقیه منفور.

Read the rest here: //harfehesaaby.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post_22.html 

پیام رضا پهلوی به مناسبت درگذشت آیت الله منتظری

//rezapahlavi.org/messages/?persian&id=417

دو کلمه هم از مادر عروس، کیهان حسین شریعتمدار!

کیهان: عده شرکت کنندگان در تشییع آیت‌الله منتظری 5000 نفر بود

مطابق گزارش‌های خبرنگاران کیهان جمعیت تشییع کننده پیکر آقای منتظری که حداکثر حدود 5000 نفر تخمین زده می‌شود، پس از تدفین پیکر ایشان بلافاصله متفرق شدند و اصلاح طلبانی که با هدف ایجاد «یک تجمع مردمی بزرگ» از تهران راهی قم شده بودند عملاً در دستیابی به هدف خود به طور کامل ناکام ماندند.

//aftabnews.ir/vdcizpa3.t1app2bcct.html

.....

Hi! Monda,

     Thank you for posting the article! I read the whole article. I was wondering if his departure is God's will, too.

Yolanda

"Cactus in the Desert"

gitdoun ver.2.0

I totally agree!  If I believed in God, I'd say Montazari was God-sent in every sense, especially in his departure.

all agree?

Regardless of the different opinions regarding Montazeri i think we can alllll agree that he picked one heck of a time to check out !! If he had died last year or two years ago the authorities wouldn't have cared at all but with the huge unrest within iran ,the politically charged atmosphere, and his death falling in Muharram too; you can expect the authorities are crapping in their pants !

اباما به مردم ایران تسلیت گفت

By JAY SOLOMON

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration publicly mourned the passing of Iran's Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, in an unusual move U.S. officials said was designed to align the White House with Iran's democratic movement.

But U.S. officials also stressed Sunday that Mr. Montazeri's death and the continuing political protests inside Iran are unlikely to significantly alter President Barack Obama's overall strategy of seeking to engage Tehran in the near term.

Few inside the U.S. administration say they see any imminent threat to the Iranian regime's hold on power, forcing Washington to remain open to negotiations with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government over Tehran's nuclear program.

Many U.S. diplomats and strategists also continue to believe that any aggressive and overt American support for Iran's democrats at this stage could hasten a broader political crackdown by Tehran's security forces.

"It's unlikely that anything in the short term of any significance is going to change toward Iran," a senior U.S. official briefed on Iran policy said Sunday. "With Montazeri's voice gone, what happens to the movement? That remains to be seen."

Mr. Montazeri emerged in recent months as an unlikely channel of messages from Iran's opposition parties, known as the Green Movement, to the White House, U.S. officials and Iranian opposition leaders said.

In 1979, Mr. Montazeri was one of the leading clerical voices behind the overthrow of the U.S.-backed Shah, and was a strident critic of American foreign policy in the Middle East. However, in the late 1980s he broke with the Islamic republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and in recent years has struck a much more conciliatory posture toward the U.S. and the West.

Mr. Montazeri in November gave an address from his home in the holy city of Qom and publicly condemned the hostage-taking of U.S. diplomats in Tehran after the Shah's fall. Members of the opposition movement said that Mr. Montazeri's comments were designed as a signal to Mr. Obama and the U.S. that the Green Movement sought better ties with Washington. A number of opposition leaders subsequently voiced frustration that the White House didn't more publicly respond to Mr. Montazeri's comments.

On Sunday, the White House praised the once fierce U.S. critic for his efforts to promote democracy and human rights in his country. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and those who seek to exercise the universal rights and freedoms that he so consistently advocated," National Security Council spokesman Michael Hammer said.

Many Iran watchers, however, believe the Obama administration will ultimately have to more closely align itself with the Iranian opposition movement. Few expect Tehran's theocrats to respond in any meaningful way to Mr. Obama's diplomatic overtures. And they also believe Iran's opposition movement will strengthen as Iran's flagging economy fuels domestic opposition to Mr. Ahmadinejad.

Still, U.S. officials indicated Sunday that the Obama administration will remain very much focused on international efforts to contain Tehran's nuclear program.

Mr. Obama has given Iran until year-end to respond to Washington's ultimatum of direct talks over the nuclear question or expansive new United Nations-backed sanctions. Tehran has given few indications of a willingness to negotiate an end to its nuclear ambitions. U.S. officials said Sunday that they are accelerating discussions among the five permanent members of the Security Council to map out a new sanctions regime while "remaining open to talks" with Tehran.

Write to Jay Solomon at jay.solomon@wsj.com

به به

اینجا خارج نیست.... اینجا قم، مرکزخرافه پراکنی ج.ا. است

هو کردن پیام علی‌ گدا، ۳۰ آذر قم

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=M61NhkeNqzA