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Mr Kadivar

I very much appreciate your pictorial contributions. And, let's leave it like that :) 

FR

Read Her Book before Talking nonesense

Nafisi is simply a subject of jealousy from the same ordinary people like Hamid Dabashi and another lady who even used the title of Nafisi's book in her own book criticizing hers in order to capitalize on the sales.

How Cheap !

Besides She never claimed to be Benazzir Bhutto !

GROW UP ! Instead of feeding on Jealous comments !

to : No wonder

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your informed opinion. Iranians tend to cheat their own selves more than cheating others. Their rush to vote in the Islamic Republic’s elections is a good example of their self-cheating habits.  Azar Nafici is another well known example of this unpleasant trait. She is a product of a wealthy and privileged life style, schooling in Europe and USA and power hungry parents with huge political ambitions (father mayor of Tehran and mother among the Shah’s first selected female members of parliament).  Yet, she rebelled against the very system of which her parents, and consequently herself, were products. I am not sure if Ms Nafici began her hypocritical life before or after her father was jailed for four years for alleged embezzlement charges during the Shah’s reign. But she has turned her story into a fame building and money making tool, thanks to the ever naive and cultureless American public and media. Her political convictions tend to fit into the needs  of appetite for fame

Let me put it this way, she is not a Benazir Bhutto.

FR

To Farah Rusta: hypocrisy part of Iranian culture now

Dear Farah;

95 percent of Iranians living inside Iran and quite a lot of those living outside Iran are genuine unadulterated certified hypocrites. I know of a lot of people who kept telling everybody until the very last day that they would not participate in the IR government concocted charade of elections and they kept telling everybody, insisting that it was just a sham, yet on eleshow day, they were the first ones in line to cast their inconsequential votes.

I also know of a lot of people who had everything imaginable (both wealth and position) before the revolution, but participated in anti-Shah protests wearing mink and sable coats and almost all of them in a matter of weeks and months after the success of the revolution, packed their suitcases and left Iran for good.

Those in Iran say that they have to be hypocrites, cheats, and crooks in order to survive in the Islamic Republic. A lot I believe are opportunists, specially the ones outside, and that is a fact of life with Iranians and I believe it has become part of our culture and way of life. It is sad but it is the reality.

Peace

Publicly conforming but professionally contesting?!!

 Befair-notanidiot,

Can't you see the oddity (aka hypocricy) of your message? You seem to agree with Ms Nafici very comfortably. If one accepts to wear hijab in public, then why should she refrain from wearing it at work? The same law that banned women from being hijab-less in public, banned them from being hijab-less in their place of work. There was no option to choose one or the other at work. The law on hijab applied to workplace as well as to public places equally. You couldn't choose and pick! Now you see who is being a hyprcite as well as an idiot if you will!

By the way, there were teachers and academcis who lost their jobs and sometimes their lives for far more fundamental reasons than Ms Nafici's lack of sartorial liberties,

FR

rejecting hijab in public places!!

I do not approve many of Mrs Nafisi's points of view, however let us be just in our judgements and do not utter ridiculous statements like:

"And, yes she put on the veil in public places..."

Do you understand that you are uttering nonsense or not?! How could one go without hejab in public places after it was approved a law by the Majlis in 1980? You would have been jailed! Can you go to streets today in Iran without hijab just to prove you are against it?!

Mrs Nafisi was one of the very few women who openly disapproved of hejab and lost his teaching job in Tehran University due to his statements against it...

Nafisi is a hypocrite par excellence!

And for her hypocricy, she has been rewarded handsomely. She was a hypocrite before 1979 for having been the beneficiary of a previlidged life style and while enjoying the fruits of the same systme, she revolted, in a champagne-chick style, against it. She has been a hypocite after 1979 for having known about Khomeini's view of women, she supported him in the run up to the revolution and joined his revolution later. And, yes she put on the veil in public places to continued with her double way of life for 11 years. 

FR

Great Lady and Good interview

She is right to the point. She nailed it !