Iranian Of The Year

Final Result:

Parvin Ardalan (One Million Signature)

Every year JJ would have a voting page and some candidates for Iranian of the year. Seems like this year he forgot or he was “busy” 🙂 So until he makes a page who is your Iranian Of the Year?

You can nominate as many people as you want but choose one and put him/her in the subject line of your comment. You don’t need to give any reason for your selection. Just your candidates and your final ONE vote.

Here are my candidates in this order and my vote goes to Marjane Sartapi.

1. Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis)

2. Mansour Osanloo (Bus driver union leader)

3. Simin Behbahani (Women’s movement in 1386)

4. Iranian Michelin baby

5. Jahanshah Javid (updating Iranian in 2007)

6. Hossein Hajiagha (raw material and being honest)

I also like to nominate Simin Behbahani’s poem for the Poem of the year. Copy and paste below from an unregistered comment.

شنیــدم باز هم گوهر فشــاندی
که روشنـــفکر را بزغاله خواندی
ولی ایشــان ز خویشـانت نبـودند
در این خط جمله را بیــجا نشـاندی
سخـن گفـتــی ز عدل و داد و آنرا
به نان و آب مجــانی کشــاندی
از این نَقلت که همچون نٌقل تر بود
هیاهــو شد عجب توتــــی تکانــدی
سخن هایت ز حکمت دفــتری بود
چه کفتر ها از این دفتر پراندی
ولیــکن پول نفـت و سفره خلــــق
ز یادت رفت و زان پس لال ماندی
سخن از آسمان و ریسمان بود
دریـــغا حرفـی از جنـــگل نراندی
چو از بزغاله کردی یاد ای کاش
سلامـی هم به میــمون میرساندی
سیمین بهبهانی

RESULTS

Marjane Satrapi (5)

Parvin Ardalan (5)

Mansour Osanloo (4)

Simin Behbahani (3)

Iranian Michelin baby (3)

Jahanshah Javid (2)

Hossein Hajiagha (1)

NIE Report (1)

Reza Pahlavi (1)

Haleh Esfandiari (1)

Anousheh Ansari (1)