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Jahanshah jan, welcome to Hoder-bashers club. These are good questions you've asked and I' have tried and will try to answer them. But briefly:

1. Iran is less and less of an opperssive state compared to when Khatami or Rafsanjani were in power, unless you have an interest in exaggerating rare examples of violations. This is usually applied to the three group of oppostions: Pahlavists, Rajavists, Rafsanjanists. Unfortunately, a big part of the so-called refomrers (turned into native informers) have joined one of these three groups, especially the first the the third.

Jahanshah Javid, for his lack of first-hand knowledge about the reality in Iran and also for being too close to some major Rafsanjanists (From Abbas Milani to Haleh Esfandiari, from Akbar Ganji and to Shirin Ebadi etc.) has, perhaps unconsciously, been brainwashed and used by Rafsanjanists for their political agenda.

2. Lots of critics don't see the direct link between the local opperesson by the Iranian state and the real outside threat. They are so disoriented that have joined the great oppressor (the U.S.) to fight the small opperssor (Islamic Republic.)

They fail to see their assistance to the great opperessor has only increased the opperession by the local power structure. Therefore, they not only strengthen the Americans in their mission to destroy the only indepenedent state in the middle east, but also fail to achieve any reform within Iran.

I propose a different strategy. We should critically side with the Iranian state and fight with the U.S. hegemony to remove its threat. Once the outside threat is gone, the state of Iran naturally becomes more tolerant and it would permit to be further reformed, especially since it trusts those who stood with their own people rather their enemies.

Kee beh kee migeh self-righteous :o)

Roo ro beram...

Hoder says he removed part of Jami's reply because it was "typical self-righteous patriarchal nonsense".

Hoder should know self-righteous nonsense; he's an expert in it. That's fine. We all can be self-righteous in one way or another when we take a political stand.

But what has disappointed me most is Hoder's lack of conscience and tendency to side with oppressors in Iran at the expense of decent individuals who want a better, freer, less oppressive society.

I know because that's what I did when I was a journalist for IRNA for 10 years. My strong faith in the greatness of the revolution made me overlook gross violations against human rights. My decision to side with evil (or be blind to it) for the sake of an imaginary "greater good" will bother my conscience forever.

Today I have no allegiance to politicians, governments, religions, cultures or idiologies. I judge everything against natural and universal principles of human rights.

Nothing, nothing, nothing, can justify any harm or limitations on individuals who wish to express their views. To do so would make oppressors -- be it American warmongers or Iranian theo-dictators -- more oppressive.

Hoder even ADMITS to his deception tactics?

In his response to Mr. Jami, Hoder explicitly admits in editing out important sections of a writer's comments, and why so? To tailor it more to his own points? Is that fair? Of course not! But then Hoder is a known pro-IRI charlatan. I don't want to even bother responding to such moft-khor. The only reason I am leaving these comments are for new readers who may not be familiar with this "moozi".

Your reply to Mr Jami

Mr. Derakhshan,

 I am not familiar with either you or Mr. Jami. I only know of the two of you through the pages of Iranian. But what Mr. Jami said and you edited out does not strike anyone who has worked professionally in the West as remotely patriarchal. It is a statement of either explicitly stated or tacitly understood responsibilities of employees to their employers.  You stated rationale for editing out the highlighted portion of his response seems to reveal at the least your lack of experience in working in a professional organization.

Jami's typical self-righteousness

Dear Mehdi Jami, before leaving that comment in my blog, you'd better had read my blog's comments policy, which explicitly states that the owner of the blog maintains the right to edit readers' comments, if necessary. (Or in Persian:)

- حق ويرايش نظرات برای صاحب سايت محفوظ است.

This is a common practice among most media outlets who publish their readers' feedback.

The part of your comment I removed was nothing but a typical self-righteous patriarchal nonsense that Iranian grandfathers love to give anyone younger which is even evident in this very posting of yours and its title. Your main point was kept intact.

Fortunately I have enough evidence confirming my statement about your persistence to keep Radio Zamaneh's distance from Rooz. Just the fact you are denying it now actually affirms my theory that you are losing Radio Zamaneh to Rooz's Ebrahim Nabavi and his influential Dutch backers.

Stop dealing with HoDim

First it was troubles with roozonline.  Now it's radio zamaneh.  Hossein the Dim (HoDim for short) is obviously a person with a big fragile ego who gets attention by causing trouble or saying and writing ridiculous nonosense.  So why won't people in the media just stop dealing with him? HoDim is free to write whatever crap passes through his head.  The rest of us have a right to ignore him.  And the people in Iranian media have a right not to refer business to him.

جنگ شریعتی-طلبان

 اینکه مهدی جامی به چرت و پرتهای درخشان جواب میده فقط یه معنی داره: جنگ داخلی شریعتی-طلبان با هم داره بالا میگیره!

Sahar

I think you should first try to learn Persian, then correct other's spelling errors, etc.  In Persian, 'nazar' is used for 'comment', and 'edit' is tashih or better 'veeraayesh'.  Remember the proverbial "Physician heal thyself"?

Ey baba

There was one place where we all seemed more or less safe from the stories of Dearakhshan's online flame-wars/"kal-kals" and that was iranian.com. Unfortunately, this is changing. People have a right to surf on the web to relax and escape from their own daily miseries. They don't need to constantly read about other people's ego-tripping and whatever (ultimately) nauseating experience they're exposed to wherever Derakhshan sets foot.

Seriously, this is all in very poor quality, no matter who's right and who's wrong.

Az maa goftan.

Re: Hoder

aghaye Jami, osoolan shoma be cheh dalil Derakhshaan ro enghadr jedi migirid? hameh midoonan ke Derakhshan yek mozdoore hoghoogh begir IRI hast. ba moozigari talaash mikonad ke khod ro tore digari jelveh bedehad. vali dastash roo shodeh.

shoma ham in nokare IRI ro jedi nagirid.

Jamshid