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At the end of July and beginning of August 2007, in less than a week, over 50 people were executed by public hanging in Iran’s islamic republic. There are unconfirmed reports that student political activists were amongst those executed as ‘delinquents’.
This has taken place against the background of a campaign entitled ‘enforcement of national security’, under which over one million Iranians have faced questioning. Meanwhile, the state claims that it has arrested 4,000 ‘delinquents’ and detained 43,000 accused of drug offences. Just as alarmingly, anti-war, anti-imperialist activists such as Mansour Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi, as well as many workers and students, are held in prison on trumped-up charges.
According to government figures, 150,000 young women have been apprehended for wearing a ‘poor hijab’ (their fringe or a few strands of hair had been showing under their headscarf). There are also reports that a young woman was stoned to death, the second in two months, in mid-July. The Iranian media reported that Maryam Ayyubi, in her early 30s, was put to death at dawn on July 11.
Of course, as we had predicted, US pressure on Iran, the threat of war, sanctions and plans for regime change from above, Bush-style, will only lead to further repression, executions and detention of the very activists who lead genuine anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist struggles - while Iran’s islamic regime is busy negotiating with the US and UK governments over the terms of all three parties’ interference in the internal affairs of imperialist-occupied Iraq.
Public hangings and mass arrests are part of this government’s efforts to impose an atmosphere of fear and terror at a time when large sections of the working class are protesting against low wages and lack of job security. Many young people (over 70% of the population is under 25) are also rebelling against the religious state’s interference in every aspect of private and public life.
It is ironic that, for all the prohibitions imposed by the shia clerics in Iran for the last 28 years, the generations born since the islamic revolution show no acceptance of religious rules and regulations. In fact, having witnessed the hypocrisy of a ‘religious state’ that bans alcohol yet turns a blind eye, or even contributes, to drug addiction, prostitution, re-sale of confiscated alcohol, etc, the young in Iran rightly associate the ‘pious’ islamic state and its organs of power with double standards, corruption and bribery.
The open rebellion of youth against religious diktat and the brutal way the regime has resorted to public hangings and lashings also exposes the shallowness of the argument of apologists for the islamic regime who imply that workers’, democratic and women’s rights are ‘western values’ that should not be ‘imposed’ on muslims. On the contrary, these are basic, universal rights won through decades of struggle throughout the world.
Last week in an internet TV studio I watched a short film depicting the public hanging of two men and a women in Iran with Peter Tatchell and Mark Fischer. The fact that I was born in a ‘muslim country’ did not mean that I felt less horror and revulsion at the barbaric scene of painful and slow deaths than the two UK comrades. In such matters we share a common humanity and those living in islamic countries are equally entitled to democratic rights as those living in the west.
If we take the figures published by the Iranian regime for those arrested in the last few weeks for ‘un-islamic’ behaviour it is clear that a sizeable portion of Iranian youth openly flaunt religious regulations regarding every aspect of day-to-day life: clothes, music, hair cover, length of hair ... The physical punishments regularly meted out by ‘morality’ police have not only failed to change the attitudes of Iranian youth: it has made them more determined to rebel against the state’s interference in their private lives.
Of course, the main victims of islamic ‘morality’ law and recent punishments have been the poorer sections of the population. Throughout the rule of the shia government, the rich and the upper sections of the middle classes have paid their way out of islamic regulations and restrictions either through bribes or through selecting venues and districts where the ‘morality’ police are known to turn a blind eye.
The difficult conditions faced by ordinary Iranians are exacerbated by the direct and indirect interventions of the international and Iranian forces associated with regime change from above. In early summer a wide spectrum of the Iranian opposition met in Paris in a gathering funded and supported by the Bush administration. They included royalists, constitutional monarchists, republicans, nationalists, Kurdish separatists and some smaller ‘left’ parties. They had little in common with each other except their eagerness to benefit from the $80 million budget approved by the Bush administration for the ‘velvet revolution’ in Iran.
Of course, the kind of regime change they seek (a pro-US, neoliberal capitalist regime, as opposed to an islamic, neoliberal capitalist regime) will not improve the plight of Iranian workers. However, because the working class has been at the forefront of recent struggles against the regime, rightwing forces inside and outside Iran have suddenly become very keen on defending Iranian workers.
From CIA radio stations such as Radio Free Iran to rightwing trade unions with a long history of loyalty to imperialism, such as the International Transport Workers Federation (remember Chile and the strikes organised by the ITWF against the Allende regime, as well as other activities arming and supporting rightwing forces in Latin America), all the forces of regime change from above are claiming to be on the side of Iranian workers.
It is no surprise that in the absence of any mass support from genuine anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist forces defending Iranian workers, and unaware of the history of these organisations, many internal and exiled Iranian groups have embraced this ‘support’.
The saddest aspect of all this is that the calls issued by trade union leaders fearful of damaging their cosy relations with capitalist leaders avoid ‘controversial issues’, such as war and imperialism. In these international union organisations claiming to represent millions of workers, very few of their members are even aware of the calls for ‘solidarity’ made in their name. That is because such they are gestures totally unconnected with any genuine campaign to win support for Iranian workers amongst rank and file trade unionists.
Events inside Iran and on the international arena are forcing us to be ever more vigilant regarding our political stance, as well as the kind of solidarity and support we seek for the revolutionary, anti-capitalist forces inside Iran. Quite clearly we cannot achieve this by confusing pro-imperialist forces with genuine defenders of the Iranian working class.
In Hands Off the People of Iran we have insisted on maintaining a clear distance from defenders of US-style regime change from above, and from social-imperialists who claim that the presence of US-UK armies in the Middle East will help workers obtain trade union rights.
The exceptional support we have gained amongst anti-war activists, as well as amongst academics, artists, writers, etc, gives us hope that it is possible to show principled solidarity with the struggles of the Iranian people while opposing imperialist war, sanctions and regime change from above.
Yassamine Mather Deputy Editor of Critique, Journal of Socialist Theory, published by Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements, Glasgow University.
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they are drug dealers not human right actives ?
by hajiagha on Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:53 PM PDTmust be different between bad people and nice and you can not blame the Iranian government because they are punishing bad people same as in USA or ...
Dariush EXPOSED....
by Rostam on Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:41 PM PDTDariush, that was a nice try googling some none sense info. If you read more carefully, I said Iran's ADDICTION problem, not casual use.
Open your ears wide: ADDICTION IS NOT THE SAME THAN CASUAL USE. GOT THAT? You are EXPOSED. Nice attempt trying to deceive the readers again.
Iran's addiction problem is a disaster. I don't care about the casual users as they are not the problem. The problem are the hopelessly addicted ones.
I think once the IRI is overthrown, they should take you and the likes of you and force you to build houses and provide services to those addicts and all others who are suffering now. Or maybe they should throw you back at your old job: gedaayi and cleaning toilets. YOU ARE EXPOSED.
Iranian Joseph Goebbels
by jigsaw on Wed Aug 29, 2007 06:33 PM PDTRostam: That was very informative and funny. It's almost as if they all graduate from the same propaganda school. What gives them away is that they invariably not interested in facts and evidence. But you've got to give them credit; they are tenacious and keep repeating the same disinformation over and over again. They remind me of Hitler's chief propagnadist, Joseph Goebbels. Abadi would make Joseph proud...
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
An idea
by Kaveh Nouraee on Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:21 AM PDTMaybe we can get Dariush and Hajiagha together, and send them to Massachusetts to get married and they can blame the rest of the world for the rest of their lives. They're a match made in heaven.
Dariush paid lackey of IRI
by Rostam on Mon Aug 27, 2007 02:43 AM PDTIt is difficult to keep exposing Dariush since it seems that he and for sure many others are PAID fulltime by the IRI to go to the Iranian internet sites and make comments to deceive and flare division among Iranians. We on the other hands have regular jobs and got to earn our living.
These lackeys including Dariush are well known among Iranian.com regulars, and are mostly ignored, their comments completely dismissed. I am begining to think that I am only lowering my image here by replying to him. But sometimes it's really fun to expose this goofball.
Definition of a moron
by Rostam on Mon Aug 27, 2007 01:11 AM PDTDariush, you moron, THAT was exactly what I said, that we should only include drug addicts in the discussion. Now if you could but just for one moment take that head of yours out of your Arab master's asshole to take a breath, then read what I wrote again, maybe you'll realize why you are a moron. Of course knowing you, you'll miss that Arab ass so quickly you would want to go back...
You gotta be kidding! This guy can't read nor write, and he says he had taken college courses? A political scientist? My eye. Maybe 11th grade or 12th at most.
I suggest Dariush be called AbdolMirza or GholamGhassem. I hate to call him Dariush. I think it is offensive to the great name of the Hakhamaneshi King Dariush the Great.
actually, I buy my chapstick
by dariushabadi on Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:38 AM PDTactually, I buy my chapstick in a spray can, it is must faster to apply when kissing all that arab ass.
You Write Dictionaries, Too?
by Kaveh Nouraee on Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:43 PM PDTSo by your logic, aren't you a CASUAL Arab Parast? After all, you kiss so much Arab ass you must be able to buy Chap Stick wholesale, no?
MANUPILATION
by dariushabadi on Sun Aug 26, 2007 09:28 PM PDTwow, are you manupilating facts again? A drug-user is defined as someone that is addicted, not someone who is a CASUAL user.
Therefore, you are now a big time manupilating idiot. Peace to you.
Exposing Dariush....
by Rostam on Sun Aug 26, 2007 09:25 PM PDTDariush calm down don't get overexited....
Your stats does not take into account that a casual drug user is not necessarily an addict. I was talking about the DRUG ADDICTION issue in Iran, not casual drug use. Can't you read? That was a clever attempt to deceive the reader, but you stand exposed. Using half truths won't help you. You will be exposed.
So nice try googling some worthless stats any moron can obtain. YOU ARE EXPOSED. Period.
Rostam is high on Spanish drugs
by dariushabadi on Sun Aug 26, 2007 07:24 PM PDT"Spain's Health Minister warned congress that according to latest figures Spain is one of Europe's highest consumers of cocaine, cannabis and extasis, and she said that the existing National Drugs Plan needed to be revised in order to reverse the trend.
As far as cocaine is concerned, Spain has Europe's largest number of consumers. According to the statistics revealed by the Minster yesterday, cocaine consumption among the Spanish population has doubled in the past 10 years.
The number of cannabis users is also rising and Spain, Denmark and the UK have the dubious honour of leading the Europe's league of cannabis consumption. 36% of Spanish adolescents between 14 and 18 (in other words 762,000) young people have consumed cannabis at some time in the past twelve months - this is double the consumption figure in Spain 10 years ago.
Cannabis and cocaine are not the only problem. 27% youngsters between 14 and 18 años admit to having got drunk in the past month (31,8% more than 10 years ago) and consumption of new addictive substances such as liquid extasis is also on the rise.
The only area in which the National Drugs Plan seems to have been successful is in heroine consumption where figures show that the number of heroine addicts has gone down. Salgado said the the Governments priority now must be to reduce drug consumption among Spanish adoslescents and to analyse how to get over to them the terrible risks of taking drugs in the short and long term.
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Is this the Spain you claimed doesn't have high drug problems? You say your facts are based on X and Y person that you don't even NAME, and you claim I make up facts?
I just showed you an official news article quoting the Spanish Health Official.
You probably work for the CIA, because you really suck at intelligence. haha
You Are Fortunate Your Delusions Are Not Terminal
by Kaveh Nouraee on Sun Aug 26, 2007 07:00 PM PDTDariush, Your own profile indicates you live in the U.S., not to mention your previous comments. If you lied about something as trivial as that, then every thing you say is suspect and must be called into question. Kennedy actually said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." If you are going to quote someone, quote them correctly. Otherwise, don't do it at all. The data I have on Spanish drug laws comes from credible sources. Those sources are known as SPANIARDS, and they happen to be government officials with whom I have worked. then again, any six year old with an outdated Pentium 2 PC and a dial-up connection can come up with more credible data than you. So unless you are calling these people liars, then just stand corrected and remain silent on a subject that you truly don't know anything about, no matter how much you think you do. As a matter of fact, I DO hire people. On top of that, I have three people working for me in Iran. But my primary business is here and shall remain so for the forseeable future. I don't want my government to do a thing for me, except to manage the infrastructure and provide for public safety. That is what a government is for, NOT to tell me what to wear, how to wear it, what to drink or eat, or to micromanage my life in any other way shape or form. The government works for ME. The government is my EMPLOYEE. Thank you for thinking I live in a million dollar house, but you are mistaken. (Actually delusional, but I will be polite.) There is nothing wrong with living in a million dollar house, and anyone who has one, bravo for them. No the IRI is not God, but rather Satan himself. The IRI is nothing but a front for a multi-billion dollar murder, corruption, genocide, and criminal racketeering scheme for the past 28 years. But even your heroes know enough to have converted all of the money they have stolen from the Iranian people into U.S. currency before hiding the ill-gotten proceeds in Swiss banks. Please, Dariush. Everyone's entitled to be stupid, but you're truly abusing the privilege. If your ignorance was a disease, your condition would be fatal. Since you like quotes from famous people, here is one that applies to you: "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity". Let me know if you can figure out who said that.
Exposing Dariush...
by Rostam on Sun Aug 26, 2007 06:43 PM PDTWhen you discuss an issue with IRI lackeys such as aghaa zadeh Dariush, their arguments may go through the following stages:
1. Stage 1: They start by employing their most used tactic, eg, deception. They do that by stating half truths and manipulating words.
2. Stage 2: When their deceptions are repeatedly exposed, and they realize that it's not working, they move on to stage 2. In this stage, they start saying things like "if you read X, you then realize Y to be true." X being a fictional book. Usually they beef it up by inventing none-existant references and sources as well.
3. Stage 3: When they are continued to be exposed, and their stage 2 methods fail, they revert to saying things like: "I know X who happens to be very knowlegable and his opinion supports Y, therefore Y is true." They may even, like Dariush, be bolder and claim that the person X is HIMSELF! In this case they add: "I have the X degree and have read 3 zirillion books, etc... , and I say Y is true, so it must be true". At this stage their desperation has set in. A high school drop out who has hardly read a single book, suddenly becomes a political science expert. They ususally add a tag to their expertise such as "with a speciality in Iranian history", or "Middle Eastern studies", etc.
4. Stage 4: If you continue to expose the lackey, he will revert to stage 4. At this stage they become verbally abusive, or they try to belittle you and make fun of you. They may even escalate it and become physical with you, but only if they are in a group and there is only one of you (They are cowards).
Dariush is shifting between stage 3 and 4 right now. His frustration is building up. His heart is beginning to race when he is reading his exposures. He is becoming angry. He has resorted to various deception tactics, and each time he has been badly exposed. He now has become a political scientist with emphasis in Middle Eastern affairs! The other day he was an expert in Spain and South Korea affairs, now in the middle eastern affairs!
He accuse his exposers to be living in a "million dollar" houses eventhough he has never seen them or know them.
Darisuh, Dariush, Dariush... What can we do about you Dariush? YOU ARE EXPOSED. A political science expert! You made my day, I needed the laugh today.
Oh and one more note: He never answers to your responses and the facts or counter facts you present. He knows he will be exposed again. So he cleverly jumps into a new subject to divert the reader's attention to something else. EXPOSED.
How Unimpressive
by dariushabadi on Sun Aug 26, 2007 04:38 PM PDTActually, you should go re-read on current decriminalization laws in Spain for drugs and narcotics. You are outdated on your facts, and instead of admitting your mistake, you just make up more lies and outdated truths.
And who said I live in the US? Who even said I don't live in Iran right now? Do you assume that everyone is as hypocritical as you, asking the people of Iran to rise up against this regime while you sit in your million dollar house in America sipping your alcohol and complaining about a government thousands of miles away?
As Kennedy said, "dont' ask what your government can do for you, but what you can do for your nation." Instead of sitting in your million dollar house in Beverely Hills, why don't you take a few thousand dollars and create some jobs for just 2 people in Iran. Make A DIFFERENCE.
You don't even have to deal with the government. You can create simple jobs that don't even need work permits so you don't even have to deal with the IRI.
Or take your money and go to a hospital and pay for someone's surgery taht can't afford it. Milions if not Billions of things you can do good for your people in Iran, instead of sitting in the US and complaining about the IRI.
The IRI is not God, it cannot perform miracles on this nation. It requires the help of 70 million people to make a better tomorrow. People need to stop saying "why doesn't the government do this for me, etc. etc.". No, how about everyone chip in and plant trees on their spare time so to get rid of pollution. Not ask the government to plant trees for them.
We are here in Iran helping the people every day, trying to make their lives easier. We stand up to all oppression, oppression by Muslims and non-Muslims. Islamic countries and Western countries. When it comes to Justice, God does not differentiate by religion. Abu Bakr and Yazid do not spend less time in hell because they were Muslim. We aren't Christians to believe that beliving in Jesus alone brings you to heaven. We believe everyone is accountable. Therefore we are doing our part to help the people.
You should try that, instead of sitting in your high house and complaining from far away. Come to Iran and do something positive. Even if it means coming to Iran and speaking out against this government if you believe it is unjust. Don't be a chicken and talk from far away, expecting your people to do all the hard work for you.
How Impressive
by Kaveh Nouraee on Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:22 AM PDTDariush, you have an incredible curriculum vitae.
Vatanforoosh, Arab Parast, Lackey for the IRI, and now you claim to be an academic, and a member of the so-called 'intelligentsia".
Spain has not legalized narcotics, for your information. While the institutionalized non-enforcement of drug laws has resulted in what is known as de facto decriminalization, it is still illegal to use, possess or cultivate in public. Distribution is still a criminal offense. By the way, Spain and Holland treat this as a public health issue specifically. But it remains a government headache, as the laws enancted by the government remain ambiguous as currently written.
Who are these respected professors? Name them and the institutions where you have been enrolled and completed your studies.
How desperate you must be for recognition and acknowledgment. There isn't a single post that you have contributed to where you remain on topic as originally written. Your rambling diatribes where you accuse everyone who has a different opinion to be a monarchist, or simplylook at them in a negative light clearly indicates that you are dealing with some anti-social behavioral issues for which you should seek treatment.
You prefer the IRI, it's obvious. So, go back. No one asked you to come to the U.S., no one is forcing you to stay. You take issue with anyone who doesn't agree with you, while praising your masters in the IRI, and the Arabist lifestyle they espouse. So for the millionth time, I ask, "what are you doing here"?
Dariush, it is long past the time for you to get yourself and your belongings and get the hell out of here and go back to your heroes and hide underneath their tunics where you belong. If you want to live in the 7th century, then go ahead. You don't have what it takes to be successful in today's world, which is why you criticize it.
YOU ARE EXPOSED NOW
by dariushabadi on Sat Aug 25, 2007 07:23 PM PDTfirst of all, why do you not respond to my responses, but rather write a whole new post? You need attention?
Second, what is your field of study that you call yourself an expert in this field? My field of expertise is Political Science and Sociology/Anthropology with a specific focus on the Middle East. However, I have taken extensive courses back in my undergraduate years in the industrial development of the Asia Tigers as well as European countries with the most respected professors here in the US. Where do you get your information?
Here is where YOU are exposed. Drug use is not a problem in Spain because it is not a criminal offense. They have legalized the majority of narcotics with laws similar to that of the Netherlands, which makes their drug problem become a social problem rather than a government headache. But since Iran criminalizes drug use, it becomes a governmental issue. Prostitution is ALSO legal and widespread in Spain. The reason it isn't an issue to be tackled in Spain is because they LEGALIZED IT.
It shows how little you know about these countries. It sickens me that you even bother responding to my facts by saying "Dariush exposed this or that" when in reality you have no facts backing you at all but you base everything on lies and distortions.
I ask everyone reading this to respond to Rostam and expose him with facts. Unless they too are lackies of the US and the Imperialists and will lie just to get the Pahlavis and Rajavis to return to Iran and push Iran back 28 years.
Dariush Exposed (Yet again....)
by Rostam on Sat Aug 25, 2007 03:26 PM PDTDariush says: "if you do read the industrialization process of both Spain and South Korea..." This remind me of an IRI lackey back in the days of university who when asked why Iran is doing so bad, he would answer: "If you read a book on economy, you will realize that IRI is doing the right things and..." Folks, IRI lackeys always use this "If you read about X, then you realize Y" thing." The funny thing is that they have not done any of those readings themselves. Case in point, Dariush, whom I bet has never read any books on Spain nor Koera, perhaps an article here and there, but that's about all. I know he will feverishly google the name of some books to include in his response, but sorry that won't do.
Moving on to expose this IRI lackey... Darisush says "we suffer from the fact that the Shah wanted to centralize everything in Tehran, which meant that we could not push the industries to the villages. However, the IRI has tried to reverse the Shah's methods by moving factories away from Tehran"
Hmmm... Let's see... Under the Shah Iran's population was 36 million. Tehran's population was 4 million. That's about 11 percent. Today Iran's population is 70 millions and Tehran's population is 12 millions. That's 17 percent. Obviously, the IRI has done worst than the Shah in this area. Dariush YOU ARE EXPOSED. however, up until now you used half truths to deceive, but now you are reverting to lies.
The rate of prostituion and drug use in Iran is so hight that it has become a social problem. Not so in Spain nor in Korea.
Rostam
actually...
by dariushabadi on Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:37 AM PDTActually, if you do read the industrialization process of both Spain and South Korea you will realize that they did have near social upheaval and it was handled in different ways (including force). South Korea brought the industrialization to the rural areas, which helped stop the process of "urbanization" (but we suffer from the fact that the Shah wanted to centralize everything in Tehran, which meant that we could not push the industries to the villages). However, the IRI has tried to reverse the Shah's methods by moving factories away from Tehran, which has helped the process a lot.
However, Spain and South Korea both experience high rates of murder and prostitution (especially Spain), so I have NO CLUE why you claim it didn't experience these things. South Korea is experiencing high levels of gang rapings (as well as Japan). How do you explain those for a country moving to modernization away from traditional rural lives?
Dariush EXPOSED Again...
by Rostam on Fri Aug 24, 2007 03:08 PM PDTDariush relates the high crime rate, rape, prostitution and drug additction in Iran to "urbanization". Dariush is exposed by just asking one question. How come "urbanization" didn't have a negative impact in countries like South Korea, Spain, etc, who were undergoing a strong urbanization just like in Iran? The answer? They didn't have IRI as their goverment. YOU ARE EXPOSED Dariush. The same question can be asked about Iran under the both Pahlavis, when urbanization was even stronger than today.
Then he goes on to say " You are against the murder, theft and prostitution, yet you support the people's freedom to commit adultary, fornicate and get drunk ". Where is your proof that we are actively supporting these things? You make up things as you write. EXPOSED.
Aghaa zadeh then says "Stop complaining so much, and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT." Well, I am doing something minimal by exposing you, am I not?
Dariush, Dariush, Dariush. I suggest to all readers to stop calling this IRI lackey "Dariush". He is not worthy of that name. I suggest a name like "abdol-something", or "gholam-something", "something" usually being the name of an Arab master of these lackeys.
Rape, Theft and Drugs
by dariushabadi on Fri Aug 24, 2007 04:13 AM PDTYou guys speak of the rising crime rate in Iran, as if you have no knowledge of what modernization and urbanization bring to a country. One of the reasons that instability broke out during the last years of the Shah's regime was a classic case of the reaction of the population reacting to the Shah's modernization moves. The Shah made the mistake of tying his move to modernize Iran with his insensativity to Iranian culture which upset millions of people enough to wish to sacrifice their lives to see him go.
Instability insues when a country tries to change social classes and create a new industrial class. This is not something knew for the IRI, but a continuation of the Shah's vision (which wasn't really his vision, but the obvious path to take to bring your country out of the Rentier economic situation where your economy relies on a single economic export). High crime rates including theft, prostitution and murder are interlinked to the mass movement of people away from villages and into cities looking for work. Since these people and many people in the cities don't have the ability to join the industrial class (and now the service sector), they resort to crime out of the cost-benefit it brings them.
It is very similar to the same problems 1st world nations such as the United States face in their poorest sections (such as downtown Los Angeles, Chicago, poorer ghettos in New York and tens of other major metropolotan areas). In these rich cities, you find the highest crime rates similar to a city like Tehran.
Documentarians like Kiarostami have shown over and over that the majority of these prostitutes on Tehran's streets are runaway girls from dahats and villages who came to Tehran looking for that "better life" and since they couldn't survive on their own, either ended up prostituting themselves, or were forced into the job by thugs and mafia-type groups in poorer areas. This is actually no different than what happens in the bigger cities in the US, where gangs find these girls coming from smaller cities looking for the "free'er life" and prostitute them out in the city for a profit.
But go ahead, blame something that sociology clearly and scientifically has tied to mass-urbanization and effects of modernization, to something it clearly has no relation to (ie: Islam, IRI, mullahs, etc.).
Now, do NOT get me wrong. I am not claming that since this is a dirrect effect, that we should sit idly by and watch this happen to our poorest people. The government should take more steps to save our people from being forced into prostitution, drugs, etc. But it isn't all the governments responsibility either. We ourselves should role up our sleeves and go help the poorer people of Iran adjust to the life in the city, and help educate poorer people to learning how to create jobs on their own without the need of the government fixing all their problems (many of Iran's problems comes from the Shah-complex, where people think the government has to come and fix all their problems, and that they shouldn't do it themselves). So many entrepenueral ideas out there for people to start without needing government permission or interference. I agree some areas it is harder because of the bauracracy, but we live in an Internet age where you can do certain things on the Internet even with filters and sanctions, to still make money doing what you love.
This I find interesting though. You are against the murder, theft and prostitution (which I am too), yet you support the people's freedom to commit adultary, fornicate and get drunk (which affect society, family, and morality). Not only that, you support these by living in a country called the United States, which has one of the highest murder, theft and prostitution rates in the WORLD (prostitution is legal in parts of the US, and even large parts of Europe).
Either do something with your own hands in Iran to help our people, or now that you are living in the West, do something with your hands to help the people around you. Stop complaining so much, and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
rape, theft, murder
by dariushabadi on Fri Aug 24, 2007 04:12 AM PDTYou guys speak of the rising crime rate in Iran, as if you have no knowledge of what modernization and urbanization bring to a country. One of the reasons that instability broke out during the last years of the Shah's regime was a classic case of the reaction of the population reacting to the Shah's modernization moves. The Shah made the mistake of tying his move to modernize Iran with his insensativity to Iranian culture which upset millions of people enough to wish to sacrifice their lives to see him go.
Instability insues when a country tries to change social classes and create a new industrial class. This is not something knew for the IRI, but a continuation of the Shah's vision (which wasn't really his vision, but the obvious path to take to bring your country out of the Rentier economic situation where your economy relies on a single economic export). High crime rates including theft, prostitution and murder are interlinked to the mass movement of people away from villages and into cities looking for work. Since these people and many people in the cities don't have the ability to join the industrial class (and now the service sector), they resort to crime out of the cost-benefit it brings them.
It is very similar to the same problems 1st world nations such as the United States face in their poorest sections (such as downtown Los Angeles, Chicago, poorer ghettos in New York and tens of other major metropolotan areas). In these rich cities, you find the highest crime rates similar to a city like Tehran.
Documentarians like Kiarostami have shown over and over that the majority of these prostitutes on Tehran's streets are runaway girls from dahats and villages who came to Tehran looking for that "better life" and since they couldn't survive on their own, either ended up prostituting themselves, or were forced into the job by thugs and mafia-type groups in poorer areas. This is actually no different than what happens in the bigger cities in the US, where gangs find these girls coming from smaller cities looking for the "free'er life" and prostitute them out in the city for a profit.
But go ahead, blame something that sociology clearly and scientifically has tied to mass-urbanization and effects of modernization, to something it clearly has no relation to (ie: Islam, IRI, mullahs, etc.).
Now, do NOT get me wrong. I am not claming that since this is a dirrect effect, that we should sit idly by and watch this happen to our poorest people. The government should take more steps to save our people from being forced into prostitution, drugs, etc. But it isn't all the governments responsibility either. We ourselves should role up our sleeves and go help the poorer people of Iran adjust to the life in the city, and help educate poorer people to learning how to create jobs on their own without the need of the government fixing all their problems (many of Iran's problems comes from the Shah-complex, where people think the government has to come and fix all their problems, and that they shouldn't do it themselves). So many entrepenueral ideas out there for people to start without needing government permission or interference. I agree some areas it is harder because of the bauracracy, but we live in an Internet age where you can do certain things on the Internet even with filters and sanctions, to still make money doing what you love.
This I find interesting though. You are against the murder, theft and prostitution (which I am too), yet you support the people's freedom to commit adultary, fornicate and get drunk (which affect society, family, and morality). Not only that, you support these by living in a country called the United States, which has one of the highest murder, theft and prostitution rates in the WORLD (prostitution is legal in parts of the US, and even large parts of Europe).
Either do something with your own hands in Iran to help our people, or now that you are living in the West, do something with your hands to help the people around you. Stop complaining so much, and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Someone knit this guy a sweater
by Kaveh Nouraee on Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:53 AM PDTDariush is being exposed for what he truly is so often, I am proposing that in conjunction with the upcoming Jerry Lewis Telethon on Labor Day Weekend, we should hold a telethon for Dariush and use the funds raised to buy him a sweater. All this exposure will inevitably lead to hypothermia, even in August. The rest of the proceeds can be used to buy a one-way ticket and send this Arab-parast back to the rest of his like minded morons that he has deified all too often.
Exposing Dariush (Again...)
by Rostam on Wed Aug 22, 2007 07:19 PM PDTCalm down Dariush... Since when criticizing one's goverment is "vatanforooshi"??? And where did I use bad language? Calling you aghaazadeh is bad language? No! Of course not. You saying that I have the capacity of a 14 years old, now that's bad language.
Moving on to exposing Dariush...
Agha zadeh opines that high crime rates are the result of urbanization. What about prostitution and drug addiction? Child trade? Torture? Beatings? Arrests? These are also the result of urbanization? Dariush, Dariush, Dariush... What can be done about you Dariush?? YOU ARE EXPOSED.
Dariush, Dariushe naazanin says that child sex trade is not a problem that Iran is just facing, other countries do too. To which I say again that it is as though your roommate does not shower for months, and then you complain and he tells you: "But there are other people who don't shower in this world..." Your technique is not to lie, but to deceive with half truths and playing with words. YOU ARE EXPOSED.
Dariush, you must become aware that this is not 1978. Today is not like 30 years ago when deception artists like yourself had their way with people's mind. Today, thanks to all the misery and hardship the IRI has caused, Iranians just don't buy your none-sense anymore.
Darisuh, Dariush, Dariushe naazanin.... It is so fun to expose you.
Rostam
You are exposed, vatanfooroosh
by dariushabadi on Wed Aug 22, 2007 04:00 AM PDTWho would deny Tehran doesn't have crime rates? It is a natural result of urbanization, and population centers to have high crime rates because they no longer live in the confines of a village where everyone knows each other. Urbanization results in a lot of social problems, from crime to depression. What I was trying to show you was that this was not an IRI problem, but a social problem that needs to be addressed.
And Iran has recently created one of the most effecient police in the Middle east, which respond to the equivelant of 911 calls almost immediately. This has dramatically decreased theft and arson in many parts of the city. Just ask anyone living in Tehran right now about the rapid response of police. Don't make up lies, actually ask and get back to me.
It is your distortion that claims that the government is "actively" selling our women to arabs, etc. Yes, even the government admits that our women are being sold in sex slavery chains that bring our women by force to countries in the UAE. This needs to be stopped. Ahmadinejad's top advisor (Dr. Hassan Abbasi) has been talking about this for 5 years now (before Ahmadinejad was even in power) and they have created ministries to stop this. Dr. Abbasi said in a lecture on how could someone like Khatami sleep at night, when our women were being sold into sex slavery. That our women are like our sisters, and if our wives and children were being sold into sex slavery, we wouldn't sleep at night trying to save them. And I agree that even more attention must be paid attention to this. But again, this is not a problem only Iran is facing, or even 3rd world problem (this problem exists in Europe and the US as well, but i'm not justifying it, i'm saying it needs to be addressed).
Can you respond to my responses without using bad language, and calling names? How old are you? I thought calling names stopped when we graduated Middle School. I hope you have more intellectual capacity than a 14 year old to resort to sandbox name calling and mocking.
Let's see you try to respect my right to my freedom of speech and expression, without resorting to name calling and fosh. Just try
Dariush Exposed (as usual)
by Rostam on Wed Aug 22, 2007 02:12 AM PDTDariushe aghaa zadeh tells me that he was in Iran and was asking about the hangings. Well did you get to watch the show? Did you enjoy it? You are a pro-stoning, so watching people get hanged should be just dessert for you.
Dariushe naazanin, Dariushe aghaa zadeh says: Do you know how to read?" Yes Dariush we all know how to read. That's a silly question since we are all here in this site reading and writing. The question is: Do you know how to think? We all know the answer. So let's move on.
Folks, please pay attention to this part: Dariush, Dariushe naazanin says "Why is their so much theft, rape and crime in Iran? an intellectual would ask you why the US has one of the highest theft, rape and murder rates in THE WORLD!?" Does anyone reads what I am reading? Dariush, Dariushe aghazadeh is NOT EVEN BOTHERING TO DENY the high rate of crime in Iran, thus admitting to it. He then immediately jumps to comparing Iran's crime rate with that in the US. My my my... Dariush, Dariush, Dariush, what are we going to do about you Dariush??? It's like someone doesn't take showers for months, and when you complain about his smell, he says: Well people in so and so country don't take showers either. Dariush, Dariush, Dariush....
He goes on to say: "Are you going to claim the IRI has so much crime because it is a dictatorship?" Dariush! Are you admitting that the IRI is a dictatorship?
Dariush, this naazanin guy then says: "I am exposing all of you for siding with the Imperialists that want to rape our country, as opposed to the IRI that defended our country from THE WORLD the past 28 years." Dariush Dariush, what shall be done about you?? The IRI defended the country from the world? How? by raping, killing, beating, torturing, arresting its own citizens? By allowing little Iranian girls be sold to the Arab shieks? Allowing widespread prostitution and additction among its young? I PREFER A GOVERMENT THAT CARES FOR ITS CITIZENS AND GIVES THEM BETTER LIFE EVEN IF IT SIDES WITH THE IMPERIALISTS. Case in point South Korea. I rather Iran was like South Korea and on the side of the imperialists, than to be in the hands of "yek mosht oghdei" like your own naazanin agha zadeh self.
You are exposed Dariush. By the way why is your name Dariush? Why didn't you change it to roohollah or abdol-something, something usually being an Arab name. Why? Isn't it a disgrace to name of Dariush the Hakhamaneshi King for one such as you to carry his name?
Rostam
Do you know how to read?
by dariushabadi on Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:29 PM PDTRostam, Did you read what I wrote at all? I said that I was in Iran and I asked different people and they all agreed with the hangings, and they weren't even from religious backgrounds. But apparently you don't read what I write, you just like to respond like an Ablah (idiot)?
Why is their so much theft, rape and crime in Iran? Well, an intellectual would then ask you why the US has one of the highest theft, rape and murder rates in THE WORLD!? It is a liberal democracy, yet has so much crime. Are you going to claim the IRI has so much crime because it is a dictatorship? Because it actually doesn't have as much crime as the US does in its inner cities (the same place Iran is experiencing such high crime rates).
I am exposing all of you for siding with the Imperialists that want to rape our country, as opposed to the IRI that defended our country from THE WORLD the past 28 years. When a country acts INDEPENDENT, it gets the WRATH of the world (especially the first world) and yet Iran has kept itself strong.
Maybe that is why the US hasn't attacked Iran and 99.9% chance it won't (unless these neo-cons are BIG TIME idiots)
Do you know how to read?
by dariushabadi on Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:29 PM PDTRostam, Did you read what I wrote at all? I said that I was in Iran and I asked different people and they all agreed with the hangings, and they weren't even from religious backgrounds. But apparently you don't read what I write, you just like to respond like an Ablah (idiot)?
Why is their so much theft, rape and crime in Iran? Well, an intellectual would then ask you why the US has one of the highest theft, rape and murder rates in THE WORLD!? It is a liberal democracy, yet has so much crime. Are you going to claim the IRI has so much crime because it is a dictatorship? Because it actually doesn't have as much crime as the US does in its inner cities (the same place Iran is experiencing such high crime rates).
I am exposing all of you for siding with the Imperialists that want to rape our country, as opposed to the IRI that defended our country from THE WORLD the past 28 years. When a country acts INDEPENDENT, it gets the WRATH of the world (especially the first world) and yet Iran has kept itself strong.
Maybe that is why the US hasn't attacked Iran and 99.9% chance it won't (unless these neo-cons are BIG TIME idiots)
Dairush, Dariush, Dariush.....
by Rostam on Tue Aug 21, 2007 08:10 PM PDTAt it again Dariush??? Let's begin the exposing party shall we? Dariush says: "Have you even talked to people on the ground in Iran?" Well? Have YOU? The anwser is no. How could you? You live in your dear America. EXPOSED.
Dariush, Dariushe naazanin promotes the hangings and says "... trying to bring the crime down..." I ask why is there so much crime under the IRI rule in the first place? Why is there so much theft, rape, murder, drugs, prostitution, etc.. in Iran? Answer? The reason is only one word: IRI. duh! EXPOSED.
Dariushe aghaa zaadeh says: "...so long as they do not interfere with the liberties of others. The second you steal, rape or kill someone, you have interfered in the liberties of others" WOW! For once, I find myself in agreement with Mr. Dariush... Except... It is the IRI that is stealing, raping and killing Iran. So rise Dariush! Rise against your own benefactors. nazaar on shekam hey gondehtar sheh. EXPOSED.
Dariushe naazanin says: "the Qur'an ... follows it with the order for women to cover up in case of those men who don't listen and look at women in lustful ways... " Dariush, Dariush.... What about the case of lustful WOMEN who look at men??? Why shouldn't you wear a chador or at least a roosari? Women can really get lustful looking at a man's hair, did you know that? EXPOSED.
Dariush, Dariushe ba gheyrat says "I am defending my mother's honor, in my neighbor's home." No Dariush, you are not defending your mother's honor in a neighbor home. you are CONTRIBUTING to your mother being DISHONORED, and are doing so in your neighbor's home who would love to see her dishonored. You are the one who watches his mother being raped and offers the rapists chaayi va shirini. BADLY EXPOSED.
Dariush, aghaazadeh, I am tired of exposing you.
Rostam
Visualize Yassamine bahind Dariush with a strap-on!?
by Abgousht on Tue Aug 21, 2007 05:54 PM PDTOne of my wishes in life would be to see a bacheh akhoond like Dariush Abadi and a bacheh Kommonist like Yassamine Mather wearing a strap-on going at!?!?
Like I said....Classless
by Kaveh Nouraee on Tue Aug 21, 2007 05:47 PM PDTYou defend the indefensible. You are not defending Iran, you are defending the rapists and the pillagers of Iran, your beloved velayat-e-faqih, those mullahs who have prostituted the Iranian people and the Iranian nation and her resources, who line their pockets and Swiss bank accounts while you look at them all starry-eyed, as though they were rock stars, like some groupie with wet panties waiting backstage after a concert looking to fellate any one of them.
Iran is getting raped internally and you don't give a damn. If Arab-loving apologists like yourself don't care, why should the U.S., Britain or anyone else care? Better still, why not join the party? Iran is getting gang-raped by her own, and you sit there like some zan zaleel and watch and offer the rapists chai and cookies.
No one is saying negative anything about Iran or Iranians. It is the IRI that is the issue. Iran has every right to nuclear technology for civilian electrical generation. Iran even has the right to weapons technology, considering she is surrounded by Arabs, Russians, Turks and the Taliban. It is the IRI that has no right to any of those things because the IRI cannot be trusted.
Radical Islam started in Iran, not in either one of those septic tanks you call Saudi Arabia or Egypt. It started when that Moussavi, that untouchable Indian that you worship landed at Mehrabad Airport on February 1st, 1979, with the blessing of that inbred retard Jimmy Carter.
Yes, you have the right to say whatever you wish. because you are here in the U.S. Go back to Iran and see if you can do that. You probably cannot even log on to Iranian.com from over there. But what are you, Iranian or American? Make up your mind. If you are Iranian and truly feel that way, go back to the bosom of the IRI. If you are American, your comments border on treason. Either way, as usual, you are exposed for the hypocrite you are.