CARTOON

Do you guys remember the

Do you guys remember the constant French bashing, even by the govt. some time ago? "Freedom Fries" in govt. offices instead of french- fries??? ...?
Now a super-plus stupid dude called Ramirez draws a really deplorable cartoon...
(Do you know how many deplorable cartoons of Yanks and the govt... are drawn per day in the world???)
Cool it friends. Lets do something about the source of this attitude towards the people.
Unfortunately numerous idiotic people in different countries throughout the world cannot differentiate between governments and the people of a nation!
We cannot become the chomagh be-dast people all the time.
There will come a time, with the current political atmosphere, that we will become the people to whom you cannot say Balay-e Cheshmet Abroost!
It's not being 'bee- gheyrat' to pay no heed to the likes of Ramirez and the Columbus.
It's the story of the barking dog and the 'asghal' under your foot that you pay NO attention to. There could be more of these ashghals.
Anyway, what they are doing is not against any laws!

But we should go ahead and try to fix the problem.The real problem.

To: KHASHMGIN (an IDIOT)

where did I claim that? Are you daydreaming again? Go take your ADHD medication, you idiot!

Re: ALMwhOre 5000

Almo, if you claim all these people who are being hanged are prostitutes and murderes, then you belong up there with your neck in the noose too. You are an IRI whore who is less than a prostitue that sells her body. At least a prostitute has more dignity that you.

The reason they "allegedly"

The reason they "allegedly" commit crimes is because of abject povery. More than 40% of the Iranian population lives below poverty level. Iran has the highest rate of drug addicts in the world. Do you think that's by accident? NO, The mullahs deliberately keep people sedated and poor to avoid establishing a vibrant middlecalss who will end up turning against them just like they did during the Shah's time.

The mullahs and Islamic clergies from other muslim countries, in general, don’t want to see successes brought into the Muslim world, because success lessens the hold the radical Islamists/dictators have on entire populations. The radical Islamists across the ME have much on common with the failed and dysfunctional leaders they claim to hate. They are fighting to prevent an empowered and educated Muslim population. Religious freedoms, individual rights and human rights are anathema to radical Islamist ideologies. Those ideologies demands the murder of those whose behavior they find offensive, best administered in a cruel and brutal fashion. How else are they going to fill their mosques if people were properous and busy with making their country and lives and their future. How else are they going to stay as representative of God on earth if people got educated and saw right through their nonsense. had a future to work for and to look forward to.

The horrendous poverty in Iran is abominable while being one of the second largest oil-rich countries in the world. If you compare economies of other countries that don't even have oil, they are doing much better on every economic indices; GDP, Income per capita, etc. Check out the statstitic for Malaysia, for instance.

The reason these people "allegedly" commit crimes because they have no jobs, no future to look forward to.

The reason they are so many poor in Iran is because the IR spends billions of dollars to fund and buy Arab militia in Lebanon and Palestine. South Lebanon is rebuild while Bam after 4 years of the earthquake remains pile of rubbles. The reason there are so many poor in Iran is because the IRI pays for Aghazadeh and Basiji Boursiah.

We have no way of knowing if they are political dissidents or are conveniently labeled as "murderers" on trumped up charges, routinely used by the IRI. The process of arriving at such verdict and the method by which the death sentence is carried out in Iran are highly suspect. The judiciary, legal system and courts, in general, in Mullah ruled Iran are absolutely dysfunctional. Two different people can be sentenced to two different punishments for exactly the same crime depending on how much each one is favored by those in charge of passing the sentence.(e.g. Basiji have free reign in killing,murder, rape and torture). Khodi vs Ghayre Khodi are subjected to different laws.

If laws against murder, stealing, adultery, rape, and so one were to be applied fairly across the board, the ruling mullahs (e.g. Mortazavi wanted man for murdering Zahara Kazemi) should all be hanged.

Please watch the video: (Warning: graphic)

//www.liveleak.com/view?i=2a0_1185106657

Another sly soled Antellectual

The whole article is to deceitfully play down the anti-iranian nature of the IRI, if the IRI were a part of our doomed destiny.

No, the IRI is YOUR government! Not ours! Not from any democrat, secular, patriotic, and free Iranian!
This only yours.

to : Khashmgin1 who is really khashmgin after watching video !

Khashmgin,

If you do to the people that you disagree with, what you had said in your message, I am sure "$75M Club" will  give you a raise (may be you will be up to $3.00). They are always after unjust behavior towards Iranians, and therefore will like what you said you will do. . At this time, you are probably the poorest member of the "$75M Club".. I heard Esfanddoolchi makes $1M as "senior member" of that club. Of course she went to jail too! Well, here ia plan for you: Go to Tel Aviv to your uncle, and come back after 3 months and tell the $75M club management that you were in jail in Evin. After all your uncle's home in Tel Aviv is no better than Evin prison in Iran!  May be they will believe you and give you $1M.

Al 

message from a pro-IRI son of his father

Dear Kashk-migi 1
Do you know why they are being hanged? I suggest do a little search before you commit your family alliance to them. (unless you are happy to have rapist, murderers, and drug dealers as your brothers & sisters!..)

Re: Fellow wonderful Iranians

I watched the video of the hangings. It makes me so angry that I swear the next pro-IRI bastard son of bitch I see, I'll beat the crap out of him. I am refering to those pro-IRI bastards who are sitting happy in the US while their masters are killing our brothers and sisters in Iran. I'll kick your &^% ass you son of &^%&.

Prepare yourselfs....

Americans are coming.

Fellow wonderful Iranians,

Fellow wonderful Iranians, please, let's get outraged about thes horrendous news:

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

//www.meydaan.org/

//www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1332...

//www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?...

Kaleh Pacheh + Domballan Kabob

Mosadeq was infested with the commies in 1953 exaclty the same way CD depicting Iran being infested with the terrorist mullahs (cockroaches) today.

What do you do with cockroaches? You squish them. That's what US did with the commie Mosadeq and his thugs in 1953. That's what US will do with the terrorist cockroaches (mullahs) in 2008.

Just wait and see.o).

Re: Almord5000

Almo you quoted an Iranian professor saying "I don't cry to what we have become (today)-- I cry for what we could become (if not for the 1953 coup) and are not"

I added the words in paranthesis for clarifications. Please send the following note to the professor:

According to the released CIA documents, if the Shah could not be a viable solution, then Britain and US had a secondary plan. They would arm the then mostly arab population of Khuzestan and finance and support their separatist movement, and utlitmately recognize Khuzestan as an independent arab country. They even had calculated for the possible Soviets' objection: Give them Azarbaijan.

USA, Britan and Soviet Union could and would do this, and IRAN DID NOT HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEM.

So when the professor says "I don't cry to what we have become (today)-- I cry for what we could become (if not for the 1953 coup) and are not...", just tell him to stop crying for what we could have become if there was no coup in 1953. Iran's map would look different today, and he would end up crying even more.

DON'T MAKE AN EMAMZADEH OUT OF MOSADEGH. Don't just considere the ideal and best case scenario that could result under his rule. Also consider other less ideal but very highly possible scenarios, like the one I mentioned. Mossadegh was a patriot but an aweful politician who did not know who to play Iran's weak hand against three super powers.

1800, I have read yours

clearly you are mad at refreshing your memoery about our  sad history. That will not get you anywhere. You need to learn from it, like a good boy!

By the way, where in my writing did I say anything "islamists"  or"jihadists"? Are you a Glenn Beck/ Rush Limbough type who call people names when they disagree with them and cannot find logic to defend? Go get a life!

almoo5000: I have read your

almoo5000: I have read your one-sided comments laced with islamic jihadism on this forum. It is exactly because of people like you that we are where we are. I don't want to resort to ad hominem attacks like you have done...but you my friend are the epitomy of dogmatic upbrining that has befallen the Iranian nation, and I'm not basing my comments concerning you only from just this thread. I normally don't respond to Ismaist with agenda. I really don't have time to argue the 1953 coup; it's adverse effects or it's merits. One can present a well-reasoned argument for both case from many different perspectives and ideologies. This thread is not about rehashing history.

Btw, the coup of 1978 was just as manufactured as the one in 1953 and I don't see you crying about that. Just read the book, "A century of War" by William Engdhall. I know you're not interested in facts and evidence since they don't corroborate your self-serving agenda here in this forum, but just in case. I really have to go now...good day!

I can assure you that ethnocentricity on either side (both Iran and U.S.) will not bring about peace and harmony in the world. I'm sure the Professor will agree with me.

Food for thought:

"No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded--Jawaharlal Nehru

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge
--Elbert Hubbard

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth--Charles A. Dana

re: statements by 1953:2007

Obviously (at least obvious to me) you are not familiar with the Iranian history and the kind of damage that was done to Iran and character of its people due to that thugary by the US government in 1953. You can probably not even comprehend the backwardness that that thugary brought to Iran due to lost confidence of its people, my nation. This forum or the like is too precious to be wasted to educate you. you need to educate yourself. Go read the history, or at least listen to those who have read it. As philosophers have said: "An individual whose heart is broken may take him/her decades to recover. For a nation, it can take centuries". As a professor (of Iranian heritage) has said" "I don't cry to what we have become -- I cry for what we could become and are not" (due to that thugary of 1953). (My paraphrase of her statement after she had reviewed the book written on the subject by a NYT writer).

Al

anonymous: Again, according

anonymous: Again, according to you logic, Japanese who were nuked by the U.S., should be blowing up every city in America left and right....And should chant "Death to America" all day long every day of the week....how did they get revenge? Japna is the largest creditor to America with the second largest economy in the world...

You need to move one too. You're not adding to the debate...It's 2007. How long are youg going to use victimhood as a crutch or justification for the sad state of affairs and hate-mongering? It's really boring....What are consequences of this revenge seeking. There is a Chinese saying, " If you look for revenge, dig two graves.

Some might argue that 1953 coup was the best thing that happened to Iran, and some thing it was the end of Iran and will remain the end to eternity...but that's another discussion entirley.

re: Professor Mahdi Lets Move (on)

Hey Man,
Those who FORGET the HISTORY, they repeat it. Why should we forget what the THUGS did in 1953?

1800 -> 1953

Hey 1800,

Remember 1953!? when you think hostage crisis, think 1953 first. A good place to start is Stephen Kinzer's "Overthrow," then maybe you'll understand the roots of the problem. And keep in mind. Kinzer is not exactly the kind of reporter that would challenge the establishment. His reporting on Nicaragua, was in harmony with Reagan's BS.

Professor Mahdi: Let's move

Professor Mahdi: Let's move on. You're stating the obvious. It's frankly boring. You don't understand the American culture either as much as you claim Americans don't understand Iran. It's two way street. If you really want to build a bridge, you can't use fighting words. You need to understand how and why almost half of the American electorate think of Iranians and start from there instead of being offended. Americans were deeply affected by the hostage crisis, and they haven't forgotten about it. You think only Iranians are entitled to revenge and grievances? No, Iranians don't have a monopoly on hate, revenge and patriotism.

Good place to start making a bridge by debating and using well-reasoned argument; substantiated by facts instead of opinion, to prove your point.

//tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-whereabou...

WOW

That's a remarkably accurate programme. I hope the White House isn't reading it!!!

Speaking of terrorism...

Of course, history speaks for itself. All you have to do is not be ignorant of history. But check this out:

1. Bush and Cheney order their henchmen in the media to prepare public opinion for an attack on Iran.

2. A B-52 flies from North Dakota with six nukes and arrives in Louisiana with 5 nukes.

3. The air force base in Louisiana is a jumping point for Middle East.

4. Nukes are normally transfered on the ground, so as to minimize the risk of loosing them in case of an accident.

5. There is a general air force stand down scheduled for Sep. 14th.

6. The last time there was a general stand down was Sep. 10th, 2001.

I hope this all conspiracy theory nonsense, but just in case, you do the math!

What do you exepct him to do?

What do you expect him to do? I mean when someone calls Iran (not the IRI, but Iran itself) a septic tank, how do you expect the response should be? With taarof va noghlo nabaat?

To the guy who calls Iran a septic tank: You were born and raised there you scum, and if not you, your parents were. What a jerk.

please disagree respectfully,

there is no need for all this name calling and insults between commentators. Please discuss, debate, and reason as much as you wish, but why insults in front of the whole world? We should be able to do better!

Furthermore, (to the asshole

Furthermore, (to the asshole who calls Iran a septic tank)

That cartoon depicts Iranians and Iran as cockroaches. Your effort in whitewashing and spinning don't fly here, IQs here are higher than the likes of you (just continue bending over with your eyes closed in your life).

"I would have depicted it as

"I would have depicted it as a septic tank!!"

And I call you for what you are, an asshole.

You #$%^%$ fanatics have shit on the world, the whole lot of you, and I don't give a shit which specific brand of prejudice and fanaticism you (the write of that crap) personally have bent over for in your life.

The pay grade of the Islamic Republic Thugs....

Juts heard on NPR barrel of oil reached $80, highest ever. The thugs of the Islamic Republic of Mullahs (IRM) are jumping up and down since the increase in the price of oil means more money for them!

The IRM plunders the wealth of the Iranians based as much as $80x 365x 4.5 M barrels per day = $131.4 B a year!

If IRM paid 1% of this to its thugs in Europe, Canada, and America, that would be equivalent to $ 1.3 B (Billion) a year.

Of course, IRM pays according to skills and years of experience of each thug:

Hooder types get paid: $100 K a year since they have to travel to many conferences.
Dariush Abadi:$ 50K.
….
…
Elmo69: $10 K since he is a single digit IQ (cipher.)

Abgousht

Re: Almord5000

Almord, you are at the shahis again?

When the Shah was in power, nobody would draw these kind of cartoons about Iran. We had respect everywhere. Until your types came along and destroyed Iran's image in the world.

Iranians are being humiliated outside by the Western media, and inside by IRI. We are fighting in two fronts. Then there are the likes of you, IRI lackeys, who are the true infestation and cancer of Iran.

The correct cartoon would show the map of Iran as a flower garden and Iranians as colorful and beautiful flowers. And near Ghom, it would show a sewage from which the mullahs and your likes are crawling out as roaches and worms, infesting this beautiful garden and its flowers.

The CD cartoon was right on the money

The fact that the inhabitants of the Islamic Republic have not made up their minds on choosing between "Iran" and "Islam=Terrorism" should not prevent the civilized world to portray the country as what really it is which is nothing but the source of terrorism for the past 28 years. The CD has been too kind to depict IR as a cockroach infested sewer. I would have depicted it as a septic tank!!

Iran is not part of Moslem World.

The cartoon was offensive to Iranian people, however not insulting to IRI. The responses from Iranians were valid for preserving our nationality. However, I protest identifying Iran as a part of Moslem world.

This is insulting to all Iranian freedom seeker. Iran is not a Moslem country. Iran is occupied by Moslems. Can’t you comprehend that Iranians have been for centuries struggling to free themselves from chain of Islam? Read your Ferdowsi.

Iranians can not reach desired liberty and democracy unless this religion is completely pushed aside. Islam can not recognize liberty, democracy and human rights. Its tenets oppose all international laws.

Stop your illusion about Islam and this IRI regime.

US Government to respond

I think this case should be sent to the white house and ask for their reaction.
I would suggest a peaceful gathering in front of the news paper.