آیتالله خامنهای در پاسخ به استفتائی درباره مفهوم «التزام به ولایت فقیه، که بتازگی در پایگاه اطلاع رسانی دفتر آیتالله خامنهای انتشار یافته است، تصریح کرده است : «همین که از دستورات حکومتى ولى امر مسلمین اطاعت کنید نشانگر التزام کامل به آن است». رهبر جمهوری اسلامی، در پیامی خطاب به نمایندگان مجلس شورای اسلامی خاطرنشان کرده بودند: «خدشه در التزام به ولایت فقیه و تبعیت از رهبری، خدشه در کلیه نظام اسلامی است.»>>>
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Well with Richard III It would be a Hard Day's Night ...;0)
by Darius Kadivar on Fri Jul 23, 2010 10:40 AM PDTEspecially with Peter Sellers at the Helm and the Beatles for the Prose ...
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UnFPB7n5JI
Same with the Outtakes:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL5eNHYV4Sg&feature=related
Hoshang Targol
by AMIR1973 on Fri Jul 23, 2010 09:54 AM PDTThat is hilarious. I think you and Eroonman are in competition for Poet Laureate of Iranian.com. We'll call it the Sheykh's Pir award :-)
All ya "Big Willie" fans, how about some "Richard III?"
by Hoshang Targol on Fri Jul 23, 2010 09:09 AM PDTwith some minor modifications
" Now is the winter of our discontent,
Made glorious by the smoke of this Vafour!"
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Or think about this exchange in Act I. Scene II.:
Anne. Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man:
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
Glo[R-III]. But I know none, and therefore am nobeast.
Anne. O! wonderful, when devils tell the truth.
No changes needed here.
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I guess the ending will change from :
" A horse, a horse my kingdom for a horse,"
to
" Manghal o Vafor, Manghal o Vafor, my kingdom for manghal o vafor!"
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It might sound better in Persian!
A story from elmentary school days
by Piadeh on Fri Jul 23, 2010 05:50 AM PDTI remember a story from our Farsi texts, in elementary school, when Sandbade Bahri (Please correct me if I am wrong) travels to far distant lands. Once he reaches to a small island where the inhabitants were all crawling instead of walking. One of them begs Sandbad to carry him, on his shoulder, to the other side of the river where his family was. Sandbad, upon sympathy and mercy towards poor paralyzed creature, carries him on his shoulder to the other side of the river. Safely ashore, he tries to put him down. The creature locks his legs around Sanbads neck, beating him on the head and orders him around....
Days and months go by and Sandbad was serving his cruel mastr day and night until he thinks of a way to get him. He tells the creature that he can make him a sort of drink that he never had and the creature accepts the offer. Sandbad makes some wine for him and the creature drinks so much that falls sleep. Sandbad manages to get him off his neck.
Comparison
by Jahanshah Javid on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:12 AM PDTEscape, the injustice and brutalities committed by the Islamic Republic against citizens just in the past year has been far worse than 50 years of Pahlavi atrocities combined. This does not mean the shah was good! It means we got rid of one dictatorship and built another more disgusting than anything we could have imagined. The problem then and now is lack of fundamental rights and freedoms. Regimes come and go. The IRI will too. That's a given. What's uncertain is whether we have learned any lessons, whether we want real democracy with a government by the people for the people with checks and balances and respect for human rights... or will we be satisfied by just getting rid of the mollas and killing them all? Do we want to end the endless cycle of dictatorships or do we just want to replace aba and ammameh with suits and ties?
yes this cartoon has been recycled many times over, but
by fidelio5 on Thu Jul 22, 2010 06:12 PM PDTthats only because it makes many leftist Iranians who marched in 1979 feel less bad about themselves. portraying the mullahs as a shah in another dress makes them feel less guilty.
They still have blood on their hands.
Wow JJ really?
by Escape on Thu Jul 22, 2010 05:12 PM PDTThe Ayatollah has become 100 times worse than the Shah? I mean I despise the IRI but the stories of the Shah and Savak are horrendous as well aren't they? I think it's very possible the Shah may have come out of his overpowering dominance in time but who know's.Monarchy could have went the other way also which it seemed like it was and Iran would have had a tyrant leading a smaller type of China or N.Korea,the same path the IRI has taken.I guess it's a coin toss..Just my opinion.
A Further Reminder ...
by R2-D2 on Thu Jul 22, 2010 05:00 PM PDTA man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
King Lear, Act IV, scene vi
P.S. Again, which is the justice, which is the thief?
FYI/ Richard II's deposition 'un-crowning' scene
by Darius Kadivar on Thu Jul 22, 2010 03:40 PM PDTRichard II's deposition scene (Ian McKellen and Fiona Shaw) :
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7-i1MVjnYM&feature=related
This scene, of ritualized 'un-crowning', is not just a striking visual tableaux on stage (hard to imagine it all from just the text) but Shakespeare makes it even more than that--the mentions of parallels with God, the mirror bit, the issues you see actors in this excerpt wrestle with--the scene was not included in publishings of this play during Elizabeth's reign.
Thank You My Hearty Knights & Milady for your feedbacks ;0)
by Darius Kadivar on Thu Jul 22, 2010 03:35 PM PDTAnd Milady Shifteh Jaan in particular for the explanation.
Actually I looked at it again and revised my opinion. ;0)
I did not immediately make the connection with Khamenei's recent speach and that is why I was kind of surprised by Kowsar's comparison given that he is often far more subtle in his cartoons.
From 'The Life and Death of Richard the Second - Act 3, Scene 2':
King Richard II
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=W79o9ff-HSY
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,
And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood
With solemn reverence: throw away respect,
Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,
For you have but mistook me all this while:
I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,
How can you say to me, I am a king?
Khamenei's Coronation Speech
by Shifteh Ansari on Thu Jul 22, 2010 01:59 PM PDTDear Darius:
Art is always and inevitably open to the interpretation of the viewer. I cannot know for sure what the artist meant here, but I would like to suggest that the artist is not really attacking or criticizing the Shah or monarchism here, even though he may have strong opinions about the subject one way or the other. In my opinion, in this piece Nikahang Kowsar is reciting from his personal memory, years of education and brainwashing by the Islamic Republic in which they bashed the Shah and portrayed him as a dictator who crowned himself and accepted no limit to his power, thereby making the Islamic Revolution inevitable, and now they see Ali Khamenei do the same thing.
I think he is essentially saying that the Supreme Leader attempted his own coronation through the fatwa he issued this week, giving himself unlimited and unchecked power at the level of the prophet, if not higher. The irony of what Khamenei said this week is most profoundly palpable for people of Nikahang Kowsar's generation. Against all that they have read, seen and heard for years, this particular fatwa has had a very negative impact on many in Iran, making them indignant and very angry.
We should be aware that the "fatwa" has been removed from the leader's website today, after it was removed from government operated news websites yesterday following the very negative and outraged public reaction to its message as seen on the internet.
A Reminder ...
by R2-D2 on Thu Jul 22, 2010 01:59 PM PDTPut rancours in the vessel of my peace
Only for them; and mine eternal jewel
Given to the common enemy of man,
To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!
Rather than so, come fate into the list,
And champion me to the utterance!
MACBETH, Act III, Scene I
P.S. Banquo kings, or, Iranian kings, Any Difference - Really .......???????
Actually "khalifa" is what khamenei is aspiring to become.
by fooladi on Thu Jul 22, 2010 01:35 PM PDTOf course highly unlikely if he'd ever see that day....
"Marg bar (Ayatol)Shah" all over again
by Jahanshah Javid on Thu Jul 22, 2010 01:08 PM PDTIt speaks the language of those in power, those who have become 100 times worse than anything the shah did or was.
Is This Supposed To Be Original ? or Kowsar lacked Inspiration ?
by Darius Kadivar on Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:50 PM PDTN'importe Quoi ... Ne Melangeons Pas Les Torchons et Les Serviettes ...
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPHW-ldSeqY
When Did Anyone Read that Iran's Zahak was a Legitimate Heir to the Majestic Crown of Iranzamin ? ...
The British had Prince John and Even a Green Movement to oppose him ...
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-I7nvVUqJ4
We have Prince Ali ...
Hardly a King in My Book !
Life Stage Sign (Ayat) ???
by Demo on Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:15 AM PDT"and GOD createth you, then causeth you to die, and among you is he who is brought back to the "most abject stage of life," so that he knoweth nothing after (having had) knowledge. lo! GOD is knower, powerful." (Verse 70, Chapter 16 of Quran)
Did the most "Moazam" ever have any "knowledge" at all???