Iranian of the Day

Let's try and get him out

How pathetic for a government  to jail this genius for having recorded something that actually happened.  It's like denying truth.

Let's start a petition and get him out.   It works.

amoo jan, in afsar

amoo jan, in afsar bi-setareh dareh shiveye manteghesh ro be namayesh mizareh. hamin o bas.

You don’t see this kind of story in IRI news media.

Well now let see if Sargord can show us the same thing.Which IRI media news has reported Mr. Hamed Saber’s second arrest, in Iran andin Farsi.

This is the issue, to find out about Mr. Saber where aboutwe have to read it out side Iran. So comparing these two photographer’s stories is nonsense.  Mr.Saber’s life is indanger (as IRI has proven how easy for them to kill) but the American photographernever even had to worry about death, except lawsuit.   

How does Sargord Pirouz find the time

to go to so many websites to post the usual script?  Go check out NIAC blog. He's usually the very first to post.  It's almost as if he's trying to push the agenda of a 3rd party and create influence instead of having a discussion like the average poster.  I wonder if he or someone he knows is getting compensated for the large amount of time he spends defending the IRI at every single turn.

And the funny thing about Josh Wolf.  He ran for mayor afterwards.  The only thing iranian journalists are running for are their lives.

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Mr. Saber is very brave....he had the opportunity to leave Iran, but he decided to stay:

//iranian.com/main/news/2010/07/18/campaign-backs-student-photographer-arrested-over-protest-pix

Payvand reported his story, too......so campaign for his release is picking up momentum! That is great!

درود  به

I am very proud of Hamed

and the many Hamed's that our country produced.  Because I am PRO IRAN.

Meanwhile, the usual anti Iran pedophile rapist cheerleaders come here and instead of supporting brave Iranians like Hamed, make completely idiotic statements about what America may have done, and continue to make utter fools of themselves.

The Hamed's of our land have and always outlasted and will continue to outlast you parasites.

Sargord

I forgot to ask how are you paymasters at the IRGC?

Shameless and Empty as usual

once again proven himself- the fascist self proclaimed officer of the pedophile rapist mullahs.

I don't need to repeat what others have said here- your pathetic attempts to dig up any remotely comparable offence by the US to justify absolute barbarity of the pedophile rapist mullahs you support will go nowhere.  I challenge you to find one person here that buys your crap.  Of course, that won't stop you from continuing to generate it.  It is your job as the mercenary of a rapist criminal pedophile regime.

I love it when hypocrites like Sargooz quickly look at the US to compare Iran to when it comes to bad things.  Maybe one day such morons could enlighten us as to how the Islamic regimes record compares the US with respect to good things- such as contributions to humanity in fields of education, industry, jobs, medicine, technology, and so on.  

Once again, the hypocrites will come out empty, and just bark.  Well keep barking, you give people here more reason to laugh.  Hey, anything to pay your bills I guess. You are not even Iranian badbakhte beecharehye bee vatan va bee farhang.

Fake Sargord

I think everyone else has repudiated your ridiculous statements nicely so I am not going to add to that.

I just have one question for you - who in their right mind, if they believe in even the most basic standards of common decency and human rights, could possibly support the IRI's brutal repression of the Iranian people for the last 31 years? They are not pro-Iran, they are pro-Shia fanaticism (at the expense of Iran).

I look forward to reading your absurd comments on the day when this regime has been consigned to the dustbin of history.

Sargord

Why don't you take a long walk on a short pier and stop your IRI propaganda. This is not Iran that you can say and do what you please and no one question it.

once again feeble minded logic

so you're saying that to be anti IRI is to be anti Iran. Pitiful.

islamist regime is frightened of what this brave man represents

bravery, honesty, intelligence, free thinking, dedication to his work, and above all, his love for Iran.

Hamed is very BRAVE!

I am so proud of him as Iranian.

"Sargord", you have shown this to be your modus operandi

Whenever the IRI commits one of its daily atrocities, your immediate response is to draw a parallel (no matter how absurd, lame or farfetched) to some event in the U.S. that supposedly shows that the U.S. is doing it too, so why blame the poor IRI? You do it on this website and on other websites (e.g. the NIAC blog) and many other people on the website have recognized your pattern. "Pass khodeta beh Koocheh Ali chap nazan  :-)

But I can tell you this, Wolf's case didn't turn me anti-America. And Saber's case doesn't make me anti-Iran.  

The gibberish and nonsense uttered by you 100 times doesn't stop being gibberish and nonsense no matter how often you repeat it, so drop the pretense already. Opposing the Number One killer of Iranian men, women, and children is an eminently pro-Iranian act. There is nothing more anti-Iran than a regime that has killed so many thousands of Iranians in such ruthless ways--a number far in excess of any other regime in modern Iranian history. You live in the freedom of the West and yet you propagandize on behalf of a regime that kills and tortures Iranians. You are the textbook definition of an anti-Iranian hoodlum. 

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Saber's case does make me anti-Iran. IRI has put a lot of journalists in jail, like Maziar Bahari, Roxy Saberi, etc

//www.digitaljournal.com/article/274570

....IRI has shut down a lot of newspapers.

Hey, who said anything about

Hey, who said anything about justification? I merely stated there was a person held in the US in a case related to photographing a demonstration. I later clarified it was video, not photos.

We don't know the specific details of Saber's arrest. They could very well be related to specifics of the demonstration, which were core to the arrest of Wolf in San Francisco.

If Saber's arrest goes the way many such cases are handled in Iran, he probably won't be held for more than 90 days. In Wolf's case, he was held for 226.

It's all political. But I can tell you this, Wolf's case didn't turn me anti-America. And Saber's case doesn't make me anti-Iran. 

A Memory "Looser" Example

What is the “Josh Wolf” story in the memorial link of::

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Wolf

has anything to do with the “Hamed Saber“ story?? Read the “subpoena & arrest part” of Josh’s story carefully.

He had refused to turn in a court ordered “evidence” regarding a criminal activity. And what are Hamed's charges??  

"Sargord",

The circumstances are different (he was jailed NOT for taking the video but for refusing to follow a court order and turn the video over as evidence). That being said, I think it was unjust for him to be jailed. Did you hear that? I just denounced the authorities in the US for carrying out an unjust act.

As far as "the purely personal negative commentary you've directed my way in the past": I will never claim to be an angel, because I certainly dish it out to advocates of the Number One killer of Iranians, i.e. the IRI. We all have our "red lines" and mine is propagandizing on behalf of the most ruthless and violent regime in Iran's recent history. Compared to the barbarities meted out by the IRI, what goes on at IC is infinitesimal and capable of being handled by most adults (I've had IRI folks threaten me with bodily harm on this website, and I actually find their lame threats rather hilarious--but that's just me). 

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... For redundancy. Different format, though!

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pirouz you are that special kind of moron

who justifies one shameful act by using another as prescendent.

 And yes the details do escape your feeble mind. He was not arrested for TAKING the video but for refusing to give it up.

Any one w/ half a brain can tell the difference.

Found it. My memory was a

Found it. My memory was a little off on a couple of details. The journalist was arrested over video, not photography. And the person served 226 days in a federal prison, not the SF county jail.

Noteworthy:The video was related to an anti-G8 demonstration in SF in 2005.

Here's the URL:

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Wolf 

Amir, I certainly don't owe

Amir, I certainly don't owe you anything for the purely personal negative commentary you've directed my way in the past.

But I'll take the time to try finding it, so you can respond by saying how different he circumstances are between the two cases.

Can't give any guarantees on finding it, though. 

"Sargord": Provide links to that story

If memory serves me correctly, he spent months behind bars in the felony section of the SF county jail.    Please provide links to the story, so we can learn more about it. Thank you. 

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Well, IRI wants to arrest anyone who makes IRI look bad.....IRI wanted to arrest the doctor (Arash) who witnessed Neda's death.....the guy who recorded Neda's death on cell phone has fled to England....

Mr. Saber is very brave.....

Last June, 2009.....I watched on CNN that this Iranian photographer published protest photos he took with his real name.....he said that he is not afraid.....he also said that he loves his job more than his life! I believe Mr. Saber is that kind of person.

It is great to spread the word and keep him in the news! Thank you IC for featuring him as Iranian of the Day!

P.S. This photographer looks like Ben Stiller:

//www.webwombat.com.au/lifestyle/fashion_beauty/images/stiller-1.JPG

A couple of years back,

A couple of years back, there was a photographer jailed in San Francisco, for photos he took related to a political case, that was being tried in a criminal court.

If memory serves me correctly, he spent months behind bars in the felony section of the SF county jail. 

Imagining the image

I really don't understand the possible explanation behind the arrest of a photographer. Arresting a writer, an artist, or a composer might be justified on account of their personal contributions to the discourse; but a photographer is merely recording what is being perpetrated by others. Has he ever manipulated any images to his own political end?

visit....//www.tudehpartyiran.org/mardom.asp

It is important to post Info. like this

I am impresses with young man like him who keep us inform. Times has changed for IRI. they can't pick people of street and executed them in the name of their evil god(Islam)and think nobody notes. Thanks for the up date.