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Siavash Jan

I am still waiting to read answers to onlyiran questions. No answer

You are not going to get a response from IRR supporters. Abarmard or anyone else who supports this have nothing to say. What do you expect them to sya. How is it possible for anyone to defend such actions. There is nothing to say here.

Onlyiran qustions has not been answered yet. Why?

I am still waiting to read answers to onlyiran questions. No answer from Abarmard yet. I am also waiting to see what kind of punishment Mr.researcher is suggesting for these 54 individuals who turtured and murdured our people. What kind of punishment you're suggesting for those who robbed our country and accomulated their money in Canada and Swiss bank.

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How can we bring these monsters to the trail for justice?

Researcher?

Hijab is not 3000 years old. Do some research for goodness sake. Hijab is Islamic. Sassanid high class women wore a veil by choice at times. But that was not hijab and not 3000 years old.

Arabs had to put hijab on their women. Because old Moe' (aka Mohammad) could not keep his johnson off any woman he saw. So the Arabs figure out a way to keep the SOB out of thier family and women's ***.

Hey Shutur

Nation builders?

You are right they would make great "amaleh". I need a new shed built; mayby I should hire them.

Abarmard

Fine not a dictatorship of one but a totalaterian system of a few. Does that make it any better? They sure love to execute people.

PS: What is the deal with the ears anyway ?

Abarmard, have you ever heard of a concept called

theocracy? How about " Gender-Apartheid"?

Capitan Kirk to Mr. Spock: "You're really skating on this ice young man!"

Dictatorship?

The term dictatorship has a clear definition and Iran doesn't fall into that. Iran has a despotic system, groups trying to gain the wealth and fight for the positions of power. There is no one single individual who can make the final decision, and if he does it won't mean that the issue is resolved.

Iranian people are mad at many things. There are many things done right, to a limit that doesn't make positives appear brightly.  What makes Iran different than many countries in the region is the lack of establishment, meaning the change seems to be around the corner! The fight is not done and people are waiting for a their turn.

Most people I spoke to had a more realistic vision for the future than what we normally discuss here. One thing is for certain, a lot of people have a nostalgic feeling about Shah's era but realize it gone.

Interestingly enough, the positives is gone unnoticed because of a great mistrust among upper middle class and secular lower class. Still there are plenty of conservatives and those who are more worried about values than economy. However they can be categorized as silent population who would be content with change. 

The Islamic groups are not happy with the government either. As mentioned earlier in the comment, they realize that the system has taken their religious beliefs hostage and they feel more constrain under the system than most upper class Iranians.

Cities vary in regard to social freedoms. In most places in Shiraz, life seems very relaxed. For example during religious days of Moharam, many homes had parties and one could hear dancing and laughter sounds. This would not be possible in Esfahan. In Tehran also, depending where you live you could enjoy more social freedom than those living further south of the city. Perhaps because people in those area are also want different things.

Generally speaking, most people who have made some money, have created a company under this situation, and specifically more technical (also real estate) field, are more pleased than those who want government jobs. Their concerns are not based on their life but their children.

Iran is not a horrible place to live. On the contrary, with a few changes of policies and more open economy, it will change less than five years. The infrastructure is close to perfect and people have become more specialized, more modern, and in some ways very civil.

As a visitor however, one would not feel that the country is a "dictatorship" (and as I mentioned, it's not). The system realizes that their laws are flawed for many people in regard to social freedoms. The population openly and actively questions the system without any fright of being cut. I even had a encounter with Ershad groups that had come to see the dress code. They were not angry and uncivil, but very polite and actually saw many girls without hejab, meaning their hejab was a down to their neck, as low as it could be, but left the place. Regardless, them being there made people mad.

As a visitor to Iran, many would be pleasantly surprised and as a citizen of Iran, many are just waiting for change...

More on this later.

Abarmard, have you ever heard of a concept called

Mr. Chokh Bakhtiar. You're displaying an uncanny resemblance. Enjoy the rest of you trip.

Abarmard, have you ever heard of a concept called

self contradiction?  On the on hand, you claim that the IR is not a dictatorchip, but on the other hand, you say this:

 They only care if you are studious and look like a religious and book warm individual. Then you will be under the microscope.

and this:

 Just to answer a simple question about blocked sites, I personally use vpn to access Internet and sites. Skype is also blocked and I use skype to call US from here.

You do realize that you's contradicting yourself, right?

Mr.Researcher, we are here for love,not hate

We are here for love of Iran, not hate from individuals. We all know that soon our great people will send these criminals, who robbed our country for last 31 years and accumulated their money in Europe and Canada, to the dumpster of history, where they belong to.

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Now, what make us close and relate to each other is NOT hate, it is love for our country Iran. Regime change, but our love for Iran remains forever.

 Hejob issue came to picture since these criminals took power in 1979. That makes it 31 years, not 3000 years. We all remember during shah days no one forced to wear hejab. If someone like to do so, that was fine and if someone didn't want to do so that was fine too.

I am still waiting for onlyiran's questions to be answsered. No answsers so far.

Dadash Abarmard speaks the truth

Government doesn't give a damn about you being drunk, talk politics, being punk, or anything. 

If "they" think that you are stylish and want fun, they know you are harmless and leave you alone. 

The Islamic Republic is the truest definition of a free country. You can "talk politics" all you like and wear what you want, say what you want, write what you want, and be what you want. No need to worry about anything, because they will "leave you alone". Compared to the freedom-loving Islamic Republic, the United States is a fascist dictatorship. 

"Iran bekhab. Ham Seyyed Ali va ham Abarmard bidarand". 

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Hi! Abarmard,

     Please do a photo essay, too if you don't mind!

Please give Iranian people my regards!

Thanks,

I will write once I get back

Just to answer a simple question about blocked sites, I personally use vpn to access Internet and sites. Skype is also blocked and I use skype to call US from here.

If anyone of you have truly visited Iran should know that people bypass block sites. 

Buying gifts from stores and etc. I have also noticed that people are drunk. The smell of Vodka is very strong and not surprising to others. I have had scotch and beer and it's plentiful, about $10 more expensive than US. A decent scotch is $50 here.

Government doesn't give a damn about you being drunk, talk politics, being punk, or anything. They only care if you are studious and look like a religious and book warm individual. Then you will be under the microscope.

If "they" think that you are stylish and want fun, they know you are harmless and leave you alone. 

This is based on Shiraz experience so far. As mentioned, I will try to write once I return.

Onlyiran

I don't think Abarmard is saying that Iran has no problems. The point he makes, as I understand it, is that the problems are not such and are not ONLY due to a few individuals and therefore the solution is not to put the images of a few on cards and start a bloodshed like quite a few people on this thread suggesting.

The issues you are referring to exist in most countries - I mean similar issues. Some of these issues are AT LEAST 3000 years old (such as hejab). By murdering a few people and destroying a government this issue will NOT go away. Hejab, or at least a version of it, was also enforced on people in the US and European countries until as late as about 50 years ago. The US was a COMPLETELY different scene 50 years ago. The emancipation of women is a VERY recent event. 6.5 billion people are not going to follow it within a few years. NO government can change that.

So the point is to look at things as they are and not exaggerate and make up stories or just concentrate on shortages or problems and present a false image. 

That's great Abarmard. So let me ask you a few questions

1) did you use a proxy to write your comments from Iran because this site is blocked by the very "polite" government agents of the IR?  If yes, then please reconcile that with the sense of freedom and lack of dictatorship that you feel in Iran.

2) Did you visit Evin?  Better yet, did you try to take a picture of it?  Try it!  Zahra Kazemi did.  Let us know how that works out for you.  I'm sure the government will be very polite to you there.

3) The place that you're staying at, how far is that from Evin?  Have you ever thought about the people who are in that prison--a short distance from you I assume--while you enjoy the beautiful weather?  If yes, how do you feel about that?  If no, why not?

4) Do you feel comfortable mentioning the word Evin in a comment while you're in Iran?  If so, please mention the word.  If you don;t feel comfortable because you may be scared that the lines leading to the computer that you're using are being monitored, please tell us how you reconcile that with the sense of freedom that you speak about? 

5) Did you see any women without forced hejabs?  No?  What do you think will happen if they want to go outside without for some fresh air without a "roosari?"  Have one of your relatives try it, and let us know how that expression of freedom works out for them.

We will eagerly await your responses.  Thank you. 

Writing from Iran

Abarmard jaan, we are here to express HATRED. So please don't ruin our hate party. We hate, hate, hate, hate IRI? We don't want to hear what the facts are. We want Iran to turn into Iraq - the same way Israelis created the Iraq's deck of card and started the bloodshed. We want bloodshed without trial. We are SURE we know who is the criminals, just like we were SURE about Iraq. Now Iraq is a heaven and we want Iran to turn into such a heaven (for Israel). Thank you for your consideration.

JJ asked,  Why is Khamenei

JJ asked,  Why is Khamenei number 2 ?  Good question.

Because Khamenei didn't say, Israel must be wiped off the map.  That explains who has made this list !!!!!

Unfortunately, some of these individuals are guilty and should stand trial in a just court within Iran,  Just as many from west and Israel should stand trial for their crimes against humanity in an international court.  

Our internal issues can be resolved without violence. Unfortunately, some in the system would rather to abuse the little power they have and use guns rather than logic and common sense.  They need to come to their senses and stick a needle to themselves before sticking a nail to others. Otherwise, they will force people to speak their language sooner or later.      

54 great men and nation-builders

Iranians owe everything to these 54 great figures. Without them, Iran would be the pisshole that Iraq has become under U.S occupation.

Marg bar zedde velayate faqih!

How stupid is that?

How stupid is this? How can you find something worse, more stupid? I hope people understand, otherwise, there would be really no hope for a Free and Prosperous Iran in the near future.

Dr Shodja Eddin Ziaian

"Abarmard" turned "Mr. Spock" on Star Trek

Hey, Mr. Spock, this is your Captain Kirk speaking. Our USS Enterprise has been landed in Baghdad, Iraq for a week now. People here have a message for AN over there . They want you to ask him these questions "imagine if your country had been occupied by the US invaders instead of ours and they had installed a puppet regime for your country what would have been your reaction to see Sadam be the first recognizing such regime as you did over night? What would have been your people lives now over there if more than 1 million of them had been killed after 8 years of occupation? How could your people be "relaxed & expressive" when your neighbors over here are suffering & facing deaths every day? 10/4.

Mr. Abarmard

Abarmard? What a name by the way! It means Superman. Well, at least it is good to see that you are delusional in many levels. Perhaps that explains it!

You are right my friend. There is no sense of dictatorship and there is ample freedom of speech Iran today. However, why don't you speak freely and then check the freedom after you have spoken. You'll probably enjoy the experience immensely! Also, while you are there, take the family s for a little side trip to Evin and Kahrizak. I am sure you will enjoy the amount of culture and love that is just oozing from there in the loving bosom of Hossein bazjoo and Co. While you are at it, take a walk, with the kids in your family to where Neda was shot and put just one rose stem  on that corner where she died for me please. Wait for a few short minutes and then you will experience such Love rushing to you and the kids with high speed. It will certainly be educational.    

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Is that true that:

There is no sense of dictatorship here but bad policies and it's true.

working from the islamic

working for the islamic republic has its perks like access to banned sites.  btw, amir jan, it's true that people talk freely in iran (as long as there's no rish o pashm around them).  in my last trip to iran, they couldn't stop cussing out the corrupt government.

The list is much longer.

When I was back home last summer, a year after the post election uprisings, people in my neighbourhood still talked - quitly between themselves- about the local bassijis and new  addresses for those who had left the neighborhood.

Having denied basic justice, the desire for revenge in Iran against the islamist regime is very very high. We are talking about a blood bath in Iran after the islamist regime is ovethrown....

And yes, iranian.com is blocked in Iran. only the selected few mandated by the islamist regime can access iranian.com from within iran. 

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

I thought Iranian.com was blocked in Iran?

Regarding Abarmard's uplifting dispatch from the Democratic People's Islamic Republic of Iran, I think every word is true. For example:

Nothing hateful but the feeling that the country with is capable to achieve more with the same system. 

The system is called "Eslam-e Nab-e Mohammadi", now in its 22nd year of being led by the popularly elected Leader, Khamenei. 

There is no sense of dictatorship here but bad policies and it's true. People are very relaxed and expressive.  

Iranians enjoy many freedoms that folks in dictatorships are denied, for example, freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of (and from) religion, etc.

"Iran bekhab. Ham Seyyed Ali va ham Abarmard bidarand".

PS-Writing from Iran

PS. People also don't watch the speeches and the events similarly as Iranians outside. Most of the talks that Iranians outside take word by word, goes mostly unoticed as unimportant here.

Writing from Iran

Iran is just amazing. Love the sense of the city life, unexplainable. I am not sure if people share the same level of language as what is presented in Iranian.com as opposite to the system. The level of dissatisfaction varies, mostly in regard to wrong economic policies, some to personal behavior in social settings....Nothing hateful but the feeling that the country with is capable to achieve more with the same system.

I have spoken to many different people here, these are not my thoughts but observation of deeper level talks. I also have found people to be very civil, starting from the police to every government and civilian life. Full of culture and full of surprises. Love Iran and a trip is a healthy way to see the country of your own background. 

There is no sense of dictatorship here but bad policies and it's true. People are very relaxed and expressive. More observation if time permits.

Happy Tuesday...By the way, weather has been surprisingly beautiful. Love it.

Thanks all Iranians who are standing against these criminals

Soon these monsters are going to dance with devil on the other side. These are the criminals who destroyed our beautiful Iran for last 31 years and convert it to the dirt hole. These are the ones who raped our virgin sisters the night before their execution in Iran prisons. These are the ones who created mass grave from execution of our brothers on cemetary of Behesht-e- Zahra. These monsters didn't even allow their family members to put a tombstone the grave of their love ones. Iran is going through the darkest time in it's history,but there is always light at the end of tunnel. No need for trail. Dropping the buster bomb on the house of these murders will send them all to hell. Khomainie in hell is desprately waiting for them.

Payandeh our Aryan Land Iran

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Beautiful piano melody in the background with ugly photos in the foreground........

Rafsanjani missed the cut.....Is he a reformer or a chameleon?

How did these guys come to Run a Country?

The most truthful answer is they have and had the support of the USA, the UK, France and Germany.  And sadly for iranians, considering that Iran has the highest per capita execution rate in the world... there is no help on the way, mullahs will be around for a long time, but why?

Islam is still the #1 group backed by the west.  While their media purposely fools so called educated Iranians about the repression and corruption of the Shahs time, the way it fools people of every third world country only mentioning corruption and political repression on the one hand, the media then peddles the only solution as democracy on the other, which undermines the entire process of development and progress, like it existed during the shahs time.  This is the wests real aim.

In a way Iranias with their so called Intellectuals, prove they earned this regime, because their views, albeit indoctrinted from western media, by developing a senseless willingness that makes it possible for such govts to exist.