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I want front row tickets

To the show where Mr. , The honorable frashogar would take on anyone from IC to debate them on topic and issues of the day. 

I just hope that , just in case it became obvious that nope, he could not agree on so many issues with the host, as anticipated, and like many others farshogar-style anticipation/speculation they end up getting flushed down the mostarah anywho, he would not behave like that Araki city councilman a few days ago.

But the thing here is that i did not he had a funny bone in him. always showed his mad and serious side!!! what a surprise. 

Anyone remebers the sitcom "herman's head"? it used to run in early 90's i believe. kind of like the same situation he decribes as happening in his life and his head.

Actually Marge Simpson is my favorite (it's the voice) ...

then I like Homer and Lisa.  Apart from that, I left cartoons behind in my childhood. 

Darius, did you have a TV show?  I didn't understand the comment.  

You'd be a great film reviewer.   

AnonymousObserver

Don't you know that all of the user IDs on this site whom you don't like are really one and the same person. In fact this whole site is actually composed of two user IDs pretending to be multiple people debating each other .

I am actually Jahanshah Javid, Darius Kadivar, anglophile, Masoud Kazemzadeh, Doctor Mohandes and and and and and, just to name a few ;O)

I feel for Assange and the man in the video ... they both look

traumatized from persecution.

AO Yes the newcomer actually reminds me of Marge ;0)

MARGE IN PLAYBOY ! ... ;0)))

Same Pro Palestinian Stance, Anti Zionist Blah, blah, Blah ...

Mr Kadivar-e-geraami/Assange

You really deserve an independent career of your own away from IC. Why you waste your time and energy on this site when you could have a satellite television program of your own, is anyone's guess. If you ever obtain your own space independent of this place, I'd like to appear on your show to debate and discuss with you a whole host of issues. You'd be surprised how much we actually agree on.

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Maryamjoon, there are many Julian Assanges in the Iranian community. Many of them used to even post on IC at various points.

Darius dear, this video has nothing to do with Sarkozy

... and if the French people liked him; they wouldn't have gotten rid of him.

That's how elections work dear. 

Darius why are you so concerned about the UK Royal family ...

... but you don't condemn Netanyahu's spiritual adviser who said last week "Iranians should all be annihilated"?

The short answer dear anglophile is yes

the same goes for "MaryamJoon."  All the same.  Don't you see how he posts under both usernames (he has others as well) on his variouos blogs to pump them up?  

Absolutely pathetic... 

PS - He is pretty good at having conversations with himslef though.  It comes from speaking to the voices in his head.  

Just look at his vidoe and others posts.  They're all from his hate site.  

anglophile is his own man but it's an honor to be compared

to him by You Melii Mazhabis ...

Best,

DK

An Unapologetic Monarchist

Paris, France 

Frashogar, Demo says it reminds him of Julian Assange

... and I have to say he's kind of right because he's giving the inside scoop and some details.

He says he was an inner circle person starting in 1976. It's in the first part of the interview.

anglophile jaan

It is well established that you aren't an alter ego  for Mr Kadivar, old boy, although some people continue to speculate.

What is your opinion of the video?

Anglophile, can you answer me this?

Why is it so interesting for several people here, who write under pen-names, to wonder if X is really Pahlavi or Y is Googoosh? 

Why not talk about the video?  

Did you see my observation about the video at 4:36?

Pretty interesting.  I mean, it's an interview.   

Roozbeh dear!

Is Mr Frashogar an alter ego to our old friend Wahid Nur-i-Azal?

Just wondered!

Is he Cuban?

Juan is a nice name.

Juan Cole

//www.juancole.com/toward-an-authorized-biography

 Juan Ricardo Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and
essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at
the University of Michigan.

"...He continued, however, with his studies of Buddhism and Sufi Islam,
and was always a fish out of water in the often cult-like and
anti-intellectual Baha’i community. Individual Baha’is and families were
often very kind to him, and he is grateful to them and respects their
beliefs. But it ultimately wasn’t for him. It gradually became apparent
that most Baha’is do not actually believe in the equality of women and
men, excluding women from their elective highest body, the Universal
House of Justice, and holding that women have a different function in
society than men. Then it gradually became apparent that whatever they
privately believed about racism, they were unwilling to take a political
stand, as quietists, against Apartheid. Then it became clear that they
are no more religious pluralists than Roman Catholics or Muslims,
admitting partial truth in other traditions, but insisting that only in
their own tradition is the fullness of the contemporary truth manifest.
Then it became clear that the Baha’i authorities were not exactly
pacifists. The top leadership has a secret cult-like belief in a Baha’i
theocracy that will rule the world, rather on the same model as the
theory of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that Muslim clergy should replace
civil governments globally. Cole gradually lost his enthusiasm for the
community and the administration. When he married outside it in 1982, he
stopped going to services because his non-Baha’i wife was excluded. He
was also increasingly disturbed by the censorship practices imposed on
Baha’i writers by the religion’s administration, and refused to submit
to them.

(When email lists came along in the 1990s and he was active in Baha’i
discussions of the religion’s history and policies, in which he
retained an academic interest, and some hopes of reform, and he came to
be hated by the fundamentalist leadership. In 1996 they had a high
official call him at home and threaten him with being declared a
“covenant-breaker,” i.e. a heretic, because of his critical email
postings. Baha’is shun “covenant-breakers” and shun people who are in
contact with them. Cole was astonished at the narrow-minded and coercive
tactics of the administration, and declined to remain in the community.
He angrily resigned. He is now not interested in organized religion as a
personal matter. Cole was all along an American liberal, and had
thought the Baha’is were on his side, which he discovered to be an
error, at least with regard to the secretive and duplicitous leadership.
His political and social philosophy is rooted in American traditions
going back to the Transcendentalists and going forward to Martin Luther
King, Michael Harrington, and other progressives, and all along has
been.)..."

At 4:36 he looks sad and shocked ... it tugged at my heart

... look in his eyes; they are the windows of the soul.

Who is Juan Cole that he mentions at 3:02?

?

I'm glad I saw this.  It's interesting.

What  does everyone else think?

Bankrupt Corporate USA

One very effective way to deal with the USA coporate's hypocricy, like tha of Macy's USA, Inc. here, is to boycot readings their drops! That will gurantee make them bankrupt sooner or later!

  One is free to accept

  One is free to accept or not the Bahai Faith and its principles.NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO FORCE ANOTHER TO BE OR NOT TO BE A BAHA´I. Its an individual decision. Also one is free to leave the Baha´I life when he wishes though it’s a very rare happening, after all when you realize and experience the beauty of the Bahai revelation its quite strange turning bavk to it..Those who look for positions, leadership and the old pattern of human society often are disappointed and may eventually leave, as  to serve the humanity with pure dids should be the only reason and motivation of being a Bahai.

 هر امری را منع و مقاومت میتوان نمود مگر اقتضای زمان را. 

For our dear Roozbeh

//www.avesta.org/dhalla/saga.htm

"Bahai businessmen have spent many years in Bombay and Poona, hence they
are well-acquainted with the Parsi community. From the moment this
gentleman knew that I was going to America
at the expense of the community for further studies in Iranian
languages, he began to persuade me that I would find nothing new in
America and that it was a folly to spend so much money and labour on
advanced studies of these dead languages. He stated that Zarathushtra
had promised that a Soshyost would come. True to the prophecy the
Soshyant had already arrived and he was Bahaullah himself, the
founder of the Bahai faith. The headquarters of the Bahais was at Acca
and he was on his way there. He expressed a desire to take me there
along with him and volunteered to introduce me to Abbas Effendi, the
head of their sect. True light would come to me only in Acca and to go
to America instead was a sheer waste of money. Bahaism was God's newest
religion and his last and final prophet was Bahaulla. We had lengthy
discussions on the topic. He could not tolerate my praises of the
Zoroastrian faith. Daily three or four hours would pass in such
arguments. In jest I told him that I would visit Acca on my return
voyage. He informed me that life was short and unpredictable. Should
some untoward incident occur and I were to die, God would not forgive me
for not having taken advantage of the opportunity of following the new
light when it had come so close to me and for procrastinating it to a
future day. Being acquainted with the Bahai religion I told him that it
did not teach anything more than what the Zoroastrian faith teaches. My
religion was dear to me and I held it in higher esteem than Bahaism or
any other religion in the world. Hearing my words he attacked me with
missionary fanaticism. After that, communication between us ceased."

Roozbeh jan Why do you say that?

She explained it is from a longtime member of the faith: Don't you think criticism and inquiry are healthy? 

Another Hate blog targetting our Bahaai compatriots...

Immediately receiving the seal of approval by no other than the 24/7 Demo-Nik aghazadeh  with 11 other User ID's!!!

Makes one wonder if the 12th, "hidden user ID", is now showing it's hatefull face , masqueraded as an "Aryo-Zardoshti"!!!!  

Tabrik!!!

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

US Media's Hypocrisy

Whistle blowing? It seems this man hasn't learnt from Assange's experience:

//nacla.org/blog/2012/9/6/tale-two-asylums-as...

Thanks for sharing.