Can our Iran ever become a happy and a peaceful global actor?

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Phantom of Iranian.com
by Phantom of Iranian.com
15-Sep-2007
 

I am off writing my opera these days. Phantom of Iranian.com is preoccupied! The war machine is in motion again; this industry is like of vampire.

Questions on my mind flow like waves of ocean some pleasant and some brutal. It is on repeating mode at times. I share with you the most bothering one.

Can our Iran ever become a happy and a peaceful global actor?

Some have no hope for a better Iran. They consider tenants of Islam religion and backwardness of tribal Arab culture have infested our nation for too long. How do Iranians deal with it?

I hear the heart of the issue when it comes with dealing with the Arab invasion seems unequivocally a psychological one for Iranians.

I hear Iranians are too traumatized by Islam because of past and present events that they cannot move on without a proper national debate and discussion to bring closure for want of a better term, and indeed that closure may never be achieved.

I hear blatantly that issue of converting Iranians to religion of Islam by force of swords, terror, violence, rape, maiming, enslaving and possessing women, and taxing can never be addressed publicly in an open forum.

I hear a national reconciliation of sorts and open discussion about Islam is a national obligation.

I hear the issue of national Arab movement and being Iranian in that region must be clarified by all actors.

I hear acceptance of Iranian identity as a non-Islamist nation is a must.

I hear the Islamic colonization of mind and body endures to this date and has been a millionth time more devastating to our nation than any Western colonization ever could inflict upon a nation.

I hear this is so for every other generation or so we are doomed to have the same debate over and over again without it ever resolving itself.

I hear this is not a new debate, it is an unfinished one and perhaps one that cannot be finished until we have calmed our national madness.

I hear given the geopolitical position of the country, the foreign interference makes the job even more difficult, unfortunately.

Then, my brain gives me sign of exhaustion and probable harm if I do not stop. So, may be for my opera, I must come to a scene that shouting my lungs out for these issues is tolerable.

Balatarin
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A nation can also have a come back.

by Hope6 (not verified) on Mon Sep 17, 2007 04:33 PM PDT

Do not despair. A nation can also have a come back. Maybe receiving help from an international council to lead Iran on a reconciliation path can be the key to this dilemma.

Few good intentioned hyphened and native Iranians can carry the function of benevolent and intelligent prince or ambassador of Iran. They say exceptional Iranian architects can design and build marvels.


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The answer is not anytime in

by Nay (not verified) on Sun Sep 16, 2007 01:05 PM PDT

The answer is not anytime in the near future. The IR has put the country and culture has descended into a swamp of backwardness and suprestitions wherein there is hotline for a man hiding in a well in Jamakaran for a thousand years. People actually drop their letters into the well asking for their wishes to come true.Islam is like a cancer wherein infects a healthy organism, that organism begins to break down. Once diagnosed, cancer cells devour healthy cells in a most efficient and relentless manner, until there are no more cells left to consume.


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Project Hope for Iran

by Tehran (not verified) on Sun Sep 16, 2007 09:43 AM PDT

O.K., I can not do it. I admit. But, "Project Hope for Iran" may be a prudent solution.


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overcoming identity crisis,

by knowhow (not verified) on Sun Sep 16, 2007 05:10 AM PDT

overcoming identity crisis, thru studying litrature of Bahai Faith.
May use Ocean Library an electronic, indexed library of litrature of several major religions including The Bahai Faith, Islam, Christian, Jew...
Also Bahai.org for more.

In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, The Most Holy Book, Bahai Faith, the following hath been revealed: "O Land of Ta (Tihran)! Let nothing grieve thee, for God hath chosen thee to be the source of the joy of all mankind.

(Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 148)

Once territories north of the river Aras formed part of the Iranian Empire, until they were wrenched away from Iran in the reign of Fath-'Ali Shah. Not far from the river Aras (Araxes of the Greeks) the Báb spent many months in captivity. And it was Hafiz of Shiraz, the city where the glorious Báb first saw the light of day, who wrote:3

Over the banks of Aras shouldst thou, O Zephyr, pass,
Kiss the earth of that vale and refreshed thy breath thereby.

This is Iran of the present day, which the followers of Bahá'u'lláh, wherever they be, know as 'the sacred Land of Iran', the cradle of their Faith. Of its future, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the Son of Bahá'u'lláh and the  4  Centre of His Covenant, has written: 'The government of the native land of the Blessed Perfection will become the most respected government of this world . . . and Iran will become the most prosperous of all lands.'4

(H.M. Balyuzi, Baha'u'llah - The King of Glory, p. 3)


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The child who was asked

by Doostt (not verified) on Sun Sep 16, 2007 01:08 AM PDT

Dear Phantom

Time ago I read a book about Iran, a book that
simply compiled and gathered the opinions (about Iran) of non-iranian politicians, visitors and residents in Iran over centuries and I recall the following sentence:

"Iran is like a child that has been asked to act like an adult"

And I agree whith it just as I agree whith every single point you have mentioned. I'd like to add that I believe that the identity of Iran and its Persian core was severly dameged by the Arabic occupation and its subsequent colonization by many Arabic tribes (according to Tarikhe Tabari, Ostad Shafa and Ali Mirfetros among others)

Iran is desperatly trying to find itself, although its arabic part is desperatly trying to impose itself, through Islam. The oil factor, foreign influence hasn't helped at all, all the opposite. The oil will run out someday, what about the internal
cultural struggle? I think we should not avoid or ignore the arabic presence but talk about it, face it and recognze it so as to erradicate it. That is what the Great Ferdowsi tried to do and even partially suceeded.

Long Live Persia


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