I've just received an email forwarded from a friend which carried a link to a voting site for the name of "the Gulf" to be either Persian or Arabian. The Farsi text which proceeds the link claims that the tally for the Persian name has gone down to 72% of the total votes. Why on earth we don't just call it "the Gulf" and get it over with is beyond me. Anyway, Here is the link for those of you who have missed the email which is in circulation.
Do I really care about the name of that body of water? No. Why, then, do I do this? Dry patriotism!
ishoon migan faghat vaaseh 30 saanyeh zoor bezanin........
Ask not what the water next to your country can do for you; ask what you can do for the water next to your country.
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by پندارنیک on Sun Apr 24, 2011 05:41 AM PDTStill waiting for a blog of yours on "Shah and Tito". Had Nasser lived a tad longer, he would have seen the total normalization of diplomatic relations between Iran,and his country.
Your Tito was something else, a fine statesman who didn't fit inside the confinements of the Cold War. This is for you, with Sophia and Carlo.
Your korsi vote is appreciated!!
پندارنیک
ReaSun Apr 24, 2011 04:42 AM PDT
Yes, Tito was a friend of Nasser. But then, he was an admirer of the late Shah, too.
As for the Gulf, we have always called it Persian gulf (Perzijski zaljev), never Arabian. Be it in media or school textbooks. The time of Tito, ex Yugoslavia, and ever since, Croatia.
And I voted Persian, of kors.
my 2 cents
by Fatollah on Sun Apr 24, 2011 02:48 AM PDTtake a look at the map, see Iran's borders from east to west in south, also see the size of Iran and compare it to that of any Arab neighbouring country.
it's Persian Gulf .
the rest discussion is "haashieh ravi"!
-Fatollah
Roozbeh & Reality Bites
by Anonymous Observer on Sat Apr 23, 2011 08:05 PM PDTConsider this: assuming that "pendar neek" is Iranian, (bold assumption) his position in supporting and advocating racist Arab causes is akin to a man who goes through a sex change operation so that he can become a lesbian! In his case, he has switched nationalities, or at least national allegiances, so that he can become a racist against his own people.
so the "doctor mammot the nationalist" show was a flop....
by Roozbeh_Gilani on Sat Apr 23, 2011 05:06 PM PDTBecause we are now back to the routine of being told Iraninan Nationalism =bad = racist, Arab (sorry, islamic!) nationalism = good!
BTW, if the fat boy nasser spent more time teaching his massive multi national , pan-arab army some military discipline, and less time scheming about subjucating ajams of Iran, he would have been able to crush the jewish army with the best of state of the art military HW supplied to him courtesy of soviet Union! Instead his loss to much inferior (numerically and naterialy) Jewish army was so severe and humiliating that to this day, his fan club's rear ends at the islamist regime's etelaat ministry is on fire!
"Personal business must yield to collective interest."
جنابه اقای خرس، نداشتیما
ComraidsConcubineSat Apr 23, 2011 11:26 AM PDT
بگذریم از اینکه ایشون مثله اینکه، حمصهین مطمئن نیستم، منو به حال و احواله همالگین، منظور بلوگا تخم گیری کشوندن، ولی دیگه شما چه چیزهای عجیب و غریب میفرمایید؟
شما اگر وت وته ایشون را نمیپزیریت، کانادا دری بنوشید.
AO jaan, let it go buddy
by Reality-Bites on Sun Apr 24, 2011 04:23 AM PDTIt's a losing battle.
We already have the Arabian sea, which lies between Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. Additionally, our Arab neighbors have long since managed to establish "Shattol-arab" as the internationally recognized name over "Arvand Rood".
But all this is still not enough for them. Some Arabs already regard Khuzestan as "Arabestan". And of course they badly want their "Arabian Gulf" too (as well as the Lesser and Greater Tunbs and Abu Musa Islands).
So, we might as well forget about the name of Persian Gulf and give in either to the Arabs or, incomprehensibly, to some of our fellow Iranians with choices like "The Gulf" or "Gulf of Peace" etc. Because apparently it's now racist if we try to preserve the name of Persian Gulf.
این آقای "پندار نیک"
KhersSat Apr 23, 2011 10:38 AM PDT
این آقای "پندار نیک" به جمال عبد الناصر خیلی ارادت دارند بخاطر اینکه عبد الناصر به دشمن اصلی ایشون یعنی اسرائیل خیلی بد و بیراه میگفتند. حالا عبد الناصر بیاد به مادر همه ایرانیها هم تجاوز کنه. بی خیال. تازه باید دستش رو هم بوسید. اینطور نیست جناب پندار نیک؟
Persian losers
by Genghis Khan on Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:18 AM PDTᠴᠢᠩᠭᠢᠰ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ Чингис Хаан Golf
If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die.
yeah...let's question reality when we get caught in double talk
by Anonymous Observer on Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:49 AM PDTis the Earth round? Do we live in a real world or is it all just an illusion? What is the purpose of life?....
Give it a break with pseudo-ANtellectual BS. Abdel-Nasser was as racist as they come...just like you! The only reason why you accept his racism is because he advocated racism against Iranians. I guess that makes people like you happy.
Mash Ghasem: you get my vote
by Bavafa on Sat Apr 23, 2011 09:44 AM PDTSince I hardly think the first one will be allowed to exist between this "Aryan" nation and their brother "susmar khor"
I go for your second choice on that body of water. At least speaks my mind about the rulers of that country.
Mehrdad
I thought coffee only acts "me" up
by پندارنیک on Sat Apr 23, 2011 08:54 AM PDTAre you sure Nasser was a racist Arab? Will that also make Tito a racist, I don't know, maybe Croat? And how about Nehru?
No hiding behind pseudo-intelligent mumbo jumbo
by Anonymous Observer on Sat Apr 23, 2011 08:40 AM PDTyou're advocating an Arab racist cause. Therefore, you are a racist.
Wet & Dry
by پندارنیک on Sat Apr 23, 2011 08:36 AM PDTFrom Demo's valid and valued comment, I found my way out onto this page. Just scroll down to 3 of 25, and see for yourself the pictorial definition of "Good vs. Evil"
You don't need me to tell you which one is which.
So let me get this straight
by Anonymous Observer on Sat Apr 23, 2011 08:32 AM PDTThis body of water is called "Persian Gulf" for at least a thousand years. Then fifty years ago, a racist Arab by the name of Gamal Abdel-Nasser comes around and declares--for no reason but racial ones--that the name should be changed to "Arabian Gulf." Because this non-existent "controversy" arises, we should just cave and call it "the Gulf." I thought that your ilk was against racism in all forms. But now you're advocating the legitimization of racism by submitting to racist demands.
Let me give you an example. Evolution has been proven time and time again through scientific methods. But now, we have religious nuts who have created an artificial "controversy," without any scientific evidence, by declaring that there is "intelligent design." Now advocates of this manufactured "theory" demand that teachers in schools preface teaching of evolution by saying that it is "one theory among others," the others being "intelligent design," even though there is scientific proof for one theory and none for the other. By your logic, everyone should just cave and accept :inteeligent design" as a legitimate theory nit because it is scientifically proven, but because of the noise made by its proponents.
See the similarity?
There is, of course, another distinct possibility, and that is that you are really a racist Arab who is trying to advance Arab racis causes.
well no one can change the
by IranMarzban on Sat Apr 23, 2011 08:19 AM PDTwell no one can change the history the body of water is called persian gulf and it will stay persian gulf END of story
FREE IRAN
Dry Void!!
by Demo on Sat Apr 23, 2011 08:19 AM PDTWhile the "Dry ME's Herds of Void Brains" have been arguing over the "righteous" name for the one & the only "GULF" with the undisclosed amount of oil reserves underneath its waters & with its Srait of Hormoz as the world's survival neck, the US Navy has been expanding its Navy 5th Fleet there & spending hundreds of millions of $$$$ in its on going "GULF" war games!!
//www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/06/08/US-...
//www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/06/08/US-...
"Gulf of Peace"
by پندارنیک on Sat Apr 23, 2011 06:09 AM PDTThis is not the first time that you put forward this name, which sounds cool; but will it be?!!
I take the rest of your comment as educational and complimentary.
Enjoy the rest of your long weekend, as I go to set things up for Comraidsconcubine's Easter egg hunt.
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by Mash Ghasem on Sat Apr 23, 2011 05:50 AM PDTAs usual you raise more questions than anything else,
A- Why would true 'Aryan" sons and daughters of Cyrus (a grandson's name, not my choice) the great, rush to their swimming suits? They all skinny dip. Achaemenids were actually a bit more Hippy than you thaunk, comrade.
B- What's wrong with " Gulf of Peace #1" , or " Fock Saudi Racist Retards , and all their filthy oil monies"? I know , the second one is long winded.
C- What happened with all that Lefty graphics man. Bring them back dude, please, thank you.
Or what!
CC
by پندارنیک on Sat Apr 23, 2011 04:29 AM PDTThe drop is obviously proportional. There must be more Arab nationalist morons hovering over the Cyber-space than Irooni ones.........
As explained, I just received this thing and thought what the heck, why not; and you're right the photo is more interesting than the so-called blog.
You can nick the photo from me, if behave; or at least try to!
huh?
by ComraidsConcubine on Sat Apr 23, 2011 04:01 AM PDThow can a vote drop? Does this have something to do with the drooping diaspora fossils?
Like the photo, where can I nick that from please?