yasmine

AO Jan

You are being too harsh on our comrade Yasmin she came here for "personal reasons". Furthermore, they refuse to live in North Korea, China or Cuba because they are 'state capitalist' countries i.e. they don't have a good welfare system in place and if you complain you will be sent to a Gulag or whatever.
All these far Left Iranian monkeys are the same. Their first country of choice following the revolution is the decadent West which they bitched about having installed the 'puppet dictator' Shah. Push comes to shove they chose to live in countries which they can economically prosper in and do no work and still get a handout and they have the friggin' audacity to tell us how Iranians can change fron within the system.

Comrade Yasmine

I just cannot bear to see an advocate for the workers of the world, and a dear socialist suffer any longer in the imperialist cesspool that is the United Kingdom.  I know that you surely do not wish to contribute to this imperialist system by paying taxes to it.  I know it must be a terrible burden on you to dine at its fine restaurants, allow your children to be educated in its (private?) schools, buy its cars....Were you by any chance forced by this vile imperialist system to purchase a BMW?  I know a lot of dear socialists who were forced into this inhumane act by imperialists in the West.

Anyway comrade, I searched the entire planet for a workers's paradise where good communists like you can call home.  But unfortunately, it turns out that most of those paradises have now turned into capitalist systems.  The only one that I could find was North Korea.  So, I took the liberty of booking you and your entire board of directors on the next flight headed for that non-imperialist country.  

No, please, no need to thank me.  I am just doing my duty as a "comrade" of your to make your dreams of living in a workers' paradis come true.  I am sure that you cannot wait to leave the capatlist hell of the UK and head for the only true paradise left on Earth.

You're welcome! 

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товарищ Ясмин

Ваше присутствие является крайне необходимой дляежегодного собрания Коммунистической партии в Москве. Вы должны представить отчет о ходе Сияющий путь партизан идругих коммунистических товарищей во всем мире, которые борются великое зло американского империализма.

question

Why is the "the" in "No to the theocracy"? 

It sort of sounds as if , the poster doesn't like one, but wouldn't mind another?

Also, I've got issues with the word "imperialism", otherwise, thank you for your hard work, Yasmine. 

War; sanctions and ...

There is no shortage of self appointed advisers to USA. This from Yasmine to IC posters to AIPAC and on. But in reality America does not need any of this. They know what they are doing.

Both Bush and Obama realize an invasion is out of the question. Nor will "surgical" attacks do any good without internal revolt in Iran. The dumbest of all is a joint American Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites. 

The most effective way is to get Iranians to rise. America reviewed potential alternatives and to her credit Hillary did not go for MEK. Now it seems as if she is reviewing Reza Pahlavi. I hope she does support him. Meanwhile they want to get Iranian people and military angry at their rulers. In order to get there America is tightening the screws one notch at a time. It will take a couple of years. But if Obama gets a second them I feel Islamic Republic is done. President Obama is a very thoughtful and calculating man. He benefits from Hillary who seems to get what is going on. Putting aside the campaign rhetoric she is pretty smart. Just pray that Obama wins; and specially that Newt does not. 

"marg khoobeh vali baray hamsayeh"

Doesn't this expression apply to those who advocate foreign military intervention in Iran when themselves are in the comfy in the West and won't be risking their own skin?

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad

MG

The scene is indoors I think it is a funeral where is is really dark and hazy. There are women chanting and it sounded like an old Zoroastrian prayer. I am curious if it was indeed so or if I misunderstood. 

I don't have the best hearing in the world. And nobody else around knows Farsi as well as I do; or any Kurdish at all. So I was on my own. I could find exactly where the scene is but have to get the DVD and go through it which will take me a bit of time.

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Kordi Nah Zaanaam. Meaning: I don't know Kurdish. I just remember the cuss words and how those old ladies used to  kiss me and others on the cheek and shout; " Roollaah, Bemma Kherret." Meaning: Kid may I be sacrificed for you! 

"a scene in"Half Moon"??? Shoot anyways, I juss might?

MG a totally unrelated note

Do you speak Kurdish? I am studying it and have a question about a scene in"Half Moon".

Cat accountibility

Yes I have no choice but to be accountable to them. The price of lapse is too high to pay. 

I forgot to clean their box and was rewarded by something brown on the stairs.

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Juss jiving Bro, your skin is getting so sensitive these days.

On the serious side, more 'new' organizations is actually NOT a good idea.

We
already have an inflation of organizations in Iran. Furthermore the
splits within these groups remains on the level of a social pathology.
Keep in mind we have more splits within the Right, within the Left and
within the Centre, and another split between each one of these with each
other.

P.S. Are you going to be accountable to your cats or not? And why?

MG

Please keep your jabs off to the side if you want a dialoge. My point is: people who don't like these should form their own. I am not being cynical or joking. I am serious. Isn't it a good idea and if not why?

In any case USA is not there for pro IRI lobbies to manipulate. There are far more powerful ones already at work. I personally do not plan to start anything right now. I''d just as soon put my support behind Reza Pahlavi.

VPK, but will you be accountable to your

cats? And trust me you don't want any family member (let alone your mom) politically active with you, it's just embarresing.

Wasn't there a joke about how three Iranians (or was it French) debating with each other, each starting his own political party? Thank god whatever we lack, we have no lack of political parties, groups, coalitions, front, one-man shows, paper organization,..speciallyoutside of Iran.

Inside is a different story.

Why not a make an organization?

Before anything I admit to having never heard of this hopoi. For all I know this is just another name for the same organizations we know. The right thing to do is start your own.

You should realize in America anyone may open their organization. It might have just one member! But they get to register a web site and write a article for IC. Why don't you people make yours?

I may go and start the VPK's Iranian Freedom Organization. Then write my platform ans make myself "President" of it. Why not? Who cares if I happen to be the only member. Maye I will get my mother to join then my register my cats as members. 

It's all a matter of balance of forces

Chenan namand rozegar o chenin niz ham nakhahad mand.

Student's uprising of 1999, protests of 2008 up to now, and tens and hundreds of other protests that go unreported or under reported, are all part and parcel of the grass roots in Iran.

A single break, the least opening of the political sphere could have drastic consequences, contributing to a rapid change of the circumstances. Keep your eyes on the prize.

Sure, there's a grass roots in IRI

But, without significant outside assistance and pressure, that grass roots has about as much chance as overthrowing an oil-rich Islamist terrorist theocracy in the foreseeable future as the North Korean grass roots does in overthrowing the North Korean regime. The IRI has the resources and know-how to prevent such a domestic uprising, and there's a large degree of inertia on the part of the population, since the previous domestic uprising(s) didn't end so well (to put it gently). Simply put, the IRI will nip any such grass roots uprising in the bud (if it even were to take place).

Mash Ghasem

No, it is you who fails to.comprehend the simple favt that the Reform movement is all but dead in Iran. Get over.it. Its.finished. If Mirhussein Moussavi, a dyed in the wool Hezbollahi and a fromer prime minister is unable to win a simple election result and is under house arrest what chance does people like Yasmine or the ordinary Iranian have to exert any influence or bring about fundamentao change in Iran.
The West is not going to bring about change in Iran but targetting the Basij and the IRCG will drstroy their power base and embolden Iranians to take to the streets again and finish off what they started in 2009. A limited campaign of military action aimed at the heart of IR terrorists will be the catalyst which will bring about the change Iranians want. And so what if a handful of basij and sepahi thugs perish in the attack? If you support the Islamic Republic then you have negated yourself as an Iranian and only a fool will risk his life to fight for this evil regime.

BE IRANIAN. Save the motherland and support military action.

Only because the grass roots hasn't overthrown IR, you conclude

there's no grass roots in Iran?

When will you folks ever get it into your loving minds and heads: the West never wants to overthrow IR. All they pursue is "behaviour modifications."

Investing our future in Iran, based on the grass roots, or  western bombers and bankers? You be the judge.

Does "Waiting for Godot" ring a bell?

AO

Yasmine didn't chose to live in the West through choice. She was forced to for 'personal reasons' ;)
These Greens/reformists have achieved NOTHING in the thirty years. They have not changed the political system to allow greater freedom of expression or protect human rights. They have no power base as their leader is under house arrret. They have no influence in the government, cabinet or parliament. They are not recognised by the judiciary. They have not achieved anything to establish separate branches of government. They are powerless to stop newspapers from being shut diwn or bloggers being arrrested. Yet people like Yasmine continue to mislead Iranians by offering false hope.

You bring up a very good point Simorgh

you know, there's a saying in Faris:

"marg khoobeh vali baray hamsayeh"

Yasmine is talking about grassroots activism in Iran--from her comfy London office.  Talk about "lengesh kon" philosophy.  Why isn't she in Iran organizing the grassroots campaign and participating in it?  The answer: she knows it's an impossibility, and that there's a much better chance of her head being chopped off or of her landing at Evin for a very long time before any "grassroots" campainging can take place.  Hence: her "volunteering" of Iranians inside Iran for the job.

Typical west residing communist double talk. 

Yasmine

I agree with you, sanctions alone are slow and painful. That is why sanctions must be accomapanied with surgical strikes against the Basin and Sepah with target assassinations.
Yasmin, you are not living in Iran and you managed to find your voice in the corrupt imperialist West. You arr an exile or born to exiled parents because the conditions were intolerable. If you genuinely believed that change can be achieved by a democratic movement in Iran then you would be writing yout blog from Iran. You can't and neither are you willing to. When you say that change can be achieved fromthe grass roots then you are doing a huge disservice towards Iranians and condemning them to another thirty years of abject misery.
Please support military action. DEATH TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC.

Oh brother...another Iranian socialist organization

"Hands Off People of Iran"....as if CASMII wasn't enough....

Look at the Board of this organization.  It's like the Soviet Politburo reincarnated.  

Yet another piece of evidence that Iranians still haven't left the early - mid 20th century.