Iran names street after Rachel Corrie
The Guardian
11-Aug-2011 (18 comments)

Tehran city council has named a street after an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003, a local newspaper has reported.

The report in the Hamshahri, a daily affiliated with Tehran's authorities, said the council has named the street Rachel Aliene Corrie. It said the sign would be placed in the city centre, but did not say when it would be displayed.

Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist from Washington, was trying to prevent what she and other campaigners believed was a push by the Israeli military to demolish nearby Palestinian homes. She was 23 at the time of her death.

Iran does not recognise Israel and supports the Palestinians.

The decision marked the first time an Iranian street has been named after a US national since the 1979 Islamic revolution that ousted the pro-west shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi.

Before the revolution, at least three high streets in the Iranian capital were named after former US presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, John F Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt.

Iran and the US have not had diplomatic ties since militant students occupied the US embassy in Tehran, holding American diplomats hostage for 444 days... >>>

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Bavafa

Rea: I support and welcome naming any streets for ANY activist

by Bavafa on

who resist occupation, injustice, murder and tyranny. They all should be honored by naming streets and building monuments for them.

But I resent your contemptuous tone as here charging they are "MY Palestinians activist". Do you know for a fact that they were my activist?

Your conduct and attitude is only a reflection of yourself.

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad


Rea

Yes, Bavafa

by Rea on

Rachel should get a street.

And so should Vittorio. They beat him to death, your Palestinian activists. Then they hung him.

//youtu.be/IeU-9UxjF3k


Bavafa

Rachel Corrie did certainly earn it

by Bavafa on

But in all fairness, grander cities then Tehran ought to name streets after her, specially in Palestine where she was murdered in defense of that nation.

And there are certainly many more who deserve such honor, yet lack such prospect YET, it ought not to be a reason to deny Rachel this honor.

 'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad


Rea

Vittorio Arrigoni was his name

by Rea on

Italian, born 1975, killed 2011 in Gaza.  

Will IRI name a street after him ?


Anonymous8

IranMilitary, what U expect>?

by Anonymous8 on

if U insult israel, simmorgh get upset! insult iran, simorgh happy. they call it nationalist!!!

 

thanks 4 Ur news posts. we read them!

 


Roozbeh_Gilani

"Neda soltani"!!!

by Roozbeh_Gilani on

The correct name, as any native Iranains would know, is "Agha-soltan". "Soltani", on the other hand is the thick meaty kebab which is served on long skewers, in koorosh bassiji kebab shop in london soho district,  to non_iranian supporters of the islamist regime, in return for their daily korsi sher on iranian.com :) 

Now, you said rachel who??!!!!

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


default

You have no idea

by IranMilitaryForum.net on

Leaving aside his disgraceful and contemptible comments about Neda
Sultan, are his personal insults and profane words directed at
Simorgh555 not against site rules?

You have no idea the level of profanity these so called "Iranians"  including Somourgh have used against others in this very forum for quite sometime.

You don't believe me, search for his posts! In many cases the very IC administration seemed to have suppoerted these individuals by allowing their comments to stay but the replies to such comments have been removed.

Search his comments/posts!

Also here is the link to where he admits who he is really!

//iranian.com/main/news/2011/04/30/closer...

 

;-)


Truthseeker9

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by Truthseeker9 on

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Soosan Khanoom

IMF

by Soosan Khanoom on

That is not something new ..... Iran has also named another street after  Bobby Sands .... 

It is good for our youth to hear about these brave figures and learn to stand for justice and freedom no matter where including in our very own country, against the barbaric man made laws of IRI .....


Soosan Khanoom

Never-mind the Zamin's comments

by Soosan Khanoom on

I mentioned before about his true nature but I got flagged and my post got removed ......

Zamin is not a real IRI supporter he is just pretending to be one. He sounds more like an undercover MEK supporter ........  

He can't fool me ..... 

 


default

Cough, cough!

by IranMilitaryForum.net on

Yet another example of Islamist interlopers pretending to be Iranian

This is a whole load of shit from someone who openly declared his allegiance to Zio-Terrorists right here at IC!

I must be fair though, most of these coward Zionists do hide their real intention here but this one, who uses Iranian avatar name as Simorgh, had enough guts to admit to all that he is actually a Zionist and not an Iranian at all. He is here to protect the Zionist interests with mostly truck load of shit!

I told him times and times before that Iranians are not Arabs and as such they are the biggest challenge that the Zionist entity has ever faced. Iranians will take that apartheid regime down soon. 

;-)


Reality-Bites

Regarding Zamin's comments

by Reality-Bites on

Leaving aside his disgraceful and contemptible comments about Neda Sultan, are his personal insults and profane words directed at Simorgh555 not against site rules?


Simorgh5555

when she stayed at a Palestinian home

by Simorgh5555 on

But what about when she wasn't at a Palestinian house?

I do not want to sully the memory of Rachel, who was brave and died under tragic circumstance but she gets a street name dedicated to her but Neda Soltani or Cyrus tye Great, Xerxes and Babak Khorramdin do not get one.

Reza Shah- who unified Iran and modernised the country has his tomb destroyed and converted into a public toilet YET Rachel Corrie gets a street named after her.

The statue of the mythical archer Arash is torn down but Rachel Corrie gets a street named after her

If you really care about Rachel then would it not be better to stop paying Israel for weapons secretly and stop bilateral trade between Israel using Turkey as a mediator?

Do you know how much Israeli agricultural products are shipped into Iran? Do you know how much marble is sold to Israel?

Hypocricy


Anonymous8

Thank U IRAN!

by Anonymous8 on

her own zionist government does not care. at least one country care.

sim morgh, yes she did cover hair when staying in palestine homes that she did often. here are some pictures 4 U to learn Urslf!

//proclus.gnu-darwin.org/100Rachel_Corrie.jpg
//www.cfpeople.org/military/092203/rachel-cor...

rest in peace rachel.


Simorgh5555

Would Rachel be depicted as

by Simorgh5555 on

Would Rachel be depicted as wearing a Hijab? She never used to wear one. She probably also drank alcohol and had sex outiside marriage. This must be anethema to the Islamic Republic.
Also would the Terrorist Regime dedicate a street, monument or plaque to remember Vittorio Arrogino, an Italian national whose life would be taken by the very same Hamas Palestinians whose cause he fought for passionately.


Simorgh5555

Yet anoher example of

by Simorgh5555 on

Yet anoher example of Islamist interlopers pretending to be Iranian who put the lives of Palestinians and those martyred for the Palestinian cause over and above Iranians. Neda embodied the hopes and inspirations of millions of Iranians is called a 'maggot' because she was not a Palestinian. Freedom and propsperity of the Palestinians is infinitely more important than Iran.
You would at least expect that after all the propaganda and money paid to the PLO and Hamas over these last thirty years there wouod actually be a street name dedcated to Khomeini, a city in Iran or a Shia Imam in Ramallah, Jenin or Gaza. But alas! The Palestinians have the good sense to put their own interest first and when it comes to matters of important regional issues Hamas will always side wil always side with the Arabs whether it is a charter calling the Persian Gulf to be renamed Arab or claiming sovreignty over the apersian Gulf islands. Not to mention their support for Saddam Hussein during the 1988 war.
Assuming that Rachel Corrie deserves a street in Tehran to be named after her and Neda Soltani was a whore what about a street dedicated to Cyrus the Great, Darius or one of the characters from Shahnameh or a personality from Iran's Sassanid pass.
Again, Iranians are undeserving of recognition in the Islamic Republic unless you are a Palestinian, Somali, a thieving and murdering Shia Arab Imam.
What a nation of scoundrals we have become.


Zamin

What has Neda Soltani even

by Zamin on

What has Neda Soltani even do? Just another rich, selfish spoiled brat protesting for not being allowed to drink alcohol or having sex like donkeys. Don't compare that brainless maggot to Rachel Corrie. A lady who had the courage to join the Palestinians against Israel. She was CRUSHED by a bulldozer. CRUSHED. Don't even compare that no body hedonist Neda to her. Neda is not shit, the only reason she is known, is because the West blew her up. I am proud Iranian, but I don't give a damn about some no body, who did nothing for her country. You compare her to someone who helped truly oppressed people, Palestinians? She was CRUSHED by a bulldozer. She grew up in the west, gave it all up to help a bunch of impoverished Arabs.. Your a sick idiot.. You are too stupid, that's why the mullahs have ruled over Iran for 30 years, and will for another 100. You are too brainless to realize a damn thing. The only reason the regime in Iran is threatened is because of USA. USA is your master, USA is your father, you are the whore of USA. Tomorrow the mullahs can give half of its oil wealth back to the Americans, and they won't give a damn about what happens to the green movement. IRGC tanks will roll over you cowards, and not a peep will be heard from the west. The green movement, like all other color revolutions is just a joke, western ploy.


Simorgh5555

Oh, please! What has the

by Simorgh5555 on

Oh, please! What has the Islamic Republic ever done for Neda Soltani other than call her a whore, a spy, an actress who faked her own death and living in Greece?
While Rachel's death wasa a tragic death for someone who happened to be in the wrong place and at the wrong time, Neda's death was killed by the Terrorist Regime's own Basiji scum who was filmed on video crying "I didn't mean to kill her".
Iranian lives aren't worth spit for the Islamic Republic. It has 25 million dollars to give away free to drought stricken Somalia but ordinary Iranians are punished by high prce of living and and an inflation rate of 19%. To add to that, workers of Iran Khodro have not been paid ajd their union leaders end up in prison.
Rachel's family would be disgusted by such despicable propaganda from a regime with such disregard for human lives and who secretly not just buys weapona from Israel ut also agrcultural equipment ans even Jaffa oranges.