I am confused
I am getting nervouse about these riots and fights in Tehran. The conservatives may want to get rid of reform demands once for all. They would let the protests to grow to a size which is big enough for propaganda and at the same time small enough for them to smash. Like what happend at Khordad 1360 with the stupid move from Mojahedin. I don't think violence and violent moves are going to solve any problem. on the other hand feeling hopeless and helpless is a drive for youth's anarchist behavior.
Sepah ( revolutionary guards) has been dangerously quiet about these protests?
From news I have read that Police is doing a good job to separate two sides of conflict?
Saturday, June 14, 2003
Friday, June 13, 2003
USA please Shut up!
I wish US administration would shut the hell up for a while. They are providing pretext and evidence to conservative public propaganda machine against the people's peacefull reform mouvement in Iran.
Next move is coming from fellow Iranian hardliners, just watch the nice harmony.
I wish US administration would shut the hell up for a while. They are providing pretext and evidence to conservative public propaganda machine against the people's peacefull reform mouvement in Iran.
Next move is coming from fellow Iranian hardliners, just watch the nice harmony.
Thursday, June 12, 2003
United conservative front ( Iran and US) against Iranian People
Just read Khameneii's speach about the riots in Tehran. Don't you think this guy is getting fresh official updates from fellow Americans? I can't imagine other than a very high level coordination between two conservative governments which brings about such an excellent syncronization and leads them to their common goal. Believe it or not these guys are helping each other magnificently. Is it by accident that whatever stances both governments take ends up in putting Iranian people under more pressure ?
The funny part of this so called leader's speach is where he says that USA is talking frankly about the methods they are going to use against Iranian regime. From when do you think USA has become trust worthy and frank?
This guy is either stupid and manipulative or smart. However I don't believe he is the head of conservative movement but their symbol.
Just read Khameneii's speach about the riots in Tehran. Don't you think this guy is getting fresh official updates from fellow Americans? I can't imagine other than a very high level coordination between two conservative governments which brings about such an excellent syncronization and leads them to their common goal. Believe it or not these guys are helping each other magnificently. Is it by accident that whatever stances both governments take ends up in putting Iranian people under more pressure ?
The funny part of this so called leader's speach is where he says that USA is talking frankly about the methods they are going to use against Iranian regime. From when do you think USA has become trust worthy and frank?
This guy is either stupid and manipulative or smart. However I don't believe he is the head of conservative movement but their symbol.
What next?
The political situation in Iran is so tricky these days. nobody knows what is going to happen next. My impression is that Khatami and the insider reformists are completely losing the ground. We are going to see more conservative presence and down the road the outsider kind of reformist activities will emerge. Iranian people are going to play a crucial role in this conflict. If they step aside ( that is a very real possibility, we have developed this habit from long time ago) and just watch the game, the violent conservative camp is the winner. I feel hopeless and helpless, I wish some kind of miracle happens ( not likely though!).
The political situation in Iran is so tricky these days. nobody knows what is going to happen next. My impression is that Khatami and the insider reformists are completely losing the ground. We are going to see more conservative presence and down the road the outsider kind of reformist activities will emerge. Iranian people are going to play a crucial role in this conflict. If they step aside ( that is a very real possibility, we have developed this habit from long time ago) and just watch the game, the violent conservative camp is the winner. I feel hopeless and helpless, I wish some kind of miracle happens ( not likely though!).
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
"Yek seri javan e ehsasati ye shahrestani"
You may guess where this title is coming from. It is commented from HODER Persian blog. I do agree with the content of Hoder's posting about yesterday's riot in Tehran. It is not the time for these violent activities, the most important reason is that the conservative opponent is the master of that game and the civilized rational people are not. The other thing is that all kind of violent expression is going to damage the reformist cause and ...
Anyway what I wanted to say is that I did not like the kind of insulting language that Hoder had used by saying " Bunch of emotional countryside young fellows". Being Ehsasati or emotional is not bad at all specially for young people, it is their drive for pushing forward and it does not need to end up in violent behavior. I am not seeing anything wrong to be from countryside or a place other than Tehran either, as a mater of fact most Iranians are included in that category. The other thing is that most of the time guys who do not have anything to lose are most likely the ones who do engage in courageous undertakings ( any kind of civil polytical activity these days in Iran) which do not need to be violent at all. If the rioters can be generalized with terms and descriptions like emotional ,countryside and young, we should see these riots in other cities which are full of young emotional non Tehrani fellows. But they are happening in Tehran.
As a matter of fact It is very easy to brand people and judge them based on their background or appearance but it is much more positive to use a respectful language and start to look at things more deeply.
You may guess where this title is coming from. It is commented from HODER Persian blog. I do agree with the content of Hoder's posting about yesterday's riot in Tehran. It is not the time for these violent activities, the most important reason is that the conservative opponent is the master of that game and the civilized rational people are not. The other thing is that all kind of violent expression is going to damage the reformist cause and ...
Anyway what I wanted to say is that I did not like the kind of insulting language that Hoder had used by saying " Bunch of emotional countryside young fellows". Being Ehsasati or emotional is not bad at all specially for young people, it is their drive for pushing forward and it does not need to end up in violent behavior. I am not seeing anything wrong to be from countryside or a place other than Tehran either, as a mater of fact most Iranians are included in that category. The other thing is that most of the time guys who do not have anything to lose are most likely the ones who do engage in courageous undertakings ( any kind of civil polytical activity these days in Iran) which do not need to be violent at all. If the rioters can be generalized with terms and descriptions like emotional ,countryside and young, we should see these riots in other cities which are full of young emotional non Tehrani fellows. But they are happening in Tehran.
As a matter of fact It is very easy to brand people and judge them based on their background or appearance but it is much more positive to use a respectful language and start to look at things more deeply.
Whose fault is this mess anyway?
I got some message from a fellow Iranian concerning what has been happening in Iran all these years. I understand that as an individual we are in the middle of every thing and we can not look at events in Iran in an impartial way, but let's try. We have been living in an autocratic system for such a long time ( more than 2500 years )and it is kind of natural if we have got some related behaviors in our culture. As a whole the result of the revolution was that we replaced a bad regime with another one which was essentially worse ( it could be better and our intent was to get a democratic system). But If we look at that from another viewpoint we may see it as the first partially successful attempt for change of a people ( at least for a couple of months!) that has been loving freedom and living under oppression for centuries. Have we ever been governing ourselves before? Has the Iranians' opinion had any official value ever in this country before? Look ! We just behave and treat our kids and family at home the very same way the authorities treat us in the society. Like it or not our culture and collective behavior have been affected by all these years of living under absolute autocratic rulers. It is not fault of any single person as a leader of revolution or any specific polytical movement or I don't know what. In my opinion , in our case whatever has happened is the fault of Iranian nation as a whole. The average Iranian has missed the target. We have gone stray. Until we get big in number and push forward nothing is going to change and history may repeat itself again and again. However I think it may not be a waste of time if we don't let it go. Just lets don't try to forget anything, if we had worked on our long term memory we could have saved some precious time.
I got some message from a fellow Iranian concerning what has been happening in Iran all these years. I understand that as an individual we are in the middle of every thing and we can not look at events in Iran in an impartial way, but let's try. We have been living in an autocratic system for such a long time ( more than 2500 years )and it is kind of natural if we have got some related behaviors in our culture. As a whole the result of the revolution was that we replaced a bad regime with another one which was essentially worse ( it could be better and our intent was to get a democratic system). But If we look at that from another viewpoint we may see it as the first partially successful attempt for change of a people ( at least for a couple of months!) that has been loving freedom and living under oppression for centuries. Have we ever been governing ourselves before? Has the Iranians' opinion had any official value ever in this country before? Look ! We just behave and treat our kids and family at home the very same way the authorities treat us in the society. Like it or not our culture and collective behavior have been affected by all these years of living under absolute autocratic rulers. It is not fault of any single person as a leader of revolution or any specific polytical movement or I don't know what. In my opinion , in our case whatever has happened is the fault of Iranian nation as a whole. The average Iranian has missed the target. We have gone stray. Until we get big in number and push forward nothing is going to change and history may repeat itself again and again. However I think it may not be a waste of time if we don't let it go. Just lets don't try to forget anything, if we had worked on our long term memory we could have saved some precious time.
Monday, June 09, 2003
Real time incubation
I was 12 when revolution happened in Iran. As a kid one thing that I could not understand was how come a human being can kill or torture the other humans. I could not believe the stories which were flying around about SAVAK and other tortures and killings and Shah's family specially the stories being told about Ashraf was so unbelievable to me. The post revolution era was a great opportunity for me to see how those kind of behaviors and people are developped and created.
These conservatives and the new Iranian religious and economical Mafia are the very simple guys of the first days of revolution and now just look at them and see what crimes they are capable of comitting.
The lack of experience of Iranian people concering the democratic behavior and their responsibilities just ended up to replacement of a totalitarian system with something worse and now we are paying for that. I try to see the full part of the glass, at the bottom of my heart I believe these lessons are learned and going to be added to the collective memory of Iranian Nation and all the sufferings and pains are not in vain.
Lets dream for better days and democracy and wish for return of Iranians' deserved dignity.
I was 12 when revolution happened in Iran. As a kid one thing that I could not understand was how come a human being can kill or torture the other humans. I could not believe the stories which were flying around about SAVAK and other tortures and killings and Shah's family specially the stories being told about Ashraf was so unbelievable to me. The post revolution era was a great opportunity for me to see how those kind of behaviors and people are developped and created.
These conservatives and the new Iranian religious and economical Mafia are the very simple guys of the first days of revolution and now just look at them and see what crimes they are capable of comitting.
The lack of experience of Iranian people concering the democratic behavior and their responsibilities just ended up to replacement of a totalitarian system with something worse and now we are paying for that. I try to see the full part of the glass, at the bottom of my heart I believe these lessons are learned and going to be added to the collective memory of Iranian Nation and all the sufferings and pains are not in vain.
Lets dream for better days and democracy and wish for return of Iranians' deserved dignity.
Paying a visit to Iran
Today I told my wife that during this coming Norouz we should go to Iran for a visit. Given our catastrophic economical conditions ( Eftezaah! God bless line of credit !) It is not a reasonable decision to make, at least with the living standards here. But the matter of the fact is that our parents are dangerously getting old ( +70 ) and we are getting more worried about them everyday. I hate being far away in case anything happens ( God forbids!) but it is the faith what do you want to do? At least we could visit them more frequently while they are around.
My older son loves Iran and he believes all the airplanes flying in the sky are going to Iran. He is 3 years and 4 month old and he speaks Farsi very good and just because of the kids population in our familly I am sure when we arrive in Iran he is going to improve a great deal in Farsi.
The bad part of the trip for me is that I can never consider myself as a guest. I don't really like invitations and parties and instead I'd rather to hang around and talk with people. I want to see my friends and get inside the life there and the result is when I return I am tired like hell mentally and phisicaly. I am sure with two kids it is going to be different, I am sure I am going to be more conformist at least for their sake. I remember how embarasing I was for my wife, parents and my in laws during our first visit to Iran, when I said I am not going to go to any familly party and I partially didn't. Later on I knew how much pain I had given to both famillies for being so selfish, I wanted them to understand that I'd got 3 weeks there and I wanted to do wathever I wanted to. Now I let it go, no struggle no conflict I am like a little lamb, specially whatever my parents and kids say during our visit is like law for me (I am exagerating but I try my best).
Today I told my wife that during this coming Norouz we should go to Iran for a visit. Given our catastrophic economical conditions ( Eftezaah! God bless line of credit !) It is not a reasonable decision to make, at least with the living standards here. But the matter of the fact is that our parents are dangerously getting old ( +70 ) and we are getting more worried about them everyday. I hate being far away in case anything happens ( God forbids!) but it is the faith what do you want to do? At least we could visit them more frequently while they are around.
My older son loves Iran and he believes all the airplanes flying in the sky are going to Iran. He is 3 years and 4 month old and he speaks Farsi very good and just because of the kids population in our familly I am sure when we arrive in Iran he is going to improve a great deal in Farsi.
The bad part of the trip for me is that I can never consider myself as a guest. I don't really like invitations and parties and instead I'd rather to hang around and talk with people. I want to see my friends and get inside the life there and the result is when I return I am tired like hell mentally and phisicaly. I am sure with two kids it is going to be different, I am sure I am going to be more conformist at least for their sake. I remember how embarasing I was for my wife, parents and my in laws during our first visit to Iran, when I said I am not going to go to any familly party and I partially didn't. Later on I knew how much pain I had given to both famillies for being so selfish, I wanted them to understand that I'd got 3 weeks there and I wanted to do wathever I wanted to. Now I let it go, no struggle no conflict I am like a little lamb, specially whatever my parents and kids say during our visit is like law for me (I am exagerating but I try my best).
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