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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Zahra Rahnavard
The Woman Ahmadinejad Fears
By Shirin Ebadi
(Time, May10,2010)
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Mir-Hossein Mousavi may be the face of Iran's Green protest movement, but the government fears his wife just as much. Even before the 2009 election, Zahra Rahnavard, 64, a committed artist, inspired educator and tireless organizer, came under verbal attack from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I have seen her courage in person. I met her for the first time in 2003, while she was head of Alzahra University for women in Tehran. She was the only university head who, in the years following the 1979 Islamic revolution, was prepared to hold an event in my honor. But the day I was invited to present a lecture at her university, a number of women turned up claiming to be student members of the Basij, a volunteer paramilitary group aligned with the hard-line regime; and though it was obvious they were not students at all, they managed to prevent the event from taking place. But that did not stop Rahnavard from engaging with the intruders — civilly and calmly promising them equal time if they allowed me to go on — to no avail. I may not have spoken in public that day, but I privately celebrated her patience and fortitude.
Ebadi, an Iranian human-rights activist, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Persian Green Movement is Alive - India
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Ending ceremony of summer tournament of foreign student association in Hyderabad, India.
Ending ceremony of summer tournament of foreign student association in Hyderabad, India.
Iranian Green Movement is still very much alive and kicking, even more than the first days ..
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Chaharshanbe Suri
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Chaharshanbe Suri is an ancient Persian festival dating at least to 1700 BC of the early Zoroastrian era. The festival of fire is a prelude to the Norouz festival, which marks the arrival of spring and revival of nature. Traditionally celebrated on the last Wednesday night of the Persian year. The word Chaharshanbeh means Wednesday and Suri is red. Bonfires are lit to keep the sun alive till early hours of the morning. The celebration usually starts in the evening, with people making bonfires in the streets and jumping over them. The tradition includes people going into the streets and alleys to make fires, and jump over them while singing the song Sorkhi-ye to az man, zardi-ye man az to. The literal translation is, Your fiery red color is mine, and my sickly yellow paleness is yours. Loosely translated, this means you want the fire to take your paleness, sickness, and problems and in turn give you redness, warmth, and energy. There is no religious significance attached to Chaharshanbeh Soori and it serves as a cultural festival for Persians, Persian Jews, Muslims, Armenians, Kurds, Turks and Zoroastrians alike. Indeed this celebration, in particular the significant role of fire, is likely to hail from Zoroastrianism. (Wikipedia)
However, there is a funny issue in the today Iran. The clergies who govern the country are diametrically opposed to Persian national events and try to fade them away. Thus, they have been imaging Chaharshanbe Suri as a dangerous and lethal event with showing the burned and injured people while the Halloween highly publicizes and celebrates with glamorous and attractive icons in west.
Chaharshanbe Suri is an ancient Persian festival dating at least to 1700 BC of the early Zoroastrian era. The festival of fire is a prelude to the Norouz festival, which marks the arrival of spring and revival of nature. Traditionally celebrated on the last Wednesday night of the Persian year. The word Chaharshanbeh means Wednesday and Suri is red. Bonfires are lit to keep the sun alive till early hours of the morning. The celebration usually starts in the evening, with people making bonfires in the streets and jumping over them. The tradition includes people going into the streets and alleys to make fires, and jump over them while singing the song Sorkhi-ye to az man, zardi-ye man az to. The literal translation is, Your fiery red color is mine, and my sickly yellow paleness is yours. Loosely translated, this means you want the fire to take your paleness, sickness, and problems and in turn give you redness, warmth, and energy. There is no religious significance attached to Chaharshanbeh Soori and it serves as a cultural festival for Persians, Persian Jews, Muslims, Armenians, Kurds, Turks and Zoroastrians alike. Indeed this celebration, in particular the significant role of fire, is likely to hail from Zoroastrianism. (Wikipedia)
anyway, Chaharshanbe Suri is still very much alive and kicking in Iran .. 16 March 2010.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Mohammadreza Pahlavi and Persian Gulf & American Jewish Lobby (1974)
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A CBS 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace, interview with the late king of Iran, Mohammadreza Pahlavi, from the 1970's on the media control by the Jews:
.. no doubt why he was overthrown.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, overthrown in the 1979 Iranian revolution. He is pictured here with his wife, Farah Pahlavi, former Empress of Iran
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi became Shah in 1941 when an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced his father to abdicate the throne. Allied forces were concerned about the old Shah's Nazi sympathies and wanted to deprive Germany of Iranian oil by replacing him with his more compliant son.
Foreign meddling in Iran's affairs only increased after World War II. The country became a major chess piece coveted by the Americans and the Soviets because of its vast oil reserves.
During the Cold War, the Shah survived a Soviet-orchestrated assasination attempt and received British and American covert help to depose Mohammed Mossadegh, a political rival who was Prime Minister in the early 1950s. Mohammed Reza was the first Muslim leader to recognized the state of Israel, a move that made him controversial both at home and abroad.
It is perhaps not suprising then that when Mohammed Reza Shah was forced into exile by the Islamic Revolution, the main charge lobbied against him was that his regime had become a puppet of Western powers.
He also angered clerics and conservatives by giving women the right to vote and instituting government-sponsored exams for Muslim clergy. Opponents also critized the Shah's lavish entertaining and extravagant lifestyle.
Mohammed Reza styled himself a modernizer, but became increasingly autocratic during his reign, banning opposition parties and torturing dissidents. Of course, it did not help that while his government was getting help from the CIA, the KGB was lending its support to the opposition.
This last shah's reign, under which Iran marked 2500 years of continuous monarchy since the founding of the Persian Empire, came to an end in 1979.
A CBS 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace, interview with the late king of Iran, Mohammadreza Pahlavi, from the 1970's on the media control by the Jews:
.. no doubt why he was overthrown.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, overthrown in the 1979 Iranian revolution. He is pictured here with his wife, Farah Pahlavi, former Empress of Iran
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi became Shah in 1941 when an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced his father to abdicate the throne. Allied forces were concerned about the old Shah's Nazi sympathies and wanted to deprive Germany of Iranian oil by replacing him with his more compliant son.
Foreign meddling in Iran's affairs only increased after World War II. The country became a major chess piece coveted by the Americans and the Soviets because of its vast oil reserves.
During the Cold War, the Shah survived a Soviet-orchestrated assasination attempt and received British and American covert help to depose Mohammed Mossadegh, a political rival who was Prime Minister in the early 1950s. Mohammed Reza was the first Muslim leader to recognized the state of Israel, a move that made him controversial both at home and abroad.
It is perhaps not suprising then that when Mohammed Reza Shah was forced into exile by the Islamic Revolution, the main charge lobbied against him was that his regime had become a puppet of Western powers.
He also angered clerics and conservatives by giving women the right to vote and instituting government-sponsored exams for Muslim clergy. Opponents also critized the Shah's lavish entertaining and extravagant lifestyle.
Mohammed Reza styled himself a modernizer, but became increasingly autocratic during his reign, banning opposition parties and torturing dissidents. Of course, it did not help that while his government was getting help from the CIA, the KGB was lending its support to the opposition.
This last shah's reign, under which Iran marked 2500 years of continuous monarchy since the founding of the Persian Empire, came to an end in 1979.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
My perspective on Religion ..
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Religion is like a wisdom tooth:
It has a beautiful name, it thinks that it has a strong position at the end of the mouth and can govern all of the mouth. However, for more than centuries it have lost its functionality and just ruining other tooth and screwing the mouth, without any benefit.
Well, there is a good news; the wisdom teeth are gradually going to disappear in the evaluation of humankind.
Good on people who had not any wisdom teeth ever. If not, they have decided one day and pull all of them out and throw them away, that's how I have done.
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The First Post
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2:30 am, February 28 2010
I will write my thoughts and notions as well as my analysis over what is happening around us.
Here you are .. read, enjoy, and comment it.
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