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You suggested a chess match between Iran and the U.S. Can't we have a Takhteh Nard match on-line for all your readers, if you guys can organize it (or some one else)!
Esmaal Aghaa's article [Haft Khaan] I laughed so hard and loud that made few of my colleagues curious enough to come by and ask me what was I laughing at. I have always had great fascination with the "dash mashti" style of talking because in my college days I drove all over and had the opportunity to be told by some of these "dash mashtis" how they felt about women's driving when I would stop by at the teahouses located on the roadsides. I found their direct and honest approach refreshing and quite entertaining. I thought despite their tough exteriors they were actually very "pro-women" and quite the real men that respected intelligent women! I loved your take and judging from your picture (I can read people's energy and personalities by looking at their pictures) you have never seen someone of my caliber up close and personal. I admire your sense of humor and your courage to compare your small and very boring world to mine. For the record dash esmaal, I am 5' 3 and wear shoes with at least 4 inch heals. That make me 5' 7 which is the height of average Iranian man with one difference. I have an imposing and intimidating presence. I guarantee that you would be so overwhelmed if you meet me in person that you would faint. Of course you are not that lucky because even on my good days I would not even consider talking to someone who takes pictures with an imaginary icon! Your kind of low class, illiterate and desperate woman only lives either in your small imagination or somewhere in your neighborhood. Regards,
The "What's next?" photo essay was very informative. By the way with regards to the 14th Amendment to the United States which states, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." It is an Amendment to the Constitution that deals with the States ( ie. California). The INS is supervised by the Department of Justice, a Federal entity. The 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution applies here. "No person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." The Constitution begins with the Preamble which states "We the People of the United States..." And with regards to the 5th Amendment, the courts have recently held that the Constitution and the U.S. Amendments are only applicable to U.S. Citizens. As of recent, a green card holder can lose their green card status for committing a felony and be deported to their country of citizenship. During WWII Japanese Americans were stored in concentration camps in California. The government at the time viewed them as a threat to the United States. What is odd is that even though California is on the west coast, Hawaii is much closer to Japan and Hawaii never put its Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII. The Constitution in rare cases can be suspended due to National Security issues.
The best way to aid Iranians Immigrants is to help them get good legal representation.
Friends and family members should also show up to their immigration hearings as moral
as well as spiritual help and serve as character witnesses if possible.
We gladly signed your petition to President Bush yesterday concerning the detention of Iranian men. We browsed a bit thru the other comments when we found two remarks by a Marcy, one of them was "i dont care if you all get sent back to iran. more jobs for REAL americans, not some turban wearing cab driving job stealers". She might just be one of those highly uneducated trailer trash people (which this country unfortunately has far too many) and it would be easy just to disregard it, but her e-mail adress is from the peacecorps, a government-funded institution - mparkhurst@peacecorps.gov. We think it's exactly that kind of attitude that has to be stopped immediately - it is hard enough to convince the government of their incredible mistakes they make right now. But those casual remarks breed hate all too easily and create a hostile environment that might be too hard to change if we let it just slip thru. We e-mailed the peacecorps and would like this incident to be investigated further. We don't want to fund some racist idiots with our taxes. We'd just like you to know about it, maybe you'd like to write the peacecorps or so. In the meantime, we hope (and vote) for a better government - and maybe one day even Americans can find Iran on a map! Thank you for your efforts, Andrea K & Mike L
I am responding to your letter [?] sent in response to the article [My last trip to the United States] that touched on discrimination of Iranian/Canadian citizens I found the tone of your letter very arrogant. It seems like you have been living on Mars to know who much hatred the world (europe, africa, asia) feels about Americans (I guess that would include you since your new idiot president has been in power). Just look at the demonstrations against the US in Germany, Italy and UK. So please don't play this "I love US shit" with us. And by the way in Canada we may not drive cars or buy luxary houses but at least we don't fear that our child will be shot by a sniper in the street or if a loved one has a heart attack, the doctor will require documentations from an HMO before saving their life.
Assal Badrkhani is right in expressing dismay and fear against the anti-immigrant onslaught in America ["Oppressed once more"]. Assal, a 19-year old Iranian-American girl has the tenacity and wisdom to know her rightful role and suggest a clear course of action. Where are other so-called political leaders like Reza Pahlavi? Taking a break from a boot licking session and joining the ranks of commoners may help this royal highness and likes of him come down to earth and learn our pains as an immigrant community in America. Moments like what we are experiencing will certainly unmask deceit and help us pinpoint our true friends from ordinary opportunists.
I too am annoyed by Rudi Bakhtiar's constant smiling at obviously tragic stories [Moody Rudi]. I don't think she should smile at all, unless she's doing the occasional fluff piece. I was afraid to turn on CNN the other day to find her say, "Hundreds of innocent Iranians were thrown in jail by INS officials," smile, wink, wink. I, like Massombagi, do not want to put her down -- I'm proud that she's made it big. But somebody has got to clue her in on the fact that she's not hosting Wild On E! and that she's a news anchor on a serious and widely-respected network. She tries to be too cute and that irritates me to no end. I'll forgive her nasal-I-had-a-nose-job-voice. But her appearance (hair, clothes, and glasses) are distracting. I don't notice or remember what any of the other CNN anchors are wearing, probably because it's a nice conservative business suit. But Rudi really is moody. She has short hair one night and long hair the next (what, did her hair grow 10 inches in one night? That Persian egg shampoo must really work. Couldn't they get her hair extensions that matched the rest of her hair?). She wears contacts one night and horrible black-rimmed glasses the next. Did she really forget her contacts or is she trying to be trendy? I don't remember noticing anyone else's glasses on CNN. I won't even go into her clothes--let's just say I'm glad there's a blue bar at the bottom of the screen to cover her cleavage. I have to admit that when I watch her announce the news, I don't hear a word she says -- I'm too distracted looking at her hair and makeup and glasses. I'm analyzing her unnecessary smiles, winks, head and facial movements and gestures. If I'm ever in Atlanta, I'll have to ask, "Really Rudi, what's so funny?" Anonymous
In response to "Challenging
the Government of God", by Ahmad Sadri He goes on to explain how Islam (especially Iranian brand) is anti-modernity (and
incompatible with the 21st century society). Yet, despite all that, and having babblled
on and on for seven pages, he fails to distinguish between IRAN and Islam; and between
the problem of Iranians (with Islamic Republic) and the problem of the possible reformability
or otherwise of Islam.
Mr. Ahmad Sadri and other "Islamic reform minded advocates", [Challenging the Government of God] "Understanding the reform movement in Iran is predicated upon understanding the particular brand of Islamic fundamentalism which it aims to modify" and the particular aspects, and unjust vested privileges, of the 1979 revolution, that the Khatami gang want to make eternal, you forgot to mention. One is free to believe that the debates currently taking place in the seminaries of Qom are actually the dawn of a new era and not the repetition of age old intramural discussions that the Shiite clergy has had for at least 700 years without reforming itself. It is however illogical to state that Iranians should delay integrating with the rest of humanity and improving their economic position because the Shiite clergy are only half a millennium late in reforming themselves and meaningful change must only start in the religious sphere. Did the Japanese wait for the Shinto priests to reform? Did not Spain modernize despite a non-reformed Catholic church? Why should not Iranians like so many others benefit from the experiences of the rest of humanity? Whether Shiite Protestantism succeeds or fails, the issue still remains that even a reformed clergy is neither representative of the entirety of Iranian culture nor are they the most qualified citizens to conduct the affairs of the state. Since Russian cannons awoke Iranians to a changed world after a coma of a thousand years at Turkamanchai, we Iranians started the tireless effort of meeting the challenge of rational and scientific modernity. Iran's biggest enemies have not been foreign but homegrown: superstition, fanaticism, and ignorance. The social ills crystallized today in Khomeini's Islamic Republic. Sincerely,
I wonder where the hell you are from, but the picture
you put on the home page of your web site (a herd of sheep with "the iranian"
word in the picture!!!) is an obscene insolence for Iranian community. PLEASE *remove
it* from your web site.
mikhastam azatoon bekhatere ahangai ke tooye bakhshe Ey Iran-e iranian.com gozashte boodid tashakor konam . makhsoosan inke moddati bood man donbale ahanhaye mihani migashtam va midanam ke gerd avari hame inha dar yek ja kare asani nist. amma yek mas'ale i ke mara azar midahad, aksi hast ke balaye safhe gozashte'id. ma iraniha khodemoon midoonim ke goosfandim vali khob bezarid hadde'aghal bazdid konandehaye dige motavajeye mozoo nashan! behtar bood be jaye in goosfandhayee ke mahiyate ma ra bar mala mikonand akse koorosh ya darioush ra balaye safhe migozashtid. ba tashokkor baghboon. Hossein Mohammadshahi
I saw this article in Iranian.com from H. to Dear Abjeez [Materalistic Iranian men]. I think Iranian girls and women are more materialistic than men, that is why I married to a wonderful American lady. All Iranian and Iranian-American women I knew cared about were money, my occunpation and a palace to live. And if you don't have any of these, you're out.
I enjoyed your humorous article [Truth shall triumph]. I just have to bring up a point that might be minor in the context of the article but quite major in absolute terms. Maji is the variation of "Mogh" the holy men of Mithraist faith. The Parthians were Mithraist. The kings of Ashkani dynasty were from Parth and all Mithraist. The religion of Mithra spread from Iran to Europe and the rest of the world. It became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The real Christ was a Mithraist with a message of brotherhood from Iran and most likely born about 200 years before the jewish person assumed to be the christ (See Zabih Behrooz, et al). Therefore, assuming there ever was a comet (most likely Halley's), a jew was born out of wedlock, the three Moghs had nothing better to do than chase the star that led them to the bastard child, and all this happened in a Mithraist period, the Moghs could not have been Behdin (Zarthushti). Siamak
I have seen it all now! My son was shopping for CD's on Queen St W (Toronto) and brought home something from a band called Trench Coat Yuppies. Their songs are about Terrorists hiding in caves getting stoned and fucked, while they send out Ladybugs to spy and poison us with anthrax! The events of 9/11 has made some people sick with paranoia, that has not been
seen since the "Red Scare" in the fifties. George W is going to attack
Iraq because he's scared shitless of them. The "Brown Scare" is real! I
bet Bush wont eat pretzils during the NFL play-offs this year!
As an Iranian woman i would like to thank shahbanoo for still and forever being a real fighter and a strong leader and a builder as a real Queen. Lately I felt in my heart to just talk to my Queen and thank her for being where i am and who i become, just because one day, she desired to put time to improving Iran's art and culture. I did send her majesty an e mail to show my availability to continue on that step(with desire and knowledge of my responsibilities) knowing less that the effect of what happening to the students in Iran must have her majestiy's mind truly engaged. As an Iranian i will also put some time and effort in solving this trouble too. i will attend walks and speeches to make a difference. however I like to take this opportunity to thank our Queen for always being an inspiration to us Iranian women . Above all I will be praying for our country to stand firm in this battle against humans rights . Fatemeh Borhani ( Azad )
I really enjoyed your piece "Anjaa Tehran bood" I was born in Shemiran and went to elementary and middle school on Zafaranieh
Street. My mother and family live on Pesian. I go back once or twice a year. In fact,
my American wife, my son and I will be in Tehran soon. It was kind of nostalgic to
see mention of my old neighborhood in your writing.
Dear Abjeese, [Materalistic Iranian men] I live in San Francisco and not in LA. However I am agree with you about money loving or as you said Pozy culture among L A- Iranian. But I think it is mostly the wrong definition of success that creates this problem. Even successful people in LA like Brad Pitt and Jennifer A. do not go for Pozy culture. One needs creative energy and dicipline to become successful. I do not know... I really love Iranian culture and just seeing fellow Iranian makes me happy, I love to see them even in night club and bar.... just anywhere , so I think we should not discriminate againest eachother , but include eachothe, thanks. FKH EDITOR'S REPLY: It has been corrected
Dear Siamack, [Private
thoughts]
Once again Mr. Kadivar has written a very informative article which at the same time made my blood boil [A dialogue in art]. Stupid, intolerant and backward Iranians got their way for a short time. When are those of us who claim to be progressive, democratic and open-minded are going to stand up to these hooligans? Those who live in the cushion and protected La La land of the Westernized-Iranian communities assume that we are safe from the embarrassing and ludicrous beliefs of some of our fellow Iranians because we live in the "West". Well, think again. Do you know that a group of college students in my community had arranged for a stand up comedian to perform in our area and had to cancel? You may find this hard to fathom but, a few very educated, well off Iranians had called the young man who heads the student group and threatened the young man (they did not have the balls to call me because they know me too well and how I would answer). The show had coincided with "Ghadar nights" which the Shiite Moslems believe Ali ,their leader was injured and one of these night died. They went ahead and committed to buying 50 tickets to show their support if the program was rescheduled!. I was the one that had to send the e-mail regarding the cancellation. However, I made sure in my very nice e-mail I exposed the group's backwardness and made sure that I mentioned that nowhere in the Koran is indicated that on this night you must cry. I went further and mentioned as a person who had read the Hadith and the Koran there is no mention of not having fun or laughing during Ramdan either and this backward idea is strictly written in Mafatih by an Iranian. I can not tell you about the scores of supportive e-mails I received from people that wanted to know what they could do to help stand up to these "menace to our community). I went one step further and showed up at a memorial and purposely kissed a few men in front of the people from the group and brought up the subject (while their leader stared at me) and said, I hate Moslems who give Islam a bad name because they are stupid and illiterate so they resort to threats by phone calls (looked the man right in the eye as I said it). You may ask what is the relevance to this article. Very simply for you to stand up and do not let these people win. In my case last NowRouz was also around Ashura and these people had threatened to interrupt the celebration at the university which was supposed to take place. I was very sick and due to the fatal car accident I had been in my neck and back hurt really bad, but I made a very conscious effort to call everyone I could and ask them to come and made myself drive an hour to be there. I danced the night away despite the pain. The group who had threatened did nothing. Get mad and make a difference. Contribute to these kind of cultural projects. I am by cutting one dinner outing for my son and I. Please do the same so the success of this dance group will be the slap in the face for those idiots. Mr. Kian, the hell with Azarbayjan and those who "let you down". Learn your lesson, hire people who are committed and use the rich and beautiful landscape of Iranian literature for your "tales". Regrads,
man davood ghasemifard az azaye saite shoma hastam. moghime kharej hastam va chand roozist be iran bargashtam. be donbale mazar va mahale dafne khanandeye irooni FEREYDOON FOROUGHI hastam. lotfan adrese daghighe mahale dafn ra barayam befrestid. ba tashakor va emtenan
We are in the process of creating a new publication for the second and third generation Iranians in America. The publication will be published in the Los Angeles area and are soliciting articles and stories from you. The publication is in English with a definite Farsi "accent" on how we view things. If you have any articles you would like to share please email them to us for our review. No fees will be paid but you will have our gratitude and we will gladly send you a copy of the monthly newspaper at no cost. Please send your articles to aashnews@yahoo.com Thank You Editor
Thanks very much for dissemination of IAR radio. I truly enjoy listening to it while I work and have a chance to dream about our home land. Harry H. Solhjoo, MBA, Ph.D.
Howdy va Salam from Texas. I was rooting for the Buckeyes [Pretty ridiculous thought] because my girlfriend is a Buckeye. But I did you know that one of the key offensive line men for Miami was an Iranian brother from Canada! Sherko is a Kurdish name. 6 foot 6 Iranian??? How did that happen? See his info below. Farzad Bozorgmehr (aka Zod Mehr)
Sherko Haji-Rasouli Class:
If you read both Not Without My Daughter and For the Love of a Child you will find many positive examples of Iranians. Moody lied to Betty. He promised her that they would only be in Iran for two weeks and would return to America. He did not discuss the matter with her and say he wanted to try living in Iran. He arbitrarily decided they had to stay. He also did not discuss his feelings about Mahtobs religion. Again he just decided on his own that she would become a Muslim. Betty is criticized for going to Iran in the first place. If she had refused she would have been criticized for refusing to visit her husbands home with their daughter. The fact is that Moody left a lot to be desired. He was violent and selfish. (A lot of American men have similar traits. ) If Moody had talked to Betty they might have been able to reach a compromise. For example they could have stayed in Iran during the school year and spent summers in America. Since Moody had already agreed to have her raised as a Christian he should have kept to that but Betty should have allowed her to learn about the Muslim faith as well. It was Moodys arbitrary decisions and refusal to consider Betty's feelings that caused the problem. I did not get the impression from this book that all Iranians are bad. As stated before there were many examples of positive acts and traits. The fact that many American women are happily married to kind and loving Iranian men does not make Betty's story a lie. You say it was wrong for Betty to take Mahtob to America and away from her father. What if Moody had succeeded in getting Betty on the plane to America and then had not allowed her to return thereby keeping mother and daughter apart. Would that have been okay? As I see it Betty had no choice but to do what she did. The book made me interested in learning more about Iran and Islam. The government is not to my liking and I don't plan to convert to Islam (not that it is bad it's just not what I personally believe. I am a Christian. I have Muslim friends. ) There are many aspects of the culture which I found appealing both in Betty's books and in other publications. Someone from a posh avenue in England who came to live with a family in a large city slum or poorest Appalachia would get a different view of America than someone from the same area going to a nice suburban town. Yet it is all America. I think the story is true and Betty did what she had to do. It did not give me a bad impression of Iranians as a whole.
I was almost 7 when the so called "ISLAMIC" people came to my country and destroyed it. Why? I tell you why because they were (AKHOONDS) and they didn't belong in a modern country anymore and god forbid this could not happen. I love my country and even though I wasn't more than just a child when the regim changed I still Love my KING AND MY QUEEN. They represented my country IRAN the way it was supposed to be represented, but these so called muslims were powerhungry and did not have a home, and back then we were not hungry...have you guys heard of the fact "keep iranian hungry and arabs full" -- well unfortunatley that's what happened to us. WE WERE ENTIRELY TOO FULL. well we got what we deserved, some of us left the country for one reason or another. My parents left Iran when I was 13 or 14 years old. Now Iam 30 and married with two girls. I married to an american guy and it's so hard for me to explain to him why I love my country so much and why my kids have persian names. MARAL va NOOSHA. WHY? cause they are half me, and Iam iranian even though I can't go back to iran...one because of the fact that I have an american husband that is not a muslim and two because I am a monarchybeliver. Some people might think what does she know, true I was a child when monarchy left my country, but I know it didn't turn to the better. Let me tell you what Shahanshah Aryamehr was a kindhearted man and that's what got him out of his precious country. He build apartments for the poor who lived in Halabiabad and does any of you know what the poor homeless people did with their apartments that they got for free? ANYBODY? Sell I know....they sold them and moved back to halabiabad. I told my american
husband that when the Rezashah II goes back to Iran I am going to. wether you want
to follow or not but I'll go. I was 7 when the regim changed but to this WHEN I hear
EY IRAN EY MARZE PORGOHAR EY KHAKAT SARCHESHMEYE HONAR... I stand up and sing with
it and that's my way salute my country and my king.
Hello, I look for any information about the three Israeli soldiers who are held
and kidnapped by the hizbulla on October 7, 2000. We try in any way to get them or
to get the basic information about their conditions. Please help us.
I read the article about Emame Zaman; as you know when we want to explain something from some one,we should present the sourses and the time.I belived that your website would be a professional website,but regards to this aritcle you showed something against,why you want to show these stupid words at this time? Why you want to present that "shiite" believe in the silliest words? you know that regards to your website's name "Iranian" many people in the world would say that Iranians are crazy!!! maybe you want it !! instead of these things try to present some useful and valuable articles fro the new Iranian generation,if you believe them,the generation which they don't have idea of their country's history. do it!!! Regards
Many did not realize Arya Abedin's "Press the button" was in fact political satire -- NOT to be taken literally. He has expanded his introduction to make this point clearer. Here are emails about the article, including some from those who misunderstood the author's intention:
Saman, [You asked for it] These cartoons are awesome. You sure have proved that a cartoon paints a thousand words. Thanks for supporting the student uprising in Iran. Damet Garm. Kiana Sol
bebin, kAri nakon biAm sorAghet, un eynaketo bedam zarre zarrasho GHURT bedi. in deegeh bAreh Akhareteh dAram behet migam... un site ro vardAr mAdar jende. magar inke vAghean tanet barAyeh yeh darseh dorost hesAbi bekhAre!
Nice article regarding one of the best college bowl games in recent memory [Pretty ridiculous thought]. Regarding the question you posed to the reader at the end of your article (when
was the last time you killed someone?), maybe you should consult your revolutionary
brethren whom are continuously taking lives of innocent freedom loving Iranians as
we speak. Regards,
I wish you could say the same thing to Mullahs [Pretty ridiculous thought], not now that they are forced to disappear, but at the time that you were helping them. Yes you are right, now, killing is not good. But it never was good, not now nor
at the time that Imam thing appeared. What about those people that were begging Imam
thing and his followers, please stop killing. The Fanatics never did. Did they? Who
is apologizing to those people who were against killings from day one? Arash I was just visiting your site and noticed some discrepancies regarding the feature on patriotic songs which need your attention. In 1944, my father, Rouhollah Khaleghi composed the music and Hossein Golgolab wrote the words to Ey Iran. Later, I arranged the music for orchestra and choir and it appears on the cassette tape called "Meye Nab" which was recorded in 1990 by me. The Ey Iran recording you listed under Hossein Alizadeh and Hossein Sarshar has been taken from the same recording. Thank you, Editor's note: This mistake has been corrected.
Just wanna let u know that unfortunately Mr Nader Haghighi passed away after a heart attack and it shocked everyone...
Couple of interesting experiences about name Shiraz and wine.
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