Iran's Nuclear Mistake

Did we not learn anything from Chernobyl?


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Iran's Nuclear Mistake
by Mohammad Alireza
05-May-2008
 

TEHRAN -- Most Iranians agree that we have the right to the peaceful development and use of nuclear energy and international law grants Iran this right. However, there is a strong case for abandoning our nuclear energy program and instead investing in solar energy.

Here is a link that shows a map of northern Africa and how little of that area needs to be covered with solar thermal panels in order to provide energy for the entire world.

Solar thermal energy plants can easily be built with existing technology in Iran. We have plenty of desert space and plenty of year round sunshine. And we have the raw materials and engineering skills so that we would not be dependent on foreign assistance.

Iranians need to ask themselves if we are going down the right path by placing our nation in danger because we insist on developing a nuclear program that is based on 60 year old technology.

Did we not learn anything from Chernobyl?

No solution has been found to safely dispose of nuclear waste. Decommissioning nuclear power plants costs more than building them.

Is our nuclear program an attempt to show off to the world that we are no longer a backward country? But if that is the case then why are we spending all this money on outdated technology that is mostly acquired from non-Iranians?

Are we defending our right to nuclear energy because we don’t want to be pushed around by other nations? But isn’t our nuclear program in actual fact creating a big excuse for other nations to push us around?

The truth is Iran has far better options than nuclear energy to meet its energy needs.

If Iran is developing its nuclear energy program so that it can have the option of building a nuclear weapon in the event it is attacked, like it was by Saddam, then it is making a big mistake. Nuclear weapons will not secure our safety but instead make us a target of nuclear weapons. Iran can defend itself without nuclear weapons. If Iran could not defend itself American would have attacked by now.

If Iran invested just fifteen percent of its annual oil revenue towards building solar power plants it could power the entire nation and also convert the entire transportation system to use electric powered vehicles and still have excess electricity to export. This can be achieved in less than ten years and have the added benefit of eliminating automobile pollution in our cities.

Taking the solar path would mean becoming the leading producer and consumer of electric powered vehicles which would place Iran in a leadership position that would translate into hundreds of thousands of employment opportunities.

The current decision makers of Iran are making a mistake on insisting that we must develop nuclear technology, for whatever reason. Iran has the know-how and the perfect geography to become the first solar powered nation.

Taking the nuclear path is not in Iran’s national security interest and it is time the Iranian people woke up to this fact.


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Nuclear Lemmings

by Mohammad Alireza on

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Several commentators have assumed those that question the decisions of the IRI live outside Iran.
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Why do you make this assumption?
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Have Iranians living in Iran all turned into sheep?
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Conformity to the wrong path is nothing to be proud of.
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Ever heard of lemmings?
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Mohammad Alireza. Tehran.


jamshid

Re: Maleknasri

by jamshid on

I nominate you for the internet stooge of the month.


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همه میدانیم که دیر یا زود حكومت ج.ا. شما فروميپاشد

Faribors Maleknasri M.D. (not verified)


Yes, that is true, that is the absolut Truth. We all know this fact. In our dreams we see the young Over-last perserkönig sitting on peacock throne and admiring our american friends how they direct the take-away performance of the wealthes of the Iranian and then we are all happy having been a short time in the virtual world where every thing happens according to our uncle sam conductings. But the reality is a little bit different. The IRI does not get destructed authomatically. It does not destructed at all. The 30 Million " fanatic Moslems" who founded it 1978 count by now 70 Millions and - as the contemporarry history shoues they know how to protect their Republic. That Republic does not belopng to me, does not belong to my likewise but belongs to those 70 millions who live there. The regime of Islamic epublic of Iran and those 70 Million just do not like any protectores who live in abroad and some of them behave just typically as "Saloon Revolutionaries". a handfull Iranians who left Iran after Revolution had no political motivations. Most of them did not have any motivation. The rest had ecconomical problem or they did not want to go to war. may be some of them say to themselves: Why was I such a covartly anctious person and did not stay. sonme others know everything better than those who stayed. Iran has made mistake by Nucs, has made mistakes by this and that. And none of these experts sends her/his application for a job in Iran just in order to shou them how things must be done. Thanks God we have the "IRANIAN" and can throw with earthy words on each other and call the most independent country in the world the Mullah-Regime, not beeing aware of the fact that in saying so we are just leaking the western`s mouth, after they have vomitted their nonesences. Greeting


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Alireza

by Dariush (not verified) on

It is true that there is conflict of interest toward oil industry and nuclear energy, but they have enough money and power to take over and control solar industry as well.
No one is saying solar is bad. Why not keep all our options open and use solar for energy and nuclear for other peaceful scientific programs and energy in addition to oil and etc where solar doesn't do the job.
I don't agree that people in government are wrong. Most of them are very educated. It is not one or two. There are thousand of them. There are issues of manufacturing solar in Iran or being totally dependable, the cost, issues with nature, the space it takes and maintenance, and some others.
I am guessing you concern is not just clean environment but also to avoid war over this.
If it is about environment. West is using nuclear and chemical bombs on us and around the world intentionally every day. We should stop them first before we turn against ourselves and deny our rights just because something might spill.
If it is for avoiding confrontation with west, you know it is really not about nuclear and they have and will make other excuses for more confrontations.
The fact that they say we have oil and don't need nuclear is foolish. Which one is better for environment? Oil with all the pollutions caused by cars, spills in ocean and leaks from underground tanks every day or nuclear energy.
Solar for energy part of our need is perfect and should definitely be considered and worked on.
I suggest you make a complete package and present it to Iran's energy department. You might know somethings they don't. This way, we all will be on the right track.


Mohammad Alireza

Response to Dariush

by Mohammad Alireza on

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You wrote: “If nuclear energy was not the solution, why west and east are increasing their nuclear plants instead of solar or any other? Why Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria and others are being encouraged to build such plants instead of solar.”
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The central reason for this is that the nuclear power industry is very rich and powerful and it is to their benefit to have more nuclear power plants built. Their interest is not in the environmental impact or long-term health of human beings. They are in it for the profit.
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Solar power represents a threat to the nuclear energy industry and also to the oil industry as it can not be controlled by them. A couple of oil companies have been investing in solar but if solar did suddenly become a viable alternative both the nuclear and oil industry would go into decline. Look into the early history of the automobile industry in America and how they bought up and tore up all the Los Angeles railway tracks so as to eliminate a competitor. Public transport is bad for the car industry and the same relationship exists between the solar and nuclear industry.
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Nobody owns the sun and solar energy is free and can be collected by anybody; the oil and nuclear industry don’t like this situation.
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Nuclear energy is a marvel and should be used but not if it ends up causing long-term damage to the human chromosome and deforms our great grandchildren and their off spring because we humans today were negligent and careless. Nuclear waste is not something that can be washed away with soap and water; it alters our DNA and remains in the environment for thousands of years.

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Note to Hashem:
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You wrote: "The technical advisors in Tehran aren't aren't a bunch of uneducated mullahs from Ghom, they are Stanford and Berkley graduates." A degree from Stanford or Berkeley does not make one immune to stupidity, and ending up as an advisor in Qom maybe proof of this.
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Mohammad Alireza


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Alireza

by Dariush (not verified) on

I had a simple question, but didn't get any answer.
If nuclear energy was not the solution, why west and east are increasing their nuclear plants instead of solar or any other?
Why Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria and others are being encouraged to build such plants instead of solar.
Why not have all options open and use?
As barmard said there are many other use for nuclear energy. Mammad gave a very informative economical and other aspects of it and Hashem just pointed to some other important points. It all makes sense unless there are other agendas not Iran's progress.
I think you want to discuss different avenues and I do not think you like some others trying to add fuel to the fire, but some are use it to do so.


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Typical Iranian expat

by Hashem (not verified) on

Typical Iranian expat nonsense...

What the US and allies want is that Iran sign a contract saying that it will never persue the production of nuclear fule. Only then will they grant Iran the package of insentives. But if the Islamic Republic were to ever sign such a contract you expatriots would be the first ones calling them sell-outs and traitors that are giving away Iran's right for their own benefit.

If the mullahs wanted to fill their pockets, they would have taken the incentives package in a blink of an eye as it makes short-term sense. But what happens in a few decades when the oil and gas starts to run out?

Solar energy? You are going to run factories on solar energy?!! The Americans have long ruled out solar energy as a relaiable source of energy to base their economy on.

The technical advisors in Tehran aren't aren't a bunch of uneducated mullahs from Ghom, they are Stanford and Berkley graduates.


jamshid

Well said Anonym7

by jamshid on

The IRI fears the people of Iran, specially the younger generation, even more than it fears the US. To the IRI, the people are the main enemy, and therefore, it oppresses them as much as it can.

All these talks about Iran's right for X and Y is just a bunch of BS unless you translate those statementst. The translation is:

"We the mullahs and our Mafia circle have the right to have nuclear technology in order to guarantee our survival and to oppress the people of Iran with impunity."

They skip the parts in boldface.


Abarmard

Jamshid

by Abarmard on

valo kako, is Shirazi.. valo is vallah, and kako (kaka) is brother. estelaahe :)


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doomed not because of nukes

by Anonym7 (not verified) on

M. A. says, "If Iran could not defend itself American would have attacked by now."

this is totally wrong, as the Republican Joe Scarborough explicitly said a few weeks before the Iraq war, one of US objectives from going to Iraq was to continue with regime change and go to Iran. Iraq did not go nearly as well as expected and Afghanistan has not been easy either! That is why Iran has not been attacked yet.
Having said that I believe IRI may be doomed even if it implements MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) and keeps US from attacking it. IRI may be doomed not because of nuclear work (or potential nukes) but because it has been totally ignoring the majority of population despite so much income from oil ... and it continues to do so.


jamshid

Re: Abarmard

by jamshid on

I remember having heard something similar in the past, but I don't know what "valo kako" means.

You clarified your position, but you should be alarmed at why so many people are thinking that you are trying to protect the IRI.

I think you should re-evaluate your wordings to avoid this.


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Mr.Alireza, great article.

by Farhad Kashani (not verified) on

Mr.Alireza, great article. Well said.


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Mohammad Alireza

by Mammad (not verified) on

Thank you for your response, and the many interesting points. In response, I would say the following:

(i) Every industry has some standards of safety, and whether a unit operates safely over a period of time. So does the nuclear industry.

The standard of safety in the nuclear industry is "at most one accident over a 50 year period." Note that 50 years is the useful life of a nuclear reactor. So, while the accident in Chernobyl was a disaster, it should not be blown out of proportion. It was a singular event.

When I say, "the cost of operating a nuclear reactor is ..." that includes the cost of maintaining safely the wastes also.

(ii) Regarding the storage of nuclear waste:

You might know that the US is the ONLY nation in the world that does not allow reprocessing of nuclear wastes, and just stores it. This was ordered by Jimmy Carter. Otherwise, other nations, such as Japan, reprocess the waste. New techniques have made it possible to reduce the amount of final waste to only 3% of the original amount of fuel. New techniques have also made it possible to store it safely in glass.

(iii) I am not outdated on solar energy. In addition to energy being a research area of my own, a distinguished colleague of mine is a world renown person on the subject. Even your own response indicates the correctness of my assertion. You say, venture capitalist have funded start-up companies to find an economic way. Yes, but that means that the way has not been found, it is still a long shot, which is why it is funded by venture capitalists - high risk, but big returns, if it works.

Go to the website of the Energy Information Administration of the US Department of Energy (www.eia.doe.gov) to see what the current prices are for generating electricity and energy by solar.

(iv) I have read Calidcott's book. As you know, this is a controversial subject. Thoughtful people on both sides have thoughtful opinions. Just because someone, who may be an expert, is pro or con of a given subject, it does not mean that the final word has been said.

(v) Finally, as I said at the beginning of my comment, "I am not saying that Iran should start building nuclear reactors, rather that it is totally economical and profitable." Of course, that means doing it right, including finding the right place, having the expertise, etc.

The point is: The argument should not be that because Iran has so much oil and gas, it does not need other resources. As I said, the argument must be based on cost opportunity.

Thank you again


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اقای ابرمرد

Anti spy (not verified)


اقای ابرمرد
همه میدانیم که دیر یا زود حكومت ج.ا. شما فروميپاشد.این را شما احساس میکنید لذا نعلی راست نعلی چپ هم مشروعیت و بقا رژیم را تبلیع میکنید هم با جنگ زرگری از عقوبت همکاری با چ.ا. امید فرار کردن دارید. شما تمام وقت برای مشروعیت و بقا ریم تبلیغ میکنید. شما حتی از اعذام یک چوان کم سن غیر سیاسی هم حمایت میکنید. مسلما هم از اعدام زندانیان سیاسی 88 هم حمایت کرده اید. حقه شما ایران و وطن پرستی. کیست که نداند این رژیم و مدافعانش دشمن ایران و ارانیان هستند.


Abarmard

Agho Jamshid

by Abarmard on

Valo kako, I never said that we Iranians can't do shit to replace this regime. I said WE Iranians should do it by our own! You got it the other way around. I always have said that it's our job, as Iranian to advance from this social level by ourselves and our look should be at our own and not the west or whatever else. Especially in my last two articles I have written about where I think we are and where we need to go.

I am the last person on earth who would be pro IR. I challenge Iranians to think of the ways to move forward, that doesn't mean that I am pro IR. If I say that we need to have a path, direction to go to, doesn't mean that I am saying let's just stick to this regime. This is crazy and seems hard to communicate with certain people. Over throw just to change might get us to a even worse position, a war would make these days under the IR rule a dream comparing to destructions!

We need to wise up. We need to do this on our own, especially Iranians inside. I have said all these many times. Just repeating!


Mohammad Alireza

Response to Mammad “Nuclear energy is economical for Iran”.

by Mohammad Alireza on

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Thank you for your excellent post and the very interesting information. I’m glad somebody is sticking to the issue and not getting lost trying to shoot down other commentators.
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I just want to point out that in your response you have totally left out the environmental costs associated with nuclear energy, both the problem of storage of waste for thousands of years and the cost of decommissioning nuclear plants. And also the cost of a disaster, be it due to an earthquake, or war damage.
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Here is Wikipedia’s entry on the Chernobyl disaster.
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//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
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Can you imagine the same happening in Iran one day? How would you factor in the cost of such a disaster into the economical profitability of Iran’s nuclear energy program?
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Your data on solar energy is out of date as venture capital companies have recently funded several start ups that will be generating energy below the cost of fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
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//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanosolar
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//media.cleantech.com/2724/going-modular-with...
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//www.stirlingsunpower.com/
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Even though many environmentalists have begun to support nuclear energy as the answer to climate change I think the person that should be referred to is Dr. Helen Calidcott, the author of “Nuclear Energy is Not The Answer”, and the co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Using data generated by the nuclear energy industry will not lead to the truth.
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Nuclear of any kind is not in Iran’s national security interest and those claiming it is are leading Iran down the wrong path.

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Mohammad Alireza


Parthian

Anyonymous..

by Parthian on

Again, you are too dumb, how does the language I use to speak to a IR thug (that is what you are, questioning people's loyatly, and patriotism) have to do with degrees, or education? I talk to people the way they deserve to be talked to. Unfortunately, chale meidoon is too civilized of a style for a basiji, dictator-minded person like you. I did not go low enough..but we all have our standards...


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Parthian:

by Anonymous.. (not verified) on

I don't want to bring myself down to your level. Those who resort to bad mouthing and profanity deserve to be ignored. However, I was wondering how come the "two graduate degrees from two different Ivy league schools" had not been sufficient to change your state of mind and manner. You certainly sound like a chaleh meidooni. The more you "talk", the more you show your true character. Go ahead, show us more of your accomplishments, Mr. highly educated Parthian!


Parthian

Anonymous..

by Parthian on

You are too dumb as it is apparent with the arguments you are making. Who said a name would prove somebody to be a true Iranian! you might be dumb and shallow enough to think so, I have my reasons for picking this name, and it has nothing to do with being true Iranian, whatever that means. You like picking at my name, perhaps you got some sort of a complex! Also don't worry about what I have done, or accomplished, believe, I am doing fairly well, and unlike people like you who eat mullah sh*t, kiss their ass so you can drive mercedes benz in LA at the expense of your countrymen, I have accomplished it all on my own. Go lick your masters ball, so you can collect the next month's check, you should be the last person to question anyone's honor, or loyalty! No fu**inng difference between you and GW crowd who constantly question people's loyalty, patriotism, and "TRUE" identity....


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Parthian:

by Anonymous.. (not verified) on

Getting multiple graduate degrees from whatever schools is not a big deal. There are many Iranians living in the US who have had no choice during tough years but to stay in school and collect useless degrees. What matters is what you have upstairs. Unfortunately, I don't see much of substance in you from what you write on this site. I'm afraid that the two degrees have not helped you much intellectually. Likewise, the fake name that you've chosen for yourself doesn't make you a true Iranian.


Parthian

very arrogant...

by Parthian on

Kind of like Islamist (IR goonies) who think they have all the solutions to the world's problems. Abarmard dares telling us that we dont "read" enough, so he does not have time to "waste" on us. Yet he has plenty of time to make absolutely ridiculous, and nonsense comments all over this site, taking up precious harddrive space.

Jujeh, I will put my credentials next to yours any time and any day. Just call it...I don't think getting two graduate degrees from two different Ivy league schools was a product of luck....


jamshid

Re: Abarmard

by jamshid on

Who is suffering from the culture of "khod kam beeni"? haan? Aren't you the one who keeps saying that we Iranians can't do jack to replace the IRI? That we are so "kam" that we'll make things only worst? And so it is "best" to let IRI reform from within?

You constantly preach Iranians' "lack of abilities" to replace the IRI with a better government. So Who is suffering from "khod kam bini"?


Abarmard

Thanks for clarificaion

by Abarmard on

khod kam beeniye farhangi, dard e shomast va davaash dast e Iraniyaan nist. Baraayeh hamin behetun bar mikhoreh vaghti mishnaveed: mardom e Iran, va yaa maa mitunim...Shoma migid na.

Khob, eshkaal raa faghat dar Jomhuriye Eslami mibinid. bebinid, beh man che. man nemibinam, eshkaal bozortar az in ast keh shomaa guyeed. Shah taa jun gereft, bordanesh. Eshkaal mardom nebood, eshkaal nabood e mardom dar sahneh bood! Emruz ham shoma dar e koon e gharb neshestid mikhaahid behetun dars e democracy bedeh? Agha, aziz, baa marefat, adam e aaghel, inaa democracy azatun gereftan..shoma dareen dar e khuneye kiro mizanin? chi migin? mard e momen, adam aaghel...lol

Chi begam digeh. khar keh yeh baar tu chaah nemiyofteh. Baa ejaazeh, dars e emruz bepaayaan resid, Opposition beh aghidash naresid.

Must be the sun, but I don't feel like arguing with you guys. I rather waste my time with those who read a bit, and I don't mean CNN or BBC, but books or essays. Thank you. Have a nice day.

 


jamshid

sarzamineman

by jamshid on

Well said sarzamineman. Thank you.


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Anounymousaa

by Anonymous 11 (not verified) on

I agree with your first paragraph describing Mr.Abarmard's regime, but in the second one you underestimated Mr. Abarmard's intentions.

As long as I have noticed, Mr. Abarmard is full timer on this site with a clear message. His message is not only to ignore IRI's corruption, oppression, crimes and all you mentioned, but mainly to propagate that the IRI is the only legitimate regime and only with it we all Iranians must further live. This is the core message he is supposed to transform.


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Abarmard So, Iran's problem

by Anonymousaa (not verified) on

Abarmard

So, Iran's problem is not about massive corruption, nepotism, oppression, brain drain torture, thievary, mismangement (politically, economically), economic oppression, theft and squandering of national wealth , opportunity cost, destroying Iranian's identity and replacing it with a foreign culture, interfering in other nation's political affairs (i.e. hegemonic aspirations in the region), promotion of ignorance, dependence on Russia and China and Europe So it is all about AZADI and hejab????

Abaramard: It seems like you think Iran lives in a vaccum. Threats from other nations are always going to be there regardless of style of governance...We can't isolate ourselves from the world...we need to learn how to adapat to predatory environment that the world finds itself today. The solution is not war with those enemies who are much stronger than you...your lofty ideas can only work in an ideal world but unfortunately you're wishing something that never was and never will be.


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سرزمین من,

Anonymous 133 (not verified)


رژیم اسلامی برای مغشوش کردن افکار ایرانیان در خارج از شیوه " گرگ در
پوست میش" استفاده میکند. رژیم برای بقاخود به هر جنایت به هر اهل و
نا اهلی متوسل میشود. مشاهدات شما مورد تاید است.
شخص مورد نظر شما یک نمونه بارز است که هدفش اغتشاش و انحراف
اذهان مردم ازجنایات حکومت جهل وتاریکی در کشور ماست.


Abarmard

Sarzamine man

by Abarmard on

Doost e Aziz,
Azadi yeh kalameh ast va hamin. Dar amal, baraayeh residan beh Azadi maa baayad masiri raa tey konim. Dar in maghalehaa man (in raa bekhaanid, in raa ham bekhaanid, In ham yeki digar) dar in mored sobat kardeh am. man baa aghideh ye shoma hich mokhalefati nadaram. so'al injaast, cheguneh beh Azadi baayad resid?

Yek mas'aleyee keh dar siyastae gharn e bistom beh owj resid, dekhalat e mostaghim e keshvarhaaye gharbi, englis va makhsusan Amrika dar omur e daakheli Iran bood. beh aghideye bisiyaari az Iranian, hamin regime konuni ham baa poshtibaaniye Amrika beh Iranian tahmil shod. Dorost va yaa ghalate in bahs jaaye khod, maa baayast in haghighat raa ta beh emruz pazirofteh baashim.harf e man chist? mardom.

maa baa daashtan e har regimie beh hamin ozaa bar migardim, baraaye kesi keh azadi va hoghughe ensaaniye Iranian raa khaahaan ast eshkaal e asli raa dar dekhaalat mibinad, na dar dowlat. dowlat e Iran, che shah, che jomhuriye eslami, dar deraz modat, inchenin nakhaahad bood, taarikh inraa beh maa saabet mikonad. pas goftan e kalameye "azadi" beh khodiye khod, javaabgooye maa nakhaahad bood, chera keh maa dar keshvari servatmand, dar noghteyee hasaas zendegi mikonim va gharb, hamitor keh nagozashteh, nemigozaarad keh iran beh so'ood e tabiee ye khod edaameh dahad.

tanha farghe bahs e man baa shoma dar cheguneh beh maghsad residan ast, na dar tareef e Azadi.kami motaale'e konid, beh taarikhe modern e Iran tavajoh konid va ba'd mishavad bishtar dar in mored bahs kard.

Man javab nadaram, baa in haal dar in noghteye tarikh javab raa beh mardom e Iran darun e Iran misepaaram. etemaad e man beh mardom ast na beh gharb va na beh regime konuni. in ra beh raahati dar maghaale haaye man mitavanid bekhaanid.

Beh Iran baayad keh ejaazeh daadeh shavad taa masire khodash raa tey konad, bedun e dekhaalat e daakheli e gharb makhsusan jang.

Dar akhar, nokteye mohem dar falsafeye man inast keh jomhuriye eslaami za'af e shadidi dar moghaabele baa khaast e meli daarad. az mardom mitarsad. feshaar e khaareji beh jomhuriye eslaami ghodrat mibakhshad, na bar-aks.
dar eyn haal, bedast aavardan e har technology va estehkaam e paayehaaye eghtesaadi dar nahaayat beh naf e mardom e Iran ast.
baa rikhtan pool dar daakhele eghtesaad e Iran, makhsusan khosusi, hataa agar eghtesaad bimaar ast, beh mardom ejaazeh midahad keh jaaye feshaar ruzmaregi va fekr e naan o aab, feshaar e aghidatiye khodeshaan raa beh dowlat vaared konan. taarikh beh maa miyaamuzad keh sanction kaargar nist.


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bomb making and nothing else.

by MRX1 (not verified) on

Iran has the second largest Gas deposits in the world after Russia. This means you can use Gas for decades if not a century to produce energy and you will still have left over. Just take a look at how much gas is being burned every day just for oil extraction in Khuzestan. This is about building nuclear bomb pure and simple. Now if you trust this regime with nuclear bomb, more to you. it's like giving dynamite stick to a retarded person! Also if your patriotic blood boils and you get excited by Russians and Koreans, selling Iran some sub standard technology for large sums of money then more to you as well, but don't be surprised if not every one get's on board on this issue with you. We all don't like to commit suecide.


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Good for them!

by LoveIran (not verified) on

Iranians have every right to the development and use of nuclear energy and even the possession of nuclear weapon if they want. Who has given this exclusive right to only a few arrogant bullies and their buddies in the world?

I'm not a fan of the Iranian regime, but this is a matter of national pride. I fully support the talented young scientists and engineers who are doing a fantastic job in various fields in Iran, especially under such restrictive conditions. They have proven that they have the talent and capability of achieving what was once believed to be possible only by foreigners. Good for them, and I wish them success!


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