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Hey AnonymousEsq.

did you say "as true ultra lefty liberals are, on the wrong side of history"? lol, now that's funny. I bet you like to be a conservative tight ass, and that's on the RIGHT side of the "history"? great, another close minded pig (And I can easily prove why I made that statement, but is it necessary? most people know your type, right?- hey do you listen to Laura Ingraham?)
Hey Zion a question, is that a picture of some ayrabic city you got on your avatar? What the hell is that?

Here goes the Islamic

Here goes the Islamic Marxist propaganda machine by Soraya. You said : “speech was delivered to persuade the American public of the necessity of intervention and war”. Now I definitely am anti monarchy and anti communist as it can get, but I do not for a second believe that Reza Pahlavi is promoting for war on Iran. It is out of cold heart and inhumane attitude (Which is a clear distinction on part of you leftists and IRI apologists), to accuse someone, regardless of what his grandfather and father did, who actually asked the fascist regime in Tehran for permission to fly a fighter during the war with Iraq in order to give his life for his country, to be promoting for war. I don’t believe he has changed his stance since. If anyone is Khaen and traitor to our country, is you guys who are supporting and justifying the action of the most brutal regime our country has ever seen. There is no doubt in my mind that is because of you guys and articles such as this, that the IRI has been power for close to 30 years now. All it needs is a support for a minority of uneducated brain washed youngsters (Basidj) and a few traitor, Lenin loving, fantasy living, democracy hating, mean individuals like you to continue its domestic oppression, and a few disenchanted, also brain washed young Muslims and Arabs such as UBL, to continue its foreign terrorism spreading policies. You wrote: “It must be recalled that the events of 9/11 and the tragedy that struck America transformed George W. Bush.” This is in clear contrasts to what you wrote before and what alike-minded individuals like have been promoting for awhile now that the so called “Neo Cons” (Probably the word is an Iranian invention!), have been planning the Iraq war for long before Bush, who you guys say is a Neo Con leader, took office. So once your logic is twisted, it is easy to come up with contradicting statements like this. Furthermore Ms. Soraya, what do you think the U.S should’ve done after 9/11? Do you think it should’ve gone out and apologized ? Apologized because of its support for Israel? OK, I myself condemn blind Israel support, but in no way, shape or form, I justify what these murderers like Khomeini and others, have done and been doing for the last 29 years. The Israeli conflict is a just a propaganda tool for these guys.! Wake up. Please ! Hamas Charter clearly states that the the Palestinian issue is second in importance to the creation of Islamic state under Sharia law. What do you have to say about that Soraya? Do you think Khomeini, or bin laden, or Haniya, or Asad, or Putin, care about Palestinian people? You must be dreaming. And nothing justifies international terrorism. Nothing. Israel occupied Arab lands, agreed, Israel kills innocent Arabs, agreed. Israeli officials should be triad for human rights violation, agreed. Arabs have the right to fight Israeli army and push it out, agreed. (They did that 3 times, and the PLO has and still is doing that) and the world has the responsibility to support them, agreed. This has absolutely nothing to do with IRI, Hamas, Hezbollah and others. These are nothing but war monger, dark aged, fascist, brutal terrorists. All of them. Soraya, neo cons have come and by end of this year are gone. According to these articles, it is very clear that your problem is NOT with the Neo Cons. Just like Hamas who has other agendas, you guys have a different agenda. Your main agenda is to bash capitalism, the U.S , and all non left wing and IRI supporter Iranians. For god sake, you used to bash Jimmy Carter who is widely respected even among leftists like Chavez and groups like Hamas. Then you guys went on to bash Regan Republicans, then Clinton Democrats, and now Bush republicans, and then tomorrow probably Obama or Hillary. Soraya, these tactics are revealed. You cannot fool the people again. Its done. Come out and say what your real issue is, have the courage and stop using mafia like tactics and come out, if you really believe in your argument and if you really think it works, and say them. Don’t beat around the bush. The problem is you guys know your argument is bankrupted, and your model has defeated, and the Islamic fundamentalism which you justify after you justified communism will be defeated too once the IRI is out of power. But the problem you have is the Iranian stubbornness in you which will make you never ever admit to your mistakes. By the way, if U.S is so evil and is fiercely anti Iranian and anti peace and anti human beings like you say, and is out to destroy your country, why did you “willingly” migrate here and “willingly” accepted its citizenship? You know what, I respect Akbar Ganji who come out and said my Islamic Marxist beliefs were wrong. We were infected with “revolutionary and leftist” ideas. I have respect for him as a person and as an ideologue, but for now, till you guys come out and admit things, I will only have respect for you all as people, not as thinkers. Your arguments are nonsense.

RE: Iranian- You are right on

It's really funny that some of these people think that they are blonds. lol. Hey as far as I know Iran is a Moslem country and people are moslems, if you don't like it don't say that you are Iranian, but to say that Moslems are not Iranian makes you look even dumber. Hey in America and the west people don't want their "Christian" heritage to be damaged by outsiders, especially moslems and they have every right to feel that way. In Iran they don't want their moslem heritage to be influenced by outsiders and they have every right to feel that way. Now for some Iranian khod-kam-bin e khayeh-maal to come and talk trash against the tradition and culture of their own parents makes you want to burp and say fuck off. bunch of khayeh maal e susul mamani. hey Q, you are the man. I agree with everything that you say.

Dear Mr. Q the Esq.

The statement are purely Opinion on this website and they will never stand up as defamation in a court of law. Additionally, As the attorney correctly said below, you will never get emotional distress damages
in a case like this because such speech here is not extreme & outrageous enough. Emotional damages is one of the hardest things to prove in court and is very rarely granted. What people express here is pure opinion (including your kakamainy opinion which is subject to harsh responses which do not qualify
as extreme and outrageous.

Q, its seems that you like to argue for the arguments sake. That is OK- you have the right to do so. However, you are most of the times, as true ultra lefty liberals are, on the wrong side of history.

D. Opinion Defense.
The First Amendment protects statements of opinion, as distinct from statements of fact, against claims of defamation. However, the test is not the author's mere characterization of the statement as "opinion." Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1 (1990). A statement is an opinion when:
(1) the statement addresses matters of public concern;
(2) the statement expressed in a manner that is not provably true or false; and
(3) the statement cannot be reasonably interpreted as intended to convey actual facts about a person.

Iran is for Iranians

I thought 98% of Iran's population is Muslim. Maybe some of the people on this site think 2% in Iran are Muslim and 98% are Zionist!

Iranians are thoughtful of their minority brothers and sisters (Jewish, Christian, Zoroasterian and others), but like any other country, it is the will of the Muslim majority in Iran that prevails and it is their opinion that matters first.

Mullah Abarmand

Preach for your Muslim brothers! You and your pro-IRI jama'at on this site have nothing to advise to Iranians.

Be Iranian, Be polite

Where have you learned manners? From those who don't have one..

Be proud and be Iranian by keeping your manners in check. Be respectful while provide your points and incites regardless of the critiques, stay polite and keep your cool. We all would enjoy a nice argument that way.

Actually...

Actually, you are completely wrong. First, calling someone and idiot is not defamation. Telling someone that they don't know what they are talking about is not defamation.

Actually, you don't read carefully which is bad for a real lawyer. Did I say this is about calling someone an "idiot" ? No. I do that a lot myself including right now.

Second, in order to prevail in a defamation case, you will have to prove ACTUAL DAMAGES

Darn right you do. The number one complaint on defamation from people who have made them here and those writers who no longer write, is that these false comments are found in google by clients and potential employers. If you are a writer like me, this directly effects your future marketability.

 And pleeeeeeeeease don't say emotional distress, because that will never work,

Once again, genius, I'm not talking about emotional distress, but damages to one's career. But even emotional stress is not very difficult to reach. Iranian.com as an influential community site is actually a textbook example for this kind of case, when someone is rediculed and driven out of their community. 

For any damage the site itself shares the blame and thus it may want to neutralize that issue by exposing IP names.

This is from Internet Defamation League:

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In the context of defamation law, a statement is "published" when it is made to the third party. That term does not mean that the statement has to be in print.

Damages are typically to the reputation of the plaintiff, but depending upon the laws of the jurisdiction it may be enough to establish mental anguish.

Most jurisdictions also recognize "per se" defamation, where the allegations are presumed to cause damage to the plaintiff.

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I think calling some professional an agent of an enemy state like "Islamic Republic of Iran" would have an effect on career and clientale, don't you? You do understand that espionage is one of the highest crime in America don't you? It's like being a murder or child molester.

Better hit the law books my friend.

By the way I noticed you don't use your real name or place of practice. Any particular reason for this?

Zion, my ignorant friend: Relax. This site is unreachable in Iran. A number of well known liars claim they are in Iran, but it's impossible.

To: Zion

Now you bring in your Zionist lawyers to help you out! At first I thought that you were just an asshole, but now I think that you are a terrorist asshole!First you and your stinking Zionist friends buy off the US media and put all kinds of crap there to brainwash the good people of America. Not to mention of the atrocities you guys are committing in Palestine for a piece of stinking land for your stinking cause now you want to scare off the decent people from expressing their opinion by having "authorities" check them out. Okay asshole I live in the US and this site has my email and IP address. You'll have to send in your stinking Mossad to terrorize American citizens because the authorities here won't! I am not afraid of you or your kind.

I've told you before to get out of this site because no decent Iranian or American likes you or the likes of you. If Iran and Iranians have problems, they don't need an asshole Israeli to give them advise.

Boro Bezan be ....

Soraya Joon Reza Pahlavi is a timid person. He won't be a king but is being used to push us to war. MOJAHEDIN are dead meat and they are being used as spy tools.

Serious Business

I have been reading different comments in this website and I have come to realize that there are also people from inside Iran who contribute to this website as anonymous or with pseudonyms. I wasn`t aware of this before, although maybe I should have been given the news about Internet savvy population inside of the country. Now this gives a whole new dimension to the efforts of certain people who by their own admission have been trying hard to convince the moderators of this site to expose everyone`s IP numbers. For those in Iran, this could prove to be no childish and pathetic threat after all. As I mentioned before, if the intention is to avoid bad language or slander, you can moderate the comments, delete the unacceptable ones and block repeating offenders from access to the site. Exposing people is not what you do. This of course could be an excuse to reach some completely different aim.
As many know, the IRI officials are very concerned about the Internet access, blogs and the freedom it brings inside of Iran. I think this is serious business and people here should be aware of the kind of actions certain people are taking in this regard.
I strongly advise the owners of this website to bring in the authorities in the West to investigate the backgrounds of these couple of people and their real intentions for trying to push for something that would inevitably expose people inside Iran and put them in danger of a possible Iranian regime retaliation. The owners of this website have provided a venue of free speech for Iranians the world over, including the ones inside Iran, and they have a moral responsibility to protect those inside who have trusted them.

I am not making any accusations or any slander, I am simply saying this issue has to be investigated what ever the outcome (hopefully the concern will prove to be a mistake.)

Q - You do not know what you are talking about

Actual Lawyer is 100% correct. For a claim of emotional distress to pass muster in a court of law, the act that caused the distress must be extreme & outrageous.

I also read Q/Zion's exchange here. Q, weak arguments in trying to carve out Zionisim. You ultra lefties blame Zionisim as a smoke screen for everything. Its amazing how similar your arguments are to that of the IRI crowd.

Also, this Ulrich Nazi character does not know what she is talking about either. She is a big time loser with her views.

Simple fact is the the IRI is a failure and Iranian society in general, as a consequence, is a failure.

wow

I've never read any of this ladies blogs, but she seems even less popular than Rosie T, if that's possible, way to tick people off!

RE: Q - Amature Lawyer

Mr. / Ms. Q

Actually, you are completely wrong. First, calling someone and idiot is not defamation. Telling someone that they don't know what they are talking about is not defamation. If these were defamation, courts would be clogged with billions of cases of every Tom, Dick & Harry who gets in an office argument or an argument with his next door neighbor on daily basis. Second, in order to prevail in a defamation case, you will have to prove ACTUAL DAMAGES, i.e., how much money you lost as a result of the defamatory comment. And pleeeeeeeeease don't say emotional distress, because that will never work, unless you have been seeing a psychiatrist for the past two years because someone called you an idiot! Third, placing yourself in this forum where you know you will be subjected to this kind of treatment will certainly take away any claim of emotional distress that you may have (even if you DID see a psychiatrist for two years), because you have a duty to mitigate your damages.

Soooooo, as mentioned before by other readers, your comments and threats are nothing more than an attempt to intimidate those with opposing points of view into silence....

Get a life....get a grip and live with the fact that this is a place for free speech....

//iranianlobby.com/ Expo

//iranianlobby.com/

Exposing Iranian regime's lobby in U.S.

//iranianlobby.com/index.php?lang=en&page=art...
Ayatollahs have maintained a policy of regional domination and export of fundamentalist ideology. At a time when the large majority of Iranians leave under the poverty line, the regime is lavishly spending money around the world to finance Middle Eastern fundamentalists, Nicaraguan economy, North Korean projects or bribing Syria.

In order to neutralize the world's reaction to their policy, Mullahs have successfully developed a sophisticated lobby and PR network that they call "unofficial diplomacy"...read the rest

//iranianlobby.com/index.php?lang=en&page=art...

She Is A Fake!

I wonder why anyone should take this woman seriously. She is utterly ignorant when it comes to Iran and Iranian affairs. She badly needs attention and some of you are inadvertently giving it to her.

Here are excerpts from what I wrote last July in response to one of her pieces.

Please read it and find out how little she knows about Iran.

Sepahpour knows very little about Iran and she does not bother to verify the data she presents in her writings against the sources readily available in libraries or on the internet. When previously Darius Kadivar, a contributor to iranian.com, reminded her of a mistake she had made with regards to the date of the coronation of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, her response to Kadivar was that she knew the facts because her stepfather was a Shah's man in charge of the festivities on the occasion of 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire.

A very diverting response, ideed.

I would like to remind her of two more of her grave blunders concerning the geography and the ethnic minorities of Iran. In her article, "Pre-emptive genocide?" of April 9th, 2006, she worte:

"Finally, is it not the Bush Administration that bears a resemblance to Adolf Hitler by planning a nuclear attack on Iran? The radiation, mass casualties and contamination not only of the Persians, but the 2% minority(1,300,000) group living in Iran, a large number of whom(3000Jews)live in Isfahan near the Bushehr power plant is."

Those who are familiar with the Iranian history of the past three decades are aware of the power struggle that ensued the events of '79 which resulted in purging or assassination of many of the regime's close allies. That sounds more like what Hitler did to his comrades than anything else in our modern history.

Also isn't it Ahmadinejhad who wants to wipe Israel off the map of the world? Many among the world leaders, know this is one of IRI leaders' warmongering postures and they are doing their best to prevent a military confrontation with Iran as long as they can afford it.

Sepahpour makes believe to have risen in defense of the "motherland" and she does not have the slightest idea about its geography. Bushehr is a city (There is a province by the same name as well.) on the southwestern coast of Iran, on the Persian Gulf. So, if Bushehr is hit it is the Khuzestanis, the Bushehris, the Hormozganis and the Arabs around the Gulf region who will pay the price in human casualties and contamination and not the Isfahanis and the "3,000 Jews" residing in Isfahan.

It is Natanz which is located between Kashan and Isfahan in Central Iran. Natanz is more than one hundred miles away from Isfahan and twenty-five miles from Kashan. Most probably, the site near Natanz will not be hit due to the abundace of historical sites in the neighboring regions let alone the human casulaties.

And even if Americans decide to hit either of these two sites, and I hope they won't, Iranians are by no means going to rally around Ahmadinejhad as the IRI-produced myth would have us believe. Iranians have not forgotten that it was the regime which decided to prolong the Iraq-Iran war for eight years. A war which could have eneded in less two years and for reasons obvious to many, they opted for not ending it.

Khomeini's letter which was written to accept the U.N resolution to end the war, clearly indicates the inability of the regime to mobilize the people as they had done in the early years of the war.

Now, the nuclear site near Natanz was exposed by MEK or the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which Sepahpour loves to hate, in the year 2002 after eighteen years in progress. That means the Iranian leadership was hiding the site from all the concerned parties for as long as they could. And that's one reason for the distrust of the Iranian government by the Western powers.

Bushehr will also be spared by the Israelis and the Americans alike, because of its proximity to the Arab world by the Gulf and American and other coalition forces stationed in the area.

So, these two sites are out of the question for the time being. Any other secret sites?

Here I would like to remind her of another blunder she has made regarding the question of minorities. Although it has been suggested by some scholars, both Iranian and non-Iranian, that after centuries of living within the borders of what was known as Persia and modern Iran, it would be almost impossible to come up with a clearcut breakdown of Iranians into minority goups, according to some estimates, the ethnic minorites of Iran comprise close to half of the population of the country and not the mere two percent(2%) she has claimed. Some estimates, however, put the figure above fifty percent(50%). Based on such statitics, there are more than 2,100,000 Khuzestani Arabs alone and the Azeris, Turkmans, Lurs and Bakhtiaris, Ghashghais, Baluchis, Gilakis and Mazandaranis and Kurds are other groups which should not be left unmentioned.

She tries to be sarcastic at the end of the same paragraph: "Or perhaps by some miracle they will be told to leave before the bombing campaign or maybe the nukes will avoid hitting them ."

Getting Iran geographically all mixed up and making the unforgivable blunder with regards to the ethnic minorities, I did not find her allusion to miracles or her sarcasm funny at all. How can a person who claims to love the "motherland"so much as to keep insulting all other Iranians except a few, be so ignorant of its geographic and ethnic realities?

The majority of Iranians inside Iran are fed up with the regime and would love to see it gone and replaced by a democratic government and they would welcome any help in ridding their country of the likes of Ahmadinejhad. Ahmadinejhad understands the consequences of a peaceful period-the last two decades since the end of the war with Iraq. He knows in the absence of a war he will increasingly face legitimate demands by different layers of the Iranian society. Unwilling and ideologically incapable of meeting these demands he is desperate to start another war at any cost in order to suppress such demands and, perhaps, save the regime.

She also makes some very amusing statements such as, Reza Pahlavi wishing to make a name for himself in the history. In her article, "blind ambition," she writes:

"Reza Pahlavi is so eager to have a place in history and in Persia that he pleads with warmongers to make the innocent Iranian people suffer."

Has she forgotten that Reza Pahlavi was born into the history of a dynasty which ruled Iran for fifty-four years(1925-179) and was the heir to the throne? Most certainly, she has not, however, she believes in the instant, though, short-lived, damage of such aspersions.

Reza Pahlavi's biggest misfortune is that his name is appearing in the history books alongside the names of many individuals he does not care for at all.

Reza Pahlavi wants to have a place in "Persia?" I thought the country's name was, "Islamic Republic of Iran," and before that it used to be called, Iran. Has there been a name change, AGAIN?

Her ridiculous claim that Reza Pahlavi who has been out of Iran for the past twenty-eight years, is pleading with warmongers to make "innocent" Iranian people suffer was perhaps one of the absurdest statements she has made in her articles. So, now we must believe that "innocent Iranians" who don't really care if their country is being "raped" by "the savages" of the UNSC, are enjoying great lives and it is Reza Pahlavi who is trying to spoil the party for them and make them suffer!

Like some IRI leaders, she too talks about Mossadegh and the CIA-led coup of 1953, against his democratically elected government without knowing anything about Iran's situation at the time or without any mention of the fate of many of Mossadegh's friends, followers and supporters in the hands of the current regime in Iran. She does not find it necessary to talk about the rest of Mossadegh's story. Quoting that part of Iran's history has, in a way, become a pet phrase for many IRI supporters without referring to what has happened since 1979. Had Mossadegh been around by the time the current regime came to power, he would undoubtedly have met a similar fate.

I suggest next she writes an article pertaining to the fate of Mossadegh's friends and followers since 1979.

One wonders why Sepahpour herself is not back in Iran making the changes she is suggesting to others. Such statements coming from a person who has physically and emotionally detached herself from the "motherland" could not be taken seriously, to say the least.
And then in the same article, she states:

"Iranians and non-Iranians must fully realize that Iran's nuclear program is but a pretext for the recolonization of Iran. The government of Iran made several offers to reassure the international community of its peaceful purposes with regards to the civilian nuclear program; yet, the Bush administration, uninterested in peace, has chosen to pursue the path of sanctions. Whatever shortcomings the current regime may have in Iran, one cannot blame the warmongering and imperial ambitions of the White House on them."

When was Iran colonized and for how long? Could she please educate us as to which country colonized Iran?

She reduces all the inhuman and repressive policies of the past twenty-eight years perpetrated by the regime to mere, "shortcomings." "Innocent Iranians" who have been victimized by the regime are not as forgetful as she pretends to be.

Her demonization of the American public is a classic example of what the Iranian regime and its supporters have been up to 1979; creating imaginary enemies in order to justify suppression of any opposition to their ruthless and criminal activities. In her article, "High on hate?"she writes:

"Tragically, the majority of the public has been paralyzed by fear and believes that the letting of blood is the only cure that will rid them of unfounded panic."

What percentage of the American public actually cares about Iran or has the time to give it a thought? When Sepahpour herself, as an Iranian claiming to have "done extensive research on US foreign policy towards Iran's nuclear program" and is "currently pursuing her education in Middle East studies and Public Diplomacy," cannot find Bushehr on the map of Iran, can we really trust what she says about the American public being paralyzed by fear and wanting to let blood?

How many demonstrations in the U.S. has she seen where Americans shouted, "Death to Iran?"How many Iranians have lost their jobs over the past several years since 9/11? What is the number of Iranians currently living in North America as opposed to the number before 1979? How many Iranians does she know who have been forced to leave the U.S. since 9/11?
She should compare that to the forcefull deportation of the Afghanis in recent months. Also she should compare it with the fate of Iranians who have been forced to leave their own country since '79, before shedding any crocodile tears for the Jews whose ships were turned back by Americans during the Second World War.

Sitting in the comfort of her home in the U.S., of all places, and writing provocative and vicious slanders can only be seen as hypocritical and deceitful. Her writings are part of a conspiracy orchestrated by the Iranian regime aimed at exacerbating the situation even further.

She deliberately ignores the fate of tens of millions of Iranians who have suffered from the disastrous policies of the regime. It is not in the interest of most Iranians to support Ahmadinejhd's dangerous and suicidal policies exemplified in his warmongering postures. They certainly cannot join him in shouting pre-'79 slogans such as, "Death to America."

Don't these slogans ever wear out? Don't they get old? For the past three decades all we hear is death to this or that country. Isn't it time to start shouting, long live democratic freedoms? Isn't it the president's job to begin telling people when they will actually start receiving the oil revenues as they were promised?

Sepahpour's arguments in defense of the "motherland" are only a disguise for her unequivocal support for the inhuman and repressive policies of the regime. Ignoring the fate of exiled Iranians and more than seventy million people living within Iran's borders, she has not even once, condemned the policies of the regime in Tehran.

Her statemsents are mean and insulting to those of us who have experienced the horrors of the war with Iraq first hand and have lost many friends, neighbors and relatives. Those who have not forgotten Iran's history of the past three decades, know well that the regime in Iran is as guilty as the Iraqi regime of the time.

Whenever Ahmadinejhad puts his foot in his mouth, she dismisses his most reprehensible statements as unimportant. She does not seem to see anything wrong with Ahmadinejhad's warmongering postures, instead she twists the facts when she claims that he is being misrepresented by American policy makers. In a pieces called, "G. W. and Hillary" she states:

"American policy makers distract world opinion by misrepresenting Ahmadinejhad's remarks, exaggerating the gravity of the "myth" remark so that ... "

There is no need for misrepresenting Ahmadinejhad? His statements are loud and clear. Perhaps Sepahpour needs to listen more carefully. His aggressive rhetoric has reached such dangerous heights that it is making his fellow conservatives nervous. Can Sepahpour claim that she knows what Ahmadinejhad is saying better than Ahmadinejhad himself? Is she for real?

In her piece called, "high on hate?" she claims it is hatred that is the root cause of the troubles in the Middle East. In her previous articles she has sent to Iranian.com, however, she mentions other causes such as oil, sales of weapons, ambition and water.

Sepahpour needs to make up her mind. Is it for oil or is it hatred that is the cause? Is the U.S. with the help of Israel causing tension in the Middle East in order to sell more weapons to the countries in the Gulf region or is it a "deep-seated hatred" for Iranians which is the cause?

Her confused state of mind and incoherency are rooted in the fact that she does not know exactly what she wants to say and she does not care about Iran, one way or the other.

Sepahpour has turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the problems of more than seventy million Iranians. By exaggerating the threats of a seemingly fast-approaching war and giving prominence to less significant issues as opposed to calling attention to what Iranians have had to deal with in the past twenty-eight years, she tries to belittle the severity of the regime's inhuman policies. At the same time, she seeks, in vain, to veil her real intentions in the half-witted and cliche-ridden tautologies. Her peace-loving stance is simply a false front for her true intention of helping to perpetuate the rule of one of the worst dictatorial regimes in modern history.

Very well, I wonder whether

Very well, I wonder whether Reza Pahlavi has considered taking such action against the writer of this article. He would obviously have every right to do so, as the article is filled with "untruthful statements" aimed at "harming his reputation". But then again, he is probably too much of a gentleman to bring himself down to such levels.

Soraya Khanoum: Talking of Death and Destruction ...

//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7239953.stm

Hatikva

Oh la la! ... Zionist Likudnik Israelis are Middle Easterners after all, are they?
I thought they were European Colonialists a few hours ago !
My, my .... I keep this on and I could actually get you to sing Hatikva (It means hope you know) here for us at the end, the way you`re going. Grab at what ever you can get within your reach a bit more Q, it is doing you some real good.

Neo-Con asset, Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

Remember this: “”The most fascinating feature of Iranian-Sarmatian culture is their women warriors. Herodotus reported that the Sarmatians were said to be the offspring of Scythians who had mated with Amazons and that their female descendants "have continued from that day to the present to observe their ancient [Amazon] customs, frequently hunting on horseback with their husbands; in war taking the field; and wearing the very same dress as the men" Moreover, said Herodotus, "No girl shall wed till she has killed a man in battle."””

Well, what an article, Soraya has hit the nail on the head. Doesn’e she remind you of her ancestors?, isn’t she a modern “ ha-mazan” ..
She is a gem, I like her style, her logic, language and the way she helps others to see the truth. She is truly a modern ha-mazan, as was Noor Jahan ih her way.

figured you had nothing of value to say...

Likudniks are not Zionists?

Sure they are. They are also Israelis and Middle Easterners. But the two words mean different things. Why didn't you use "anti-Likudniks" yourself?

You see words have different meanings. Of course there are people working hard to erase linguistic distinctions to make for more effective propaganda. That's called newspeak. 

Good luck !

Thanks! You too.

The deeper you sink

Q, so Likudniks are not Zionists? The picture of Herzl, father of modern Zionism, behind the founders of Israel means nothing? This is your arguments. the letters of the word Zionism were not used. Oh, so accurate! I simply will leave you struggle out of this one for yourself, the more you try the deeper you sink. Good luck ! (Its actually hard to watch)

register......unregister

I have read some comments by some registered users calling unregistered users coward, chickens, irrisponsible, and so on. By contrast it is implied if they are registered user then they are automatically brave or braver than the unregistered users. So I decided to quantify this so called bravery.

There are only about 10 people on this website that use their name, picture, and a brief biography to describe who they are and express their view regardless of what it might be. I call these 10 people brave not because they are struggling in Iran for democracy and their lives are imminent danger (no, on the contrary most of them live in the USA), but because they have provided three pieces of information about themselves; their name, their picture, and brief biography of themselves. The reason I have chosen the these criterial does not have anything to do with what constitutes as bravery in a broader meaning of the word, but by what some people in this website seem to judge others. When a person attempts to register there are some information they need to provide, three of them are name, avatar, and Bio. Of course it is not mandatory for a person to provide a real name, picture, and a Bio. Anyone who wants to register can make up any name, picture, or Bio, but to call someone a coward and the others brave, I believe the brave one at least should provide their real name, their picture, and a brief Bio so at least the so called coward ones would know who is calling them names.

Ok, Ok, you might not agree with this argument, so I give you the number of people who are providing a name that seem to be their real name, either partial or a full name, with a picture of a real person. That number is about 50. Yes fifty people out of so much hoopla are brave enough in this forum to provide enough information about themselves so the rest of us can have some kind of respect for them when, and if, they choose to call others names.

The rest of those registered users who do not use their real name (optional), their picture (optional), and Bio (optional) and choose to call others cowards, are nothing but cowards themselves.

I have called Khomeini a motherfucker many times before, but that does not make me a brave person because I did it under a pseudonym, anonymously. I wouldn't dare to call him a name if I had to provide my name. And those who make anti whatever statement under a registered pseudonym anonymously and think somehow that makes them braver that others, well you couldn't be more wrong.

Under the existing dual system of register / unregister policy there is no reason for people to register even under a pseudonym. Any person who wants to say anything they can do so without registering. Most of the registered users do not post any blog what-so-ever anyway. All they want to do is post comments, so what’s the benefit of registering? If you think if you register, your registered name is protected, you can't be more wrong. I use to use my register user name till it was brought to my attention that someone is posting comments for Kouroush Sasanian that it was not him. When I started to look into this I saw unregistered version of my own name popping up here and there, making comments using my registered name. I poked and probed and have seen several of these occurrences. So I have come to the conclusion that it is either done by the editor, by an "admin", or by a hacker. Either way a violation of the policy, that a user name is not supposed to be used by an unregistered person.

In comparison to the registered 50 people mentioned above there are thousands of unregistered names (not persons) that continuously post comments on this website, an overwhelming number of unregistered names. The numbers don’t lie. The unregistered users have figured out under this dual system it is better to be unregistered.

For those of you who think you understand "free speech"

Definition of slander from a legal dictionary: 

slander: A type of defamation. Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person's reputation or standing in the community. Because slander is a tort (a civil wrong), the injured person can bring a lawsuit against the person who made the false statement. If the statement is made via broadcast media -- for example, over the radio or on TV -- it is considered libel, rather than slander, because the statement has the potential to reach a very wide audience.

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Slander happens on this site every day. Libel can be easily argued, as this is a very large influential web site. I don't think there is a shortage of Iranian lawyers willing to litigate this.

Zion: you are playing games again, and I'm sick of it...

I understand your frustration, but this attitude...?!I mean, seriously in such a trivial and evident matter? Is it really worth it?

Oh. GET A LIFE! Where is "Zionism" or "Zionists?" Can you find anything that talks about Zionists?

Are you so blinded by your own ideology that you physically see "Z" "I" "O" .. when the words on the page say "I" "S" "R" ...? It's the only explanation. I was probably wrong. You don't conflate ideas for propaganda purposes, you're not nearly that clever. With you it's more like a pathological brain disfunction!!!

I, on my part, only advise people to stop linking every single topic in this website with Israel and Zionists, but once they do I reply with my opinion on the issue.

Advise yourself not to over-react against the mention of "Zionism" when no one did such a thing (anyone can check). And if your true aim is to say Zionism=Israel=Judaism, than you engaging in newspeak, just like I said.

You simply won`t have the monopoly on speech in a free land. Get used to it.

That's right Zion, you are fighting for free speech in free land. Very nobel of you. Coincidentally, I have provided more than enough evidence by respected people that say Israel is an apatheid state and I haven't heard your "reply" on the issue. Seems you are slipping.

As for your useless rant about the ip exposure. First, Wikipedia is not credible at all. It is only as credible as it's non-wikipedia sources, otherwise anyone can write anything and say it's on "wikipedia". Second,

I have slandered no one

This may or may no be true, but I wasn't talking about you (I know it's shocking). I was talking about the people who were slandering Soraya, Myself and others on this thread who use their real names. 

If you call someone an "IRI agent", or "on the payroll" which has been done to many respected members of the community who use their real names, that has a tangable affect on their lives and work in the US and is considered slander and can be sued in a court of law: IP or no IP. That is the rules under this "free speech" society, right now. I am making the argument that the IP exposure part simply makes it easier for the site owners to deal with the legal issues which would be substantial if this level of "threats" continues against people's lives and reputation. Third, if you truely have slandered no one, what the hell are you afraid of? I said "put up or shut up," you have a problem with that?

Lastly on your so-called response to my answre: I knew it!!! This exposes YOU not me. You cried why I'm not answering this question about Pahlavi running for office. Now that I did, you change the subject and play stupid word games for which you are famous.

I said, he could not win in a fair election, and that's a fact.

No this is the tread with

No this is the tread with highest number of comments:

//iranian.com/main/2008-62

Have you no shame Q?

You said: `The comment by Kamran that I praised said nothing about Zionism, or Zionists.`

This is how Kamran`s post (Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:23 AM CST) begins:
`There are so many pro-Israeli enthusiasts here that Iranian.com should soon be called the Israelis.com. Even the American public is slowly waking up to the fact that a group of bloodthirsty and sadistic Likudniks have infested this country...`.
This is the title of the comment immediately after that:
`Only Israeli Mossad Agents Don`t Want a Nuclear Iran`
and this is the title of your comment immediately after that:
`Thank You Kamran`
Have you no shame? Have you no self respect?
I understand your frustration, but this attitude...?!I mean, seriously in such a trivial and evident matter? Is it really worth it?

I, on my part, only advise people to stop linking every single topic in this website with Israel and Zionists, but once they do I reply with my opinion on the issue. You simply won`t have the monopoly on speech in a free land. Get used to it.

Wikipaedia is a credible source for the entire internet, it is just natural for it to demand its authors, including in the discussion boards, to reveal their IPs.
It has nothing to do with a normal blog or website as this. If one is concerend about the language, one simply moderates the comments and deletes the unacceptable comments, as I`m sure is done here, and if a certain person continues using foul language one can block it from commenting. Threatening others, exposing their `identity` and making them `vanish` from the website altogether and stuff like this all come from a very different mentality and is done for different agendas. I have slandered no one, neither used any kind of foul language against anyone, though I have been slandered against many times here by many different people. I don`t mind that. The slanderings only show lack of logic as do your pathetic threats. Freedom of expression is much more important and as it is obvious here, once you have the right thing to say and the right arguments, it is always sufficient to make your point.
So stop your childish threats. It is pathetic and laughable. Here is not the Islamic republic and there are no bassij, guradians or ministry of guidance around. So spare us.

Actually how ever, I am quite pleased with your recent comments and proposals. It shows very clearly what we are dealing with.

This one for instance was very interesting:
`The fact is Pahlavi couldn`t get elected dog catcher of Ghazvin, in a fair election. He is not at all popular inside Iran and his supporters are keenly aware of this fact.
Have you ever asked yourself why he doesn`t TRY to stand for elections in Iran?`

Is it then your position that the elections held under the Islamic Republic of Iran are fair? or am I wrong and you already know the answer to your rhetorical question?

To: Anonymousalways and the rest of the foul mouth monarchists

If this is the representation of the types who rally around Reza Pahlavi, no wonder no one respects him.

You are doing a great job! This is the most effective way to keep him and the rest of you scum bags away from Iran.

By all means don't give up using your foul language, go ahead and show us all that you and your likes have learned from the "supposed" royalty that you are beating your chest with such fervor for. And while you are at it don't forget to remain anonymousalways, you are nothing but a disgrace!

Re:Q

Q, you are absolutely right, as long as your masters (the British) keep supporting the mullah government, that they brought to power, nobody can do anything against the IRI!

long live America, long live

long live America, long live peace and unity between Iran and the United States. I wish one day to see real peace and fraternity between the US and Iran.
Long live Democracy!