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People are searching the internet so they can find passport information and have to watch a thousand crap entertainment videos like this one.  

How about organizing the information so people don't have to waste their time?

The meaning of the clip as I understood it!

To Ali P and others who do not get the clip.

I would guess that it is a very symbolic view of a passport line. The line symbols the life of an ordinary people. Because the guy with hairy arm is Iranian he is held back and not going forward in life while others do. The reason for that is shown in the TV in the background.

/Bidar bash ke ma bekhabim

Finally...!

I guess....

Thanks for the explanations.

But, who holds his passport up like that? I have never seen people standing in some line, and just hold their passports. And then they get called , one after another? What process is that? Where?

Fine.

I am being difficult, I suppose.

Oh, and you also tell me, the guy with the Iranian password, just stayed at his place in the line, and didn't try to cut in front of others?

 Now, THAT, I cannot believe! ;-)

It all boils down too...

Thankfully governments are gaining power thanks to the information age. Why would i need a pass to go through a port of entry anyways? for millenia we have done so (humans) with out... well as long as politics ...carriers of a current countries passport will have to deal with the bs. granted im sure not all airport security/customs are retards im sure not all of them are well aquainted with world history ( or atleast from a source other than their superiors). yea maybe im just too stupid to get the point of the clip, or maybe it was just too stupid to make a point.?

To: Luci

What???? What in God's name are you talking about????

"But stil if somebody had for example head ache he had to go to britania, had he stomach pain so better go to france and so on", you write.
The country was enjoying prosperity, but not to that level that "if someone had a headache,he'd be flying to Europe".
(It would have been nice, if this was true, showing the average person can afford to fly to another continent for something as simple as a cure for headache)
Say,..where do you go to get your foot out of your mouth?

Plain harrassment

They know plainly well that all the terrorism was conducted by their client states. They use it to harass
Iranians, its just like the British signs that said Iranians and dogs not allowed. They do it to my 90 year old father.

Iranian only needed visas for Switzerland, Austria and the Easte

Iranian only needed visas for Switzerland, Austria and the Eastern European countries.
In those days ETTELAAT wrote even more. For example: OLIA HAZRAT SHAHBANU BARAYE KHARID BE PARIS RAFTAND. So any Nani who wanted to be somebody and count something and have a word had to go to europe and take as much money as she had. In those days the french poeple were alloued to take only 700 french francs out of France. The britons could take away 200 british pounds. They also did not need a Visa for entering Iran. The journy did not cost much. They tramped. Iranians went to buy europian rubish, europians came to sell their old cars and likewise rubish in Iran. Then they had enough money to fly back home. Europian elder ladies came to iran to have a nice time and bring disorder in the life of iranians. They did not need to pay for anything, had a nice time in Iran and as they left a handfull iranians were sure: the way of life in Iran is wrong. the medical faculty of the Tehran University was the first faculty which was based on modern medical education. But stil if somebody had for example head ache he had to go to britania, had he stomach pain so better go to france and so on. Soon after the revolution was this senseless habit stopped. And fortunately the honorable Iranian Nation found the right way for itself and made the Islamic Revolution. Now after 30 years it is enjoying the achievements of the sacrifices and the Blessing of the Revolution.

How much things have changed now!
Yes things have changed. Iran`s medical services are at the level of internationa standards. Iranian satellits as well. All branches of sciences and explorations are up to date. In fact the things ARE changed by that heroical Nation. And the deserteurs of those days? End of 1978 and beginn of 1979? Are frustrated because they do not know any more why they deserted. Mostly because they have not found that what they had promissed themselves from immigrating in the diaspora. And there is no way back. Mostly because the life goes on and one is not such young any more. The rest is to think continuosly: In the past were thing much better.

Iranian passport pre 1979

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEkGtBaBsrA

An article from Ettellat newspaper from March 1978 advising Iranians planning their vacation on their visa situation.

Please take time to read it. In Europe Iranian only needed visas for Switzerland, Austria and the Eastern European countries.

How much things have changed now!

"na sharghi na gharbi jomhori islami" Iranians back then asked for it now enjoy the benefit of it.

Dedicated to all those people who attended the rallies and supported the revolution in their own funny way.

to Lucifer

Dishab shaum chee khordee?

how ill-received Iranians have become outside of Iran?

have become? during the last 30 years? the individuals who are young enough not having experienced how ill-recieved Iranians wrer before 1978/79 can be only happy. In those days iranians were not only ill-recieved by foreign administrations but also by consulates and embassies of his majesty the last in cases for example that they had some problem as tourist as student as merchant and so on. Since 1978/79 the honorable Iranian Nation is handled respectfully in abroad at least by Embassies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean giving the imperialists the same possibilities in Iran as they had up to 1978 is no solution. according to purely new identity or dobble identity: This procedure is a solution for "them" not for Iranians in abroad. having a permanent visa is the best solution, second identity is the worst. So I think.

only in the last 30 years

Those of us who are old enough to have traveled abroad before 1979 remember very well how Iranians were then well treated and respected all over the world. Loosing our face and credebility in the world is one of the biggest crimes of IRI. Unfortuately the new generation cannot understand this very important point as we as a nation have lost iour dignity under mullahs.

SO TRUE

How didn't u get it....I have an American passport and still feel the same because it says Place of birth IRAN ......and I always get searched "RANDOMLY" somehow at all my connecctions and everywhere I go...YEHHHHHHHHHH Randomly....i tottaly get it.....

Two powerful messages in two minutes

I would hate to be presumptuous here, but I think in this two minute clip, the director has conveyed two powerful messages--both messages of Iranians in diaspora. 

Is there any Iranian who hasn't at least once over the past thirty years said how ill-received Iranians have become outside of Iran?  Stringent visa requirements and suspicious treatment at airports are common occurrences for Iranians everywhere.

The concurrent silent treatment of the Iranian passenger and the world news about terrorism on the transit area television also convey another powerful message.  Whereas almost all terrorist activities of recent decades worldwide have been planned and carried out by perpetrators of other nationalities, Iranians do not seem to have gained a better standing in "airport security" requirements worldwide.

There has definitely been a double standard in place over the years.  Take for example the 9/11 terrorist acts.  Several of the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, and Osama Bin Ladin himself is from Saudi Arabia.  Yet Saudi Arabian officials and citizens receive better treatment in acquiring visas and entry into western countries.

The short clip doesn't go into the fact that IRI officials have had a belligerent and undiplomatic stance on the international arena, bringing this reception on to Iranians.  But the fact remains that Iranians are not well-received. 

I think it was done very well.

The meaning

The message,

hameh raftando maa mondim...

Iranian directors ( or film

Iranian directors ( or film students) have a weird way of telling a story. What the heck was that?
Unite!! Ali you're a very generous and optimistic film critic..

Meaning

They put you to work for 2:19 minutes.

Baray-e 2:19 daghighe sar-e karetoon gozashtand.

Is the director trying to say Iran is behind all that bombing (bad news) shown on background TV?

I think I got it!

All these people with different nationalities and passports are in the airport and trying to travel. Some got to be able to pass right away and some had to wait a bit. But the person with Iranian passport had to wait and wait and wait...

Low IQ Club Members of this Site...

Unite!

(Too deep for me too...!)

What....

I did not get it!