Iranian of the Day

Question for JJ

You say in your moderation statement that "Comments containing profanity or personal attacks will be removed" 

By this statement do you mean comments containing profanity AND personal attacks? Because what we see are such individuals making ugly attacks on people and if  flagged their attacks remain. Do you not think that by letting people get away with personal attacks in discussions it encourages them to carry on this type of offensive behaviour and puts off others from commenting? Is this not intimidation? 

How embarassing for you, carry on attacking

These are your comments about the individual who passed away:

“All this violin playing can just as well be said for the Ayatollah Khomeini or Adolf Hitler. “ “One of the biggest mafioso-thug crooks of the Pahlavi era” “Sangsari Bahai thug was responsible for murder, extortion, money laundering and every other business corruption under the Sun, you name it, and he is honored here because money talks, sh*$ walks and truth is maleable to creative reinterpretion where Haifan Bahais are concerned …. This guy's corruption reached such mindboggling”

And these are your comments about JJ's remarks: 

“positive comments, especially JJ's, are concerned: what's that saying, again, Khar keh hast, khar savaaram hast! Khaak bar sar-e-harchi aadame koor tu een donyaa! “  

And now I am thrown abuse ... what's new Mr Sunshine "NUR"?  Coward is someone who tries to divert attention from his own embarassing moment. Take a good look at your comments. You are one angry foul-mouthed individual. Go ahead and keep on attacking. If you call JJ a KHAR and now me, then I am in good company.   

Actually

All I read was the comment where you were telling him to stop shouting Nur. I thought you were AGAIN picking on someone. So if I misunderstood, then apologies. Actually I am not a Bahai Moron so stop making a fool of yourself with your silly desperate name calling. Every single blog that has the name of a certain minority has you spamming it with your usual cr*p and angry comments. This is YOUR comment, which is offensive as usual about someone having passed away.

by Nur-i-Azal on Thu Apr 22, 2010 06:41 PM PDT

All this violin playing can just as well be said for the Ayatollah Khomeini or Adolf Hitler.

Ya NUR

Dear KIYANDOKHT YAZDANI

Please ignore this individual. You can see that the rest of comments are representative of Iranians wishing you condolenses. Nur is a bitter individual and does not have a good thing to say about most people, especially when the name of "Bahai" is mentioned. It is very sad that you need to see his comments at this very sad time, but please do not take it to heart or take it seriously. Ignore him, and you have symapthies of majority of decent people here. Kind regards to you and your family.

I AM SO SORRY THAT YOU ARE

I AM SO SORRY THAT YOU ARE SOO MISS INFORMED.I DARE YOU TO GO TO SANGSAR AND TELL THEM THEY ARE ALL BAHAIIS AND YOU WILL LEARN A GOOD LESSON.I PERSONALLY DONT HAVE A PREFERENCE BUT AS BEING HIS DAUGHTER I CAN GAURANTEE YOU HE WAS NO BAHAII WHATEVER YOU SAY.AS I SAID MY MOTHER THE YOUNGER FOUR CHILDREN ARE RAISED MUSLIM BECAUSE MY MOTHER WAS MUSLIM AND MY FATHER WANTED US RAISED AS MUSLIMS.IF HE WAS A HIGH CEO OF BAHAII ONE OF THE YOUNGER FOUR WOULD BE BAHAII.KAVEH,KATAYOUN,KIANOUSH AND ME KIYANDOKHT WE ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT BAHAI AND MY FATHER IS BURIES NEXT TO MY SON IN SAN DIEGO AS AN IRANIAN .YOU CAN GO AND INVESTIGATE OUR HOUSE IN FARMANIEH AND IN SAN DIEGO WAS NEVER A BAHAI TEMPLE.YOU ARE A TYPICAL IRANIAN PERSON THAT LIKES TO TALK.PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT SAY THINGS THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF ARE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BROUGHT US HERE.

IF HELPING PEOPLE FEEDING CHILDREN AND TAKING CARE OF YOUR OEPLE IS THE CORRUPTION YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT I AM SO SORRY FOR YOU.

CAN YOU TELL ME WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HELPED SOMEONE AND PUT FOOD ON THEIR TABLE?WHEN DID YOU GIVE HOUSING TO PEOPLE?IF YOU HAVE DONE ONE OF THE THINGS MY FATHER HAS DONE FOR IRAN AND IRANIANS THEN YOU CAN JUDGE OTHERWISE YOU REALLY SHOULD NOT GIVE YOUR OPINION

SINCERELY

KIYAN YAZDANI

What?

Envy of your father? You got to be kidding. Why?? There are other explanations besides envy, like the man epitomized everything that was wrong, corrupt and went wrong in Iran that allowed the mullah bastards to take power and set Iran back several generations, if not more!

But that said, as Hojabr's youngest, if you are truly who you say you are, I find it quite curious you are playing the Muslim card here and trying to minimalize your father's association as an eminent member of the Iranian Bahai community and a CEO to the Bahai Nawnahalan Trust Company. Your father and the entire Yazdani family of Sangsar, not to mention the entire village of Sangsar, are all Bahais. Why are you now saying his association was at best lukewarm? Is it because of the fact that the Bahai organization in Haifa suddenly turned on your father after the revolution, particularly during the Costa Rica election episode in the early '80s? What is the truth regarding this incident? Did your father really rig the Costa Rica elections, as the Bahai organization claims, or did they just pin this on him in order to humiliate him for whatever power-trip reasons of their own?

BTW I know most of your entire family and relations. Yes, you are extremely, extremely warm hearted, khaakee and kind people when you want to be, but you also have your serious darkside as well. And this will go into history regarding your father. 

My condolences (tasleeyat) and sympathies on your personal loss. The loss of family, whoever it may be, is always hard. May God bless you during this difficult time!

Ya NUR

DEATH OF A GREAT MAN

I AM THE YOUNGEST YAZDANI CHILD.BY NO MEANS MY FATHER WAS A THUG OR WHATEVER YOUR LITTLE MINDS LIKES TO CALL HIMOUT OF ENVY.HE WILL BE FOREVER IN THE HISTORY OF IRAN AFTER ALL YOU SMALL PEOPLE HAVE GONE .HE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR ALL THE SCHOOLS HOSPITALS MASJEDS ORPHANEJES AND LOTS MORE THAT HE NEVER ADVERTISED FOR . THE PROBLEM WITH OUR SOCIETY IS WE DONT LIKE TO LEARN FRO SOMEONE THAT IS SUCCESSFUL JUST BECAUSE WE ARE LAZY.MY FATHER NEVER DRANK OR DID OPIUM LIKE EVERYONE IN IRAN.HE USED TO HAVE A PICTURE OF HAZRAT ALI IN HIS ROOM AND THAT IS WHY BAHAIIS DID NOT LOOK KINDLY TO HIM.MY MOTHER PRAYES FIVE TIMES A DAY AND MY PARENTS NEVER FORCED US INTO ANY RELIGION.WE WENT TO MASHAD AND I DONT THINK BAHAIIS DO THAT HE  ALWAYS TOLD US TO BE GOOD AND KIND,NOT TO STEAL AND ALWAYS SHARE WHAT WE HAVE.EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE MY FATHER HAD IN IRAN MY FATHER KNEW HIS NAME HIS CHILDRENS AND ALWAYS MADE SURE THEY WERE TAKEN CARE OF AND THAT IS ABOUT 100000 PEOPLE.ASK THEM WHAT KIND OF A MAN MY DAD WAS AND YOU WILL BE TOLD.

HE WAS NOT THIEF WHOEVER YOU ARE YOU PROBABLY ONE  YOURSELF .IF PEOPLE LOVE SOMEONE AND WANT TO BE AROUND HIM THAT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A MAFIOSO BUT ILLIATI WHICH MEANS A TRIBE .TRIBE MEANS HONOR AND TOGETHERNESS IN GOOD AND BAD MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE KNOW.

SINCERELY

KIYAN YAZDANI

R.I.P

First of all, may he rest in peace and may the lord have mercy on his soul.

Regardless of how he earned a living, this is the death of a fellow human being that may only be judged by god for how he lived his life.

I met and temporarily resided with this great man in the 80's as a child with my family. From my experience, this man was a generous and giving human being. Everybody was always welcome in his home and he helped many escape death by helping them out of Iran, the same way he was helped himself.

In business, he was as smart and savvy as they come, he had an abundance of wealth and investments that allowed him to provide a comfortable life for himself, his children and his associates.

He lived the life many envied and he only took from the rich.

I pray that he is re-united with his beloved son kiumars in the afterlife, and I pass my most sincere condolences to his family.

Kaveh

Don't Hate When You Don't Know

The fact is he was a good man that did MANY things for MANY people. Yes he had his faults but who doesn't. Even in old age, he was taking care of an employee's elderly mother because she couldn't afford to live anywhere else. He gave her a home, a bed, and food. He was the face of Iran for many years and was a self-made man with an "American Dream" type of life. 

I for one see his death as a death of an Era in Iranian History. A time when Western ideals ruled and the country progressed. THe world began to somewhat embrace Iran as a leading partner in the world. That time has passed along with Hojabr...

All this violin playing

All this violin playing can just as well be said for the Ayatollah Khomeini or Adolf Hitler.

Ya NUR

How well did "you" know Mr.Yazdani?

Unless you knew him, then you wouldn't know his generosity towards so many people, and that includes the poor, the orphans and so many others in need. Besides his financial contributions, he and his family were incredibly humble. Despite what was assumed. So, please before you start judging someone "you" don't know well enough, think about it. Roohesh Shad.

Respect and wealth

On the contrary I have the upmost respect for people who work hard and are self made, opposed to those that inherit wealth and do not work and  think that they are special because of their lottery luck of being born into a certain situation. Good luck to self-made successful people, and how they chose to spend their hard earnt cash is their business. If they decide to share it (which they do as they pay extortionate taxes), that is commendable, but I really think those who resent successful or rich people are just envious.

He Won't Get My Blessing

It's great to be able to work hard and make lots of money but the way you spend that money makes one who he is. 

I never had any respect for those who pile up their wealth, build mansions and show off to the poor without caring or sharing. They have a low place in humanity.

He would have gained my respect if he had built 100 homes for the poor, built hospitals, roads and fed the needy.

Wealth is only good if we can share it with someone.

One of the biggest mafioso-thug crooks of the Pahlavi era

Of all time is made the IC person of the day. This Sangsari Bahai thug was responsible for murder, extortion, money laundering and every other business corruption under the Sun, you name it, and he is honored here because money talks, sh*$ walks and truth is maleable to creative reinterpretion where Haifan Bahais are concerned amongst the North American/European Iranian diaspora. 

This guy's corruption reached such mindboggling proportions and became such an embarrasment to the Haifan Bahai establishment itself in the 1980s that even they took evasive action against him and imposed administrative sanctions (tard-e-edari) when he got caught trying to rig elections in Costa Rica. But, hey, because he was later pardoned and then gave away money for contritions sake, all should be forgiven and the guy's memory honored on Iranian.Com. This guy should've met revolutionary justice in '79, or some worthy court somewhere else and imprisoned, instead the red carpet is rolled out for him. Such is IC and such is testimony to how warped our culture's priorities have become when such sleaze is honored as a hero.

My word, day by day this place is looking more and more like a Kafka novel! And where some of the  positive comments, especially JJ's, are concerned: what's that saying, again,

Khar keh hast, khar savaaram hast!

Khaak bar sar-e-harchi aadame koor tu een donyaa!

Please be fair in your judgment...

Friends,

Please be fair in your judgment...

I never knew or met Mr Yazdani, although he lived across the road from my parents. It was difficult not to notice the TV cameras atop the castle like head structure of an unimpressive building, compared to the "palaces" the IRI rulers occupy in north Tehran today.

Mr Yazdani was indeed a briliant , hard working self made man from Sangsar, but  his crass business style , the nouveau riche lifestyle, success and meteoric rise to the top made him an easy target.

If Mr Yazdani had any flaws and imperfections, he made up for all of it, after 1979 revolution.

I remember hearing first hand accounts from friends in San Diego of of his help ,generosity and extra ordinary financial support for so many iranian families who had become penniless refugees in the west.

Let us not judge a man, with heresay, especially when it is baseless character assassination  manufactured by those who have so boldly shown themselves to Iranians and the world as the ruthless Cancer that are the relatively few proponents of the IR.

A Pirate's Life

Nothing will change the fact that after his erstwhile earth life his body is now laying down naked & motionless in a 2 by 5 feet box underground going through a microbial decay process & turning to the dust. But is that the end of the journey for him? Did he ever wonder that if two persons with the same thumbs prints can not be found on the face of the earth there was a possibility that his accounts were being nonstop recorded by the those thumbs’ creator judicial means?

Gorgeous house!

Stuffed in our 68 VW, we used to go on occasional drives up Neda street, in Farmaniyeh, where his house stood, on route to Ghannadi Almani in Niavaraan. My dad would always slow down and let us glance at Hojabr's enormous mansion, with all its visible security cameras atop the stone built towers. "ye mosht dozd," he would mutter under his breath.

A Loss for the Iranian Community!

God Rest his soul! Loosing him is a loss to the Iranian Community.

I am sure all the trashing is another utter nonsense made up by people who just cant see the success of a fellow Iranian, and/or alternatively want a piece of the big pie and can't get it based on their non existent ability own.

 May he rest in peace.

Hey, Obama,

Maybe it was also the Israelis behind the volcanic erruptions in Iceland. Why don't you go down the street and do some reporting on this matter also.

Jesus. Maybe you can find out if the Israelis invented cockroaches too. 

He was kicked out of bahaii 4 acquiring his wealth through dozdi

I was told by my bahai friend. I am just quoting him. May be some bahaii can verify or dispute this. I don't know! 

I really don't know much about him, but this is such a coincident, since last night I was talking to Costa Rican businessman (who is my neighbor), who was telling that he personaly knew his son(Keyumars), and how devastated Yazdani became after his son's death, and got very depressed afterwards.

He was telling that when Yazdani came to Costa Rica, the law had just changed allowing foreigners to own banks. He was telling that he had told him that in Iran he had 6 millions sheep. Asking me if it was true! 

He had told him that he was ousted from Iran because he was connected to the Shah, and if he would have stayed he would have been killd. He then told me:"I never thought he was that important." He told me how ruthless he was in business fighting against anyone who wanted to undermine him and corruption etc. 

Personaly, I was glad to see a successful iranian businessman who owns all the banks in Costa Rica, but I really don't know about him to have an opinion. Cannot judge!

Talk is cheap.

Dear Capitan ayhab, Where is your proof that he did anything wrong? What you are saying is nothing but what the Islamic repulic claimed 30 years ago. Even they didn't accuse him as you do. 

Do you have any other source for your information? What makes you so sure? I bet, if you sit and think about it for a minute, you will realize that all you said is totally baseless and you have, not even one single evidence, to support your claim. Am I not right?

Call me Ishmael.

IF

If one is given all the free import license, all the capital that it takes to start importing free of any duty into a consuming country, along with every single privilege and free transportation.....

Then I would say that all you needed was  a solid  connection in Pahlavi DARBAR, instead of real entrepreneurial spirit and know how.

Khoda biamorzatesh nonetheless.

-YT 

**RIP**

May his soul rest in peace.

The death of a tycoon: 1934-2010

Except for the bottom left photo, the rest of the images (with the Shah and Dr. Eghbal) seem irrelevant.

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we

need more people like him to pull iran out of the mess we are in now.

Respect for business

I respect self-made business people who build, develop and create jobs for people.

I'm glad Abbas Maroufi wrote this note about him. It will go a long way to balance out all the negative rumors about him -- most of it after the revolution and purely with political motives.

Too often we trash people who make lots of money, only because they have made lots of money. We automatically assume they must be crooks. It's unfair to those who worked hard for their business empires and played an important part in the economy.