Iranian of the Day

بسته بر آخور او استر من جو مى خورد

خسروا دادگرا شيردلا بحر كفا        
اى جلال تو به انواع هنر ارزانى
 
همه آفاق گرفت و همه اطراف گشاد        
صيت مسعودى و آوازه ء شه سلطانى

گفته باشد مگرت ملهم غيب احوالم        
اين كه شد روز سفيدم چو شب ظلمانى

در سه سال آن چه بيند و ختم از شاه و وزير        
همه بر بود بيك دم فلك چو گانى

دوش در خواب چنان ديد خيالم كه سحر        
گذر افتاد بر اصطبل شهم پنهانى

بسته بر آخور او استر من جو مى خورد        
تبره افشاند به من گفت مرا مى دانى

هيچ تعبير نمى دانمش اين خواب كه چيست        
تو بفرماى كه در فهم ندارى ثانى

خواجه حافظ شیرازی

thexmaster...

Have you seen her without her shades? She's definitely in need of an extreme make over :)

Why is she wearing sunglasses indoors?

Does she suffer from migraines or shame?

ashegh2541: thanks for

ashegh2541: thanks for sharing the YouTube clip. That campaign party looks like it was a good time.

Ross Mirkarimi is a competent SF Supervisor. I agree with him on many of the issues pertaining to the city of San Francisco. But on Iran issues, we're contradictory. I voted Green in the June 2009 Iranian election, but Ross didn't vote. However, Ross supported and participated in the Green demonstrations, while I accepted the results of the election.

I'm guessing Enssani voted Green, too. Anyone here at IC know her personally?

Benross and Ashegh

But she sings good though! 

It is ironic that a woman who is invited on a paid trip to Iran sings "Summertime, and the living is easy". I guess for her and the others who accepted the IRI's invitation, the living is easy. Cheers  :-) 

Nobody can sing Summertime better than Ella and Armstrong!

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDOEsQL7lA

Thanks ashegh for the link

In a related video, she introduces herself as a board member of NIAC. Talk about good PR! 

But she sings good though! 

More collaborators...

More pictures of collaborators:

//img.villagephotos.com/p/2010-8/1358929/2138...

A website dedicated to identifying collaborators:

//greenprotests.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-pos...

Also take a look at the letter that they've received:

//img.villagephotos.com/imageview.aspx?i=2659...

Sandis Khor-ha, beshetaaband!

oh my gosh such a false woman

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7t8AHdiCWc

me and myself

She is a disgrace

She has blood on her hand and she will be rememberd. The young people of Iran are crushed in the streets and this whore goes to AN conference and claims she is representing Iranians.

hypocrite fascist yet again

Of course, for those that have excluded themselves, naturally they're going to feel left out and contempt.

Yes, for example those who have spoken out for human rights, like Mehrangiz Kar, Shirin Ebadi, Ahmad Batebi, and many others abroad, or those who are in the country and done so, like Mansour Osanlu for workers, or if you are a Bahai.  All these people are "excluding themselves"?  Or have they BEEN excluded by a fascist government that you kiss up to?

You are an advocate of military dictatorship on the Iranian people, and would like to go to a propaganda show held by your bosses straight over the dead bodies of many true Iranian heroes killed by those very bosses of yours.

Bravo Mark Pyruz, for "including" yourself with the fascists, and not allowing yourself to be left out of the group of rapist pedophile mullahs that rule Iran!  A country you know nothing about, do not belong to, and have no shame or qualms about attacking.

"Sargord".

Bravo, Elahe Enssani.Iranian immigrants have needs here in the US, and it's an excellent idea for her to establish/maintain contacts in the mother country.Of course, for those that have excluded themselves, naturally they're going to feel left out and contempt. But this is only a natural consequence for those feeling demoted in social standing, in exile.I agree with Q. I'd like to attend a future gathering. 

If Mark Pirooz (aka Sargord Pirouz), Qumars Bolourchian, and others of Iranian background residing in the U.S. wish to attend future events sponsored by a regime on the State Department's list of states sponsoring terrorism, this may be a matter for American law enforcement authorities and these people of Iranian descent may want to take that into account. Regards.

Bravo, Elahe Enssani.Iranian

Bravo, Elahe Enssani.

Iranian immigrants have needs here in the US, and it's an excellent idea for her to establish/maintain contacts in the mother country.

Of course, for those that have excluded themselves, naturally they're going to feel left out and contempt. But this is only a natural consequence for those feeling demoted in social standing, in exile.

I agree with Q. I'd like to attend a future gathering.

Again, bravo Elahe Enssani!

I am just too mad that I

I am just too mad that I have not been invited ... Damn .......  

who should I see now to make a complain ?  

I would have gotten that microphone and yell as loud as hell at Ahmadinejat , and Mosavi both ......  by no means Mosavi is better than Ahamdinejat in terms of respecting human rights in that country ... he just has forgotten his past and thinks we have forgotten too .   

As a matter of fact Ahmadinejat is a new comer compare to Mosavi ........ Had they both being brought to justice for sure  Ahmadinejat would end up getting less prison time than Mosavi .......  so how is it that iranian who defend Mosavi are welcomed but the one who defend Ahmadinejat are doomed ?  

"SAVAK/VEVAK tactics"

Tell us a bit more about them, you seem to have inside knowledge of them both "agent Q". Tell us how do the pay rates compare? :)

Yousef.

Who said Iranians live a contradictory life?

Look at this Merilyn Monro wannabe Prof "Enssani!" She has dyed her hair blond. she is a US citizen, most likely! She lives in San Fransisco, the most liberal city in the US and yet she [Prof Enssani] travels thousands of miles across the world to mingle with the most radical [Un-Enssani] people in IRR. On top of that, she tries to hide behind those large sunglasses.Why can't she just  be comfortable with what she has done?

No, let me show you about "losers", Benross,

What political differences? Now you are spinning to suppose Frye is pro IRI?

I never claimed such a thing, Kadivar implied it. I mean he made a choice to go that Kadivar would not have, and so Kadivar cannot handle it.

Please explain to us hezbollahi bisavad's in exactly what way can Frye be a "traitor" but not "pro IRI" ?

Nice try

Talk about a smear job born out of self-centered hate and the inability to handle political differences

What political differences? Now you are spinning to suppose Frye is pro IRI? The loser is you Q and you know it. Now coming back here makes you a sore loser. This is my last response before I ignore you completely. 

Q, These attendees are all tubreh/akhoor munchers ...!

Like the guy in Godfather who would go around the neighborhood to wet his beaks!

Back for the sake of losers

Can I humbly ask our monarchist friend to be kind enough by offering a suitable accommodation to our Green saviour.

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

Benross,

I was in Iran, and I realized there are pathetic losers in the West who need me back to give their worthless lives meaning. I was happy to oblige for the sake of said losers.

yes, comrade, Traitors, like that traitor world-renouned Iranologist professor Frye, that's what David Etebari called him too. I have news for you, traitors don't need invitations either!

Darius Kadviar was a bit more diplomatic. Said "Whether (Frye) agrees with Ahmadinejad's policies is not known"!!! LOL. Talk about a smear job born out the blissfull inability to handle the reality that different people can make different choices.

All I can say is that this (neofascist) part of the Iranian community shows once again, they are not ready for anything resembling democracy. It is a true glimpse of what they would be like if they ever came to power: Same old SAVAK/VEVAK tactics of political abuse and intimidation in an environment when they have the upper hand, same kind of vigilante action and totalitarian mindset absolutely opposed to any pluralism in throught and method.

Agents don't need an invitation

No one is accusing any one to be an IRI agent. They are traitors. That's all

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

What brought you back here

What brought you back here Q? New funding? We are doing just fine without you.

Q, it's highly likely some of these folks work for CIA and they

went there to collect info!/ Is that a plausible conjecture?

Obviously an IRI agent!

Just like that Islamofascist traitor Professor Richard Frye, Harvard professor Dr. Farrokh Saidi, and countless Iranian experts with successfull carreers in Europe and America. Yea, they are all agents and surely they were there to support Ahmadinejad!

I'm being sarcastic, of course, but to the short-sighted knee-jerk neofascists who have taken it upon themselve to form vigilante groups to attack and fire these people and cause problems for them with their countries of residence, this is the truth. (there are many of these neofascists on IC). These people have not only decided they "know" exactly what the participants were thinking, i.e. why they went (to support Ahmadinejad they say),but they also decided this is a good political tool to promote more and more hatred.

There are two forces who are working overtime to give a non-existent negative symbolic value to this week long event with informative lectures and panels, and reduce it to a "Nazi" rally for Ahmadinejad:

1. Ahmadinejad himself, whose 20-minute-at-best appearance has been predictably promoted by the IRI media as the entire event, and

2. "No talk, just bomb" coalition and its useful idiots among the Iranian fossils, and Western hawks (including VOA) who are in this case are clear partners with Ahmadinejad, and are afraid that some Iranians may prefer peace over war; or kill the notion that just because you don't agree with the govenment, it doesn't mean you have to forsake the nation. According to them, if you go to a conference (which they do in the US, UK all the time), it means you are working for the government!

Anyway, as I said, I would have gladly gone to take part in the event, inspite of Ahmadinejad's self-centered appearance for political reasons. I would have done so in order to meet and talk to everyone else who were there keeping Iranian culture, pride and dignity alive in the world.

Actually some of the same people met with the greens as well and architected Mousavi's announcement to form a digital social network, but of course VOA wouldn't be covering THAT.

Why did these people wear sun glasses inside a bright and

full of light auditorium? Did the light bother her eyes?

Is that the out-of-place and abnormal fashion statement made by many Iranians? Or is that they wanted NOT to be easily identified and recognized?

Appreciation haircut

When Nazis were defeated and kicked out of France, French people remembered who among them had collaborated with the Nazis and as appreciation gave them free haircuts.

One down...

The rest will be identified too. One, by one...

Did she have to fight for the bottle that she is holding?!

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

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”