Iranian contemporary history

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Haj-Khanum

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Haj-Khanum


قسمت سوم دقیقه ۱:۵۸ شغلش را نفهمیدم ولی بیچاره انفجار را انفراج و مواد منفجره را مواد منفرجه تلفظ میكند ولی با وجود این مطمئن است كه چقدر ثواب كرده و به ایران خدمت میكند


Amir19

Shah was bad, Khomeini was worse, Khamenei is the WORST

by Amir19 on

Let's not focus on the past. Shah did lot of good but like most rullers in that part of the world was a dictator. Now he is gone, and may his soul rest in peace. We as Iranians, must focus on the common enemy of Iran, which is te Islamic Republic of Iran and Khamenie and Ahmaghi Nejad. Let's this time, after victory, we do not make an idol of anyone and form a democratic government where majority's type of governemnt will rule but the rights of all is protected.  Don't forget 22 Bahman


Ali P.

Heyf...heyf...heyf...

by Ali P. on

What a tragedy...

Ali P.


hamsade ghadimi

stay in school

by hamsade ghadimi on

stay in school alex and say no to drugs.


AlexInFlorida

Iranians willingly wanted Islam in 1979... not Freedom

by AlexInFlorida on

Monarchy is the worst form of government for Iranians, except for all others. 

Since in Iran it has been proven that monarchy approaches both
freedom and the democratic ideal far better than democracies... as we
see in Iran under the shah vs islamic republic.

This is a Painful Truth for pro-democrats, to accept that the
islamic republic is a democratic reality that the majority wanted and
brought it about.

Democratic governments do not guarantee freedom, in fact it is a
false belief that democracy and freedom go hand in hand and can only
come about by looking at selective evidence and not the entirity of
data across the pages of history.

Islamic Republic as most people know is more democratic than even
the state of Israel.  Unlike Iran, Israel was brought about by only
considering the views of the jews and not all the people living in the
area. 

At least Islamic republic was created by the democratic principal of
majority rule while allowing all the various views to be represented. 
The democratic Islamic Republic is however a tyranny since it's
inception until today, unlike Israel which does provide Freedom for
Jews.

What the Green movement does not address, because most Iranians are
not conscious of, is that Iranians want Freedom more than democracy,
the kind of freedom they enjoyed for the first time from the Shahs
era.  Iranians tell their children how much better life was in the
hands of the shah and his team and they miss this very much within
Iran. 

And in a perfect world Iranians would want both freedom and
democratic government, but at a gradual pace that is relavent to the
possiblities of the iranian people, while not sacrificing their
Freedom. Today they don't even have freedom to go to the next step.

And that is what they are lacking, Freedom, the ability to have
choices without coercion, manipulation and deceit.  Real choices
however unappealing that will enhance ones life, not undermine it.

To think that Iranians blew away the Shah that worked his entire
life to bring them Freedom that they had not enjoyed before, to the
point where unlike 95% of the world in 1983 Iranians would have enjoyed
guaranteed health care, education and employment or government
assistance if no work could be found is shocking.  I live in America
and we don't have Freedom that good.

I hope people learned that Revenge is not so delicious. And that
true success is learning to enjoy life and not feeling inadequate
because some people are becoming extremely rich and then being
vindictive, mean and nasty.