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Kinda looks like a man up close

That's a man baby.....

hamsade khan

It is not based on my typing in capitals, it is a fact. Of course her video was not no way near even being factual for me. Call me naive, but what i saw and described below, was a young and gleeful little girl being so excited on meeting This person. The guy asked her one question and she gave a simple answer. Was she wrong? she could have been, It is a matter of Opinion. You think she is far off and has no legitimacy and credibility, which makes it your opinion,

It is only a political gesture or a statement if you so choose to view it that way. This was not done in a political context. She does not have to be a family member or anything for that matter. Anyone can be faily criticized for their opinions, But not to the point of being convicted of a crime. Think about it . COuld  her status as a Publuc figure actually create a serious change in the way the public really thinks, despite the potential it holds? For all we know, I doubt she is even known beyond the tennis circles. HOw can even she be known as PF just because WE who follow the news are talking about her!!! do you really think that justifies bashing her at this point? Whatever was her motivation to say what she said, I would not personally chalk that up to a political statement. Such a statement requires serious backing and it must come through her behavior, in a sturdy and solid way not by presenting a couple of tennis rackets to him!

kourosh, just because you

kourosh, just because you use capital letters and say “[rezai] is not in politics,” doesn’t mean that she’s not participating in politics. isn’t her video is factual enough for you?  did she not voluntary go to iran, try to meet with ahmadi, gave him two tennis rackets for presents?  isn’t that a political statement?  is she a family member of ahmadi and we’re not aware of?  for whatever reason she said what said, and did what she did, it was a political statement and it’s fair game for anyone to criticize her.  and yes, she’s a public figure (def.: a well-known or notable person; not to mention we’re talking about her!) and public figures can sway public opinion because of their stature.  therefore, they’re scrutinized more than the regular schmo like ‘hamsdade ghadimi’ or ‘kouroshs.’  granted,  she may be less scrutinized than a more well-known public figure.

she may have been brainwashed by her islamists parents; and being a tennis pro, she’s concentrating on her daily tennis routine and clueless about world politics.  she may have wanted to be considered to be back on the Iranian tennis team (maybe she didn’t have a good chance to be in the French team or felt discrimination), and that desire outweighed the cruelty that ahmadi and company are doling out to the iranian public.  she might be evil.  for whatever reason the 22-year old adult supported ahamdi. however, she has a chance to either re-affirm her support for ahmadi or clarify to her supporters and those who are interested in iranian politics why she no longer feels the way she did.  as the old esfooni saying goes: “do halet dare-s…”

boomshaka, rezai has set the standard for herself with her obviously self-serving statement that she made in support of ahmadi.  i wouldn’t write her off yet for she may be useful for the opposition if she makes a statement in the future against ahmadi and vf. for some (like me), much respect is earned for someone who updates her belief in light of new information.  meanwhile, i think she should have access to a view like yours as well as all others in her education process.  my bet is that if pushed, she will not only back away from her support for ahmadi (for the sake of not repelling sponsors) but showing resentment toward him.  i hope she comes to her senses for moral reasons and not financial gain.  but we know, if she does change her mind, the ex sepahis, ex basijees, and other iri apologist on this site will denounce her and claim she did it for financial gain.

to the iri apologists, there’s no democracy or free election in iran.  keep recycling the joke and i keep reminding you of the facts on the ground. :)

She is definately Ahmadi's most beautiful supporter!

Everything is sacred.

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Aravane with dad and brother?

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in Indian costume:

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Aravane with mom and dad?

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Aravane without a hat:

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Aravane's youthful indiscretion = Ahmadi is oh so strong!

The inventor of the Youthful Indiscretion phrase who at the age 41 carried out a 4 years affair with a married woman! 

In 1998, the Internet magazine Salon.com published "This Hypocrite Broke Up My Family" which stated that from 1965 to 1969, Hyde conducted an extramarital sexual affair with Cherie Snodgrass. At the time, Snodgrass was married to another man with whom she had three children. The Snodgrasses divorced in 1967. Hyde said the affair ended when Snodgrass' husband confronted Mrs. Hyde. The Hydes reconciled and remained married until Mrs. Hyde's death in 1992. Hyde, who was 41 years old and married when the affair occurred, admitted to the affair in 1998, describing the relationship as a "youthful indiscretion". The revelation of this affair took place as Hyde was spearheading the impeachment hearings of President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Everything is sacred.

Deh namard zan nama, ina chieh pass?

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Your real fascist regime killed/kill vehemently and you a shameless supporter try to paint the evidence otherwise, but you till don't understand that your hands are too small to hide the sun.

In your friendly on-aligned movement, you forgot to mention that Malaysia and many other "Muslim" countries didn't even bother to send their secretary of foreign affairs. There were just Turkey and Brazil which send their high dignitaries and that for economical reasons we'll see where this Tof-sar-bala will land at the end.

You also didn't comment on Ahmadi's few followers on his provincial trips, while you pretend that he had support from 63% of Iranians, nor why he keeps hiding himself when he goes to a university in his 'own' country?

A modified version of Virginia Graham's quote for you: Be blind. Be stupid. Be kon-liss. Be careful.

Obama: A Muslim  girl

Obama: A Muslim  girl become Miss. USA

Rima Fakih, Miss Michigan & Arab-American, Crowned 2010 Miss USA (PHOTOS, POLL)

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Is she Mexican??LOL 

KS: Oh we are talking about

KS: Oh we are talking about two completely different people...I'm talking about NP not Arghavaneh.

My opinion on Arghavaneh is that she is indoctrinated by her parents and does not really know what she is talking about, or maybe not. We need to hear from her directly on this issue.

KS: I base my judgment on

KS: I base my judgment on all of her comments and blogs, that's all.

Why is my reading Juan Cole is objectionable, may I ask?

Vile Jan

I do DIFFERENTIATE Between someone like No Fear and Arghavane.

To me they are not the same AT ALL.

Here is Sara Palin for

Here is Sara Palin for you:

| None So Blind as Those Who Will Not See »

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Vilemose jan

Verbose??? LOL for stringing a few words along and daring to say them in one brief instance in answering one casual question: nazaret raje be aghaye AN chie? LOL ok! whatever you say boss.

SHe Actually Represents a faction or a group?????? OK!!

Too much Juan cole today?:))

Ahmadi & supporters' "independence" = independence from head!

Especially if you live outside Iran with unblocked internet access and news other than Islamic Republic's TV and closed circuit "news". 

Everything is sacred.

Dear KS: Did you read this

Dear KS: Did you read this piece by NO FEAR?? It gives you a rare insight to the mind of AN fundametalist Supporter:

No Fear
Sat May 15, 2010 05:34 PM PDT

در واکنش به مطلب قبل؛

کامراد

 ازم پرسیده است: «مگر از حیث انقلابی‌گری، چه فرقی‌ست میان موسوی و احمدی‌نژاد؟!». پرسش خوبی‌ که به من فرصت می دهد تا به مطالب دیگری هم در این زمینه اشاره کنم.

تردیدی نیست که «هم موسوی و هم احمدی‌نژاد» در درون یک محیط انقلابی، و در درونِ یک ساخت سیاسی و مناسباتَ مختص به آن، پرورش یافته‌اند. اما نگاهی به دیدگاه‌ها و عملکردِ هریک از این دو نشان می‌دهد که «انقلابی‌گری موسوی» مبتنی بر «دیدگاه‌های چپ» اما «انقلابی‌گری احمدی‌نژاد» مبتنی بر یک «دیدگاه راست» بوده است. و این نیز به تجربه پیداست که انقلابی‌گری چپ، کارش، هرگز به «مصالحه و سازش با رقیب» نمی‌انجامد بلکه همواره به «قهر و خشونت» گرائیده است. اما بازهم تجربه نشان داده است که انقلابی‌گری راست، فرجامی جز «سازش و مصالحه با رقیب» ندارد. پس، در دستگاه تحلیلی من (که خود را یک «راستِ مدرن» می‌دانم)؛ «انقلابی راست» واجد خطر کمتری‌ست تا «انقلابی چپ» (نه اینکه کلاً خطر نیست، بلکه خطر به‌مراتب ضعیف‌تری‌ست

Read the rest below:

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KS jan: No, She is just an

KS jan: No, She is just an inept but verbose mouthpiece. However, she  represents an elite group in the inner circle of IRI, namely, the Sepah and Ahamdinejad faction called, "enghelabi RaAst'. This type are actually holding all the levers of power in Iran.

Vilemose Jaan

But you are comparing A Politically - emblazoned personality such as palin who has been in politics for ages with this tiny Jujeh who just made a comment? You really think she has that much power to PUSH Anything just like sara palin is able and willing to?

Supporters?

One of the basic "arguments" that the supporters of the regime of the unelected CLERGY make is that the elections were won by AN, fair and square.

However, the following are always ignored:

1. How can any of these elections be considered legitmiate when the candidates are preslected based on their allegiances to Islamic principles? In other words, if you are not an Islamist, you will NOT be considered regardless of your qualifications.  By the way, this is probably one of the very reasons that the country is now in the hands of some of the most incompetent people around.

2. Who and what indpendent agency confirms the fairness of these so called elections? (this is not meant as a joke!)

3. Why even have elections when the religius monarch, Velayat-e Faghih, calls all the shots?

4. Why would an incompetent person like AN be "re-elected"?

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Last comment: If Sara Palin

Last comment: If Sara Palin becomes the US President in 2012, do you think we should respect her and her fundamentalist/fascistic attitude of setting the clock back and taking this country back to biblical times?? Wouldn't you be outraged as a voter? I would probably leave the US...

BoomShak.. Step Out of The cacoon

No, as a matter of fact i don't think i am going overboard at all. It is actually you who every oncein a while decide to pick on someone and accuse them on being either a palestinian, and that they better admit that they are by posting 10's of comments repeating the same thing over and over. You did this with marge. Then there was SamSam and then there was benross. and...This is not about the Future of Iran this is about a woman athelet who LIVES OUTSIDE OF IRAN AND IS NOT INTO POLITICS. I am SORRY FOR YOUR LOSSES BY THE WAY.

Oh I Understand every part of it Boy. DOn't you worry about that one bit, But this is the example of making a Big deal of events for instance comparing, a very IRRELEVANT comparison i migh add, of THEM claiming to see something on the moon and calling him such and such figure and HER one line that she likes this man FOR HER OWN GOD DAMN , FRIGGING PERSONAL REASONS.

I have taken my vitamines today, Have you had you taken your zoloft? I have gotten enough sleep as well, thank you so very much. I don't stay up all night trashing everyone like you do, Energy well spent. The Truth? What Truth? The truth is that By making one comment about AN no one enters the choppy waters or the Firey holes of Politics. That is her Opinion. What is it that YOU DO NOT GET buddy boy? She is far from being a public figure and even if that was the case YOU WOULD NOT GET THE AUTOMATIC RIGHT TO BAMBOOZEL HER JUST BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE IT OR JUST BECAUSE THE STANDARDS OF LAW ARE SET HIGHER!!! ABSOLUTE RUBBISH DEARIE.

There You see? You are IN effect denying her right to freedom of speech by Prescribing Public Lynching or her deserving a bruising (Of any kind that you might have meant). That is totally rediculous.

Again, It is not Up to you or me to make recommendations as to what she should or she should not do. She is not supporting a Regime but a person. That is what you are too blinded by hatred and disgust to see . SHe THINKS that what he is doing amounts to declare How powerful iran is to the world and the world should take notice. Is that supporting THE REGIME? Are you plainly and patently out of your Mental capacity to analyze events correcltly?

I know that You will stop at no chance, and pull all the signs to GO AFTER HER. You don;t need to lectureme on that. That is what totally sucks.

I GEt the Picture PAli boy, but THE problem is that YOu are presenting garbage and not a picture so IT AIN"T WORTH GETTING,

Haliteh?

Saying that majority of

Saying that majority of Iranian voted for AN tantamounts to saying that majority of Iranians support fascistic policies and ideologies. This just give more ammunition to warmongers to pesuade more sanctions prelude to a devestating war a la Iraq. Is that what we want to happend to Iran?

Why portray Iranians as Fascists loving, hate-filled militants? What do we accomplish by doing that??

Audacity of

Audacity of shamelessness: Title of a new book for supporters of AN and his military industrial complex....

p.s. Another reactionary law passed in Arizona by popular support:

Those who have accents cannot teach English in Arizona anymore. Note: 34% of Arizonana of are hispanic or Mexican descent and are bilingul with accents.

Majority of Arizonan have voted for this piece of racist law? Does it make it right or moral or worthy of "RESPECT"??

I think not...

Mehraban jan: Thank you.

Mehraban jan: Thank you. The sham oxymoronic Islamic democracy/theocracy is indeed mockery of all  humanistic beliefs and values.

Responses

NP jan: You are an AN supporter. You are not "many Iranians" you are one person. You always claim to know so much about what Iranians want. Are you a pollster? Do you take regular polls; do you routinely go through Iran and interview Iranians?

Kourosh Jan: I am replying to her one statement. In reality AN has proved to the world there are some real idiots in Iran. It is not power to murder children. It is stupidity which AN has proved. Power do beat up the weak is no power at all. It is shameless "na mardi" the currency of AN and his Basiji thugs.

Mehrdad Jan: I must be missing your point. No one is upset at her success. People are upset at her support of AN and iRI. The same regime that murders and rapes our brothers and sisters. 

I agree with Vildemose. I don't care how many people supported Hitler aka AN. It does not make it right. Islamism and Nazism are both wrong just like Brown Shirts and Basiji no matter how many idiots support it.

mehrban

i never said it was perfect, but there was some choice, and many proved that they cannot play fair when it comes to elections. neither side has behaved well. this is equally true of the opposition.

mazloom khan

de-na-de! cheshato baaz kon!

- the country 'blew out after the results' because the losing side could not take it. 30% is a large number, and the traditional/modernist divide is severe. we have seen similar scenes in thailand and ukraine in recent years. the losing side decides to spoil rather than let the other side win. a bit like the 'tea-baggers' in usa.

- the regime did not kill 'so vehemently all pacific protesters'. every single death is unacceptable, but there was no such massacre as you claim.

- iran (not necessarily the regime) has huge support all over the world. the non-aligned movement totally supports iran in almost all the disputes. that means around 3/4 of the world's people. you exaggerate. grossly. because you confuse the usa for the world. rather american of you, don't you think?

- 1000 other 'why's' because you cannot bring yourself to live and let live when it comes to iran. a bit like those who are already looking for excuses to undermine iran's nuclear deal just announced.

Peace

Let's be grown ups about this; there is NO Democracy in Iran

Khanoom e Parsi, you either do not know what Democracy means or you are painting a chicken and selling it as a Canary.  Having to choose from four hand picked, pre selected all four Islamists is not practicing Democracy.  If anyone is telling you what we have in Iran is a Democracy, you should tell them Khar khodeti.

Myth of Majority Why do uneducated and

Why do uneducated and mostly fundamentalist people vote against their own long-term interests (i.e. Perpetuating their poverty by giving them cash hand outs only makes them slaves of the states and will ever bring them out of their abject poverty) and the interest of their own nation??

Just read this:

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Fundamentalized mind

it is our duty to respect their opinions.

You say, the Islamist Pasdar or as NO FEAR calls you people Enghelabi RaAst...You must be thinking that this is IRI and your opinions and fatwas are relevant...

Suppose you are right and the majority of iranians support AN. In the larger scheme of things, that is not good news for Iranians and Iran as a whole.

Majority of German supported Hitler and his Gestapos too. Their ideology was considered "revolutionary" too. Portraying majority of Iranians as militant religious nuts like AN hell bent on establishing their Mahadviat Caliphate is as dangerous as you can get. And you wonder why the world does not want the IRI to have Nuclear weapons??

Morality and sanity are not games of numbers. Majority does not determine neither  rightousness nor sanity. 51% of electorates voted for Bush and his policies in his second term...remember that?

Another example: Arizona Immigration Law: Poll Finds Broad SupportNearly six in 10 Americans support Arizona's new law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted May 6-9.

Eighty-two percent of Republicans support the law as do 64 percent of independents. By contrast, 45 percent of Democrats approve of it.

Asked about specific elements of the law, 73 percent support requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status, 67 percent say police should be able to detain anyone unable to verify their legal status and 62 percent say police should be allowed to question anyone they think may be in the country illegally.

The popular support for this reactionary legislation does not make it right or moral??

Just look at this report:

The sleaze factor in Ahmadinejad’s private budget

Payvand Iran News

Worse than blind

If AN won the elections by 63% as they say, so:
- why the country blew out after the results?
- why the regime killed so vehemently all pacific protesters?
- why in AN's provincial trips, there are so few followers (i.e. shato-sedarssadesh koo?)
- why the regime lost its legitimacy all over the world ?
- +1000 other "why"s?

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. Thomas Hardy.