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Iranian Of The Year
01-Apr-2008
Final Result:
Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis)
Parvin Ardalan (One Million Signature)
Every year JJ would have a voting page and some candidates for Iranian of the year. Seems like this year he forgot or he was "busy" :-) So until he makes a page who is your Iranian Of the Year?
You can nominate as many people as you want but choose one and put him/her in the subject line of your comment. You don't need to give any reason for your selection. Just your candidates and your final ONE vote.
Here are my candidates in this order and my vote goes to Marjane Sartapi.
1. Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis)
2. Mansour Osanloo (Bus driver union leader)
3. Simin Behbahani (Women's movement in 1386)
5. Jahanshah Javid (updating Iranian in 2007)
6. Hossein Hajiagha (raw material and being honest)
I also like to nominate Simin Behbahani's poem for the Poem of the year. Copy and paste below from an unregistered comment.
شنیــدم باز هم گوهر فشــاندی
که روشنـــفکر را بزغاله خواندی
ولی ایشــان ز خویشـانت نبـودند
در این خط جمله را بیــجا نشـاندی
سخـن گفـتــی ز عدل و داد و آنرا
به نان و آب مجــانی کشــاندی
از این نَقلت که همچون نٌقل تر بود
هیاهــو شد عجب توتــــی تکانــدی
سخن هایت ز حکمت دفــتری بود
چه کفتر ها از این دفتر پراندی
ولیــکن پول نفـت و سفره خلــــق
ز یادت رفت و زان پس لال ماندی
سخن از آسمان و ریسمان بود
دریـــغا حرفـی از جنـــگل نراندی
چو از بزغاله کردی یاد ای کاش
سلامـی هم به میــمون میرساندی
سیمین بهبهانی
RESULTS
Marjane Satrapi (5)
Parvin Ardalan (5)
Mansour Osanloo (4)
Simin Behbahani (3)
Iranian Michelin baby (3)
Jahanshah Javid (2)
Hossein Hajiagha (1)
NIE Report (1)
Reza Pahlavi (1)
Haleh Esfandiari (1)
Anousheh Ansari (1)
Trita Parsi (1)
Nazanine Afshin Jam (1)
Rafsanjani (1)
Arash Sobhani (1)
Maz Jobrani (1)
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Most excellent.....
by Nadias on Tue Apr 01, 2008 05:36 PM CDToops! I seem to have mispelled Ms. Ardalan's first name.
Solh va Doosti (paz a vosotros)
Nadia
Polls closed.
by Anonymouse on Tue Apr 01, 2008 07:28 AM CDTSatrapi and Ardalan it is.
Pure Irani
by pearcia (not verified) on Mon Mar 24, 2008 05:25 PM CDTMichelin baby all the way. It doesn't get more real and honest than that!
My vote goes to Pardin Ardalan...........
by Nadias on Mon Mar 24, 2008 03:48 PM CDTSolh va Doosti (paz a vosotros)
Nadia
Results so far
by Anonymouse on Mon Mar 24, 2008 06:40 AM CDTI'm going to update the blog to add up the results so far. Look at the blog again for the update. If JJ had a voting page I'm sure we'd have at least few hundred votes, here we had about a dozen or so. I'm also going to update Simin Behbahani's description to women's struggle in general not just ahnadi's poem.
I'll update this until 13-bedar so if you want you can vote and nominate until 13-bedar.
Monda remember Times Person Of the Year?
by Anonymouse on Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:02 AM CDTWas supposed to be the person who was in the news the most. For better or worse. Time is no longer making sense with their selections in the past few years, but you get the picture.
Hajiagha made the most news in this website. The choice to be "presented" in this website is JJ's and I believe Hajiahga should be, my selection was based on the amount of news he caused in Sep/Oct. If you go back and see his cartoons in those days when Iranian.com went to the new format, you'll see the amount of news he generated.
By the way, he is not "frequented" that much anymore. They have muzzeled him and those were the good old days :-)
Maz Jobrani
by Anonym (not verified) on Sun Mar 23, 2008 08:47 AM CDTFor proving how stupid a comment "Axis Of Evil" really is.
Marjan Satrapi
by Monda on Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:01 PM CDTand Simin Behbahani have my vote any day.
I did not get your humor by adding #6 to this list, nor have I ever understood why his offensive delusional material should even be so frequently presented on this site.
Ashraf Pahlavi and Shaboon Khan Bimokh
by . (not verified) on Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:08 PM CDTThese are two great individuals that noone should forget.
Still researching...
by Nadias on Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:48 AM CDTWhat is your opinion on Mehrangiz Kar? I am continuing to research other possibilities.
Solh va Doosti (paz a vosotros)
Nadia
His Royal Hotness, Mr. Arash
by Jeegaresho (not verified) on Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:13 AM CDTHis Royal Hotness, Mr. Arash Sobhani is my Iranian of the year.
Rafsanjani
by Hojatoleslam (not verified) on Sat Mar 22, 2008 09:39 AM CDTFor beating that other dude, Ahmadinejad's mentor, in the Khebregan assembly.
Don't forget SCE and Nazanin Afshin Jam!
by Azarin Sadegh on Sat Mar 22, 2008 01:39 AM CDTPlease add also SCE and Nazanin Afshin Jam as another choice for the Iranian of the year.
But in the existing list, I would vote for Satrapi.
Azarin
Dr Trita Parsi
by IRANdokht on Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:40 PM CDTof course all the great Iranians mentioned have done so much for Iran and are much respected and appreciated.
IRANdokht
Parvin Ardalan by far
by choghondar (not verified) on Fri Mar 21, 2008 08:09 PM CDTParvin Ardalan!
JJ this is the 2007/1386 list
by Anonymouse on Fri Mar 21, 2008 07:40 PM CDTWhile you may not have been directly instrumental in the struggle for peace and freedom inside Iran, you certainly brought the Iranians outside Iran together. You brought Iranians from 4 corners of the world together where we normally would not have been able to talk to each other in this fashion. I believe you indirectly contributed to the forces of peace and democracy inside Iran too.
Also this is a personal choice and we can nominate anyone except our own friends and families of course. So I put the Michelin baby to allow folks to choose whoever they like for whatever reason.
As for Hajiagha, come on, COME ON! BE FAIR. BE REALLY FAIR. In summer of 2007 when you brought all of us from 4 corners of the world together, who made the biggest noise? Who was like kard-o paneer (knife and feta cheese) in this new format? Who attracted the most discussions? who provided the most entertainment? who valiantly fought with the forces of censorship and "embarrasement" with his basic knowledge of english? Now we forget but in Sep/Oct 2007 he was the man. Give him the credit he deserves. For last year he deserves to be on the list, in my opinion.
Now back to nominating and names, no more discussing and comments :-)
Mansour Osanloo Mansour Osanloo
by David ET on Fri Mar 21, 2008 07:21 PM CDTMansour Osanloo Mansour Osanloo Mansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour OsanlooMansour Osanloo Mansour Osanloo
Anoushe Ansari. She was
by azadi 5 (not verified) on Fri Mar 21, 2008 06:53 PM CDTAnoushe Ansari. She was perhaps the only Iranian mentioned in mass media last year for doing something good and exceptional.
Satrapi
by Jahanshah Javid on Fri Mar 21, 2008 05:10 PM CDTMarjane Satrapi's international contribution to art, culture and Iranian women's struggle has been wonderful. She has my vote.
My name on the list makes me feel embarrassed. It's not even funny, like Haji Agha's nomination :o)
Of course Nadias.
by Anonymouse on Fri Mar 21, 2008 03:38 PM CDTJust names.
Haleh Esfandiari
by anony (not verified) on Fri Mar 21, 2008 03:37 PM CDTFor going in Evin prison for the first time in her life at the age of 60 and coming out with her dignity in tact.
Are non-Iranians......
by Nadias on Fri Mar 21, 2008 03:27 PM CDTable to participate too on nominating an Iranian and voting.
Solh va Doosti (paz a vosotros)
Nadia
Hard to pick
by Majid on Fri Mar 21, 2008 02:47 PM CDTI would nominate all 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, in no particular order,
Happy Now Rooz Haji
And for the poem,
If he had just one "boz ghaale" for each person who hates him, he would be world's biggest "Boz Cheroon"
Parvin Ardalan
by Ali P. on Fri Mar 21, 2008 02:37 PM CDTYes!
Reza Pahlavi
by Abbas Fakhravar (not verified) on Fri Mar 21, 2008 01:58 PM CDThe is the one and only.
Parvin Ardalan
by Mahtab (not verified) on Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:28 PM CDTParvin Ardalan for me too.
Marjane Satrapi
by Troneg on Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:42 AM CDTFor Sure
Parvin Ardalan
by Saied K. (not verified) on Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:16 AM CDT...I would like to nominate.
Joint nomination of Mansour Osanloo and Simin Behbahani
by ramintork on Fri Mar 21, 2008 01:49 PM CDTJoint nomination of Mansour Osanloo and Simin Behbahani to give them support for internal change in Iran.
NIE report
by Anonymously (not verified) on Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:49 AM CDTI vote for NIE report which stopped the drums of war with Iran.
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