Jahanshah Javid

JJ

Shall we nominate, noiZ, as she worked hard last year to weld our community?

Mahmoud of course

For a lot of you guys and gals, and in line with the website's main theme, it has to be Mahmoud. Come on, don't be shy.

No I never made it big

The most famous place I ever played was in CBGB's. My music career was not profitable so I went to law school. Law school was not profitable either:)))))

I like ZZ top. 

A.I.

Are you one of the members of ZZ Top?!

To: Yachov

Dear Yachov, as a matter of fact I do remember,
this is my official website:
//www.wa3ad.org/
I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

p.s. yachov......... dw duke.

Very Cool!

That is a great story. Life is funny.  I lived in Jerusalem for a year. 

I play the electric guitar. Used top be in an original band in the 80's. 

By the way, Ebadi as the Iranian of the Year!

AI: Who, when, what, where, why and how

I was rehearsing the role of Moshiach ben David to see if it would fit. LOL  I had several successful years in a rock band which disbanded and in the summer of 1978 decided to do a "walkabout" in the Middle East to "feel" my roots.  I was in Israel and I walked across the border into Southern Lebanon.  There I met Nasrallah.  Don't ask the name of my rock band because that would disclose my ID.  :) He was polite but cautious at first.  The more we talked the more I realized that he was just like me only he climbed a different branch of the family tree.  :)

Yachov & Nasrallah

Can you tell us more about this Nasrallah encounter? Sounds very interesting. What were you doing in Lebanon on foot 30 years ago? Sounds like around 1978 or something during the first Israeli invasion.

No, it's not too late

Jahanshah jaan,
This is a great idea, "the person (s) of the year." Why don't we do it for the forthcoming new year? Our New Year, Naw-Ruz. And do so every year at Naw-Ruz time.
Best regards,
Bahram G

Reply to Hezbollah

I met Hassan Nasrallah many years ago when I was traveling afoot in Lebanon.  I saw him as a man who seeks to correct injustice.  He was young and I was young.  If he remembers he will tell you that we talked of compassion as the essence of human understanding.  We talked for some time about the writings of Khalil Gibran whom I believe he considered an apostate albiet an interesting one.  Despite the fact that I was a Jew and could have taken his life at any moment he seemed comfortable with me.  If you see him, or if you are him, remind him of the one who said he will never see his greatest truth until he crucifies his hate and learns to love his brother the son of Yachov.  Until then he will not see the love of his brother.  He will remember even if he doesn't completely remember.  He was probably about 17 at the time.  :)

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Nasrallah

faghat o faghat

Hassan Nasrallah.
(a truehearted, loyal Iranian)

Makwan Moloudzadeh

I don't know if deceased Iranians are eligible to be Iranian of the year but if so then I would nominate Makwan Moloudzadeh.  You may recall in that 2007 he was executed for smoking on Ramadan.  It is a little more complex than that but in essence that is what the case reduced to.  He was arrested for smoking on Ramadan then the abuse began.  He was forced to ride naked on a donkey through the town and humiliated in many other ways.  During his abuse, some of his school friends said that he raped them when they were 13 years of age.  They later recanted their story.  The judge, relying upon elm-e qazi, the "knowledge of the judge" concluded that the original story of the boys was true even though it was recanted.  On that basis, the boy was executed.  Even under Shariah, elm-e qazi, is not to be used in a capital case.  The alleged act upon which his execution was based occurred when he was only 13 years of age.  He was 20 at the time of his execution. 

Seconded

Yes, Ehsan Yarshater, a great Iranian indeed.

Hadi Saei is a good one too, and maybe Nekounam he recently scored against Real Madrid with a header over an Italian defender who is supposedly best in the world.

Iranian of the year

Looking at the proposals on this site, one would think that there are no Iranians other than in Iran and the United States, nor any Iranians doing wonderful work to preserve and make known Iranian history, culture and art worldwide. It says a lot about the narrow horizon of bloggers on this site.
Why not, for starters, name a great Iranian scholar in the US who has done the greatest service to our Persian culture, namely Professor Ehsan Yarshater, the founder and indefatigable fundraiser of the Encyclopaedia Iranica, and who, even with failing health, has barely reduced his workload and his dedication to a great cause.

addition (and deletion?)

Shirin Ebadi, Nazanin Afshin Jam, Bahram Moshiri and Ahmad Batebi have to be in the list for sure as mentioned by others.

I also suggest Akbar Ganji, Ebrahim Nabavi and Khosro Shakibaee (who passed away on July 18th 08) to be added to the list.

And please man, what is up with putting Hossein Derakhshan in the list, anybody who knows him, and not many do, hates this guy, he is unpopular and insignificant.

While Israel was committing

While Israel was committing crimes against humanity by masacaring
Palestinian, Islamic Regime was doing its part to silence human rights
activist in Iran.

Shirin Ebadi is the symobol of the fight for Human Rights regardless of who

the Human is:

Be it a Palestinian, A Bahai ......

I cast my vote for Shirin Ebadi

My nominee for "Iranian of the year"

With the most respect for all other "Iranians of the day" I would like to nominate Mr. A.M.Sha'raani, the teacher of the world's smallest school in Kalou, Boushehr.

Please read about (World's smallest school recognized by UNICEF) here.You can also click on his blog to learn more. 

//www.payvand.com/news/08/sep/1233.html

Shirin Ebadi for her commitment to human rights and for her

courage to stand up and speak her mind. A real patriot, a proud Iranian and my vote goes for her.

HADI SAEI, agree 200% in

HADI SAEI,
agree 200%
in fact if you do not think Hadi is the best, please have your head examined

Small correction

Hello, I thought I would just pop in to say that there are 7 leaders of the Baha'i Faith that were detained, sometimes Mahvash Sabet is left out because she was arrested in March 08. Thanks.

hadi Saei agree 100%

hadi Saei
agree 100%

Hadi Saei for sure he is the

Hadi Saei for sure
he is the best. he did it for the country under his country's flag.
doing science work outside the coutry or running a corporation and becoming famous and rich means nothing.

Nomination of Tara

I nominate Tara for her high scholastic contributions and her acute objectivity that would prevent her from ever imputing false statements or idealogies to another, that she would never seek to penalize someone based upon a belief that this person may hold a viewpoint different from hers, or that this person may have acted in a manner that she personally felt lacked diligence, that she would recognize that perhaps her own frame of reference is finite and she might not have knowledge of all of the intricate variables that would cause a person to do or not do something she believes this person should do, for her keen analysis of facts such that she recognizes merit even in opposing viewpoints and that she is the actualization of the famous words by the German philospher/historian George Frederick Hegel:

"When a man has finally reached the point where he does not think he knows it better than others, that is when he has become indifferent to what others have done badly and is interested only in what they have done right, then peace and affirmation have come to him." 

But most importantly that she would never allow petty jealously and Barbie Doll idealogies to influence her actions in any respect as it pertains to another.   On these bases and these bases alone, I nominate Tara. 

I NOMINATE A SCHOLAR-POET

I nominate Manouchehr Saadat Noury for his scholarly articles on the collection of First Iranians especially for those on Khanlari, Saif Farghani, and Masjed Solaiman and for the collection of Missing Moments especially for those on Churchill Rules, Obama, American Foreign Policy, and Shoe Throwing, and for his patriotic poems on My Iran, the Patience of God, In That Land, and many other poems on his Poetry Anthology of Chains. 

Parthian Pal!!!

Well , I do give the benefit of the doubt from time to time to a dead horse , using CPR and hoping for signs of life if any ::))

Cheers pilgram !!!

btw* you forgot Nasrollah , he is sad , you ignored him .

Arash and Kamyar Alaei

Iranian AIDS doctors sentenced to prison

 TEHRAN, Iran – Two renowned Iranian AIDS physicians were convicted for allegedly taking part in a U.S.-backed plot to topple Iran's Islamic system, mystifying human rights activists who said the two were apolitical and doing innovative work on stemming the spread of the HIV virus

my choice

Students who've demanded freedom and democracy in public rallies at numerous universities.
we don't even know their names! so they deserve recognition more than anyone: one, they showed so much courage. two, they voice our of all discontentment at the regime. three, since we do not even know their names they need even more urgently a gesture of recognition. I remember their faces. the guy with from polytechnique with the big glasses and the beard holding a sign saying: rais jomhooreh fascist polytechnic jaay to neest.
or the guy in shiraza getting up and lynching ahmadinejad and parliament in front of larijani. these guys need to be recognized and applauded.

Golshifteh Farahani in Body of Lies ...

First Iranian Star from Iran's post revolution cinema in a major Hollywood Film

//www.imdb.com/name/nm0267042/

Questions for Tara

I am not suggesting Afshin-Jam or anyone specific as iranian of the year but your logics have no merits:

> If a "supposed supporter" of shirin ebadi supports Israel, does that make shirin ebadi a bad candidate??

> Can you show us "SEVERAL" "OBVIOUS" quotes of "several of SCE's supposed supporters on this site have obviously taken stands in support of Israel's actions"?

> Don't you think by making such UNSUBSTANTIATED COMMENTS AND ACCUSATIONS you actually are helping IR and hurting the cause of tens of thousands of people in the world who are trying to Stop Child Executions in Iran and worldwide under the SCE umbrella?

Thank you

Mr J for giving us the choice.

I think some one who dedicated his/her life to help Iranian children is appropriate. I do not know any one but maybe you do.

Also all those ladies and gents who trying for democracy on this site.