Khers

The way to change a government is for the people to change.

When I worked in the USA, I stopped socializing … Iranians had money to take $200 ski trips, but would not contribute a dime towards a worthy cause… In Iran, on daily basis, I pick up trash in streets… when I see someone I say 2500 years of history.  

THANK YOU Souri jaan, incognito jaan, and divaneh jaan.  Thanks for your comments.

  While observing the events which took place in Tunisia and Egypt, here is my quote:  

"The people get the government they deserve.  The way to change a government is for the people to change."

  Group of Egyptian

Group of Egyptian protesters call on Iranians to revolt against Tehran govt

//www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/group-egyptian-protesters-call-iranians-revolt-against-tehran-govt

Divaneh gerami

You do raise really good points.  I still do think though that we're dealing with the X-Box generation here.  Not enough devotion to the cause.  

As an aside, I don't think that lack of leadership is a problem, even though that is a distinct issue in Iran.  Just look at Egypt.  No real leadership there either.  But they still got the job done.    

Dear AO

I see it differently. I believe that nations have memories. We can't consider any generation detached from the experiences of the previous generations.

I do agree with you that more resistance would have brought the regime to its knees, but if we are to compare Iran with Egypt let be fairer in our comparison. Egypt did not unleash the same brutality on people that was the case in Iran. Let me remind you that the demonstrations were hit in the bud when the police and armed forces dispersed any small group of people to prevent the snowball effect of such demonstrations. An economy based on tourism such as Egypt is very careful of its image, whilst an oil based economy such as Khalafat Islami does not give a monkey about its image. There are many more differences but I don't wish to take so much space in this blog.

Finally, as I said, in Iran people need to believe in the cause and then there is no shortage of brave souls. This is another generation of the same nation who has fair share of revolutions.

AO

May I ask: how many mine have you cleared? How many dictators have you overthrown? How much have you done for Iran?

All I hear from you and your ilk is Iran hating. I am sick of it.

Divaneh Jaan

I see that"Khers" has stirred the pot of self-criticism here.  Good for him / her.  Give that animal some honey!!!

Divaneh Jaan,with all due respect, the generation of Iranians that you talk about is no longer relevant in terms of what happened in Egypt. Uprisings such as what we have been seeing in Egypt are initiated and carried out by the youth, which comprises roughly 2/3 of the Iranian population.  That generation has not been involved in wars, mine clearings, revolutions, etc.  It’s an absolute clean slate for them .  While I wouldn't approach the subject in a categorical way as Khers has done here, I would agree that our youth, and our people in general, could have shown a bit more resiliency in 2009.  Of course, this is easy for me to say, sitting in my comfortable home here, but I think that a bit more resistance—even afterwards (for the past two years) could have really brought the regime to its knees.    

Mehrdad Jan

With all due respect 3/4 of what you said is in Tazi. Why do we insist on using that vile language?

Iran hating

back in force! I thought with the not too late demise of Fesenjoon we got rid of this ***. But the mantle of self hatred and Iranian bashing had to be picked up. I say one thing: the new breed of Iran haters are just as bad as the Mollah is their own way. Shame on you Khers.

Gheirat my foot! It is not even a Persian word. VPK

Childish Complaints

Excuse me if I call your whole blog a childish complaint but as someone else pointed out reality bites. The nation that you have pictured coward in your blog is the nation who has fought many wars and seen more revolutions that perhaps any other country. This is the nation whose young men ran on mine fields and sacrificed their lives for their country. They just need to believe in the cause. That is where your ill thought self criticism comes short.

I ask you one question, can you assure any Iranian that if sacrificed his/her life, we won't end up with another dictatorship. 30 years is a very short time and this nation is still scarred from the blood that was poured for the cause of freedom only to watch its achievements stolen by yet another dictatorship.

آقا خرسه

فکر کنم کمی بی انصافی بخرج دادید

البته کمی هم نه...خیلی

شیرین

Amir where can I download your picture?

Amir where can I download your picture? It is the picture of a Sassanian King! Is that true?

حقیقت تلخ است

آنچه عیان است چه حاجت به بیان است

Mehrdad

واژۀ"غيرت"

خود واژه يست عربی به چمه واژۀ عربي"حسود" که اينجور که بوش مياد ما "غيرت" را هم از عربان اموختيم. کنون شما هم ميهن گرامی "غيرتي" بکار ببر و :

يک: از واژۀ پارسی رشک يا مردانه بجای "غيرت" بهره برده

و دويوم اينکه: عمو ما که از زبونمون گرفته تا الفبا و نام و دين و ايينمون از ناف عربه . تو رو به دست بريده ابولفضل العباس اين روولوشنتو بزا ايرونی بمونه و دستور پخت و روبرش(سرمشق) رو از عربا نگير. همينو کم داشتيم, يه اپوزيسيون عربی بره به جنگ رژيم عربي.  عرب اب داد. زبان داد.عرب نان داد.عرب نام داد . عرب روولوسيون داد.

و سوم اينکه: محمد منير رو بگيد بياد تو پارتي 25 بهمن تو دوبي. شنيدم اغاسي مصره ..وليک سلاما  يما ياما ياما يا عمرينا هلی سوء هلی سوء هلی سوء.

چييرز و چاکر عمو خرس  

Path of Kiaan Resurrection of True Iran Hoisting Drafshe Kaviaan //iranianidentity.blogspot.com //www.youtube.com/user/samsamsia

آقا خرسه،

سوری خانم اینجا راست میگه:

ما‌ ایرانیهای خارج از کشور اگه واقعاً مبارز بودیم، که توی همون کشورمون مونده بودیم.

اصلا با حرف شما موافق نیستم

دوست من، چرا اینقدر ملت خودتو دست کم میگیری؟ ایرانیها غیرت داشتند که انقلاب کردند، اونهم ۳۰ سال قبل از این مصری ها. حالا صبر کن ببین، همین مصری‌ها (و عرب‌های دیگه به قول شما) وقتیکه ۳۲ سال تمام بد بختی کشیدند و مبارزه کردند و از خونشون خاوران‌ها ساخته شد، آیا باز هم توانی‌ واسشون میمونه که دوباره بیان و کشته بدن و از جان خودشون و فرزندانشون باز هم مایه بگذارن ؟

سعی‌ کن انقدر بی‌ انصاف نباشی‌. ملت ایران، چه قبل از انقلاب و چه بعد از انقلاب همیشه در حال مبارزه بوده. شما نباید مبنای قضاوت خودت رو، این جمعیت ایرانی خارج از کشور قرار بدی. ما‌ها اگه واقعاً مبارز بودیم، که توی همون کشورمون مونده بودیم.

درود به روح پاک همه قربانیان راه وطن.

مشګل تنهای اینها نیست

ما مشګل داریم  مشګل تمامیت خواهی  مشګل خود بزرګ بینی مشګل اجتماعی نبودن  مشګل رفیق بازیها ی مادی  مشګل حسادت  مسګل عقل کل بودن و مشګل بی انصافی و بی تفاوتی  حالا البته بسیارش هم تقصیر محیط است  و نداشتن تربیت درست و مدرسه های درست  تعصب های ریشه دار  خرافات و توهمات و دوست نداشتن دیګران تنها برای خودشان ؟ و بالاخره فشار سیستم بیهوده و بی عدالتی و بی انصافی که منجر به بی تفاوتی و یا ظالم شدن میشود.البته من هم جدا از دیګران نیستم و قربانی همین سیستم هستیم. از همه مهم تر نداشتن اتحاد است که تا یکی را میګیرند دیګران فرار میکند.

well said my friend

Damet garm. This is true.

Like our Team Melli

You know our politics is like our football (Soccer), we start good but we don't finish it well. 

This is exactly true for both our politics as well as our national soccer team!

We are not good at finishing things well!

THX Khers, truth always hurts! 

Demonstration 2 Saturdays ago in Union Square, San Fran

What a joke, what a shame, I was so upset that I did not feel good to go to Hamed's concert later that night. Number of people who showed up was less than 30 and some of them were non Iranian friends. then like you say, they are all ready to go to jashn and let me add concert to it. They plan for their concerts weeks in advance and god forbid, if they miss one. But when it is turn to go demonstrate for political prisoners, they don't show up but they write on IC, I will be there.

Hagh Talkh ast

truth is bitter

I burst in laugh with so much ignorance of reality

If you want to know where IRI is going whatch mokhtar nameh:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7yHIx47he4

all the episodes:

//www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mokhta...

خدمت همهٔ کسانی‌ که کامنت گذشته اند

سپاس فراوان.  نکتهٔ نخست این است که بنده خودم را هم شامل کسانی‌ حساب می‌کنم که ازشان انتقاد می‌کنم.  من هم ایرانی‌ هستم و جزو این فرهنگ.  نکتهٔ دوم اینکه آقای روزبه فرمودند درست است.  این فرهنگی‌ که ما داریم بخشی از آن نتیجهٔ ۳ دههٔ حکومت مزدور و "تقیه" پرور جمهوری اسلامی است

سرکار علیه خرس،

بنظر میاید که یک نکته مهم را از قلم انداخته آید. اینکه وقتی‌ هم که بخود جرات میدهیم تا از دیگران انتقاد بکنیم، خود را پشت اسامی مجازی و اواتارهای از خود درآوردی قایم می‌کنیم مبادا که گربه شاخمان بزند. آین هم شامل شما میشود هم من، دیگران که جای خود دارند. از قدیم گفته اند، "یک سوزن بخودت بزن، یک جوالدوز بدیگران."

Khers, good blog, thank you.

I am quite a little less pessimistic about this subject than you are. I dare not mention Iranian people, who have chosen honourable death to kissing the rear end of the dictator, because I'll be called a mordeh parast. I believe these negative characteristics you rightly mentioned are the result of centuries of brutal dictatorship, rather than a defect in our Iranain genes! Once the dictatorship is gone, when people do not have to lie or kiss somebody's rear end just to make the ends meet, then we shall start seeing a gradual departure of these nasty traits from our collective character. 

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

KHERS JAN

You are complaining about people don't want to gather to support Iranian in Iran, that is old news, almost 5 million Iranian live in western countries we could donate or collect $10 dollar each of us and built satellite TV and 24 hour news and programs we could show to our nation what are these monsters doing to our nation. we are not doing it because still some people with old mentality of left and right and center and other groups don't want to see each other’s shadow and yet all these people they think they are doing for good of nation and the country, they are divided because they don't believe in democracy because they want to hold the power and they want to dictate to people what is right or wrong, when RP was asking and still asking for united assembly to work for one goal and that is free IRAN and by my information no one was interested and yet every chance they get they will ask for united front but they are not interested in such a unification in realty and it is all lies and if they are asking for united front and assembly, why they were not responding at first place because only person whose hands are clean is RP and rest of them and majority of them have a very dark past and it is not easy to clean them up

Khers Jan:   Damet

Khers Jan:

Damet garm!  Gol gofti.  Khoda pedaretoh biamorzeh!

Exactly

All hocus pocus and hot air! I have been saying that for so long now  We need a drastic shift in culture and resurection of real Iranian identity otherwise forget about it. 3000 years of history and best they can say or do is to go on the roof and yell "Alah o Akbar".

Talking from the Heart

You said from the heart & said it well. Missed to mention how "Dow-ghol & McCar" most Iranians are. A real shame & regretful 4 what we really are. We also had a "Revolution" that never happened.