yasmine

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Ron Paul: is opposed to all foreign involvement so great. What does it have to do with misery of Iranians? Why is it whenever we mention oppression of Iranian people somebody brings up "Israel"

Yasmine: has a right to her opinion no matter how wrong :-) Personally I do not get why people who view America so negatively stay here. But it is not up to me to decide. If USA immigration said fine then it is alright I suppose. 

The problem with all the above is they put "causes" above Iran. One person wants to "free Palestine". Another has a passion for fighting Imperialism.They all view Iran as their "instrument". To me Iran is my nation not a tool to achieve a "cause". I say *** Palestine and to hell with fighting imperialism. Go fight for Palestine yourself. Go fight imperialism on your own. Not with my nation or people. Iran is not there to serve your pet ideas.

MG belated response!

Dear MG

Apologies to respond so late but got totally side tracked. I am not so young as I was ..

Anyway my knowledge of Middle Persian and specially Old Persian is not as great as you might think. I have written blogs before and will write another one this week. Basically Modern Persian is pretty similar to Middle Persian. As long as you remove the Arabic from it. Kurdish has fewer Arabic words so closer to Middle Persian. Old Persian is related to Middle Persian but more complicated. It is more similar to Sanskrit.

Old Persian seems to have gone out of use after fall of Achamaneshians. Partians aka Ashkani spoke something that a modern Iranian could partially with some work. It is off topic to discuss it here so I will put in in a separate blog. There is a lot of really good stuff to discuss. I wish more people were interested in it.

Thanks,

VPK

'the' in the No to Theocracy

Yassamine Mather Dear Tiger 

The poster refers to a aspecific theorcracy the one in power in Iran , but of course we would oppose any theocracy

Ron Paul tells CNN's Morgan: Let the British die for Israel!

      Here is the video!

       He must be a Basiji! DUH!

Yasmine

I never doubted or questioned any of your past.

Wishing you more

very sincerely

TL

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Yassamine Mather

I opposed the Islamic regime the day it came to power and I went to Kurdistan to fight it and I have spoken against the regime on a regular basis at least4-5 times every year since 1990 in public meetings in Europe , LONG before 2009

Yassamine Mather

Yassamine Mather

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Yassamine Mather Thanks to those who have defended me, just to clarify I never supported Iran's Islamic Regime (as I explained in the "Debate with pro war UK columnist Nick Cohen" video link:

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Yassamine Mather

As my past is now being questined let me infomr you I opposed the Islamic regime from the day it came to power (long before 2009)  as I said here :

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and I went to Kuridatn to fight it with Fedayeen (aghaliyat)  who unlike aksariyat never supported the regime. Even if you look at this blog you wil see I started in iranian .com in 2007 writing against IRI 

VPK

P.S. Do you know Khoran has been divided into parts? Guess how many?

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Sorry, no chelo kabab for me - only veggie kababs

I'll take you up on the offer.  Your choice of a decent vegetarian place.  High end preferably. :-)

I will enjoy the ride in your Lada.  I assume it's this one:

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Topic of discussion at our dinner meeting will be Hamid Dabashi. :-)) 

MG regarding HalfMoon

The prayer sounded like "Ashem Vohu" one of the major Zoroastrian prayers.. I know it by heart and it is in Old Persian: the language of Cyrus. By the time of Sassanids only the priests spoke it.

It does not surprise me that Kurds would use it. Particularly in light of what you said. I always thought Iranians are Zoroastrian and heart. 

Thanks 

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Sonny boy, the last thing I need in life is approval from you or anybody else on this Earth.

If you've worked hard to have a comfortable life on this earth, you ought to be able to enjoy it, as much as you can.

Whenever you come to Toronto, your Cholo Kabab is on me.

As long as we don't live in Iran, the only place we all really want to live, we are all underpriviedged. Some are more underpriviledged than others, depending on how  home sick you feel.

Incidentally, MG

Could you just imagine the kind of prejudice and racism

an Iranian will automatically face when going up against a native-born

Canadian, Australian, European, American, in any public capacity. 

Actually, I can.  I have testified before two fedeal panels on issues regarding animal protection in general, such as habitat destruction, etc. where southern good 'ol boys were challenging some of my findings and were opposed to legislation that I was supporting.  

We won at the end.  :-) 

No to War. Yes to targetted sanctions & regime change from below

Probblem with people like Yasmin is that due to their lack of historical perspective, due to their wishfull thinking,  they become unintentional propaganda tools in IRI's hands.

The apartheid regime of S. Africa, was brought to it's knees not through a military attack, but through a solid-targetted- set of sanctions, in all domains. Political, cultural, economical, even sports events. These sanctions were supported by all nations and people of all political persuations. These sanctions then enabled the "regime change from below" with minimum bloodshed. Make no mistakes, S. African apartheid system would have been in full swing today if it was not for the sanctions.

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

VPK, forget these kids, they will either grow up or

remain infantile for the rest of their lives. It's really beneath everyone to pay them a lot of attention.

P.S.
I watched that movie last night. I couldn't tell the language, in that
scene either.

What is generally acknowledged is that Zoroastrianism has
great roots in Kurdestan, and not just Iranian Kurdestan.

Yes, MG, but if you were a true socialist

you wouldn't be so concerned about having material things.  You'd be driving a mass produced "people's car," such as the Lada, or something similar, and you'd be sharing your wealth with other, underpriviledge folks, such as...me!  

I'll be calling you a little later to "borrow" a couple of bucks, if you don't mind.  :-)

AO jaan, you could ridicule your opponents all you want

it doesn't make your arguments any stronger.

Mind you I've never seen Yasmin or spoken with her. All my familiarity is solely based on her  writings in these past three decades.

I don't own or posses much in my life, but every
single thing I have in this world I've earned it and  worked hard for
it, very
hard  mind you. Could you just imagine the kind of prejudice and racism
an Iranian will automatically face when going up against a native-born
Canadian, Australian, European, American, in any public capacity. Do you
have the vaguest idea what kind of racist adversary you'll face, even
when just running for a very simple Union position.

Now, as far as your childish dismissal of the grass roots in Iran, don't you think one ought to first
have (if not an extensive knowledge) a preliminary knowledge of the
matter at hand, before so easily dismissing it? Fair is fair. cheers

MG

Well said. Heck people which are well to the right of you and Yasmine are not spared. All you have to do is disagree on a single point and you are attacked. Go read this blog:

//iranian.com/main/2012/jan/mojtaba-ataro...

TL - I've been to a couple of Chomsky presentations

and actually had him sign a copy of his book for me.  Nice guy.  Don't agree with a lot of his ideas, but he's a nice, articulate guy.

MG - Since you know her so well...

Does she drive a BMW?  Seiouosly, does she?  Come on, you can tell us...:-)

Simorgh5555, not going to kiss you to shut you up. pffft!

Btw, where is this thing about me being a Noam Chomsky mouthpiece? If anything, I've said that I might lean towards Socialist Libertarianism, but I've got issues with that too!;)

The whole of the opposition is a total sham! A beyond shameful, helpless sham. The fact is that yes, monarchists too, lots of people are doing business with the IRI and have been for decades. Try and follow the money and you will be beyond disgusted and that includes many of the Human Rights industry organizations.

In this case though, (I know your stance on war), but mine is anti and I'm happy to be a tarty political prostitute in this case and join millions of Brits who are just anti-war. 

AO is any one forcing you to make such

obtuse statements about people.

I have know Yasmine for almost three decades (though we don't agree on
many points), she was always a member of Fadai (minority) a group which
initially was engaged in Armed Struggle against IR (an incorrect tactic
for that period of time). For a period of time she was actually
stationed in Fadai's camps in Kurdestan. she has an extensive amount of
writings well before elections of 2008, or even before Khatemi's
"Refoems," always arguing and advocating an overthowing of IR as the
ultimate solution for all Iranians.

Why is it that whenever you disagree with someone you have to accuse
them of all these non-truths, and reduce them to nothing, to prove
yourself "correct."

You make fun of Stalinist Left for all the monopolies on truth and morality they claim to have.

In real life and in how you approach your opponents you display the exact, holier than thou attitude. 

Whoever doesn't agree with bombing of Iran, or a Western initiated "regime change," must be this and that.

As far as waiting three decades for West to overthrow IR, and actually implementing their idea of Regime Change, does "Waiting for Godot," ring a bell?

one more thing Tiger Jan

You know full well that these Green/Tudeh/Meli Mahabi chose to live here because of the social security and the handouts. 

I've seen so many of these Marg Bar Shah Irani Leftists on social security welfare and perpetually on the dole.  

AO jaan, I dunno

Honestly, I can't answer for her at all. I don't have her parvandeh and I'm not going to parvandehsazi either.

I myself, as I said below somewhere have got issues with this "imperialism" thing and as I'm sure you've suspected for lots of reasons.

I just think it's not a good idea to go into character assassinations, except when the facts are very clear indeed. Call it a cliche, but really 'let those without sin, throw the first stone"....

Tiger Jan- Prove me wrong and shut my mouth

Giving credit to Yasmine's organisation for the freeing of Mansour Osanlou but what about stopping the 500 executions in 2011?

How about freeing the hundreds of political prisoners who are featured in Iranian.com every day?

What have the Green Reformists done to enable candidates to stand for election without the interference of the so-called Guardian Council?

How many Green/Reformist candidates are represented in Parliament? 

Name me ONE Reform legislation which has been successful and has not been obstructed by the IR 'courts', the Supreme Leader and the Council of Guardians?

Have the Greens entered any power sharing government?  

What have they done to address the lack of due process in the law where women like Shahla Jahed are hanged?

What have the Green movement done to stop the imprisonment and rape and murder of demosntrators and bloggers?

What have the Green movement done to stop the encroachment by mullahs on the lives of every Iranian's private life?

What have the Greens done to ease the restrictions on the Hijab and women clothing? 

Where is the Green Movement Head Quarters?

Where is the Green/Reform movement leader(s)? 

What protection and recognition have they been given by the country's laws or the Judiciary?

What have the Greens done to improve the economic conditions of ordinary Iranians and stop the envronmental pollution? 

So you see, Tiger Jan, the saving of Osanlou, though welcomign has done nothing to barely address the real issues which affect the lives of 70 million Iranians.  

I for one will support military action whether or not your champion Noam Chomsky and the LSE Leftists approve of it or not.

TL Jaan - Where has Ms. Mather been for the past 32 years?

She certainly looks of the age to have been around for the past three decades:

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Why is she all of a sudden remembering Iranians and their struggle?  

The fact is that many of these West residing so-called socialists and "citizens of the world" had been cheering the IR on for the past three decades--solely based on the pretense that the IR was "anti-imperialist."  and they were pretty content with living with the IR despite its atrocities.  They only came out of the woodwork when IR started to display its brutality on the streets and when the videos were posted on YouTube.  So, they had no other choice but to mildly condemn the IR--just so that they could still claim they are "progressive."  Trust me, if beatings and murders were still happening behind Evin's walls none of these characters would have said anything--just like they didn't say anything for 30 years.

Can you point me to any anti-IR speech, document or anouncement by Ms. Mathers from prior to the 2009 protests? osanloo is in jail because of some West residing perople's tacit support of the IR for three decades.    

btw, that estoooopiidz argument can be thrown at others too

e.g. at every France and US residing monarchist here on IC. 

Why don't you tell them to shut their gobs since they don't live under monarchical rule? 

Oh why not take it further? Why not tell every Iranian residing inside Iran, that they shouldn't be asking for any form of democracy since they, quite a few do choose for personal reasons to stay there, live under a theocracy? 

Simorgh5555 and AO carry on and ignore the fact

that these are the people who work damned hard to get  people like Osanloo out of jail. 

Now, do you have anything of any form of substance to say about her blog's purpose or is it the usual Iranian-style character assassination?