CNN -- The opening of a United Nations conference in Switzerland on anti-racism was marred by chaotic scenes Monday as protests and a walkout by delegates disrupted a controversial address by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The presence of the Iranian leader at the conference had already prompted Israel to withdraw its ambassador from Switzerland, while several countries including the United States are also boycotting the gathering. Dozens of delegates walked out of the chamber as Ahmadinejad accused Israel and the West of making "an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering ... in order to establish a totally racist government."
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Nashenase haft jan
by KouroshS (not verified) on Wed Apr 22, 2009 01:08 PM PDTbaba jan
vaghti harfe hessab mizane yeki shoma chikar kon? goosh kon.
he makes much more sense than your claim that IRI is keeping AIPAC and Israel's hands off iran and iranians.
When was the last time that any IRI official made an statement, without any tinge of aggressiveness, propaganada and promotion of fanatical idealogy? As a matter of fact, in case you have not taken notice, there are more news headlines and opinion pieces coming out of Israel with Iran-hating agenda than other way around.
So i guess chelo kabab must be popular in Israel too!
The walk out very likely to have been planned in advance
by khaleh mosheh on Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:10 PM PDTThe thesis for attacking Iraq was that it was ruled by a megalomaniac who was developing weapons of mass destruction.
The same disinformation campaign is being orchestrated against Iran. What has prevented Iran from being attacked is that the dire global economic situation will get worse and the war once ignited will last for generation and sane people can see that.
Although I must say a very professional job has been done of casting this fellow Ahmadinejad and the Iranian endeavours for acquiring nuclear energy as the root cause of the situation which is evidently not the case.
That is too much emphasis on one issue
by KouroshS (not verified) on Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:23 AM PDTLance.
You are going on a tangent here, and You are making such a big deal out of this one minute and insignificant issue, that it pretty much resembles a personal attack or rather an invalid criticism. it really is not for you or anyone else for that matter to pass judgements on someone else's english writing skills and making recommendations on how they can improve them.
Virtually everyone on this site had made such errors in one way or another, even the ones with english as their native tongue.
Not being able to speak or write fluently, does not in any way or form change the LOGIC of the point one is trying to get across.
Kashani
by capt_ayhab on Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:14 AM PDTDude keep up with the news. The only country that has been instigators of all the blood shed in past 60 years been freedom loving[not], democratic[not]Israel.
Not that Ahmadinejad is an angel but face the music, Israel is by far 100 time worse than even Nazi Germany.
Reading is fundamental dude.
-YT
by the way
by David ET on Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:19 AM PDTthe day before at the opening of geneva human rights summit :
newswire:
Iranian-Canadian human rights activist Nazanin Afshin-Jam of the Iran-focused campaign Stop Child Executions said that when Ahmadinejad prepares to speak, representatives of countries that believe in freedom and democracy should stand up, in solidarity with the people of Iran, and walk out.
What a shame!
by DJ444 (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:27 PM PDTIt is a shame that we have such a stupid president! Israel has every right to defend itself from enemies like this "AHMAGH". Do we really need another government like what we have in Iran in the region? Shame on you Iranians who defend this idiot. Last time I checked it was Arabs (Iraqis, Sadam, and Palastinians) who wanted to invade Iran and rape and kill Iranians not Israel. Hopefully one day Iran and Israel will be allies and will set the score straight with these Arabs. I am looking forward to that day.
IRI is obssesed with the
by liver (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 07:49 PM PDTIRI is obssesed with the Jews:
//www.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory/?NewsId=44607...
Shadow of the paper tiger in front of the lamp!
by The Fly (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 07:13 PM PDTIf an alien read the comments here, they would think that IRI must be some intergalactic death star, and Ahmadinejad a formidable titan! We must be so conditioned that the slightest gesture from the West is enough to make us loose sight of reality.
The reason why IRI is still there or that it's lead by someone like Ahmadinejad, has nothing to do with any plausible strength of IRI or any plausible craft of Ahmadinejad. It has to do with us, Iranians. Simply put, there is NO opposition. Most Iranians either don't care or if they opine on the subject, they have three different opinions at once, and think themselves Napoleon, Gandhi, and Cyrus resurrected as one. If others' problem is that there is no one to lead, ours must be that there is no one to follow!
Who do we have to replace (in the very probable event of self-decay) or force to replace the IRI? The reformists!? Well their main problem is that they want the Islamic as well as the Republic in the Islamic Republic of Iran. And as history, recent and ancient, clearly has demonstrated, those two are like oil and water. They don't mix. It's a lost cause.
The diaspora!? Well, we have the MKO, existing in a delusional state. Unless they manage to ride into Tehran at the back of a very large army, the best they could hope for is to be shot instead of torn limb from limb. I'm not sure if that's just or not, but that seems to be what you get when you side with an army invading your homeland. We have the monarchist, well-fossilized in layers of decrepit nostalgia. They don't want to move Iran forward. They just want to turn the clock back to pre-1979, ignoring all reality and history. It should also be added that in light of the casualties suffered by Iraqis both of these groups are eager to achieve their objective, EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF A US INVASION, OR ARIAL BOMBARDMENT. That should be a red flag to the rest of us. So, who do we have?
IRI is nothing but a paper tiger, and we waste our efforts discussing the shadow cast from it by the light of Western media. When we care enough and want it badly enough, we'll be rid of it. And the truth is we don't. Incidentally, if we are really serious, we should shift the momentum in Iran. The solution is in Iran, not Washington or London or UN etc. And the easiest way to do that is to improve the lives of Iranians. Instead, we consider rather seriously boycotting and isolating IRI, as if three decades of near isolation has been fruitful! This is madness people, genuine stupidity. If you care enough and have the time and money, find a way to invest in Iran in ways that would improve the lives of Iranians, as difficult as it may be. Otherwise, as the proverb goes "SHOTOR DAR KHAB BINAD PANBEH DANEH, GAHI LOF LOF KHORAD, GAH DANEH DANEH!"
The king of exagerators is here!
by Anonym7 (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 06:58 PM PDTKashani says: "That’s why Israel is mentioned by them 1 trillion times a day. "
Your majesty! Did you eat too much chelow kabab, and drank too many glasses of that good cognac in your AIPAC gathering again?
This is exactly how this
by Farhad Kashani on Tue Apr 21, 2009 05:57 PM PDTThis is exactly how this Fascist regime and its cronies need to be treated, total denunciation, total isolation, and total boycott. The world needs to counter its propaganda and that is exactly what they did in Geneva. Great job.
While this regime is responsible for one, if not the, biggest violations of human rights against its own people, when it’s the main source of promotion of Fundamentalism and Islamic terrorism, when it does nothing but cause chaos and clash of civilization, it does not deserve any respect or any recognition. It uses the anti Israeli agenda to gain supporters among young Muslims in order to, through them, further its fundamentalism agenda in the region and the world. That’s why Israel is mentioned by them 1 trillion times a day.
This is a slim hope that the world has finally waken up,
Roshanbeen
by Kaveh Nouraee on Tue Apr 21, 2009 03:14 PM PDTI don't spend time listening to Michael Savage or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. I don't follow anyone. I go my own way. People are free to follow me if they choose, but I don't follow others. Whatever successes or failures I encounter in my life, I can only hold myself accountable.
I don't look to create scapegoats out of various ethnic or religious groups. People who do that invariably are people who lack character, values, self-respect and dignity.
As to the IR dislocating a nation, shall we start with Iran itself? Or since you are so enraptured with the Palestinians, shall we start with them?
Let's see: Although not an active belligerent engaged in combat with IDF forces, the IR is a belligerent by proxy, having financed and supllied the various groups who are engaged in launching rockets into Israel, committing acts of terror and so forth. It is the IR, who by virtue of their open checkbook for Hamas and Hezbollah who places men women and children in harm's way.
If you wish to understand the Constitution, I highly recommend that you read that amazing document. When you do, you might find your current thinking to be contradictory.
Rescue Iran and Iranians please.........
by Reza-Rio de Janeiro on Tue Apr 21, 2009 03:09 PM PDTFinal Reminder to all Iranians and Non- Iranians around the globe!!!
Here is what every single Human being and especially every single Iranian regardless of his/her Religion, Race and Political affliations and views must first consider, hopefully accept and practice NOW and forever from this point on:
GOOD THOUGHTS, GOOD WORDS AND GOOD ACTIONS (DEEDS). Please see code of Ethics in the link below:
//books.google.com/books?id=dLO2bF3e57gC&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=iRANIAN+GOOD+tHOUGHTS,+WORD+AND+ACTION&source=bl&ots=iWtIj0jT8x&sig=Ym5XCK9OQliXxfz0gFic6yJhvRE
In
addition, we must still believe and be very proud of the FIRST DECLARATION OF
ALL HUMAN RIGHTS FROM OUR FIRST FOUNDER OF OUR CIVILIZATION AND COUNTRY, CYRUS THE GREAT :
//www.vohuman.org/Article/The%20First%20Declaration%20of%20Human%20Rights.htm
Respect, Love and Peace...
خر و پالون
Shazde Asdola MirzaTue Apr 21, 2009 02:34 PM PDT
احمقی خر داشت پالانش نبود
چونکه پالان یافت، رندی خر ربود
خویش را سرور و سر بالا بداشت
لیک مردی بر سرش پشکل گذاشت
با امامان زمان هم رزم بود
حیف گاوی در برش سرهنگ بود
دور سر هاله به کیوان داشتی
در نیویورک و به تهران داشتی
انتقاد از دولت آمریک داشت
بهر اسرائیل جیک و پیک داشت
مولا نصرالدین بیامد در برش
رید از سر تا به پای انترش
گفت،ای جانی ز تو خونخوار تر
از فقیه ات بدتر و بیمار تر
هیچکس در این جهان پیدا نشد
هیچ گرگی بدتر از آخوند حزبلا نشد!
Lets boycott hate mongers
by Bavafa on Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:48 AM PDTThere are undoubtedly a few (Fed, Zion, etc) actually both sides that always try to hijack the real subject and try to create an atmosphere to detract the debate by resorting to name calling and other hateful methods to distort the subject. Unfortunately a few will fall into their traps and soon we will see the subject has changed, "divide and rule", right?
My suggestion is to boycott their posting by not responding/ engaging with them at all. 'Javabe ablahan, khmoshist'
Mehrdad
Molah Nasserdin: I must
by shameoniri (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:57 AM PDTMolah Nasserdin: I must admit you're pretty creative when it comes to manufacturing propaganda.
I'm not sure if you're Iranian, you sound like a hardcore militant Palestinian to me who is more concerned for the welfare than Iranians.
If you think enemy making for Iran and Iranians in the long run is not going to be retaliated, then you've got another thing coming. He has endangered the livelihood of entire nation of Iran.
Ahamdinejad as a diplomat should first and foremost think about the national security of his nation and its citizens. As it stands right now, Ahamdinejad is being irresponsible in his duties. Don't cry victim when other countries start to retaliate and stand up against this hypocritical bravado.
Remember you contributed to this hate fest. You will like the consequences of your actions.
I hear all this criticism of
by jane doe (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:44 AM PDTI hear all this criticism of the European countries walking out. Well, wouldn't all the Muslim countries have walked out if the Danish "Mohammad Cartoon" artist had taken to the podium and was beginning to speak honestly about the stranglehold political Islam holds on the world? Political Islam IS facism- which religion is it NOT fighting with? Where is it NOT in conflict? Whether they are a majority, minority, or immigants there is ALWAYS violence and discord. And of course in the later two cases they are always unfairly branded the victim, even when it is brutually honest they are the perpertrators of bigotry and intollerence. Why in God's name isn't talk like this taking place at the UN?
The Muslim countries would do worse than just walk out. People should be praising the European deligates for protesting PEACEFULLY, we sure as hell don't see that when Muslims are offended!
Mort Gilani---DAMET GARM MULLA
by Rabbi on Tue Apr 21, 2009 09:16 AM PDTYour comment is not very bright and shows your level of understanding,
What's democratic? Let me explain something to you and your weird kinds:
If a country ACTS European, but tortures, kills and discriminate all who are against their roots, against their RELIGIOUS regime, IS that democratic to you Gilani?
Am I talking about Iran or Israel? You figure it out. You need to use that brain once in while at least, it's not that bad to think.
At least Iran is a government inside the country. I don't like many things about Iran but as some ignorant individual had said before, I support Iran 100% !! It's a matter of Iran and her region vs. Bastards and occupiers. I take the first, thank you very much.
Mola, Do You Know Who You are Fooling?
by Kaveh Nouraee on Tue Apr 21, 2009 09:12 AM PDTWith the possible exception of yourself, nobody.
The Zionist occupation of Palestine has endangered my economical and political security.
Aside from being extremely pretentious, you're stating that you hold Jews responsible for: A) your current bank balance, and B) influencing your political leanings and forcing you to vote a certain way.
What part of your economic and political circumstances do you take responsibility for?
Hundreds of millions of Moslems have turned against this country?
No, those who have turned against this country are a fringe element, a fraction of the Moslem population in the world. Just because a small percentage of ignorant people who call themselves Moslem hate Jewish people doesn't mean that all Moslems hate Jewish people, or blame any shortfalls in their lives on the Jewish people.
Zionist Jews such as yourself have manipulated the American political system and have pushed us to support the crimes of Israel against our better judgement.
Since when am I a Zionist or Jewish? Assumptions like that are symptomatic of the profound ignorance people like you cling to like a child clings to a blanket.
Jews manipulated the political system? You mean the way Joseph P. Kennedy bought the presidency for his 2nd eldest son in 1960?
Wow, to think, all this time we were misled into believing the Kennedys were Catholic. Thank you for saving the rest of us from falling into that trap any further. You have singlehandedly set back the Jewish agenda a full five minutes.
Zionist Jews have manipulated our American system to send more than 150 billion dollars over the last 25 years to this illegal regime while creating enemies for us left and right. The money that could have been used to create jobs, housing and economic oppurtunities here in the United States.
The role of government is not to create jobs, or housing or economic opportunities. That is the role of the private sector. If you made this country your home for most of your life, you might want to consider learning about its history, the principles this country was founded upon and the capitalist system.
I'm concerned for the safety of the new Iranian American generation who is under constant anti-Iranian, anti-Muslim, anti-Middle Eastern propaganda by Zionist Jews in Hollywood and other centers of power.
No doubt they are all able to sleep like babies at night knowing you are there to protect them from the kosher evil that lurks behind the walls at Paramount Studios, or the hook-nosed boogeyman at Warner Brothers.
Are you really concerned for those Palestinian kids? Why don't you sponsor a Palestinian family and get them out of there, and have them come to the U.S. and live with you?
As to who is blind, it is you, Mola. For you have shown yourself to be so blinded by your hatred of Jewish people, using old sterotypes about Hollywood and financial power as "logic". It is no different than the negative sterotypes that have developed about Middle Eastern people, such as all of them being terrorists.
You use the word "Jew" as though you are uttering an obscenity.
That only shows that you are the one who is truly obscene.
Lance Raheem & Zebel
by GuessWho... (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 09:07 AM PDTMr. Zebel, just because some people don't have the ability to battle peer pressure or the brainwashed majority, which you happen to side with, it doesn't mean they are terrorits or the west is the saint that's here to save the world.
And LanceRaheem, You use the word "Aficionandos",
yet you are totally ambivlient to the fact that Israel is the epicenter for the hawkish west to practice its expansionism, while Palestine is the epicenter for that region to protect itself against the hawks advancement into their land, resources and way of life.
We are a hawkish nation here in the west, and our leaders want to rule the world for the benefit of their own pockets. They use even the american tax payers livelihood to feed their greed.
Maybe Mahmood is not a great public speaker or rambles on according to western speaking standards, but the fact is Ahamdinejad is a hero for standing against the hawkish world in favor of protecting what's his. And thoes who walked out on this meeting did so for political reasons designed to rally the naive and nothing else.
Mola- Nasredeen
by Roshanbeen (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 09:06 AM PDTYou said it the best. Mola Nasredeen is truly a wise man.
Mr. Kaveh and the like must stop listening to saveges like Micheal Savage, Shawn Hanity , Raush Limbaugh and ....who have made a fortune of bashing Moslems , Iranians, Arabs. Mr Kaveh and his friends should think independently, instead of wasting his time listening to hollywood entertainers.
He should ask himeself when was the last time IRI dislocated the whole nation and periodically kills and mames women and children with the blessing of so called world most advanced governments.
When was the last time IRI attacked another country killed and injured 1 million of it's citizens and displaced 5 million of the population, all that under wrong pretence against morality and UNITED NATIONS chater.
The point is these policies are not true American. This country and it's constitution has been taken from Americans. I am as worry as you are about the future.
Arab Prayer
by Nifky (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 09:00 AM PDTWHat really annoys me is the prayer he says before his speech. It doesn't even bother me that he says a prayer, but SAY IT IN FARSI if you're going to say it.
He is entitled to his belief, and he can be a hypocrite if he wants. It is a fact that countries have double standards and hypocritical stances.
But why does he have to say an arabic prayer? Can't he say it in Farsi what ever he is saying?
Mort Gilani
by capt_ayhab on Tue Apr 21, 2009 08:10 AM PDTYou say[It is funny that in the backward Islamist heads, democratic Israel..........]
Where have been hiding in past few years? Democracy and Israel?
Nice joke for a Tuesday morning. Thanks
-YT
Anonymous8
by capt_ayhab on Tue Apr 21, 2009 08:02 AM PDTDear sir, six or half a dozen, no difference in my book.
You may call imprisonment and killings of Baha'is, gays and women religious intolerance and what nots, I would call it criminal racism.
Is Israel racist ? against same Arab nationals that Jews are of? then according to your definition Israel is not racist since they are of same ethnic background.
Is that what you are implying?
Truth is you see no fault in IR regime, it is your choice to support whomever you desire, but let see the truth as it is. 30 years of relentless suppression of every single minorities by this regime.
-YT
The emperor has no clothes
by Alborzi (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 07:34 AM PDTIts just antisemitic to point to genocide and apartheid practiced by Israel. Cheers for daring to say so. Everyone knows it too. The attacks here seem all to be on Ahmadinejad and or IRI not the defending genocide and apartheid.
you exaggerate Zebel 20!
by Anonym7 (not verified) on Tue Apr 21, 2009 05:45 AM PDTMany of us here are very well aware of disastrous policies of extremist Israeli lobby (AIPAC...), but as others have told you, you are exaggerating. In fact your exaggerations and lies remind of some pro Israeli extremists in this site (e.g., Mr. Kashani) who demonize Iran.
To Zebel 20
by LanceRaheem on Tue Apr 21, 2009 04:06 AM PDTI wasn't making a personal attack. I was trying to in the kindest way that I knew how to give you a heads-up that your English writing skills are such that no one "gets a gist of the point." I'm sorry that you took it as undue criticism. I was only trying to give you the motivation to go back to your English classes so that one day you could possibly aspire to write something we could understand. It might do both yourself and us a favor if you simply expressed your ideas in Farsi. I am not trying to be mean-spirited, but you can't expect people to take your opinions seriously if you can't express yourself well. Don't get discouraged; there is hope for you, for millions of Iranians in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, and, yes, in Iran have mastered the English langauge. If you keep trying, one day we might be able to get "a gist of the point." If that day ever arrives, you will, I'm sure, be able to present your arguements both logically and fluently.
Peace
thank you so much for the
by zebel20 on Tue Apr 21, 2009 03:39 AM PDTthank you so much for the personal attack.
as long as everyone gets a gist of the point i was trying to make, gives me enough satisfaction to get by. anyhow the point was, dont be a sell out.
I hope this is fluent enough
To Zebel 20
by LanceRaheem on Tue Apr 21, 2009 02:53 AM PDTWhat kind of opium are you smokin' dude? Perhaps, you would make more sense if you wrote in Persian. I certainly can't be the first person to have told you that your English writing skills are so bad that no one can figure out WTF you're trying to say. Either give the opium pipe a break or give us one by writing in Farsi. I'm sorry to be the one to have to break it to you, but in all honesty, your English sucks to such a degree that it impairs your abliltiy to carry on a cogent conversation!
Live long a proper!
The matter of fact that the
by zebel20 on Tue Apr 21, 2009 02:33 AM PDTThe matter of fact that the majority of Iranians living in the west, if they are approach they say, yeah ahmadinejad is crazy, we are not like them, we are like you. So ironic to see how much power they have on the media that no one never mind the Iranians mention the fact that you put the Zionist regime in power by the use of military force, and sold theses illegal county arms including nuclear weapons, so who are you calling us IRANIANS TERRORIST. You are terrorist,. You commit murder
zebel
by Q on Tue Apr 21, 2009 02:15 AM PDTThe english denied these Zionist entry to england for over 300 years,
Yes, they were horrible bigoted imperialists.
Nepolean went to war against these Zionists to get back the control of
there country’s money and assets,
I sincerely doubt this.
abrahim lincon was assassinated for
not allowing these Zionists to take control of america’s money.
This is not true and is in fact a preposterous proposition and conspiracy theory. The rest of your post is blatently nonsense and conspiratorial.
Just so you know, you are making it more difficult to have a rational discussion about Israel's actions from irrational anti-semetism. We're not interested in the latter.
Incidently this is exactly what Zionist "greater Israel" zealots want: to destroy the difference between Jews and Israeli colonial policy. You are helping them with this drivel.