Iranian of the Day

Video: Hamid Soryan (Greco-Roman, 55kg) Qtr Final Match, Olympic

His Quarter Final match with his opponent "Peter Modos" of Hungary starts at 025:47

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P.S. Thanks for your updates Faramarz ;)

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Yeah! So aim for the gold, silver is assured!

2nd medal will move Iran up 10 notches on the medal count chart!

Sourian Makes it to the Greco Roman Final

This morning, Iran’s 55 Kg Greco Roman wrestler Hamid Mohammad Sourian Reihanpour beat his Danish opponent in the semifinal and made it to the final against Byramov of Azerbaijan.

The female ref (!) for Sourian’s semifinal match was Frenchwoman Regine Legleut who shook hands with Sourian a couple of times and raised his hands at the end which I am sure did not go well with the Regime in Iran!

The final match is at 11:03 am (west coast) today.

The first Gold Medal is in sight!

//www.london2012.com/athlete/soryan-reihanpou...

Dear Yolanda and Oon Yaroo

Thank you Oon Yaroo and Yolanda. Olympics are so great!

We have Mahlagha and the Saudis have their first female judo competitor, Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani

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Paraguay has Leryn Franco, the champion Javelin thrower

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And the Dutch have their women's field hockey team

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No wonder we are where we are!

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Thank you, Faramarz, for the funny update! You can be a sportscaster!

I hope they can win some wrestling medals!

Thanks,

Faramarz Jaan!

Thanks for the quick report. No wonder you have been silent you must have been following the games. By the way, this Mahlagha Jombo-zorg looks like a Fatti Komando! Are you sure IRR hasn't dispatched its Basiji force to the Olympics?

Thanks again!

Iran on Day 7

Today 9 Iranian athletes were in action at the Olympics.

In Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions qualifications (that’s where you shoot from 50 meters away at 3 different targets) Ealaheh Ahmadi and Mahlagha Jambozorg (always be careful with women who are called Mahlagha, picture included below) didn’t do so well and got eliminated.

//www.london2012.com/athlete/jambozorg-mahlag...

In Women’s Single Scull Rowing, Soulmaz Abbasiazad finished in the 20’s, but managed to return safely to the shore!

In the Men’s Athletics 400 meter qualifications, Sajjad Hashemiahangari finished at 47.75 seconds and did not qualify for the semis on Sunday. Those who qualified ran in 44-45 seconds range.

Just imagine how much faster Sajjad could have been running if he was imagining that he was chasing a chicken or two!

In 100 meter qualifications, Reza Ghasemi clocked at 10.30 seconds and was eliminated. It is noteworthy that he was in the same heat as the English-Iranian-Moroccan Adam Gemili who qualified at 10.10 seconds. The photo finish picture below shows Reza at the 4th place and Adam at the 2nd place.

Give some credit to the Brits when it’s due.

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In Men’s 20 Km Race Walk Ebrahim Rahimian didn’t even finish the race.

You would think that Iranians are at least good at fast walking!

In Men’s Boxing, Mehdi Toloutbandpi (say what!) lost to a better opponent from Kazakhstan 19-10 while Ehsan Rouzbahani looked good against his Turkish opponent and beat him 18-12.

Great job Ehsan and on to the next round!

Finally, Saeed Mohammadpourkarkargh (say what!) finished 5th in Men’s 94 Kg weightlifting.

So far we have got one Bronze in weightlifting and one 6th place finish in Women’s Air Rifle.

The Iranian sports authorities have promised 200 gold coins for a gold medal, 150 for a silver, 100 for a bronze and a car for the 6th place athlete, but no chicken!

Maybe that's what's needed!

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Thank you, Faramarz, for the update!

I am glad that Rostami put Iran on the Olympic map! Now Iran tied #46 in the world in terms of number of medals!

//sports.yahoo.com/olympics/medals.html

Hopefully more medals are coming!

First Medal for Iran

On day 6, in 85 Kg Weightlifting, Iran's Kianoush Rostami (171 + 209 =380) finished third behind the Polish (174 + 211 =385) and Russian (175 + 210 =385)  weightlifters and got the Bronze medal.

Zendeh Baad Rostam!

//www.london2012.com/weightlifting/event/men-...

Earlier today, Sohrab Moradi of Iran got eliminated in the same weight division after failing in snatch.

Iran on Day 4

Last night in 64 Kg Boxing, Mehdi Toloutibandpi defeated his Spanish opponent 16-12 and advanced to the round of 16 against the Kazak champion on Saturday.

Later on today, Iran's Heavy weight boxer (91 Kg) and the flag bearer Ali Mazaheri will fight his Cuban opponent.

OK, we are good at "Kotak-kaari", so are the Cubans! We'll see.

Iran's cyclist, Alireza Haghi competed in 44 Km Time Trial and finished 36th out of 37. The Turkish guy who finished last was riding a tri-cycle, I heard!

In Archery, Milad Vaziri lost to his Mexican opponent 7-1 and was eliminated.

OK, please don't put an apple on your head if Milad is around! He is no William Tell!

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I am still waiting for Iran's 1st medal. At this point, Iran with the populaton of 70 million people has not won a single medal!

North Korea with the population of 25 million people has won 4 medals including 3 gold! Qatar with less than 2 million people has won one medal!

//sports.yahoo.com/olympics/medals.html

I hope the drought will end soon!

Wow

What a comprehensive and informative report.  your next assignment would be to be an embedded reported in the sexiest female swimming team... and we will see if you still maintain that focus and precision. if you can 't make it then we will just have to think of another career for you.

I wish the swimmer guy would have negotiated to gain those seconds he needed to advance. that would have certainly made the headlines. 

Iran on Day 3

Today in Rowing (single scull) quarter finals, both Iranian athletes Soulmaz Abbasizad and Mohsen Shadi Naghadeh finished dead last and were eliminated.

OK, we are not good at rowing. Let's try asymmetric speed boats in the Strait of Hurmoz instead!

In Men's 100 Meter Freestyle swimming, Mohammad Bidaryan finished his preliminary heat at 52.93 seconds and was eliminated. The best time was by an American swimmer at 48.19 seconds.

OK, we are not good at swimming either. Well, at least he finished the race!

In Women's Archery, Zahra Dehghanabnavi lost to her Mexican opponent 6-2 and was eliminated.

OK, we are not good at bows and arrows. Well, neither were the Cowboys against the Indians, but they came out ahead! 

Finally, later on today, in 64 Kg Boxing, Mehdi Toloutibandpi will go against this Spanish opponent.

Iran's Boxer Wins

Today, Iran's Light Heavyweight boxer (81 Kg) Ehsan Rouzbahani beat his Colombian opponent 12-10 and advanced to the round of 16 on Saturday against the Turkish opponent.

OK, we are good at fighting and boxing (kotak-kaari!)

Today, Iran's ping pong champion Noshad Alamiyan lost to his German opponent 4-0.

OK, we are good at ping pong only if it is for money (teeghee!)

S.K's question

"no innocent was ever killed under the Pahlavi regime? " Soosan Khanoom

Dear S.K,

Here we are talking about a monster flag that has a blood of our dear sister Neda on it. Are you able to see that?

  Here we are NOT judging Iran's history. Pahlavi regine is another story for another day.

Even if I go to jail, for thousand years I never carry that monster flag on my shoulder. Never,ever. That is commonly called "principal". Each individual has certain degree of "moral". 

Pluse I don't think those idiots who put us in this mess for 33 years are innocents. Correct word is "Khaen". so the question should be read as : no KHAEN was ever killed under the Pahlavi regime?

You go boy

Look at you all drooling and getting all excited. 

Tonight is the night man. Drop politices and the olympics and go to that bar in the corner of 8th and Brandon and lay those magical moves on the first hottie your eyeiranian eyes on.

Oh lord. Please hear our prayer tonight. We pray here so you will help Faramarz here find a hot, poundy and deliciois EEC (eastern euAmen.

 ropean chic) tonight. Amen. In the name of Jesus. 

Doctor Jaan

There is nothing like getting carried over the threshold by a strong, Eastern European bride!

Pound for pound, the best!

There you go.

Faramarz jan 

I think you have got your work cut out for you...

Sally over there looks kinda hot, throws all kinds of things.....athletic...well-built...knows what an iranian husband wants and demands...

Hey bro. Congrats:)))

An Interesting Iranian Female Olympian!

Among Iranian athletes in London is the shot putter Leila Rajabi. She was born Tatsiana Ilyushchanka on April, 18 1983 in Vitebsk, Belarus and is of Belarusian origin. She acquired Iranian nationality after marrying an Iranian athlete Peiman Rajabi.

Things we do for love!

Shot putting that is!

//www.payvand.com/news/09/feb/Leila-Rajabi2.j...

SK joonam There is an undeniable connection

Okay first of alll kido ...take your chador and wrap it around your waste, and pull your veil up, we need to talk!:)

Never say Never sweety. You can not claim that There definitely is no connection between these seemingly young and innocent-looking athlethes and the IRI. For one thing you and I simply don't know and could know and ARE NOT ALLOWED to know, of exactly what is going with these guys and the process of qualification. I am not trying to take anything away from their hard work and the fact that they really sweated it out and competed but when you deep down and start digging hard you are bound to find an amoo or dayee or khale...in some god damn sazman or organization At least for a couple of these kids who in addition to their hardwork put in a good word or two. Remember this sweetcheeks:) in this country you CAN NOT get far through HARDWORK alone. You need other necessary ingridients as well.

And i also concure with fesenjoon. Don't you think that the same regime and government which for various, arbitrary reasons chooses to qualify and determine who can participate in a political process, so as to make a statement and get a message across,  would apply the same strategy to the team of athletes who are about to set foot on an international arena? Any newbie, or anyone ke ghar karde az khoone khale or amme or as it is more common nowaday from his gf's home, can just walk right in and just sign that book and have a fair and square try at this baby? Dear. If you believe that you have got another thing coming... 

Bottomline, eeen deees country everything happens for a reason and more importantly because you know someone that can make something happen for you.  

Don't deny it. Think about it. absorb it. love it. sleep on it. and the get back to me with your conclusions.:) 

Athletes who refused to march under Islamist flag of Shame....

despite the hysterical reaction of one commenter here, lots of very high ranking Iranian athletes chose not to march under the islamist regime's shamefull flag of rape, toprture, murder and treason, and paid the price for it

This one is a good example.

of course there are.

A country of 75M is fully capable of producing a 1000 mere athletes. You underestimate Iranians SK.

Fesenjoonam khalee bandi nakoon please : )

Where are the thousands Olympic qualified ones who refuse to attend? I am not even sure we have hundred total Olympians in Iran yet alone thousands !!   

I am going to play tennis with a friend ( thank God no flag is needed to be carried   ) .. but I will try to be back later to read all the amusing comments here... 

talk to you later 

: ) 

"Shame on you zolfali ..."

soosan: what's the matter with you today? forgatten to take your medication or your mid day iftar?

LOL

and also

They DO have a choice. There are thousands of qualified athletes who have chosen not to represent The Islamic Republic of Iran in International games. They do have a choice. Just like you and me have a choice to support the Islamic Republic or not. 

Nader,

You are absolutely right and thanks for bringing it to our attentions.. 

" Third Olympic in a row he comments on politics and throws a zinger against Iran.  Not once has he mentioned anything related to sports when the Iranian delegation appears on camera ,"  

Well, Nader , why go that far just read some comments here !! 

wrong. It is NOT the flag of "Iran"

متن قانون اساسی جمهوری اسلامی ایران - اصل هجدهم فصل دوم: «پرچم رسمی ایران به رنگهای سبز و سفید و سرخ» یا علامت مخصوص جمهوری اسلامی شعار «الله اکبر» است. سرانجام در تاریخ ۱۹ اردیبهشت ۱۳۵۹ «علامت مخصوص جمهوری اسلامی ایران» به تنفیذ امام امت حضرت آیت‌الله العظمی "روح الله الموسوی الخمینی: رسید تا بعد به خون آغشته شود و با رنگ سرخ بر پرچم ایران بنشیند. این طرح بیان کننده محتوای حکومت اسلامی است. با تکیه بر این حقیقت که جمهوری اسلامی ایران حلقه واسطی است در راه حکومت جهانی و آرمانی اسلامی، این طرح بر مبنای کلمه الله طراحی شده‌است که مبداء و منتهای آفرینش است و در این ادامه هدف و غایت حکومت اسلامی (الی اله المصیر.....) انتخاب کلمه به عنوان مبنای طرح از آنجاست که میان محتوای کلام الهی با لحن و صوت شکل ظاهری آن ارتباطی پنهان وجود دارد. هلالی‌های این شکل از نقش مبارکی ریشه می‌گیرد که بارها حضرت محمد (ص) با شمشیر بر شنها ترسیم فرموده‌اند و بی شک باری از هدایت الهی در بر دارد (شکل ۱) پنج جزء تشکیل دهنده علامت که اگر به پنج اصل پایه دین برگردد اصل توحید را در حکم عمود و ساقه اصلی در میان دارند، گذشته از آنکه در ترکیب کلی خویش کلمه الله را بیان. می‌کنند عصاره‌ای از کلمه توحید یعنی لااله الااله را نیز در خود مستتر دارند خطوط هادی هلالی‌های طرح که در یک دایره محاط است با تداعی نصف النهارهای کره جهانی بودن دعوت اسلام را تجسم می‌بخشند. جزء قائم میانی - در ترکیب با شکل تشدید (ّ) که در خط فارسی و عربی نشانه شدت است شمشیر را تداعی می‌کند، قائم و ایستاده که خود نماد و قدرت و استحکام و ایستادگی است و این برداشتی تعبیری از کلمه «حدید» یا آهن است در کتاب اله (.... انزلنا «الحدید» فیه باس شدید) و ترکیب کاملا متقارن شکل بیانی از حالت تعادل و توازن که این نیز برداشتی تعبیری است از کلمه میزان در کتاب خدا (والسماء رفعها و وضع «المیزان»). و بجاست که همراه تمامی شهدای راه حق یادی نیز از معلم شهید شریعتی کنیم که می‌گفت»جامعه‌ای ایده آل بسازیم، جامعه‌ای که بر این سه پایه چنانکه در قرآن آمده‌است مستقر باشد، کتاب - ترازو - آهن (کتاب - میزان - حدید). و بالاخره بزرگترین و اصلی‌ترین ویژگی لازم و کافی ترکیب طرح همانا بیان کلمه الله‌است که خود هم قالب است و هم محتوی. و... «شعار الله اکبر» که تکرار می‌شود و تکرار از ویژگیهای شعار است این شعار یازده بار در رنگ سرخ و یازده بار در رنگ سبز یعنی بیست و دو بار تکرار می‌شود و این اشاره ایست به بیست و دوم بهمن (یازدهمین ماه سال). روزی که این شعار برای انقلاب اسلامی پیروزی آفرید. قالب راست گوشه خط نوشته «الله اکبر» یادی است از کوبندگی این شعار که براستی سلاحی بود پیروز در دست مجاهدان انقلاب اسلامی. و این همان خطی است (خط بنایی) که شعار الله اکبر را بر بلندای اذان و بر گنبدها و مناره‌های الله اکبر در مساجد اسلامی نقش می‌کرده و اکنون بر بلندای پرچم ایران نشسته‌است. تکرار این شعار در ترکیب کلی پرچم حاشیه هائیست که با اتصال به رنگ سفید پرچم دو رنگ سرخ و سبز را به هم پیوند می‌زند. که اگر سفید نشانه‌ای از توحید باشد - که سفید ترکیب و توحید همه رنگهاست - این رنگ متن سرخ پرچم را که نشانه خون و جهاد است به رنگ سبز که می‌تواند نمادی از آرمانهای والای اسلام باشد می‌پیوندد. و گوئی لاله «لااله الااله» در زمین الله اکبر و هم زیر آسمان الله اکبر روئیده‌است و.... این پیام شهیدان اسلام است.

Shirzadegan .....

True but answer me this :   Shouldn't this be the same with the lion thingy flag that you so proudly carry?   Or no innocent was ever killed under the Pahlavi regime?  

You guys have no logic. 

I am not athletes.....

I am way... from being athletic, but for thousand years I never carry a flag which has a blood of Neda, Sohrab, Taraneh..... and thousands other of my brothers and sisters on it. No way jose, In worst scenario, whatever happens to me I make myself ready for it. I am not better than those people who sacrified their lives for free Iran. Who the hell I am in compare to those DELAVARAN?

Payandeh IRAN

That is the current flag of Iran and they have no choice.

Besides these days it is hard to find a flag which is not a symbol of oppression..   I guess then this logic can easily be applied to many other young athletics who walked in the opening ceremony.   We should then call them all vatanforoush or worse than that oppressors to other nations. OF COURSE NOT... They are all  young kids who absolutely have nothing to do with their soulless politicians  in or outside of their countries.  I wish them all luck regardless.  I hope you see my points dear fesenjoon ...