TREASURE

Vildemose,

Stop sounding like an emotional wreck please.

I did read Samsam " brilliant " response. I am actually glad to see he has distinguished between Ahmadinejad camp and the other camp in IR. This is a new developement in his political ideas along with accepting Ahmadinejad ( Mashaie ) as a " catalyst ". He still calls everyone else who doesn't share his ideology "tokhmeh quadesieh " , which i suspect brings tears of joys to your eyes when you see it.

Why are you stubbornly emphasizing your position when all evidences points to the opposite of what you are saying?

No Fear

Nothing short of Ahmadinejad's trial and execution will change Iran. He will do a tremendous job by taking his own life and leaving a suicide note apologisng to the people of Iran that he was ever born in the first place. Ahmadinejad is not ape but a fould sub-specie of a rodent masquerading as a human.

کوروش جان، لطفآ بیدار شو که ایران حسابی تو ا.ن. فرو رفته !

Nationalism is the last refuge for tricksters ~ Palmer Stone

NF: why do you think you deserve a-valid anything??? You endorse

blood-thristy tyranny of your paymasters, don't dare speak of "validity"...

Read samsam IIII brilliant response. May all the Tokhmeh Quadesieh vanish from Iranzamin.

Vildemose,

You are killing the message because of the messenger.

Ahmadinejad is a goner in less than three years. But he is doing a tremendous job at changing the political and social norm in Iran. Did you rather see an akhound graduated from houze elmiyeh with a nice smile holding the cylinder or a president who is an university graduate?

Calling him an ape or stating he talks to imam zaman is not a valid arguement to oppose him. Even speculating he is afraid of the " rise of Nationalism " is another ill and weak arguement. You are talking about a president with the entire sepah as his backers.

Ahmadinejad doesn't have a problem with me or you or ordinary people in Iran. His problem are with those who are a lot stronger than your nationalistic movement in Iran.

@ Harpi Re Charlton Heston

Hey, Mahmood didn't quite evolve into an ape but he is a missing link.

AO jaan, my twin :), as the saying goes ;

"Adoo(Doshman) shavad sabab(abzaar) Khair(sood va bakht) gar khoda khahad".

You must be reading my mind.

Now that it has happened,this charade will bite em in the a*$ since they have no clue what they have initiated ;::)) which is a good thing. Even a fake Cyrus with Arabo-Qadessi Chaffieh is better than none. 

Eventhough my position is well known yet just like you my kiaani bro I repeat what I pointed out a year & a half ago that Iran needs a kiaani catalyst (a cultural shock & awe) to inject that 1st seed of quest for self identity to the masses who have been deprived of it for 30 yrs. I even suggested to mass drop a million posters of beloved Cyrus & kaviaani drafsh inside Iran during uprising & a lotta folks including some on this thread ridiculed me. May be IRI promo folks been reading folks like us & trying to steal the show before the big kiaani tide coming ;) and dress , address & define Kiaani icons in an Arabized version but the genie is outta the box & there is no turning back now. Since there is no greater force than the force of an idea that its time has come & that idea my brother is message of Kiaan.

We just needed that first catalyst seed  to question, to inquire, to search & to discover  & we got it. Just think of that 15 yr old looking at Cyrus(bbhs) & asking his dad "tell me more about him & old Iran". Its going to spoil the intended fake show in the long run.

Cheers pal!!!

btw* there is a third wave of smarter cookies that is breeding under current & under radar inside Qadessi regime with folks like Mashaii & his well connected gang(unlike banni Abbass es-haalchi crowd). These are worldly half ommatie technocrats who have just realized that without kiaani glue their khallifate shall not survive so now they are introducing an ommatie Cyrus to appease to tokhmeh qadess fanatics on one side & a nation hungry for identity on the other. A juggling act nevertheless that as Iranian history has shown shall bring about the victory of kiaan at the end. So for now let em call him Al Cyrus ibn al Cambyses but time will tell.

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

NF: do you really think AN

NF: do you really think AN cares about Iran's pre-Islamic heritage?? He talks to Imam Mahdi for god sake? He is doing this because the regime's analyists have warned him about the rise of nationalism in Iran and the opportunistic zaloo that he is, he simply is trying to gain the upper hand and frame the  issue by wrapping  himself around the Cylinder or Cyrus to muddy the waters.

But true Iranians see right through his shenanigans. He does not realize that he is only exposing his ghetto mentality.

Vildemose,

What ahmadinejad is doing ( and has done before ) has never been encouraged or supported by the religious ruling class in Iran. Infact, they are furious about it.

Less than a month ago, Ahmadinejad first deputy minister , mashaie, talked about the " religion of Iran " in oppose to the traditional definition of Islam. And now they followed that with paying their respect to Koroush's past.

At the very least, isn't this a huge step to break the taboo of " all persian kings are bad "?  Isn't this acknowledging the great pre islamic era? 

Once a president OPENLY and PUBLICLY defends this pre historic past, it will be hard for any hardliners to continue with their distortion and disrespect of our great past.

Thanks AO

for being the voice of reason. Let us all remember that AN and the rest of the IRI are also Iranians and have as much share in the glories of Cyrus as the rest of the nation. They may be evil but they are Iranians. I also hope that the arrival of the cylinder and the focus on Iran's pre Islamic history (which is far more glorious than the Islamic one) allows people to reconnect to a proud history and a culture that was far more advanced than the backward culture that replaced it.

As background information, the lending of the Cyrus cylinder, if I am correct, has been discussed for over 2 years now. As part of that deal Iranian museum has also lent a number of its artefacts to the British Museum including the Shah Abbas's famous sword for an exhibition about Safavids in the British Museum. Such exhibitions are extremely important in promoting the reach culture of Iran. The BM either way had no choice but to honour its part of the deal.

Another grotesque PR stunt

Another grotesque PR stunt by the Islamic republic of rapists.

This is what the head butcher of IRI had to say about the Persepolis a while back. The speech was posted on ISNA but it has been removed since.

The leader of Islamic Republic of Iran, on Wednesday morning and during a gathering with Fars province’s governor and authorities declared that Persepolis or Takht-e-Jamshid is the symbol of tyranny and that it belongs to Iran’s pre Islamic Revolution’s tyrannical rulers and it’s merely a symbol of despotism of the past and it’s a throne of hatred for all true Iranian Moslems who will have to gaze upon its site!

 If at any point there were any doubts about Islamic Republic’s disdain for Iranians, their culture and their heritage, this should now be adequate proof.Additionally, Khamenei said that the achievements, art and literature of Iran only came to matter after the advent of Islam and Iranians' conversion to the good religion!"

ISNA has removed the article since.

The hyprocrisy is breathtaking.

Good job, Ahmadinejad,...

Good job, Ahmadinejad, with all the "talk" about justice and human rights while viewing the Cyrus Cylinder.

You should make your apparent hero, Joseph Goebbels, very proud.

Historical Lovers???

Had any other "King" done the same thing, would not he had been labeled as “Kafir”, “Rock Worshipper”, “Idolatrous”, “Pharaoh”, “Schizophrenic” and “Mohareb” by Khomeini’s followers?? Has not the history of the world been drafted on a “sphere” & not on a “cylinder???”

Planet of the Apes ...

In the immortal words of Charlton Heston in that movie, I'd like to say to Dr. AN:

"Get your damned stinking paws off my Cylinder you Filthy Ape"

Payandeh Iran, our Ahuraie Fatherland

To the haters ...

Try looking at this developement as a positive sign in Iran. As AO already mentioned, this will open more debate about Iran's glorious past.

I have said this before, support the action not the personalities. Besides, Kourosh belongs to all of us, not just a few who don't even live in Iran. The symbolic gesture of Basij and Kourosh combined together is very telling. Basij is no longer about a religious ideology that must be defended. Nationalism must go hand in hand with religion in this new outlook. Would it work?  maybe yes, maybe No, but its a right step in the right direction.

thank 'god' for AO

an iranian has managed to get the cylinder back to iran for a while. many people in iran will be thrilled to visit it. it may even give a positive jolt to the reform movement. after all, it is seen as a monument to human rights. so it is a positive event for all involved,

other than for american freaks. simorgh has flown so high he has ended up in orbit! he has a direct line to cyrus and that is that. right out of this world.

Merci simorgh..

ya khoda...

"the freak show has begun :) "

Yes, and you are the main exhibit :)

But I do have some sympathy for the islamist regime goons here. I mean if there is sod all to show for the past 31 years, why not go back 2500 years to find something to talk about?

This is good

Despite the fact that I do not like to see the Cyrus Cylinder in the hands of these anti-Iran Neanderthals, it's good that the cylinder is back in Iran.  After 31 years of anti-Iran propaganda, it will provide an opportunity for discussing Iran's pre-Islam history inside Iran.

What an insult

What an insult to the sprit of Cyrus the great and sprit of true Iran, when you have piece of scum like him and his assoicates unveling this. Folks we have fallen so low that we no longer can tell wrong from right any more....

Hamsade jan...

Akh nagoo baradar.

Too painful everytime you read about them and reminded of the actual situation where it happens. Can anyone ever imagine what goes through the minds of the victims and their loved ones:(((((((((

Comrade

You see how "real Iranians" are chasing you around this site man?
Don't give them any excuses now. Let them bask in their Iranianity!

Good one.

the cyrus cylinder should

the cyrus cylinder should be shown in a museum with pictures of human rights abuses that goes on in the world such as stoning of women buried up to their chest, stoning of men up to their waist, hanging children simultaneously from cranes, hanging adults simultaneously from cranes, amputations, gouging of eyes, state-sanctioned rape, holocaust, genocides, summary executions without trial, ....

Niloofar Parsi & The "No Fear" Sargord Pyrus

No cylider of any kind/size & of any content will ever bring the splendor/prosperity back to a corrupt nation as no "one pretty eye" could ever hide one's true character.

Oh, Cyrus, do not awake

Do not awake! We are asleep! Plunged into a nightmare where an alien entity is occupying your once beautiful kingdom for the sins of our fathers. 

On the raods of your kingdom we see banners and posters eulogising names of Arabs such as 'Hossein, 'Ali' and 'Reza' - while there has never been a single commemmoration in your honour during the last thirty years.

Stay asleep, oh Cyrus! Do not wake up! Please forgive the stupidity of the past generation and pray for our salvation.  Rid us of these hords of rapists and murderers. 

Oh, Cyrus, do not awake! 

Sickening

I experienced a volley of emotions seeing these pictures; from sickness to sadness to the point of crying seeing Ahmadinejad's ugly face towering over this national treasure. Iran is the rightful owner of the cylinder but it should not be given to an anti-Iranian government whose criminal enforcer Sadegh  Khalkhali tried to demolish Persepolis with bulldozers.

Please protest to Neil McGrego, the current director ofthe British Museum for his most irrespnsible decision:

Neil McGregor 

British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B
3DG

splendid reception

Good photos from FARS, too. They seem to have the best photographers.

beautiful

zende bad iran!

just as expected

the freak show has begun :)