tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8029569143393348400.post2548655145390325244..comments2023-05-15T15:23:34.307+03:30Comments on Persian Paradox: Green Movement in the City CouncilUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8029569143393348400.post-90879274218126179912009-07-31T00:32:54.499+04:302009-07-31T00:32:54.499+04:30I can't believe that Former president of this ...I can't believe that Former president of this country along with <br />Former Head of Department of Environment are ignored so vastly and can't do nothing .<br />30 years ago you took Americans hostage and the consequences were a demolishing war and lots of damage to this country.How come you say these things right now although you triggered it.<br /><br />I don't understand why these people can't see the truth.Are they brain washed.<br />Why should some young people pay the terrible price for what they didn't do? Their life is ruined.It's our all lives going to be ruined.<br />I can't understand this situation.<br /><br /><br />About the whole plot,<br />I think the Persian Paradox is right. <br /><br />hosseinghafoori.blogfa.comhttp://mastip.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04305901224083798417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8029569143393348400.post-29179745976342488932009-07-25T22:51:01.409+04:302009-07-25T22:51:01.409+04:30Three things that I've found very disappointin...Three things that I've found very disappointing about Iranian politics across the whole spectrum: <br /><br />1) Inability to explain the appeal of the other side. Very few people across the political spectrum (this goes for Mousavi and Ahmadinejad supporters) acknowledges that the other side has real popular support. It's rather that we represent the "real" Iranian nation so we close our eyes to the massive demonstrations and expressed support in favor of the other candidate. <br /><br />2) Both sides seems to want to claim a monopoly on the legacy of the revolution and want to claim the other side as deviant. When you do this, there is no room for dialogue, rather instead what you get is the ugly fanaticism and exaggerated claims that we've witnessed emerge over the last few months. Let's face it, there are intelligent righteous people who supported both candidates and other candidates too, and there are also pretty fanatical elements on both sides- this should be recognized. I'm not certain that the green movement has done a much better job in characterizing those whom they oppose in a realistic way. This website for instance gives no indication as to why people support Ahmadinejad, and the criticisms you offer here, though I imagine are definitely of some substance aren't put into the proper context, so they just falls into the hands of political opportunists and into the framework of the American neo-cons and the secular inevitability thesis. I live in Westwood, where the ex-pat Iranians there came out in protest against the Iranian government and in support of the green movement. This is what I mean by political opportunists. They came out in green, but also with Shahi flags and placards that said: "mag bar jumhuri Islami." These people don't really know Mousavi or support him, they just sense the political crisis and want to see things come down via Mousavi's opposition. <br /><br /> Are we to suppose that all those Iranians who support Ahmadinejad are backward, simpleminded, and deviant? One example, of this tendency is of course Mohsen Makmalbaf, who somehow became a spokesman for the "Green Movement." In an interview with an arabic news channel, he made the outlandish claim that ahmadinejad is a terrorist no different than osama bin laden, that the government is building nuclear weapons and aiming them at neighboring arab states. This is non-sense that is hardly different that the non-sense about the green movement being foreign interference plain and simple.mohammed.husainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06076547610042365002noreply@blogger.com