Thursday, May 22, 2008
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Published: Thursday, May 22, 2008
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In his Weblog “Bachehaye Sewvom-e Teer” [Children of June 24, a reference to the day that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president three years ago] , Hossein Fotouhi references [former president] Seyyed Mohammad Khatami’s speech announcing his retirement from politics. He sees this as a sign of decisive victory for Iran’s Principle-ists and a defeat for Iran’s Reform movement, and is of the opinion that “Mohammad Khatami’s political life ended years ago”:
“…would it not have been better if Mohammad Khatami had shown the same wisdom a few years ago, when clear signs of the collapse of the shaky Reform movement and people’s disenchantment with this unholy creature became obvious? And he could have spared the peoples’ pocket all the expense associated with founding useless institutions such as Baran [Rain], taking all those international trips full of wordy speeches and Hadith [sayings attributed to the prophet of Islam] which had to do with issues beneath the character of a cleric (read pseudo-cleric), and taking all those publicity tours to different provinces, and….
Despite all this, experience shows that one cannot trust the words of those who claim to be Reformists and put so much stock in their words. The personal characteristics of members of this group are such that even if they believe there is the slightest chance, a chance so small it would be the size of pinhead, that people would show them a friendly face in future elections, they would enter the arena again without hesitation.
The last point is that there is a lot to say on this subject and there is little time, but one can only hope that the known and unknown leaders belonging to the movement described above would approach the wisdom of Khatami and realize the fact that the castle of their mind, built of hay, has collapsed. And the Reform movement of today is nothing but a putrid corpse. Reforms are dead…”
Thursday, May 22, 2008
http://3tirchildren.blogfa.com/post-118.aspx
The writer of the blog “from Los Angeles to Qazvin”, at the beginning of the Eights Majlis elections (which happened a while ago [on March 14]), posted a blog which was worthy of consideration at the time of posting; But now too, due to different circumstances, is worth rereading. These [circumstances] include, high prices, the growing problem of housing and the announcement that the Islamic Guidance Ministry has increased spot-checks in the streets (to control what people are wearing); on these issues the blogger writes:
“If the prices of property and rent increases threefold in a jiffy, we should only… wag our fingers; if the pressures of rising prices are crushing the people and some dear person says with a smile, ‘well come and shop in my neighborhood;’ if the vehicles of the Islamic Guidance Ministry outnumber the taxis and buses on the road and are helping transport passengers; if we are forcing down the sweet victory of [demanding] our nuclear right with a helping of poisonous sanctions; if reaching the height of our foreign policy is auctioning off the Caspian Sea and participating in the “summit of the governments of the Arab Gulf; and if and if and if….given the state of unfair elections today, maybe we will not remedy any of our misfortunes by voting for Reformists, but it’s better than sitting back and looking at a bulldozer that is forcefully transforming Iran into the ruins of the Middle Ages.”
http://khare3005.persianblog.ir/post/226
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