Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
* Blogging Politics
In a posting on his weblog, Kamangir, Arash commemorates 3 Tir (23 June) the anniversary of the inauguration of Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president. He seeks to answer some questions, posed by a pro-administration blogger apparently as a poll, which however are really designed to shed a positive light on the administration of Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in comparison with former presidents of the Islamic Republic. Kamangir draws on empirical evidences from the past three years. Here is some of it:
“Q: In your opinion why didn’t, [former presidents] Mohammad Khatami and Rafsanjani undertake regular and comprehensive provincial visits and in reality didn’t not penetrate depths of the deprived Iran?
“A [Kamangir]: Ahmadinejad is a powerful man. Let us remember that he is the man who speaks of [at the UN, being surrounded by a] ‘halo of light’ then denies having said such a thing and then again points to it in innuendos. He is a politician who claims that there had been a foiled plot to kidnap him during his recent visit to Iraq, and yet his administration does not follow up such phenomenon through international sources…
“Q: What lesson was given by 3 Tir to politicos, economists, political parties?
“A: … the phenomenon of 3 Tir showed how dangerous it could be to hand over complete control of a country over to a group of ignorant believers. It showed the supremacy of “the devoted” over “the specialist” and that suffocation of nongovernmental checks over the state could lead to the annihilation of a state and its people…
“Q: Why is it that despite all sabotage people still believe in Dr. Ahmadinejad’s honesty and think him as one of their own kind?
“A: If honesty means the heart-felt belief of Iran’s president of the republic in continuing in the current direction, and if people believe in this honesty, the practical implementation of this belief would be the immediate disposition and prosecution of the president of the republic on the charge of running the country towards war and annihilation. But that people would think of him as one of their own: if they do, perhaps it is because of not seeing any other options for exiting the current cul-de-sac…”
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
http://persian.kamangir.net/?p=3094
Behnam Gholipour’s most recent post is entitled “Europe’s sanctions are [meant] for the prevention of war.” He is of the opinion that the most recent round of EU sanction against Iran’s government is “a kind of preventive act against war.” He says:
“The recent sanctions posed by Europe against Iran, is the west’s preemption against the actualization of a war, whose horrendous outcome is not clear. If not, then what need was there for these sanctions to be implemented in less than 10 days after the offer of a package of incentives? And Iran had also said that is studying the contents of the package and will enter discussions about it with the westerners soon. Any way I think about it, I can’t see any other reasons for these unexpected sanctions of the European Union. After all, for Iran, the west, and even Israel and America, sanctions are better than war.
Sanctions:
For Europe: Bad; for America: Ineffective; for Iran: worse.
War:
For Europe: Worst; for America: Last; and for Iran … .
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
http://zerpiran.blogfa.com/post-60.aspx
* Blogging Social issues
In her weblog Kolbe (“hut”), Mahboobeh contemplates the fate of all the recently unemployed journalists and staff of the daily Tehran Emrooz (“Today’s Tehran”) which has recently been shut down by the government after being accused of criticizing president Ahmadinejad’s policies. She ponders the difficulties faced by these recent additions to the list of the unemployed, who had been making a living by working there.. In some cases both husbands and wives work for the same newspaper and the closure leaves them in a truly destitute predicament. There are also those, she goes on to say, who supported their old parents by working at the closed Tehran daily.
“[…] I am just worried about friends and colleagues, the normal course of whose lives will be affected by this sudden incident and especially those households where both husband and wife worked at the newspaper and their daily needs were being provided for by Tehran Emrooz.
No matter what I think it is still too soon to know for sure what is going to happen and one must wait.
[…] In [following] the course of this newspaper’s suspension I met some people for whom the closure of this paper was a victory. They were the old managers of this newspaper who for some reason at some point in time had decided to leave responsibility to someone else and leave.
Yes, they were happy to see that their newspaper has sank into mud without them, but their opportunism and greed would not allow them to look in the anxious eyes of a journalist who has to provide the cost of living for his/her old mother and at the last week of the month is everyday waiting for the ring of the telephone that would let him/her know that the negligible 200 thousand Tomans [about $200] salary has been deposited. By closing Tehran Emrooz, they settle internal disputes […]”
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
http://kolbbeh.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post_25.html
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