Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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* Blogging politics
Farhad, the author of the weblog he calls “Dead-End,” has criticized Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who in a recent televised interview had claimed that “Iran today is in one of the best political and international circumstances of the past thirty years.” Farhad writes:
“[…] From the political standpoint, we must surely be in the best situation of the past thirty years, since everywhere they call us terrorists and repeatedly pass sanctions against us. Economically, the president must be right since he has nearly broken peoples’ back with inflation in recent years. Blackouts, water shortage, traffic, pollution, mass migration from provinces into Tehran; all these things have been without precedence in the past and all sacrifices for nuclear energy. All these troubles are not important; what’s important is that we should reach atomic energy, which is our inalienable right […]”
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
http://eshgh.blogfa.com/post-87.aspx
* Blogging society
Mitra, in her blog “Scream of Silence,” describes an incident where four students, who had made up a tall tale in order to rationalize their absence from their examinations, were found out by their professor:
“[…] They told the professor: ‘we had gone out of town and on our way back got a flat-tire and since we didn’t have a spare and didn’t find anyone to help us, we didn’t get home until late on Monday.’
“The professor considered the matter for a bit, before agreeing that the four can come on the next day and take the exam. The students went to the university the next day and the professor sent them to four different rooms and gave each of them a different exam and told them to start.
“They looked at the first question which was worth five points. It was quite easy and they easily answered it and turned the page over to find the second question worth 95 points: ‘which tire was flat?’”
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
http://www.hamegi.blogfa.com/post-318.aspx
In his weblog “Narcissism,” Dr. Hesam Firuzi protests a Tehran daily Kayhan’s story which had insinuated that Firuzi has criticized Ahmad Batebi, an imprisoned Iranian student who has recently escaped the country. He writes:
“Following the publication of a story on page 2 of the Kayhan dated 17 Tir 1387 [7 July 2008] entitled “When those on the payroll of CIA in Iran denounce one another” it was written that: Hesam Firuzi has sued Batebi for financial matters.
“I, Dr. Hesam Firuzi, hereby announce that this story is a pure fabrication and I have never brought such a suit. Also, the treating of a person, whom I consider honorable in my professional opinion, is an intimate friend of mine and I have never had any financial issues with him to complain about. […]”
Tuesday, 15 July, 2008
http://hesamfiroozi.blogfa.com/post-57.aspx
In his blog “Reverberation of Silence,”[subjest?] ponders the recent claims made by the commander of the Armed Forces, who has said “we have thrown into prison and executed hundreds of thousands, but have not had complete success” and goes on to criticize the death penalty. He writes:
“It was just a few days ago when the commander of the Armed Forces divulged the true pointlessness of capital punishment which had been repeated by human rights experts and activists […]
“A few days ago one of the officials has admitted to its pointlessness and now they try it again and pass it as a legal measure under the name of psychological security, [a measure which] brings with it capital punishment without stay or amnesty. There is no debate about how it is that the eighth Majlis has managed to prepare in such a short time a bill that would actually need years of work by lawyers, sociologists, criminologists, psychologists, etc. And if the representatives are after trial and error, there is nothing held against them, since we seem never to go past the method of trial and error. But that we ‘try and insist on the repetition of error’ and to try anew that which has been tried before is not a logical venture […]”
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
http://hamedmottaghi.rsfblog.org/
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