Friday, July 11, 2008
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* Blogging politics
Bahmad Hedayat, the author of the weblog “Digital Klashinkov” reviews the biography of the the Larijani family, who dominate the Iranian political landscape. Hedayat thinks that Ali Larijani, the most famous member of the family, has managed to lobby the members of many provincial parliamentarians in the eighth Majlis and in a complicated political maneuver has managed to oust Gholamali Haddad-Adel from the scene. Hedayat writes about Ali Larijani:
“[…] The developments following the formation of the eighth Majlis showed that a new era has begun for Ali Larijani.
“Ali Larijani by himself has appeared in the function and mold of a “front” and sees all necessary political work for ascendancy in power in his own person and in his limited team, and presses on. […]
“Today Larijani is playing with everyone: Ahmadinejad, Qalibaf, Reza’i. Before coming to parliament he could be located in the triangle of “Reza’i Larijani, Qalibaf,” and today because of the complicated game and without paying a price for leaving this triangle or including his old cohorts, has turned the rest into his ‘playing cards’ … and with each card he threatens the other and gains points and manages the lot. […]
“The Larijani Lobby is behind the curtain of power and has no need to play with an open hand or be constantly on stage.It is precisely for this reason that the waves of political destruction usually does not reach him or he can quickly recover from any damages. […]”
Friday, July 11, 2008
http://kelash.persianblog.ir/post/281&postid=
Ahmad Seyf in his blog “Niaak” reviews various claims from within the Islamic Republic, which analyzes the news about the kidnapping of Ahmadinejad in Iraq and notices a contradiction between this story and the one about an American commander wanting to take his picture with Iran’s president.
“[…] You’ve surely read in the past few days that again according to the claims of this same Mr. president [Ahmadinejad], a senior American military commander in Iraq has tried all he could in order to take a picture with him, and they [Americans] have even been reported as saying that they have ignored Bush’s order for a limited airstrike in Iran and that they have so much affection for Mr. Ahmadinejad that it is indescribable. […]
“Okay, now the question of this servant [writer refers to himself ironically in a usual turn of phrase – translator]:
“Can someone tell us what exactly the Americans wanted to do with the ‘beloved’ president of the Islamic Republic in Iraq?
“Take a picture with him?
“Or steal him and take him to New York and possibly assassinate him?
“My intelligence does not reach far enough [to answer this question], how about yours?”
Friday, July 11, 2008
http://niaak.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post_12.html
* Blogging society
Ali criticizes his colleagues, i.e. journalists, in his weblog called “1984” for failing to unite behind a “class-based perspective” of their own guild and thereby prevent this association from dissolving.
“As long as we journalists have a meta-perspective on our jobs and resent being considered workers, this blight must continue over our heads and our trade association must be dissolved by an anti civil-organization government. It’s nevertheless interesting that we, who are ashamed to be known as workers, are all of a sudden jolly and elbow our way towards social welfare programs, when some newspaper qualify for the programs and earn higher wages as a three-month temporary laborer,. We must accept that it is our lack of understanding of our own job, which we sometimes confuse with being a pianist, that has made us unable to defend our trade-association rights. […] The result of the crack between us and workers and employers and teachers, and … has been that we have been deprived of our right to form independent associations.”
Friday, July 11, 2008
http://alihagh.blogfa.com/post-478.aspx
Khatereh Vatankhah, the author of the weblog “Epoch” reminisces about a time she had gone to a meeting to gather an economic report, and the speaker, a cleric, had gone on about women’s inadequate Hejab and how they don’t need academic education, instead of talking about the economy
“ […] Mostly the speech turned on the axiom of the relationship between men and women. And his bottom line was that women have to stay at home. Who said that she must go out and work? In a section of his speech he said: ‘I don’t understand why the ministry of science does not address the situation of these universities. Some girl with colorfully painted fingernails, you ask her, what are you studying? She says agricultural sciences, and not only that, for example dung-ology! And there is no one to tell her, honorable woman, what do you need to study this subject for? Tomorrow you will use this studying thing like a baton with which to hit your husband over the head, going on about having a bachelor’s degree and … such talks.’ I, who had been enchanted by the pulpit of the Haji [someone who’s been to Mecca for Hajj, loosely used to refer to all clerics and respected men in society] sat until the very end and along with all the men in attendance had a great time, but didn’t realize until the end what this speech had to do with Islamic money lending techniques [the announced subject of the talk]?!”
Friday, July 11, 2008
http://razmbar.blogfa.com/post-70.aspx
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