Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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Published: Tuesday, August 05, 2008
* Blogging politics
Mohammad Afkhami, the author of the blog “Occasional writings of a college student…” is attempting to offer a reading of the make-up of political forces in Iran for participation in the up-coming presidential elections. He analyses this under two rubrics: participation, or lack thereof, of former president Mohammad Khatami.
“[…]That which forms the strategy of the two sides in respect to presidential elections, is participation or non-participation of Khatami. And accordingly two scenarios are worth analyzing:
“First: with participation of the honorable Mr. Khatami in the arena of elections, we will witness a bipolar race between him and the honorable Mr. [President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad. What is worthy of consideration in this scenario is the ‘Ahmadinejad-Khatami duel’ […]
“Second: the non-participation of the honorable Mr. Khatami and the formation of a muti-polar atmosphere of competition. If Khatami does not participate, this will become relevant, and of course with the materialization of this scenario, the chances of the honorable Mr. Ahmadinejad will improve. […]
“Since an absolute majority of votes needed in the presidential elections, there is a great possibility that it will be dragged into a second run-off. The materialization of the first or second scenario depends on the participation of the honorable Mr. Khatami.”
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
http://afkhami.blogsky.com/1387/05/10/post-21/
* Blogging sociology
Mitra, the author of the blog “I? Iranian woman”, after describing a daily occurrence has challenged men, whom according to what she has learned from the male sex, she considers unable to deal with what women have to face every day. She says:
“[…] If men had to deal with menstrual cycle, pregnancy, giving birth, giving milk, the sleep-deprivation of mothers, and a thousand other unfortunate things women have to go through, the laws of the world would be different. Of 12 months in the year, the caballeros would spend 11 months resting in bed and we, dames, had to work both outside and inside the home like a double-story donkey (far be it from women, [to be called so]), in order to give complete service to the menstruating, or 8-month-pregnant man in full rest. At least we would have to pour food into his celebrated throat so that he wouldn’t have to bother holding a spoon which would tire him, and then remove the chamber pot from under his butt so he wouldn’t have to climb out of bed and throw his back!!! […]”
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
http://persian-woman.blogfa.com/post-71.aspx
The author of the blog “Cell”, Dariush draws attention to the drying of Iran’s two wetland areas and rejects drought as the only reason for the destruction of these two areas and thinks that apart from these reasons, unqualified and inexpert management also have contributed to this problem.
“[…] The drying of the Zayandeh-rud[which runs through Isfahan] and the Gavkhuni swamp [where Zayandeh River ends] are attributed to this year’s drought. While one of the reasons could be drought, more than ten years ago the [so-called] constructive government decided to implement over-ambitious economic plans and in doing so, rejected the repeat warnings of experts about the environmental consequences of these actions.
“[…] In the same year that Tehran’s water was rationed, for the first time in Iran’s recorded history, the Gavkhuni swamp dried up and geographists announced that for the first time in centuries they had managed to map exactly the bottom of the swamp. While at that time also, everything was blamed on drought, the real reasons were the construction of a new dam and also the redirection of many arterial branches of the river into other directions. […]”
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
http://gp.persianblog.ir/post/136
Shahrbanou, the author of the blog “Woman Born in Maku” writes a memory about her high school history teacher, who had told the class that “no king is ever just”.
“[…] one day our history teacher told us: it is impossible for a king to be just. Just as today no one dares say a word or write an article in regions where there are disadvantage and oppression, in old times also the writers and authors were under the command of kings and no one dared say a bad word, or gossip about the king. This fear had also penetrated homes […]”
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
http://gayagizi.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-post.html
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