Monday, March 17, 2008
By: IranVNC
Published: Monday, March 17, 2008
* Blogging current affairs
In his weblog, Mas’ud Dehnamaki approves the death sentence passed against Saddam Husayn’s cousin, al-Majid, better known as Chemical Ali. He writes:
“It has been reported that Ali Hasan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Husayn and known as Chemical Ali - the murderer of thousands of defenceless inhabitants of Halabchah and many young Iranians - will be executed tomorrow [18 March]. Since I was myself an eye-witness to the scenes of this massacre and its consequences, I am glad about the sentence passed against him.
“…In the Anfal operations [during the Iran-Iraq war] against the inhabitants of Halabchah, chemical weapons were used as a result of which around five thousand Iraqi Kurds, including women and children, lost their lives. It is because of this that al-Majid, who commanded the Anfal operations, acquired the title of “Chemical Ali” and turned out to be one of the most contemptible figures of Saddam’s regime for the Kurds…”
Monday, March 17,2008
http://dehnamaki.blogfa.com/post-501.aspx
The writer of the weblog “Chokachok” refers to two points in his/her daily posting – the first concerns the parliamentary [Majlis] elections and the second, to the bonfires of Chahar-Shambeh Suri [the last Wednesday before the turn of the Iranian new year, Nowruz, when the custom is for people to jump over bonfires]. The blogger says that the reason for his/her non-participation in the recent parliamentary [Majlis] elections is because of the innumerable election campaign online messages he/she received and that:
“…I thank God a thousand times that the elections were staged as expected and that they are now over, so we don’t have to put up any longer with all those [election] campaign messages. But you should know and be aware that if they say tomorrow 76.9999999 million people (I hope I have not added an extra nine or missed one here) of the wise people of our country cast their votes at the polling stations, the one remaining stupid person who did not was me – because of stubbornness and frustration at those messages which, God protect us, we were being bombarded with online around the clock…Let me also say something about the fires which flared up in connection with bonfire night of Charhar Shambeh Suri, in some [election] campaign headquarters – I am noting this by way of wishing you a good and joyful bonfire night…”
Monday, March 17, 2008
http://chokachok.blogfa.com/post-10.aspx
* Historical and Cultural Issues
In the weblog “Silent Star” Behnaz quotes from the writings of Iranian historians and scholars about the ancient origins of Chaharshambeh [Wednesday] Suri, when the custom is to jump over bonfires on the last Wednesday before Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, celebrating the Spring Equinox:
“Dr Mehrdad Bahar [historian] writes that the festival of fire known as Chaharshambeh Suri originated in antiquity. Lighting fires symbolized the warming of the world and getting rid of the body’s cold, withered and pale state. As to why the ritual falls on the last Wednesday of the year, Bahar maintains that it might be because the number 4 [Chahar means four in Persian] refers to the four seasons of the year.”
Monday, March 17, 2008
http://behnaz 85.persianblog.ir/post/157
*Blogging personal issues
In the weblog “Passageway”, Ardeshir Mohammadi notes that, judging from his observations of the route he takes from home to work, the Law e3nforcemtn Force was correct in reporting that “usually, every prostitute spends a maximum of five minutes waiting for customers in the main streets.” The blogger adds:
“…Cars are parked alongside the road and their drivers are usually young or men who do not look like the drivers of passenger-carrying vehicles. The drivers of parked cars rest their hands on their wheels holding up a bunch of 2000-toman- [around 2.5-dollar-] notes and anyone with any brain can fathom how this money relates to the young girls and women cruising the roads. The players then conduct their bargaining deals very fast and the buyer and seller, having agreed on their deal, leave the area - the consent is telling of an ambiguous effort on the part of men to purchase the bodies of women. The effort takes place in the least possible time – there is neither the need to waste time nor to complicate the issue. The official figures of Tehran’s police re-iterate this reality – in general, every prostitute spends at the most five minutes waiting for customers…
“In a society where the slogans of compassion and respect for human beings are prominently on view everywhere, in practice, it is blatant inequality and discrimination which notoriously stare us in the face…”
Monday, March 17,2008
http://havarman.blogfa.com/post-30.aspx
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