Friday, March 21, 2008
By: IranVNC
Published: Friday, March 21, 2008
* Blogging current affairs
On the weblog “we are all well”, Azadi [freedom] believes that the eight Majles [parliamentary] elections, staged on 16 March, represented “the last breath” of the reformists in Iran’s political climate and that “democracy, in the true sense of the word cannot be achieved within the framework of parliamentary reforms,” by parliamentary reformist parties. The blogger writes:
“…though I am sure that the reformist parties will still continue their pathetic activities, yet as far as I am concerned - and I strongly sided with the [reformist] coalition [front] in the elections - reformism today is more a historical phenomenon than a political one. I believe that we can, from now on, begin to realistically criticize the reformist current from an outward-looking political movement perspective [Persian: didgah-e burun-jonbeshi]. Up to now, all the criticizms of the reformist movement were inward-looking and were part of a movement which considered that cirticizm was necessary for progress and for avoiding a repetition of past mistakes. But today, reformism, as I see it, just like many other democracy-seeking movements in Iran, has been packed-off to a museum. Although this is a bitter fact, there is, however, one way of getting out of this situation…
“Accepting the inefficiency of reforms that are restricted to the constitution and the ballot box, is as important for a section of our political groups as is the acceptance by another group of the improbability of the overthrow of the Islamic Republic’s system. The first step towards achieving intellectual realism is to engage in critical thinking [Persian: manteq-e chalesh-gara]. I personally feel that many of our political activists have not correctly understood the meaning of “political deadlock” or that they have but are trying to deceive themselves with childish reasoning.”
Friday, march 21, 2008
http://noend.blogfa.com/post-96.aspx
*Blogging social issues
Hesameddin Sadreddin, writing in his weblog “intellectualism”, criticizes the phenomenon of absolute power and ideological government, believing that they corrupts and lead to illegitimate rule. He believes that the “expansion and strengthening” of small, “semi-centralized” bodies with common strategies will be effective in the move towards secular rule:
“…Ideological governments are ones that are immoral [Persian: akhlaq-setiz] and adjust the demands of individuals to the needs of their own power because the dominant ideology considers that commitment to ideological values are the pivotal values of society and essentially, this is how injustice is justified [by them]… In the era of modernity, Iran’s movements and syndicates, which are armed with the courage of reasoning, have been able to record another kind of victory… through the plan of isolating the hooligan [Persian: owbash] and anti-human velayat-e faqih [guardianship of the supreme leader]…” [Sign off:] “Long live the offspring of Iran; long live secularism (School of Reasoning)”
Friday, March 21, 2008
http://roshanfekrana.blogfa.com/post-50.aspx
Gandom [Wheat] writes on the weblog “the feminist young women of Iran” about the rights of women in society and criticizes the practice of polygamy, denying women their rights and the unjust economic system of the country, among other things. The blogger writes:
“…sometimes, they trample under foot the rights of women in the courts…even though they believe that they harbour so much goodwill towards women… such as alimony [Persian: nafaqeh] and bride-price [Persian: mahriyeh]…
“Really, why do these gentlemen have two wives??
“What you would say now is that the man was capable of affording two at a time…
“But does that man ever give any thoughts to the rights of his first wife?
“The second wife is always more dear and cleverer than the first…
“And I have not yet seen a man with two wives, who treats both of them justly…”
Friday, March 21, 2008
http://doookhtaran.blogfa.com/post-75.aspx
*Blogging personal issues
The weblog “lawbreaking legal experts” quotes from a poem by Seyyed Ali Salehi on the situation of workers in society and addressing the president [Mahmud Ahmadinezhad], the blogger writes:
“…Mr President………! [Punctuation marks as written throughout]
“From one year to the next/every year/a simple “S” is dropped from our Haftsin table [Haftsin is an Iranian New Year tradition of placing on a tray or table seven items beginning with the letter “S” in Persian, including food, herbs and coins to welcome the blessings of a new year]. Why…? Asks Paria, Paria is the daughter of one of the workers of this same Bus Company [Persian: khat-e Vahed]…
“(Let me tell you something!)/ terminologies [Persian: vazheh-ha] are not liberated without bail [meaning: you cannot say what you want without paying the price for it]/ is this punishment in tune with the melody of life?
“Paria does not ask/ I am saying/ that my father/ was also one of the tired workers of this very world.
“Year after year/every year/there is talk of oil and lamp and the crack of dawn/ talk of spreading the table for the morning/ talk of the strong love for the name Justice, but the curtains are dark/the fathers are tired/and the table-spreads are empty!”
Friday, March 21, 2008
http://mo6t.blogfa.com/post-23.aspx
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