Friday, February 8, 2008
By: IranVNC
Published: Friday, February 08, 2008
* Political and social issues
In her blog, Ms Mira has adopted a special approach to the disqualification of reformists and the reformists’ election campaign decision about the presentation of an election list for the Majlis. Mira believes that the reformist must show a positive approach despite disqualifications, and participate in the elections. She believes that they should be happy with sending their remaining candidates to the Majlis. She is against boycotting the elections and believes that it would be a passive act. She writes:
“… It would be a grave mistake for you [reformists] to boycott the elections. One should stay in the arena as much as possible. You should stay because the only goal of those who have encouraged the disqualification of candidates has been to push the reformists to the crossroad of boycotting the elections; As long as legs have the power to stand and there is a breath left in the lungs, one should stay on. All the expedient vetting and disqualification of candidates are a defeat imposed by the referee on the reformists. But by boycotting the elections, reformists are assisting in their own defeat. Boycotting the elections may mean the loss of the last remaining chance to stay in the arena.”
Friday, February 8, 2008
http://1mira.blogfa.com/post-57.aspx
Hoseyn Derakhshan in his blog entitled “I am the editor-in-chief” has criticized those reformists who have in turn criticized the disqualification of Mr [Ali] Eshraqi, the grandson of Ayatollah Khomeyni. His reasoning is that approving his qualification or supporting him would be tantamount to supporting a hereditary system. He adds:
“Those who are merely defending Ali Eshraqi because he is Khomeyni’s grandson are unconsciously approving the hereditary system which they have always opposed. They will possibly, with the same reasoning, approve the qualification of Hoseyn Khomeyni, who left Iran for America a few years ago, shook hands with Reza Pahlavi [son of deposed Pahlavi monarch] and urged him to return (the American style Iraqi model of) democracy to Iran.”
Friday, February 8, 2008
http://www.i.hoder.com/archives/2008/02/080211_016897.shtml
Mehdi, in his blog entitled “Jomhour” has explicitly criticized the disqualification of the reformists’ candidates by the Ministry of Interior and the Guardian Council. Mehdi also criticizes the current Seventh Majlis Speaker for stating that the Sixth Majlis (the reformist Majlis) was inappropriate, and rocked by commotion. This is how he responds:
“… I remember that the result of an investigation into the murder of Zahra Kazemi in Evin Prison was read at the Majlis podium. I remember that a Majlis deputy revealed billions of tomans of fraud within the state radio and TV organization [Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Organization, IRIB]. The secret jetties and financial frauds by boasting figures were also disclosed…
“Mr. Haddad-Adel,
“There is no reason to be worried anymore. Thanks to the presence of your friends in the Guardian Council and the supervisory and executive bodies, no parliament similar to the Sixth Majlis will be formed again. Nobody would ever talk against dictatorship at the Majlis podium. No-one will ever again ask for justice for political prisoners, student activists and silenced freedom-seekers in the Majlis. The Majlis will only be filled with flattering remarks so that, God forbid, you would not fail in fulfilling your illusions.”
Friday, February 8, 2008
http://jomhouriyat.com/2008/02/11/post_420/
*Personal blogs
Mahbubeh Hoseynzadeh in her blog entitled “thornbird” refers to the “religious education teachers” [Persian: mo’aleman-e parvareshi] at schools, whose main duty is to teach Shari’ah and religious studies to children and adolescents at schools and to supervise the behaviour and dress-code of the students.
She thinks that such teachers are not as active as they used to be. However, she then realizes that they are still present at educational establishments and continue to advise the youth and to pressurize them. She realizes that the presence of Ahmadinezhad’s government has made them even more active:
“… The religious education teachers were the strangest creatures in those days – they observed the strictest Islamic dress-code and spoke in class about the corridors of fire in Hell… They talked about women who were hanged from their hair in Hell’s corridors because na-mahram [non-family or stranger] men had seen their hair…They talked of weird and terrible tortures against girls who befriended na-mahram boys… and turned into strange creatures in the other world….
“When I was at Middle School, all my days passed with the fear of God, always thinking how terrifying He is to be able to torture people in such a way… It is interesting that I thought that this was something that only happened during our times. But later on, I realized that these kinds of treatment are still treated continuing.”
Friday, February 8, 2008
http://kharzar.blogfa.com/post-449.aspx
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