Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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Published: Tuesday, April 08, 2008
* Blogging politics
In the weblog “Farhang-e Haani” [“submissive culture”] there is a post today entitled “Once Again Musavian” about Ambassador Hamid Musavian, a nuclear negotiator who has recently been freed on bail after a long incarceration under the charge of “having interactions with foreigners.”
“[…] Although Musavian was exonerated of espionage and other charges against him last year; after the Prosecutor of the case was replaced subsequent to the government’s complaint about the dissuasion of further litigation against Dr. Hoseyn Musavian. Just today some media have reported that he has been sentenced to a two-year privation-imprisonment for withholding of certain top secret documents.
“The new government prosecutor appointed by [the notoriously austere] Tehran District Attorney Mortazavi in the Azar [Nov-Dec] of last year when he was personally handed Musavian’s Portfolio; even he according to an issuance dating 86/12/25 [15 March 2007] has cleared Musavian of all ‘charges of espionage’ and has officially called for a halt in the prosecution proceedings against him […]”
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
http://uniloo3.blogfa.com/post-417.aspx
Mohammad-Reza Yazdanpanah, in the weblog “BooyeKhak” [Smell of the Earth], has analyzed an interview in which Mohammad Ali Abtahi, ex-President Khatami’s chief of staff, has gone as far as saying that he likes (the Tehrangeles critical pop-lyricist and Persian electro-pop pioneer) Siavash Ghomeishi. He has reportedly admitted to listening to this music in his car and that if ever the musician decided to put on a show in Tehran, the old government official would give this all his support. Well, Mohammad-Reza says, this maybe the surest way of getting yourself disqualified from running for the presidency.
“[…] Without a doubt one must say that although such interviews by Abtahi would all but destroy an at all chances of he being qualified for future elections, yet I submit to you most clearly that the straightforwardness, courage, fortitude and free will that is at Abtahi’s side, and his taboo-breaking is precisely what is wanting by today’s reformist politicians. (It is obvious that such “factors” are not within the politicians on that side) […]”
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
http://booyekhak.blogfa.com/post-375.aspx
* Blogging economics
Majid Azari of the weblog Sea7 (Economics and Politics) uses the metaphor of a dying patient who needs a very deep surgery and mixes this with one of metamorphosis and transformation; finally seems to arrive at the conclusion that following one’s own political axioms, rather than arbitrary and uninformed decisions, would sooner lead to, what appears to still be a somewhat miraculous cure for the Iranian economy which the blogger dares envisage. The present dark and gloomy economic condition of the country which continues despite President Ahmadinejad’s repeated promises of the reform to look grim, is Majid’s starting point; he goes on to pose the question thus:
“[…] Occasionally some ordinary as well as extraordinary people ask is Iran’s economy possible to cure? Or, are our economic difficulties at all solvable? This seemingly simple question has an impressing answer: ‘Of course Iran’s economic ills are curable; the difficulty is that the right recipe has not been prescribed or has not been executed. Actually I have no doubt in the possibility of solving the economic difficulties of the country (inflation, high unemployment, low growth of interest, old technology, …) And yet in many instances there have been unspecialized engineers and other people with incomplete visions or deviant ones for the economy of the country who carried the responsibility of diagnose the patient and issue a prescription for Iran’s economy and not the socially observant economists.
“[…] the experience of all these years tells us that a great economic transformation, must include political axioms and their correct and effective execution of these policies would in itself be that transformation and surgery in the Iranian economy […]”
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
http://sea7.blogfa.com/post-24.aspx
* on the Social Sphere
Esmail, in the last posting on his weblog which he calls “Alma” by offering his own personal experience as testimonial, suggests that in Iran, no matter what medical problem you might have, you should always consult many specialists, because:
“[…] under no circumstances trust specialists whose pockets are connected to the government. If you had to, go and see 3 or 4 specialists. I saw two. One was playing with his [or her] SMS and would not even bother looking at me. The other one, as soon as he [or she] saw me, wanted to commit me. I want to show both of them the finger! But the third one, who wasn’t covered by the [government sponsored] insurgence, and where I had to wait for a visit until after the holidays, firstly by examining me located the place of the stone [growth] and then said with confidence, this will be gone in 2 or 3 days. And so it also went.
“Friendly suggestion: the distance between being happy and unhappy is no more than millimeters, so try as much as possible to be happy and seize the day.”
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
http://alma-e.blogfa.com/post-415.aspx
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