1. Exploiting Iranian Poet Sa’adi: I’m not gonna lie, it sort of annoys me to see so many Iranians using Sa’adi’s humanistic poem to get non-Iranians to care about Iran, but they themselves fail to recognize the poem’s meaning and disregard the rest of the world. Do these same Iranians who are posting this poem all over the net care about human suffering elsewhere, like in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Palestine or do they not matter because they are not Iranian?
2. Mousavi Details Alleged Fraud: In a 24-page document posted on his Web site, Mousavi’s special committee studying election fraud accused influential Ahmadinejad supporters of handing out cash bonuses and food, increasing wages, printing millions of extra ballots and other acts in the run-up to the vote.
3. Iran clerics defy election ruling: A group of clerics in Iran has called Iran’s presidential vote invalid, contradicting official results. The pro-reform group’s statement pits it against the top legislative body, which last week formally endorsed the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On Saturday, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that post-election events had caused bitterness.
4. Top Reformers Admitted Plot, Iran Declares: Iranian leaders say they have obtained confessions from top reformist officials that they plotted to bring down the government with a “velvet†revolution. Such confessions, almost always extracted under duress, are part of an effort to recast the civil unrest set off by Iran’s disputed presidential election as a conspiracy orchestrated by foreign nations, human rights groups say.The government has made it a practice to publize confessions from political prisoners held without charge or legal representation, often subjected to pressure tactics like sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and torture, according to human rights groups and former political prisoners. Human rights groups estimate that hundreds of people have been detained.
5. Fears grow for Iranian detainees: First the mass protests were suppressed by force, then came the mass arrests. Three weeks after Iran’s disputed presidential election, scores – possibly hundreds – of opposition supporters and prominent reformists remain in prison. Their families have had little or no information about their fate. Most are too worried to speak to the press now. They describe a climate of terror in Tehran.
6. Iranian hardliner calls opposition leader US agent: A top aide of Iran’s supreme leader called the country’s main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him of committing crimes against the nation in an editorial Saturday. The editorial represents the first time that Mir Hossein Mousavi, who ran for president in Iran’s June 12 elections, has been publicly called a U.S. agent. “It has to be asked whether the actions of (Mousavi and his supporters) are in response to instructions by American authorities,” said Hossein Shariatmadari in an editorial appearing in the conservative daily Kayhan. Shariatmadari, who holds no official position but is a close adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, added that Mousavi was trying to “escape punishment for murdering innocent people, holding riots, cooperating with foreigners and acting as America’s fifth column inside the country.”
7. U2 Goes Green: See the concert video here.
I fully agree with you Ipouya, and not just Iranians. Their a lot of people that didnt even raise an eyebrow as the Gaza massacre was going on. Even know with Amnesty report nobody is seriously discussing it. Yet all the same people where all talking about how evil Iran is. and how it represses it people.. and how we must support people right for freedom.
I just read this article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/world/asia/06china.html?_r=1&hp notice how they refer to everyone as rioters.. they dont say arrested.. they say lead into police stations. The unrest in Iran has kinda shown how hypocritcal Western Media is. Even you tube, they have removed countless video from youtube in the past for being to graphic. Yet they have no problem showing a young woman dying. The double stantards has been quite evident.
I appreciate your effort to raise awareness about the humanitarian intention of Saadi’s poem, and how concern for all mankind is what he was talking about.
I also don’t agree that the poem should be used to elicit compassion from non-Iranians. Compassion cannot be elicited or coaxed, compassion cannot be persuaded or forced – it is a river that flows freely from the heart (as long as it isn’t gated).
However, I disagree that all Iranians who use this poem are using it to manipulate the feelings of non-Iranians, or do not care about the Palestinians (for example). That is a rash judgment on your part.
How can you be so sure that Iranians who are sharing this beautiful and important poem aren’t doing it because their hearts are calling them to do so? How can you be so sure about *your* reading of their motivations?
As well, I suggest being fair about the fact that Iranians have experienced a lot of painful emotions in the past weeks, and it is human nature to focus on an issue when it hits close to home… humanity has a ways to go before the full potential of Saadi’s vision will be fulfilled, and the boundaries of nation and ethnicity are no longer needed.
You, and the Palestinians, probably wouldn’t get “triggered” in any other way either…
http://www.ayandenews.com/fa/pages/?cid=9728
You guys are wrong…Sa’adi was only talking about Iranian people in that poem. Other nationalities are not really “human” so you don’t have to sympathize with them.
If you’re not Aryan
Then I’m not Care-in’
-The Prince
The schism in both Venezuelan and Iranian societies is very real and is being taken advantage of by the U.S. and friends, who are doing their “best†to engineer a collapse of the populist governments to make room for more U.S.- friendly color revolutions. But there is too much Yankee baggage for this to work anymore. It is time for a color revolution at home.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Whither_the_revolutions_.html