DominO123 Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 (edited) I'd like members feedback, what do you think of Mir-Hossein Moussavi? Edited May 24, 2009 by DominO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Boghos Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insi...av051209b.shtml The only thing I think is that he will lose the elections. Quite a pity for a country that in different ways has been looking to rejoin the world... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted May 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 The only thing I think is that he will lose the elections. Quite a pity for a country that in different ways has been looking to rejoin the world... Armenia need this man there, if Iran join the Nabucco project, Azerbaijan becomes a detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted May 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 To add that Moussavi is an Iranian Azeri but Iranian nationalist à la Ataturk. Bringing Azerbaijan closer to Iran and Turkey closer to Europe is the only way to go for Armenia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-47 Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 To add that Moussavi is an Iranian Azeri but Iranian nationalist à la Ataturk. Bringing Azerbaijan closer to Iran and Turkey closer to Europe is the only way to go for Armenia. Could you elaborate on what you have in mind with bringing these two closer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted May 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 (edited) Could you elaborate on what you have in mind with bringing these two closer? Azerbaijan's elite are Sunni, while they're running the Shia majority just like Saddams Iraq. All those anti-Armenian Azeri are mostly Sunni Azeri close to the Turks, they're panturkists. An Azeri Shia Iranian nationalist is the way to go in Iran, and on top of that, someone open to the West. The way to go is to cut the Azeri and Turks, this will isolate the Azeri who will be forced to have better relations with the Russians and Iranians..., result, obviously if ever Turkey has good relations with Armenia and comes closer to Europe, Azerbaijan will be isolated in the East and plus now they will have an Iranian Azeri running Iran, which will push the Shia majority closer to Iranian influence, exporting 'Iranism' in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan will be considered as non-imporant, since Iran will join projects like Nabbuco and offer its oil to Europe. Now imagine oil compagnies wasting money searching the promessed and never found Azeri oil, when Iran has the second world oil reserves, and Azerbaijans Northern neighboor has more oil, without ignoring Russia which is still the major player. Edited May 24, 2009 by DominO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harut Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 I'd like members feedback, what do you think of Mir-Hossein Moussavi? hmm... i don't know... a plagiarizer??? ok, sorry for the off topic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted June 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 fk, the moron was elected again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted June 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 see here more: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/1...rss&emc=rss Note that according the latest polls before the election Moussavi was ahead. The results makes no statistical sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z'areh Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 see here more: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/1...rss&emc=rss Note that according the latest polls before the election Moussavi was ahead. The results makes no statistical sense. Anytime a democratically elected president, even if that democracy is a on shaky grounds, can be good for the country and very bad to those who are content with dictatorship. In that respect Mussavi seemed to enjoy huge popularity in the biggest cities and more importantly among the young voters who are a growing part of the population. But in Iran, the final word in internal as well as external affairs goes to the "supreme leader" as he is called, the Ayatollah. So regardless of who the president is the main hard-line policies do not change. We saw what happened with President Khatami, a moderate president who, at every corner, was challenged by the Ayatollah and his goons, the lower ranking mullahs who rule over the Revoutionary Guards, who brutally suppressed any demonstrations, especially students, against injustices that were occurring. Khatami was powerless to do anything. As for what is good for Armenia? I think even if democratically purest of the pure elections in any country will first of all follow their own national interests, that in no way means automatically pro-Armenian policies. Note: in the video it was fun to hear our own "Sari-Siroun Yar" sung in Fars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 (edited) It may be time for a revolution. It's been a long time. 30 years since the last "revolution". In 1944 the Shah abdicted, in 1953 Mossadegh was silenced with a CIA directed coup. The new Shah was installed, in act he installed himslef as he would not have anyone touch the crown. In 1979 a new revolution and abdication. C'mon already, it's been 30 years. Is it not time for a new "revolution", a new drama rather than this comedy act? Those clerical clowns would be perfect guests at SNL, no, no make that Friday Night Live. Imagine that every time Serzh appears in public there will be a huge mural picture of a bearded cleric behind him Edited June 16, 2009 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 the new technological revolution, tweeting ( Twitter: A tool of revolution ), blogs ... is Iran getting bit of it's own "medicine" back ? - Iran was interfering w/ elections in Lebanon, now the west and the rest are supporting the unrest in Ira, one of the articles heading was The Green Revolution in Iran doesn't need US political fertilizer:... Astvats Ognakan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 # Thousands protest in Tehran in support of opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi # Iranian elite military warns of legal action against Web sites # International reporters restricted to their hotels and offices # Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei urges Iranians to stand behind republic "We are fighting with our lives and the world is just watching," said Ali, a Tehran University student "They see how the government is trying to silence us, how they are beating us -- but they don't come to our help. It's OK. We will succeed, even if we have to fight alone." In Iran's southwestern city of Shiraz, 28-year-old hospital nurse Najmeh has also taken to the streets in mass demonstrations every day since Saturday, but says she is now too afraid to participate. "The police are everywhere you look," she said. "They hurt and arrested so many people last night that one wants to go out." the world is just watching.... inchvor tsanot patmutyuna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/17/...tml#cnnSTCVideo che iskapes l@riv marti 1-2 k@rknorinak@ inchpes lini nerkayis preszident@ ir hanrahavaq@ uni opozitsyan ir hanrahavaq@, irarits shat heru chen inchpes yerevanum er, joghovrdin mahaknerov halatsum en... opozitsyain anuner en kanchum inchpes yerevanum er "hooligans", ... tsavali e Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted June 20, 2009 Report Share Posted June 20, 2009 it don;t look good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted August 8, 2009 Report Share Posted August 8, 2009 French woman, embassy staff confess in Iran trial By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer – 40 mins ago TEHRAN, Iran – A young French academic and local staff of the British and French embassies stood trial Saturday with dozens of Iranian opposition figures and confessed to being involved in the country's postelection unrest. Iran's opposition and rights groups have condemned the trial as a sham and say such confessions are coerced and scripted. Britain, which seemed caught off guard by the appearance of its embassy employee, called it an outrage. Saturday's second hearing at Tehran's Revolutionary Court involved a new group of detainees and focused on testimony from the French academic and the two other foreign-linked defendants, demonstrating the government's resolve to taint Iran's pro-reform movement as a tool of foreign countries — particularly Britain and the United States. The prosecutor accused the two countries of fomenting the unrest in an attempt to engineer a "soft overthrow" of the government. The French academic and the two embassy employees took turns standing at a podium in the large, wood-paneled courtroom to make confessions before a judge seated between two large portraits for Iran's supreme leader and the Islamic Republic's founder. The French Embassy employee, Nazak Afshar, cried as she admitted she was involved in postelection disturbances. She dabbed her eyes with a tissue and said that "brothers at the Intelligence Ministry made me understand my mistake," the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Such confessions — whether coerced or not — have become the centerpiece of Iran's mass trial of more than 100 prominent opposition figures and activists, which began a week ago. The defendants are accused of crimes including rioting, spying and plotting to overthrow the regime during the massive street demonstrations denouncing the official results of the June 12 election. The prosecutor read out an indictment at Saturday's session that accuses Britain and the U.S. of planning to rouse the unrest with the aim of toppling Iran's Islamic rulers through a "soft overthrow," the IRNA news agency reported. The indictment also accused the two powers of providing financial assistance to Iran's reformists to undermine hard-line ruling clerics. Hossein Rassam, a political analyst at the British Embassy who was arrested shortly after the election, told the court that Britain was involved in fomenting the unrest, according IRNA. He said a budget of 300,000 pounds — or about $500,000 — had been allocated to establish contacts with Iranian political groups, influential individuals and activists, IRNA reported. The news agency quoted him as saying that he established contacts before the election with the campaign headquarters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the pro-reform candidate who says he was robbed of victory through fraud. "My main responsibility was to gather information from Tehran and other cities by setting up contacts with individuals and influential parties and political groups and to send reports to London. ... The British Embassy, due to its hostile policies in Iran and fear of exposure of its contacts inside Iran, employed local staff to establish such contacts. I established such contacts based on orders from embassy officials," IRNA quoted Rassam as saying. Rassam has been charged with espionage and "acting against national security," IRNA reported. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband condemned the trial and said the British government had raised the matter with the Iranian ambassador in London and Iran's deputy foreign minister. "Hossein is a member of our staff going about his legitimate duties," Miliband said in a statement. It added that the trial against him and other embassy staff "only brings further discredit to the Iranian regime." An earlier Foreign Office statement said Rassam's appearance in court was an outrage and contradicted assurances from senior Iranian officials. Eight other British Embassy staffers arrested along with Rassam were released after about a week in custody. Seated in the front row of the courtroom with a scarf over her hair was 23-year-old French academic Clotilde Reiss, who was reportedly arrested July 1 at Tehran airport. According to IRNA, she told the court that she made a mistake by attending a demonstration. "I had personal motives for joining gatherings to see what was happening out of curiosity but I admit that I made a mistake and should not have attended," IRNA quoted her as saying. Reiss has been charged with acting against national security by joining protests, gathering information, taking photos and sending them abroad. France has called the charges baseless and senior European Union diplomats have demanded her release. Iranian defendants appearing Saturday included Ali Tajernia, a former reformist lawmaker; Shahaboddin Tabatabaei, a prominent leader of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, Iran's largest reformist political party; and Ahmad Zeidabadi, an outspoken journalist opposing hard-liners. A reformist Web site said riot police attacked family members of the defendants and others gathered in front of the court to denounce the trial. It said Tajernia's wife was detained outside the court. ___ Associated Press Writer Raphael G. Satter contributed to this report from London. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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