All countries around Iran are buying more and more weapons ... The third, fourth and fifth weapons importers of the world are our neighbours who either they hate us or they claim some parts of Iran !!! Two of our neighbours are parts of NATO and American army is kind of surrounding us ... and still the world is concerned about our missile program !!! Without our national defensive program we wont stand a chance in front of our dear neighbours. Unfortunately the history brought us a lesson, DO NOT TRUST your neighbours because when you are not strong enough, they're gonna march on your dead body and slave your family and we still have Saddam's memorry in our minds that how he attacked us and bombed our cities with legal and illegal weapons and world just ignored it, with keeping theirs eyes closed...
I wanted to ask a question, My dear western friend, what would you do if you were in our shoes ? Please help me out !!!
Monday, April 27, 2009
You don't get Arabian honor unless ...
Today Iranian media claimed that an ISSF committee that was visiting Iran to investigate Iranian preparation for the next ISSF games in Tehran carried a clear threatening messages from Arabian countries to Iran.
The message was clear. All the maps and games medals should NOT contain the official name of the Gulf(Persian Gulf) between Iran and Arabian world and either should be called Gulf or A-r-a-b-i-a-n Gulf(!!!) which non of them are recognized by U.N. official maps and if not, non of Arabian countries are NOT going to take part in Tehran games.
This made a hell out of the meeting and Iranians official reacted to the illegal, shameful request by Arabian countries. This is an old trick by Arabian dictators to show that they care about their people. The whole trick is to instigate Arabian people against Iran by bringing up false claims, while in their countries dictators rule with corruption and human rights has no place for them specially the women(Women with out right to vote or sometimes driving their own car).
The message was clear. All the maps and games medals should NOT contain the official name of the Gulf(Persian Gulf) between Iran and Arabian world and either should be called Gulf or A-r-a-b-i-a-n Gulf(!!!) which non of them are recognized by U.N. official maps and if not, non of Arabian countries are NOT going to take part in Tehran games.
This made a hell out of the meeting and Iranians official reacted to the illegal, shameful request by Arabian countries. This is an old trick by Arabian dictators to show that they care about their people. The whole trick is to instigate Arabian people against Iran by bringing up false claims, while in their countries dictators rule with corruption and human rights has no place for them specially the women(Women with out right to vote or sometimes driving their own car).
Turkish Kebab @ Tehran
One of the most famous Turkish Kebab shops in Tehran(Neshat). Here are some photos that my brother took from the very famous and delicious foods that they serve there ...
Maybe not everything can be seen here, but every day they make six roles of meat and chicken ... Sometimes even 6 is not enough and you can see them adding more roles during the evening ...
After the meat is done they cut it off the role and then they fry it more with mixture of vegetables which is in a big pan under the roles ... Later they put the mixture of Kebab and fried vegtables in a bauget and will serve it to the customers who are waiting in the long qeue to taste this delicious sandwich.Saturday, April 18, 2009
2nd generation of Iranian National Cars ...
New Iranian car, called Runna, is on the way to production line.As of 2001, there were 13 public and privately owned automakers in Iran, of which two - Iran Khodro and Saipa - accounted for 94% of the total domestic production. This car is produced by IranKhodro and is claimed to be the 2nd generation of cars, fully built by Iranian experts locally(by IranKhodro) in Iran and carry the name National Car in Iran.
The car has a 1600cc engine with 110 horse power.
The car has a 1600cc engine with 110 horse power.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Iranian next presidental election ...
This is one of the stands at a conference of Iranian president's fans in Iran. As Iran is getting little by little to hold the 10th presidental election in the history of Islamic Republic, president's fan are gathered here to ask Mr. Ahmadi Nejad to register as a candidate. The text on the stand says : A man from the people's kind ... Maybe it needs a little bit explenation beside direct translation. This sentence in Persian means that a man who is not seprate from the simple people, but a part of them and ofcourse it means he stayed one of them even after he was elected the president ...
Friday, April 10, 2009
Economics & Iran, a new article
Today I read an article in Economist which was yet another proof of my statements at an old post here called Playing Along With The Damn Good Reputaion ...
The Economics article(Iranian dissidents in Iraq, Where will they all go?) is about The People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) and about their situation in Iraq today. This article states how strange, complicated and idealogical this group is and I, myself learnt some new dirty facts about this group from addressed article which shows how organized and dangerous can this group be. Here we can read the first part of the article which shows what is actually the meaning of freedom for this organization(what they advertise around when they give speech) and I really recommend you to think about some of the phrases in this article as it comes from an independent source(Not Iranian and Not from the organisation side). Parts such as :
The PMOI’s leader, Massoud Rajavi and many of others were relocated in 1986 to Iraq. Saddam abundantly supplied the PMOI with heavy weaponery. In return, the PMOI made attacks on Iran itself, which is why Iranians of all stripes tend to regard the group as traitors.
The PMOI is widely reviled by human-rights groups for nurturing a messianic cult of personality around Mr Rajavi and his wife, Maryam, and for enforcing a totalitarian discipline on its adherents
Members are completely cut off from contact with their families.
The PMOI has a sophisticated network of ardent supporters.
and here comes the main article itself :
“IT WAS one of the strangest places I’d ever seen,” says one of the few Farsi-speaking Westerners to have spent weeks in Camp Ashraf, 65km (40 miles) north-east of Baghdad, where some 3,400 Iranian dissidents are hunkered down and are now threatened with expulsion from Iraq, perhaps even back to Iran. It was “like a spiffy mid sized town in Iran”, with parks, offices and buildings—but no children. It was “sterile, soulless and sad”. Nearly two decades ago, families living in the camp were “dissolved”, couples were forcibly divorced, and their children sent away, many of them to live with supporters living in the West, to be brought up in the faith of a movement widely described by independent observers as a cult.
For the past six years, the Americans have protected the camp, whose raison d’être is generally opposed by the surrounding Iraqi communities and by most Iranians, whether or not they are for or against the clerical regime in Tehran. But as American troops prepare to go home, the Iraqi government, which wants cosy ties with Iran, now says the camp must be closed and its inhabitants dispersed, probably back to Iran, where they would face an uncertain future, to put it mildly.
The group is variously known as the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) or the Mujahedeen-e Khalq Organisation (abbreviated as both MEK and MKO). Founded in 1965 as a youthful underground opposition to Iran’s Shah, it was usually described as “Islamic Marxist”. When the Shah fell it at first backed Ayatollah Khomeini but soon fell out with him, embarking on a campaign of violence and bombings which, on a single occasion, is reckoned to have killed 70 civilians, including several senior clerics; the withered arm of Iran’s current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was a result of that bomb. The group’s political umbrella is called the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
The PMOI’s leader, Massoud Rajavi, fled to France in 1981 but he and his followers, many of them women, relocated in 1986 to Iraq, where Saddam Hussein gave them a big base at Camp Ashraf, which is thought to be around 20km in circumference. Saddam abundantly supplied the PMOI with Brazilian and British tanks (captured from Iran during the war of 1980-1988) and Russian armoured personnel carriers, among other arms. In return, the PMOI made attacks on Iran itself, which is why Iranians of all stripes tend to regard the group as traitors. It is also said to have spearheaded Saddam’s attacks on rebellious Iraqi Kurds and Shias in 1991, after the first Gulf war, a charge it strongly denies.
Follow my leader
No less controversially, the PMOI is widely reviled by human-rights groups for nurturing a messianic cult of personality around Mr Rajavi and his wife, Maryam, and for enforcing a totalitarian discipline on its adherents. Several defectors testify, in the words of one of them, to a “constant bombardment of indoctrination” and a requirement to submit utterly and unquestioningly to the cause. No sources of news are allowed without the PMOI’s say-so. According to one defector, around 50 members who rebelled were sent to Saddam’s prison in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad.
My Comment :
And yet again many questions rose that why an organisation needs to be so complicated and hard to study ? Why do they need to send innocent children to be grown up in environments that they can serve the organization well enough later !!!! Why couple are forced to divorce and give up their children ??? Why members are cut off from their families and lots of more questions that remains not answered, because PMOI is not a democratic group with a clear background and a clear future plans. They lie directly in their TV and yet they expect people to believe them. Of course they need to misuse the innocent children of their followers as there is no new followers joining them ... I wish some of the politicians would give it a 2nd thought giving such a group reputation to stand and rise ...
This group is an actual danger no matter where they are ...
The Economics article(Iranian dissidents in Iraq, Where will they all go?) is about The People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) and about their situation in Iraq today. This article states how strange, complicated and idealogical this group is and I, myself learnt some new dirty facts about this group from addressed article which shows how organized and dangerous can this group be. Here we can read the first part of the article which shows what is actually the meaning of freedom for this organization(what they advertise around when they give speech) and I really recommend you to think about some of the phrases in this article as it comes from an independent source(Not Iranian and Not from the organisation side). Parts such as :
The PMOI’s leader, Massoud Rajavi and many of others were relocated in 1986 to Iraq. Saddam abundantly supplied the PMOI with heavy weaponery. In return, the PMOI made attacks on Iran itself, which is why Iranians of all stripes tend to regard the group as traitors.
The PMOI is widely reviled by human-rights groups for nurturing a messianic cult of personality around Mr Rajavi and his wife, Maryam, and for enforcing a totalitarian discipline on its adherents
Members are completely cut off from contact with their families.
The PMOI has a sophisticated network of ardent supporters.
and here comes the main article itself :
“IT WAS one of the strangest places I’d ever seen,” says one of the few Farsi-speaking Westerners to have spent weeks in Camp Ashraf, 65km (40 miles) north-east of Baghdad, where some 3,400 Iranian dissidents are hunkered down and are now threatened with expulsion from Iraq, perhaps even back to Iran. It was “like a spiffy mid sized town in Iran”, with parks, offices and buildings—but no children. It was “sterile, soulless and sad”. Nearly two decades ago, families living in the camp were “dissolved”, couples were forcibly divorced, and their children sent away, many of them to live with supporters living in the West, to be brought up in the faith of a movement widely described by independent observers as a cult.
For the past six years, the Americans have protected the camp, whose raison d’être is generally opposed by the surrounding Iraqi communities and by most Iranians, whether or not they are for or against the clerical regime in Tehran. But as American troops prepare to go home, the Iraqi government, which wants cosy ties with Iran, now says the camp must be closed and its inhabitants dispersed, probably back to Iran, where they would face an uncertain future, to put it mildly.
The group is variously known as the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) or the Mujahedeen-e Khalq Organisation (abbreviated as both MEK and MKO). Founded in 1965 as a youthful underground opposition to Iran’s Shah, it was usually described as “Islamic Marxist”. When the Shah fell it at first backed Ayatollah Khomeini but soon fell out with him, embarking on a campaign of violence and bombings which, on a single occasion, is reckoned to have killed 70 civilians, including several senior clerics; the withered arm of Iran’s current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was a result of that bomb. The group’s political umbrella is called the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
The PMOI’s leader, Massoud Rajavi, fled to France in 1981 but he and his followers, many of them women, relocated in 1986 to Iraq, where Saddam Hussein gave them a big base at Camp Ashraf, which is thought to be around 20km in circumference. Saddam abundantly supplied the PMOI with Brazilian and British tanks (captured from Iran during the war of 1980-1988) and Russian armoured personnel carriers, among other arms. In return, the PMOI made attacks on Iran itself, which is why Iranians of all stripes tend to regard the group as traitors. It is also said to have spearheaded Saddam’s attacks on rebellious Iraqi Kurds and Shias in 1991, after the first Gulf war, a charge it strongly denies.
Follow my leader
No less controversially, the PMOI is widely reviled by human-rights groups for nurturing a messianic cult of personality around Mr Rajavi and his wife, Maryam, and for enforcing a totalitarian discipline on its adherents. Several defectors testify, in the words of one of them, to a “constant bombardment of indoctrination” and a requirement to submit utterly and unquestioningly to the cause. No sources of news are allowed without the PMOI’s say-so. According to one defector, around 50 members who rebelled were sent to Saddam’s prison in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad.
Members are completely cut off from contact with their families. When the above-mentioned Farsi-speaking Westerner, who visited Ashraf in 2004, enabled wavering group members to talk to their families in Iran by satellite telephone, some of their parents refused to believe it was their children, for they had been told by the PMOI that they were dead.
No one is sure whether Mr Rajavi is alive but most think not; he has not been heard of since the American invasion of 2003. His wife, known as “the president-elect”, travels the world, soliciting support from a wide range of sympathisers, including some in the American Congress, the European Parliament and the British House of Lords. No one is sure who really controls the PMOI in Camp Ashraf. It is thought that nearly 400 residents have voluntarily returned to Iran, where they are said to have been treated adequately so far. But who can really tell? Several hundred more are seeking refugee status elsewhere. A few dozen have—or rather had—passports to Western countries, some of which have verified their bona fides.
In the past year, the European Parliament and Britain’s courts have removed the label of “terrorist” from the PMOI, mainly on the ground that the group says it has disavowed violence, is not known to have carried out any acts of terror since, at the latest, 2002, and surrendered its weapons (at any rate, its heavier ones) at Camp Ashraf after the American invasion. This has irritated several national governments, especially the British and French ones, which think the PMOI is a nasty nuisance and its presence on their soil bad for relations with both Iraq and Iran.
The outfit is still officially deemed a terrorist organisation in the United States but has a fierce lobby there too, backed by a mix of neoconservatives and leftists, that accepts at face value the group’s insistence that it is a secular and democratic movement with mass support in Iran and a real chance of eventually displacing the mullahs’ regime. Its lobby in Europe is much exercised by recent statements of Muwafaq al-Rubaie, Iraq’s national security adviser, who makes it plain he wants the camp disbanded and its people sent abroad, mostly to Iran, whose rulers have become more vociferous in calling its fellow reigning Shias in Baghdad to send them back.
The PMOI has a sophisticated network of ardent supporters. Without a doubt, its voice of despairing outrage will rise to a squeal if the Americans give way to Iraqi and Iranian demands to cut the movement loose. But it may happen.
--------My Comment :
And yet again many questions rose that why an organisation needs to be so complicated and hard to study ? Why do they need to send innocent children to be grown up in environments that they can serve the organization well enough later !!!! Why couple are forced to divorce and give up their children ??? Why members are cut off from their families and lots of more questions that remains not answered, because PMOI is not a democratic group with a clear background and a clear future plans. They lie directly in their TV and yet they expect people to believe them. Of course they need to misuse the innocent children of their followers as there is no new followers joining them ... I wish some of the politicians would give it a 2nd thought giving such a group reputation to stand and rise ...
This group is an actual danger no matter where they are ...
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
We Are All Gonna Die ...
Take a look @ the biggest photo of the world with 100 meter length and 78 cm width. The name of the shots is We Are All Gonna Die by Simon Høgsberg.
We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence
The image to the right is 100 meters long (100 m x 78 cm).
There are 178 people in the picture. All people were shot from the same spot on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer 2007.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Spring in Tehran ...
Spring in Tehran is not usually as the photo below shows but strange things happens !!! Photo is taken from Trekearth.com and is taken by Siamak Jafari.
Sizdah Be-dar(Getting Rid of 13), end of Norouz festival
Sīzdah be-dar or Sēzdah ba-dar (Persian سیزده بدر, lit. "getting rid of thirteen") is the Iranian Festival of "Joy and Solidarity" celebrated on the 13th day of the new year and the month of Farvardin (corresponding to April 1 or 2, depending on leap or non-leap year), the last day of the Nowruz (Iranian New Year)festival. This is the last phase of the New Year's celebrations which begins with the fire festival of Chaharshanbe Suri of the Persian New Year. The custom is to spend the day outdoors e.g., in the parks or the countryside. It is believed that "Joy" and "Laughter" clean the mind from all evil thoughts, and the picnic is usually a festive or happy event. In 2008, Sizdah-bedar coincided with April 1[1]. 
In modern times people go to parks, have a picnic and throw their sabzeh – the sprouts they grow near the beginning of Nowruz - into a river, symbolizing the cycle of life. Some girls also tie the sprouts of sabzeh on this day, symbolizing their wish for good fortune in life and love. Some people also pull practical jokes and tell white lies on this day, calling it the thirteenth lie (this is very similar to April Fools). People will also release goldfish into a pond.
Usually in big cities it would be hard to find a place to sit at the park as you can see in the pictures, there is a huge traffic going on ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
INF2310, Digital Image Processing exam ...
I took my image processing exam today. It was totally a mess and I didn't do good today ... I think the exam was not the right type of exam for a closed book exam as it contained a lot of questions that didn't have anything to do with understanding but to memorizing every single useless formulas ...
I already have sent an email to both teachers and complained and thanked them for a very good formula based exam which was not designed to check our understanding but our brain ability to memorize stuffs(even after they told us that we don't need to memorize formulas!) ...
Shahab,
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