tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43786878394050645532024-03-14T03:28:56.783+00:00neo-resistanceThis blog is about fairness; about looking at objects from multiple perspectives. Stable transformation comes only slowly; and only if the environment is free of sporadic jitters of passion and anger that destabilize growth. I strongly believe that the path to peace crosses through the battle with self.Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comBlogger939125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-34276217639454228812016-09-21T14:27:00.002+01:002016-09-21T14:27:24.582+01:00What do you mean by "the Iranian regime"?This post is motivated by a (non-Iranian) friend of mine lecturing me on the significance of a Queer and Feminist protest in front of an Ismaili-funded research institution, with the aim to help liberate some poor woman who is rotting in some Iranian jail on the charges of enabling the anti-sharia feminists. She, who I suspect knows close to nothing about Iran, talked about "the regime" in such aNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-74099947990063011572016-07-05T02:05:00.003+01:002016-07-06T04:01:53.374+01:00Goodbye Kiarostami: The man of LIFE AND NOTHING BUT.
I never wrote about him ...
I wrote about Mehrjui, and about Baizai, but not about him because the world had already discovered him when I learned to write in English.
I discovered him when I was a renegade 18-year old poet and skipped my Electrical Engineering classes, to snuggle in the back of the Cinemas Asre-Jadid (Modern Times), near my university and to discover cinema with Tarkovsky andNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-63460260404092054242016-01-11T17:39:00.001+00:002016-01-11T22:24:35.451+00:00Iranian News Agencies React: "The LEGENDARY David Bowie passed away"One wouldn't expect that the official Iranian News Agencies be reacting to the passing of a bisexual British artist. Indeed IRNA and ISNA didn't, but the most conservative news outlet in Iran, FarsNews, did.
Fars News even sounded revealingly about the timeless artists: "Davie Bowie, the famous British musician passed away." "According to the music reporter of the Fars News, David Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-54194321691691988712016-01-07T20:47:00.005+00:002016-01-07T20:47:49.052+00:00Saudis versus ISIS: Better-Dressed Jihadis
Investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s.
In a recent exclusive for the Consortium News, he writes:
For generations, U.S. officials have averted their eyes from Saudi Arabia’s grotesque monarchy – which oppresses women, spreads jihadism and slaughters dissidents – in a crude trade-off of Saudi oil for Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-25409818510329245272015-11-18T02:18:00.003+00:002015-11-18T02:18:29.860+00:00We cannot deny asylum
We can't deny asylum ... we can't deny asylum ... we have every right and responsibility to quarantine and screen any ship that arrives to our shores, but we cannot deny asylum ...
I remember when I was 8, and when the night went dark, and the radio said that Iraq attacked, and I started into the sky into my favorite stars waiting for a fast shiny object to pierce the night, scared, listening Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-9650448263252723022015-07-20T04:15:00.001+01:002015-07-20T04:18:13.477+01:00Ramadan & I
I have been thinking of my grandmother lately; perhaps because of Ramadan. We woke up before dawn, to pray and to eat--as is common to do in preparation for fasting. We didn't fast always, but the dawn prayer call would wake us up and it was a pleasant spiritual experience--which I miss despite all my religiouslessness. In my life I have fasted a total of 13 days, 3 of them when I was 11--and noNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-67994169868881008972015-07-14T14:11:00.001+01:002015-07-15T03:21:20.355+01:00Let's negotiate!If I was a cartoonist, I would draw a Greek oracle and a Persian poet, towering over Merkel holding a stash of cash and Kerry hugging Israel as a crying baby holding a nuclear missile as a toy, and saying "ok kids, let's negotiate."
But I am not!
So I have this to say:
First, I agree with Zarif that this was an unnecessary crisis over nothing.
Second, I don't understand who decides thatNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-79606879450608997312015-06-24T19:59:00.002+01:002015-07-14T22:19:05.578+01:00Racism!
Racism is on my mind:
Illegal migrants in Europe; Confederate flag; White supremacist massacres; ISIS massacres; The friend who thinks my Hijab as a muslim woman is repulsive. My being repulsed by the oppression I assume the Hassidic girls in my neighborhood suffer. The proto-fascist new-rich "French" neighbors who have moved into the 'recently hip' areas and feel entitled to stop Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-80226009521711069652015-05-22T13:13:00.003+01:002015-05-22T13:13:55.934+01:00# 175 Martyred DiversBy Hassan Gholamali Fard #175 ﺷﻬﻴﺪﻏﻮﺍﺹ
Translation: Naj of Neoresistance
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I could hold my breath the longest.
Mohammad who was the funniest of us used to say: "The oxygen in your capsule is untapped." Sometimes we competed in holding our breath. I was the last to let go. This is why I was the permanent member of any operations depending on silence and camouflage.
"Death inNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-54051517584676305182015-05-13T15:06:00.000+01:002015-05-13T15:08:23.670+01:00How I Learned to Relax and Not Worry About the BombNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-45251041665289256102015-03-17T03:27:00.001+00:002015-03-17T03:27:15.370+00:00Dumbocracy in action: Tom Cottonball wants to stop Iran because 'they already control Tehran'Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-90791343382128131092015-03-12T18:21:00.002+00:002015-03-12T18:33:40.445+00:00With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends?
I can't have enough fun with this.
I highlight the parts that make me laugh my heart out!
Enjoy!
Source: Website of the IRanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
"in our view, this letter has no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy. It is very interesting that while negotiations are still in progress and while no agreement has been reached, some political pressure groups are so Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-71999379690330782942015-01-11T10:37:00.005+00:002015-01-11T10:37:56.260+00:00How to fear Islam without Islamophobia!Yesterday, a friend asked: how can you fight Islamophobia while at the same time maintaining your position against the atrocities that are committed by the Islamic States?
It is really hard! It is particularly hard for people like me who have no religion; who find ALL religions a source of mayhem and misery; who have no god, no angels. Nor any hell or heaven, other than history and hope, Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-62757148625741361582014-08-11T16:55:00.002+01:002014-08-11T16:55:49.684+01:00War-profiteers who donate to "United Against Nuclear Iran"Salon has just turned in a piece of investigative journalism, drawing attention to a likely link between the former US diplomat in the UN, Mark Wallac (who is the current executive director of UNAI) and the billionaire Thomas Kaplan, the proponent if speculative investment in precious metals. Salon's piece suggests that these groups profit financially from increasing tensions between Iran and theNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-63286723808236483702014-08-05T21:44:00.000+01:002014-08-05T21:44:00.191+01:00Iran's tally: "Two big losers of the Gaza war"
I have been perplexed by a lack of mentioning of the name Iran, in all ping-pong allegations between Israel and Hamas; and who is funding who and is colluding with whom. Today, I saw FP pointing at Saudi Arabia and Turkey as US allies who also fund Hamas, but again no mention of Iran.
Some speculate that the recent war on Gaza, to be more precise, Natanyahu's defiance of international law and Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-44636076730510401772014-07-24T05:19:00.002+01:002014-08-05T22:23:53.344+01:00Even the "oppressed" Iranians are protesting to the recent Gaza massacres
And is the women in the front row the mother of Ashkan Sohrabi?
And is is Isa Saharkhiz who is standing next to Jafar Panahi?
You know who is not protesting? Some of the "self-acclaimed Iranian's human right defenders " (the sort who gets into frenzy to collect signatures to stop execution of this or that), and is on some form of Democracy-fund payroll!
Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-88960558038260169472014-05-10T23:10:00.006+01:002014-05-11T12:31:13.931+01:00This is Iran, and her women!Three news titles have caught my attention today and I found them neo-resistance worthy:
1) The Iranian government has appointed the forth female governor in another one of Iran's rural (and interestingly, Sunni) regions. I will post her picture when I find it, but the previous three are:
(1) Masoomeh Parandwar (Sistan & Baluchestan, Hamoun)
(2) Homeyra Rigi (Sistan & Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-41912513628015954052014-03-21T01:52:00.003+00:002014-03-21T03:12:50.952+00:00Are you wondering about Norouz etiquette?
Between March 15-April 1st; you are likely to witness a certain level of excitement in your Iranian (or other Persian) friends and colleagues. It is because their new year starts at the moment of Spring Equinox. The equinox fall on March 20 or 21st, and this day is called Norouz, nowrouz or Norooz. Since 2010, this day has made it to the UNESCO's list of world's cultural heritages. This Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-91163401105858149962014-03-20T20:34:00.000+00:002014-03-20T20:34:45.865+00:00Happy 1393!
Well, I made a little error decorating Ash Reshteh, and thought it's year 1394!!
It's quite funny that for an entire year, I have been thinking that I am one year older than what I actually am!
I pray for peace.
This is a year that I am very optimist. Not just about Iran, but about the whole world. I think we are AWAKENING. We have avoided many wars; and we don't seem to be so war- and Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-65733625580955951332013-11-24T03:59:00.002+00:002013-11-24T06:21:19.957+00:00Obama, why did you have to speak in such a way to make me vomit?!So this will be the big headline on Sunday:
Iran and 5+1 reached a deal!
Good!
But Obama, I listened to your live address, and, not exaggerating, not figuratively speaking, I vomited and shouted "Eff you USA!"
I know your address was to appease your rabid dog in Tel Aviv; and his puppies in Congress. I know you KNOW that I ran is not after any nuclear weapon, and you know what if it were, it Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-30707773440652556012013-09-28T05:18:00.000+01:002013-09-28T13:14:41.434+01:00Something bigger than a phone call, after 35 years ...
A few days ago, at about the same time that the president of Iran was landing in NYC, I hovered above Manhattan, heading South to Florida, armored to fight an old battle. Comfortably seated in front of a large Boeing, looking down on the green land of the New England, the Potomac river, the Philadelphia farms--the Empire, densely populated with a republic who champions and cherishes freedom Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-86482993993723836602013-09-24T15:35:00.002+01:002013-09-24T15:35:47.278+01:00September 24, 2013, at 10:34 AM: GO OBAMA GO!I have goosebumps ...
I can just say Obama's speech has left me speechless ...
R E S P E C T !Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-92161330252759289322013-06-22T16:12:00.003+01:002013-06-23T19:17:37.698+01:00Follow the Anti-NeoCon neo-resistance on facebookCanada has got a group of not-so-talented NeoCons running it these days. They provided an exemplar model of hypocrisy. To debunk a few of their myths, vis a vis "The Iranian Crisis", a collection of related links, and mini-analyses are presented on this page:
We are Ashamed of Harper's Foreign Policy
https://www.facebook.com/AshamedOfHarpersForeignPolicy
Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-50652677750224931182013-06-18T22:29:00.003+01:002013-06-19T06:04:46.705+01:00Exposing Canada's hypocrisy in calling the Iranian election 'meaningless'
This is a letter to PM steven Harper and his righthand man in foreign affairs, John Baird.
Mr John Baird & PM Steven Harper
In response to the momentous victory of the Iranian people in another historical election held on June 14 2013, you have shed crocodile tears for our "freedom" and have followed to call our election "effectively meaningless".
Sir, what is effectively Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-25889013434016741872013-06-15T17:10:00.001+01:002013-06-15T17:10:25.690+01:00IRAN, Congratulations!Someone said last night:
"When all around you are in chaos and you are able to maintain a sense of order, you have won. My respect to the people of Iran, no matter who wins."
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