Marche sur mes yeux

After about 2 or 3 years that i did not read any book ,last night i see a book which was a free Persian version of a book named "walk on my eyes",the book was originally publish in French in the publisher and writers publish the Persian version of it  freely on the internet.
Writers are tow western journalist who worked in Iran for years . They started a project about happy Iranians that they face  during the years that they worked in Iran  but their  project have a coincidence with what happened in Iran after last damn presidential election,the  book briefly introduce Iran society  ,it  covers most aspect of Iran from  leaders and politic to Iran's youth fever for a nose job or even how a Basiji thinks when he beats people on streets . the book  is so interesting and easy  for read, the reader really enjoy it , i really enjoy the sense of humor of writers about how they see Iranians and and their behavior . As i wrote the book was my first book that  i read after a long time and also i must added that i read the whole 444 pages from midnight to 5 a.m of morning,so weird,huh ? my first book and my first post on my blog after a long time!

Iran’s sanctions

let’s talk about Obama's policy toward Iran and Iran's leaders response.

first of all i must say that i am not in favor of Iran's leaders in resisting to start dialouge with united state and i have no doubt that their resisting because they will see their legitimacy in danger if relation between 2 country become common like other countries so they give many points and priorities to other world powers such as china and Russia to support them in cold war between them and US.

but also let me say that i see Obama's policy toward Iran paradoxical from beginning .Obama says "we will extend a hand if you are willing to un-clench your fist"

Obama every new Persian year send message to Iranians and Iran's leaders and ask lets forgot all bitter events in the last 30 years and start a new age for tow nation and 2 countries .but as an Iranian who live inside Iran frankly i must say Obama policy is only a blah blah ! policy and in 1.5 year we all see no practical act as sign for a change .for example US.S could allow Iran to buy new civil planes to reduce air crash in Iran or let peaceful technology such as new generation mobile network or new IT devices such as smart phones ,laptop easily without any sanction use by Iranians or even other technologies such as new cars or medical devices and….

let’s be honest Iran has a big population of young people which they are seeking new opportunities and new thoughts so more hard sanction only could help young generation will absorb by fundamental thoughts but if they put in a free society and environment with modern and useful devices and technology such as broadband internet they will not believe all of the words by Iran's leaders .in other hand more sanction caused more terrible economic crisis in middle class families in Iran that goes society to hibernate situation that the only thing which is important for families is their basic needs so there is no time to think to other needs such as freedom or education or what reason caused this situations for their poverty.

Stop all kind of sanction against Iran for democracy

after month of suspension ,the negotiation between Iran and 5+1 countries will begins in Geneva. Iran says we are not negotiated any more about our nuclear activity and in other side of  table 5+1 speak about more sanction and even a military attack if Iran didn't suspend its uranium enrichment . especially  US and EU threat Iran with tougher sanctions such as some limitations in importing gas and other oil product!!!  to Iran.

as an Iranian i  think there is no benefit in tougher sanction for both side , sanction has no power  to force Iran to suspend its nuclear activity and other demands of west from Iran for example about Iran position in middle east crisis and in other hand more sanction only affects in Iranian people life for example an expense  in their life and spread hate in Iranian society from west when people see sanction cause more plane crash and death of their friends or even when many youth see they cannot use and download many simple software because they see an error like “sorry you are from a forbidden country “.

so i  recommend west stop  all of kind of sanction against Iran  and give more initiative recommendations to Iranian  cause i believe an open relation with modern world cause an open society for Iranians  and then democracy for Iran and empower more  middle class people in Iranian society  people day by day. people  who  know aspects of modern life and know how to use technology  in a long term.

Green miracle is alive

After about 3 month in tension we are spend calm days  in Iran or it is better i say situation in Iran is more like  a big fire underneath of ashes . many  people are in prison including  ordinary people and leaders of oppositions and many journalists.

oppositions newspaper are shut down and some few that are still published are under heavy pressure and their content must approved by authorities before they could send their newspaper to print house for publishing.

government TV and radio which are the only legal TV and radio station in Iran are broadcast  protesters and oppositions  courts widely and show to the people these decent men and women in pajamas who are confess against themselves and their beliefs exactly after tow month that they were held  in sole cell in prison . every night they shows special reports that try to convince people that there were not any fraud in election ,there were not any systematic torture or rape!!!! in prison ,they were not shooting to people in demonstrations !!!!

maybe you cannot see more protest in street but you can reads slogans in green on the walls of streets  or on phone booth or you could see green bands which are  hang from green trees in parks or every day you could listened to more songs and read  more poems or watch more green movement  clips!! on YouTube  or other sites on internet in support of green movement in Iran and even   you could see people are speak  about  a mass protest in an annual  governmental demonstration in favor of Palestinian people but they want wear green show “V”  with their hands.

as i said the situation are like a fire beneath of ashes like what the world saw as how  millions of people held  biggest demonstration in Iran  exactly one day after election without any media and organize it only on internet with their Twitter and Facebook accounts in protest of fraud in election and what they experienced in past by Iran's leaders.

Where is My vote?

people ask me why i don't write here more especially when Iran is in all of headlines in the world .first of all my weblog is filtered in Iran and then i must confess i wrote a long post in favor of Mousavi before election but good or bad that post accidentally deleted and my silence on my weblog continue .

i voted to Mousavi and to camping for him and tried convince more people to vote for him but it was really hard especially in the district that i live in Tehran, our district is downtown and here many people supported for Ahmadinnejad , here and in villages and small towns ahmadinejad are so popular among people because his campaign speak about corruption!!!in last 30 years so people who suffer from poverty and injustice in their social life see him as a hero .

so victory of ahmadinejad was predictable but what is so mysterious is the number of votes that every candidates could get for example no one could predict Ahamadinejad win election with 24 million vote and Karoubi only get 300,000,000 votes.

anyway results was very mysterious and at least 30% of voters to mousavi came to streets, people who most of them are educated and and want a modern life .they protest with silent rallies for their votes but Government could not tolerant for more than 4 days and on 5th day they repress people violently .they use basij militia to restrain protesters .basij is a people organized militia in Iran and many people who are loyal to revolution are registered in this militia ,so as you see government repress a segment(at least 30%) of own people with another part of people in Iran society and this is what i am scared from it . they are trying spread hate among people in Iran .they try to say protester are belong to up level people from uptowns and others who votes to Ahmadinejad are middleclass people and “It is a confrontation and war between poverty and wealth” and this is very dangerous for future of our society.

I wanna be apathetic but…

My weblog is restricted by my isp (wrongly or by purpose !)and it is so hard FOR ME to write in a weblog that cannot access to it .

these days media(weblogs , newspapers and even governmental radio and tv) are really under pressure by government of Mr. Ahmadinejad .the govement is trying very hard to controlled circle of press in society, for example they arrested a blogger who write for the first time about dogs of security team of Mr. president in his blog.

sometimes I told to myself "don’t think to these bullshit anymore ,leave Mr. president to himself, let him and his men to do everything the wish, leave your country to him and let yourself enjoy many things which are waiting for you!!!”

Competition to watch more!

when you are alone in a big house naturally you have more time to watch movie and read the books which you haven't enough time to read and watching them before.

I also started to watch some American series .first season of ugly betty full seasons of sex and city and also 2 seasons of desperate housewives.

last night I watch a weird movie ."Life of others" a film about eastern Germany and secret agents of national security of DDR .the film won Oscar of foreign movie this year.

I have the same feelings that I had after reading 1984.

I really confused and bewildered after seeing similarity of this movie with where I am living .

in film you hear exactly same quotes about country and society and serving to your country with helping to government ,also same agents who have a top access to every angle of life of other people to protect "the country" or similarity of being few model of cars in streets in both countries.

and ...

False propaganda

if your an American citizen today I wanna told you a fact about your government . VOA or voice of America (Persian service) are wasting  your tax money these days.

VOA Persian service television is not a neutrally media for Iranians rather is a media full of lies and news that is not reflect truth.and its programs are more comedy instead a real political program.

VOA also covers Iran news extremely darkly like Iran official television (tow end of a spectrum) but I belive that everything is grey (not white not black)

people who run  the TV which board casts Washington policy ! are some Iranian men and women that last memory of them from Iran is about 30 years ago when they fled form Iran after revolution and clearly supports monarchy and the last kingdom  density of Iran (Pahlavi).

many Iranians when get  tired from boring TV programs of IRIB and decide to see a comedy program they watched VOA TV programs and laugh to experts who speaks about Iran in roundtables.

Our right to know restrict, day by day

I really don't know how many times I wrote a post about censorship and restriction of freedom of expression in Iran what that really I suffer about it and upset me more than everything in Iran.

Their attitude is really strange usually for a period of time the leave everything by its own and these days their attack is begin again.

1-they come to our house and ask us to give them our satellites and if we refuse their request, hard punishment is waiting for us.

2-they crack down another newspaper. Shargh most prominent reformist newspaper was crack down yesterday .they close our newspaper which we used to read it every day but today my only choices in news station were governmental newspapers.

3-tonight a subtitle rolls on bottom of our TVs. it was a government statement about Iranian cinema, exactly the day after cinema national day in Iran. The statement says from today movie producers shouldn't advertise their movies on satellite channels Otherwise they banned the movies!

4-Iran have maximum 15% Internet users but limitation of Internet is very strict .they scanned and filtered our requests on Internet. They restricted us in many ways for example:

1. They filtered hundreds of sites only if views have little different with official views.
   
2. They are restricted us on Internet with slow dial ups lines. It is a secret policy in Iran.”High speed lines are only sufficient for government offices or big company. We must restricted people as more as we could so we try the keep expensive charge of using Internet.
   
3. some prominent sites which are filterd in iran : flickr,technorati,orkut,youtube,blogrolling and...

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Be National

We must have for everything a national version AND I really don’t understand why. We have national car, national engine, national dress, national plane, national media and….

Most of these nationalities are not economical but they are still persisting on this policy:

So ladies and gentlemen I introduce you our last product
National internet (N.I)
Yes even our internet is national .we want to spend 1 milliard $ for set up this amazing internet for you in Iran.
We want when ever we decide switch off Iran connection with outer world without any disrupting in our E-government services (yes we know and have E-Government in Iran) .
With national internet (N.I) there is no need for yahoo or Google for you. We have national chat rooms in (N.I) that we could guide you in these rooms. What? You need international! Internet for researching?
- Why don’t you use books like 20 years ago?
With N.I there is no need we waste our money for buying filtering software from American companies for blocking sites which detour you from our heaven .
With this example you found how N.I is important for our Independence:
when you email a letter or request for a Iranian site there is no need that letter or the request first goes to united state (because we have not backbone and hosting ) and read or record by CIA agents then comeback to Iran . In N.I only our agents read your letter and record your activates on the net.
- So please support us in this national project for more independence from the west countries
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many sites block in iran ,sites that are not nor poitical or neither erotic
BBC persian
flickr
Blogrolling
orkut
...
and a lot of personal weblogs.

Because of freedom you can insult me

I really bewildered when i see these paradoxes. if newspaper reprint these offensive cartoons about PROPHET MOHAMMAD for insisting that they have freedom of speech so could you in comments put a link to a newspaper that printed an offensive cartoon about Jesus ?
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Danish paper rejected Jesus cartoons
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Update: when i saw attack to embassy of Denmark in Damascus i said to myself i am sure such action never happen in Iran. but today when i saw people climbed form wall of Denmark embassy i really embarrassed .

Access to Requested URL is Denied.

Every moment that I face with this ( f..king) error I really felt that I could killed who want take me to heaven with this kind of works.
Why I cannot use useful sites such
orkut , flickr or blogrolling . I am tired that others decide for me that how I must live .
if you can pls help iranian users.

spread it...

Farshid Faraji, an independent Iranian cameraman, who was arrested by the American military forces in Iraq,” is missing. Faraji, who entered Iraq on May 2nd, 2005 with valid visa and proper documents to complete the filming of the documentary, “In Search of Cyrus, the Great,” does not appear on the Red Cross list. While the Red Cross has registered the arrest of Koroush Kar, the producer of the film, there is no information available about Farshid Faraji’s whereabouts.After shooting scenes in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Turkey, Faraji and Kar entered Iraq, in order to film the historical site of Babylon, but lost contact with their families after the first week of entering Iraq.
Koroush Kar contacted his family and notified them that the he and Faraji were arrested on May 19th, 2005. Farshid Faraji’s family, who is gravely concerned about his safety, has not been able to find any information about Farshid from the Red Cross and the Iranian authorities.Iranian filmmakers and advocacy groups are putting pressure on the Iranian government to take appropriate steps to find Farshid Faraji.
We are asking the United States government to provide Fashid’s family with information about their son’s arrest. We believe that while Farshid is being interrogated, his family has the right to know about his status and his whereabouts.Thank you.

People who are concerned about Farshid Faraji and his family

Fence!

judge!

Do you know Ghazi (judge!) Morttazavi ?
He is young at last 36 and he isn’t tall( maximum 165 cm).his accent… (i'd rather don't stalk about his accent) . but he is very lucky. I remember him from 10 years ago when he was judge of newspapers court.
After election in 1997 we smelled something like freedom there was a lot of new newspapers with new voices but someday someone had a speech and said that he saw hands of traitors in these new presses.
That night the man of our story can’t sleep, he opened all book law that he had and at last he found a law for 50 years ago. The law allowed government arrest criminal! before they commit a crime!Tomorrow morning Ghazi Mortazavi closed about 100 newspapers and magazine with that law.His award for finding this appropriate law! was choose as top man of judiciary of Tehran. Now he has enough power so he uses it to preserve country from foreigners and spies .he arrested Zahra Kazemi who were a foreigner too! (I think all of you know about her fate)
he arrested journalists and helped them think in solitary prisons about what they done against country so all them thought and found that such devil they been before they were a prisoner! at last trick of Ghazi Mortazavi he ordered to all ISPs to block sites like orkut (because it connect spies to each other) free services for blogging like persianblog (they allowed spies wrote information which they achieve in Iran) blogrolling (because it allowed intelligence services found who spy found new information) and many political! and erotic! popular sites like those and if they didn’t block he will block and shut themselves.
Zahra Kazemi Iranian Canadian journalist who murdered in prison .

A predictor

1984

Oh my god I cannot believe it .the book describe exactly what i experience here.
Somewhere I read that George Orwell wrote this book against soviet. But I think all dictators read it before making their country

Magic prisons

Some journalists that be active on net arrested by Iran judiciary 3 month ago many people and NGO complain to this arresting. Now after about 3 month most of them released .but what is interesting is that when all of them released Fars news agency (who belongs to judiciary) published a letter with their signs I am very sorry that I cannot translate these pure satire
Prisons in Iran are really strange, you enter as an opposition of regime and after 3 month you came out as a supporter. You publish a letter and ask people and leader forgive you and thanks who keep you in prison for 3 month to force you think about what did you do and treat with Islamic behavior! with you. And at last of your letter you swear to your friends who try to release you and ask them please never support you again to release you from prison because Iran magic prisons are a good place fro thinking about your past and found that why you be a spy!.

Iran a far away island

Censor in Iran theses days are more than before
They bought a new and powerful software from U.S.A that worth 7 million $ for filtering in internet(I wish they spend this money for providing high speed internet for Iranian instead of this software ).
Now I am understanding why they did not do any thing to bring high speed internet for Iranian .in their ideas internet is a bad thing and disturbing tool that they forgot forbidden it but now they decide to eliminate it .maybe they think internet speed is height in Iran .
They also forbidden using satellite .u as an Iranian has to watch what they want
I think all of u know about closing newspaper in Iran these days. They again closed 2 reformist newspaper last day (VAGHAYEH JOMHOURIAT) .they were new reformist newspaper that they published maximum for only 50 days. Some says these newspapers closed because that did not want reformist news paper can publish nesses about ZAHRA KAZEMI trial.
I think now u can understand that they want preserving us like a “Robinson “in a far island.

IRIB

Ali Larijani one of top men of conservatives getting ready for next presidential election in next year so he dismiss from administering of IRIB (Iran broadcasting) by leader.
IRIB is biggest origination in Iran with a massive budget.
They say that IRIB responsible for our culture against Cultural invasion. (Cultural invasion is a word that they make for abroad culture).
IRIB has monopoly in TV and radio in Iran .and had most popular newspaper of Iran also IRIB has one of biggest book and multimedia publisher in Iran.
Reformists say that because IRIB is under control of conservatives they cannot success contact with people. and the only media that reformist have is newspapers that with order of leader most of them close in 2000 year .it is simple to understand that this game is unfair .conservatives have biggest media in Iran and reformist only have a few newspaper.