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This article was published in the the Bulletin Board of Jebhe Melli

Salaam,

I’ve read some of the letters written about Leila [Pahlavi]. Somebody said:

“Why some of us Iranians have to bring ourselves down to such lowest depths of humanity? ... Why do we have to prove that we are still a bunch of treacherous, inhuman and deeply callous characters? “

Isn’t Hatred one of the features of Irannian culture?

In theory, we hear a lot about:

	Irannians are ‘noble’ Aryan
	pendaareh nik, kerdareh nik, goftaareh nik
	Muslems are kind & don’t even step on ants
	Irannians often brag & look down at Americans/Canadians/Australians: “inhaa messleh maa taarikh nadaarand”
	Many articles with so much kind words in them: “nassihat”, “azizaaneh man”, “khaaharaan/baraadaraan”.
	if you fly, u’d be a bird; If you walk on water, you’d be stick; Love & be loved if you want to be somebody.

But in practice:

	In early days of Bahai, some were paraded in the city with lit candles inserted in holes made in their bodies. -Kasravi. what kind of ‘creatures’ would do this?!)
	It was said that Saavaaki’s were imported from Israel(coz mardomeh sharifeh Iran wouldn’t torture fellow Irannians!) Surely they must all have gone back by now, so there should not be any torture in Iran, right?
	Look at the chat forums of Irannians, it’s all swear words (goftaareh nik?) & hatred. And most of them have fake ID’s or names, WHY?!
	They can’t even organize a poetry night outside Iran due to hatred/Ego/arrogance/division.
	So much lies & hatred & division & killing. (my western friends make fun of me by mimiking me “I Killl U”, which made me realize that I say it too often(jokingly) & this is not common in the west)
	Every party/group HATES every other party/group.
	They always find a escapegoat: Shah/Fallaahian/...’They’ caused/forced the hatred/killing/torture. NO, it wasn’t Stalin who killed/tortured millions of Russians, it was the russian people who did it.
	Millions of them think all their female singers are whores. Others think they are filthy rich, yet others love their female singers to death.

Can we expect more from a culture that brags & takes pride in “Boro kaar meekon magoo chist kaar ...” ,

BUT in reality everyone knows that “Kaar maaleh Khareh”: If you work hard, you are KHAR-kaar if you study hard, you are KHAR-khoon the word for laborer is an insult: amaleh ?!

They either love you to death(usually after you are dead: the things they said/did to Neemaa; then they made him a hero after his death), or hate you to death. One way or another it’s always DEATH.

Look at how they treated their KING. I heard nothing but Jaavid-Shah for years & years. Everybody had his picture in their shops/offices, then all of a sudden blind-savage-hatred. Now somebody else’s picture has to be in every shop/office(till another cycle of hatred starts?)! I still remember seeing on TV some people holding & kissing pictures of valiahd, but look at them now? Can they be trusted? They are full of emotions that can be easily changed over night & explode & cause so much harm.

I remember some Iranian guy saying years ago to his kids “iraninaa hamisheh poshtet aadam harf dar miaaran.”

Once in a park I saw an Iranian father telling his child, who was trying to touch a bird, “nah baabaa joon dast nazan, sang bendaaz behesh”.

They burn a cinema full of people to blame the other party!

They start a bloody/savage war & fight it blindly & almost destroy the country. Then they go around blaming each other for starting it (or blame the Brits/US. Why were you stupid to be fooled?). They write books later & call each other names, but their ‘facts’ are so full of bias that you don’t know who to believe.

Even the big/super revolutionaries now write books saying they were so “hysterical” with the ‘fever of revolution’ that they didn’t see what was happening/coming. And accuse others of stealing the revolution.

It all seems to be full of Hate, begging (holy Imaams to fix their everyday trivial problems), mocking others (Torkeh x, rashtieh y, etc. So even oustside religion they don’t have ‘unity’) and mourning/azaadari over & over & over.

Even the music is so sad/rozehkhoony one minute, then explodes into dancing (read sinfull) rythem.

There is no middle ground, it is either too hot, or too cold. Everything is a sin: laughing, singing, dancing. But in a wedding anything goes & people go crazy: dance/sing/cry/... for hours.

Nothing is serious & there is no integrity: you lie, you cheat, you bribe, you beg.

“Sakht nageer baabaa, khosh baash, dammet garm”

In late 78 people used to say “come to my house tonight for ‘Allaho-Akbar-Baazi’” (going to the roof & shouting AA).

As if it was a joke, people going to demonstration & laughing & not having a clue what they were doing.

Same people who used to shout with all their being ‘Jaavid Shaah’, now say ‘Marg bar shaah’!?

I have met many who went to ‘tazaahoraat’, but now live in the west with 2 passports(which is not allowed) & say “maa nemydoonestim”. All lies/emotion/Ego/Gheyrat/mardaanegy/Fanatisizm/hatred/hysteria & no brain! Then they blame the ‘west’ for manipulating/buying/fooling them for over 100 Years!

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

To make things worst, the ‘facts’ seems to depend on whose side you are on. I saw one documentary where they showed a film of a young Russian woman lecturing the peasants in 1924 during Stalin times. Then she was shown in her old age talking with pride how she used to wear birch-bark sandals & didn’t have anything, but the revolution gave her everything, so she loved Stalin. Then another guy was saying how he suffered in the camps for years & how he hated Stalin because of it. Yet in another documentary, this Russian guy saying “no wonder we are a nation of thieves & murderers, we killed all our intellectuals & educated people in cold blood”.

The scorpion wants to cross the river and asks the frog if he can climb onto his back and have the frog swim across the stream. The frog says, well no because you will get excited & sting me. The scorpion says, no I wont. So the frog tells him to jump on his back, and together they swim to the middle of the river. Sure enough the scorpion gets excited & stings the frog. The frog says: see I told you this would happen, now we are both gonna die, what’s the logic behind this?

The scorpion says: we are in middle-east, you are looking for logic?

admzad

David Wrote:

Dear Admzad:

There are two groups who are against Pahlavis. One of them is the group who believes in Democracy Western style and believed that we should have had either parliamentarian or a Federal Republican system. These people believed in the distribution of power and a multi party system. They believed that the Pahlavis should have relied on their own people and should not have depended on the West. These are some legitimate concerns and should have been respected.

If this concerns where addressed properly and effectively, I believe we would have made much more progress. Also by addressing these issues, that would have helped to eliminate some of the excuses that other people with ill motives, use them in order to get what they want.

People in this group are industrious, hard working, law abiding and productive members of the society who have strong work ethics.

However there is also another group, which complains about Pahlavies. They are a group of people who are incompetent, lazy, leach, useless, violent, backward and ignorant people. The reason they complain about Pahlavies is simply because they could not keep up with the pace of the progress or they were stuck in the dark ages and could not come up to speed.

People in this group do not have any work ethics and are not willing to be a productive member of the society. They are just bunch of ‘Moft Khor’ and whenever you don’t feed them for free, they get up and start destroying the country and killing the people. They are overhead in the society.

These people would always complain. I don’t care what kind of governing system you bring in Iran, these people would always love to complain and blame some one. We should always ignore these people.

So it is important to distinguish these two groups and treat them differently.

Sepass