Feel like an Iranian

18 TIR ( 8 July) Gerami Bad

2004-07-07T13:02:00.000+03:00

At that night the barbaric government-related armed forces entered Tehran university dormitory and ...
One minute silence!

Be Salamti!

2004-07-01T02:31:00.000+03:00

A funny thing is that Iranians (according to a study conducted by university of Pennsylvania) were the first who prepared and drank wine with their food. During an excavation by Mary M. Voigt at the site of Hajji Firuz Tepe in the northern Zagros Mountains of Iran, a jar, with a volume of about 9 liters (2.5 gallons) was found together with five similar jars embedded in the earthen floor along one wall of a "kitchen" of a Neolithic mudbrick building, dated to ca. 5400-5000 B.C. (see also)

Drinking wine is not that much popular in Iran anymore for two reasons: It is not sufficiently availabe. People are getting addicted to drinks with higher Alcoholic percentages!!!!

Firstly, making, selling and drinking wine is prohibited by the RELIGIOUS Government. Therefore there is not that much wine available. People don't have enough time to make it or They want to prevent any potential conflict with the government. Also, the negligible supply of wine, makes it a luxurious and expensive beverage that most of the people can not offord!

Secondly, due to the slight supply and high prices and also bad economical situations, people use "more" available, "worse" quality and "stronger" beverages! And therefore they don't enjoy drinking wine with only 5-12% Alcohol anymore! They are addicted! They hurt themselves and they don't know what they are doing!!!

CONCLUSION: If Iranian were used to drink, nothing even the RELIGION can not keep them from doing so. The point is that this kind of prohibitions, not only do not ameliorate the situation but it worsen it! At that time people used to drink a little bit of wine with their dinner, nowaday people have to swallow two gallons of 40% alcohol into their bodies to be satisfied!!!

2004-06-15T12:49:00.000+03:00

Arabian neighbors of Iran claim some of our most important islands.(ghabele tavajohe undaste az iruniha ke shoare globalization va dusti ba arabha ro midan!)

we have an expression in farsi stating that" each person should talk proportionate to its mouth!!!

Baba jun, akhe just have a look on these statistics:

Qatar
total area: 11,437 sq km (water: 0 sq km,land: 11,437 sq km )
population 817,052 (July 2003 est.) and independence day 3 September 1971 (from UK)

united Arab emirates
total area: 82,880 sq km (land: 82,880 sq km, water: 0 sq km )
population 2,484,818 (includes an estimated 1,606,079 non-nationals) and independence day 2 December 1971 (from UK)

Just compare it to our Iran:
total area: 1.648 million sq km ( land: 1.636 million sq km ,water: 12,000 sq km )
population: 68,278,826 (July 2003 est.)

HOW CAN THEY CLAIM IRAN'S TERRITORIES!!! HOW CAN THEY FIND THEMSELVES IN THIS POSITION AT ALL!!!! THEY USE THE BAD IRANIAN FOREIGN RELATIONSHIP AND WANT TO MAKE THE BEST OUT OF IT!!! DO YOU THINK WE CAN EVER LEARN TO LIKE ARABS????

2004-06-01T22:42:00.000+03:00

You work, you get experienced, you become a manager, you retire! You work, you get...

In Iran, the educational system lacks efficiency! Each time a new engineer starts working, without any managerial knowledge. S/he learns these issues by experiencing them. S/he does not know what has been done and what should be done. S/he goes exactly the same way as the previous engineering generation has gone through, the ones that could have or better to say, should have written their gained experiences and knowledge for the next generation. Learning these experiences again and again cost our nation money and time and is a threat to our development.

I am reading a book called "Process management" written by Hans de bruijn. In this book, which is taught in the universities here, you see that detailed information is given to students about issues that may seem insignificant to us. They teach them to open their eyes. To see the evil part of the organizations. They teach them how to have strategists behavior, how to get information through relation channels, how to be evil!!! So a student that is graduating from the university, without having any working experience can be a good manager!.S/he knows how different parties will react in the process of decision making and how S/he has to react to gain as much as possible!

This is what the Iranian engineers, managers and decision makers know when they are 50 years old! PAY ATTENTION TO THE DIFFERENVE BETWEEN 50 AND 25 YEARS!!!

2004-05-31T12:59:00.000+03:00

After 3 days non-stop working, finally we finished the discrete system modeling project and I feel sooo released! During this project I learned that all the students are the same all around the world!
"cooking the results" when you can not reach the correct ones at the deadline, IS ALWAYS AN OPEN OPTION. It doesn't matter if you are Iranian or not:)

2004-05-24T16:46:00.000+03:00

Besides disadvantages, developing countries have also some information and consequently cost advantages compared with developed countries!
Today I read some materials about the liberalization of Telecom industry in the mid-1980's. Around that time Japan, UK and US decided to liberalize their telecom industries each because of completely different reasons. Changing the telecom monopoly to a competitive market created lots of ups and downs for the industry all over the world. Finally this liberalization crashed; simply because the industry had no more cash and suffered from overcapacity building and unsustainable debt. A clear lesson learned from the crash is that after liberalizing industries like telecom that are capital-intensive, the government should still keep its regulatory, supportive and interventionist role to a certain limit in order to ensure proper behavior of the market.
I think Iranian decision makers and policy analysts can use these experiences in their development strategies and prevent the same mistakes in Iran in the future.

2004-05-23T18:24:00.000+03:00

The weather is soooo nice today! good for going out and having an icecream! But I have to stay at home and study Economics!!! That's really a biiigggg pittttyyyyyy!
Exactly the times that I have to study and have lots of things to do, I feel like walking, doing sport, cooking, eating, sleeping!, dancing,... Anything else then studying!May be that's also something "perzish"!

2004-05-10T10:55:00.000+03:00

I write this part is response to a comment made by a friend of mine on the previous posted document. He asked if I am sure that Iranian chose Islam by force or not.
This issue was so sure for me that I did not provide any reference for it. Since I don't have that much time tonight (I have to work on an essay about "Confucianism"), I just give one reference that I have read but I promise to add more references to support my idea which is that after the invasion of Arabs Iranian chose to be moslims mostly for 2 reasons. firstly to protect their lives. secondly to not pay additional taxes called"jaziye" that non moslim people had to pay.

The following is a part in the book review of "THE IRANIANS: PERSIA, ISLAM, AND THE SOUL OF A NATION (1996)". To see the whole document click here.

" Mackey then proceeds to discuss one of the greatest paradoxes in history--the burgeoning disdain and resentment of the Arabs in Persia coupled with the ongoing impact and acceptance of Islam in Persia, despite its Arabic origins and military exportation. This paradox would become best embodied in the 10th century Persian poet, Ferdowsi, born in 935 near Mashhad in northeastern Iran. Undertaking a commission from the Mahmud of Ghazan, Ferdowsi proceeded to spend the next thirty five years penning the sixty-thousand line Shahnameh, the Book of Kings. The Shahnameh takes the reader through a linear line of a thousand years of history from the Achaemenids to the Sassanians, from the beginning of the Iranians to the intrusion of the Arabs. Mackey refers to the work as the poetÂ’s articulation of the "cosmic struggle over the complexity of the cultural conflict between pre-Islamic Iranian identity and Arab Muslim religious beliefs. . .Writtenten in the context of faith in Allah, the Shahnameh nonetheless resurrects Iranian identity within the world of Islam by celebrating the history and mythology of Persian kingship" (p. 62). And while the reader is encouraged throughout the narrative to see the development of the Shiite version of Islam, expressed in the belief in Ali (an Arab) as First Imam, Hossein, the martyred at Karbala in 680 as Third Imam, and Sufism and Twelver Shiism (p. 77-78) as other Persian adaptations and revisions of the original Arabic Sunni faith, the quoted, bitter words of Ferdowsi are striking in expressing the unresolved psychic, spiritual, and political paradox of Iranian nationalism accepting a foreign faith exported by sword as part of its ongoing identity:

Damn on this World, Damn on this Time, Damn on Fate,

That uncivilized Arabs have come to force me to be a Muslim (p. 63)."

2004-05-08T18:26:00.000+03:00

After Arabs invaded Iran, they killed a lot of Iranian and make them accept Islam (by pressure) as their religion (the previous religion of Persian was Zoroastrian). The scientific language during that period was Arabic and that is the reason that some of our reknown Persian scientists like Abu Ali Sina ( known as Avicenna in west) ,Zakaria Razi and Hakim omar khayyam are sometimes considered as Arab Moslem scientists. Because they have written some of their books in Arabic. The Arabs use these Persian scientists as well as many REAL Arab scientists from Syria and Marrakesh, to prove that Islam should have something in it that such scientists come out of it! I read a nice article about this issue. It Is worth reading it. click here

2004-05-07T13:11:00.000+03:00

I blame the current government of Iran of not taking care of Iranian assets (actually they not only don't do that but actually they are against anything that shows the Persian culture).
Anyway, previous week I saw one of the documentary reports of CNN by Hala Gorani about MOLVAI one of the most reknown Persian poets. They introduced him as a Turkish! Poet because his tomb is in Qonya,turkey ( which was in Persia at that time). All of his poets are in Persian language. I don't know how they concluded that he is Turk! If this happened in any other place of the world, in which the government and people trust and respect each other mutually, the government would have done something! But unfortunately our government is the biggest enemy of Persian culture!
I can not believe the a news agency such as CNN didn't know what it is saying in a report! I really believe that they did it by purpose and in this way hurt all the Iranian people.
you can learn about MOLAVI by reading Iran chamber society

2004-05-07T11:37:00.000+03:00

Yesterday night in a discussion with my Greek friend I realized that people here just because of for example the similarity between the names of Iran and Iraq or because of our religion think that we are Arabs. I don't have anything against Arabs. But we had hundreds of years fight with them and the last formal one was the war between Iran and Iraq and the informal war is still there between Iran and all Arabic countries, and also our current dictator government (for 25 years) is a religious government which gets its authority from the Arab prophet, it is obvious that in this situation no Iranian wants to be called an Arab. It is also a mutual feeling, meaning that Arabs also don't like to accept Iranian as Arabs!
It is the same feeling when you call a German, French or a Chinese, Japanese or a Greek, Turk ....

2004-05-07T11:26:00.000+03:00

During my studies in Europe, I learned that people here don't really know anything about Iran, Iranian and their history and culture. I doubted about starting this weblog in Farsi or English. I decided to do it in English so that other people from other nationalities also can read it and maybe in this way I could inform people ( even a small number of them) about the history of Iran ( Persia) and send them to some links or document that I find. By doing this I also do a progress in learning and remembering the history of my home country and also see other points of view.

We, the Iranian, should always remember that we had a great history but that does not mean that we should be proud of it and all the time claim that we was this and this. We should think really about what we are now. We have lost so many things. We should think about possible solutions to reach our goals which is being a prosperous nation. The history can just help us to be confident and remember that we like our antecedents can do great things and make a difference.