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what are you talking about iranians dont have bread. Iran is one of the best places to live in middle east.
i think the broke of relations because of something having to do with bahrain.
Iran doesnt want nuclear bomb they need the energy for there growing population. Iran is not gonna attack israel they seem to want to make israel into what happend to south africa.
And then Muhammed came in and robbed you of your heritage and great ancestry. Why don’t you now shuck off that mantle of an oppressive religion and free yourselves?
Well i was born in iran left when i was small. The thing is if Iranians really fealt that oppressed they would have over thrown government already. The iran iraq war was a total loss for iraq and its backers (western powers). They hoped that iran would be over taken easily but what the war did was unite the people of the country.
My friend Iran is still farsi speaking country. Not all of the old ways are still alive but we still have our identity. Iran was not just invaded by arabs in the past it was invaded by Alexander too which western people see as a great hero. Also Mongols did alot harm to Iran but they eventually became iranian themselves.
Plus you shouldnt believe everything that is said in western media about iran.
So why don’t you move back there if it’s SOOOO fucking wonderful!!!
I think everywhere there is an opportunity to realize that the people themselves want the best and then there are the powers that be. When all along the Power that BE’s Is Me
Self Assertiveness brings on the Wrath of those in Power. There is enough for everyone. But we have to be divided… we could be different but we dont have to be divided.
We all feel and care for our families.
And we all read from HOLY scriptures about actually loving our fellow man. But For those in Power… well its only about them. and theirs.
what’s the name of the song in the end?
The other nations did less harm to what the arabs did. The Arabs destroyed the culture which existed in Iran. They killed 2/3 of our innocent people, burned our temples and libraries to the ground, and sadly forced us to submit to a religion that they had corrupted, Islam. We use to be Zoroastrians. The one of the few religions at that time which symbolized peace, good deeds, and tolerated all the religions. Cyrus the great of persia was Zoroastrian and he was the one who begun Human rights.
Isn’t Iran kinda democratic today, anyway?
hahahahahzahahahahahahahahah, you should go on the comedy circuit, replace Bill Maher
all the candidates of anything from town council to presidential candidates must be “approved” by the mullahs…this means…if your one with the government…you can run…but if your not…you can’t be elected
damn. Theocratic democracy though?
not really…in the end ayatollah khoimieni or whatever is on top and approves everything…dictator- theocracy more like it
yes i totally understand and agree even know im only 13, i grew up in iran
and im proud to be persian
Death to iran!
Death to islam!
GO GET’EM BIBI! =D
RAWR!!
FREE PERSIA!!!!! KILL THE MULLAHS!!!
Nuke the wales! YAARGH
Oi you Shitty ass Zoysgig,
Go to Hell Mother Fucker or We will arrange it for you.
Unfortunately there is only one thing for Iran and in fact Islam. Iran needs to be liberated. Islam needs to be wiped out. Whatever it takes it needs to be wiped out. That is what Muslims believe about we infidels and Jews. Time to move.
very nice video. i’ve always maintained that the “axis of evil” are the washington - tel aviv - beijing regimes, the 3 most reviled states who show nothing but contempt for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights while flouting international rule of law and subverting the possibilities inherent in the UN.
if you think the i-net can change the world, think again. our “leaders” are on to us.
please google “mirror damn right total traceback” and see what washington and beijing are up to.
great video, congratulations! one question: what song is that in the background? sounds great.
Amazing clip! Cant wait to have a free Iran as neighbor to my country Iraq!
Hope at the next election the righteous voice will win :)
Thanks be to God that the glorious Islamic government of Iran led by the Grand Marj’a Khamanei can exist in this sinful world.
I always a chill down my spine when I watch this
Wow this was posted 6 months ago.. can you say foreshadowment?
Blogs and other social networking sites are aiding the protesters so much right now, hopefully leading to a revolution.
Thank you President Obama for not doing or saying anything to support the Iranian Nation of Bloggers during the recent stolen election. Your silence was and still is deafening. As you refuse to meddle and make nice-nice to the mullahs, thousands of Iranian students are being arrested, tortured and brutilized, their freedoms stripped to the bone. Many have died. Many!!!! They are abducted in the middle of the night by the thugs of this tyrannic regime. Yes you really are the president of No Hope and No Change.
…if only Walt were alive today, he would’ve known what to do
Though from day one I sided with enthusiasm with the struggle for freedom of the brave young Iranians (a beautiful youth), I prefer to keep a distance with that kind of admirers they have in the West that one year ago wanted to crumble Iran with a military attack at the bidding of Israel, and now are happy that Mousavi’s reformist party didn’t win in fair elections because in that case they wouldn’t have any excuse left to keep bullying a sovereign country in a crucial region of the world.
The same people who don’t give a damn that a military coup not too far away from the US border has toppled down a few days ago the democratic government of president Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. Hey,this is a buddy of Hugo Chavez, the principles of democracy don’t apply here, this is about oil. Not to mention that if the US goverment called things by their own name - military coup - by the US laws the Soto Cano military base, the largest in the region, should be closed.
Weird how democratic concerns go along geographical coordinates.
To this day I have read a lot of bullshit on the use of Twitter and Facebook by Iranian protesters. This article, however, seems worth reading:
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Networking Revolt in Iran
The use of social media came to its own in the massive citizens’ revolt in Iran after the allegedly corrupt presidential election. The new technologies present new abilities for social change around the world …
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33037
You have it all wrong Leonardo, Iran wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. The mullahs, The Supreme Leader and the 4 foot puppet who carries out their wishes have all stated so over a dozen times. So Israel will do her own bidding and take out Iran’s nuclear reactor’s with or without anyones help. How would you like your country to be faced with annihilation? Let’s say Russia proclaimed, “Italy is vermin and scum and a blight on mankind, we shall wipe it off the face of the Earth.” How does that sit with you Leo? Sound good? I’ll give Putin a call, maybe he has a few spare nukes he wants to test out.
Hy Mickey Mouse.
Beats me why on earth you would bother to buzz Putin if you are looking for nukes. Just turn to Netanhiau. Israel is credited as having not less than 200 nuclear warheads, totally out of the Non Proliferation Treaty. Moreover, by her own weird notion of “deterrence”, Israel has 5 strategic Dolphin submarines (German made) that allow her to incinerate Greenland or Patagonia by nuking them, as soon as they have the itch.
On the contrary, the AIEA UN agency, which monitors the compliance with the NPT, says that there’s no evidence that Iran is trying to weaponize its nuclear facilities. AIEA says nothing about Israel because its inspectors aren’t even allowed to enter the country. But Iran is presently being sanctioned while Israel isn’t.
As to the gentle prospect to test atom bombs on some portions of my country, God knows if now and then I did’n have the same thought myself, but among its many defects my country isn’t an apartheid society. Israel is. Ask somebody who knows better, like Nobel Prize laureate archbishop Desmond Tutu: a revered personality when he speaks about South Africa, and a dangerous lunatic to blank out of the maintream media when it comes to Israel.
Well, when you will be surrounded by 22 nations that want to wipe you out and have had a history of people wanting to annihilate you, are you going to depend on this joke called the UN. El Bardei, for months said they weren’t weaponizing nuclear material, yet has changed his tune.
Aparthied society:::LOOK TO SAUDI ARABIA
Apartheid wall:::what about the wall between Eygpt and Gaza????>
PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO KNOW SWEET FUCK ALL ABOUT HISTORY MAKE ME WANT TO PUKE
Relax MM
I promise next time I’ll do my homework before talking about world affairs with you, so I won’t capitulate too soon to your superiority. But whenever you are going to call me in again see it isn’t about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Middle East. Regrettably, unlike most, I am not obsessed with the subject, and I am always confused at the spectacle of people like you who are ready to “puke” on a disagreement. It is insane, it is idiotic, and I’m not going to be sucked up into it. Life is short, and I don’t want mine flooded with vomit.
Cool. Get your facts straight before you mimic mainstream media fluff and pretend to come across as an intellectual.
Michael Jackson’s Last crap! It’s a real police video.
Police footage of his bedroom and closeups of his last poop.
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But, so, this video wasn’t made by Iranians, but rather by Canadians in film school … a couple of ‘em with East Asian names?
Who’s doing the voice over? Is it real or is it an actor speaking Canadian English with faux Farci/Iranian accent?
Dramatic narrative or micro-documentary?
Ugh, post-modernism, so confusing, what could possibly follow?
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Beautiful video.
I love this video. It is well made also…
Wow, awesome video!
Very well made, concise, and fairly damn beautiful as well. A solid 5 star rating is in order.
love to see it again :)
Fuck me
Awesome video!!! soo did Caitlin leave?
Great video!
concret information, the video is well made, the effects, etc etc etc. i love it 5*
love to see it again. some reruns make sense.
Democracy is not freedom. What they need is *freedom*. The freedom to be themselves. The freedom to become whatever they can and want to become. Good luck and success to them all.
Don’t have a word to describe such a great video.
Iran is an example to the world!
True, but rarely does freedom exist without democracy. And when it does exist in the absence of democracy, it exists at the will of the government not of the people.
This is a very interesting piece. Mona Eltahawy in World Policy Journal wrote a piece called The Middle East’s Generation Facebook, which was much like this in it addresses blogging as a new tool for peoples all over the world to voice their opinions. The article was written in response to the question “What will the Middle East look like in 2033?” Within the article she states: “Facebook activists were becoming both the oxygen and blood of Egypt’s civil society.”
Check out the full article here: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/wopj.2008.25.3.69
awesome!!!!
Democracy has to have perimeters. As many have stated before “democracy is like two wolves and a lamb deliberating on what to eat for dinner”. If the will of the people was always the action of government there would be little freedom because when people get scared they always cast their freedoms away expecting safety in return. Something like the bill of rights that clearly lays out rights people maintain despite what a majority might want are the reason “democracy” can work.
Of course. My statement in no way suggested that a mob rule democracy is what is needed to protect your freedoms. There is more that one type of democracy.
Iran is a nation of bloggers till their government figures out how to censor them.
Correct, K2T. That’s why the US is *NOT* a Democracy in the Athenian sense. We are a REPUBLIC. Our Founding Fathers, along with their several notions about things like Seperation of Church and State where the state remains Secular, also espoused the notion of preventing a “Tyranny of the Majority” by establishing this nation as a Representative Government (aka a Republic) where the only democratic policy is in voting for your representative.
Exactly.
This video is just awesome.
Didn’t they post this already?
rocketboom is gone … damn you RB
I’ve watched this before.
I’ve seen this before… somewhere.
Anyway, good stuff!
Seen it before but still l33t sauce on a groovy gyro.
Pretty nice video D:
100th! (sorry…couldnt help myself)
Fuck Iran, if they wanted help they should have elected Saddam Hussein.
Israeli intelligence Service.
he was in iraq not iran dumbass
Like that’s my fault, they could have elected him in Iran if they really wanted us to come and free them.
You ask for IRAN ppl to elect a DICTATOR, Saddam Hussein, for FREEDOM…
Too many contradiction and false claims… a perfect idiot!
The Iraqi’s elected Saddam and now they are free?? duh
Very cool video.