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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cyrus wrote:
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Reuters. good snag.

cyrus. with all due respect I think one area of contention you may need to elaborate on is the 90% you use regarding the boycott. over here in the west the numbers I'm dragging up are from the Interior Ministry and naturally don't agree with your claims.

this CBS publication of an Associated Press article is what I'm drawing from...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/15/world/main600416.shtml

so if your intent is to make your circular as palatable as possible to the western mind I suggest you address the contentious claims one way or another.

the fact they acknowledge such a drastic drop in even the official numbers speaks volumes in itself. maybe you can use that.

just a thought.




Disagree with the link, it is reporting from regime sources which they don’t have any credit. The Mullah’s regime is master of lying and we can not believe anything which is coming from regime sources which are holding to power by brutal force. The concept of Conservative and Moderate for ruling class Mullahs in Iran is created by EU3 Media , EU3 government sources and Iranian EU mercenaries that are paid by the regime or EU3. If you want to believe these information in the Media then you must believe that Sadam had a election and claimed 99.9% voted for him. Sometimes Big Media News Agencies are repeating what government sources are telling them because they want to keep their News reporting access.


oh I know, in fact the CBS article makes a point of identifying the source. the trick, IMO, is not to ignore the numbers they spew but rather to meet them head on and discredit them as much as you can. use them against them. it must have been a successful boycott if even they had to lower the amount in the "official story". disclosing your own methodolody as to how you come by the 90% is a must. IMO, of course.

just saying, is all.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

French Flag Set on Fire During Festival of Fire in Tehran

http://www.iranpressnews.com/english/source/003897.html

March 15, 2005
Iran Press News
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According to received reports from various cities in Iran, today which marks the first celebration of the Iranian New Year's Festival of Fire was met with celebrations as well as huge protests and demonstrations against the Islamic regime of Iran. The protestors chanted: "We need no Sheikh or Mullah, we curse YOU - RUHOLLAH!"

A report from Tehran: Young celebrants today set scarecrows in the likeness of various Mullahs, such as Khamenei, Rafsanjani, Khatami, Sharoudi, Jannati, etc. on fire in the streets. They cried out slogans such as: "Referendum, referendum, this is the people's dictum."

In various parts of the capitol, celebrations and parties rage on. As a part of this celebration which is held on the very last Tuesday night of the year, dry bundles of bramble and shrubbery are set on fire and people jump over them. This is in order to purge their spirits of all the sins and tribulations of the passing year, in order to start the new year, with a pure heart. This is an ancient Persian (Zoroastrian) tradition, one that the Mullahs have done their best to eradicate since their takeover in 1979.

An eyewitness reported that despite severe crackdowns by the Revolutionary Guards and storm troopers, people bravely came out of their homes to celebrate. The sound of bursting firecrackers (which is a part of the celebrations), fireworks, toy rockets, confetti and various other celebratory trajectiles can be heard all over Tehran and smoke has filled the streets.

In one of the grassy knolls, in a suburban area of Tehran, large bonfires were lit and people danced around it and continued chanting the various slogans in defiance of the Mullahs and their henchmen. It is reported that the local Mullahs in various areas of several areas have locked themselves in their mosques fearing the crowds who continually and collectively shout out their slogans.

In several other parts of Tehran, revolutionary guards who have blocked off roads in order to stop cars carrying passengers of various groups from joining others. However people have begun parking their cars and have joined their fellow celebrants on foot. The guards however have become frightened by the force of the people. In this specific area several non-Iranian journalists were also present with their film crews, reporting.

In another area of the city people took to setting the French flag on fire while chanting: "Europe is finished and so are their Mullahs." OR "Bush, Bush, where is Bush?" (In Persian this rhymes: Bush, Bush, kush, kush!).

Like last year's celebration, the brave women who also participating in the celebrations removed their headscarves, stomping and dancing.

In the town of Karaj, near Tehran, people chanted: "Death to Khamenei" as the brutal revolutionary forces took chains and batons to people, severly beating and injuring many.

In the Southern city of Ahvaaz, on the Iran/Iraq border and the surrounding townships celebrants also came out in droves, confronting the regime's thugs. In the Shi'ite holy city of Mash'had, the city closest to the border of Afghanistan, where anti-regime and anti-Mullah fervour has always been most impressive, large groups of celebrants were arrested and detained.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Iran Hardliners Keep Lid On Ancient Fire Festival

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March 16, 2005
Reuters
Christian Oliver



ISFAHAN, Iran -- Iranian authorities beat up and tear gassed exuberant young revellers as they breathed new life into a pre-Islamic fire festival with a night of dancing, flirting and fireworks. The Islamic Republic, which has an awkward relationship with its ancient Zoroastrian religion, only gave guarded recognition to the "Chaharshanbe Souri" festival last year.

Hundreds of people poured onto the streets in Tehran and other cities for a rare night of partying. Public revelry is unusual in Iran where the authorities consider it to be at odds with the country's strict moral codes.

The IRNA news agency said police used tear gas in more than four places in Tehran. Vigilantes were also seen beating up a group of boys in the central city of Isfahan.

"Anti-riot forces dispersed hundreds of young girls and boys who had gathered on ... streets neighbouring Mohseni Square," IRNA reported.

"Special police forces on motorbikes attacked the crowd. While escaping, women and children fell and some were injured," it added, in unusually frank language for the state news agency.

Some 50 people were arrested in the capital, according to the semi-official ISNA students' news agency.

But for the most part, Tuesday night's celebrations passed off peacefully in a carnival atmosphere.

Iranian cities crackled and flashed with bangers and fireworks as warring gangs of 10-year-olds terrified pedestrians with exploding pellets.

Flirtatious young men lobbed firecrackers at delighted girls, mimicking their shrieks. Teenagers drew sparkling shapes in the night sky by whirling charcoal burners on chains.

"Hundreds of young people are celebrating and dancing on the streets ... while letting off firecrackers," IRNA reported from Tehran.

ANTI-RIOT POLICE USED

Chaharshanbe Souri is thousands of years old, but was pushed underground after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

The purification festival, which is meant to dispel evil spirits, is celebrated on the last Tuesday night of the Persian year.

But Islamists see the ceremonies as a pagan relic.

In Isfahan, a Reuters witness saw men in black leather jackets seize a group of nine boys and young men playing with firecrackers, ram them against a wall and smash their faces and shoulders with batons.

A woman screamed hysterically as one of the religious vigilantes in a motorcycle-helmet dragged a battered teenager into an unmarked car. A regular policeman drove by without stopping.

Most people in Isfahan chose to celebrate the festivities in the city's maze of backstreets, some lighting fires in old tyres and deep cooking pans.

Blaring pop music wafted from high-walled gardens.

Leaping over the flames, many chanted an ancient prayer invoking the fire -- the Zoroastrians' most sacred element: "Give me your red colour, take away my sickly pallor."

But Behrouz, an elderly bystander, thought the firecrackers and flirting missed the point.

"For the Zoroastrians this festival focused on taking purity from the fire, now the fire seems to bring out the worst in people," he said.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38244-2005Mar15.html

Fired Up for a Good New Year

With a Hot Party, Iranians Look for Luck and Herald the Change in Seasons

By Tara Bahrampour
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 16, 2005; Page B01

At first glance, it looked as if techno-pop arsonists had taken over the University of Maryland's Shady Grove campus. A pounding bass beat rocked the parking lot, and the scent of cologne mingled with smoke as people in dark coats fanned a row of fires on the asphalt.

"Go on, jump!" a mother urged as her small sons stared, wide-eyed, at a pyre of burning wood and cardboard. A man lifted a little girl over the flames, and she squealed with delight. Dark-haired teenagers in tight jeans milled around as grandmothers in headscarves warmed their hands over the fires, hardly moving aside as families clasped hands to run down the line and leap the flames.

Across the United States last night, Iranians emerged from their homes to celebrate Chahar Shanbeh Souri, an ancient Zoroastrian holiday that has been part of their culture for centuries. In Iran, city streets blaze for one night during the last week of winter as Iranians of all religious persuasions jump over fires.

"My yellow [sickness] to you, your red [health] to me," they cry -- a purification rite meant to bring good luck in the new year, which for Iranians begins on the first day of spring. Festivities last more than two weeks, beginning with fire-jumping on the last Tuesday night of winter and ending with a nationwide picnic on the 13th day of spring, when it is considered bad luck to stay indoors.

Like the Shady Grove event -- sponsored last Friday, somewhat ahead of the calendar, by the university's Iranian Students' Foundation -- many of the celebrations took place with official permits. In Los Angeles, which has the largest concentration of Iranians in the country, thousands flock each year to the beach to shed their yellow and take in some red. In Seattle, another Iranian enclave, the celebration used to be in a state park, but after complaints about litter, it was moved to a beach.

Not all Chahar Shanbeh Souris are on the police radar. Some Iranians quietly light fires in back yards and on high-rise balconies. In New York City, a group lugs Duraflame logs to a fenced-off lot, keeping nervous watch for police cars and helicopters.

Shaghayegh Madani, 22, of Springfield used to celebrate with her family in their back yard. But one year, a fire truck came wailing down the street.

"The neighbors called the police," said Madani, who was at Shady Grove on Friday. The family had been whooping and laughing, but that wasn't how it was reported to authorities. "They said, 'These people are trying to burn themselves.' "

Fire officials warned that in the future the family would have to apply for a permit and pay $500 for a marshal to come monitor the fire, which could last only a half-hour.

"We're like, 'What are you supposed to do, this is our culture,' " Madani said. But Chahar Shanbeh Souri wouldn't have felt the same with a $500 chaperone, so they stopped doing it at home.

Iranians in the United States see the holiday, which is also celebrated by Afghans, Tajiks, Indian Parsees and others, as a nostalgic link to their homeland. In Iran, many see it as a snub to their government; consequently, its popularity has soared in recent years.

Before the 1979 Islamic revolution, "it was just a little Halloween-like event," said Ahmed Karimi-Hakkak, director of the newly established Center for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. Children would bang pots and collect candy in front of houses, and the fires were small.

But after the Islamic government tried to ban Chahar Shanbeh Souri because it was a non-Islamic holiday, it took on greater significance. "It all of a sudden became . . . a rallying cry for Iranian identity," Karimi-Hakkak said, noting that the ritual now involves huge crowds and massive bonfires that are impossible to leap.

The Washington area's 85,000 to 100,000 Iranians make up the third-largest concentration in the United States, Karimi-Hakkak said. Spread over three jurisdictions, they sometimes have a hard time getting together, and such celebrations provide a good excuse. At the Shady Grove event, about 1,500 people came to dance to the pulsing Iranian music spun by locally based DJ Babak Hafezi; slurp steaming bowls of aush, a noodle and herb soup; and have red-white-and-green Iranian flags painted on their cheeks.

Yasmin Fallahkhair, a 13-year-old from Potomac with long brown hair and braces, excitedly bought an Iranian Students' Foundation T-shirt reading "Fear the Lakposht," a Farsi-language play on the university's "Fear the Turtle" slogan. "You don't really see a lot of shirts that have Iranian things on them," she said.

Jennifer Rostami, 20, the student group officer selling the T-shirts, recently converted to Zoroastrianism, her father's religion. The fire represents life and death, she said. "When fire burns across land, it destroys, but new things grow out of it."

But Ash Azari, 19, a business student, had no interest in jumping the knee-high fires. In Iran, where he lived until he was 15, the flames shot up over seven feet.

"You didn't jump over it," he said. "You jumped through it."
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

REUTERS couldn't be MORE FULL OF SH**. Look how they twist EVERYTHING. They say 10 year olds causing problems. Bringing out the worst in people. REUTERS is in BED WITH THE MULLAHS, THE FRENCH, THE GERMANS and the BRITISH NO DOUBT!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pictures of Chahar Shanbeh Soori from Seattle:



http://www.iranian.com/PhotoDay/2005/March/se1.html
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chahr Shanbeh Soori In Guttenberg Sweden

http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=22687







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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=22684

Pictures sent to Pekeiran from Iran:









Additional pics here:
http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=22683
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Webloggers first hand accounts from Iran, in Persian here:
http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=22672

Reports of clashes from all around:
http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=22668
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pics of Chahr Shabeh Soori in Tabriz

http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=22666





Many were arrested in Tabriz Evil or Very Mad
http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=22665
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Militia used tear gas and batons against the youth

http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=22660
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

perzopolis wrote:
REUTERS couldn't be MORE FULL OF SH**. Look how they twist EVERYTHING. They say 10 year olds causing problems. Bringing out the worst in people. REUTERS is in BED WITH THE MULLAHS, THE FRENCH, THE GERMANS and the BRITISH NO DOUBT!


I was dissappointed by it too. could have been on purpose or it could have been no one can say anything that can't be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt without being castigated. or something in between.

I found the "don't get the point" remark at the end very ironic. could have been either a tease or an apology.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:48 am    Post subject: The Fire in Iran By Dr. Michael Leeden Reply with quote



The Fire in Iran
Forget about diplomacy, this is war.


From al-Reuters, we have a masterpiece of disinformation:

By Dr. Michael Leeden

ISFAHAN — Iranian authorities beat up and tear gassed exuberant young revellers as they breathed new life into a pre-Islamic fire festival with a night of dancing, flirting and fireworks. The Islamic Republic, which has an awkward relationship with its ancient Zoroastrian religion, only gave guarded recognition to the "Chaharshanbe Souri" festival last year.

The Islamic republic does not have "an awkward relationship" with Zoroastrianism. It forbids Zoroastrian practices, including the celebration of the Zoroastrian New Year, Norooz. Forget about "guarded recognition;" there is a ban. The mullahs know something that al-Reuters apparently either doesn’t know, or doesn’t choose to report: that there is a big Zoroastrian revival under way in Iran, another sign of the hollowness of the Islamic republic, and the hostility of the Iranian people to their leaders. And to say that the authorities "beat up and gassed" some "revelers" is quite an understatement, since, on the evening of March 15h, there were very large-scale demonstrations all over Iran, combining the Norooz celebrations with calls for the downfall of the regime itself. Effigies of top mullahs were burned in the streets. But al-Reuters makes it sound like a frat party that just got a bit out of hand:


Hundreds of people poured onto the streets in Tehran and other cities for a rare night of partying. Public revelry is unusual in Iran where the authorities consider it to be at odds with the country's strict moral codes.

The IRNA news agency said police used tear gas in more than four places in Tehran. Vigilantes were also seen beating up a group of boys in the central city of Isfahan.


The Iranian student group headquartered in Texas provides us with a considerably more accurate — if somewhat ungrammatical — picture:
These clashes happened as brutal militiamen attacked Iranians who transformed the already hardly tolerated celebration into protest action and show of "un-Islamic" joy. Most areas of the Capital and cities, such as, Esfahan, Mahabad, Shiraz, Rasht, Kermanshah, Babol, Sannandaj, Dezful, Mashad, Ahwaz, Marivan, Khoram-Abad, Zabol, Baneh, Tabriz, Hamedan and Oroomiah (former Rezai-e) were scenes of sometimes unprecedented street fights between the regime forces and groups of Iranians.


In fact, according to Iranians with whom I have spoken, there were monster demonstrations in eleven provinces and 37 cities, and many thousands — one source said more than 30,000 — people were arrested, some only briefly, others shipped off to the infamous prisons and torture chambers of the regime. The most dramatic events took place in Shiraz, where the demonstrators directed a chant toward Washington: "Bush, you told us to rise up, and so we have. Why don’t you act?"
Which is precisely the right question. The president publicly promised the Iranian people that the United States would support them if they acted to win their own freedom, and the Iranians are now calling on Bush to make good on that promise.

The problem is that the administration may have outwitted itself, as has happened in the past. It seems that our current tactic is to set a series of traps for the Europeans and the terror masters. The Europeans are told that we will support their nuclear negotiations with the Iranian regime for the time being, but they must join with us in strong action if the talks fail. The Syrians are invited to leave Lebanon, and Hezbollah is invited to abandon terrorism, and are warned of harsh consequences if they do not. The president quite clearly doesn’t expect the negotiations to succeed, doesn’t expect Syria to accept a free Lebanon, and doesn’t for a minute think that Hezbollah can renounce its terrorist essence. In each case, we have convinced ourselves that, by taking a sweet and reasonable position today, we will be in a stronger position for tough action tomorrow. It will make it easier for at least some of the Europeans to join with us, whereas they would oppose tough action right away.

All that may well be true, but even so, it is the wrong thing to do. First of all, it enables the terrorists and their masters to buy time, and this is a moment of enormous risk for them. Every day they remain in power encourages them, and discourages the forces of freedom in their countries. When the people of Shiraz ask President Bush "why don’t you act?" they are reflecting this reality. Carpe Diem, Mister President.

But above all, the clever stratagem adopted by the administration ignores Machiavelli’s greatest lesson: Leadership is all about winning and losing, not about elegance and deep thinking. If we win the Europeans and lose the Middle East, we will have lost. But if we win the Middle East, the Europeans will hail us, as we see from their grudging tributes to Bush’s successful liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq. "If you are victorious," Machiavelli says in his uncompromising way, "people will always judge the means you used to have been appropriate."

Syria and Iran are tottering, and if they fall, the terror network will break into relatively impotent shards that we will be able to destroy. Forget about diplomacy, this is war. Every day we hear about plans to attack the United States directly, and every day more Americans die in Iraq. Is it not too clever by half to resort to cunning diplomacy at such a time? Is it not immoral to leave American fighting men and women in harm’s way an hour longer than is absolutely necessary?

The fires of freedom are burning all over Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. Don't stand back and admire the flames. Push the dictators in, and then cheer as free societies emerge.

Faster, confound it.

http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200503170753.asp
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:48 pm    Post subject: Chahar Shanbeh Soori fire festival 2005 Photos Reply with quote



An Iranian man jumps over a bonfire in Tehran. Three people died and around 270 were injured during the Chahar Shanbeh Soori fire festival that precedes Iran (news - web sites)'s New Year.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)




An Iranian boy adds wood to a fire during a ceremony in Tehran March 15, 2005. Iranians mark the last Tuesday of the Iranian calendar year with traditional fireworks and fire-jumping. The Iranian new year starts on March 21. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl




Iranians mark the last Tuesday of the Iranian calendar year with traditional fireworks and fire-jumping in Tehran March 15, 2005. The Iranian new year starts on March 21. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl




An Iranian boy jumps over a raging fire to celebrate an ancient festival marking the end of the Iranian year called Chahar-Shanbe Suri (Wednesday Feast), in Tehran, Iran (news - web sites), Tuesday, March 15, 2005. Iranians jumped over bonfires and lit firecrackers to celebrate an ancient festival marking the end of the Persian year, ignoring a call by Islamic clerics to shun the ritual they denounced as 'pagan culture.' The Iranian new year begins on March 21. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)



An Iranian boy jumps over a raging fire to celebrate an ancient festival marking the end of the Iranian year called Chahar-Shanbe Suri (Wednesday Feast), in Tehran, Iran (news - web sites), Tuesday, March 15, 2005. Iranians jumped over bonfires and lit firecrackers to celebrate an ancient festival marking the end of the Persian year, ignoring a call by Islamic clerics to shun the ritual they denounced as 'pagan culture.' The Iranian new year begins on March 21. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)



An Iranian boy jumps over a raging fire to celebrate an ancient festival marking the end of the Iranian year called Chahar-Shanbe Suri (Wednesday Feast), in Tehran, Iran (news - web sites), Tuesday, March 15, 2005. Iranians jumped over bonfires and lit firecrackers to celebrate an ancient festival marking the end of the Persian year, ignoring a call by Islamic clerics to shun the ritual they denounced as 'pagan culture.' The Iranian new year begins on March 21. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:11 pm    Post subject: An Iranian youth dressed as Hajifirouz Reply with quote



Tue Mar 22, 2:22 PM ET


An Iranian youth dressed as Hajifirouz, a symbol of the Iranian new year, stands under a mural of Iran (news - web sites)'s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran March 22, 2005. Every year as the new Iranian calendar starts, people blacken their faces, wear colourful clothes, play music and dance on the streets. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

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