The friendliest people on the planet

From almost two years ago to this day, I went far a way to expand my understanding not of myself but of the world around me, now I've learned a lot, if not more than most of people but as much as  a lot of  experienced ones, as it is articulated in my posts,I was trying to build a bridge of understanding between Iran and the rest of the world, no matter how successful it was, It is up to you(I hope it shed some lights) from now on, every so often I post new thoughts that I hope you'll find them useful, and again as it is written in blog's disclaimer I'm open to any question
Nevertheless I was surfing the net and reading news, when I saw something interesting in The Sydney Morning Herald, suffice to say and I leave the article to you without any comment.

The friendliest people on the planet

The guy slows down his motorbike, pulling up alongside us as we walk the cracked pavement by the side of the road. Anywhere else this could be trouble, but not here. The guy lifts his hand in greeting, flashes us a grin, then yells to be heard over the burble of his engine: "You are welcome in Iran!"

Then he tears off along the street, still waving with one hand. My friend Michelle and I look at each other, shrug our shoulders and smile. Another one.

The true strangeness of this situation is that it's not strange at all. Something similar to this scene has been playing out constantly for the past week that we've been in Iran.

It happened just 10 minutes ago. A kid who can't have been more than 18 nearly ploughed his motorbike into a fruit shop, such was his determination to wave to us and call out hello while negotiating a pavement full of pedestrians on a fairly big machine.

It happened before, too, on the busy streets of Tehran, of Esfahan, of Yazd and of Shiraz. You can see the well-wishers coming from the corner of your eye. You're wandering down the street, minding your own business, and an Iranian will swoop, like some kind of extremely polite eagle.

"Excuse me," they'll say, "can I ask you are from which country?"

"Australia," we'll reply - me to the men, who invariably address the male in the couple, and Michelle to the Iranian women, who'll always break the ice with her.

"Oh," they'll smile, "welcome to Iran. I hope you enjoy my country."

Some will then hang around for a chat, to ask a few more questions or point out a sight of interest, while others will just walk away, content that they've done what they came to do: welcome you.

You think Iran's going to be scary, a place of raging ayatollahs and poorly Photoshopped fighter planes, but you couldn't be further from reality. This is a country of hospitality, of people who want nothing more than for outsiders to see their nation as it really is.

It can be easy to assume a country's citizens are just like its politicians. It was simple, years ago, to think of all Americans as gun-crazy cowboys. It was easy to think of the French as a mob of suave womanisers. And I'm sure it was easy for people from other countries, for a certain period, to think of Australians as xenophobes.

But that's not the case. Americans aren't George W. Bush. The French aren't Nicolas Sarkozy. And Iranians aren't Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, their nuclear-obsessed President.

In fact, you could make a case for Persians being the friendliest people on the planet. For a nation that is supposedly part of the axis of evil, we could learn a lot from Iranians about the power of goodwill.

Soon, Michelle and I are on a bus in southern Iran, travelling from the desert town of Yazd to the cultural hub of Shiraz.

Barren landscape is flashing past outside; the driver is smoking a cigarette, tendrils of smoke being whipped out of his open window; bad Arabian pop is blaring from the stereo.

We're chatting about our future travel plans when a hand reaches from between the seats in front of us, proffering half an orange. Then a cloaked face appears behind the hand. "Please," a lady says, pushing the orange closer to us, "for you."

We accept, and share the orange. Ten minutes later the same hand reappears, followed by the same cloaked face. This time the lady is holding an apple. "Please," she repeats, smiling, "for you." Again, we accept.

It's not just food we're offered in Iran, but help. Constantly. "Do you know where you are going?" people on the street will ask. We do, usually, but they'll point us in the right direction anyway.

A few days later we're in Esfahan, home to Iran's most spectacular edifices. We've just entered Masjed-e Emam, a huge mosque clad in blue tiles down one end of the city's imposing main square. Just like on the street, we clock the approach from the corners of our eyes, two girls in black niqabs sidling our way. "Excuse me," one of them says, addressing Michelle, "where do you come from?"

"Australia," Michelle replies.

"Oh. Can we tell you about this mosque?"

And so begins a half-hour tour guided by two girls who, it turns out, are studying to become air hostesses. They take us to the mosque schools, they show us the hidden sundial, they point out the shape of a huge heart woven through the intricate design of the mosque's tiled dome.

And then they leave, smiling, wishing us well in Iran. "You are welcome in our country," they say. And it's true.

Courtesy of   The Sydney Morning Herald

True face of iran 2

First time you see some one new the look on his eyes tells you a thousand words, with times passes and you get a chance to get to know him,you find truth about him,all preliminary judgments which you made by first look on to him or look on how he behave,suddenly became regular and reasonable to you,first you knew him by his looks and later you know him throw the tunnels of time.

It is true people all around the world would look like the same,But the difference which made them familiar with us is time and its opportunity of communication. True face of what is beneath their superficial face,which by the way is not alway what we expected to be, always is that every souls once was pure one, and decisions or people who were on charge of making decisions, guided the soul to be a good spirit or bad spirit.

Today we all know Iran and Iranians by first look which is shown to us by media,and we almost know them as savages who hate people with blue eyes or blond hairs trying to produce mass destruction weapons or worst like people who wants to blow themselves up among innocent people.

The reason of that kind of judgments is what I mentioned above,first looks and first decisions,It is not up to you to find about the background of a country which you never heard of before or in best scenario you heard a little about but when it comes to peace and war and life of people in danger it is time to spend to find the true face and real truth which always wont given to us throw nationwide news cable televisions and needs more.

 We are not here to pass judgment on who is telling the truth but we are here to maintain peace and communication.

 In previous post I put a link containing photos of all parts of Iran and again I put new ones right on this post.to show how different the look picturing on gigantic cable-news networks is against the look which truly are.

(click on photos to know about  were the pictures belong to )

  

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True face of Iran

Behind the poisonous fog of propaganda and rhetoric war between Iranian regime and west.There is something totally different about Iran and here it is:

Its rich nature 

 These photos are taken from all parts of country but they are just a bit of whole.A for season country with huge historical background along with mother nature's gift .put aside all judgments for just a moment and see these miraculous places .

click here to see photos 

courtesy of www.asriran.com 

Newest image of Egypt

If demonstration wont bring an end to autocracy in Egypt, at least it is showing us again how peaceful and comprehensive religion and beliefs would be if we accept the fact that we have short life and shared future, we can fight with each other and ruin it or we can understand each other, team up, and build it together.

Christians protecting Muslims while they pray during protests in Egypt.

picture,courtesy of imgur.com

Mark Zuckerberg vs Julian Assange

Julian Assange :I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I' m a villain.

Mark Zuckerberg : I  give your private information to corporations for money, and I'm man of the year.


courtesy of 9gag.com

First Iran, now Tunisia, who's next

Experiences like what we had been seeing in countries like Iran totally changed basics of revolutions, in term of goals, ideals and reasons, before 1979 in cold war era communism was dominant discourse among intellectuals of third world countries, who were looking for prosperity into Marx's Communist Manifesto -Lenin papers, Stalin regime proved them wrong and Gorbachev totally disappoint them by dissolving the party.

Islamic revolution was kind of phenomenon that changed the world, it was for the first time that both religion and secularism teamed up to overthrow a technocrat-imperial regime, despite communism which always was denouncing religion, or economic imperialism which is emphasizing the seriousness of the money. 1979' revolutionaries used religion to make money and support for themselves. Since then the definition was changed, violent coups were replaced by Velvet Revolutions and instead of superficial instigations, subliminal ones, bring demonstrator to streets. 

Milton Friedman once said in a lecture at Universidad Católica de Chile: "free markets would undermine political centralization and political control." And again developments in countries like Tunisia Iran proved him right.

The shah of Iran was putting a lot of pressure on government to expedite its modernization plans according to west specially USA's economical approach, but he underestimate people's respond to quick changes on structure of society ,first steps to complete industrialization needs more time spend at work less time in home, more joint cooperation between individuals and companies, and relinquishing of traditional beliefs and lifestyle, it was more disturbing when it came to cultural manners specially when politicians mistakenly see modernization through abandoning tradition and beliefs.

The thing is in the shah era except from last year people have acceptable income and general welfare but absolutism, lack of tolerance toward criticism and rapid cultural conversions without preparation, concurrent with strange rule models which were publicized by government against dominant old tradition (like women roles in society) increased gap between people and government, and shivered national integrity.

Existence of a proficient political cleric who took advantage of peoples dissatisfaction, leaded to bloody clashes and paralyzing nationwide strikes

Islamic republic stems from those subjective feelings and disdain paranoia toward western governments because of years of plunder perpetrated by them.

Religious incentives metastasized to civil disobedience and finally autocrat was coerced to flee by Iranians.

Similarity between Iran and Tunisia's revolution is not only in minority's unlimited authority but is in unbalanced economic growth with freedom suppression simultaneously.

The main reasons of modern countries development are corresponding of freedom and economic growth, when a totalitarian government attempt to achieve high level of progression and at the same time wants to keep its monopoly instead of reliance on people's vote , it is possible to conquer and defeat rivals but more it cracks opposition down, it get more fragile inside.

Bin Ali president of Tunisia and the shah of Iran both had the same interest in modernizing of their countries and for example according to CIA fact book Tunisia's GDP index Was four times more than early 1980 in 2009 when bin Ali took power but lack of real democratization overwhelmed his plans and lead to chaos.

Unlike experts who are saying the reason of Tunisia's sudden upside down is stress of poverty, census implicating on something else, something more serious, and it is a kind of disrespect to call brave Tunisian demonstrations, hunger demonstrations.

Most of Middle East countries specially Arabs have the same plans and procedure like what Tunisia had and their leaders are frighten of what happened to bin Ali, that's why Kuwait government announced it will distribute 4 billions of dollars among approximately 1.5 million Kuwaitis, but countries with less rich revenue, discontent history, and powerful oppositions like Egypt government has to be more careful not to be the next one against excited awakened residents who are exhausted of being patience toward tyranny and injustice. 

New USA map in favor of Navy

In last week a shocking news about US Navy decision leaked out that because of huge weaponry deals and military cooperation, to satisfy Arabian countries the name of Persian Gulf despite of historical fact, border lines and amount of offshore islands, Navy ordered all fleets and oversea’s brigades not to use original name.

Interesting to see how political struggles between US and Islamic republic affect peoples, and their cultural and national pride, furthermore it’s unacceptable to bear these kind of behavior, it’s true money talks but for brokers are any dealers not for state department or navy a legal executive force of country which is claimant of world so called leadership and the role model for bill of rights all over the world.

Again it’s true that USA lose its benefit in Iran but do we believe in just benefits or we must respect principles, president Obama announced that us opened its punch towards Iran and is ready to greet, but what we have seen is totally different.

In past centuries western countries used to loot natural resources of other countries and today not only they keep their style but they break new grounds in cultural and historical stealing as well.

For just a minute pose as an Iranian and look at the sea (shore) that you grew up beside, you and your friends learned how to swim against the tide, your ancestors fought for through thousands of years , to keep it safe and secure, is an inseparable part of your identification, you define your culture and nationality by it and when you look at the horizon when the sun is setting you remember your fisherman father that generous sea borrowed and never gave back, it is heart wrenching to believe great countries like USA forget all about their slogans of human prosperity and rights and for a bag of dollars from Arabian countries (which none of their creation years date back to 19^th century) misinterpret the history and counterfeit fake names and roots

For those who say bull**** again look at the picture above to remember not always bad things happen to bad! People.  

See shameful order here

And see shining and historical, political maps (drawn by western countries in almost six hundred years ago) and proofs of the original and true roots of Persian Gulf  here