Lady Sun

Lady Sun, thanks for taking the time to write. I'm officially a European-American born in India and living in China, but i prefer to think of my self as a world citizen! (Of course, we are all world citizens). Actually i think it's clear that Bush and his Corporate Demons went in to Iraq in the old colonial manner-- for oil, similar to the British in Iran in the 20th Century. I'm just reading a great book for anyone interested in Iran called DAUGHTER OF PERSIA by Sattareh Farman Farmaian (with Dona Munker). It's excellent! It's important to work actively for change. I'm sure—POSITIVE-- that one day Iran will be a healthy society with freedom to vote properly, stand for office, use the internet, practice whichever religion you want, etc. I just pray it won't take too long!

Sorry to hear your friends lost thier jobs; it's sad when it's not because of poor economic judgment (like here with Dubya), but because the ruling party 'removes' yourplace of business.

And I notice today that the 'elections' are going the hard-liners way.

Remember you hear this here first; between your countrys phony elections and (God forbid, but it might happen again) mine, soon there will be no true voice for the people. And if, God forbid, there is ever a war between the two, it will not be because the people of these two countries want to fight each other but that two groups of people who have no business running countries have gotten thier way once again... well, stay strong.

Lady Sun,

I was saddened to read in the new york times today that the Iranian elections are not going the way the reformers wanted them to. It makes me feel lucky to live in a country where the elections may be crooked, but at least they're not outwardly crooked to the point where the ruling party cna just remove 2,000 names from the ballots. I hope for your sake that not many people turn out to vote. That would be quite a statement to the rest of the world. One day your oppressive, tyrannical government will be in the trash can. You'll be free, the Iranian and American people will work together to create a world free from intolerance and corruption.

Lady Sun,

I was saddened to read in the new york times today that the Iranian elections are not going the way the reformers wanted them to. It makes me feel lucky to live in a country where the elections may be crooked, but at least they're not outwardly crooked to the point where the ruling party cna just remove 2,000 names from the ballots. I hope for your sake that not many people turn out to vote. That would be quite a statement to the rest of the world. One day your oppressive, tyrannical government will be in the trash can. You'll be free, the Iranian and American people will work together to create a world free from intolerance and corruption.

:((( I'm sorry that happened! Oppression & unemployment, looks like they got two birds with one stone on that one. :( I don't know what to say but I HOPE something better will happen in the future.

Salaam,

It's me again. I think you want a comma after Iran in the first sentence. Also, I think you want "letter" after MPs' in the second sentence.

By the way, where do you think the readership pf these newspapers get their news now?

This is Soroush from Phoenix, Arizona. It is good to have you back. I would like to express my sorrow towards all of your friends who lost their jobs. Hopefully things will be in a better shape soon, as far as the political situation in Iran is concerned. By the way, I enjoyed your other post on Dizin, makes me wanna be there too :)
Keep up your brilliant writing.

Quddus and alll other Liberals,

I am really sorry that you are still pissed off over the 2000 election results. Get over it. As an Iranian-American who during 8 years of war lived under nightly bombings of Saddam, it is enough reason for me to kill Saddam. I could care less what the Bush's real reasons were. I am really sorry they haven't killled that bastard Saddam, yet. I'll be volunteering if they need someone to pull the triger. By the way, I am not a republican, either. I am just an Independent registered voter, with brains.

wow Im so impressed with your thoughtful writings even though this is the first time I am visiting your blog. Keep up the great job, I think your english weblog is even gonna stick out more than your perian one because here you have foreign viewers too. and by the way, mibinam ke asasi terekoondi ;) CNN, YahooNews, NYTimes.....ey val be valet vovoli vaveina

If Persian freedoms and their voice is silenced, the only recource for the Persian peoples is a violent revolution against the mullahs and their stooges. Evil power only begits more evil and an increase of heir power. In the US's 1776 revolution, a state adopted the motto live free or die. Well Prsians deserve to live free so those oppressing the people must go. more recently it was said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutly. Persians do what is right.

Thx dear t. I wrote that post in a hurry, with stupid mistakes!

Dear Lady Sun,

I would like to ask a question regarding a story on msnbc... it basically says that the young ppl in Iran are restless and disconnected from the mullahs of the past.... I wonder if it is true that they feel that way.... but I dont want anyone getting heat from any mullah... or for anyone to lose their jobs either.

Keep up the good work.
Allah u abha,
LadyGimp

Dear Lady,I saw your Web Site Address today in German Newspaper in Germany.For your Information:Freedom and Free talking has been gone sience 25 Years and you are still sleeping.I am happy now,have leaved Iran with my family 25 Years ago .As a physician was actually never possible to work in undemocratic and dead atmosphere.But I am admiring you opening your mouth in our
dark country.Regards Dr. Irani

Great work dear! keep it up!!
By the way how do you find the indians!

Thanks Lady Sun for your weblog! I do not normally read weblogs much, but since I am following the events in Iran with interest and with sympathy towards all the people who are tired of being told what they have to think, I have found your weblog mentioned in a German news article.

You seem very sad about the closing of the newspapers and the fate of your friends, but please don't loose your courage or your temper. It is true, there's not much left of democracy in Iran if the conservatives feel they need to rig the election in such an obvious way. But at the same time this shows how desperate they already are. They really are standing with their pants down. They can no longer claim that they are representing any kind of moral. They demonstrate that their only goal is to hang on to power. It is due to many honest people like you that this is clearly visible to everybody.

The closing of the newspapers may be bad for the people who lost their jobs, but it is not the end of free speech. Free speech is when you speak freely. There are always possibilities, they just get more difficult. But they also get more difficult to suppress. An idea or a dream, once it is out there, is one of most powerful things you can imagine, although it often works more slowly than you might wish.

The current Iranian government is like an apple that will one day fall from the tree. You don't know when it will fall, if it is too early you can not make it fall even when you shake the tree hard. The thing to do is not to shake like mad, but to prepare for the time when the apple falls. It has started to rot already.

The last 20 years have shown several examples of undemocratic governments disappearing because their time had run out. One of those examples was my own country, Germany. It was a rigged vote that triggered the last chapter of this undemocratic government. So it was ironic that their attempt to secure power was in reality the thing that was leading to its end.

Fear not! Their time is running out more quickly than yours, and I think they know it already.

It is a sad state of affairs when in USA and perhaps the entire Western World,the testimonies at the Martha Stewart's trial gets signifant greater coverage than the plight of the Iranian people.
I am a strong supporter of the Iranian Reformist Party and I hope my country, the USA, will be able to do somenthing to alleviate, overtly or covertly, the plight of the Iranian people.
I belong to a number of American and Italian blog communities and we will continue to make our voice heard.
Don't despair, help is on the way.

I am not surprised how things are going there now, but don't think anyone believes these doings are legitimate, the elections are a fraud. No one recognizes the results as the will of the Iranian people.

lady sun. This is the first time I have visited your blog. I'm not a big blogger, as I don't have much time available as I would like. Also, many blogs are boring and inane. Yours certainly isn't.
It's sad to see the kernels of freer speech and voices of individuality snuffed out in any manner, let alone by decree. My best to your friends.
As a Canadian, I am very proud of my American neighbours and travel there at every opportunity. As here, there are peoples of every faction, opinion, nationality, religion, degrees of stupidity, eruditity, and enlightenment. I cherish them all, and judge them only on the effect they have on me. I am quite able to accept opinions whose logic and persuasion make sense to me, and trash those that do not. You will do so too when you get there. Please do not prejudge them too harshly, they are wonderful people.

You have my sympathy, woman to woman. I am not always proud of my government either (Yes, I am an American), but I am proud of the people of my country. It sounds very much the same as you. I don't want to sound trite, but the day will come soon when those holding the reigns of power will finally shift... it happened in Eastern Europe, I have to hold hope that it will happen in Iran.

When I first saw your name on that CNN news, I thought you are a chinese lady ( suun) married to an Iranian and that's where you get the news about Iran,and only after getting into your blogging more,I got to know that it IS you Khorshid khanom :) .well, Khaste nabashi,You are doing a really nice job out there and as a matter of fact we are in the same boat. the one up is a group work of us and this one here is my persian blogging if you are interested,http://naslebaran.persianblog.com

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Illegitimate power has to be fought with legitimate power. We don't give in to rapists and thugs just because they sieze control temporarily, even if they are successful in the short run, or on a limited basis. Legitimate power is formed by a consensus of individuals who care enough to spend the time planning and thinking through the issues and who have patience. Weak, unplanned, unorganized, or unlead resistance runs the risk of being ineffectual, or possibly worse, a change of leadership without a change in representation of the people. Strength is in numbers, strength is in peaceful demonstrations, strength is in peaceful resistance and strength is in well-led, well-thought out, well-planned activities. The most powerful force is the hearts and minds of people. It is a slow and risky and difficult process of winning hearts and minds. But it is only the careful building of legitimate power within a country that will ever have a chance of succeeding against illegitimate power. There have been times when religion has been available as a force to help people fight against corrupt governments, and times where governments have been available as a force to help people fight against corrupt religious leaders. When people face a corrupt government AND corrupt religious leaders, their job is doubly difficult.

Lady Sun-
Your blog again inspires me. I re-read my country's Declaration of Independence from Great Britain tonight. Here are the first two paragraphs. I hope it gives you all hope.

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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.