Comments on: Iran: a land of contradictions

By: Lida

Lida — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:36:05 +0000

Bahramerad,
You seemed to have missed the point of the article. Yes, there is unquestionably abject poverty and oppression under the Islamic dictatorship in Iran; this is an obvious point that can be explored in a whole other article. What the article in question is addressing is the media’s portrayal of culture in Iran, and the dichotomy between the impression it gives and the reality. If you had read the article carefully you would have noticed that the ‘rotten state of Iran’ is addressed, but moving on from that, it is encouraging the active experience of a culture to inform judgement, instead of relying solely on what the media gives us; which is a very positive thing. If anyone’s interested in how the media can manipulate certain news stories try reading ‘Manufacturing Consent’ by Noam Chomsky. Oh and there are a lot of intelligent students at university, it’s just a shamE you can’t spell.

By: bobby

bobby — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:31:03 +0000

What? You don’t think there is executions in America? You don’t think there’s people that live in misery, poverty, destitution, hopelessness and some sort of discrimination in western society? You need to wake up and look at the world in relative terms. Every country has their rules and their problems.

By: Bahramerad

Bahramerad — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:30:18 +0000

Also please look at this. This is real Iran of today and what is happaning to the youth of Iran.
http://www.sbgraff.com/khonejavanan.html

By: Bahramerad

Bahramerad — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:36:07 +0000

I am please that you spent some ‘High Time’ in Tehran. I am also disappointed that you were blind to the misery of millions of Iranians living in abject poverty, destitution, hopelessness and oppression under the Islamo-Fascist Regime of Islamic Republic of Idiots. I was under impression that university students were suppose to be ‘Intelligent.’ What a sham YOU ARE NOT!