THE IRANIAN: Hossein Derakhshan

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علی کردان خائن به اعتماد ملت است و باید استعفا بدهد
اول اینکه خواهش می‌کنم اگر کسی فایل صدای مذاکرات چند روز پیش مجلس در جلسه‌ی رای اعتماد به س وزیر پیشنهادی احمدی‌نژاد را دارد برای...
(With all this scandalous revelation about Ali Kordan's lies about his university degrees, I think now he is quite liability for Ahmadinejad, specially in the forthcoming presidential elections. Simply because the public has lost its trust in this man who is now the minister of interir affairs. I think Kordan must resign.)

۱۹۸۴ در ایران: قاتل روزنامه‌نگار است، تروریست فعال مدنی
واقعا مسخره است. دارند رسما از این بابایی که دیروز بخاطر همکاری و عضویت در گروه تروریستی و جدایی‌طلب جندالله اعدام شده بود دارند شهید...
(It's incredible how a group of foreign-funded 'human rights activists', such as Hadi Ghaemi and Shirin Ebadi and their gang on the internet are making a martyr of Yaqoub Mehnahad, a member and collaborator of a terrorist and separatist group, Jondollah, that is is responsible for dozens of murders. Yes, he has been a journalist and an activist, but the basis for the verdict was his collaboration with and membership in a terrorist and separatist group. I'm against capital punishment myself, but these people are against anything Iran does, not just teh form of punishment. I wonder how other countries treat similar members of outlawed terrorist organizations backed by their enemies' funds.)

اندر بازگشت به وطن، در باب غذا
با اینکه خیلی دلم برای غذای ایرانی خانگی تنگ شده، ولی می‌دانم که بعد از چند ماه که برگشتم ایران و هر روز رفتم هانی...
(I know going back to Iran and living there would not be that easy. But it's worth trying. One thing that I'm sure I'll miss would be Italian, Thai, Lebanese, French, Japanese, and Portuguese cuisine. :) Unless Tehran has really changed into a more cosmopolitan city. We'll see.)

از جنوب فرانسه تا فارس نیوز
جای شما خالی یک چند روزی را با دوست دختر عزیز در تعطیلات بودیم. از پاریس با ماشین کرایه‌ای راه افتادیم به سمت بندر مارسی...
(Notes about the event of the last week. I'm lazy to summarize it!)

دریدای بی‌همتا
دارم برای نوشته‌ی پایان‌نامه‌ام شدیدا دریدا می‌خوانم و حال می‌کنم. این آدم از فوکو هم مهم‌تر است برای پیاده کردن شاسی تفکر روشنگری. فوکو خوب...
(I'm reading Derrida for my dissertation and he fascinates me more than any other theoretician. He is beyond philosophy. He is an artist. By the way, instead of asking what something is, it's always better to ask, what it does. This is a good way for not falling into the trap of by essentialism.)

ساختمان سازی: با دستان نرم و عبای شکلاتی، یا دستان زمخت و لباس خاکی
چند برداشت دارم پس از دیدن مصاحبه‌ی تلویزیونی احمدی‌نژاد که با شما درمیان می‌گذارم و نظر شما را هم می‌خواهم: - به نظر من بزرگترین...
(Watching the full-length video of Ahmadinejad's TV interview hints at the real difference between him and Khatami and Rafsanjani. Ahmadienjad talks like a hard working engineer who knows every little detail about the house he is building, whereas Khatami and Rafsanjani always appeared as a sissy investor who has no idea how his building is being made. The real reformer of this country's economic structure has emerged in Ahmadinejad.)

تئوری عدم توطئه
حواسمان باشد که روی دیگر سکه‌ی «تئوری توطئه» آن است که فرض کنیم هیچ توطئه‌ و نقشه‌ای در کار هیچکس نیست، یا بقولی «تئوری عدم...
(Denial of any conspiracy is as stupid as the conspiracy theory itself. Both are totalizing articulations and both are wrong. Unfortunately, among the Iranian elite, it has become quite trendy to reject the possibility of any conspiracy.)

شادی صدر و بازی خطرناک اختلافات قومی و نژادی
می‌دانستم که رابرت تیت، خبرنگار سابق گاردین در تهران، آدم بی‌وجدانی است، ولی دیگر نه اینقدر. نگاه کنید خبرش را که درباره‌ی کنفرانس مطبوعاتی دیروز...
(Not unexpected from Robert Tait, the former Jerusalem correspondent for The Times, it is quite disappointing to see Shadi Sadr, quite consciously, falling into the trap of the anti-Iran psy-op war machine. More distressing is that she is even bringing up the issue of ethnic minorities. Perhaps an award, a scholarship or simply a Hadi Ghaemi is waiting for her somewhere in Europe or in the U.S?)

الان وقت امتیاز گرفتن است
اگر آمریکا واقعا دنبال حمله به ایران بود، امکان نداشت به اروپا اجازه‌ی ادامه‌ی مذاکره با ایران بدهد، آن هم مذاکره‌ای بدون تضمین برای توقف...
(Now that military action against Iran is impossible, it is the best time for Iran to demand as much as it can during the negotiations. And of course, there is no need to stop enrichment. A bit longer resistance and the Americans would even find themselves investing in the Iranian-based joint international enrichment facility. And maybe Israel would also be forced to sign the NPT too. Who knows.)

چند روز است که پاریسم. لندن هیچکس نمانده و آدم از تنهایی دق می‌کند. این بود که آمدم ور دل دوست دختر عزیز و مهربان...
(Last night, I drank two glasses of good Israel wine, to the victory of Hezbollah. Did I do something wrong?)