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Thank you, Babak, for the comic relief. It was ne...

2011-11-24T13:43:57.541-05:00

Thank you, Babak, for the comic relief. It was needed here. And boy did you deliver.

That said, I think this comment thread has run its course - there has been nearly nothing interesting or substantive posted here, most of the posts are angry, ugly nonsense, and the whole thing has wound up rather inane and unproductive.

There is far too much name-calling, constant accusations of allegiances that don't exist, incessant questioning of identity and other assorted absurdity.

I have already refrained from approving a number of particularly vitriolic comments (some of which, though supportive of my perspective, were more concerned with leveling attacks at other commenters here) and I see no indication that the conversation will improve.

Thus, the comment section is now closed.

And again, if anyone really feels the need to continue writing profane garbage (whether you agree with me or not), the Parazit Facebook page will surely be happy to have you.

Thanks for the chuckles, everyone, it's been a sincere sensation.

Sally you are a conformist, you obey your master, ...

2011-11-24T07:40:24.163-05:00

Sally you are a conformist, you obey your master, what ever laws and rules no matter how ridiculous they are.

Useful idiots like you who live in Wealthy Democracies and go to North Korea and praise Dear Leader Kim Jong ill. You think it is cool to live under Theocratic leadership that tells you what to eat , what to wear and what to say, do yourself a favor and go and live in Iran or North Korea. Mullahs would love another convert and conformist.

Make fun of those who bleed for Freedom and slap them with a label of New Conservative, and like this useful idiot go to Al Jazeera and call it an unbiased source, follow the tread of Hamid Dabashi , NIAC and Trita Parsi to make a deal with a devil and call it a peace process.

As for Nima, Majority of Parazit fan which has now increased substantially after Al Jazeera Show , which calls Persian Gulf , Arabian gulf , are Noe-conservatives and mullahs who are raping , torturing and murdering their own citizens because of the cult of Islam are peaceful harmless creatures.

Self pitty , self righteousness and Self hatred is the characteristic of your kind.

Babak

Lots of laugh at 'gentlemen'! (Im avoidin...

2011-11-24T06:28:24.751-05:00

Lots of laugh at 'gentlemen'!
(Im avoiding 'lame web abbreviations'!)

Oh yeah totally! I'm TOTALLY a neoconservative...

2011-11-23T05:39:36.121-05:00

Oh yeah totally! I'm TOTALLY a neoconservative! You're a lunatic who calls us neoconservatives because we want democracy and human rights and Iran and when two young gentleman attempt to use a platform to convey their thoughts, you criticize them!

Without a doubt, the best part of this whole conve...

2011-11-23T00:18:19.124-05:00

Without a doubt, the best part of this whole conversation, if it can even be called that, is the inescapable realization that many Parazit fans not only have a Manichaean worldview, they are also clearly neoconservatives.

Hey Nima, I have an idea. Instead of giving the ta...

2011-11-22T22:10:04.788-05:00

Hey Nima, I have an idea. Instead of giving the talking points of the IRI, maybe you should actually GO on their show.

I know you're one of those ultra-leftists that hates the US government, and yet, finds it SO HARD to criticize the IRI.

It's almost like criticism of the IRI cannot come out of your mouth.

So how about this, next time you go on a show and make an ass out of yourself, do some fucking research.

Parazit is run by VOA but they have no editorial control over their content. If, at every meeting, Clinton called up Kambiz and Saman and filtered out content, I would totally 1000% agree with you.

Your little "hypothetical" is STUPID because if the English version of Parazit were made in Iran, and they wanted to poke fun at Khamenei, they COULD NOT!!!! Parazit can easily make fun of Obama, or the Clintons, or whoever, whatever policy.

Your hypothetical English counterparts COULD NOT do the same damn thing (criticizing IRI on PressTV).

I hope you sleep well tonight knowing you and the likes of you are hindering the Iraniani Democracy movement.

How could someone attack the freedoms and co...

2011-11-22T19:42:22.611-05:00
How could someone attack the freedoms and core values we have afforded to us here in the west (whether the United States or Europe) and justify the actions of such a brutal regime at every opportunity rather than siding with the Iranian people who continue to shed their blood for freedom, secular democracy, and human rights? Therefore, naturally I assumed you were referring to Nima.

Anyone familiar with my writing will recognize the above statement as possibly the most hilarious and ridiculous thing ever committed to print. Thanks, sasss31.

Please stop trolling my website now.

"You know that the world has gone to a hand b...

2011-11-22T18:14:30.343-05:00
"You know that the world has gone to a hand basket, when wrong is right and right is wrong. I guess the normal now in this crazy world is that once someone is out of his country he must do everything he can to betray his homeland and his fellow countrymen. Some people say he dude, why not reach back and help your people, by helping to care for the poor, the sick or the downtrodden, by making a school, a clinic, a hospital, no, no we must betray instead."

@Sammy: reading your initial post, I was in complete agreement with you. After-all, how could someone turn their back on their homeland and their people when their people are being terrorized under the most brutal of manners and having one's nation pillaged? How could someone attack the freedoms and core values we have afforded to us here in the west (whether the United States or Europe) and justify the actions of such a brutal regime at every opportunity rather than siding with the Iranian people who continue to shed their blood for freedom, secular democracy, and human rights? Therefore, naturally I assumed you were referring to Nima. But NO, you too side with the brutality of such a regime instead of applauding the efforts of Kambiz and Saman.

Just think about it: this is a regime that is so fanatical that they rape our young sisters before executing them so that they don't die as virgins as these maniacs believe "virgins go straight to heaven" as to not "pollute" heaven and to "deny" this to them too. Any individual standing with the brutality of this regime rather than condemning it and its brutality, oppression, and illegitimate rule against the Iranian people, whether Iranian or non-Iranian, is the enemy of the Iranian nation, the Iranian people, and humanity in general. Shame on you.

You know that the world has gone to a hand basket,...

2011-11-22T13:42:42.861-05:00
You know that the world has gone to a hand basket, when wrong is right and right is wrong. I guess the normal now in this crazy world is that once someone is out of his country he must do everything he can to betray his homeland and his fellow countrymen. Some people say he dude, why not reach back and help your people, by helping to care for the poor, the sick or the downtrodden, by making a school, a clinic, a hospital, no, no we must betray instead. It's a shame for those 2 clowns on parzit to be doing what they are doing.

بنا به نظریه شما هر کس که پولش از جایی می آید بی ط...

2011-11-22T01:47:02.014-05:00
بنا به نظریه شما هر کس که پولش از جایی می آید بی طرف نیست... نتیجه تلویزیون ایران بی طرف نیست پس هر خبر در مورد آمریکا می دهد دروغ است. دو در انتخاب ایران تقلب شده است چون تلویزیون ایران بیان کرده که نشده و تلویزیون ایران پولش ازطرف دولت ایران پس در نتیجه تلویزیون ایران داره دروغ میگه... یکی از نمونه های جالبش این موضوع که تمام خبر گذاری های ایرانی این موضوع رو در مورد کانال بی بی سی و صدای آمریکا می گند ولی پول خودشان منابعش از سپاه و دولت و ... پس در نتیجه بر ضد منافع خودشون حرف نمی زنند. پس دروغ می گند. معلوم نیست اگه اون ها میگن این ها دروغ می گند و در عین حال خودشون هم دروغ گو هستند پس معلوم نیست کدام خبر راست است... یک موضوع دیگه خود شما پولتون رو از دولتی نمی گیرید به گفته خودتون ولی منافع شخصیتون هم در خبر هاتون میگید...برداشتی که من کردم شما طرفدار آقای احمدی نژاد هستید و منتقد آمریکا و هر جا به نفع خودتون باشه بی طرف نیستید و دارید منافع تفکرات خودتون رو تبلیغ می کنید... جناب نیما معیار وابسته گی و غیر وابستگی و بی طرفی رو اگه به منابعش نگاه کنیم هیچکس بی طرف نیست... حتی شما... معیار احمقانه ای انتخاب کرده اید... شما نه برنامه پارازیت بلکه منبع مالیش رو نقد کردید... می شد به خود برنامه رجوع کنید... و از برنامه ایراد بگیرید ولی ترجیح دادید با برچسب زدن بر روی برنامه بحث رو به جایی بکشونید که اصلا قابل بحث نباشه... در آخر قابوس به پسرش در قابوس نامه میگه اگر سوالی ازت کردن و نمی دونستی جوابش رو بندازش بعد و همین طور ادامه میده تا آخر و میگه اگر دیدی خیلی اسرار میکنه و ول کن نیست به او انگ کافر بودن بزن تا دیگر حرفی نزند...

Nima, my friend. You're way too smart to answe...

2011-11-22T00:24:07.275-05:00
Nima, my friend. You're way too smart to answers back some of these really creepy weird people here in the comment section. Just let them say whatever they want. Do what you're great at , teaching people who have an open mind and want to learn on your blog

Yup, Rameen, you nailed it. It's because of my...

2011-11-21T21:24:17.343-05:00
Yup, Rameen, you nailed it. It's because of my embarrassment that I think you're an ignorant bigot.

I've already watched the Al Jazeera documentary "Letters from Iran" but thanks for link anyway.

Hi dear Nima, I hope u read my comment and can sen...

2011-11-21T20:53:27.510-05:00
Hi dear Nima, I hope u read my comment and can send back some answers to me, I am not one of your usual guests in here, I comed in here trow severeal links that the first of them was from Parazit, I am a fan of the show and everything that you said in the show is truth but one question remainds, does we have anything else like that right now?if they quit, who will talk on behalf of us, iranian? shahram homayoun or other LA channels? I'm not trying to put someone in bad spot. dear Nima, do you really belive that we iranian are som smart and political aware of the situasjon that we understand the difference between right and wrong?70 millions peoples are desprate, desprate of haveing the freedom that was either taken from them or that they gaved away by their own hand, they want it back and it doesn't matter how as long as they gets it back, the goal justifices otheres thing, Excuse my english, it is my third language and I'm not very good at it either :)

Sorry to hurt your feeling dude, you look pretty o...

2011-11-21T20:22:29.756-05:00
Sorry to hurt your feeling dude, you look pretty outstanding on Aljazeera!!!, but you felt embarrassed after i said that "your Arab friends", i didn't know that you feel bad about that, but anyway i do have friends with different background and nationality, but never felt bad being friend with them.

Anyway as long as we are on Aljazeera subject, it is not bad to watch this video:

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/general/2011/11/2011118122637129536.html

Cheers

i just watched Aljazira's program stream which...

2011-11-21T10:51:11.545-05:00
i just watched Aljazira's program stream which you were in and the hosts that were kambiz and saman , i should tell you that i see your argument but the logic behind it falls flat , i really do not understand some points you made like the US government is the same government that sanctioned iran in this 30 years and put pressure in iran , i didnt understand it because by saying this things you literally mean that US shouldn't have sanctioned iran and shouldn't have put pressure on its government and if not , can you say some ways that US and the world could stop the iran regime doing the brutal things its doing ? if sanctions are not good , then what is ? invasion ? what way do YOU offer to stop the brutal islamic republic ? and the next thing about your argument was that you kept telling kambiz and saman that they are funded by the US government and they are propaganda first off they are not propaganda coz in none of their shows as far as i watched ( which i know you hadn't watched ) they do not support any of u.s policies. even though they are on US government payroll their brand of comedy is not marketable yet ! you cant sell ads on parazit ! plus you say anyone that accepts US money accepts US policies ? No ! cause half of the nations on this planet do to include pakistan and north korea , the UN and a huge amount of charities !!!! so thats it there your argue can jump it just cant land .

After watching the program I got very interested a...

2011-11-21T04:56:06.184-05:00
After watching the program I got very interested and started to follow the "debate" even if reading all the comments here is quite exhausting (I don't even want to check the Facebook page a lot of people mention here). So much time is missed in extreme points, insults and ideas that change the subject!

I was sorry you didn't have much time or opportunity to go further in your ideas, since it all ended up being a ping pong game about the funding. To be honest, their screaming and their verbal kicking, as well as the comments from their fans said more than enough. I am no expert in Iran, so, as an outsider, I thought you didn't have to say much more to demonstrate who's who and who's with whom.

I agree with other commentators saying you should have spoken more about the content. But the thing is, how? At what point? They didn't allow it. The point about the funding was never properly answered, and all the screaming kept things blocked.

The level of debate was kept very low (specially by them, I'm afraid)... And if I may say so, they were annoying to listen to. I felt I was watching a couple of teenagers being told their favorite video game/artist/movie is not good.

Keep trying to push the debate to a higher level. I liked your way of speaking. I'm sorry to see you get exasperated with some of the commets here.

A good day to you.

My comment was directed to everyone on this thread...

2011-11-21T01:35:24.368-05:00
My comment was directed to everyone on this thread, Fidel, Rameen, and you included.

"Islamicist culture"? Honestly, sasss31, do you have anything interesting to say or is it all this trolling nonsense?

Actually, don't answer that, this is all way too stupid.

I think that there is no doubt that you have been ...

2011-11-21T01:26:32.900-05:00
I think that there is no doubt that you have been exhibiting narcissistic tendencies.

Moving on...so, it is okay for this "fidel" moniker to make a blanket statement in calling us "Zionist Jews" and in addition calling us "fake Iranians"? So, it's okay for bigoted comments to be directed towards us in questioning our Iranian identity along with making blatant anti-Semitic statements? It only becomes a problem when you sense that somehow the "Islamicist culture" is being attacked?

The hypocrisy on your character is quite deafening..

I hardly consider "Rameen" a fanboy. Co...

2011-11-20T23:28:58.413-05:00
I hardly consider "Rameen" a fanboy.

Comments like "...your Arab friends..." and "...mind your own people..." are appalling.

Similarly, any comments that include lame web abbreviations like "lol" and "lmfao" will also not be tolerated.

lol Nima, the only people being racist are your fa...

2011-11-20T23:02:52.235-05:00
lol Nima, the only people being racist are your fanboys. In fact, we were all under a big fat blanket called "Zionist Jews". lmfao.

Hey Nima, this is amoo joon , I'm very sorry i...

2011-11-20T21:47:19.692-05:00
Hey Nima, this is amoo joon , I'm very sorry if I might have offended you. I just feel its really unfair of these people who attack you , while they're lying about who they really are. If they were a man they would not hide behind a keyboard, they would come out and identify their real agenda like a real man. Just tell us that you're an Israeli or their sayar( helper). And then maybe we can have a polite conversation, but no as its so typical of their workings, they prefer to lie and cheat and create mayhem. I'm ready to defend my position of support for iran And Palestinians if they come out and debate me. Thank you

I see this thread quickly devolving from its alrea...

2011-11-20T21:21:10.219-05:00
I see this thread quickly devolving from its already inane profanity and boring ad hominem into even more sinister racism, tribalism, nationalism, nativism, and ethno-cultural supremacism.

This will not be allowed.

If I see anymore of this here, I will not only reinstate the "approval" mechanism and refuse to post anything of that sort, but I may also just close this post to comments altogether. (And yes, if you all take your racism garbage to other posts on my site, I'll close those too. Oh, and if you think that's "censorship," you don't know what that word means.)

I clearly don't care about the attacks on me that have been so plentiful here already - they're sophomoric, tedious, and reflect terribly on the people posting them. This isn't about those comments.

Please, everyone, let's get substantive - and fast - or else there's really no point. If you feel such a desperate need to be racist, ignorant, unsophistocated and offensive, I know the Parazit Facebook page is a swell place to be.

Go post there.

Way to go Fidel , man I agree with you. As you sai...

2011-11-20T21:03:35.046-05:00
Way to go Fidel , man I agree with you. As you said;

Listen you F' ers sitting in tel aviv or some settlement in Palestine mistreating the poor Palestinians and at the same time pretending to be Iranians trying to brainwash the real Iranians just doesn't work anymore.(Yes some of you traitor 5th column are from Iran, now as so typical of your people, have moved to Israel and from there you curse your follow Iranians, )
you guys had a lot of luck before, but things are rapidly changing not in your favor,

Listen to Gilad Atzmon, before the tide turn against you. I say this as a friend. I refuse to let you people drive drunk, it's not good for you,

OH Great Nima, your Arab friends already start pra...

2011-11-20T20:44:09.913-05:00
OH Great Nima, your Arab friends already start praising you like "Roqayah". I told you mind your own people, we,Iranians, currently have more serious local issues at home, as all Iranian patriots call on streets full of bloodshed in Iran:

No Gaza, No Lebanon, I will give my life for IRAN. or in my beautiful farsi language:

نه غزه نه لبنان جانم فدای ایران

^LMFAO, we must now be Jews? LOL. In fact, I have ...

2011-11-20T20:05:57.771-05:00
^LMFAO, we must now be Jews? LOL. In fact, I have a great respect for the Jewish culture as it has produced such great minds and scientists such as Albert Einstein and 10-20% of Israelis are estimated to be atheist Jews. In addition, we have historical ties to them dating back to Cyrus The Great. Saying this, I was "born" Muslim and I am a kafar - YUP! Like more and more Iranians these days. A rationalist and someone who values reason and science rather than backwards religion, especially Islam. In addition, I find it simultaneously funny and sad that your kind has to always resort to the anti-Semitic card in calling whom you perceive as a threat to the regime as a "Jew" or "Zionist". It is quite very, very low of your type and we Iranians don't really care for the Palestinian-Israeli issue as it is not an Iranian issue and in addition, we don't support terrorist organizations in Hamas and Hizbollah which your kind seems to support. What holds Islamic nations back is this self-defeating anti-Semitic attitude in that instead of looking inward and realizing that the problems of the culture are not some imagined outside problem but rather inside the Islamic culture itself. Until Islamic people realize this, Islam will forever remain a retarding force upon its people.

The only thing good that has come out of this regime is something that the Iranian people would have not been able to realize under the Shah: the true evils of Islamic rule. Islam as an influence in politics and life truly has no role in a future democratic Iran - and I believe when I am older, Islam will cease to even be self-identified by the majority of the populace. This older generation just needs to pass on and it will all be finished.