6 responses to “As the drumbeats for war on Iran grow more thunderous, ‘education is key’”

1. Comrade Axe | May 18, 2018 at 6:53 pm | Reply

   In one day. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi defeated the combined powers of Britain and the USSR!

   Ha ha ha ha ha.

   Later, the Shahanshah fled to Rome in order to depose Mossadegh. From there he commanded

   Iranian CIA operatives [, who, by] pretending to be socialists and nationalists[,] threatened Muslim leaders with “savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh,” thereby giving the impression that Mossadegh was cracking down on dissent earlier than planned, and stirring anti-Mossadegh sentiments within the religious community.

   So fucking clever! Ha ha ha ha.

   Later, the West blew so much smoke up Shahanshah’s ass that the thought he was the reincarnation of Cyrus! Meanwhile, Farrokhzad laments the Persia alienated by crapitalist modernity. Which hospital would tend their garden?

   The Greeks had Icarus killed for going after the sun, i.e. you’re responsible for your striving and failure. OTOH, the Hindus spared Sampati:

   Sampati saved his brother by spreading his own wings and thus shielding Jatayu from the hot flames [of the sun]. In the process, Sampati himself got injured and lost his wings. As a result, Sampati lived wingless for the rest of his life.

   In the crapitalist version, you must be the shields incinerated when they fly too high.

2. V | May 19, 2018 at 3:05 am | Reply

   Alright; great stuff/history here.
   Persians invented chess, by the way.
   I’m already quite literate re: Persia thanks to the U.S. hegemon. History has been front and center for 2+ decades. Thanks wd
   V

   • wendyedavis | May 19, 2018 at 7:48 am | Reply

     i’d known some of it, but a lot was new to me, so good on you. awesome storify she’s created, though; whoooosh. now that you mention it, i do remember reading that persians had invented chess.

     i particularly like the safavid dynasty from 1501 to 1722 (wiki) art period; i stuck in an extra one at the top. guess we’ll stay tuned for what unfolds as to war on iran…or war by other means. that the US just sold a shit-ton of bunker buster bombs to sunni-ruled bahrain (85% shi’ia, home of the US navy’s 5th fleet) doesn’t bode well.

3. wendyedavis | May 19, 2018 at 8:25 am | Reply

   doesn’t smell right to me…portraying putin as bibi’s lapdog.

   Could be disinfo, but it looks as though Russia is offering to condone or accommodate Washington's renewed aggression towards Iran. https://t.co/3AhafURNeU pic.twitter.com/oBZTuU3StL

   — Club des Cordeliers (@cordeliers) May 18, 2018

   “It was not immediately clear which foreign troops Mr. Putin referred to, as Russia, Iran, the United States and other nations have forces in the country. Mr. Putin said such a withdrawal would be part of a settlement of the country’s long civil war.

   Both Iran and Russian forces are fighting on Mr. Assad’s side in Syria. If Mr. Putin was pointing to Iran’s military presence in Syria — which this month flared into an exchange of hostilities with Israel — his comment could suggest a Russian role in preventing Iran from becoming entrenched there.
   Mr. Putin noted that the Syrian Army had won “significant victories and successes” in the war, according to the Tass news agency, and attention should turn to humanitarian aid and a political settlement.
   “With the start of a political process in its more active phase, foreign armed forces will be withdrawn from the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic,” Mr. Putin said.”

4. Jacob Freeze | May 19, 2018 at 11:33 pm | Reply

   I thought about posting a translation of something from Forough Farrokhzad, but all the translations I could find are junk, except a couple in Italian…

   Io non parlo di sussurri timorosi nel buio,
   Io parlo di luce del giorno e di finestre aperte,
   Di aria fresca,
   Di un forno nel quale bruciano cose inutili,
   Di terra resa fertile con un’altra coltura,
   Di nascita, di evoluzione, di orgoglio.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forough_Farrokhzad

   • wendyedavis | May 20, 2018 at 6:32 am | Reply

     thank you for the wiki link; lots of good information there. she died young (32) in a car crash, my stars. well i only know six word in italian, but that one rolls off one’s tongue like a river, doesn’t it? it really may be the most poetic language i know.

     (sheesh; i had to log in again…twice this week. is this site tryin’ to tll me something?)