VP, VP VI; Khuzestan Land of Date and Tulips II
Almost at the end of my stay here which passed way too fast, there is a wedding comin up about a two weeks after my departure, Iranian weddings are something to be experianced. Anyhow I have a 4 day excursion to the Northwest which would be the Azeri dominated part of Iran. Of course in the recent history of Iran Azerbaiejan is a place that has produced many figures that were important and in every event of last 100 years the people of this region have been in the forfront. In the Counstitutional Revolution, there were the Satar Khan, Baqer Khan and Yafrem Khan Armani (an Armenian from this region), Sheikh Mohammad Khibani was another man who rose up in the streets of Tabriz at the same time as Kochik Khan (Who fought under the command of Yafrem Khan during the Counstitutional War) in Gilan and Colonel Pesian in Khorasan against the the forceful hand of Qajars.
In the 1979 revolution, the demonstrations in Tabriz was one of the first events of involving actions by the masses. Recently Azeris have made some noise but the outcome of the riots that have been ignored in the Iranian media was not a progress but a shutdown of reformist paper.
In short in one of the leading papers called IRAN there was a cartoon which depictaed a Cockroach saying he doesn't know in Azeri to a boy speaking farsi. (The jokes over here gives the same steritype to Azeris as the European jokes give to the Polish) Also it is important to note that the Cartoonist (who is in jail now for insulting an ethnic group, I don't know if he is still in there) is an Azari himself. So there were news of some riots and the Supreme Leader that such acts of insensivities cannot be tolorated and them the judiciary moved in and closed the news paper and the whole thing went away by the World Cup.
Also its very important to note that Samad Behrangi the leftist teacher was from this region. His revolutionary stories such as "Little Black Fish" and "24 hours in sleep and awarness" (word by word translation, I don't know the English name despite reading it in English 2 years ago, some help is needed)
Until a new post, enjoy the following pics:
This is the door of the Jame Mosque of Khoramshar, which was used by the popular resistance as the ammo depot and command center.
The small border watch tower. Before the American atack on Iraq, the Iran-Iraq border was not touched by either side. In fear of another attack the Iranian government did not investe to remove the minefields. and Saddam was too busy invading Kuwait at first and then under seige for equippment (I do doubt he would remove them if he had the equippment though, see the Iranian Reason) The mine fields in the south are marked but not in the north they are not and hence mines claim many lifes in the kurdish area (the Kurds see crossing the border for smuggling goods as both both profitable and political but in the southern sections the economy is structured around Oil)
This is where Karron (the only river in Iran that is navigatable ny large ships) meets river Arvand or Shat-ol-Arab (river of the Arabs), The date palm are Iraq, this section would be controled by the British, 20 years after the end of Iran Iraq war one only has to look at the pictures above and imagine what the people of Iraq are gong through under the boots of the freedom spreading high school dropout of American Army. Saddam wanted to liberate Khuzestan's Arabs from the rule of the "Persians" (according to saddam there were three things that god shouldn't have created the Persians the Jews and the Fly) eventhough thArabs of Khoramshahr and Abadan fought his Army street by street, he countinued the war for 8 years. Now the Americans want to liberate the middle east even if they are being shout at to leave.
In the 1979 revolution, the demonstrations in Tabriz was one of the first events of involving actions by the masses. Recently Azeris have made some noise but the outcome of the riots that have been ignored in the Iranian media was not a progress but a shutdown of reformist paper.
In short in one of the leading papers called IRAN there was a cartoon which depictaed a Cockroach saying he doesn't know in Azeri to a boy speaking farsi. (The jokes over here gives the same steritype to Azeris as the European jokes give to the Polish) Also it is important to note that the Cartoonist (who is in jail now for insulting an ethnic group, I don't know if he is still in there) is an Azari himself. So there were news of some riots and the Supreme Leader that such acts of insensivities cannot be tolorated and them the judiciary moved in and closed the news paper and the whole thing went away by the World Cup.
Also its very important to note that Samad Behrangi the leftist teacher was from this region. His revolutionary stories such as "Little Black Fish" and "24 hours in sleep and awarness" (word by word translation, I don't know the English name despite reading it in English 2 years ago, some help is needed)
Until a new post, enjoy the following pics:
This is the door of the Jame Mosque of Khoramshar, which was used by the popular resistance as the ammo depot and command center.
The small border watch tower. Before the American atack on Iraq, the Iran-Iraq border was not touched by either side. In fear of another attack the Iranian government did not investe to remove the minefields. and Saddam was too busy invading Kuwait at first and then under seige for equippment (I do doubt he would remove them if he had the equippment though, see the Iranian Reason) The mine fields in the south are marked but not in the north they are not and hence mines claim many lifes in the kurdish area (the Kurds see crossing the border for smuggling goods as both both profitable and political but in the southern sections the economy is structured around Oil)
This is where Karron (the only river in Iran that is navigatable ny large ships) meets river Arvand or Shat-ol-Arab (river of the Arabs), The date palm are Iraq, this section would be controled by the British, 20 years after the end of Iran Iraq war one only has to look at the pictures above and imagine what the people of Iraq are gong through under the boots of the freedom spreading high school dropout of American Army. Saddam wanted to liberate Khuzestan's Arabs from the rule of the "Persians" (according to saddam there were three things that god shouldn't have created the Persians the Jews and the Fly) eventhough thArabs of Khoramshahr and Abadan fought his Army street by street, he countinued the war for 8 years. Now the Americans want to liberate the middle east even if they are being shout at to leave.
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