BBC2's Interview with the Next President of Iran!!!
Yesterday evening BBC2 broadcasted its world exclusive interview with "so-called" next president of Iran.
Gavin Esler, the interviewer, talked to Mr Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and asked him a couple of questions including whether he still considers US as the big satan and UK as the small satan, where he replied no if they are going to be good guys, and then he mentioned that US is showing signs for becoming a good guy!
And now if you refer to the follow-up on the Newsnight web site, it says "... Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the man who is expected to be the next President of Iran."
It seems that Britain is still under the impression that they are appointing the Iranian president!
I wasn't sure whether to vote or not, but it seems that now I have got a tendency towards attending the elections, and as a university student, probably you can tell whom I am voting for :)
If you live in the UK and are going to vote, it is good to know that London is not the only place where you can cast your vote, refer to Amir's earlier post where he has listed the locations.
Please don't vote if you wanna see a better future for Iran and Iranians. You may ask why not to vote? Then visit my blog and read my latest post please.
(at June 16, 2005 08:43 PM)
if they read a bit of the history in iran they would understand why there is no need to vote, but it seems living outside iran make some of us more in love with this dirty regime, sorry guys but u should believe in one of these ppl to vote for them, do u think with giving u a chance to vote they let u choose what u want or u can blame them later?!, u should be so out of the story to think like this, anyway as it says, As mast ke bar mast....so sorry...
(at June 16, 2005 09:05 PM)
Obviously deciding on whether or not to attend the elections is a personal preference and every eligible Iranian citizen has the right to choose.
I think it is a very brave task to generalise a concept and say it for sure (e.g. "if you want a better future then do or don't do this"). Even if you are an expert in politics and social sciences you can't assert your idea.
In regards to the history, I agree that I always need to read and know more. My personal decision is based on what I have read and understood so far, and I haven't claimed that my deduction is the most logical one, nor suggested others what they should or shouldn't do.
At the end of the day, we all respect the democracy rules (although we don't have true democracy) and if the majority of people decide not to vote then the minority will have the right to choose the president, and the majority have to abide by this rule.
PS: It is normally a good practice in blog world to leave an email address when replying to posts. If you are concerned about spam, then it is useful to know that the blog software on persianstudents.org puts a digested link on the page, which then redirects to the actual link.
(at June 17, 2005 12:09 AM)
I agree with mehran, totally.
People who want to boycott the elections have good intentions, no doubt on it. We're both dreaming of a democratic Iran, but we have chosen different paths for that goal.
I personally think boycotting the elections will take us nowhere, it will only send us 8 years or more backwards. We need to progress step-by-step and steadily. Viva Iran
(at June 17, 2005 01:28 AM)
I reckon that we MUST show the world that we are against this regime and the only way of doing this now is by NOT voting.
NOT voting means saying 'no' to corruption, mullahs, political and social conditions, and all the evil things they have done for 26 years.
We were wrong before, therefore I might be wrong now again but that's what I think.
Be Omide Irani Azad.
(at June 17, 2005 10:51 AM)
Unity,
The world knows very well how much unpopular the regime is. Nobody in the world believes for a single moment that Iranians love their government. Nobody is blind.
What I have learnt in the past 8 years is that it's 'us' who need to do something. No other nation or country will ever do good to us if we don't push for it, and I mean a practical push, not by boycotting our most basic civic right (practically all that is left for the people). In the elections 8 years ago, ALL of us knew that they would cheat and Nategh would become the president. But the power of people was so overwhelming that they had to give in to our will. Khatami was elected, his gov were inexperienced, so were we. We thought we could sit back and relax and enjoy a quick reform without contributing too much. We thought the 'world' would applaud and come and install democracy for us. Nothing happened.
In the past 8 years, the conservatives have tried their BEST to convince people to stay home, they have done whatever they could to spread apathy, to prove to people that their will does not count. They dream of the boycotte, because the boycotte will allow them to control 100% of the gov, oil, foreign trade, foreign relations and practically our lives.
Don't be part of their dream
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