It has been a long time I have not written about politics. But I as anything is some how related to politics, I would like to write short thing about some issues came to my attention.
While I was reading Molla Hassani’s serious writings, I started to think what has happened to many people throughout these years! The people I am going to talk about are not just any people; as their position and being “insider” made them in some extend to play a role in current Iranian history!
I recall one of the most wishes many young Iranians have is to leave Iran and become acquainted with life of Iranian Diaspora. Or as I put it” experience the life under westernized civilization, free regardless of their beliefs and of course, higher standard of life”.
So, who are these people and where they are today!
1. Ms. Fatemeh Haghighatjou, after being outspoken member of Iranian parlement in Khatami era. She left Iran to be a guest researcher at MIT Center for International Studies and She is now working at The University of Connecticut in Storrs.
Interesting from her biographical synopsis in MIT webpage: “Ms. Haghighatjoo speaks some English and is available for interviews.”!!!
2. Mr. Hossein Derakhshan, those who does not know him, can get to know him through Wikipedia. He is hardcore advocate of Islamic republic though immigrated to Canada with wife in 2000, owns Canadian passport, goes around the world labels people with what he thinks is correct! Question I always wonder about is, how did he moved to Canada since he did not have bachelor from any university (according to wikipedia)?! And why outside of Iran he lives?! if he believes IR system is a system that is standing against "free market"? how could he travel around the world with his “French girlfriend” as he puts it (he has already divorced from wife, not that is my business!)!! He currently has started to study in an private school with not having a fixed job! To my experience, a person who has work in food chains and with many difficulty lived his bachlor years, how could he travel so much if does not have much money or a fix job!
3. Mr. Amir Farshad Ebrahimi , Wikipedia reads: he is a former member of Ansar-e Hezbollah and Basij of Iran, currently a peace and human rights activist living in Germany. For those who don’t know him, he is the guy who got Ms. Shirin Ebadi into jail because of his confessions about what Ansar-e Hezbollah did. An example was what happened when Mr. Mohajerani former minster of Islamic guidance speech was set to violence.
His weblog!
In any case, I just wonder where they are the above people and where they were about 5 years ago! So, life has lots of ups and down! note to myself, no kidding!!
Happy 2008 and a year full of health and prosperty for all!
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