Friday, May 26, 2006

Being-Iranian

I was waiting for two of my friends to come to Canada this month. One of them was to come for International women conference, the other, as I said in previous post, was in her way to university. It was really frustrating when I heard both of them got rejected by Canadian embassy in Iran. They was told because of Iranian-Canadian prisoner's case, not much visas will be issued. Even parents didn't get visa for visiting children this week.

I like to be positive; I am still hoping that my mom is coming some day.

Here is my question. What is the relationship between issuing visa and releasing Ramin Jahanbegloo? Does Canada want to push Iranian regime to respect the human right? It is not the right way. Iranian regime doesn't care even if nobody gets visa.

An innocent Iranian Canadian professor goes to prison, a mother can’t come to see her child, and a student gives up her education. They pay the price of being-Iranian and… who cares?

I am sure that no Canadian has ever paid such a price for being-Canadian!

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Filter

My persian blog is banned by ministry of communication, which is main internet service provider in Iran. There is a committee in this ministry which its members determine which site or weblog must be banned. They have an intelligent software for filtering. This software gives a list of blogs with more than 200 visitors in day. if the blog has sexy or political context, its address must be banned by all ISPs.
The only manual thing that they do before banning weblogs, is taking famous weblogs out of list. AS I am not such a famous Persian blogger and as I don't want to loose my visitors from Iran, I changed my blog address.
This is not the first time. My Persian weblog got also banned last summer when I wrote objective posts about Ahmadinedjad's election.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Thanks to Mr.President!

It is more than 27 years that most of Iranian's visa applications for United States get rejected. Many of talented students who are banned to go to American Universities choose Canada as e second chance. These days, thanks to Ahmadinedjad, our famous president, Canada has joined to U.S.A in rejecting applications of Iranian students. Today, my friend, who had an admission form Carlton University, was rejected by Canadian embassy. She was not the only one; 200 other applicants got negative reply, too. None of applications were even checked by embassy. The answer was "NO" regardless of their files.

Friday, May 12, 2006

Paradise Now

Having watched the movie" paradise now" I am wondering who is right in this world. The movie follows two Palestinian childhood friends who have been recruited for a strike on Tel Aviv; the plot focuses on their last days together.
Before watching this movie I was sure doing such an operation could be the most stupid thing which someone can even think of that. Now, I don't know. I have never been in Said's shoes. I have never been prisoner in my own town as he was.

The movie is made by a Palestinian director, it doesn't say anything in designation of suicide bombing, it talks about life which could be so beautiful, without war, without occupation.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Today, I have decided to start another English weblog. My last English weblog is here . My last post was written 3 years ago and as you see, my writing hasn't improved since then.
I am such a lazy person in English writing.
I really need to write better than this.

This blog, if I continue it, can be a good practice.