Last night I posted a comment in relation to Trita Parsi's latest feature article on Irainan.com. The article is basically Parsi's propaganda piece about the Partovi twins who have launched a site to promote computer programming within the US schools (I suspect they must be NIAC supporters/contributors). As if Parsi has not already done enough damage to Iran-American relations by misrepresenting Iranians of US citizenship, now he is putting his nose into such fields as education and computer technology of which he knows nothing.
But the point that attracted my interest in Parsi's lobbying blurb was about the father of the Partovi twins, one Dr Firooz Partovi, formerly of Aryamehr technical university, who under the leadership of the great Dr Mojtahedi (of Alborz High School) helped setup the physics department of that university. Obviously in Mr Parsi's opinion there must have been a genetic link between father and his twin sons that has kicked in to revolutionanize the US education system in the same way that the elder Partovi did in changing the face of physics in Aryamehr university! All I di was to question if Paris's interest in the twins and their relations with NIAC has something to do with a episode in the elder Partovi's political past as is featured on his Wiki page:
So I posted the following comment:
"About Partovi's father
او در سال ۱۳۴۳ به ایران آمد. در ابتدا به اروپا آمد تا به طور زمینی به ایران بیاید. تصادفاً در پاریس با دکتر علی شریعتی آشنا شد و با اتومبیل دکتر شریعتی و به همراه همسر و فرزند او راهی ایران شدند.[۳] با توجه به پیشینه سیاسی دکتر شریعتی در بدو ورود به ایران هر دو دستگیر و راهی زندان قزل قلعه شدند. خانواده دکتر شریعتی نیز راهی منزل شدند. اتهام آنان اقدام بر ضد امنیت ملی بود. دکتر شریعتی که یک سال قبل هم زندانی شده بود با سابقه بود ولی یک ماه بعد آزاد شد اما پرتوی دو ماه و نیم در زندان ماند.
Sounds like Trita's type of hero! "
On my Activity page, I am informed that I posted the above comment but it did not appear on the article's page itself! Is this a new style of censorship?
The old motto of "Nothing is sacred" is vanished but there seems to be a new and invisible extension to the old motto on the new Iranian.com"
"Nothing is Sacred, Except Trita Parsi"!
Dear Roger same thing happened to me. in my case the comment was published but disappered.
AI jaan this seems to be a new method style of censorship, under the excuse of technical fault!
Roger that Rabbit!
Said Amin was way over his head when he jumped into this business.
In my view, he made two fundamental mistakes. First, instead of becoming a “silent” owner of the site and turn over the daily operations to a professional editor, he put everything on the auto-pilot for a while but then he decided to come in with a heavy hand and approve/censor comments and blogs. There is no place for “Approval” in free press. He let the pro-NIAC crowd (all 5 of them!) to come in and call the rest of us all kinds of names, but when I called their leader, “horsemeat Swedish meatball served at IKEA”, he censored me!
Secondly, he should not have mixed his support of NIAC and Trita with what gets posted on the site. NIAC represents a couple of hundred die-hard believers in a million-strong Iranian-American community, and should be treated as a fringe cult that it is.
Couldn't have put it better Framarz jan:
"NIAC represents a couple of hundred die-hard believers in a million-strong Iranian-American community, and should be treated as a fringe cult that it is."
I am sorry to see you gone from that site but I respect and sympathize with your decision (with a heavy heart).
I think that Said has a bit of the good 'ol Iranian syndrome of looking up to people with PhD's too much, regardless of how silly and nonsensical they might be. Anyone who's a college professor, regardless of whether or not you're a professor at a two bit college that no one has ever heard of, or whether you're a dime a dozen psychologist, or an oil lobby funded head of an organization, gets preferential treatment. I actually should post one of my reserach articles under my real name, complete with my PhD (obtained from a school with a higher ranking than all of his current PhD contributors' schools combined) and see if I get the same treatment. Unfortunately though, I don't believe that anyone will be interested in reading my 53 page presentation on migration patterns of Canadian Geese. :-)
AO jaan I am sure your presentation on Canadian Geese is intellectually thousand times more attractive than all of Trita Parsi's "goosey" articles combined.
AO jan, how about doing a spoof presentation on migration patterns of users from IC to Iroon? You've got plenty of examples from a real population! :-)
Brother Rabbit.
To be fair on NIAC, I can see a number of reasons why your comment was removed from their internet site, the iranian.com.
1) Your comment was calm, factual, polite and lacked hate, profanity or threaths of raping somebody's mother and sister. I bet you did not even have your mouth covered with froth as you were writing it!
2) The picture you posted here can be considered by many to be a slander on all different specious of bats.
3) Your comment did not mention anything about Rafsanjani or mashai's candidateship and how good things will become if either of these two malijaks are selected by ali khamenei to become the next president of republic of vatan forooshan.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH SAID AMIN? 2 months ago
azadehazad
http://www.iroon.com/irtn/blog/766/
All needed is a little tiny shake up at iroon.com in order to become our most favorite site ever, our cozy refuge, our personal corner, and our welcoming home. I hope JJ will look into it. I'm sure he will.
Shepesh and RR: Thanks. Although I do not believe that I can apply the instinct driven migration of the Canadian Geese to the intelligent choice of migration from IC to iroon.com. That's more of a psychologist's job, which Said Amin seems to have retained for his site. :-)))
On the issue of comments that are already posted disappearing, I think that they are being "reported" by the NIAC IC patrol. Those guys roam the site (IC) for any comments that may have wiggled their way through the comment censors. Anything that is remotely critical of NIAC and Parsi immediately gets reported, and per their implicit or explicit agreement with Said Amin, it gets removed.
AO,
I am interested, in particular in the form known as 'dispersal' which I find much more fascinating than hibernation – it sounds self-serving, doesn't it? Let me know if your research articles have been published in any peer-reviewed journal. N.B. I do not consider comments in Iranian.com or iroon as peer review.
Shepesh,
How large is the sample size, considering that not every migrating goose has done so while honking?