From: aref@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Modda'iyeh har hAzer va Vakileh har ghAyeb)
Subject: Do you..., did you ....
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organizatoin
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:25:13 GMT




Did you ever burn your fingers when trying to strip
your "nooneh sangak" from those little hot stones?

Did you ever end up biting on one of those hot stones
when you thought your "sangak" was completely rid of stones?

Did you make a mess when you were dipping your "bar-bari"
inside your "khAmeh and assal"?

Do you remember "taghziyeyeh rAygAn" in school?

Remember the pyramid milk packages that tasted like "shireh khoshk"?

Remember "nAneh sokhAriyeh VitAnA"?

Remember "labooyi", "balAli" and "gerdooyi" on the streets?

Remember the guy with the motorcycle bringing "nooneh lavAsh"
to the door in the evenings?

Remember "hendooneh va tAlebi" home delivery on an "olAgh"?

Did you ever get your ear twisted by your teacher in school?

Remember "choobaki"?

Remember "zAl zAlak", "chAghAleh bAdoom", "zoghAl akhteh", and 
"AlbAlo khoshkeh" ?

Remember the "nAzemeh madreseh" and the terror (s)he brought when
S)he'd step into the class and look for the troublemakers (as in the
last rows)?

Remember chocolate candies "yAm yAm" and "negro-kiss" ?

Remember "maz-ra'eyeh sabz" and "bachAhA bachAhA" and "yek...do...seh"?

Remember "otobooseh sherkateh vAhed" and their smog?

Remember "sabzeh meydoon", "dahaneh bAzAr", "khiAbooneh Churchill" where
they sold fake Levi's and "Commando" and "Easy" jeans?

Remember the "miveh forooshi"s where they had the sign 
on their wall saying "hadafeh mA, jalbeh rezAyateh shomast"?

Remember "ghassAbi" who used to give you 0.5 kilo "charbi"
and 0.5 kile "goosht" when you asked for "yek kilo ghoosht"?

Remember there used to be chronic shortages of "do zAri"s and
the "baghAleh mahal" would give you a box of matches instead
of change?

Remember "sigAreh zar"?

Remember "kerAvAteh Massoud-nia"?

Remember civilian "mosAfer keshi" in competition with Taxis?

Remember all the accidents on "jAddeyeh harAz"?

Remember playing soccer in the street and getting yelled at by
the drivers? (did you play "gol koochik"?)

Did you ever "chooneh zadan" with anyone?

Remember TBT and TTS bus lines?

Remember "Dariush VejdAni" who kidnapped, and killed a 9 year
old boy?

Remember "khAnoomeh Farrokh-roo PArsA" who was "Vazireh
Amoozesho Parvaresh" during Hoveyda's reign?

Remember all the people who embezzled money out of 
Iran?

Remember the extensive lists published by the people
of Bankeh Markazi during the revolution?

Remember Ashrafeh Pahlavi?       

Remember the student demonstrations in Tehran University,
especially "dAneshkadeyeh Fanni"?

Remember Savak and "shahrbAni" who would arrest
demonstrators and god only knows after that?

Remember the "rAh peymAi's" during the revolution?

Remember the revolution?

Remember "17 Shahrivar"?

Remember "arteshbod GholAm-ali Oveissi" better known as 
"Oveissiyeh JallAd"? 

Remember "arteshbod AzhAri" who became Prime Minister after
"Jafareh Sharif EmAmi"?

Remember "hokoomateh nezAmi"?

Remember the "sho-Ar": "barAdareh arteshi,
                           tofangeto mifrooshi?"

Remember the Iraqi bombing of Mehrabad in September 1980?

Remember all the refugees from the war zones coming into other
cities and how bad they were treated by the locals?

Remember when one of the Mojaheddin leaders swapped his wife
with Massoud Rajavi for "better and effective" leadership?

Remember the "RezAii" family who had lost three sons and a daughter
to Savak because they wear MojAheds?

Remember the Mojaheddin did not like to mention the name of
"Sadigheh RezAii" because they considered her "Opportunisteh
Chap namA"?  

Remember they had a split and those Opportunists formed
"sAzmAneh peykAr dar rAheh AzAdiyeh tabagheyeh kArgar"?

Remember when "fadAyiAneh khalgh" split into "aghaliyyat" and
"aksariyyat" and the "aksariyyat" joined "hezbeh toodeh"?

Remember the heads of "hezbeh toodeh" on TV declaring that
they spied for the Soviet Union for years? (Especially
Mr. KiAnoory)

Remember the Soviet Union falling apart?

Remember when the gov't of "Shahpour BakhtiAr" fell and 
"dowlateh movaghat" took over, the US, UK and USSR were
the first governments to formally recognize it?

Remember all the dead from the Iran-Iraq war?

Remember Beheshteh Zahra and how full it had become?

Remember all the families who had lost a son?

Remember all the youth (teenagers) who had become
mojAhed and fadAyyi before they knew their right
from their left?

Remember all the youth who were arrested for being
MojAhed and FadAyyi?

Remember all the mojAheds and faddAyees who were
executed?

Remember all the mojAheds and faddAyees who were
rehabilitated in the prisons?

Remember all the pAsdArs who were roaming around town
in their Mercedes and Toyota Land Cruisers?

Remember gashteh "SAr-allah" and gashteh "az-zahrA"?

Remember neighbor reporting on neighbor?

Remember "komiteh" breaking into houses?

Remember the attempts to stifle "chAhAr shanbeh
soori and Eydeh Norooz"?

Remember "zendAneh Evin" and "zendAneh ghezel hessAr"?

Remember Ross Perot who had his people sprung from
"zendAneh Ghasr"?

Do you know Ross Perot is running for President of the US?

Do you know that this is an election year in the US?

Do you know that this is an election year in Iran?

Do you know that this is an election year in the UK?

Remember plans to conquer Washington, Moscow, and Jerusalem
and raise the flag of Islam ?

Remember not being able to get to even Baghdad?

Remember all the lives lost for 8 years for no reason?

Remember Saddam using chemical weapons on the kurds, in
the town of "halabcheh"?

Remember Saddam bombing Iranian cities and killing civilians?

Remember MojAheddin siding with Saddam when innocent civilians
were being killed?

Remember the AirBus over the Persian Gulf?

Remember Pan Am 103?

Let me tell you that I am not any of the following:

	ShAh parast 
	HezbollAhi
	MojAhed
	FadAyyi
	Toodeyi
	chapi
	rAsti
	CIA Agent
	Mossad Agent
	Ex-Savak Agent


I am:

	Confused about the country I grew up in and who to believe,
	so I disbelieve any and everybody. Given all of the above,
	do you expect otherwise?
	

Asghar AghA

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