From: javad@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Agha Javad)
Subject: Re: Women's pos. & Ben Mahjoor
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:04:51 GMT
Organization: LabaniyyAtee-e-Sar-e-Koocheh

In article <15DEC92.13178806.0091@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> J10B000 <J10B@UNB.CA> writes:
>
>3) It's not fair that we blame IRI goverment for some yong people misery
>in Turkey and Pakistan. So many of Iranaian youths are in Iran, they go
>to university and work in plants and during the war they defended their
>homeland's soil and everybody has to praise them because it was Iraq
>that attacked Iran and captured 18000 Km sq. and it was these people who
>drive the agressor's out. If it wasn't these youths our land would be
>under Iraqi's boots, it's that simple. So if some people went out of the
>country in that time and were looking for paradise in Turkey and Pakista
>n and instead they found hell it's their own fault. Some people ressiste
>d, they gave their lives and got the honour and pride. Some other that
>couldn't manage their life should blame themselves. Life is not always
>easy; you've got to have the guts to face the chalenge otherwise it's
>probable to get misery.  Pessar Amoo
>P.S. If you'd like to send the massage in a reply manner and not post it
>for the public I'm fine with that. I'm fine with the other side as well.
>

Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Iran expelled Iraq by 1982.  IRI continued the war
until 1988.  Most of the casualties happened in 1982-88, and it was for
NOTHING.  You hear me? NOTHING!!  It wasn't a matter of defense, honor, young
people's pride or anything, it was just that it was in the mollah's benefit
to have a war to blame everything on.  They vowed to fight to the "last drop
of blood" and with "claws and teeth" in order to liberate Ghods and Karbala.
Well long after many brave and faithful people lost their last drop of blood,
the IRI just casually decided that war is not a good thing, and that they 
should stop.  So they continued it when it was in their benefit, and they 
ended when it was in their benefit.  If there was a hell for our country's
youth, that was it- to have no choice in life but to die for mollahs.

What have the mollahs done for the young generation, except encourage making
more of them without giving a damn if there will be enough schools or jobs
for them?  For EIGHT YEARS they sent our young men with little more than an
assault rifle and a few weeks of training up against T-72 tanks, Mig 29's,
rivers with electricity, and chemical weapons and napalm and cluster bombs
in a battle they KNEW couldn't be won.  And when it was all over, they didn't
even have the decency to build at least some kind of memorial like most other
countries have for their war dead in their honor.  This is just an example of
how much they appreciated their sacrifice, and how little those men's lives 
meant to them.  Damn it, if you were a young man then with no other future
but to fight this stupid war, and you didn't beleive in it, what would you do?
Do you think it was easy to go to Turkey or Pakistan?  Do you think people went
there in limos?  Have you ever been in the mountains of NW Iran or Eastern 
Turkey, or the Baluchi desert?  Do you think young people would just go there
to have fun or "to find paradise"?  If someone goes through all that, they 
must be motivated by much more than "let's see if we can find some fun in
Pakistan".  I know people who went through that, and they had had it with the
IRI, and they were determined to do more with their lives than have it end for
NOTHING just cause some fat bellied mollah asked him to.  FYI, a lot of them
died in the way, and the most lucky ones made it here. Guess where that leaves
the rest?  Stuck in Turkey and Pakistan, not able to go back home, and forced
into a bad situation.  This is the DIRECT RESULT of IRI's policies, and of their
low regard for human life and well being, especially that of the young
generation. The IRI destroyed our future.

As for the young people back home, what are their opportunities? The 
universities are absolutely nowhere compared to before the revolution,
and there aren't enough places for all the qualified students.  There
are not enough jobs either, and even those who have a job can't make ends
meet thanks to Islamic economics as interpreted by IRI.  So if you wonder
what Iranian youth are doing, take a stroll down the streets of Tehran,
Isfahan, Shiraz, etc., and tell me what you see.  You see all these little kids
selling cigarettes, films, other black market items.  You see a drug problem
in the streets unparalleled in our modern history.  Go to meidoon-e-toopkhooneh,
and you'll see whole fleets of "shakhsi" cars dying to find someone to give a
ride to for meager wages.  You'll see the streets filled with young people in
the middle of a workday, just buying and selling stuff, or wandering around
aimlessly.  I was a student there, and I'm telling you, our youth is stuck
and have very little future.  Only the luckiest ones further their education
or succeed in other ventures, the majority go nowhere.  The best students in 
my graduating class all ended up here, because they couldn't do anything in IRI.
They have studied medicine, engineering, and other fields in some of the best 
colleges in America and Europe, and have done quite well.  They were rejected
from these majors back home when they took the konkoor because the class 
hezbollahi didn't give them enough marks.  You can't say they are dumb, either.
The irony is that the west, which the IRI tells us is our country's enemy,
treats our youth much better than our own government!  Look at all the people
out here who busted their butts in school, washed dishes to support themselves
and made it, and see if you can tell them that they just came out here "looking
for paradise" or "they can't manage their lives".  I and many other of our
young generation SPIT on the IRI for destroying our future and usurping our
homeland, and milking our people.

So next time you claim "It's not fair that we blame IRI goverment", I ask
that you review the meaning of fairness, and answer to yourself the question,
"Haven't the Iranian people been fair to the IRI regime long enough?"



Regards,

Agha Javad
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