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In Article 13644 in soc.culture.iranian seyyed@wuee1.wustl.edu (Seyyed Mahdavian) writes:

>Farshid, you and lots of other people, are always welcome back to your country.

Thank you very much for welcoming me back in my own country. But saying 
people like me are welcome in our country is like telling a black
South African that he/she is welcome in South Africa, just don't go
to the white neighborhoods and listen to what the government says.

>Just stop mocking people, and don't get involved in political issues. Keep your

I would be glad to, but our government mocks people like me as "gharbzadeh"
and "Amrikaee", not to mention fAsed, etc..  Oh, and of course, if I don't
believe in what they believe (even if I keep it to myself) I am najes!
And how can I ignore politics and government when the government dictates every 
little detail of my life (e.g. what to eat, what to wear, how to worship God, 
which demonstration to go to, and on and on and on.....)?  

>opinion for yourself. How do you know, maybe you are really wrong! Don't

There's always that possibility. But how can I ever find out if I am not 
allowed to discuss it?

>destroy all the bridges behind yourself. Stick to your field of knowledge and
>try to build your country. Look, your country will not be built by accusing

People have done that before for decades.  Only to see it wiped away when
IR puts an incompetent person in charge who screws it all up.  It looks
like we are welcome by the IR since they need our skills.  What about when
they don't need us anymore?  Or what about the ones without any skills?
Will we be welcome then?  It looks like IR is looking for "guest workers"
(read slave labor), but the guests in this case are in their own country!

>its political leadership and insulting them in a foreign country. Don't choose
>the easy way of just "objecting". Go to your country, and try to deal with

I can tell that you have watched the presidential debate on your own campus
as a matter of fact.  If you remember, this was the cheap shot that Bush
took at Clinton, i.e. objecting  to your leadership in a foreign country.
Well, I would be glad to do this in my own country if I could, but I can't,
so I'm doing it in a foreign country.

>the easy way of just "objecting". Go to your country, and try to deal with
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I am living here because I have nowhere else to go.  Don't you tell me that
I am taking the "easy way".

>real problems, and try to be positive.

I was already there Seyyed.  I was one of the last people among my friends
to leave, because I thought my country needed me.  But when I saw the evil
that rules the country and leads the country into a mess, and executes its
opponents and kills GOOD people in cold blood, I couldn't take it anymore.  
You want to know what the REAL problem is?  The real problem is that I am a 
second class citizen in my own country, whereas you and your buddies are first 
class citizens, and that is why it is so easy for you to be "positive".
>
>destroy all the bridges behind yourself. Stick to your field of knowledge and
>try to build your country. Look, your country will not be built by accusing

and just one more thing about this one- I didn't burn any bridges.  A lot of us
here didn't leave out of voluntary design. Not everybody here are part of the 
royal family who fled the revolution, you know. I know so many people here who 
were veterans of Iran-Iraq, victims of chemical attack, etc. The Islamic 
Republic burned the bridges a long time ago.  Iran lost us for now, but we will
NEVER lose Iran. The IR knows this very well, and they would like to take 
advantage of these, the very people it drove out of their homeland.  


>Seyyed.


Agha Javad
(ChAyee -e- JahAn, bastehee seh toman!)
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