Back to Reality
Oct 24th, 2009 by pedestrian
I walk away from my desk for one day and look at how much has happened.
After Karoubi, Mousavi was to go to to the exhibition today. He went as far the exhibition entrance, but did not go in for “security reasons”. Mowj-e Sabz reports that “security personnel” inside the exhibition persuaded his team not to bring him in.
At the same time, of the 71 people who were detained two nights ago at the house of Shahbeddin Tabatabyi’s father-in-law, 52 have been released and 19 are still in custody. They are:
Meysam Varehchehr: a member of the youth branch of the Islamic Participation front (four members of this branch are among those still in custody.)
Taqi Ramezanzadeh: Abdollah Ramezanzadeh’s brother
Mohammad Kianush Rad: (former MP)
Mahboobeh Haghighi (journalist)
how much?
Dear Pedestrian
RE : arrest and prison as a cheap and ‘easily feasible’ “elsewhere”
To find some consolation and find some rationale as to what’s basically happening wheresoever and whensoever, I am reading at the time being what is left (“fragments”) of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus (535-475 BC; Ephesos, Asia Minor, today Turkey)
[BTW Heraclitus: Greek by culture and language, but under constitutional law a Persian citizen of the Achaemenid Empire ! – which says (more than) a lot about Persia’s forgotten glorious, open-minded, tolerant past].
In fragment 121 he [your late “constitutional compatriot” that is] says, acidly and pungently reproaching his fellow-citizens in Ephesos:
“The Ephesians would do well to hang themselves, every grown man of them, and leave the city to beardless youths; for they have cast out Hermodoros, the best man among them, saying:
« WE WILL HAVE NONE WHO IS BEST AMONG US; IF THERE BE ANY SUCH, LET HIM BE SO ELSEWHERE, AND AMONG OTHERS.» ”
[ἄξιον Ἐφεσίοις ἡϐηδὸν ἀπάγξασθαι (πᾶσι καὶ τοῖς ἀνήϐοις τὴν πόλιν καταλιπεῖν), οἵτινες Ἑρμόδωρον ἄνδρα ἑωυτῶν ὀνήιστον ἐξέϐαλον φάντες·
« ἡμέων μηδὲ εἷς ὀνήιστος ἔστω, εἰ δὲ μή, ἄλλη τε καὶ μετ΄ἄλλων.»]
All the best
German
Dear Pedestrian,
and – for you – a second consolation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc7GaDlv64Y&feature=player_embedded
Naj, I forgot to mention the source, it was Agh Bahman. I’ve added the link. According to him, 71 people were arrested that night.
German, … I’m so glad you take the time and visit me! I’m always intrigued by your stories … what a quote!