TRUTH
Dec 3rd, 2009 by pedestrian
This is Mohammad Younes Rashidi, a student at Tehran’s Amir Kabir University [formerly named Tehran Polytechnic], during a visit by Ahmadinejad.
The sign he is holding up says: “Polytechnic is not your place you Fascist President.”
He has been expelled from school since Ahmadinejad visited the university, and now it is reported that he has been in custody in his native province of Mazandaran. His family last heard from him when he was on hunger strike.
This made me sad again. Last night I watched this movie, the unbearable lightness of being, and the part of the movie showing how the communist Hungary crack down the protesters was so similar to what IRI is doing…
roozbeh, I think there is this part in the movie “the life of others” where someone asks what they will do to the prisoners. And the man replies something like “nothing. we’ll just keep them here so long that their passion/art will die out.”
I always think of that when I hear about the prisoners. And then to see someone like Nabavi get out and still speak with so much fire … it is very, very humbling.
Brave, admirably brave – not forgettable. Awareness of the probability of paying a high price is what makes such people and their acts truly heroic.
mullah loghati here again: “province” of mazandaran
“nothing. we’ll just keep them here so long that their passion/art will die out.”
Yeah, this may work for a lot of countries; but it will not work in countries like Iran or Russia or in South America; were prisons are the brithplaces of grand ideas and poems …
When I grew up, one of my dreams was to go to prison; this dream was later followed by the nightmare of being taken to the execution chamber
) Parents were happy to get rid of me in Iran and ship me abroad 
Once in the cradle of democracy and freedom, I turned into a perfect pragmatic chicken 
loooool …….
sorry
Doesn’t he look SO determined? … it’s amazing.
Yeah . . . as if he was expecting people to try to pull his arms down, so, “okay, I’ll keep my elbows locked in position”.