In the 1979 Iranian revolution, the West, not wanting a nationalist revolution with Socialist tendencies deliver the ex-colony to the Socialist camp, helped the Ayatollahs to hijack the revolution. The engine behind the revolution was the BBC-Persian Radio. Radio Israel helped, too. The Ayatollahs decimated the nationalist and the Socialist opposition and consolidated their hold on power during the war with Iraq. They owe their regime to the war, for if there were no war, the Ayatollahs would not be in power today.
The regime of the Ayatollahs have failed, and they have failed miserably. They have failed economicaly, politicaly, socialy, and culturaly. They have even failed environmentally. They have destroyed the country: record unemployment, highest inflation rates in the world, highest per-capita addiction rate, 25% depression and mental illness, tsunami of cancer, high suicide and incarceration rate, high execution rate, highest rate of child executions in the world, abject poverty such that people walking on one of the largest oil and gas reservoirs in the world have resorted to selling their kidneys. It is the only country in the world where selling kidneys is legal. Having impoverished the nation, the Ayatollahs are now exporting prostitutes. They, unilaterally, lifted the visa requirement for China, Iraq, and Oman, and have turned the country into a sex-tourism destination. Yes, the High Priests are now profiting off the avails of prostitution, praying on the most vulnerable.
In such dire circumstances, the only thing that could save the regime of the Ayatollahs is another war. The Ayatollahs want war; a short war. And the looming war with Iran is going to be ugly. It is going to be a regional war with Iran and its proxies in the Middle East. Should the regime proxies in Iraq and Lebanon attack Israel with missiles, or should a missile hit an American military base in the Arab Persian Golf countries killing American soldiers en mass, that would be grounds for nuclear bombing of Iran. Justification? Same as in Hiroshima bombing, "saving lives".
I am a draft dodger, a socialist, and a pacifist. With the looming war on Iran, should Canada decides to "stand shoulder to shoulder with its allies and fulfill its NATO obligations", as Prime Minster Stephen Harper has said, my tax Dollars could go towards bombing my mom and sisters! When the war starts, the logistics of the war is so huge and the machinery of war has so much momentum that there is no stopping it. The biggest demonstrations in the history, the opposition to the war on Iraq, could not stop it. Tomorrow is too late. We must prevent the war today. On November 11, join us at the Alternative Remembrance Day ceremonies and wear your White Puppy for Peace.
Should the war on Iran start, it will be the fault of those who were saying "we are apolitical!"
!جنگ با ایران را مدیون عزیزانی هستیم که میگفتند ما سیاسی نیستیم
Student Housing
Iranian visa students are coming to town and need a place to rent.
Do you have a place you can give or rent to them?
برای اجاره دانشجویی
For an extensive student rental listings contact Persian Club
Student Bank Referral
Are you a student & new to town? Persian Club can help you in setting up a bank account & getting a Credit Card. We will get you a free chequing account from which you can pay all your bills for free. We also get you the best student-friendly Credit Card. You will also get $50 signing-up bonus, to boot. You will be helping Persian Club as well as the club gets a bonus for referring you to the bank, too. Contact Persian Club
Cellphone Alternatives
Visa students on a limitted budget have a cheap alternative to expensive cellphone plans. Buy a MagicJack Voice Over IP modem, port/transfer your current phone number, install the APP on a deactivated, old cellphone with no plans, and it will ring everywhere where you have WiFi access. Your Victoria phone number will ring in Iran! MagicJack is also a cheap alternative to expensive business landline telephons
www.MagicJack.Com
Persian or Farsi?
Exonym / Endonym
India, China, Egypt, and Germany are the English-language exonyms corresponding to the endonyms Bharat, 中国 (Zhōngguó), مَصر (Mesr), and Deutschland, respectively.
Chinese, Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and German are exonyms in English for the languages that are endonymously known as "中文" ("Zhōngwén"), "فارسی" ("Fārsi"), "Türkçe", "العَرَبِيَّة" ("al-Arabiyah"), and "Deutsch", respectively. Reference
French / Français
German / Deutsche
Japanese / Nihon-go
Turkish / Türkçe
Spanish / Español
Arabic / العَرَبِيَّة
Persian / فارسی
ما فارسی صحبت میکنیم
but we speak Persian
We do not speak Farsi!
Persian Library
Persian Library is looking for a home
Self checkout; help yourself; check yourself out a book in the list provided
We need book donations, if you would like to put your books into good use
We also need magazine subscriptions; consider a donation
Sending Money to/from Iran
Please get in touch with Persian Club if you wish to send money to/from Iran
We can put you in touch with community members who can help you
You both save transaction fees, no commissions fees
You both get the best exchange rate; average of buy & sell rates
Secure; you sit together, transfer funds online in Iran bank accounts & get paid
Need Iran bank account's "Shabaa" number for online fund transfer
Make Every Vote Count
To make every vote count, support our campaign for
Electoral Reform & Proportional Representation
to bring Democracy to Canada
www.FairVote.Ca
Helping Visa Students
Helping Iranian Foreign Visa Students: Iran's economy is so bad and the currency is doing so poorly that the Afghan migrant workers are fleeing Iran to go back home to Afghanistan, for their currency, Afghani, is now more valuable than IRR. With the Iranian Rial at a free fall, Iranian foreign visa students have a hard time covering their education costs. Couple of them could not afford to come back to school after the Summer holidays. We must help them out! Here are a few practical suggestions on how the community can help the students: give them an unused room you can not be bothered to rent out; rent them a room in exchange for occasional babysitting or help & companionship for the elderly; money transfer: when sending money to your parents in Iran, instead of using a currency exchange service, give CAD$ to students here in Canada & they deposit IRR to a bank account in Iran. Online bank money transfers are now done instantaneously; it can be done right in front of you. We can help the students out by giving them a favourable & reasonable exchange rate; give them a job; we can write letters to UVic/RRU/Camosun Student Awards & Financial Aid Offices explaining their plight and requesting a favourable look on their student-aid application; maybe UVic Iranian Students Association & the انجمن can cooperate and hold a monthly disco night at the Vertigo for the community to come together, have fun, and raise funds for the students; we can recommend them for free rent in exchange for house sitting; send us your suggestions.
Persian Club Needs Help
Persian club needs web hosting. If you subscribe to Telus home internet, you can help. Telus gives free web hosting with internet subscription, and if you are not using yours, please let Persian Club use it. Chokh mamnoun!
Food For Thought
Khod Rahaagar, the bulletin of Hezb-e' Iran-e' Abad, argues that inoculating Iran against reproduction of dictatorship & winning the next revolution is predicated on forming organized political parties. For the best news analysis, watch newscast on YouTube
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