Iranian-Canadian, interested in history, linguistics, poetry, memes, and politics.
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I also believe in Farr-e Izadi, and I'm sorry but the man doesn't have it.
فره ایزدی
چقدر جمع مارکسیست‌اسلامیست‌ها، یا همان چپ‌های ارزشیِ خودمان، از سخنرانی من در سالگرد تأسیس جبهه هفت آبان سوختند؛ آنجا که از «فرّه ایزدی» شاهزاده برای نجات ایران‌زمین سخن گفتم.
آری، من به اسطوره‌های ایرانی باور دارم؛ به داستان قهرمانان شاهنامه، به ریشه‌های کهن فرهنگمان و به میراثی که قرن‌هاست مایه افتخار ملی ایرانیان است. و من تنها نیستم؛ میلیون‌ها ایرانی گرد همین هویت ملی گرد آمده‌اند تا حتی به بهای خون خود، نام شاهزاده را فریاد بزنند.
چرا نام او همان نامی بود که میلیون‌ها بار در خیابان‌های ایران طنین انداخت؟ چرا در واپسین لحظات زندگی، برخی از هم‌میهنانم نام او را با خون خود بر دیوارهای سرزمینم نوشتند؟
زیرا برای میلیون‌ها ایرانی، او نماد امید، بازگشت به هویت ملی و رهایی ایران است؛ نمادی که در اسطوره‌های کهن ما ریشه دارد.
او فریدونِ شاهنامه ماست؛ آن‌گاه که کاوه‌های آهنگر، با درفش آزادی‌خواهی، برای بازگشت او به تخت برمی‌خیزند تا ضحاک را دربند کنند و ایران را از بند اسارت آزاد سازند.
او آخرین پرِ سیمرغ ماست؛ نشانی از امید، خرد و رهایی در روزگاری که ایران در چنگال تاریکی گرفتار شده است.
ما میلیون‌ها ایرانی به اسطوره‌ها، تاریخ و هویت ملی خود می‌بالیم. این ریشه‌ها نه مایه شرمساری، بلکه سرچشمه غرور و ایستادگی ما هستند.
و اما شما؛ شما که هنوز با اندیشه‌های مارکسیستی و اسلام‌گرایانه خود با هویت ملی، ایران‌دوستی و ریشه‌های فرهنگی این سرزمین می‌جنگید، فرصت‌های بسیاری داشتید تا چیزی برای ایران بسازید. حاصل آنچه بر ایران تحمیل کردید، جز ویرانی، نکبت، بدبختی و عقب‌ماندگی نبود.
اکنون بنشینید و نظاره کنید؛ روزی را که میهن‌دوستان و ایران‌پرستان پیروز شوند و ایرانی آزاد، آباد و سربلند بنا کنند؛ ایرانی که شایسته مردم بزرگ و تاریخ پرافتخار خویش باشد.
آن روز دور نیست. جهان به‌زودی شاهد تولد دوباره ایران خواهد بود.
پاینده ایران!
جاوید شاه! ✌️
Did a double take when I saw this in the store. Am I too chronically Iran-brained or is this something?
Shocking to see from a public broadcaster. There's no "investigation" or journalism here. It's so lazy, it doesn't even attempt to convince the reader. I've seen more compelling conspiracy theories on geocities.
Today CBC published an article with the headline: “Why a spate of gun-for-hire shootings in Toronto were likely paid for by Iran.”
I was intrigued, as there has been almost 0 evidence offered for this claim thus far.
Unfortunately this article doesn’t offer any either, adding nothing new. CBC says they spent weeks on the investigation, so these are pretty pitiful results, at least in terms of finding evidence of who paid for the shootings.
I’m not sure why they feel comfortable with such a declarative headline given the lack of evidence (other than journalistic standards going out the window when the subject is an Official Enemy country).
Also, CBC and other journalists continue platforming police claims that they need backdoor access to messaging apps to solve these shootings, with no push back or critique about how these powers can be abused, including against journalists.
cbc.ca/news/investigates/ira…
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I am pleased to share details of the launch of my book, 'State Histories: The Politics of Teaching the Past in Iran,' taking place on 26 November in London. The event is organised by ISRF. To attend, please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/isrf-book…
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Since we've already had two spontaneous threads on Zoroastrian museums of Yazd, I suppose I can't avoid mentioning Kerman's anthropological museum, their counterpart. I should note that I visited it 3 years ago, and these photos are from back then.
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Rowan Moore wrote a piece, but I still think there’s some great stories out there
observer.co.uk/culture/archi…
The historian Mahmoud Mahmoud originally went by the name Mahmoud Pahlavi, but when Reza Shah picked Pahlavi as his own last name, Mahmoud was forced to change his, and decided to repeat his first name instead. He wrote an 8 volume history of British Iranian political relations.
I'm not sure if the question is being asked in jest or seriously but -
Last names are a fairly new concept for Iranians. Before people had a name and then usually a title based on where they came from, their tribe, or rank.
So when Reza Shah (who later overthrew the Qajars and started his own dynasty) was born, he was known as Reza Savadkoohi (Reza from Savadkooh, an area in Mazandaran).
When he first entered the military he became known as Reza Maxim (he was trained on a maxim gun, which was a big deal then).
As he went up in the ranks he was Reza Khan and Reza Mirpanj (names of different ranks).
Finally after the coup and all the drama and events that happened, when he decided to found a new dynasty, he chose the name "Pahlavi" based on the name of the ancient script (undoubtedly as a part of his larger ideological project of emphasizing Iran's pre-Islamic heritage).
And then early in his rule as a part of modernization efforts he made in mandatory for all Iranians to get last names, so everyone had to make up something.
And the race of goldsmiths became Talakoubnejads.
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بازتولید عادلانه عقل احتیاج داریم که متاسفانه انگار معدنش رو سیل گرفته و کارخونه‌اش ورشکست شده…
Let's say they actually believe this. What would they realistically have to do to make the IR give up in 3 days? Nuke Tehran and land half a million troops in Abadan?
"Some US planners are convinced that an intensive three-day campaign could cause enough economic damage to change the Iranian position."
You would think they'd have stopped making these kinds of predictions eight months into what was supposed to be a four-or-five-week war nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/po…
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توصیهٔ سریال: «جادوگرِ خِیمه»، 天幕のジャードゥーガル، دربارهٔ دختری ایرانی به‌نام ستاره که در حملهٔ تولوی به طوس اسیر مغولان می‌شود. با شرکت زنان معروف دربار مغول، «اصول اقلیدس»، خواجه نصیرالدین طوسی، اگتای قاآن، و رهج الغار.⬇️
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I’d like to thank my Uzbek brothers for making Rubio praise the most quintessentially Persianate city just a week after his Athens diatribe against the Persians.
