Ali Sanaei’s Personal Blog

I just finished reading “Iran Awakening“. The book is somehow Shirin Ebadi’s autobiography written by herself and translated by Azadeh Moaveni.

Briefly, she has tried to produce lots of black and white images of Iran by describing a bit of the crisis happend to the benefit of showing a dark picture of the country. Yes, some parts are true, but skimpy without other bits which were happening in parallel. The book I have has a different cover and sub topic comparing to the one now in the market, not sure why she changed it.

It is also interesting to read one of the last paragraphs of the book where she somehow admits that she has not explained stroies completely! She’s a lawyer and knows what to do and how to do it…

If you read the book, do not just believe most of it, supplementary reading is a must. The book does not say the whole truth happend. Something like Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis“, which does the same thing.

I just watched Fitna. What I can shortly say for now is that Nine/Eleven, London’s tube, and  etc were done by Wahabbi extremists which are not effectively Muslims by any possible way. If any one goes and reads about the history of them and the foundation of their idealogy, they’ll realise that it’s actually a product of West, especially the UK. All with a plan for such days, and us watching this type of films. By no means this is not Islam.
All religions have this sort of disordered groups in them, that includes Christianity and Judaism. I won’t call a Zionist thug like Saddam a Muslim, same for Bin-Laden as I won’t call Sharon a Jew, or Bush a Christian.
Islam or in general, religions, and being religious is not what you say, it is what you do and how you live in the real life.

Condolences for the event of Ashura; the Martyrdom of Imam Hossein (AS) and his loyal companions.

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Click here to learn more about Imam Hussain’s journey to Karbala and the events happened in Muharram.

Condolences for the events of the month of Muharram ul-Haram.

Greetings for the Ghadeer Eid.

Greetings for the Adha (Qurban) Eid.

Germany has inaugurated a museum at the site of the Nazi concentration camp where diarist Anne Frank died. this BBC’s news mentions that 50,000 Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Well this is different from what we sometimes hear from Israeli media and also what has been mentioned in Wikipedia that 6,000,000 Jews were killed at the Holocaust.

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a possible myth 2 years ago and has continuously asked for reinvestigation on this event in many occasions. The logic is simple:

- Has the Holocaust really happened?
- If Yes; When, Where, Who’s responsible?
- Who did it? Germany, Austria, Romania, Hungary? (And other countries based on this site’s table).
- If so; what is Israel doing in Middle East occupying Palestine and invading Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt? Also making threats to other countries in the region. All getting supported mainly by USA and Europe.
- If West is sorry for what they’ve done in WWII and to Jews; why don’t they give a peace of their own lands to Jews instead of supporting them to occupy others’.
- Why is it illegal in France, Germany and few other countries to do researches on the Holocaust? Authors actually get arrested for denying it or even just writing their questions.

The Iranian regime does not have any problems with Jews, but with what she calls the Zionist Regime of Israel. In fact Iran had 150,000 Jews at 1948, and currently has about 40,000, still the second largest Jew community in the Middle East after Israel. Their rights are recognised by the government and they have an official representative in the Iranian Parliament. Most Jews know themselves distinctive to Israelis.

When I was writing this article, I started typing Hol… in my Google toolbar, waiting for the rest of the word (Holocaust) to appear on Google’s suggestions list. In a moment I thought maybe I’m typing it wrong, but after all I realised that Google has banned the word from its suggestions list, like what they have done for sexual words.

What’s really behind this event that West doesn’t want us to get aware of?

September 22nd 1980 Iraq invaded Iran from land and air and officially started the Iran-Iraq War which ended at 1988, making it to be considered the longest conventional and one of most destructive wars of the 20th century, with likely 1.5 million casualties and total cost of $1.2 billion for both sides.

Saddam Hussein claimed as the reason for his attack on Iran a territorial dispute over Shatt al-Arab, a waterway that empties into the Persian Gulf and forms the boundry between Iran and Iraq. In 1975 a partial control of the waterway was signed to Iran when Iraq was weaker in military point of view and Iran was somehow stable in its military system. But after the Iranian revolution and the resultant of weakening of Iran’s military, Iraq seized the opportunity to reclaim the Shatt al-Arab. In fact, Iraq also hoped to seize the south-west Iranian province of Khuzestan- an area known for its extensive oil fields.

The Iraqi offensive was initially successful, capturing the port city of Khorramshahr by the end of 1980. Iranian resistance proved strong, however, and Iraqi troops had withdrawn from the occupied portions of Iran by early 1982. This was a huge event and a true symbol of victory, as Iran was not only facing Iraq but a world of enemies who were continuously feeding and supporting Iraq (USA, USSR, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Czech, Denmark, Canada, Brazil, Saudi, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, UAE, etc and etc).

After all, the war left the borders unchanged. Two years later, as war with the western powers loomed, Saddam recognised Iranian rights over the eastern half of the Shatt al-Arab, a reversion to the status quo ante bellum that he had repudiated a decade earlier.

History Fast Forward:

1975: Settlement on frontiers between Iran and Iraq that involved increased territory for Iran compared to the borders prior to 1971.
1980 September 22: Iraq invades Iran, and has early victories.
1982: Iraq is driven out of Iran.
1983 -1985: Iraq battered, but not beaten.
1985 May 26: Iraq breaks cease fire again. Jordan’s Hussein & Egypt’s Mubarak visit Saddam to show their support.
1988 March 16: Iraq uses chemical weapons against Kurds supporting Iran in Halabja, killing 4,000.
1988 April 18: US blows up 2 Iranian oil rigs, destroys an Iranian frigate and immobilises another.
1988 July 03: the cruiser USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air’s Airbus A300B2-203, Flight 655 with the loss of all 290 passengers and crew.
1988 July 20: Iran accepts a UN resolution 598 to cease fighting (Iraq accepted the resolution about a year before Iran).
1988 August 20: Formal ceasefire in Iraq-Iran war. UN monitoring force established for Iran-Iraq border. Confirmation by UN that Iraq did use mustard gas against Iranian civilians.

Khorramshahr was returned to where it belonged at 24th May 1982, during Iran-Iraq war. The city was captured by Iraqi forces at 26th October 1980 and after 578 days Iranian’s succeeded on taking it back by the 25 day “Beit-ul-Mogaddas” operation. This was a huge event and a true symbol of victory, as Iran was not only facing Iraq but a world of enemies who were continuously feeding and supporting Iraq (USA, USSR, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Czech, Denmark, Canada, Brazil, Saudi, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, UAE, etc and etc).

I wish I had time to write more about Khorramshahr, but it’s 3:37am and I really need to go to bed! So, I’ll just give you a very brief history of Khorramshahr according to Lexicorient and then a link to an article on Tehran Times, which I found very interesting, hopefully you will too.

Khorramshahr’s History:

331 BCE: Reports of a port on the premises of the future Khorramshahr.
Around 750 CE: The town is named Mohammerah.
1837: Attacked and demolished by the Ottomans.
1847: Mohammerah comes under Persian control, even if it had autonomy under a local shaykh.
1908: Oil is discovered in the region of Mohammerah and Abadan, bringing swift growth and prosperity to the two cities.
1924: Reza Pahlavi takes the control of Mohammerah out of the hands of the local shaykh, and puts it under full Persian control, and renames it Khorramshahr.
1940’s: Khorramshahr is connected with the Trans-Iranian Railway by a branch line to Ahvaz.
1980: Is captured by Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War. Almost all of the population flees. In 1976 the number of inhabitants had been 140,000.
1982 May: Recaptured by Iran.
1990’s: The port, and large parts of the centre is rebuilt. Many of the former inhabitants return.

Article: Khorramshahr, symbol of resistance and victory

Hossein, a worker at the Khorramshahr Port and Shipping Organization, and his wife Zahra were preparing their children Ali and Ahmad for school. It was the first day of school. Overwhelmed with joy, the brothers were walking to their school in the city center … read more (the complete article)