Derakhshan: Misleading or Confused?
This is a response to the opinions expressed by i.hoder [Hossein Derakhshan] in a Haaretz article.
Helping the image of Iran, doesn't in itself justify claiming there is any sort of freedom in media and what the reason was for hard-liners to close down papers, attack magazine HQs, censor the Internet and kill writers or assassinate theorists --what they continue to do so. Perhaps it is your [Derakhshan] actual opinion, which then is poor in terms of actuality. But claiming the media are free, relatively whatsoever, requires to be least informed of the very recent moves by Harandy, the Minister of Culture, and the progressing projects on internet censorship --not considering the Supreme Leader's cultural and political tendencies. Whatever your opinion and access to information, you cannot judge Iran's situation as such.
I no more see a need to object calling the president names is an indication for freedom. (And why not link the recent incident at Amir Kabir University to that show?)
I see this feeling of Iran depicted here is as if there is this remote authority body that has made few restrictions and violates privacy and freedom at times, and that is challenged everyday by a wave of social activists' Weblogs. In fact how you were treated in Iran, does not conclude how everything is treated in Iran.
Well I am not making much arguments here but even statistics would not match the accurate presentation of yours.
You are making poor statements like the sole figure you criticise, Ahmadinejad, does, as in the comparison of 1979 revolution with French Revolution. And what is that Post-Modern thing!?
Everyone's free to speak out loud their ideas, but beside not giving some of your best arguments, I am undecided whether you are speaking misleadingly.
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Helping the image of Iran, doesn't in itself justify claiming there is any sort of freedom in media and what the reason was for hard-liners to close down papers, attack magazine HQs, censor the Internet and kill writers or assassinate theorists --what they continue to do so. Perhaps it is your [Derakhshan] actual opinion, which then is poor in terms of actuality. But claiming the media are free, relatively whatsoever, requires to be least informed of the very recent moves by Harandy, the Minister of Culture, and the progressing projects on internet censorship --not considering the Supreme Leader's cultural and political tendencies. Whatever your opinion and access to information, you cannot judge Iran's situation as such.
I no more see a need to object calling the president names is an indication for freedom. (And why not link the recent incident at Amir Kabir University to that show?)
I see this feeling of Iran depicted here is as if there is this remote authority body that has made few restrictions and violates privacy and freedom at times, and that is challenged everyday by a wave of social activists' Weblogs. In fact how you were treated in Iran, does not conclude how everything is treated in Iran.
Well I am not making much arguments here but even statistics would not match the accurate presentation of yours.
You are making poor statements like the sole figure you criticise, Ahmadinejad, does, as in the comparison of 1979 revolution with French Revolution. And what is that Post-Modern thing!?
Everyone's free to speak out loud their ideas, but beside not giving some of your best arguments, I am undecided whether you are speaking misleadingly.
