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Comments: Wow, Fred, I have known you for many many years, but this is the first time I learn about you. My hat is off for you my friend. You have made a wonderful life for yourself. I am very sorry to hear about the passing of your wife. May she rest in peace. This conversation has brough on so many questions, including some for Zinsky, you uncle!!! I have to leave for soccer and then a gathering which will take all the rest of the day. So, I will post more questions tomorrow, but for today, I am curious Fred, how did you decide 65 years ago to go to Australia. In those days people usually did not leave Iran for good and as Zinsky said, if they did leave for studying, it was usually Europe of USA. Chosing Australia must have had a special reason. Very curious what that was.
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Comments: Nice conversation! I’m not sure how Australia became a destination for Iranians. I recall as a kid, most Iranians would go to either England or France to study. America was always another country to go for studying but most people came back after college. My uncle was one of the first people in my family to move to America. It was before I was born. He came here with a ship (not because there were no planes 😜 but because ships were cheaper). He ended up in Utah for his college! Imagine Utah 65 years ago!!! Zero Iranians for hundreds of miles around! I read somewhere that the 1st Iranian to immigrate to America was nearly 75 years ago and he ended up in La Jolla, CA. I did a little research and population of La Jolla at the time was less than a 1,000 people!
Comments: Hi Again Farid I married an Ozzie with German heritage. Unfortunately, she died from Alzheimer's 6 years ago. I still teach math/physics on casual bases to high school students and uni students. This has been a great country to live on. With regards Fred
Comments: This "I did not see an Iranian for the next 10 years" would have been very sad for me. I am not sure I would have been able to handle as well as you have Fred. And clearly you have since you have 8 grand children! Impressive. May I ask if you marries an Ozzie or did you wait over ten years for the right Iranian to show up? Amazing how lives change with these moves!
Comments: Wow, Fred, it is an honor to meet you here. You have my utmost respect. 53 years ago, there could not have been very many Iranians in Australia. I find adjusting to Australian life a bit difficult and not having Iranians around me as much (although there are some-not as bad as your 53 years ago situation) most challenging for me. I am indeed in my twenties. Will be 25 in a few weeks. I have started my clinical rotations and so do not have much time to post, usually. But I do when I can. I have heard much about Amirabad but do not exactly know where it is. I grew up also in Tehran, khiaban Shokufe. Went to a few countries, before I ended up here. I left Iran for the same reason everyone else leaves these days-lack of opportunity. It is an honor to meet you and I do hope that we can meet each other in person, one day.
Comments: Hi Farid When I came to Australia, I was 17 and that is a lifetime ago. I was going to become a doctor too, but my interest in mathematics took me towards it, and now I have a very good Iranian doctor. This is a good country to live in and now I have 8 grandchildren. You must be in twenties. When I came here, I did not see an Iranian for the next 10 years. I always remember playing football in streets of Amirabad but after 53 years, I believe I am an Ozzie with great interest in Iranian sports and concern about Iran and its people. Fred
Comments: This is interesting and scary at the same time: The Claremont Institute: The Anti-Democracy Think TankEarlier this year, nearly 1,000 supporters of “National Conservatism” gathered at the semicircular auditorium of the Emmanuel Centre, an elegant London meeting hall a couple of blocks south of Westminster Abbey, to hear from a range of scholars, commentators, politicians, and public servants. NatCon conferences, as they are often called, have been held in Italy, Belgium, and Florida and are broadly associated with what is increasingly called the “New Right.” In London, speakers denounced “woke politics,” blamed immigration for the rising cost of housing, and said modern ills could be solved with more religion and more (nonimmigrant) babies. The break room was lined with booths from organizations such as the Viktor Orban–affiliated Danube Institute, the U.K.-based conservative think tank the Bow Group, the Heritage Foundation, and the legal powerhouse Alliance Defending Freedom, which is headquartered in Arizona but has expanded to include offices in nearly a half-dozen European cities. When I attended NatCon London in May, I heard a number of American accents in the crowd, and I was not surprised to see Michael Anton, a former national security official in the Trump administration and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a right-wing think tank, on the lineup. These days, Anton and other key representatives of the Claremont Institute seem to be everywhere: onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC); at the epicenter of Ron DeSantis’s “war on woke”; and on speed-dial with GOP allies including Josh Hawley, J.D. Vance, and Donald Trump.
Comments: I will predict against australia one more time. But if they wil, I am going to predict that they will win the cup!
Comments: Agha Fred from australia, I remember. 53 years is a long time. Wow. Were you one of the first to come to Australia? I have been in australia only about 3.5 years. I am in Perth. am a medical student. Went around a few countries before I ended up here in australia. How old were you when you came to australia?
Comments: Aaghaa Faramarz, man chizi nagoftam. Faghat goftam either do not agree with each other so much or at least do not say damet garm. kachal narahat mishe.
Comments: Zinsky jAn, great questions. Here are my answers for your questions: Was this part of the west plan to give Akhunds the power and keep the rest out? This, we already know. Yes, this was the plan. The even ensured that military does not do a coupe while Khomeini was in full control of the movement. Did the original plans fell apart? No, this was the plan. Did Akhunds outsmart the West? No. Certain elements inside IRI were actually given a strategy to follow piece by piece. SAvAk is still working in Iran and has very close ties with the CIA, Mosad, and KGB. Operatives form all these countries are all there and some times, there are internal power struggles. I think the blueprint is still continuing. Who came up with attacking American embassy and why?
This, I cannot be sure. Things like that can be the result of the internal power struggle, KGB staging it to harm IRI-west relationship, or CIA may have staged it as a result of an internal power strugle in the USA. Like Republicans wanting to get rid of Carter. Who gave Saddam the green light to attack Iran? All random? I don’t think so. You are right on this. This also was proven. Lots of pictures of Ramsfeld and other American officials with Saddum. Like Rashti spelled out in his manifesto , the west first brings in a regime and then creates internal and external conflict to keep the regime under control.
Comments: lol, I had to delete your message. I think you were insulting someone on the other site. Whatever that is going on there, I am sure there is no need for the insult.
Comments: I think most people have a much better idea about pre-during revolution after 44 years. I’m not sure if most, including myself, understand what happened a year or so after. Was this part of the west plan to give Akhunds the power and keep the rest out? Did the original plans fell apart? Did Akhunds outsmart the West? I stay in Iran until 1983. 1979-1980 was decent. Most groups could still argue their case. After hostage crisis and later the war, it changed dramatically. Who came up with attacking American embassy and why? Who gave Saddam the green light to attack Iran? All random? I don’t think so
Comments: Growing Segregation by Sex in Israel Raises Fears for Women’s Rightsדלג לתוכןדלג לכותרת התחתונה Haaretz.com עקוב Netanyahu Slams Reported U.S.-Iran Deal, Accuses Biden of Funding Terrorism
Comments: من فکر میکنم یک مقدار از شما مسن تر باشم. من انموقه دانشگاه بودم. حقیقتش دوست عزیز این است که همه در دانشگاه میخواستند که شاه بره. درصد خیلی پایینی موافق شاه بودند. جامعه سازی سیا, انگلیس و موساد تمرکز همه رو برده بود روی بدیهای شاه. ما اصلا به خوبیهای شاه فکر نمیکردیم. یا اصلا نمیفهمیدیم که چه خوبیهایی وجود داره. دوم اینکه ما شاه رو یا خوب یا بد میدیدیم. خیلیها باد میدیدند. میانی وجود نداشت. در حالیکه حقیقت این بود که شاه شروع بسی بادی دشت با ان کودتای سیا. والی کم کم داش خوب میشود و به مردمش و مملکتش فکر میکرد. این حقیقت رو به خوبی جامعه جاسوسی غرب از ما مخفی کرده بود. مساله سوم هم اینکه. ما واقعا روشنفکر کم داشتیم. یا شریعتی را داشتیم یا آخوند, یا یک چند تا که وابسته به شاه بودند. همه روشنفکر نامه بودند. آنهایی که واقعا اطلاع داشتند و روشنفکر بودند تعداد بسی معدودی بودند که اصلا به ابزار روابط عمومی مثل رادیو یا تلوزیون راهی نداشتند. برای جامه کاملا لال شده بودند. این گونه شاه بود و از طریق ساواک که وابسته به سیا بود دیکته میشود. به نظر من هیچ روشنفکری در صحنه نبود. همه مزدور و کور فکر یا مزدور بودند.
Comments: For most of us living in Iran during the revolution, it was obvious it did start with America and pushed by the west including British and France. It’s really easy to get people all excited and get them out. That part is not too hard. It’s also easy to tell the military (some of the leaders working for CIA) to do this or don’t do that. The hard part was to convince so many, supposedly smart people at the time, that a mullah could run the country better than bunch of educated and experienced people. I was a kid in high school when it all started and even being a teenager with no experience in politics, I could see how it was unfolding. We got caught in the middle of Cold War and Shah was naive enough to trust the west.
Comments: Hi Farid It is really me. I have lived here for 53 years now and started posting long time ago. You came to the site and used the same name for a while. Which state are you in? I am in Qld. With regards real Fred from Australia
Comments: Without supporting khomeini by CIA, Ayatollah Carter & fake news, the devolution had not happend in 1979! Do you know the lady next to khomeini in this picture?! She is Dorian McGray! Shah was not a dictator! He just listened to the Iranians who are manipulated by fake news! https://twitter.com/FGoodarz/status/1441134623954649088
Comments: من دارم نگاه میکنم. گلر هم یه سوتی داد بعد از ان گل. نزدیک بود آنهم گل بشه. |
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