Sunday, October 28, 2007

"Anar Chini" (Picking Pomegranate Ceremony)




Pomegranate is a
symbol f love in Iran. This is Roud-bar, north of Iran by the Caspian.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Haifa Wehbe performs new single

Aghoul Ahwak (I say I love you). I wish I'd paid more attention to arabic in school. I love you anyways!

Monday, October 15, 2007

Ya Beirut - Majida El Roumi

I have many memories with this song.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Jewel - Foolish Games (Live)

She is pretty, she plays country so damn well and she yodels (and I mean yodels like no one else does). Amazing ha ?!

Fashionably sensitive but too fool to care...

Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash - Blue Yodel No. 9

two legends playing together; definately a peice of history. Enjoy!

The Most Beautiful Girl by Charlie Rich

For ... if I ever upset you even a bit!

Follow link if you have problems with Youtube.

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Colonel Bozorgmehr - An old time friend of the oldman

Col. Jalil Bozorgmehr, trusted attorney to Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh and an old time friend of my grandfather, died a few weeks ago at the age of 93 in Tehran. His remarkable loyalty to Dr. Mosadegh has been noted by many including Dr. Mosaddegh himself. He published many books about the military trial and post 1953 coo events. He also recently published a photo essay of Mossadegh which I have used below:




Mossadegh as student studying political science (first degree) in Paris and law (PhD) in Switzerland.



Mossadegh became prime minister of Iran in 1951. His first bill to the Parliament was to nationalise oil and kick the British out!

The Oil Commission was formed following prime minister's order. Head of the Commission Allahyar Saleh (center) and to his right: Abdollah Moazami, Hassibi, Dr. Shayegan,Chief Justice Sarvari, Hossein Makki. On Saleh's left: Dr. Matin Daftari, Dr. Reza-zadeh Shafagh, Najmolmolk, Senator Naghvi

The British and CIA staged a coo in 1953 following Mossadegh's success at the Hague to legally establish Iran's rights over oil. He was subsequently put on military trial when Col. Jalil Bozorgmehr served as his Public Defender (Attorney) (above photo - standing to Dr. Mossadegh's right). Mossadegh was sentenced to 3.5 years imprisonment and was then sent on exile to Ahmadabad where he died of cancer at the age of 84 on March 4, 1967. He is buried at his Ahmadabad residence.

See following article for further reading about Col. Bozorgmehr