Police van runs over a passing by protester

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Tehran, 27th Dec. 2009
Day of Ashura (non-violence religious day!)

Christmas in Tehran !?

I was going to post a Merry Christmas message as per last few years (but a few days later to honour Ashoura - which is a religious day of mourning in Iran). However, following the sheer brutality shown on the streets of Tehran, I rather post a few photos about what went on on Sunday. This took place on the day of Ashoura which means no violence in Shiite custom.

Official figure of those shot dead are 8 people; amongst them was the nephew of Mr. Mousavi, Ali Mousavi, 43. I am deeply saddened by the events Below are a few photos of Ali's family - his father and uncle Mr. Mousavi.



This last one is Ali's father seeing him off on his way to the front line (during war with Saddam). He is much younder then.

Nature and Plagiarism of top Iranian officials

Editorial

Nature 462, 699 (10 December 2009) | doi:10.1038/462699a; Published online 9 December 2009

A question of integrity

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Abstract

Iran's institutions must investigate allegations of scientific plagiarism as a matter of urgency.

Fresh evidence that senior officials in the Iranian government have co-authored scientific papers that show signs of plagiarism came to light this week (see page 704). This follows similar revelations in October (see Nature 461, 578–579; 2009).

The first wave of alleged plagiarism cases was widely discussed both inside and outside Iran, and provoked dismay among the country's researchers and reformist bloggers. The cases were also reported by Iran's mainstream media, which deserve credit for airing the story despite the present regime's record of shutting down newspapers, arresting journalists and otherwise intimidating free inquiry.

The regime's research institutions, however, have done little to investigate the allegations. This is perhaps not surprising, given the extreme political sensitivity of the accusations. One of the disputed papers was co-authored by transport minister Hamid Behbahani, who supervised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's PhD. Other questionable papers were co-authored by science minister Kamran Daneshjou, who oversaw this year's disputed presidential election. An official investigation is needed to clarify the circumstances of these and the new cases of alleged plagiarism. Senior scientists also have a responsibility for what happens in their labs, and for papers on which their names appear.

One can only speculate over what might cause such plagiarism. In some cases, using texts to help counter a poor command of English may provide extenuating circumstances. And in Iran, as in several developing countries, there is a cultural expectation that officials should have strong academic credentials. This could tempt weaker academics to inflate their publication record, perhaps by plagiarism. It can also lead to other types of academic fraud: in November 2008, the late Ali Kordan was impeached by the Iranian parliament and removed as interior minister after he admitted that his honorary law doctorate from the University of Oxford was fake.

Another factor could be the politicization of Iran's research system. After the 1979 Islamic revolution, universities were purged of perceived Western influences and staff. Many of the best scientists left the country. The Iranian research enterprise began to recover in the late 1990s under reformist president Mohammad Khatami — academic appointments were more often based on merit, and the country's research output improved in both quantity and quality. But the research environment has deteriorated since Ahmadinejad took power in 2005, as his regime has exerted political influence over promotions within universities. And in the aftermath of this summer's protests over the election, Iran's universities have become a hotbed of opposition — a prime focus for the government's crackdown. The regime now says that it intends to reinforce Islamic values across academic staff and courses, which many scientists take as code for further repression.

Leading researchers inside Iran are keeping their heads down. But many are quietly pressing for the authorities to investigate the plagiarism allegations, which, they note, would be consistent with wider demands by academics for the current regime to be more accountable and respectful of the republic's values and civil rights. They are also pushing for merit-based promotion practices, and are having some success in persuading Iran's academic institutions to emphasize ethics in the practice of research and publishing.

Iran's researchers, both inside and outside the country, are to be applauded for their defence of excellence and scientific integrity in such difficult political conditions. The actions of a few must not be allowed to soil the reputation of the majority of Iran's scientists. Rather, the international scientific community must redouble its efforts to support and collaborate with its Iranian colleagues

Moses & sheperd - Opera in Persian

Moses and Shepherd

by: Molana Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Mevlana Rumi - Divan-e-Shams
Translated by: Shahriar Shahriari


On the path Moses came upon a shepherd
His prayers with his God he overheard.
Where are you so your needs I can serve
Mend your shoes, your hair comb, curl & curve.
Wash your clothes, kill your lice, pick your nits
Bring you milk, while your Majesty just sits.
Kiss your lovely hands, and rub your tiny feet
When it is time to sleep, sweep your room, make it neat.
For you I will sacrifice all my goats
Thinking of you I shout and sing my notes.

The shepherd is this manner went on and on
Moses asked, who do you talk to my son?
Said to the only One who gave me birth
Did the same with the skies and this earth.
Said Moses, poor man, you just ruined your luck
Not yet found God, infidel, you are stuck.
You blaspheme, you babble such idle talk
Gag yourself, inside your mouth stick a sock.
Of your blasphemy, the whole world now stinks
Piety in mire and muck now sinks.
Sandals and leggings are what you deserve
Wanting all these for the One, you have some nerve.
If at once you do not hold your tongue
Fire and brimstone will burn so strong
If there is no fire, then whence the smoke?
Soul is blackened and spirit is broke.
Did you know that God himself will be the Judge?
Your belief and insolence will make him grudge.
Mindless friendship is no more than enmity
God has such servant for as long as eternity.
Who do you think you address? Uncle or aunt?
For Glorious One, body and need don't count.
He who drinks milk needs to be growing up
Shoes are but for the feet that need to walk or hop.
If you speak of these, say for creatures
What God said, he is me, I, his features.
He who thus speaks, will roll in disease
As well as he, I too have lost my ease.
He who has lost hearing as well as sight
This disease is much worse, with endless fright.
If you call him Fatima, a woman's name
Though in creation, they are both the same
Will seek vengeance with blood, and will blame
Although compassionate, kind and perhaps tame.
Fatima, for a woman is only praise
For a man, spear wound, set ablaze.
Arms and legs our features define and paint
Yet for Almighty God, pollute and taint.
What the Almighty deserves is only praise
Parent & child, he will give birth and raze.
Whatever has a body, birth must own
And what is born, on this side is thrown.
Everything in existence in this world
Is caused and no doubt will unfold.

Said, Moses, you have now cut my tongue
I repent, cause you have made my soul wrong.
Rent his own shirt, steamed and sighed
Unto the arid desert fled and cried.

God's voice came to Moses at that time
Separating our lovers is a crime.
You have come with the purpose to join & heal
Not sever and differences reveal.
Keep away with all your might from making part
Creatures begrudge each other and depart.
To each I have given a unique face
And a way to express and embrace.
For him all my praise , for you the blame
For him all sweetness, poison your game.
We transcend cleanliness and things vile
Tardiness, agility, foolishness, guile.
I do not profit from what I demand
For their own goodness comes every command.
Hindis in their own tongue God will praise
Sindis in prayer their arms will raise.
I do not become cleansed from counting beads
Rosary clears and lightens their needs.
We do not hear complaints of their ordeal
We look inside & see what their souls reveal.
We observe and can see the humble heart
Although much arrogance tongue may impart.
Since the heart is the essence, to transform
It's motive, to give birth to shape and form.
How many words, adjectives and metaphors
I want fire, burn with fire, burn in scores.
Fire of Love sets your heart and soul ablaze
Every thought and every word scorch, erase.
Moses, although proper and nice may be some
Others with soul on fire may have come.
The lovers, with each breath once again burn
In a ruined city, you can't tax and earn.
If his word is wrong, do not say that he lies
Washing the martyr's blood, purpose defies.
This blood, every water will exceed
This sin supersedes every good deed.
Inside the Kaaba, which way to face?
Footwear for the diver has no place.
Guidance of he drunkards do not seek
Of mending shirts to renders don't speak.
Nation of Love is other than religion
For Lovers, God is nation, faith and region.
Without love, those ruby lips are just a fad
In the ocean of sorrows love ain't sad.

In Moses' head God then planted the seed
Of hidden secrets that no mind could breed
With many stories, his heart would feed
That sound and sight and sense easily exceed.
Any more explanation is just insane
Giving more information will be in vain.
If I say, it will uproot every mind
If I write, pen after pen it will grind.

When Moses heard the Lord's harsh reprimand
Ran after the old shepherd over the sand.
Footprints of the shepherd he would trace
Dust and wind of the desert gladly brace.
Agitated steps of one like he
Apart from other prints one can see.
One step, just like a rook, straight and long
Another, just like a knight, aside flung.
Sometimes will rise up, like a tall wave
Other times, like a crawling fish behave
Sometimes writes of his state upon the sand
Like a fortune-teller, opening his hand.
Finally Moses found him, ended his search
With good tidings for shepherd to rest and perch.
Seek no ceremony, system or rule
To deny your aching heart will be cruel.
Your blasphemy is faith, light of the soul
You are saved, and the world is in control.
You are exempt from the rules of the Lord
Opening your heart and soul, you can afford.

Said, Moses this too, I have passed by
I drown in bloody tears that I cry.
I've long passed that intoxicant tree
Hundred thousand years back, was set free.
I cracked my whip and my horse returned
Made this great dome that fate overturned.
Keeper of worldly secrets is the divine
I hail the very hands that made mine.
Yet now, my state defies speech
nay, not mine, it's out of reach.
The image in the mirror that you see
Is your own reflection, and not me.
The breath that all breathers inhale
Is worthy of the lungs, yet souls fail.
If you praise or say thanks in loud cries
Like the old shepherd, you will see your demise.
Even if all your praises are better
Compared to God's mercy, they won't matter.
Say no more, cause when the veil is pulled aside
Whatever they thought was, will not abide.
God accepts you praises from his grace
Permits you to pray, while a stone you face.
His prayers with blood are entwined
Your praise, impure images have defined.
Blood may be vile, yet in water dissolves
But impurities of soul, nothing resolves.
This can be cleaned only by god's grace
Else remains inside the man of disgrace.
In prostration I wish you turned your face
Understood meaning of divine grace.
How can I praise when my soul I taint?
Unless I punish evil with the goodness of a saint.
This earth, just like God, is kind and meek
Absorbs every dirt, yet flowers peak.
Till it covers evils in its mud
Instead, it yields flowers that bud.
Infidel surrendered his life in trust
Became worthless, descended lower than dust.
His essence flower and fruit did not yield
Gave up evil to earth, and his goodness shield.
Said I've gone backwards, in going away

I envy dirt and dust, the price I pay
I wish I'd never risen from clay
Like clay, with seeds I'd rather play.
This journey my soul has tested and tried
What gains this journey brought to my side?
He desires to return to the clay
he who sees no benefits coming his way.
To turn back, is nothing but his greed
To go forth, can only stem from his need.
Each plant that is seeking to reach its height
Increase, vitality, growth its right.
Whenever it turns around towards the earth
Will face draught, disease, even dearth.
And when your soul is looking above
It can only increase in its love;
If you look towards the earth for your wage
You're a bird that is trapped inside a cage.

Ahmadinejad's Jewish origins

He is, of course, famous for his frequent slurs and threats against the Jewish state of Israel. But Daily Telehraph published this report yesterday providing evidence about Ahmadinejad's surname change not long ago. Something he has never denied. However, what is important is that His old surname is one exclusively used by Jewish population in Iran. In fact it is on the list of reserved surnames for the Jewish community at the interior ministry.

The name Saborjhian derives from thread painter — sabor in Persian — a once common and humble occupation in the carpet industry in Semnan Province, where Aradan - Ahamdinejad's birthplace - is situated. Ahmad, by contrast, is a name also used for the Prophet Muhammad and means virtuous; nejad means race in Persian, so Ahmadinejad can mean Muhammad’s race or virtuous race. Ahmadinejad's father had picked the name Ahmad for himself. Also this article shows that the suffix jhian means that his family have been practicing Judaism.

Cologne

This beautiful country side and marvelous city ...

Graduation of the first intake of Cardiff's MSc in Lean Operations Management (Service)

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Moving beyond efficiency thinking by using adaptive systems thinking

Click on the link for the full interview.

CNN massacre day June 24, 2009 tehran baharestan کشت وکشتار بهارستان

Iran NEDA SHOT Demonstration 20 June 2009 teenage girl is shot in IRAN Part 2

Iran Election June 20, 2009 A girl shot by a basij member in Kargar Ave, Tehran Iran

Her name is Neda (translates as cry in persian). Her music tutor is crying out "stay with me, stay with me, Nedaaaaaaa"

Shameless government of Ahmadinejad

Para-militia opens fire on defenseless people.

Mr. Mousavi and his wife. Mousavi is an engineer and Ahmadineja'd main contender.

This is non violence movement. People hand out roses and lilies to security forces. At the same time para militia spares no one.

Unfortunately this person was shot dead.

See of people...milions on Tehran streets.

Stollen Election in Iran

Old friends - old times

No commets!

Children of Poverty

This could be the address: Brick works, South Tehran, Impoversihed post code. This is where you buy a kid's labour for a lousy £2 per day. Tough jobs that we shan't wish to do. Its OK - Ahmadinejad is there to save them. Don't worry Chavez is doing the same in Venezuella.

1979 Revolution

Shah being saluted by a high ranked clergy around 1977. Seated to the right is his eldest son prince "Reza".

Bakhtiar becomes the last prime minister of Shah to save the country from plunging into an unwanted revolution. He was a political prisoner under the Shah but agreed to form a 'national unity' government. His cabinet lasts few months.

Shah left Tehran for the US in January 1979 and Khomeini entered Iran from exile in Feb 79. He delivered a speach to a large crowd in Tehran cemetery upon arrival (below!) Very soon the army declared indifference and the angry mob took over government offices and police stations. The revolution succeeded. Some say it was 'the inevitable'. Khomeini announces Bazargan (a liberal engineer) as the interim prime minister a few days later.

Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women Rights movement in Iran

Above picture is Iran today and below is 1977

Thirty years ago women played a significant role in what later became the "Islamic Revolution" in Iran. Today women of my country still fighting for equality... Sometimes by voting and sometimes by boycotting elections (that's because there haven't been many free elections in Iran during the past 30 years). Follow this link for Simone de Beauvoir Prize 2009 (with French translation):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81-hNluuYfg

Schmutzige Füße?

Apparently "Forum" have translated our article to German. So here it is for German speaking readers especially those I truly Cherish.

http://www.nachhaltigwirtschaften.net/scripts/basics/eco-world/wirtschaft/basics.prg?session=42f942c7496845e7_666646&nap=forumE&a_no=2241&r_index=4.1.3

The Evolution of Management Thinking

Read this report on a recent talk I gave to a group of CI executives. Also read the following passage from an HBR article by Ted Levitt ...

“What Ford put first: The profit lure of mass [efficient] production has a place in the plans and strategy of business management, but it must always follow hard thinking about the customer. This is one of the most important lessons we can learn from the contradictory behavior of Henry Ford. In a sense Ford was both the most brilliant and the most senseless marketer in American history. He was senseless because he refused to give customers anything but a black car. He was brilliant because he fashioned a production system designed to fit market needs. We habitually celebrate him for the wrong reason, his production genius. His real genius was marketing. We think he was able to cut his selling price and sell millions of $500 cars because his invention of the assembly line had reduced the costs. Actually he invented the assembly line because he had concluded that at $500 he could sell millions of cars. Mass production [efficiency] was the result, not the cause, of his low prices”.
Theodore Levitt (1960) Harvard Bsuienss Review

Lean and Recession

It’s all about effectiveness
Dr. Keivan Zokaei of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff University examines how supply chains can boost their efficiency and effectiveness by eliminating all too common mistakes.

The economy is rapidly slumping into a deep recession but did it really need to be this way? The Big Three auto manufacturers are in big trouble and even Toyota, the all time legend of efficiency, has dived into the red for the first time since its records began in 1941. Toyota has hit the red as exports screech to a standstill, partly to be blamed on a soaring yen. We are simply used to Toyota always making profit, oblivious to the fact that the volume car makers’ business models are very vulnerable to sudden falls in demand, especially if in the process of expanding capacity like Toyota. An insurance company, or even a chain of supermarkets, doesn’t have the same level of asset specifity that volume car makers have.
Toyota has cash reserves more than enough to cope with the current climate. However, experts such as Richard Schonberger have been warning about falling inventory turns at Toyota[i] alongside many other motor manufacturers all along. The Times now reports that Toyota’s finished cars inventory levels in the US are about “twice the level considered appropriate”[ii], i.e. around 90 days’ worth of cars in stock. I believe Toyota’s inventory levels increased as they expanded into various markets and attempted to deal with what Taiichi Ohno called “market diversification”[iii] – or in other words, the ever increasing range demanded by the customers. Ohno, the father of the Toyota Production System (TPS), explained that TPS is capable of coping with market fluctuations in terms of variety and volume even when the overall demand is steady. TPS is designed to absorb these fluctuations through the principles of just-in-time and autonomation[iv].
Yet, even Ohno did not claim that Toyota could cope with sudden slumps in demand, so it is inevitable that Toyota suffers like most other businesses.
But what happened for Toyota to remain profitable through the recessions of the past but not this time round? Let’s revisit the history of manufacturing before the oil shock of 1973. Back then, you could sell practically whatever you were able to produce. In the era of mass production, what seemed to matter was the economy of scale, and what management focused on was the unit cost, i.e. producing in large batches through dedicated processes and monumental machines. Management’s aim was simply to sweat assets. Still much of what is taught in business schools around the world is influenced by the mass production way of thinking. Then came along Toyota, which showed us that we can (and indeed should) lower costs by producing only what the customers want at the pull of the customer. TPS demonstrated that cost is in flow, rather than scale. Management thinker Professor John Seddon of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) refers to this as the “economy of flow”. Between the oil shock of 1973 and the recent recession in 2008, the management focus has been on learning the principles of flow thinking, many of which were developed in Toyota during the time before 1973. Sadly, companies and their supply chains are yet to learn some very basic principles and the full scale implications of TPS, as I will explain below.
However, the severity of the current economic shock is suggesting that even flow thinking alone is not a good enough solution and it can be argued that we are progressing into an era of ‘economy of purpose’. Leading companies in different industries are not only producing what the customers demand at the pull of the customer, but are working together with their customers and customers’ customers to gain a deeper understanding of what the end consumers’ requirements are in order to provide the most effective solution to their problem.
Tesco has been one of the leading firms to realise economy of purpose. Its core business purpose is to gain customers’ lifetime loyalty. There is no mention of share of your pocket, cost or efficiency in Tesco’s purpose. It’s all about what consumers’ value; it’s all about effectiveness. In this new age, value enhancement is arguably more important than waste reduction. Tesco rigorously and systematically communicates its core purpose across various levels of the organisation. Its CEO, Sir Terry Leahy, is often quoted as saying: “If you are in doubt, ask the customers”. Tesco deploys Clubcard data to create the most effective supply chain the industry has witnessed, where individual store range and offering depends on the local shopping profile, and promotions are customised to individual shopping needs. As such, Tesco runs a supply chain that dwarfs that of WalMart (ASDA) in both effectiveness and efficiency (see the industry data on sales per square foot). Opportunities are endless; and we have yet to grasp the full-scale implications of the post-2008 economic era.
Against this background, I would like to draw attention to some of the most immediate issues in our supply chains. The reality is that many supply chains are desolately fixated in paradigms and practices of the mass production era. We have fallen desperately short of the TPS standards, let alone getting ahead of Toyota to cope with the current climate (as arguably Tesco has done). On LERC’s executive MSc in Lean Operations programme we set an assignment every year requiring students to analyse their companies’ supply chains and provide practical recommendations for improvement. This is an opportunity for me to visit (or at least read about) the latest state of affairs in both the manufacturing and service sectors of our economy. Students (mostly very senior managers) challenge the way their supply chains operate in the light of lean thinking and the principles of flow economy. Analysis is quick (a few weeks), yet the gains are often enormous.
When it comes to managing the end-to-end supply chain, the situation in both the manufacturing and service industries is bleak. We have introduced many internal lean initiatives and many firms have matured in TPS ways of thinking internally. But this has hardly been the case in the extended value stream. One of our MSc students, a lean leader at an international medical device manufacturer, achieved 80 per cent inventory reduction during only five weeks of supply chain analysis. This was in addition to elimination of quality and delivery problems with the supplier (quality problems were running at 40 per cent and delivery problems at about 30 per cent). Consider how much cash you could release and how much value you could add to your manufacturing in only five weeks! The root cause of the problem in this medical device supply chain was erratic ordering from the customer placed on the supplier, which put sudden strain on the manufacturing at the supplier plant. Orders were accelerated through production to meet erratic orders followed by long periods of lull leading to many quality and delivery issues. The medical device manufacturer collaborated with its supplier on a simple redesign of the manufacturing sequence to postpone the last production sequence until parts were actually called in. This allowed the supplier to produce blank parts and finish them only when ordered by the manufacturer, reducing inventory by about 80 per cent.
Another example, from one of the largest wine and spirits distributors in the world, concerns inventories along the chain for a popular wine category supplied to multiple supermarkets. Wine is often supplied in bulk into the UK and bottled and labeled prior to shipment to customers. This company has recently invested in multiplying its warehousing capacity of bottled wine based on increasing demand during the past few years. Unfortunately, this is a position you don’t want to be in when a recession hits. It’s always cheaper to keep wine in bulk and postpone the bottling until actual orders are received from customers. This will also ensure much higher product availability against customer orders and reduces the need for large amounts of inventory in the chain by keeping the right type of finished goods stock. Supply chain mapping revealed a 170-day lead time for a bottle of wine from winery to sales. There is a considerable amount of inventory within the wine supply network while there are relatively low levels of inventory held by the retailers. Huge savings are possible by simply postponing the bottling until customer orders are received and constantly revisiting the safety stock levels only to keep enough bottled wine to meet small fluctuations in the retail orders. It is sensible to position the inventory just before the point where the product becomes highly varied.
In managing supply chains, we know about the demand amplification effect since the 1950s. Demand amplification exists in nearly all supply chains. Yet I haven’t come across a single one that uses demand amplification as a KPI or one that consistently monitors it with all suppliers. It occurs when small fluctuations in the end user demand become amplified as they are passed upstream, leading to considerable ebbs and flows along the supply chain. Ohno would have called this Mura[v]; indeed recession occurs when we encounter mega-mura. When an international pharmaceutical firm mapped its largest value streams by volume, it found demand amplification resulting from batching and inventory control policies. Whereas customer demand for the selected product was fairly stable (averaging around 800kg per month), demand amplification occurred because of a fixed manufacturing lot size of 2250kg in production, consisting of three containers of 750Kg. The supply chain analysis suggested reducing the lot size to one container and shipping it immediately to the next process without entering the current stages of warehousing. A safety stock could be kept to make up for the difference with customer orders. This removes the wastes of transportation and over-production; but more importantly, producing more closely to the customer demand means exposing quality problems and the opportunity to tackle the root causes much more quickly.
I have seen many examples in service supply chains where the situation is very similar. For example, in the insurance industry, insurers maintain an arm’s length and price-driven relationship with suppliers. Individual insurance firms are encouraged to provide lower-cost solutions leading to supply chain members looking inward to pursue a strategy of optimising own-service delivery. However, optimising costs at a local level can compromise the end-to-end value stream as a whole. Negotiations are considered in isolation with little concern by procurement teams on the impact of decisions by one chain member upon others and to the value chain overall.
[i] See Schonberger, R. (2008) Best Practice – Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement. Schonberger reports that Toyota’s inventory turns have been worsening four per cent year-on-year for the past 13 years in an apparent attempt to become the world’s largest auto-maker.
[ii] Times Online, 22nd December 2008
[iii] See Ohno T. (1988), Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production, Productivity Press.
[iv] Autonomation (Jidoka in Japanese) is automation with a human touch. It’s about allowing the human interface with work to absorb variation in work and to ensure “first time right” quality.
[v] Japanese for unevenness, which is a root cause of Muda, or waste.

Lean and Green

Sustainability is a hugely important subject. Click on the title or the following link to read about how Lean Thinking and green thinking overlap...
http://www.leanenterprise.org.uk/content/view/114/142/

Dr Mossadegh said in 1951:

من پیر شده ام. فکر نمیکنم به سن هشتاد برسم (در آن زمان 71 ساله بود و 87 سال عمر کرد). شاید هرگز نتوانم به آنچه برای کشورم آرزو میکنم جامه عمل بپوشانم ولی مطمئنم دیگران خواهند آمد، که پس از من این کار ها را به انجام خواهند رسانید. آنها امپریالیست ها و شوروی ها را بیرون خواهند کرد. شاه را یا از بین میبرند و یا اخراج میکنند. او با این که نرم خوست، آرزوی بزرگش این است که جای کورش را بگیرد و همه کاره مملکت شود.فکر نمیکنم حزب توده قادر به گرفتن و حفظ قدرت باشد.همینطور ارتش را توانا برای بر خاستن و بر پایی یک نظام دیکتاتوری نمی بینم. امیدوارم سر کرده های شیعه قصد جدی برای ورود به عرصه سیاست نداشته باشند. اگر چنین شود، ایران در آستانه وضعیت فاجعه آمیزی قرار خواهد گرفت که بدوا همسایگان ایران (عراق، سوریه و اردن) را در حالت جنگی با ما قرار میدهد. من واقعا از این تشکیلات مذهبی هراس دارم. درست است که ما مسلمان هستیم، ولی در واقع عرب نسیتیم و رودرروی سنی ها قرار داریم. بدین ترتیب تشکیلات آخوند های شیعه با آن سلسله مراتب و امکانات اگر به قدرت دست یابد، ما در داخل مواجه با انقلابی خونین خواهیم شد و در خارج باید نتایج جهاد علیه عراق و اردن و سوربه را تحمل کنیم. فکر نمیکنم مصر و حتا اسرائیل مداخله کنند. به هر حال اگر این فرض آخری تحقق پیدا کند، یک آیت اللهی وارد عرصه میشود و نهضتی مالامال از نفرت علیه غرب و حتا ضد یهود و در دشمنی با عرب های سنی راه خواهد انداخت و ای بسا که خیابان ها جای جسد و خون خواهد شد.

Andre Brissaud, le Crapouillot. Nouvelle serie. Decembre 1986, La France

مصاحبه گر تاکید میکند که حسب خواست مصدق متن مصاحبه پس از مرگ او میتوانست منتشر شود

Israel's destiny and the Lorish tribe !?

Made me feel extremely proud to be Lorish (from the Lore tribe) when I saw this! I should have really left this with no comments really ... but can't help myself...We are a funny tribe...don't you think?

Happy 2009

A church in the North Western part of Iran.