Comments on: Ahmadinejad’s Popularity Fading Fast

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:09:11 +0000

They have really interesting videos of the Iranian student uprisings on http://www.liveleak.com. Things are changing over there.. slowly.. but the people are tired of being oppressed and I believe will keep gaining more and more freedoms until the governments can no longer hold them back. It will be a glorious day indeed when there is a free Iran.

By: Frieda

Frieda — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:33:20 +0000

Popularity??? what popularity? Half of country did not vote at all and the other half that did, he got about 20% of that…is that counts as popular…Get you headline straight.

And then we have George Bush who was elected with 52% of the vote, we call him unpopular President. What is wrong with this media?

By: Brian H

Brian H — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:21:14 +0000

The apologists are out in full force. The more they speak, the stupider they sound. Well done, Kian!

By: Kian Kiani

Kian Kiani — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:15:30 +0000

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Iran & Voice of America

Category: Blogging

Iran & Voice of America I would like to bring your attention to matters most important at the Persian Service of Voice of America; especially during this juncture when confrontation between the U.S. and the government of Iran is on a collision course. The people at VOA are in charge of conveying the true message of the government of the United States (freedom) by presenting it through clear and comprehensible programs which are broadcast to the Iranian people.

The end results of programming from Voice of America, however, are nothing but ludicrous and disgraceful. I declare this since I worked in the department and I know from first hand experience the complete lack of competence.

The cockamamie management team consists of a woman (Sheila Gandji) with no formal education, no journalism background and no experience in anything but ass licking; and a geriatric man (Kambiz Mahmoudi) who has never been in charge of any job, but perhaps as a barber, skilled in altering his hair color by dying it from white to blonde, then to black, then to brown…

Worse, everybody in Iran knows that the Chief of Persian Service in Voice of America had received $850,000 from the Shah’s regime to spend for publicity but when the revolution in Iran brought another regime, and then this man kept the money for himself and did not return it to the people of Iran.

In addition, everybody in Iran knows that he was at the payroll of CIA in mid-80’s working in “Radio Nejat” in Cairo Egypt but was fired because of unknown involvements.

Then you may ask why so many million dollars of the tax money are spent at the Persian Service with such characters who are known as a thief and informant for CIA? Do their words have any impact or influence on the Iranian people? Are they true representatives of the U.S.?

We will continue informing you in this issue and welcome any input by the news media and the people who care about the future of this great country.

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By: DaMav

DaMav — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:56:25 +0000

If you wanted to write an article trying to protect Ahmadinejad from US pressure, you couldn’t do much better than this one. This is the classic ‘don’t attack the terrorists because it only makes things worse’ meme the left has been pushing for years. I only wonder what it is doing at Pajamas Media which purports to be somewhat more enlightened than this piece of apologist crap.

You have one online poll and you are telling us we better back off or it will make him more popular again? Iran better toss him out of office or it will get squashed like a bug. We’re not going to do Mr Nice Guy again like we did in Iraq.

By: Winston

Winston — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:45:43 +0000

Too sad to see PJM trying to become a part of MSM with respect to Iran…

By: Banafsheh

Banafsheh — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:31:00 +0000

Fari, this is not disinformation. Clearly you’re entirely unfamiliar with how the so-called “voting” in Iran works. AND how this (s)election process of Ahmadinejad was specifically orchestrated by Khamenei’s son who is in league with Messbah-Yazdi against Rafsanjani. Ahmadinejad was “created” by the supreme leader’s people and the Hojjatiyeh group in order to teach Rafsanjani and HIS creation of the reformists/Khatami was pulled off. Please read up on the information rather than react to shallow news that is “official line” sound bytes created by the Mullahs, promoted by agenda-mongering international journalists.

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:28:56 +0000

Something to remember is that the real power in Iran is not the President, but the Supreme Leader (currently Ayatollah Khamenei, successor of Ayatollah Khomeini). Iranian candidates must first be chosen by the Guardian Council before they can run for election.

Iran is not really a democracy and Ahmadinejad’s popularity, or lack of it, is not really the issue compared to Iran’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons, which started before him and will continue after him.

No one sensible in the West imagines we have a “blank check to do what we want in Iran.” Even the Iranian people have little say in that.

By: Fari

Fari — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:19:52 +0000

Isn’t this exactly what an Iranian disinformation blogger would write? Look, he says, Ahmadinejad is unpopular. Just wait and leave him to the Iranian voters. Meanwhile, the two different nuke programs (uranium and plutonium) are speeding ahead. That’s exactly what all the “Iran experts” have been writing in the Washington Post, the NY Times, etc. The mullahs aren’t fools. If Saddam could buy opinion leaders in the West with oil money, what do you think Ahmadinejad is doing right now?

By: Banafsheh

Banafsheh — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:53:52 +0000

When was Ahmadinejad ever popular? Ahmadinejad’s popularity was a myth that was created by his campaign manager, the Texas A&M-educated Mahdi Chamran (whose brother Mostafa was one of the early generals and founders if you will, of Hezbollah); Ahmadinejad and Chamran are both devotees of the evil Ayatollah Messbah-Yazdi. Ahamdinejad was only claimed to have been popular as a man of the people type image (the same way in Russia, Putin is being claimed as popular). Ahmadinejad was never popular inside Iran; the most anyone in Iran was willing to give him was a tiny benefit of doubt and nothing more and that was because he wasn’t wearing a turban and promised to clean up the mess the Mullah politicians had made. If you ever listened to the Iranian TV or radio call-in programs or talked to anyone inside Iran, read the blogs, etc. you’d know that inside Iran it was a TOTALLY different story.