Wednesday, April 15, 2009

An old Farceur Who Is Not Funny AnyMore

Mr. Ahmad Jannati is the chair of the Guardian Council of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran and he has been a funny man for decades; but not anymore.

Recently he has been talking to the Friday Prayers in Tehran, and in his remarks he referred to the up-coming presidential election in Iran. He has been quoted as saying that 'Iranian presidency is not such a trivial matter which we just give it away.'

His political sense of humor has been the subject of the Iranian Young's jokes for years and now; I realise why! He, in fact, was suggesting that it is him and a bunch of his colleagues in the Guardian Council who elect president for the Iranian people and Not the Iranian people themselves! He is a farceur. Nevertheless, the only inference I can derive from the funny comment is that he might have been implying the election of the current president Ahmadi Nejad into the office almost four years ago; or for that matter, the entire presidential elections have been conducted in the life-time of the Islamic Republic in Iran!

However, no matter how funny this guy is, at this crucial time when Mr. Obama is waiting for the new Iranian president, offered by the Iranian people, to shake hand with, he does not sound funny at all.

Another implication of that suggestion, however, is that he and the rest of the old farceurs of the council can swim - in the current world-political-ocean without a life jacket; called 'Iranian People' - and not sink.

I have a simple message for them: I am much younger than all of you, and I am also a good swimmer; it is scary!

3 comments:

  1. People like Janati,Mesbah and co belong to the old Guard, they emerge into the light when the country is under pressure or when grave miscalculations by Govt.'s happen.... like Mr. Khatamis approach to the US after the 9/11 events, where he (Khatami) was double crossed after Afghanestan with the "axis of evil" speech....

    Now the threat is over and the idiots of US are out of office... Janati's "Hanna" has no color anymore as we say in Iran.

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  2. Do you people have a facebook fan page? I looked for one on twitter but could not discover one, I would really like to become a fan!

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  3. I am sorry, I accidentally delete your recent comment. We are in the process of establishing groups both on the facebook and the twitter. As soon as we are ready, we will announcing it here and on the relevant sites.

    Thank you

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