| No. 234 | 4 January 2016 |
Interview with Mehr Ali Ebrahim NejadI Was Just a Private (3)Mehr Ali Ebrahim Nejad is a veteran of the Iraq-imposed war on Iran. He went to the battle forefronts while he was still a teenager and fought for the country 90 months of the 94-month (nearly 8-year) war. The following is an excerpt of his Oral History Weekly's interview with about on the occasion of the anniversary of Operation Muharram (Monday, November 1, 1982). Here is the third episode of his interview.
Susangerd, occupation, Liberation (4)Interview with Ghodratollah BahariPeople would capture them and bring. I was in the mosque and did not know from the outside. People would know who killed cattle, smoked Esfand, has raised Iraqi flag over the governor's office, or danced, within 48 hours, when Susangerd was in the hands of Iraqis. They captured 29 people and handed over us. Keeping Iraqis was much easier for me than them.
Bidoun, an Influential Magazine of the Middle East, Extends Its ReachMs. Azimi, who is Iranian-American and grew up in Europe and the United States, added: “Our vision of the Mideast extends to India, it extends to L.A. It certainly doesn’t fulfill the expectations of the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ vision that’s so pervasive.”
“Delusional and reflexive invocations of American exceptionalism”: What the GOP field won’t admit about our history may make everything worseBy continuing to deny the real lessons and history of Vietnam and Iraq, we are set up to repeat tragedies againTo be completely blunt, those comments strike me as delusional and reflexive invocations of American exceptionalism based on the threadbare idea that we are a force for stability and peace in the world no matter how glaringly the facts contradict the claim. They remind me of the remark Vice President George H.W. Bush made in 1988 shortly after the U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian civilian airliner over the Persian Gulf killing all 290 passengers. Running for president at the time, Bush said: “I will never apologize for the United States of America. Ever. I don’t care what the facts are.”
Barry Schweid, globe-trotting AP diplomatic writer, dies at 83He had many scoops. One that he was proud of was reporting on a Sunday in April 1980 that Cyrus Vance was resigning as secretary state because he disagreed with the Carter administration’s decision to send a military mission to try to rescue the American hostages in Iran. The mission failed.
Slain Muslim students' families fight grief to honor legacyShe discussed growing up as a Muslim in the U.S. in an interview recorded in 2014 as part of the StoryCorps oral history project and broadcast by North Carolina Public Radio. "Although in some ways I do stand out, such as the hijab I wear on my head, the head covering, there's still so many ways I feel so embedded in the fabric that is our culture. ... There are so many people from so many different places, of different backgrounds and religions. But here we're all one — one culture," she said.
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 Air Raid to Al-Waleed (2) By: Brigadier General Ahmad Mehrnia
Leader of the flight group foreword History has always been a teacher of men and the nation who don’t learn from history or forget it, are doomed to repeat their mistakes and bitter experience of the past few days. Pages of history has always been as a mirror for posterity in which they look and find out their background and being familiar with the brightness and darkness of the past generations, as if they find their way; but as some who can’t tolerate the limpid of mirror and consider its breaking as the only way of hiding their evil, the real pages of history has been always in the danger of becoming tore apart and turning from what it has been actually to what it is now pleasant. Numbers of men and women have could make the history, but how much their work is great, its joining to the valuable book of history and turning to the historical one requires only a lofty magnanimity and courage. Magnanimity requires deliberation in the past and seeking truth and courage which is necessary for speaking and writing the truth and honesty.    |