Re: Settling Scores :-)

From	Taskfreak <taskfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Settling Scores :-)
Date	2026-11-11 15:17 -0600
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Iran's Leader said relations with China must take the first priority in 
Iran's foreign policy.

It is clear that he, like many other Iranians including myself, does not 
trust Russia that much. Problem has always been the 2 to 3 million 
Russians who are citizens of Israel and go back and forth between Russia 
and Israel all the times as if Russia is also Israel, which to a certain 
extent _is_. They're the ones who fell first to the bogus "communism" of 
the Jews which was designed to destroy Western Civilization.

And it took about 70 years before these Russians could open their eyes 
at last and see through the bullshit.

Russia has already rigged the S-300 air defense missiles that they sold 
to Iran once or twice before, when Iran used them against Israeli 
bombers, while Iran's own Khordad 3 and Bavar systems (reversed 
engineered form of S-200 and S-300) worked flawlessly and could shoot a 
few Israeli bombers down and change the scenes in the war considerably.

Same happened with Russian-made Sukhoi bombers Iran had purchased from 
Russia and were used at the beginning of the 40-day war. All three of 
them were shot down by enemies while Iran's own reverse engineered F-5s 
successfully carried out their bombing missions (destroying main radars 
right at the beginning of the war). Three of the Iranian Sukhoi pilots 
are still in custody of either Ghataris or the Americans.

So the Russians cannot be trusted. China, on the other hand, doesn't 
have such sick interests in the most obnoxious and backward nation in 
the world, the  "Israelis", and Iranians in general take their chances 
with China if they have to.


Americans have so far asked every nation around Iran to intervene with 
Iran to open up the Strait of Hormoz. These efforts have been so steady 
and desperate that a figure in Iran's parliament today said:

    "The only people Americans have not rushed for help with Iran are 
the Saudis and the Shamseddin Mohammad Hafez Shirazi (or "Hafez", the 
Iranian 14th century poet), cause one is dead and one is almost dead."

Hahahahhahahahh :-)))


Fun time:
Today an Iranian member of an Iranian Telegram channel posted this story 
(see below) from her childhood. I read it and found the author someone 
like many of friends that I've had. Someone like myself or my sister. So 
I took the pain to translate it as best as I can to post it here. It was 
worth the effort.

Here it is: (my two notes are at the bottom of it)

   "I was 7 years old when that winter came. The village of Nagh-ghash 
[1], near Avaj. Snow fell such as the village elders could not remember 
ever seeing. It snowed for three days and three nights. On the fourth 
day, when the sky cleared, the village road to Avaj had totally vanished 
under the snow. The power line was down too, and worse than that, 
father's radio did nothing but hiss."

    "The 1st day was a holiday for us kids. The 2nd day, less so. On the 
fifth day, the bakery ran out of flour. On the seventh day, the oil in 
our lamps were running out, and the mothers no longer spoke loudly."

    "I remember it was the eighth night. We were sitting around the 
Korsi [2], and Uncle Heydar, who was a quiet man, suddenly said: 'No one 
is coming. The city has forgotten us.' No one answered him. That silence 
was colder than any snow. I was very frightened.. not of the snow, but 
of the grown-ups' eyes."

    "The next morning I made my way with difficulty to Mash Rahim's 
house. He was the oldest man in the village, and the walnut orchard at 
the end of the village belonged to him. He was shoveling snow aside in 
the yard, humming a poem under his breath. After greetings, I said: 
'Mash Rahim, Uncle Heydar says they've forgotten us'."

    "He stopped working. He took a long glance at the lost road and 
said: 'Come with me.' We went to the end of the orchard, beside a great 
walnut tree. He pushed the snow away from the base of the tree. Black 
soil emerged. He said: 'Touch it.' I touched it. The soil was warm. In 
that cold, it felt warm."

    "Mash Rahim said: 'For three months this tree has had no leaves, no 
fruit, no shade. From the outside it is dead. No bird lands on it. No 
passerby looks at it. But underground, the root is awake.' As he ran his 
hand over the earth, he said: 'Do you know girl? In winter a tree has 
one job, and that is to keep the root alive. That's all.. not to 
blossom, not to bear fruit. Just to keep the root alive. A tree that 
does this will see the spring. A tree that says, 'Since no one sees me, 
I am finished,' that tree when spring comes, it will be of no use to it 
anymore.'"

    "Then he said: 'Now go tell your Uncle Heydar that Mash Rahim says 
the oven in our house is hot and ready. Whoever has a handful of flour, 
let them bring it; tonight we'll all have bread.'"

    "That night several families gathered around Mash Rahim's oven. 
There was little bread, but the silence was broken. Grandma told stories 
to the children. Uncle Heydar laughed for the first time in eight days. 
The next day the men took up shovels and went to the road. Not because 
they could clear the way to Avaj; no, they couldn't. They cleared only a 
hundred meters. But when they came back that night, they were no longer 
the men of the 8th night."

    "That road opened 22 days later. The interesting thing is to know 
that it wasn't opened only by the grown-ups shoveling everyday, but with 
a lot of help from the sun. When the first car arrived from Avaj, the 
driver said all this time our village had been the talk of the city. 
They knew! They were worried.. they just couldn't get through the snow.."

    "Years later I understood that Mash Rahim had taught me two things 
that day, not one. The first: being forgotten is a feeling, not a fact. 
The world had not forgotten us. Their hands simply couldn't reach, and 
no tree in history has ever dried up for lack of a passerby's help."

    "The second: in winter, no one asks you to bring the spring. They 
ask you only to keep the root alive. A lit oven, a handful of flour, a 
story for the children, a hundred meters of road that leads nowhere.. 
but keeps a person alive."

    "Today, Iran is in a winter whose road is closed. They have cut the 
wires, the radio hisses, the bakery has no flour, and every night 
someone in some house says 'They've forgotten us.' I know that silence. 
It is colder than any snow. But the root is alive. Touch it; it's warm. 
Every teacher who still teaches, every mother who still tells stories, 
every neighbor who still knocks on the door and asks, 'Do you need 
anything?', that is the root. The root isn't visible from the outside. 
But the tree keeps on living by it."

    "The road will of course open. It always has. The question isn't 
when. The question is, on the day it opens, how will we be. A tree with 
a warm root, or dry dead wood that waited for a passerby's help?"

    "My compatriots, tonight take a handful of flour and knock on your 
neighbor's door. Spring begins right there. Iran has for thousands of 
years relied on the roots and culture of a people who kept this soil 
alive; who gave meaning to being Iranian. Be the warmth of this land's 
hope."

Posted by Marzi, 6:47 am today

[1] Naghghash is today a city northwest of city of Avaj. The latter is 
itself located southwest of Ghazvin.

[2] korsi is a traditional low square table with a heat source 
underneath, covered by a very large comforter. During Winter family 
members (and possible guests) sit around it and pull the comforter over 
their legs and bodies with their hands and heads and shoulders out, 
leaning against large pillows which on one side lean against a wall and 
on the other holds the person's torso in a more or less upward position. 
In Winter, it serves as a focal point for family gatherings and 
socializing, eating, sleeping, studying, reading, while staying warm.

This very old painting gives you the right idea:

https://i.postimg.cc/rFSv3wsP/Korsi.jpg

The modern ones today:

https://i.postimg.cc/9XGvDfV5/korsi-2.jpg

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