Kamangir (Archer)

Women Can Watch Football Now!

Kamangir | April 24, 2006 | Category Iran

Police kicking a girl in March 2006 because she asked for the right to watch football in the stadium. Now Ahmadniejad says “despite the imagination and the propaganda, women’s presence brings morality”. Photo by Yalda Moaiery.

I remember when I was a teenager and I was frequently asking my mom why she yelled at me when I did that tiny childish thing a few years before. Many times her final answer was yelling again. Soon, I realized that she really didn’t have any reason, maybe she was only enjoying her power as a mother. Then, she realized a way to ease the tension, namely to allow me to do “bad things” without “remembering” her own word against them. As I was very curious, sometimes I asked her about the reason for the new discipline and her answer was yelling again.
For a long time, girls were banned from going to the stadiums. They even had their own peaceful movements, in which they gathered in front of the stadium and carried banners. Sometimes (see) they were beaten. Never anybody gave a reasonable argument why girls can not watch a game live, rather than that “bad boys swear in the stadiums”. Now, Ahmadinejad has given an order to let girls enter the stadiums (see). In his letter he says “football is very interesting” and “despite the imagination and the propaganda, women’s presence brings morality”. He does not mention who was advocating that the stadiums are very bad places for women. After a few sentences about the importance of women’s presence in the society he asks for “arranging a part of the best location of the stadiums for women”. My only question is, who will apologize from all those girls and women whom were beaten and mistreated only because they were asking for the very same thing? Or maybe you should not ask?
I was imagining the time when Ahmadinejad would give an order to stop nuclear enrichment because “despite the imagination and the propaganda” it have proved to be not important for the nation.

“Translated” by BBC Persian

Kamangir | April 24, 2006 | Category Iran

I am not fond of the theories about the ways media exaggerate news to gain their goals. But, BBC Persian translators seem to need to become more careful. Though, I do not think it is a translation problem. The BBC Persian translation of Senator Kennedy’s talk in the “Meet the Press” show focuses on the “attack Iran” side. Comparing the original source (see) with the Persian translation (see) you can see how the translation ignores Kennedy’s arguments. To my understanding, he is trying to show how much irrational it is for America to get engaged in a nuclear strike and emphasizes the importance of diplomacy and, when other efforts failed, the “inevitable” need for conventional attack. BBC focuses only on the final part. Thanks Bucket (see) for her comment and clarification. The link to the original text is also from her.

Don’t Nuke, Just Kill

Kamangir | April 23, 2006 | Category Iran

I am at the middle of a take-home exam. After solving one of the problems I take a look at BBC to see if there is any new report on Iran. Finding Senator Edward Kennedy (see), whom was recently selected among the ten best US senators by times (see), talking about “do not nuke Iran but do think of an attack” (see) I realize that the debate is no more on “whether or not attacking” but it is on the kind of killing machine which “suits the purpose”. I don’t know how to feel. When Mehdi, one of my friends in Iran, was graduating his masters I repeatedly told him “be afraid of that lorry which is coming to crush all of us”. By that sophisticated sentence I was trying to convince him to get an admission from abroad and leave Iran (According to the Iranian law male students should attend a two-year army service after graduation. The only chance is to get admitted for higher education inside or outside the country). He did not listen to me and served two long years in the army. Fortunately, at last he is leaving Iran for a Ph.D. in a university in eastern Canada.

Azadeh and I jumped off the road just before the lorry crushed us. We are here in Canada with a plan to visit Iran in the summer and I am thinking, is Iran the next Iraq? Or maybe it is the next Japan without the willingness of the hardworking Japanese who built their country from the ash.
It seems that another “lorry” is in the way. This time, being inside or outside Iran, there is no way to escape. I am still thinking how fast it all happened. Is it really happening?

Why They Fight

Kamangir | April 23, 2006 | Category Iran

I strongly recommend watching this fairly long but amazing documentary. It is titled “Why We Fight” and is produced by BBC (see) (see). Thanks Weazl for the link (see).

Religion, The Bad Side

Kamangir | April 23, 2006 | Category Iran

Religious people are very strange creatures. One day Christians flock to see a shadow on a wall which seems to show Jesus (see). The other day Muslims gather around a pink stone which is believed to bleed in the noon of Ashura (Azadeh took this picture from Abasali shrine in Semnan). Though, this is the happy side of the coin. When it comes to suffering, my personal experience says Muslims are experts. Ghame Zani (Persian: قمه زنی) is the ritual of injuring their heads as a sign of sympathy with Imam Hossein (they do not really split their heads into two, they just make it bleed seriously). Some tender Christians have their own ritual of pain, too. In Philippines some people celebrate the Good Friday by nailing themselves to a cross (see picture 8) (see the section about Philippines).

Once I told Azadeh, thanks God I do not believe in God (see).

p.s. Both in Islam and in Christianity the official clergy system is against, at the least, the violent part.

Iranians vs Islamic Republic

Kamangir | April 22, 2006 | Category Iran

I understand that looking at Iran as shown by this administration, people would conclude that Iranians are a bunch of unpleasantly religious creatures who never have fun. To help understanding the differences between the Islamic Republic policies and the actual Iranian spirit I show some samples. The first picture shows a painting by the Iranian leading painter, Mahmoud Farshchian. This is only one sample of the whole category of passionate Iranian drawings. See his many other works here (see) (see). The second picture is a real photo depicting a Bakhtiari girl, a very old tribe of nomad Iranians. I regret to say she does not comply with the standards of Islamic decency as defined by Ahmadniejad. My last example about Iranian culture is a poem by Hafiz (see) and this is not the only sample you can find in Hafiz’s work. Knowing that Hafiz means “the one whom recites the whole Quran” the distraction between his way of thinking and the Islamic Republic policies is very interesting. See the whole poem here (see). See more poems by Hafiz here (see).Where is sensible action, & my insanity whence?

See the difference, it is from where to whence.
From the church & hypocritical vestments, I take offence
Where is the abode of the Magi, & sweet wine whence?
For dervishes, piety and sensibility make no sense
Where is sermon and hymn, & the violin’s music whence.

Immodesty

Kamangir | April 22, 2006 | Category Iran

The Iranian administration is talking about immodesty. I just wanted to clarify the meaning of this word. Here I give samples of “bad”, “acceptable”, and “decent” people with the Islamic Republic’s definition.

Bad

Acceptable

Decent

The copyright of the three first images are for Nader Davoodi (see). He has collected a fascinating set of images from Iran (see).

p.s. The woman in front of the microphones is Elaheh Koolaii, a former female member of the parliament from the reformist party. Azadeh reminded me that she is a better example of what the administration has in mind as the “acceptable” way of clothing for women. However, I have to remind her that she was threatened to be killed if she wanted to join parliament sessions wearing like that. Anyway, she was brave enough to do that.

Kindness of an Extremist

Kamangir | April 22, 2006 | Category Iran

“A member of parliament’s dignity does not allow him to decide about people’s wearing style” told Tabatabaei (Persian: سیدمهدی طباطبایی) a member of the majority fraction of the Parliament (see). He added “Islam is the religion of kindness” and that “Islam never have mentioned what people should use as a cover and which color should be actually used”. He continues “it is only said how people should cover themselves”. He kindly mentions “people should be kindly guided about the covering”. Finally, he concludes “those who are not willing to accept the covering, I suggest them to leave the country” because “there is no room for them in an Islamic country like Iran”. I suppose that’s an example of kindness of an extremist.

Nuclear Marriage

Kamangir | April 22, 2006 | Category Iran

IRNA reports that a 27-year-old Filipino woman changed her name to “Fatima” and converted to Islam (see). The report says that after doing extensive research and inspired by the many successes of Muslims she made this decision. Then she married an Iranian man who told the reporters “Fatima is very happy because of the achievements of Iran in nuclear technology and believes that we succeeded because of facing America down”. Thanks Ali for the link (see).

Tehran League

Kamangir | April 22, 2006 | Category Iran

Freedom (Esteghlal, Persian: استقلال) and Persepolis (Persian: پرسپولیس) are the two major Iranian football teams. In the last Tehran league Esteghal won the trophy.

Peaceful Guidance Squad

Kamangir | April 22, 2006 | Category Iran

Tehran Police announced the establishment of a new “guidance squad”. The attending officers will stop people offending Islamic values in the streets. In another news Tehran Police declined the reports that they are willing to face “indecent” people (see). He stated that the new plan is to increase social security and the officers will talk to people “peacefully” (see).

Unsafe Nuclear Workers

Kamangir | April 21, 2006 | Category Iran

In the surface we see the Iranian administration doing their best to reach to nuclear technology before the world stop them forever. For them, this is the game of life and death. Either they afford to become a nuclear power or they are history. However, in beneath, there are engineers and workers that stay overnight fixing this machine and planning to build that one. These people are the actual wealth of the administration in this gamble. However, I do not think Ahmadinejad would announce in the national television, “I regret to inform the nation that we had a radioactive leak last night”. I guess the only thing is to turn that yellow cake into Uranium and then to let the world know. Ali (see) points at a photograph (see above) taken from Iranian nuclear industries and published in Shargh daily newspaper (see). He compares the loose surgical gloves of the men standing besides a pot of yellow cake with the standard equipment used in the world (see below). He does not draw any conclusions but reminds us of the anniversary of Chernobyl (see).

Tehran

Kamangir | April 21, 2006 | Category Iran

Thanks to the same peaks that make Tehran a very polluted city, Tehranis can have a good time climbing up.

Personal bushiness of Murder

Kamangir | April 21, 2006 | Category Iran

Saeed Hanaii killed sixteen prostitutes before he was executed in 2001. There were doubts that he was helped by hands from inside the administration.

Islamic Republic Police has announced new plans to stop the non-Islamic behaviors in the streets. Carrying an animal or having worn no socks are reportedly amongst the criminal acts for which a girl may be arrested (see). Basically, this is the good side of the coin.
Like any other huge metropolitan area, there are places in and around Tehran in which not very decent people are living. With the increasing poverty even a traditional society like Iran suffers from the problem of prostitution. However, unlike other countries, working girls do not have the obvious access to free condoms there.
Having a religious administration for which a girl seeking customers in the streets is nothing but devil himself, it is not strange to see people executing “God’s will” as a personal business. The story begins with Basij, the Islamic Republic’s militia. Being a Basiji, means a member of Basij, you are among the elite part of the nation, as seen through the eyes of the administration. A Basiji’s responsibilities include attending every demonstration and shouting “Death to Some Country” when the national television announces to do so. Also, in some occasions you would be guarding in the streets, stopping cars and searching them for alcohol and satellite dishes, devil’s instruments. You may even be asked to face people partying in the streets for that national, but not Islamic, event or the students striking against an administration’s move. The problem happens when these powerful pets of the administration get inspired by it’s theories and leave the slow bureaucracy (see). For example, Saeed Hajjarian, former president Khatami’s top advisor, was assassinated by a similar group.
In September 2001, when Saeed Hanaii got arrested at last, he had killed sixteen prostitutes. He was a very religious man with a wife whom was very seriously attending praying sessions outside their house. Using her weekly absence, Saeed rode his old motorcycle looking for working women in the streets of Mashhad, a religious city in eastern north of Iran. The forensic investigation proved that he had never had any sexual contact with the women. His method was to strangle them and then to leave them in the streets. He was also so determined that he would be among the first people gathering around the scene. Actually, police found out that he frequently helped them carry corpsepose to the Ambulance. When he was sentenced to death there were rumors that some top clerics do not think he deserves such a sever punishment. Interestingly, one of his charges was carrying a “faked” Basij card. He was executed and is now history. But, many details of his actions are missing. For example, he had had access to the official information about the prostitutes (through Basij?). Also, the actual conduct of the crimes were not clear, he was not a strong man and could have not very easily carried the corpses by himself. When the hardliner state-run newspapers published articles partially supporting his actions, people started to think the whole story was not exactly the one declared in the court. Remembering similar events in the past and connecting that to the “faked” Basij card you might think some people took administration’s words seriously (see).
Just after the administration announced plans to arrest “indecent” girls in the streets, six stabbed corpses were found in Tehran (see). Police is talking about similarities between the cases. When ministry of justice stated to reporters that “stopping immodesty does not need judicial authorization” people remembered last week’s protest against immodesty where it was announced “God’s people (in Islamic Republic literature means people devoted to Islamic Republic, Persian: حزب الله) can not stand what is polluting the country’s cities”.

Oligarchy of Loosers

Kamangir | April 20, 2006 | Category Iran

Hasan Rouhani was Iran’s chief negotiator on nuclear affairs. When Ahmadinejad took over the power, like many other moderate figures, he was replaced with a more “devoted” man. Since then, he has always been criticizing Ahmadinejad’s policies which he thinks has resulted in making Iran isolated in the world. He gave a more thorough analysis of the Islamic republic’s attitude with the world in his speech today (see). I have selected some parts of his talk. He says “we have always had a worry in our minds about the foreigners”. For example “in the espionage nest (official name for US embassy in Tehran according to the Islamic Republic literature, Persian: لانه جاسوسی) affairs we could have talked with Americans and solved the problem. However, we got emotional and lost the time till when we got ready to negotiate with the states but it was too late then”. He sorrows “in hard situations we can not decide fast and make decision partly based on our emotions”. He also expresses “during the war, after we got Khoramshahr back, we were powerful. So, we could have begun negotiations. Though, we denied and at the end we were forced to do what we did”. He concludes “we do not want to talk with foreigners and feel that they would fool us. Even we hear heads of the state asserting it. I do not agree with this. I think this is because of our pessimism”. It seems that inside the Islamic Republic key politicians are realizing that one of the main essences of the Islamic revolution “No to West! No to East! Islamic Republic!” (a key slogan of the revolution according to mullas, Persian:نه شرقی نه غربی جمهوری اسلامی) leads to more than necessary hostility with the world. I am not sure if they are prepared to return the pace. Another point in his talk is the usage of “we”. He is talking about “we did this” and “we failed that”. Basically, the Islamic Republic is very much like an oligarchy; Iranians vote but the candidates are filtered through severe chambers of clerics. So, he can talk about “we” because there are always the same people here and there in the government. Isn’t it funny? Not if you were an Iranian, though.

Persian phrases:

روحاني با بيان اين‌كه هميشه يك نگراني عمده پشت ذهن ما نسبت به خارجي‌ها وجود دارد، در عين حال به بحث لانه‌ي جاسوسي اشاره كرد و گفت: در بحث لانه‌ي جاسوسي يك راه اين بود كه با آمريكايي‌ها بنشينيم و مساله را فيصله دهيم، اما ما به جاي اين‌كه به مذاكره با طرفمان بپردازيم، در اين مساله احساسات را وارد كرديم و آن قدر قضيه را كش داديم تا رسيديم به مقطعي كه حاضر شديم بعد از تحميل جنگ، با آمريكا بنشينيم، اما آن زمان ديگر دير بود.
دبير سابق شوراي عالي امنيت ملي ادامه داد: ‌شايد اگر زودتر حاضر به چنين كاري مي‌شديم، راحت‌تر به توافق مي‌رسيديم و منافع كشورمان بيشتر لحاظ مي‌شد. اما متاسفانه بايد گفت كه ما هميشه در مقاطع سخت نمي‌توانيم تصميم‌گيري سريعي داشته باشيم و احساسات را در تصميمات دخيل مي‌كنيم.
روحاني ادامه داد: در زمان جنگ نيز زماني كه در موضع قدرت بوديم و خرمشهر را پس گرفته بوديم، باز هم نتوانستيم تصميم بگيريم كه هم‌زمان با دفاع مقدس با دشمن سر ميز مذاكره بنشينيم و بحث كنيم، اين قضيه را عقب انداختيم تا به جايي رسيديم كه ديگر راهي جز قطعنامه و مذاكره برايمان باقي نماند و آن زمان بود كه مذاكره با عراق را انتخاب كرديم و البته آن هم خيلي دير بود .
دبير سابق شوراي عالي امنيت ملي دليل تمام اين قضايا را بدبيني‌هاي عميق كه به گفته‌ي وي در پس ذهن‌ها وجود دارد، عنوان كرد و گفت: ما همواره نمي‌خواهيم با خارجي‌ها به ويژه دشمن بنشينيم و هميشه احساس مي‌كنيم اگر اين كار را بكنيم، سرمان كلاه رفته است، همان طور كه شاهد بوديم برخي عزيزان از تريبون‌هاي عمومي اعلام كردند كه هر وقت ما با خارجي‌ها مي‌نشينيم، سرمان كلاه مي‌رود كه البته من اين قضيه را قبول ندارم و معتقدم اين نگاه هم ناشي از بدبيني است كه به آن دچار هستيم.

War Zone Playground

Kamangir | April 20, 2006 | Category Iran

Children playing with the ruins of a tank in south west of Iran. In a trip a couple of years ago, I saw many scenes like this there, remembering the tough days Iran and Iraq were engaged in a war. This is one of the photographs selected as the best photos of the Persian year 1384 (2005) (see). I have selected a few other too and I will post them here gradually.

Ahmadinejad’s World Order

Kamangir | April 19, 2006 | Category Iran

Previously, I talked about Ahmadinejad’s new plan to increase crude oil price (see). The Persian report reveals even more interesting details (see). ISNA, a state-run news agency, reports that during a joint meeting between cabinet members and governors Ahmadinejad talked about the new plan which is to be proposed to the oil producing countries by the ministers of oil and economics. After complaining about the “low price of crude oil” which “benefits developed countries” Ahmadinejad revealed his new idea. Basically, the idea is to increase the crude oil price and then to establish a common fund in which exportingting countries will deposit a part of their extra income. This fund will then be used to help poor countries. I really appreciate the translators who ignored these parts of his genuine idea.

Showing Off Their Assets

Kamangir | April 19, 2006 | Category Iran

“The products derived from crude oil cost over 10 times the price of oil sold by producing states” stated Ahmadinejad in the state-run Tehran Radio (see) (see). He mentioned this after complaining that “the global oil price has not reached its real value yet”. He then added “oil is the major asset of nations possessing it”. It seems that Ahmadinejad is playing another card in the game, like the naughty boy that tries to show how bad he can be. In this case, it is like shouting “don’t you forget to nuke us, Mr. Bush!”

Angry Women

Kamangir | April 19, 2006 | Category Iran

These ladies were among the women protesting in Tehran to restrain what they call “uncoveredness/miscoveredness” (Persian: بی حجابی/بدحجابی). I assume the pictures show their family members, probably husbands and/or her sons, whom were killed in the war between Iran and Iraq. I understand them if they hate to watch sexy girls wandering in the streets when their beloved ones were killed in the “holy defense” for the sake of the “holy land of the Islamic Republic of Iran” (both well-known terms in the Islamic Republic literature, Persian: کشور مقدس جمهوری اسلامی ایران ,دفاع مقدس).

I Rescue So I Am!

Kamangir | April 18, 2006 | Category Iran

These women are demonstrating in front of the Iranian Parliament to ask for more restricted rules against uncoveredness, if it is a word at all. As the hot season is beginning in Iran hardliners are afraid that women can get rid of their loose winter outfits and wear more fashionable ones. To me the interesting part of this battle is the sentence in the sheet these “good” women are carrying. It reads “respective and responsible member of the Islamic Parliament! Dignity of the families are under threat. Try to rescue deceived girls and boys while it is not too late!”. The question is, what if somebody doesn’t really want to be rescued?

No Comment!

Kamangir | April 18, 2006 | Category Iran

When Morteza first sent me this picture I thought that’s just a prank, or at least that he is not Ahmadniejad. When the same picture came from another friend I got suspicious and searching in Yahoo! News I found the original image (see). This is the man who is leading Iran to a full-scale battle with the world.

Crushing Into the Nuclear Club

Kamangir | April 18, 2006 | Category Iran

Length of the Nails

Kamangir | April 18, 2006 | Category Iran

In my daily life I write some code to do this algorithms or try to solve that math problem. I can imagine somebody building bombs as a daily practice. However, I can not imagine the kind of person that can freely think about the number and length of the nails he would put in the bomb he is fastening to Hamad’s waist. To do that, I will need an estimate of the stiffness of human flesh. To find that out, I may use some beef and try to pierce nails into it.

I have always tried to be at home when I am at home. That means I will not think about the last problem I was working on, right at the dinner table. However, I can not imagine the man hugging his wife without thinking, “shouldn’t I have used longer nails”?

p.s. Azadeh insists that I should add “Palestinians cover their bombs with long nails to increase casualties” (see).

Manned Torpedo

Kamangir | April 18, 2006 | Category Iran

A few weeks ago, after Iranians surfaced some new killing gadgets such as a flying boat, army chiefs stated that there are plenty of more other equipments, some of which were planned to be shown soon. Today, the army day in Iranian calendar, there were parades in many major cities around the country. I picked this photo from one of them. To my understanding it is a manned torpedo. It seems that the army engineers didn’t have the time to paint it.

Polygamy, Uranium Enrichment, and the Blast in Tel Aviv

Kamangir | April 17, 2006 | Category Iran

Azadeh and I were watching Lary King Live’s recent show about polygamy. He was talking with a mother of eight who has fled from her hometown, somewhere around Colorado I guess, in the dark of the night. Her main problem was living in a polygamist community. Then he talked with three boys who were living far from their families. Their problem was similarly related to the existence of too many mothers in a very conflicting home. Till that time Azadeh and I were both thinking “those bastard men!” Then, Lary talked with three very sentimental women all of whom had “sister wives”, means the other wives of their husbands. The three women, one of whom had the experience of being the only wife of her husband, were giving a totally different story. To them, polygamists were only different to some extent. They were also claiming that they have no problem with the existence of many wives under the same roof. I looked at Azadeh and thought “either I am having a very strange wife or these women are out of their minds”. The other guest was a reporter from abc channel who had produced a commentary about polygamy. His observations, surprisingly, were definitely complying with the three women’s ones. Parts of the commentary were shown in the show. One of them showed the abc reporter in front of dozens of wives of a man. He asks “don’t you feel jealous?”, they reply something like “why should we? We are friends!” Then he asked if the man can satisfy all of them and they laughed.
We were having dinner a few nights ago when Azadeh mentioned “people are having tons of problems in Iran” and continued “what is the justification then to consume the country’s resources for nuclear electricity, if that’s exactly what is happening!” Basically, as I know, electricity is not among the most important problems in Iran. I remember having power cuts during the war with Iraq but in the last five years it was something quite rare. Thinking seriously, when I was in Iran there were serious problem with drinking water during very hot summer days, gas pressure drops during very cold winter days, and the pollution almost always. I see no benefit in pursuing nuclear electricity for these problems. The interesting part was when I was talking to my own family members, including my father whom is a mechanical engineer. Having the reputation of political activities during the revolution, not so much in favor of the Islamic side, and while the best birthday present for him has always been a book, I was shocked when he made a comment on the current nuclear crisis. He told me “after all, these European countries are attacking our dignity, they force us to avoid even academic nuclear research”. At that moment I felt Ahmadinejad has sneaked into my family.
His mom says “he was studying at the university, but because of his financial difficulties he stopped and took a job. I thought he was going to work” (see). I was thinking how can you convince a sixteen-year-old boy to blow himself up? He knew what he was doing, because they took a video of him. When I think about a boy of that age, I think the most important thing for him should be that girl he met last week in the bus. When I was sixteen my last idea was to blow myself up. I remember I tried to commit suicide. Thankfully, the drug, which I made myself, didn’t work. I do remember how much regretful I was when I was thinking I am going to die. But Hamad didn’t feel so. He did not approach the restaurant’s guy saying “I have an explosive belt around my waist but I have just decided to live more. Would you please help me take that off?” I assume that he was driven close to the scene, maybe a few blocks away. Then, he walked the whole passage till he reached to the restaurant. When he was stopped there, he blew himself up. Nowhere in these whole heart beating moments he felt, “Hey! What am I doing here?”
I like to use a Markovian notation for this, and please do not stop here because I am not going to put so much math here. Assume a system, a polygamist woman, an Iranian thinking about Uranium enrichment, or a Palestinian suicide bomber. Being Markovian, and I am using loose sentences, simply means that the situation of the system in the next moment depends only on its state in this moment. Mathematically it is preferred to show that as,
x*=xP (1).
Here, x* means the state of x at a very close future. If P has a few properties, which apply here, then as time goes on x tends to the fixed probability vector Ï€. To me that means a great opportunity for a political system. When x becomes steady you do not need any elections or even free press. So, I assume the main lover of the vector Ï€ are people like Khameneii who are “elected” sometimes in the past and then have remained in power because the system asks so, or at least does not ask for an alternative. Thinking backward, if I were a polygamist, Khameneii, or Islamic Jihad’s leader I would try to apply an equation like (1). This very simple equation actually describes why candidates in Iranian elections should pass through chambers which are governed by members of the very political oppression.
What is the solution to get rid of (1) and its consequences? One way is to have
x*=r (2)
where r is a totally random vector. That means one day you decide to wear your trousers as a shirt and the other day cars are twenty meters wide. That’s nonsense.
The practical idea is to have both random effects and correlation with the past
x*=xP+r (3)
This means although the people in power have a high chance of remaining in power again, but totally new people have also a chance. Actually, what is practiced is even much better, like the law that no one can become the president in more than two consecutive terms. Having a society which is governed by (3) means Hamad gets off the car. Suddenly he remembers the girl or a good mark he got or maybe even Britney Spears. Then, he asks himself “am I really going to blow myself up?” I don’t think his answer is what the polygamist, or Khameneii, or Islamic Jahad would like. Basically, that’s the time when people will ask “why”.