Ortega in Tehran
By Kamangir • Jun 10th, 2007 • Category: IranDaniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, is in Tehran, visiting the heads of the Islamic Republic. Here, he is meeting with the Supreme Leader.
The scarf he is wearing, Chafieh, is supposed to have its roots in the Palestinian movement, worn in Iran as a sign of supporting the ideologies such as “exporting the revolution”. More picture of this meeting here.
Ortega also gave a speech in the University of Tehran mentioning “the Sandanista’s revolution took over the power in 1979, the exact year that the Islamic revolution succeeded in Iran. These two are twin revolutions which had and still pursue similar goals, such as justice, freedom, sovereignty, and fighting Imperialism.” In his speech which started by saying the sentence “Hi! Youth!” in Persian, he said “Today, we are witnessing a new age of nations’ fighting [for their rights]. Today, a self-aware conscious is shaped up. Today, Latin America and the Caribbeans have started a new era in the region. We have started a fight for our independence and that’s in fact the fight which has started in Iran, and the one which the Palestinian nation as well as the African people have started”.
The ceremony continued with Azghadi, a prominent Islamic Republic ideologe close to Ahmadinejad, saying “Ahmadinejad’s mission is clear. More than being a political figure he is a guerrilla who knows he belongs to the world’s poor people’s front”. Azghadi also suggested the establishment of the international poors’ party, something he gave credit to Khomeini for giving the idea first.
Reuters reports that Ortega has used Moammar Ghadafi’s plane for this trip.
The text reads “World Resistance Front”.
Ortega and his family.
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Disgusting. What is the idea? If enough representatives of failed ideologies band together, they will have success?
Don’t Chavez and Ortega know what happened to Iran’s communists after the Islamic Revolution? Or do they think it will be different, next time?
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Arash, maybe you can enlighten me, would you say that the Iranian populations leans left? All these Latin American leaders are socialists or communists.
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Matthew: I just leave you with these sad words of a European icon of note, Jean-Paul Sartre: “I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati.” One of the two or three foremost Islamic thinkers of the last century, Shariati’s radical blend of Islam and Marxism electrified a whole generation of Iranian revolutionaries like Ahmadinejad.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB03Ak02.html
It’s communism spiced with radical Islam. what’s next, nuclear communist Islamofascism!!! Say goodbye to the good ol’ days of MAD - Mutual assured destruction. What else could you expect from the children of doom:
…”One must also come to terms with the fact that supremacist puritanism in contemporary Islam is dismissive of all moral norms or ethical values, regardless of the identity of their origins or foundations. The prime and nearly singular concern is power and its symbols. Somehow, all other values are made subservient.”
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_and_the_theology_of_power/
Serendip,
I’ve actually read some of his works, mostly as a counterweight to Khomeini’s public speeches. Most of what he’s written does read like Islam in Marxist garb (”Ali was Che Guevara,” etc.). I guess my question is would the Iranian population today, by and large, consider itself socialist leaning? I know that’s a near impossible question to tackle through public opinion polls and the like in the IR but if we were to do a stop-a-pedestrian-and-ask poll…?
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In the poster photo I can see:Fidel;Ahmadinejad;Chávez and Ortega.And Evo,there is no place for him?
Maybe he’s too coked up to sit down quietly at the big boys’ table?
Matthew: Read this two articles carefully and try to deduce your own conclusion:Warning: Very long articles!!!
http://www.democratiya.com/interview.asp?issueid=9
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=2499&cid=1&sid=24
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Serendip,
Thanks for the links, I just printed them out to read.
Best,
Matthew
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