Kamangir (Archer)

November 3, 2008

How to Stomp on the Flag

Filed under: Iran, Islamic Republic, Picture of the Day, US — Kamangir @ 5:49 pm

By Vahid Nikgoo

5 Comments »

  1. Why not "Dorood" on your website next to "Hi" and "Salam"?

    Kamangir: I personally use “salam”. :)

    Comment by Babak — November 4, 2008 @ 5:33 pm

  2. That is a very telling way to describe/construct/depict reactions to the most reaction spawning place in the world. Everyone has an opinion about America, and those are all over the matrix. I’m not sure how this happened, surely it’s not about a rich and powerful nation – there has to be more to it.

    We here used to have Iranian military flight students (50s-60s). I studied with two Iranian Colonels in the 70s. One had married an American woman perhaps 20 years before, and they’d lived in the US and in Iran for extended periods. He was amazingly Westernized (if that’s the right term). The other was a cypher, stoic, silent and hard to engage. So we wondered just why he was here at the Air War College level, since he seemed to be not enjoying himself, and perhaps anti-American (but who could be sure). So this is what happened.

    One of our classmates, after intense Farsi training, went to Teheran as an Air Force Liason Officer and was promptly blown up with a car bomb. I guess the Americanized Colonel would have been killed also, after the ‘revolution’ in ‘79. But the silent one may have become quite elevated in the Iranian Military. Just guesses, really. If I can find thier names, I’ll send them along.

    Gerry

    Comment by Gerry — November 4, 2008 @ 6:59 pm

  3. With our new president, will Iran be open to a better relationship with US? Can we talk of cooperation in the region?

    Comment by choclosteve — November 5, 2008 @ 8:52 am

  4. Well from what Ayatollah (Ahmad) Khatami has been saying at namaz jo’meh, our slogan is still “Down with USA!”

    Comment by ganselmi — January 2, 2009 @ 6:24 pm

  5. I’ve always appreciated your blog. It’s always been a great resource.

    Which makes it doubly sad that you won’t publish any of my comments, despite every single one of them being civil and respectful…

    Kamangir: My very good friend, I do apologize. It’s all because I have been too busy. I deeply apologize.

    Comment by ganselmi — January 4, 2009 @ 9:24 pm

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