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Very nice! we need to develop close ties to all our immediate neighbours to the extent possible.

‫نمیدونم چرا پس از چهل سال امر به معرف و نهی از منکر و ارشاد تعالیم عالیه اسلامی فهم و شعور اجتماعی مون به اینجا سقوط کرده! ‫ ‫وای بر ما...

I'm not confusing anything. What you're saying is nonsense. People going out to vote does not constitute their approval of the process. It just means they're making the least worse choice. If you forcefully restrict my food to ghormez sabzi and I eat it, no sane person will say "oh he ate it...

Not everywhere you will be put in jail for walking around naked. But yeah, you are free to choose, and there are consequences that flow from our choices, be it walking around naked, eating 1 pound of sugar everyday, studying hard for school or refusing to sit in the back of the bus because you...

Correct me if I'm wrong. But from what you're saying it sounds like you have choices at every step of the way, even in highly orchestrated and choreographed social events. It sounds to me, that you just gave the boot to the concept of reduced inherent freedom in a social setting. Yes, we are...

Agreed 1000%... lol I think with the amount investment Iran has made into the Simorgh, that's the way of the future.... Plus, a modular design is always more practical...

Well, that's rich!!! Islamists eliminate 99% (2970/3000) of the candidates that mildly disagree with them. And then when you say something, they tell you you're not forced to vote. Let me ask you something. Do you believe that Iran belongs to the Iranian people and they have the right to run...

I hope it goes off without a hitch. It's still early in the Iranian space program. So failures would be more sensitive. And once the basic design has proven to work, you strap on 2-4 and maybe even eight Sejjil first stages as powerful solid-fuel boosters, and voila! You have a heavy lifter on...

Not if Ghormez sabzi is being forced down your throat....

No I don't think taking offense is justified. I do plenty of things that I consider ridiculous, myself. But I choose to do them, because the alternative seems worse. It's a choice that we make. It doesn't invalidate our criticisms of it. Just because I'm forced to eat Ghormeh Sabzi, it doesn't...

Iranian President: Mass Candidate Ban Could Make Elections Pointless By Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE/RL Iran's president has criticized the mass disqualification of candidates in next month's parliamentary elections, suggesting the decision could make the vote pointless. The comments by Hassan Rohani...

Dear Kharral, I"m not sure if a lot of the things that you say have any bearing on the degree of our inherent freedom. I agree with you on the importance of dignity. But does our perception of dignity or lack thereof change our inherent freedom to thinhk or act, let's say about the indignity to...

Mohsen jan, on what basis do you divide it into two categories? Are you sure there's such a clear division between the personal and the social? What if what I consider personal is social to you? And who gets to decide which is which? And based on what criteria? Does that mean we should be...

Daneshmand jan, you didn't deserve to become the subject of my sarcasm. You had very little to do with it. I slipped up. I understand your disappointement with me. I'm sorry. I would hope that you could overlook this and we that we get passed it. With that said, I think you're reading way more...

@Daneshmand , I wasnt trying to imply that the modern notion of freedom was a Zoroastrian invention. But I think it's widely agreed that the lack of belief in predestination and the idea of man's inherent free will were clearly enshrined in Zarathushtra's teachings and even in later Zoroastrian...

I'm not sure whether absolute freedom exists. But I'm absolutely sure freedom exists. The social conditioning argument is one that I come across with a lot of my own compatriots. The flaw in that, of course, is that those same social norms and structures have been decided in an act of free will...

Touche!!!! You are right. That was an angry tone. You have my sincere apologies. I'm usually a little edgy because of work. But that's no excuse! And of course I agree with you. The modern definition of freedom, like most modern things, is a Western construct. And I don't know if this has...

I don't know! What do you do with freedom? Put it in a jar next to the ground cumin? There are a lot of things I could think of. And that would allow me to think of more things I can't think of right now. Let's start with the simple stuff. How about taking my wife to a football match? Or...