Comments on: Shahriar Mandanipour: The ‘Love’ Cure for Iran http://www.radioopensource.org/shahriar-mandanipour-the-love-cure-for-iran/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:35:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Fashionable Earth http://www.radioopensource.org/shahriar-mandanipour-the-love-cure-for-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-163936 Fashionable Earth Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:44:12 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=3268#comment-163936 We also support human and women’s rights in Iran. Fashion, environmental responsibility and social justice can all be combined to change the world, please read our post for more info: http://fashionableearth.org/blog/2009/10/13/cause-of-the-season-iran/ We also support human and women’s rights in
Iran. Fashion, environmental responsibility and social justice can all be combined to change the world, please read our post for more info: http://fashionableearth.org/blog/2009/10/13/cause-of-the-season-iran/

]]> By: nother http://www.radioopensource.org/shahriar-mandanipour-the-love-cure-for-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-162960 nother Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:46:57 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=3268#comment-162960 Now I'm not dumbfounded as much (still working on the dumb part), the women thing is being highlighted: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html?hp Now I’m not dumbfounded as much (still working on the dumb part), the women thing is being highlighted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html?hp

]]> By: potter http://www.radioopensource.org/shahriar-mandanipour-the-love-cure-for-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-162953 potter Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:45:10 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=3268#comment-162953 An old thought is revived again about love, the chemical rush of it, and what it is and does. Maybe we fall in love with our mothers first, but it is the longing to merge with another human being as we further mature which can (could-should) broaden to loving all life itself. This thought has not ever gotten lost in me (thank goodness for that). I have never gotten sour. Let's toast to those who still believe in love. And I always come to this again when I think of the troubles in the world-the lack of love, and, as Chris puts it at the end of this interview, the "love cure". But one has to be opened up somehow and it <i>is</i> the (hormonal) falling in love, call it infatuation, that does it or starts it which must in turn force the letting go of what which love must replace. I don't think you can love and hate at once. That thought has not been proven to me to be wrong. Anyway it took me several sessions with the ipod to finish this interview not only because of it's length but because Shahriar Mandanipour is trying to express himself as deeply and fully and honestly as he can in our language, not his. At some point, around the middle, I felt wow! - this is a very precious thing- a privilege. How else would I/we hear these sentiments and feel such a connection? Gracias! An old thought is revived again about love, the chemical rush of it, and what it is and does. Maybe we fall in love with our mothers first, but it is the longing to merge with another human being as we further mature which can (could-should) broaden to loving all life itself. This thought has not ever gotten lost in me (thank goodness for that). I have never gotten sour. Let’s toast to those who still believe in love. And I always come to this again when I think of the troubles in the world-the lack of love, and, as Chris puts it at the end of this interview, the “love cure”. But one has to be opened up somehow and it is the (hormonal) falling in love, call it infatuation, that does it or starts it which must in turn force the letting go of what which love must replace. I don’t think you can love and hate at once. That thought has not been proven to me to be wrong.

Anyway it took me several sessions with the ipod to finish this interview not only because of it’s length but because Shahriar Mandanipour is trying to express himself as deeply and fully and honestly as he can in our language, not his. At some point, around the middle, I felt wow! – this is a very precious thing- a privilege. How else would I/we hear these sentiments and feel such a connection?

Gracias!

]]> By: nother http://www.radioopensource.org/shahriar-mandanipour-the-love-cure-for-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-162947 nother Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:05:57 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=3268#comment-162947 And if woman’s rights are the fuel of the Green Revolution, Obama’s speech in Cairo lit the match. Our countries face one another down, hunkered in bunkers of ignorance and rhetoric. President Obama came out of the bunker first, took one large step forward and asked the Muslim people to meet him half way. Many have. And if woman’s rights are the fuel of the Green Revolution, Obama’s speech in Cairo lit the match. Our countries face one another down, hunkered in bunkers of ignorance and rhetoric. President Obama came out of the bunker first, took one large step forward and asked the Muslim people to meet him half way. Many have.

]]> By: nother http://www.radioopensource.org/shahriar-mandanipour-the-love-cure-for-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-162946 nother Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:02:57 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=3268#comment-162946 I really enjoyed this program because it stoked a strong belief I’ve had about the recent uprising in Iran, and you have given me more layers to meditate on. The Western media has led us to believe that these events are a simmering desire for democracy/capitalism - to be like “us.” I feel strongly – and I’m dumbfounded that this is not highlighted more – that what is truly at play in Iran is an earthquake of desire for women’s rights. If Iran had the same government but with greater rights for women, I find it a good bet that the masses would be complacent with their current standard of living. But these sons and daughters of the recent past all have mothers who have been lamenting in their homes the oppression of being left behind. Now these modern offspring have grown up enough to defend their mothers in the streets. It is my belief that the Green Revolution is fueled not by Mousavi but by his wife Zahra Rahnavard. She was a revolutionary against the Shah; she is an artist, a PHD, and a former head of Alzahra University. And she is “loved” by both her husband and a people. She is everything excepted noticed. So when Mousavi actually showed affection to her on stage and stood side by side with her, the Iranian earth shook. (And the fact that her brother has recently been arrested, attests to the fear she instills). http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jGSJEAPs_r2T2wxsL5G3t4z-jajQD99KAB680 So when Mr. Mandanipour states in this program that Iranians know what they don’t want, but not what they DO want - I believe his words echo a generation past. What I see on video and read on blogs is a focused sentiment that knows what it wants: not Hollywood and Starbucks, but rights for women. It reminds me of how the Civil War was fueled by the abolition movement, but Lincoln and the Unionist tried hard not to make that the focus - yet it was always the elephant in the room. But therein lies the place where Mr. Mandanipour’s yearning (to see love) complements the current revolution. We find this truth to be self-evident; the grist of love for anything or anyone is respect. Until there is respect for women in Iran, love will be lacking, as will order. I really enjoyed this program because it stoked a strong belief I’ve had about the recent uprising in Iran, and you have given me more layers to meditate on.

The Western media has led us to believe that these events are a simmering desire for democracy/capitalism – to be like “us.” I feel strongly – and I’m dumbfounded that this is not highlighted more – that what is truly at play in Iran is an earthquake of desire for women’s rights. If Iran had the same government but with greater rights for women, I find it a good bet that the masses would be complacent with their current standard of living.

But these sons and daughters of the recent past all have mothers who have been lamenting in their homes the oppression of being left behind. Now these modern offspring have grown up enough to defend their mothers in the streets.

It is my belief that the Green Revolution is fueled not by Mousavi but by his wife Zahra Rahnavard. She was a revolutionary against the Shah; she is an artist, a PHD, and a former head of Alzahra University. And she is “loved” by both her husband and a people.

She is everything excepted noticed. So when Mousavi actually showed affection to her on stage and stood side by side with her, the Iranian earth shook. (And the fact that her brother has recently been arrested, attests to the fear she instills).
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jGSJEAPs_r2T2wxsL5G3t4z-jajQD99KAB680

So when Mr. Mandanipour states in this program that Iranians know what they don’t want, but not what they DO want – I believe his words echo a generation past. What I see on video and read on blogs is a focused sentiment that knows what it wants: not Hollywood and Starbucks, but rights for women. It reminds me of how the Civil War was fueled by the abolition movement, but Lincoln and the Unionist tried hard not to make that the focus – yet it was always the elephant in the room.

But therein lies the place where Mr. Mandanipour’s yearning (to see love) complements the current revolution. We find this truth to be self-evident; the grist of love for anything or anyone is respect. Until there is respect for women in Iran, love will be lacking, as will order.

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