Iranian photographer for Life magazine goes missing
Life magazine reports in a special online feature gallery of Iran protest photos:
A NOTE TO OUR READERS: We are saddened to report that the Iranian photojournalist, whose pictures appear in this gallery, is missing. He has not been in contact with us; this morning we received the following email from one of his relatives. We will update this space when we have more details.
THE EMAIL: Hi im [photographer’s relative], when he go outside yesterday for he never came back home and also his friend and a lot of our young brave people, government arrested them [. . .] don’t let them suffer in those bloody hands. With thanks.
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If we can not stand up for the Iranians in their hour of need then how can they ever trust us again ?
He’s NOT missing. He’s been drafted for the Iranian National Debate Team.
In my life of 64 years we have promised various peoples we would show up in their time of need. A few times we have not kept that promise. This time there was no promise and we have as commander-in-chief an appeaser. He’ll refer the whole thing to the ineffective UN. Good luck protesters!
Probably first of many media folks to go “missing”.
Makes you wonder why the folks on the left can’t seem to connect the dots between freedom of the press and freedom of speech and regimes like Iran, Cuba, Chavez’s boys, etc.
To inject a note of fairness, I applaud the efforts of individual members of the various media. Although I generally view the world media with disdain, occasionally their efforts are worthy of praise. Some, not all, are putting themselves in harm’s way and deserve our praise.
Any bets on how many phone calls between obama and ahmadinejad took place during the past week? I bet the photo-ops they had planned are being renegotiated.
But this uprising threatens to wreck Obama’s plans for engagement to bring peace to the region. He can’t allow that to happen.
(sarc)
Some of the established commentators I have been reading have been quite cynical about this — e.g. that it won’t make any difference which side wins, the Iranian nuclear weapons program will continue regardless, the hatred toward Israel will not change and so forth. No doubt there is little reason to get wildly optimistic over this — the collapse of the Soviet Union eventually led to Putin after all — even if the current set of rulers are sent to their well-deserved reward. But you can’t help but feel deep admiration for the bravery of the Iranian people. This is the real deal, a government that has imposed complete gun and media control and will murder its people with utter callousness. We talk about taking on Leviathan but the Iranians are really doing it and many are paying the full price. A lot more people will die before this is over.
Watching this, I can only hope that in a few years, perhaps very few, when for example a similar nationwide vote fraud takes place, the American people will exhibit an equal degree of determination and courage. I wish I could feel confident about that.
Obama is a fool, but history is about to take us all to the woodshed.
“Any bets on how many phone calls…”
Probably none or very few.
“the efforts of individual members of the various media.”
So far aren’t most of them who are doing so Iranian?
Also gotta wonder about the female reported who was jailed, released and is now back in U.S. Wonder what would the outcome for her be if she was still in jail in Iran.
“I can only hope that in a few years, perhaps very few, when for example a similar nationwide vote fraud takes place, the American people will exhibit an equal degree of determination and courage.”
I continue to be of the opinion that your fear is mis-timed, out of sequence. The violence will not come from the “right” getting robbed by voter fraud. The violence will come from the left who will lose. The violence will be fueled and the flames fanned by the leftist AFTER the power they currently think they possess is taken away from them.
Conservatives, even moderately conservative folks, will be in a defensive mode, defending themselves from the losing side.
That is what I predict. That is not what is happening in Iran.
Please note the word “example” in my original statement.
The subject of my post was bravery. Since you wish it to be about fear and predictive powers, I stand by my fear (courage is fear faced with resolution) while making no claim whatever about predictive powers, timing, or “sequence.” I leave such to mediums and soothsayers.
In any event, yours is a distinction without a difference.
beenthere,
I will concede that showing up at a TEA rally didn’t involve the same level of bravery that those protesters in Iran needed to summon. However, there is no doubt that the people who went to these rallies are capable of this level of bravery. I saw the same emotion in people who gathered to dig through the rubble of the WTC. Americans are not cowards. There is one group of contemptible individuals that deserve scorn in both Iran and the US: the msm reporters. With few exceptions, they are willing instruments of corrupt dictators.
How the hell are we going to stand up for the Irani people when we can’t stand up for our own people. I watched the news this morning, and the pundits were talking about the corrupt an inept government of Iran. I was thinking, all you would have to do is remove the word Iran and put in US. It would fit just as well.Wake up, this could be your future.
Savage, I agree that we are quickly headed in this direction. I hope someone in a political office will have the courage to stand up to our tyrant. One big difference between Iran and the US….the bill of rights and specifically the 2nd ammendment. Sooner or later, someone from Iranian police or security force will join the protesters, and then the mullahs and the entire corrupt establishment will fall. Was there a counter protest in support of the election results??? If not, then there is no more support for this government of Iran….it is doomed, and there will be retribution.
“Since you wish it to be about fear…”
Huh? I’m about fear? How’s that?
In any event, yours is a distinction without a difference.”
Sorry but again how’s that? Conservatives win, the left losers incite violence is the same as Obama and his supporters inflict violence on people who voted against him? A distinction with no difference? Hard to follow you there….
While we may sympathize with the people and understand their frustration, soon the madness will subside and they will be back to their daily routines. And democracy will fail again, and again, and again no matter how badly the Iranians may want it. And this is why.
Democracy in its American form is uniquely Judaeo-Christian, and cannot function with it freedoms under an islamic theocracy.
Your statement, as qualified, and as put is true.
Happily, we have some historical models of some dominantly Muslim nations that do have…or did have…working democracies. Maybe not American form democracies, but they were light-years better, freer, more pluralistic societies than many of the societies in the Mid-East now.
Personally, I have been very heartened by the Iraqi people, while also not being a Pollyanna about how things are going there.
“Democracy in its American form is uniquely Judaeo-Christian…”
Not exactly a politically correct observation regardless of its truth. The truth that our, especially our early, form of government is and was an outgrowth of a Christian-Judeo world view is almost impossible to discuss these days. Wasn’t perfect of course as in slavery, BUT our form of government grew out of a world view that was very much Christian-Judeo.
Even the oft referred to Thomas Jefferson who most certainly was NOT main stream protestant very much seemed to operate from a world view that was.
The idea that you can grow the same fruit from a different root is flawed. The Islamic world view is not compatible with the kind of democracy or government we have in the U.S.
You are 100% correct.
I guess I’d have to observe that very, very few democracies, regardless of the religion practiced by the majority of the people, approach the American model.
The Swiss are nice, very clean and tidy people…who put up with intrusions on civil liberties that I would not care to live with.
Our South American friends are quite Christian, but have a tenuous hold on the democratic ideal at times.
Our Shinto friends in Japan DO seem to get the whole “democracy thing” pretty well. As do our Hindu/Buddist brethren in India, actually.
Muslims have, contrary to some myths here, been pretty OK with democracy in several models that history and the current world show us.
Absolutely.
If I thought that the people of Iran wanted America to come “help” I’d be on a plane headed in that direction.
The British occupation ended badly though, as did our last attempt to help them with regime change.
After the Tienanmen Square uprising, China slowly introduced, and is still introducing, some reforms,
Good changes usually don’t happen fast. Let the Iranians run Iran.
We should be using our energy to fight the socialists here at home.
I wonder what Madea Benjamin and Code Pink think about what’s happening in Iran. I’m sure they’re confused about all the fuss over the election.
These protests were motivated by high inflation, unemployment, no economic future. They are like the yutes’ in France, burning cars etc. They still love their culture of Islam, it is their economic visions of the west they want. Do not think they didn’t dance in the streets on 9-11, and they want Israel to disappear.
I just wonder if our elections in 2010 and/or 2012 will be like this…
Given the autocratic mode of governing that the Obamateur employs, complete with uniformed thugs, the possibility exists.
On Friday, Pat Buchanan published a column stating that if the protests get too threatening, the Iran government may reach a “Tiananmen moment”, a moment where they will decide to simply blow the protesters away with the help of the military. I’ve been watching to see if that moment was truly at hand; it is also possible that the Iranian soldiers could decide on their own to side with the reformers.
Carole, you are adly mistaken with this statement. It is far from true. Though the Iranian government (ran by the Mullahs) may not like the US the people of Iran have defied there government and shown support to the US following the 9/11 atacks:
Hell, most of them are smarter than some we have in the US as they did not fall for the BS Michael Moore fauxumentory Farenheit 9/11:
Sounds to me like the Iranians just want a chance to live a life free of the Mullahs control over every aspect of their daily existence.
I second that, True. It is often an error to paint with too broad a brush.
I well remember a time in Iran when Americans were very welcome, and highly thought of. Families don’t forget everything, regardless of the party line.
On June 21st, 2009 at 1:49 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:
Those who can’t handle the truth,
try to silence those who speak it.
I hate to put it to you this way, but this is far too simplistic. The authorities in Iran are thoroughly convinced that THEY are right, that THEY are speaking the ultimate truth of all that matters in the universe, and that the people who are rejecting their authority are worse than criminals and infidels.
Islam’s history is replete with events where the Muslim authorities have dealt with rebellion brutally–not so much because “they can’t handle the truth,” but because their religious and civil authorities (one is as the other in a society ruled by Sharia Law) are Allah’s representatives on earth. They see themselves as the keepers of the only perfect order in the universe. Their authority is to be unquestioned, because it is to be regarded as a holy institution.
So, when the Iranian authorities bare down on the freedom-aspiring people in their streets, they will be acting against something that is (in their minds) evil. That does not make any rational sense to someone who has lived in another social and religious tradtion, but to a thoroughly indoctrinated Muslim it makes total sense.
“The violence will come from the left who will lose. The violence will be fueled and the flames fanned by the leftist AFTER the power they currently think they possess is taken away from them.”
It would be minor in scope. They would realize rather quickly that they are outnumbered and certainly outgunned. It takes more than slogans and signs to make a revolution.
jsmiddleton4: you are drifting lad-try to stay on topic.
Well, this isn’t good…
Deep packet inspection involves inserting equipment into a flow of online data, from emails and Internet phone calls to images and messages on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Every digitized packet of online data is deconstructed, examined for keywords and reconstructed within milliseconds.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html
They do repression right. A lesson to be learned.
Jeez, for the first time in my life, I’m embarrassed to be an American due to Obama’s lack of meaningful response.
and to think we pay billions per year to fund the u.n./ nato/ w.h.o./ i.m.f./ and the whole “one world order think tank apperatchik” and i haven’t heard a frigging peep out of the U.N. on either iran or n. korea. hey obama, want to start getting our budget back in order, start unassing useless money sumps.
But perhaps OUR counter revolution-ie-> getting even<- could be major in scope
Bunch of left over 65 year old hippies not trusting anyone over 35? They and others are always a danger. But only in self defense of course as I do not wish to appear extreme. But Dear Lord if it DOES happen let me be ready
I have been waiting since my return from Viet Nam. When will I let go? When the last damn Leftist is in Hell. In moderation of course.
Yes, Ho Ho Ho, Ho Che Min Done Won–but I am still here Hippie.
Rags, that is a disturbing article. I used to think that there was no way to monitor such a large medium in use by so many people. I felt like I was putting myself out there by being a commenter here since so many on the left despises and seems to monitor MM’s site, but I felt my e-mails and other correspondence was safe. Not so much anymore. That article gave me the heebie jeebies.
I feel guilty right now though, I have looked at the images coming out of Iran and one of the things I can’t get my mind off of is how pretty Iranian women are. Brave, willing to fight for freedom in a regime that sees them as second class and still have the time to look good doing it. Okay, I need to stop, I feel guilty, I wish all of the Iranian people will find a peaceful existence that does not compromise their birth rights of liberty.
Me too frontierguy -I HOPE a democratic people would be less of a threat- but one thing always causes a worry-they are muslim. If they truly follow the Koran they are our sworn ememies. Perhaps the more westernized classes can change the country. But we need to be wary.
Quite a few of the 9/11 hijackers were educated men. Still I wish them well-so far.
Islam rules Iran. The Followers of Islam have made their aspirations clear for the region and the World.
All of this pandering about “The Iranian People” is absurd. The protestors do not represent “the People” who would aspire to freedom and democracy. They represent the pawns of the ruling faction. They have been manipulated by Ahmedinejad into being pawns of both foreign and domestic policy:
1) use mass protest as a way to draw in foreign governments and their “opinions” to further be castigated as meddlers and imperialists , justifying further isolation and control of the foreign media in Iran;
2) use mass protests as a way to unleash heavy handed clamp downs nation-wide on dissent that is not restricted to just cities, but has been quite virulent in rural tribal areas where tribesmen have been openly fighting Revolutionary Guardsmen since we invaded Iraq.
The protests in the cities are being run by the social and political elites in Tehran. But they play into the hands of the Mullahs who are about to go dark while they prepare to strike Israel. It only takes one strike.
So this passion play for the American and international media is a way to dash “hope” and or the fickle and underinformed to be steered toward the “real problem” in the Middle East— yes, you guessed it— Israel. The “we’ve got to do something” liberal crowd that is in the palm of Barry Soetoro’s hand is beginning to advance the “apartheid” boycotting of Israel.
Played perfectly by the shrewder Mullah-ocracy the protestors are not up in arms against in the least. Surprise! You’ve been punked again America.
Soetoro is not my President.
Bear1909 out.
The State Security Services would not be pleased. Hopefully we have one more ACORN free election to stop him.
Keep your powder dry Bear1909.
Beyond our own national security, by which I mean “why are we allowing them to have the bomb?” I see no reason to be involved in Iranian affairs, or care about who is killing and who is dying.
We have no friends in Iran. We have enemies that hate us, and enemies that want to kill us. Have we learned nothing in Iraq?
People “love” you when you arrive with overwhelming firepower. Never forget that Stalin’s troops were welcomed as “liberators” wherever they went.
All a charade.
The only action I want to see in Iran is the support of Israel. Let them deal with the threat.