My advice: Read the story before viewing the slideshow – because that’s going to stay with you for a while.
17 Replies to “A Photographer’s Story”
But but they are they leading anti americans now. All bad things, oresent and past, are ignored, including the rape, torture and murder of Canadian citizens……but mentioning that or pursuing it “would be immature” in M. Chretien’s view of the world.
Now if Ms. Kazemai had been a Liberal party contributor, or her friends had been like Mr Kahdr. Well, then we could have seen some action.
Sad pictures, amazing that the executioners were willing to let it be documented so openly….now if we could only prove the guy at the end with the pistol is ahmedinijad we would really have something.
I like the part about iran being peaceful under the shah.
thats because the hated savak made sure it stayed that way, the nasty business all hush hush and scattered, not like this mass murder of shop keepers.
and dont forget regarding how much a nice guy the shah was, ol’ jimmy cahtah was his biggest fan and we all know how popular jimmy is on this blog.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912364,00.html
Quote: “On charges against SAVAK: We do admit there have been some mistakes in the past. But they have been distorted. It is said that SAVAK has been brutal. If SAVAK receives information about a terrorist group, and we go to arrest this group, do you think they will not resist? Of course they will. Resistance brings violence, and you should expect a similar response from our side. We’re like the CIA. If we have ten activities and nine of them are successful, only the failure gets worldwide attention. You never hear the good things we do. Some people think that to improve the country they need a scapegoat. For them, SAVAK is the scapegoat.
On political prisoners: In January, demonstrators paraded a man who was blind and had lost his arms. They said SAVAK did this to him, and they called him a hero. In fact, he was a terrorist who lost his sight and was maimed when a bomb he was making exploded. If SAVAK had been responsible for his injuries, we could easily have got rid of him. We would not have let him live as a document of torture”.
………..
From a personal perspective, I travelled, (local bus, trains, hitch-hiking), through Iran during the Shah’s reign and didn’t notice any overt signs of fear, (reluctance to talk to foreigners, etc)……..OTOH, I was held at sub-machinegun point for a day in Iraq on ‘suspicion of intent to smuggle an Iraqi out of Iraq’.
With regards to the Shaw’s gestapo, Two wrongs don’t make a right. There are no mitigating circumstances for this kind of butchery. For any Canadian with honest compassion, the question should be why our media doesn’t publish these stories.
These photographs stand as a record of sick twisted minds and should be seen by everyone in this world. Meanwhile, the West continues eating corn flakes and just enjoys the breakfast show.
The clouds of war are gathering while Iran promotes conflict to prepare the way for the 12th Imam,(the Maudi). Here in the west everyone contues to eat their corn flakes and watch the morning show.
When I first watched this slide show I was reminded of Jack Layton’s speeches argueing for peace and dialogue with these thugs. Perhaps
we should ask our pacifist crowd to go and have a few months holiday in Iran. It would take a few months there (not just a photo-op) for mr Layton to learn just a little.
Kate, thanks for the story, great work
Kate: We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words…personally, my thoughts are well past 27,000 words and still counting. Thank you for the thought provoking post…the pictures say it all.
“If SAVAK had been responsible for his injuries, we could easily have got rid of him.”
precisely nemo.
and what is the basis for this claim? experience.
and why no murmurings of outrage? because they cant get on a plane and leave like a tourist so they learn like all citizens in countries run by despots to keep their yap shut.
My sister spent 2 years in Tehran area in the early 70s and gave a different view. the shah was the most hated leader in the world and it was only a matter of time before he was overthrown, which did happen as we all know in 1979. she predicted it because she correctly read the mood.
the ayatoilet’s boys used the very same political prison and torture chamber the savak had built. how convenient !!!
Trust me, the Shah’s thuggery was nothing compared to anything that has gone on in Iran in the past 30 years under the Islamofascists in terms of violence against their own citizens. Iran has, like most of the ME, an ugly history, it got even uglier under the Ayatollahs. So, bollocks, trotting out the old moral equivalence theme is a diversion. The photos stand on their own merits.
Comparatively speaking, what informed Iranian, if he or she somehow had the choice, wouldn’t now gladly exchange the Mullah dictatorship for the Shaw’s regime??? And the same goes for the governments of the West.
Only the Islamofascists, the Russians the Chinese, the North Korean regimes and the extreme leftists of the West would disagree.
penny: Make that ‘most of the WORLD’…..with our Western sensitivities we’re in the minority…..the majority don’t care about our qualms, and we rarely have the fortitude to confront them on their terms.
“Mr. Razmi had done nothing wrong, they reasoned. He photographed the execution with the permission of the judge. He turned over his negatives to the photo editor. He described his work to the prison guard. He wasn’t the one who sent the six images abroad. He didn’t earn a single rial or credit from his photo, the rights to which had passed from UPI to the Bettmann Archive to Corbis Corp.”
A quick google seach only turned up this WSJ story. How long will it take (AP),(CP), (UPI) to send it around the world. Again. In a different light, of course.
But then, in the Blog era, who needs the MSM.
Gotta love the left… show the truth about the regime today and they invaritibly say ” yeah, but” and tell tales of others.
If it didn’t work when you were growing up (“yeah, but all my friends are doing it”) It isn’t going to work now.
“He was irked when others took credit, people who “never feel the danger,” he said. And all the time, he was weighted by his secret, that of an ordinary man witness to extraordinary events. “Without this picture,” he said, “I wouldn’t be anything.””
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Could there possibly be any pictures of “Insurgents” executing citizens in Afghanistan and Iraq lately, that our MSM does not bother showing ??
Media reporting is even more blatant today. Just ask our own Canadian, Brig-Gen David Fraser, in todays Halifax Chronicle Herald.
Saw that article – 80% of involved the writer defending the press. Odd how The Torch can dig the info out of the BBC, while Canadian media complains it isn’t spoonfed to them while they man the “death watch”.
A little bit Iran for ya’all …(graphic pics … so be warned)!
holycrime.com/
and, an almost daily roundup:
iranfocus.com/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=5
The Shah is dead. The Mullah’s have simply continued the brutality… only they threaten us as well and have exported their terror worldwide… the Shah never did.
Jahangir Razmi Wins Recognition For Pulitzer Photo
By EMILY STEELDecember 8, 2006; Page B3 More than a quarter of a century after an anonymous photograph of an Iranian firing squad won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, the Pulitzer Prize Board has said it will award the certificate and $10,000 cash prize to Iranian photographer Jahangir Razmi.The board said it will revise its records to grant Mr. Razmi his prize and invite him to the awards ceremony in New York May 21 at Columbia University, whose journalism school hosts the prizes. (Read the board’s statement.)The identity of Mr. Razmi was…- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750255/posts
A facists is a facists. Hitler,Mussolini,Hirohoto. No difference.
sarge wonders why anyone would trust the white eyed miss penny with any sort of “fact”. sarge aslo wonders what the point of this is…the US INSTALLED and supported shah was an asshole sure and his boys using those german made g3 battle rifles makes sarge wonder why them germans sent those damn weapons to an asshole like the shah then sarge remembers america told ’em they could ’cause shah was our man. sarge has no idea if them mullas runnin iran is any worse than the shah but sarge knows the shah sent his savik boys out to kill iranian dissedents throughout the world including the USA and britain-sarge calls that exportin terrorism. sarge also knows the students and intellectual freedom lovers in iran was balancing out the mullahs a bit right till little fuerer bush invaded their nieghbor and started puttin the pressue on those iranian mullahs. the good old usa as polarizing force-sarge seen it before sarge hopes not AGAIN
But but they are they leading anti americans now. All bad things, oresent and past, are ignored, including the rape, torture and murder of Canadian citizens……but mentioning that or pursuing it “would be immature” in M. Chretien’s view of the world.
Now if Ms. Kazemai had been a Liberal party contributor, or her friends had been like Mr Kahdr. Well, then we could have seen some action.
Sad pictures, amazing that the executioners were willing to let it be documented so openly….now if we could only prove the guy at the end with the pistol is ahmedinijad we would really have something.
I like the part about iran being peaceful under the shah.
thats because the hated savak made sure it stayed that way, the nasty business all hush hush and scattered, not like this mass murder of shop keepers.
and dont forget regarding how much a nice guy the shah was, ol’ jimmy cahtah was his biggest fan and we all know how popular jimmy is on this blog.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912364,00.html
Quote: “On charges against SAVAK: We do admit there have been some mistakes in the past. But they have been distorted. It is said that SAVAK has been brutal. If SAVAK receives information about a terrorist group, and we go to arrest this group, do you think they will not resist? Of course they will. Resistance brings violence, and you should expect a similar response from our side. We’re like the CIA. If we have ten activities and nine of them are successful, only the failure gets worldwide attention. You never hear the good things we do. Some people think that to improve the country they need a scapegoat. For them, SAVAK is the scapegoat.
On political prisoners: In January, demonstrators paraded a man who was blind and had lost his arms. They said SAVAK did this to him, and they called him a hero. In fact, he was a terrorist who lost his sight and was maimed when a bomb he was making exploded. If SAVAK had been responsible for his injuries, we could easily have got rid of him. We would not have let him live as a document of torture”.
………..
From a personal perspective, I travelled, (local bus, trains, hitch-hiking), through Iran during the Shah’s reign and didn’t notice any overt signs of fear, (reluctance to talk to foreigners, etc)……..OTOH, I was held at sub-machinegun point for a day in Iraq on ‘suspicion of intent to smuggle an Iraqi out of Iraq’.
With regards to the Shaw’s gestapo, Two wrongs don’t make a right. There are no mitigating circumstances for this kind of butchery. For any Canadian with honest compassion, the question should be why our media doesn’t publish these stories.
These photographs stand as a record of sick twisted minds and should be seen by everyone in this world. Meanwhile, the West continues eating corn flakes and just enjoys the breakfast show.
The clouds of war are gathering while Iran promotes conflict to prepare the way for the 12th Imam,(the Maudi). Here in the west everyone contues to eat their corn flakes and watch the morning show.
When I first watched this slide show I was reminded of Jack Layton’s speeches argueing for peace and dialogue with these thugs. Perhaps
we should ask our pacifist crowd to go and have a few months holiday in Iran. It would take a few months there (not just a photo-op) for mr Layton to learn just a little.
Kate, thanks for the story, great work
Kate: We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words…personally, my thoughts are well past 27,000 words and still counting. Thank you for the thought provoking post…the pictures say it all.
“If SAVAK had been responsible for his injuries, we could easily have got rid of him.”
precisely nemo.
and what is the basis for this claim? experience.
and why no murmurings of outrage? because they cant get on a plane and leave like a tourist so they learn like all citizens in countries run by despots to keep their yap shut.
My sister spent 2 years in Tehran area in the early 70s and gave a different view. the shah was the most hated leader in the world and it was only a matter of time before he was overthrown, which did happen as we all know in 1979. she predicted it because she correctly read the mood.
the ayatoilet’s boys used the very same political prison and torture chamber the savak had built. how convenient !!!
Trust me, the Shah’s thuggery was nothing compared to anything that has gone on in Iran in the past 30 years under the Islamofascists in terms of violence against their own citizens. Iran has, like most of the ME, an ugly history, it got even uglier under the Ayatollahs. So, bollocks, trotting out the old moral equivalence theme is a diversion. The photos stand on their own merits.
Comparatively speaking, what informed Iranian, if he or she somehow had the choice, wouldn’t now gladly exchange the Mullah dictatorship for the Shaw’s regime??? And the same goes for the governments of the West.
Only the Islamofascists, the Russians the Chinese, the North Korean regimes and the extreme leftists of the West would disagree.
penny: Make that ‘most of the WORLD’…..with our Western sensitivities we’re in the minority…..the majority don’t care about our qualms, and we rarely have the fortitude to confront them on their terms.
“Mr. Razmi had done nothing wrong, they reasoned. He photographed the execution with the permission of the judge. He turned over his negatives to the photo editor. He described his work to the prison guard. He wasn’t the one who sent the six images abroad. He didn’t earn a single rial or credit from his photo, the rights to which had passed from UPI to the Bettmann Archive to Corbis Corp.”
A quick google seach only turned up this WSJ story. How long will it take (AP),(CP), (UPI) to send it around the world. Again. In a different light, of course.
But then, in the Blog era, who needs the MSM.
Gotta love the left… show the truth about the regime today and they invaritibly say ” yeah, but” and tell tales of others.
If it didn’t work when you were growing up (“yeah, but all my friends are doing it”) It isn’t going to work now.
“He was irked when others took credit, people who “never feel the danger,” he said. And all the time, he was weighted by his secret, that of an ordinary man witness to extraordinary events. “Without this picture,” he said, “I wouldn’t be anything.””
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Could there possibly be any pictures of “Insurgents” executing citizens in Afghanistan and Iraq lately, that our MSM does not bother showing ??
Media reporting is even more blatant today. Just ask our own Canadian, Brig-Gen David Fraser, in todays Halifax Chronicle Herald.
Saw that article – 80% of involved the writer defending the press. Odd how The Torch can dig the info out of the BBC, while Canadian media complains it isn’t spoonfed to them while they man the “death watch”.
A little bit Iran for ya’all …(graphic pics … so be warned)!
holycrime.com/
and, an almost daily roundup:
iranfocus.com/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=5
The Shah is dead. The Mullah’s have simply continued the brutality… only they threaten us as well and have exported their terror worldwide… the Shah never did.
Jahangir Razmi Wins Recognition For Pulitzer Photo
By EMILY STEELDecember 8, 2006; Page B3 More than a quarter of a century after an anonymous photograph of an Iranian firing squad won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, the Pulitzer Prize Board has said it will award the certificate and $10,000 cash prize to Iranian photographer Jahangir Razmi.The board said it will revise its records to grant Mr. Razmi his prize and invite him to the awards ceremony in New York May 21 at Columbia University, whose journalism school hosts the prizes. (Read the board’s statement.)The identity of Mr. Razmi was…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750255/posts
A facists is a facists. Hitler,Mussolini,Hirohoto. No difference.
sarge wonders why anyone would trust the white eyed miss penny with any sort of “fact”. sarge aslo wonders what the point of this is…the US INSTALLED and supported shah was an asshole sure and his boys using those german made g3 battle rifles makes sarge wonder why them germans sent those damn weapons to an asshole like the shah then sarge remembers america told ’em they could ’cause shah was our man. sarge has no idea if them mullas runnin iran is any worse than the shah but sarge knows the shah sent his savik boys out to kill iranian dissedents throughout the world including the USA and britain-sarge calls that exportin terrorism. sarge also knows the students and intellectual freedom lovers in iran was balancing out the mullahs a bit right till little fuerer bush invaded their nieghbor and started puttin the pressue on those iranian mullahs. the good old usa as polarizing force-sarge seen it before sarge hopes not AGAIN