this was good news! it's been awhile since i've been back here..the petition is still going around and imho no reason to stop it.Even though Sina is out. From your few commments it sounds like he's terrified and does not want to take any chances. I can't say as i blame him-he does have wife and child to think about. Tough call-difficult choice but family is important. Some things in news lately though-seems the Bush administration is telegraphing messages to Iran backing the reformers. But it's not really the Bush administration that is causing pressure-rather the people in Iran voicing their discontent and people who are listening. IMHO it can't to side with the reformers and telegraph messages. I'd leave it to the Iranian people though.As it is, People are mad about the lack of evidence of WMD in Iraq. I figure they'll uncover it sooner or later. Or at least they'll gather enough intelligence to determine what really went on re WMD. I'm not angryabout that.They've only been there a little over a month. I didn't expect they'd locate anything in a few weeks. I am angry that Pres Bush sent in the military and won the war but did not,as it's put,'win the peace.' They did a ridiculously poor job on that one. I know they've made efforts but it looked a bit patchy to me from the beginning.Seems they reacted to events rather than taking the bull by the horns so to speak. I don't mean a heavy hand-i mean taking charge and getting things done. Now the U.S. soldiers just sit and take pot shots-some have been killed. More are killed each day. The Iraqi people suffer because there hasn't been a lick of reconstruction.I haven't read squat about an interim Iraqi government since it first started to look promising then disappeared from sight. The clerics are taking up the vacuum from the ineptitude of getting anything going of the Americans. It's too late now though. There's nothing we'll be able to do but pull out. All you'll have to do is drop the Q from Iraq and spell it with an N. Meanwhile no electric,no water,no stability,no interim Iraq government. Maybe we should leave? Lack of WMD a problem-i dunno. Seems Saddam murdered enough people conventionally if that wasn't a weapon of mass destruction i don't know what was. What makes me mad is to promise so much and to deliver so little. I feel like we really let the Iraqi people down for lack of a plan. Too slow-we move to slow. Too much red tape. Anyway,am glad that Sina is home w/ his family. Just hope he's ok. And maybe someday he won't have to worry and can't get back to his other love-writing. If the Administration doesn't go jumping into Iran and screwing that up for them. Pressure from a distance and backing up the reformers in Iran-better way to go.The Iranian people can handle themselves. Don't let us goof it up for you.
- By: patty on June 7, 2003

salam just out of curiousity.....is email more secure than telephone in iran? anywhere?
- By: triple e on June 5, 2003