Jahanshah Javid boycotts Chalghooz, a new parody website

After publishing 13 issues of Gooz Online, a parody of the Rafsanjanist propaganda website, Rooz Online, me and my partner decided to shut it down and republish it with a different name.

So the new name is Chalghooz and we want to satirise and expose the entire anti-Iranian propaganda and regime change campaign, especially those being done by some 'reformists' such as Shirin Ebadi and Akbar Ganji, also Abbas Milani and Reza Pahlavi.

But somehow predictably, everyone has boycotted us: Almost no blog or website has linked to us. However we've managed to have over 140,000 page views since 10 June.

The most surprising website that has boycotted us is actually Jahanshah Javid's Iranian. Despite his explicit claims that he publishes any content people send to him, and despite the tagline of Iranian.com which is "Nothing is sacred," Mr. Javid has refused to republish Gooz or Chalghooz issue on the Iranian.com.

This is from the one hand sad that even for the most progressive websites on Iran, picking on neo-liberals or 'reformists' is actually quite sacred, unlike what they try to show off.

From the other hand it proves that we are hitting right on target in exposing the hypocrisy among the so-called reformists when it comes to free speech.

As, Ebrahim Nabavi, one of these exiled reformists put it recently in a series of angry posts and comments on his blog and elsewhere, no one is allowed "to criticise respectful people like Ganji and Ebadi." So obviously the boycott is just the price we have to pay for questioning the 'reformist' Gods.