Ali Sanaei’s Personal Blog

President Ahmadinejad Calls for Democracy, Free and Fair Elections and a Durable Peace.

Mike Wallace Interviewed …

Apologise to the World Mr. Wallace and Return that Emmy.

Full MSNBC’s Brian Williams interview with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, 28th July 2008:

Here is George Galloway savaging Sky News over its coverage of Israel’s attack on Lebanon, 2006:

Related: Chicken Yougurt’s post on this interview.

Just read some bits of an article, “Secular Trend of Height Variations in Iranian Population Born between 1940 and 1984” and thought to share few of its figures here.

The trend of height in Iran classified by gender according to some prominent historical events:

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Spatial distribution of height and its variation over five decades in Iran. (The height percentiles were calculated from those born between 1980-84):

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I was born in 1983 and am 172cm, spot on!

Today is my last day in Melbourne, Australia. I am in Swinburne uni library right now studying Marketing Planning which I have its exam in three hours. The exam will finish at 4pm and I will rush straight to the airport to fly to Tehran at 7pm. I’m going to be in Tehran for a week and then will go back to London.

While living here, ten months, I got the chance to visit Sydney few times, Perth, Tasmania (Hobart, Bruny Island, Port Arthur, Norfilk, etc), Geelong and Great Ocean Road. I also wanted to go to Queensland and see the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as it has apparently the largest and best coral reef in the world, but didn’t.

One of the aspects of the image I had before coming to Australia was that I’m going to see kangaroos, wombats, koalas and other local animals in the city roads and every where, which was wrong. If you want to see those animals and you live in Melboure, Sydney, etc, you have to go to the zoo! But when we went to Tasmania few weeks ago, I finally touched the image I had of here over there. Really great nature and outlooks, lots of wild animals in the cities’ surounding roads, beautiful sheeps, kangs, wombats and all I thought of here. I actually ran over a Kangaroo myself while driving in Hobart one night! If someone comes to Australia and doesn’t go to Tassie, they effectively haven’t seen Australia!

Lots of good things happend here for me; baby, new friends and colleagues, different experiences, good job, lots of fun, extremely busy life, etc and etc. I’m taking back mostly good memories of Australia and am hoping to visit her again some time in the near future.

I just finished reading “Iran Awakening“. The book is somehow Shirin Ebadi’s autobiography written by herself and translated by Azadeh Moaveni.

Briefly, she has tried to produce lots of black and white images of Iran by describing a bit of the crisis happend to the benefit of showing a dark picture of the country. Yes, some parts are true, but skimpy without other bits which were happening in parallel. The book I have has a different cover and sub topic comparing to the one now in the market, not sure why she changed it.

It is also interesting to read one of the last paragraphs of the book where she somehow admits that she has not explained stroies completely! She’s a lawyer and knows what to do and how to do it…

If you read the book, do not just believe most of it, supplementary reading is a must. The book does not say the whole truth happend. Something like Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis“, which does the same thing.

Last night, the Iranian Premier League’s last matches were running all simultaneously. Between all agmes; Persepolis vs Sepahan was the most important one. Persepolis had 56 points (6 points deducted by FIFA because of their debts to an ex-player) standing at the second place and Sepahan was in the first position with 58 points (3 points deducted by IFF). I am a fan of Persepolis, they only had to win to become the champion.

The match was like practically an incredible final, lots of excitement, such a great football, 100,000 inside the stadium and many outside because no more tickets were available… The game was 1-1 till the 90th minute… the referee gave 7 minutes extra time, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, we were thinking it’s all over, but… Persepolis unbelievably scored at the 96th minute and became the champion of Iran’s Persian Gulf cup (IPL), miraculous, but they deserved it, I am sooooo happppyyy…

Congratulations to all the fans of Persepolis FC

Iran Influence in Lebanon: CNN’s Halah Gorani reports from Beirut on apparent strategic Hezbollah (backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran) victory over the Lebanese government (backed by Israel and the United States).

Yes! once again; Hizbollah and people of Lebann won…