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Subject: Re: What Made My Day Today? :-)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:54:42 -0500
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- some time back (but within this month) I had mentioned that Pezeshkian 
had built tens of "house of health" units ("Khaneye Behdasht" or KB). 
These KBs are the ones he built himself with his friends and family! The 
total number of KBs he built by appealing to public without even asking 
government for anything is around 600... So in hundreds, not tens. This 
is a feature in him that hopefully makes him able to use again this time 
in many different ways, although things aren't going well with him at 
all. Nothing seems to go well about him.

I just happened to read that passage and noticed that I had not 
mentioned the actual number of KBs he built. I had mentioned it but it 
is not there. One of those weird keyboard and editor nasty tricks that 
still affects my writing, thanks to absolutely useless bunch of 
self-thinking "experts" in usenet.

I've been using this matter to probe the depths of "motherfuckerness" in 
those trash usenet frequenters, in this and other forums. Good results too.


- International physics Olympiad began yesterday in Esfahan and will 
conclude in 29th :)

It is the second time Iran hosts it. Last time was 2007. The Iranian 
medalists of past Olympiads are now among best professors and industry 
managers and scientists in Iran. From top secret jobs to the most 
ordinary problems in factories and businesses, these scientists shine!

This week, another bunch of them will get recognized and in a few short 
years begin their work solving the most difficult problems that can come 
up in just about every field of activity in Iran.

There are only so many of them that can participate in these olympiads. 
The rest of them, thousands of talented and gifted each year, will go on 
and reach same goals together with these recognized jewels, but with 
less fanfare :)

The present competition is held inside Esfahan University of Technology.

Most likely, the top team as well as individual, will be Chinese 
students if things will be the same as the last two decades or so. But 
there can always be surprises, and those are the ones that make 
sensation every year. Beating the Chinese to it is some feat of achievement.


- What made my day today was the start of using Persian Gulf water to 
supply extra dry areas of Hormozgan, Kerman, Rafsanjan, and Yazd with 
it. This project was one of Raisi's pet plans which he was fond of and 
wanted it to work, and now, before the next administration takes over, 
is finished and people of those four areas water needs are met for the 
first time since they can remember.

News shows reporters talking to people in their houses and asking their 
views and their responses, all, indicates that flow of water into their 
plumbing system does not experience stops anymore like it was the way of 
life before.

The water is treated and desalinated by plants at the Persian Gulf start 
of the way before moving in pipes to the areas in need, then are stored 
in huge underground artificial lakes for each area (if exposed, they 
evaporate in no time in that heat!) before getting distributed to houses 
and businesses and plants for both consumption and other uses.

This is a rough map of the pipes and the areas that are presently 
receiving its benefits, colored differently for different starting dates:

https://i.postimg.cc/02sSsxXQ/2024-07-22-Persian-Gulf-Water-Project.png

Before Raisi's admin, in the last two years of Rohani's disastrous 
terms, people of the area, especially city of Rafsanjan, would get water 
stoppages that could continue for one month straight on in Summers, and 
that admin was busy talking cute stuff about JCPOA and what enemies of 
Iran happened to fart for the moment instead of doing something about 
these fundamental problems.

Raisi changed all that obsolete ideas of "government" that really 
belonged to Ghajar Dynasty 150 years back, and enforced numerous 
projects to begin right away, immediately after he took over. There was 
so much work that he never took a weekend rest. He worked straight 
through, every day of his term.

Before this plan kicked in, most water to the areas mentioned were 
supplied by wells, and in decades back, such wells sufficed to meet the 
demands. But it got hotter and underground water levels got lowered and 
at the same time demand for water increased by increasing population 
that had now newly arrived after private companies relocated to those 
areas for cheap real estate and established their plants, etc, and 
eventually the shortage of water reached to a point that something 
needed to be done about it right away, yet nobody in Rohani's two terms 
touched that. Nobody kicked anybody's ass why they weren't doing their 
jobs. Pure Ghajar era mentality and setting.



- I think the people involved in government, today, know much more about 
what a bad government is and do not want to repeat big mistakes. Both 
regular people and especially the clerics. Clerics now are scared of 
committing blunders. They've seen the results and understood that 
they'll lose everything if they keep being careless.

Inflation is a good example of such errors in judgement. They thought it 
was somebody else's problem. I remember they even were saying that on 
news! In the media, I once saw a cleric saying inflation is people's own 
problem and they can solve it themselves if they want it solved... Now 
if one of them says that he gets shot dead the next day at his door. 
Now, knowing they almost lost the country and its people, and their own 
lives, they're struggling to prevent gross incompetence in running the 
country. A couple of decades too late, but at least now they know 
they're goners if they repeat such mistakes. Militia itself will go 
after them!

Having oil and gas to sell is bad for any country because it hides 
incompetence. Then things would have to reach the level of "disaster" 
before they even notice their own incompetence. Doesn't have to be just 
oil and gas; anything godgiven would do, endless tax money is another 
good example of it.


- A few of other projects of Raisi are also kicking in these days. One 
is the law that every mechanical part distributed for sale, must first 
meet a few conditions, including the proof that the manufacturer named 
on its box is the actual manufacturer and they're not fake products, as 
well as meeting standards of functionality imposed on them by a few 
well-known standards firms inside Iran.

One of the consequences of meeting the standards is that at least one 
old carmaker in Iran is getting ready to go out of business. Their 
product (a variant of French Peageot that was only built in Iran) does 
not meet the 85 item standards set by the standards firms. Last time 
they got permission to continue was end of this year's Spring. In an 
interview with the CEO, he said it is impossible to raise the standards 
because the entire infrastructure that builds the car is too old.

The scale of catching financial crooks have gone up too. Before, it was 
like once every six months that a high level thief would be arrested and 
prosecuted. Now it is certainly more than one a day. Some countries in 
Europe that are still benefiting from "something" in Iran (read that oil 
and gas obtained indirectly!) cooperate with Iran's police in catching 
those thieves and handing them to Iran. Ghatar, a haven for high level 
Iranian thieves for decades, is now catching them and hands them over to 
Iran. Emaratis are not cooperating as they should because Nazis still 
have some kind of hold on them, and these thieves are always favored by 
Nazis cause they spend most of their money in Naziland. But to some 
extent even Emaratis have begun helping the Iranian police. That's how 
the leader of Iran's (and Pakestan's) Baluch separatists were captured. 
I think he got executed.

Nobody knows how Pezeshkian will handle all these, and he doesn't look 
good for the challenge.

I still can't believe people opted for Pezeshkian... Jalili was much 
safer choice. But there's a certain level of hate between Iranians and 
the government which prevented 60% of eligible people from voting. 
Rohani really fucked everything up with people's trust and the effect of 
it had truly settled in them by the voting time. 60% of Iranians are 
hopeless and do not believe the system can manage their jobs well. So it 
doesn't matter to them who is elected. So they don't vote.

And Pezeshkian has inherited all that, especially from the hands of 
someone like Raisi who proved to be very unlikely that anybody could do 
better than him.
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