Richard Jeffrey Newman

Got this from Andrew Sul­li­van, where it is attrib­uted to Kar­roubi, one of the oppo­si­tion can­di­dates in Iran’s recent election:

Here’s the translation:

1 (Girl in street): Defend­ing civil rights
2 (Boy next to old man): Coun­ter­bal­anc­ing poverty/deprivation
3 (Boy push­ing away dona­tion box): Nation­al­iz­ing oil income
4 (Man stand­ing on rooftop): Reduc­ing ten­sion in inter­na­tional affairs
5 (Boy sit­ting next to satel­lite dishes): Free access to infor­ma­tion
6 (Girl sit­ting besides her mother): Sup­port­ing sin­gle moth­ers
7 (Girl with cast): Knock down vio­lence against women
8 (Boy): Edu­ca­tion for all
9 (Boy infront of man lock­ing car): Increas­ing pub­lic safety
10 (Girl on rooftop): Eth­nic and reli­gious minor­ity rights
11 (Man on rooftop): Sup­port­ing NGOs
12 (Girl in front of wall): Pub­lic involve­ment
13 (Boy and girl): We have come for change
14: Change for Iran

Now, a cam­paign ad is a cam­paign ad, and it’s very easy to be cyn­i­cal about them. Just imag­ine for a minute, though, in the con­text of Iran, how chutz­padik–it’s a Yid­dish word mean­ing auda­cious, ballsy, and it’s the only one that fit my response to see­ing the ad – it was for an Iran­ian politi­cian to say he wants to accom­plish these things; and notice as well the promi­nence given to two issues related specif­i­cally to women’s sta­tus.

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