A response to F. Leverett and H. M. Leverett’s Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Metropolitan Books, 2013.   By Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s former president and Mahmood Delkhasteh   Recently, the authors of Going to Tehran argued that “the United States will have to pursue rapprochement wit ... Continue reading »

Banisadr to Khomeini:"The Shah was not overthrown in order to be replaced by a worse system."   In an article which was published on Persian BBC,[i] Ali Amirhosseini recently revealed some information which shed light on why Khomeini conducted a coup against the first President of Iran.  Ali was the person who delivered messages between Banisadr an ... Continue reading »

We live in an equilibrium of pain and pleasure, happiness and sadness.  As my friend said once, living is nothing but the response to these two stimuli. We try to repel pain and suffering, as happiness and pleasure attract us. However, is it as simple as that?  I mean, can we always identify what and where pain and pleasure are? And even if we do, ... Continue reading »

    Is it just for children?!   Did I tell you about the night when Sky lost Moon? No? No, I don't think I did. I'll make it brief.Moon wanted to be a mother, but could not. Mother Nature had forbidden her to have a child as one moon was enough for the people living on the Earth.  There was to be only one - like the Sun, like God.  Yet to be a mot ... Continue reading »

  Because of the importance of the information in this article, I published it on Counterpunch: “In a personal interview, Banisadr revealed that Hamilton told him if there had been a clandestine deal between Reagan and Khomeini, all governments in the last twelve years would be considered illegal, and that this would be extremely harmful for the p ... Continue reading »