Dream on...

HBPM1
25-Dec-2009

How to pour cold water on nationwide demonstrations in the wake of the recent passing of an Esfahani cleric.

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Staying put

Shifteh Ansari

Report of planned Kerry Iran trip denied

United Press International
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25-Dec-2009
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Brian Appleton
25-Dec-2009
Considered by many as the greatest living contemporary Iranian wiriter. Jailed under both regimes. She writes in a magical realism style reminiscent of the South American writers like Borges and showing the influence of Sadeg Hedayat. >>>
Darius Kadivar
25-Dec-2009
A Comedy about a happy-go-lucky prostitute (Sophia Loren) who gets mixed up with the Mafia. Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and Pierre Brice. Watch Scene Here >>>
Faramarz
25-Dec-2009 (7 comments)
This is not a Christmas Story. >>>
FG
25-Dec-2009 (3 comments)
Several reports indicate the regime is withdrawing security forces from cities to defend strategic locations such as Tehran airport and Khamenei's residents and the Tehran police chief doesn't even trust his own forces to remain loyal>>>

Crapping on Kuperman

Jahanshah Javid

Alan Kuperman: Another Benny Morris School Armchair General

Huffington Post / Joseph A. Palermo
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25-Dec-2009 (2 comments)
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Bombing editorial

Jahanshah Javid

There’s Only One Way to Stop Iran

New York Times / Alan J. Kuperman
recommended by Jahanshah Javid
25-Dec-2009 (one comment)
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"They didn't expect this large crowd"

FG
25-Dec-2009 (one comment)
Your contributions are invited.  What great satire!  And how can the regime object to an essay with a title like that? >>>

bomb bomb bomb Iran

MOOSIRvaPIAZ

Mainstreaming the Mad Iran Bombers

foreignpolicy / Marc Lynch
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25-Dec-2009 (2 comments)
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MOOSIRvaPIAZ
25-Dec-2009 (12 comments)
Sam Yebri advocates for gasoline embargos. Michael Rubin is loving it. >>>