New secret prisons

FG

Iran's jails--an inside view

Global Post / Iason Athanasiadis
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Hajminator
16-Dec-2009 (81 comments)
متن ترجمه نامه عمر خليفه دوم به يزدگرد سوم ساساني و پاسخ يزدگرد به عمر. نسخه اصلي اين نامه ها در موزه لندن نگهداري مي شود>>>

پاسخ کروبی به یزدی

NIAC
16-Dec-2009 (5 comments)
Just as most of Congress is stuck in the narrow mindset of draconian sanctions, two new bills have been introduced that offer a new way forward on Iran>>>

MOHARRAM

طرح‌های سرکوب

در آستانه ماه محرم

16-Dec-2009 (3 comments)
به نظر می‌رسد که در واکنش به مقاومت مردم و جنبش سبز، حاکمیت طرح یک تصفیه بزرگ را در آستانه ماه محرم در دستور کار خود قرار داده است. تارنمای «کلمه» وابسته به آقای موسوی هشدار داده که «اتفاقی در پیش است» و زمزمه‌های دستگیری او و خاتمی و کروبی در روزهای اخیر شدت یافته است. ولی دامنه این تصفیه، اگر واقعیت داشته باشد، ظاهرا قرار نیست به آنان ختم شود و ممکن است حتا افرادی مانند هاشمی رفسنجانی را نیز در بر گیرد. تبلیغاتی که این روزها علیه رفسنجانی به راه افتاده می‌تواند به منظور زمینه‌سازی این امر صورت گرفته باشد>>>

POLITICS

Us against them

Iranian and Iranian-American attitudes towards Iranian politics

16-Dec-2009 (2 comments)
While I would agree that the regime has successfully transitioned from a hybrid authoritarian state to one that more closely resembles unmitigated totalitarianism, the regime remains inherently at odds with itself. The paradox of the state, its religious and republican elements, has ultimately hastened increased state fragmentation and lead to a crisis of identity. While the security apparatus of the state has undoubtedly expanded its grip on society, we are increasingly witness to fissures among elite politicians who disagree as to the best course forward>>>

VIEW

Obama's War and Peace

Empty promise to strengthen the dialogue side of diplomacy

16-Dec-2009 (4 comments)
No aggressor and occupying military force, such as the US-NATO armies in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan can justify and moralize its naked crimes against the peoples and institutions of those countries by labeling its barbarous acts of war and oppression as humanitarian and benevolent. The imperialist nature of the U.S. wars in the Middle East and South Asia region is the main reason that Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech on December 10 drew praises from such conservative and reactionary warmongers as former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich>>>
sahandshams
16-Dec-2009
گفتگو با داریوش سجّادی >>>
ramintork
16-Dec-2009
Think about it, with all those demonstrations, do you honestly think that those thousands of pictures have not ended up in street gutters, walked over or ended up in the bin? >>>

Watch The Lovely Bones Online

JohnDono

Watch The Lovely Bones Online Review - Full Movie Information

Cinematical
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Reaching out in friendship

Fred

Iran says it test fired upgraded Sajjil-2 missile

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Costly business

Fred

Credit Suisse to Settle Over U.S. Sanctions on Iran

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STORY

Dogs

He knew that he liked dogs a lot more than he liked dogs on leashes

16-Dec-2009
The boy had been in America for a year, but still every time he saw a dog being walked on a leash by his master, he thought, 'How do you stand for this? How come you don't rise up? Nobody deserves to be pulled around by a leash.' He would look at the dog and the dog wouldn't seem to care. But from his bed at night he would hear the neighborhood dogs barking and it seemed like they were calling for their freedom. He didn't know about this place, where tyranny was not as close at hand as it had been in Iran, but the tyranny that was there seemed to go unseen>>>
Fred
16-Dec-2009 (9 comments)
Imam Hossein on a par with Imam Khomeini>>>

BOOK

 زنِ ناشناس

از کتاب «کابوس»

16-Dec-2009 (one comment)
یکی از کارهای همیشگی من، همسرم و دخترم یکشنبه ها رفتن به کافه است. البته نه به هرکافه ای؛ بر سر جادۀ باریکی که از درون روستای کوچکی آغاز می شود و بطرف طبیعت ادامه می یابد، کافه ای قرار دارد که پاتوق همیشگی ماناست. مثل هر یکشنبه به آنجا رفتیم. من مشغول خوردن آبجو بودم و همسر و دخترم با یک خانم دیگر در حال گپ زدن که به ناگهان در کافه باز شد و زنی با زیبایی سحرانگیزی وارد گردید. صدای همهمه مشتریان به سکوت مبدل گشت و همه نگاه ها به زن ناشناس خیره شد>>>