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A military strike would be a disaster

Why would anyone be shocked by the so-called revelation that another uranium enrichment facility exists somewhere near Qom? It amazes me how even Iranians of the Diaspora, who know the Islamist regime well, seem distressed by it all. I am not claiming to have known any more than anyone else about this, but I certainly never believed that the Iranian government was capable of being transparent about anything, least of all about its nuclear program. Deception is a form of negotiation. And transparency is as alien a concept to this regime as fairness and justice>>>

انقلاب مجازی

ایدئولوژی اینترنت فردگرا و دمكرات و حتی بی سالار است ولی از نزدیك كه نگاه كنید می­بینید كه این فقط همان ایدئولوژی كار است نه حقیقتش. این وسیله در عمل به هیچ­وجه مروج توسعهٌ یكسرهٌ آزادی فردی نیست و در شبكهٌ وسیع اینترنت فرد بسیار تنهاتر و بی دفاع تر از آنیست كه تبلیغ می­شود. این تصور كه وسیله ای تكنیكی پیدا شده كه كار سیاسی را آسان یا بی مخاطره می­كند، جای كوشش و سازماندهی در صحنهٌ جامعه را می­گیرد و آنرا نالازم می­سازد حرف مفت است. دمكراسی با این تكنیك و آن تكنیك تضمین نمی­شود، فقط با همت و هشیاری مردم است كه شكل می­گیرد و بر پا می­ماند>>>

The Men of the Islamic Republic

I was one of the thousands of protestors who gathered in front of the United Nations on September 23 to say NO to Ahmadinejad and yes to democracy in Iran. We were not 400 people as CNN claimed. There were thousands of us, from different groups that had gathered at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, from the Mojahedin and the royalists to the green movement supporting Mir Hossein Mousavi and Karroubi and independents like me, who came together or rather, appeared at different stages to show our support for a righteous cause, to support our people’s quest and struggle for democracy>>>

Mr & Mrs Ahmadinejad :0)

Saturday Night Live>>>

Starstruck

Since they were children in Iran, the sisters Shirin and Nasrin Asgari dreamt of becoming opera singers. They spent their playtime pretending be Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music. Later they made friends with Kamelia Dara, who had also been training to sing since early childhood, and practiced together. Yet hard work and ambition could only take the aspiring artists so far. They quickly realized they needed better training than they could find in Iran. Opera is rooted in Europe; you can’t perfect it in Tehran any more than you can perfect the Persian radif of music in Vienna. So the three came to Austria on tourist visas, hoping they could pass the auditions to be admitted as students>>>

Father of Fuzzy Logic

2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal Winner >>>

The Earth Will Be Pawing

The words are pealing
on a moist Tuesday morning
to be a reminder of the mortality
of all. The pain, a burning ocean causes
while it pours through the fist,
and the fist pushes through the heart. >>>

In Praise of Big Noses

I am the only one of four sisters
who hasn’t gone under the knife.
I resisted the pleas of my aunt and sisters
to become “more beautiful,” “more you.”
I’ve kept my stately proboscis
in-tact—choosing not to excise its grandeur.
It suits me, I suppose—evidence of my father,
those people who live in the dryer, hotter climes >>>