CIA golden boy

Fred

Iran, a Rising Star That’s Now Too Powerful to Ignore

NY Times / Elaine Sciolino
recommended by Fred
28-Oct-2008 (2 comments)
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Maryam Baaji
28-Oct-2008 (3 comments)
Third installment of the “Best of Iranian.com” project pre-2007 selections >>>

ART

Book of dreams

Book of dreams

Paintings

by Aida Foroutan
27-Oct-2008 (5 comments)

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hooshie
27-Oct-2008 (one comment)
Amir Taheri strikes again >>>
hooshie
27-Oct-2008 (9 comments)
The 3rd anti-Christ? >>>

SUGGESTION

Remove sanctions

Iranian middle class will make Iran more internationally-friendly. Sanctions will not.

27-Oct-2008 (11 comments)
Please allow me to make a couple of possibly radical points, and then explain myself. First, sanctions help the Iranian government. Second, removing sanctions against Iran will actually be a more powerful tool to creating an internationally-friendly Iran. Essentially the purpose of sanctions is economic isolation. That step seems to work. But proponents of sanctions think that economic isolation leads to governmental weakness. But we don't see this happening in Iran. Why not? Generally speaking in Iran today, we have two very identifiable camps: religious poor and connections-heavy elite. I call the elite "connections-heavy" because Iran lacks a solid rule of law, and therefore, many individuals who reach economic success in Iran do so through their connections>>>

TOUCHED

Goli's Story

Kisses, kisses, and kisses landing everywhere

27-Oct-2008 (95 comments)
“Hey, hot date tonight?!” Her co-worker asked her in the mirror, as she washed her hands in the office bathroom sink, while Goli finished putting on her makeup at 5:30. “Heeh, no, not really. He’s just a friend.” She said. Her co-worker asked “Anyone special?” She said “Well, yes.” checking her reflection in the mirror. “I think he’s very special. He is a guy I have known for a while. He is a friend I met through a group of my sister’s friends. Later I started working with him on some volunteer projects having to do with ‘No War On Iran.’ I have been really attracted to him for a while and we have so much in common, but I’m not sure he’s interested in me. He has never said or done anything, always friendly and polite>>>

FICTION

Lily's Magnolia

There was no more room for Lily to stand by her tree

27-Oct-2008 (9 comments)
Lily Flower had never worked in her life. She was the last member of Flower family, well-known in Hustonville, Tennessee. At ten, her parents called her their little genius. She could sing the most difficult tunes and play the most complex songs on piano. At sixteen she dreamed of being a famous actress. But her parents died in a car accident and she inherited their fortune at twenty-four. Once the time of her grieving was over, she sold everything, left her hometown and moved to New York. She lived in a luxury house at Soho for the first six years, but the day she realized nobody had ever recognized her talents - excepted for her parents- she moved to this apartment building. Santa Fe Apartments, 43210 Stone Ave. “No pet allowed”. The concierge told her on the first day she moved in. But she didn’t care. Young and hopeful, “I’m going to get married,” she had thought. “Who needs a pet?”>>>

POETRY

I slip through the mirror
27-Oct-2008
I’m astonished at this garden

Kissing

             The hand of autumn!

I’m astonished at this perfume

Sparkling itself

                          onto corpses >>>
farrad02
27-Oct-2008 (7 comments)
به نظر میرسد که سوری ها با خویشتن داری و صبری که در عکس العمل به حمله آمریکاییها به خاک خود از خود نشان دادند، برنامه ریزی آقای جورج بوش را برای کمک به مک کین و یک سورپریز اکتبر نقش بر آب کرده باشند!>>>

INTOLERANCE

Another attack

Another attack

Photos: Bahai cemetery desecrated in Ghaemshahr

by ebi amirhosseini
27-Oct-2008 (43 comments)

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TheMrs
27-Oct-2008 (8 comments)
So Many Experts, So Little Time >>>

HOME

Nersi & Bella's

Nersi & Bella's

Photo essay: A loving, colorful refuge

by Jahanshah Javid
27-Oct-2008 (12 comments)

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How public schools have been conned

sima

FBI Probe of JPMorgan Fees Focuses on Swaps Roiling Muni Debt

Bloomberg.com / William Selway and Martin Z. Braun
recommended by sima
27-Oct-2008
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Manoucher Avaznia
27-Oct-2008 (11 comments)

خانه را تا باز پیرایم ز غیر

جانفشانیها چنان پیر کمانگر می کنم.

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