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literally stimulated by Bush’s stimulus plan.

President Bush's economic stimulus plan which involved sending cheques of up to US$1,200 to every taxpayer has provided a boom to the online porn industry, according to market research..>>>

It ain't over 'til the fat mollah sings!

Iran's judiciary has decided to scrap stoning and amputations from its penal bill. >>>

The story of ‘the little story’

...Just a little story. >>>

پیری

یک شعر از هالو

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Post-Islamism

The Islamic Republic of Iran is witnessing a remarkable set of changes in its social fabric, political discourses, and religious thoughts. >>>

آواز باران

از پس دیوارها آنک

صدای آب می آید

به گوش چشم در راهم.

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Saeed Jazee speaks out

"In the juvenile ward they sometimes announced that they were going to execute one of us the next day, but they wouldn't say whom and all those youth with death sentence would start trembling. That is what happened to that kid....">>>

Yadeh Hendustan beh khayr

eshvash mano koshteh, enjoy >>>

The good monarch

In a recent article, titled “UN Treasure Honors Persian Despot,” Spiegel Magazine criticizes the United Nations for recognizing an ancient artifact believed by many to be the world’s first declaration of human rights. The “Persian Despot” of course is Cyrus The Great, the author of the doctrine inscribed on the outer surface of a clay cylinder housed at the British Museum in London where it’s simply known as the Cyrus Cylinder. When this cylinder was discovered in 1879, amid the ruins of Babylon, it made huge headlines in the Christian West. It was the first time a biblical story had been confirmed through archaeology. But the euphoria quickly wore off. The democratic age had no room for a celebrated monarch>>>

Irrational eyes

The picture that Jose Saramago presents of the blind is more repulsive than any Eugenicist dares to draw. The reader asks himself if this writer before writing his book had ever met a blind person or after publishing his story, has he ever received feedback from a blind reader? It is ironic that Mr. Saramago intends to write a book in order to criticize a kind of ideological/spiritual bias by which human society is divided into "us" and "the others", but the result is Blindness in which the author has slipped into one of the worst kinds of bigotry>>>