Behnam.sezavar
07-Jul-2008
Dr. Abbassi speaking about how America's "Chicken Strategy" is not effective in dealing with Iran. >>>

TRAVELERS

Holyland divided

Holyland divided

Photo essay: Old Jerusalem and beyond

by Mahin Bahrami
07-Jul-2008 (50 comments)

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TRAVELERS

Old Jerusalem and beyond

It was difficult to ignore the deafening silence of an eerie quiet civil war

07-Jul-2008 (5 comments)
When I first entered through one of the city gates into Old Jerusalem I found myself squeezed amongst hundreds of people each holding an unlit candle, politely pushing and shoving each other to get to a particular spot in The City. With great difficulty I managed to squeeze my way through the narrow walkways and escaped through an opening where I encountered hundreds more waiting eagerly for something spectacular to happen. With a big question mark dangling over my head I surveyed the crowd looking for clues. After a few queries my ignorance of the reason for the public congregation was quickly abolished. The upcoming event was related to the day of the week>>>

Floridians can't travel to Iran!!!

B-Naam

Florida Imposes Restrictions on Sellers of Travel to Iran!

Travel Agent Central / George Dooley
recommended by B-Naam
07-Jul-2008 (one comment)
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Rosie T.
07-Jul-2008 (7 comments)
(I promised you I would, Alvarez, our Mexican Jumping Bean, and I a woman of my word). >>>
ramintork
07-Jul-2008 (2 comments)

If you ever wanted to read "Kalileh o Demneh" but you find the simple English version more accessible you can read it online:-

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007

From Empire With Love

How the James Bond exhibition in London fails to highlight 007’s less charming side

07-Jul-2008 (13 comments)
James Bond is arguably the mother of all ‎on-screen celebrations of white, European ‎masculinity. More than two billion people – ‎two fifths of the world's population – have ‎watched a 007 film. Only Tarzan or Indiana ‎Jones might rival his stature. For Your ‎Eyes Only: Ian Fleming And James Bond – the ‎exhibition currently running at London's ‎Imperial War Museum – sets out to outline ‎the relationship between the fictional ‎secret agent and the man who created him, ‎Ian Fleming.‎ Fleming (pictured) was born to a wealthy Scottish ‎banking family. He went to the elite school Eton and then the military training academy ‎Sandhurst. His father Valentine Fleming, an ‎aristocratic MP, was killed in 1917, ‎serving in the same unit as Winston ‎Churchill in World War I. Peter, Ian's ‎older brother, was handed the mantle of ‎family patriarch>>>

IRAN-U.S.

Axis of change

Open letter to Obama

07-Jul-2008 (12 comments)
With Israel rehearsing an attack on Iran and the Bush administration considering the alternative of a low-level diplomatic mission in Tehran, it is necessary to revisit your June 4th speech to the AIPAC convention in Washington. In that address, you denounced the Iraq War as a conflict which strengthened Iran and asserted that Iran has always constituted a greater threat to Israel than Iraq. You stated that Iran now constitutes the greatest challenge in the region. You even asserted that Iran is part of a “tyranny of oil” in which the high price of oil is “one of the most dangerous weapons in the world” because petro-dollars abet the killing of Israeli civilians and American soldiers. In so doing, you are taking an easy road to “toughness” on national security issues that still allows you to trumpet your opposition to a war that is now overwhelmingly unpopular>>>

IMAGE

Please don’t nuke us!

Hey Americans! We Iranian-Americans digest our food the same way you do!

07-Jul-2008 (20 comments)
By now I’m sure you’ve all seen Voices for Peace: Fifty Iranian-Americans Promoting Peace with Iran. Perhaps the idea behind it was decent enough. And maybe, at the end of the day, having it is better than not. And yet, as a fellow Iranian (ixnay the American), there were many things that made me uncomfortable. I do not think it is prudent at the moment to promote the idea of: “don’t attack Iran”. While many of us are extremely worried, publicly, we should promote the idea of direct, unconditional requests for talk with Iran. Lest we forget, she too remains a sovereign nation and has the right to decide when and if she wants to open her doors>>>

DIASPORA

Epiphany
07-Jul-2008 (2 comments)
Uprooted
from Persian gardens
of my dawning bed,
I was a cypress tree replanted
in eternal ice of Montreal, muttering
Gilles Vigneault’s "Les gens de mon pays"
for the saffron sun, sidewalk café sitting
in summer’s shade, reading my mother’s
letter from Tehran >>>

How do Iranians react to threats of attack?

trnniran

Trita Parsi talks about the effect of threats on Iranian public opinion

The Real News Network
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07-Jul-2008 (one comment)
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Lieberman wants stronger action against Iran

trnniran

Sen. Joseph Lieberman says Arab nations, not just Israel, want US to stop Iran's nuke program

The Real News Network
recommended by trnniran
07-Jul-2008 (3 comments)
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sadegh
07-Jul-2008 (14 comments)
The indomitable Trita Parsi lays out in the clear light of day the repercussions of a US strike against Iran and debunks the hollow rationale and warped logic which has been postulated by its proponents>>>
Rosie T.
07-Jul-2008

you are like a field

poem

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