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Escape from Iran

Older Iranian homes usually have traditional squat toilets, porcelain holes in the ground with overhead flush tanks. So do the torture chambers in Tehran's Evin prison, as Houshang Bouzari discovered on a sweltering summer night in 1993. His interrogator pulled Bouzari out of his six-by-four-foot cell and forced him to crawl down the bloodstained stairs that lead to the basement of Section 209 -- the cell block reserved for political detainees. When they reached the basement, the interrogator lifted Bouzari up from the ground and pushed him into a tiny bathroom stall>>>

Cultural Lumpenism

In today’s under-developed societies such as Iran, the formation of this opportunistic group as a significant layer of society takes place when a rural /agricultural/non-industrial society is heading towards consumerism, industrialization and capitalism, with its lack of a definite assortment of classes, its class confusion, its chronic unemployment, its permanent tendency to increase the workers’ misery. Lumpens are the remnants of the pre-industrial and pre-capitalist society who cannot adapt themselves to this transformation>>>

در همه شهرهای دنیا زنی هست

در همه ی شهرهای دنیا زنی هست
آخرین بار درمشهد ایران بود
زنی که خجالت نمی کشد
مانتویش پر از لک کثافت است
و پروا ندارد
که کرست نبسته است
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بوسیدن دختر ایرانی و پسر اسرائیلی

طرح اسرائیل عاشق ایران است >>>

Wife of an Iranian Gladiator

She kept the world sane - somehow as he would leave his blazing trail behind - wherever he went, whatever he did. >>>

Video of Israeli Online Disinformation Team Admitting Manipulating the Public

Israel's information war personnel admit that they are working to revise online content to make it zionist in nature to manipulate public opinion (video is linked).  >>>

Happy Persian New Year- Chichakalar performs for CTV

The international Persian community is celebrating its new year today>>>

Of mice and mouths

Short and sweet >>>