Date

RUMI

Happy birthday

Happy birthday

Photo essay: Concert to celebrate poet's 800th birthday

by kfravon
08-Nov-2007 (10 comments)

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IRAN

Life goes on in Tehran

(in a messy way)

08-Nov-2007 (24 comments)

I am taking a break right now. In which I want to write about life goes on in Tehran, written by a friend of a friend of a friend on the net: "To show that regardless of what any president would have you imagine, despite what any media outlet would have you believe, life goes on in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran"

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ART

Serving time

Serving time

Photography

by Marjan Zahed Kindersley
08-Nov-2007 (one comment)

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PROFILE

Drawing the past

Marjane Satrapi and "Persepolis"

08-Nov-2007 (3 comments)
It is unusual for the French press to agree on anything, divided across the political divide as they are. But when it comes to hailing Marjane Satrapi’s new animated movie, ‘Persepolis’, they speak as one. From the right wing newspaper ‘Le Figaro’, to left wingers ‘Humanité’ and ‘Libération’ and centrist ‘Le Monde’, all have hailed Satrapi’s movie as a work of pure excellence and highly successful in breaking down stereotypes on Iranians and Iran. Gloria Steinem has even gone so far as to proclaim that with this film, Marjane Satrapi “may have given us a new genre” while ‘USA Today’ called it “a mighty achievement”>>>
alimostofi
08-Nov-2007 (2 comments)
Tail wagging the dog >>>

OPPOSITION

Destroying Iran

Shortcomings of extremist secular nationalism

08-Nov-2007 (74 comments)
Today, a great many Iranian opposition blogs and websites trumpet the secular nationalist ideology as the flag of opposition to the current Islamist government of Iran. The pre-historic glory of Persepolis is the other component to the complex Persian/Islamic binary of modern Iran. In its extreme form, this ideology is harshly anti-Islamic, denouncing the current IRI servants of the Arabs who have forced the yoke of Islam upon the Persian masses who would yearn to cast off this alien ideology. Such rhetoric may serve well in riling up opposition to the current government, but it is grossly inaccurate in its analysis of Iranian society and politics>>>
alimostofi
08-Nov-2007
Bang! and the dirt is gone. >>>

WAR

 به ۹ دليل

بوش به ايران حمله خواهد کرد

08-Nov-2007 (31 comments)
سردبير «القدس العربی» در مقاله ی خود توضيح می دهد که بعد از تابستان امسال، ديپلماسی غربی دچار نوعی تنش شده است؛ و همه ی نشانه ها حاکی از آن است که اين ديپلماسی ناچار است که به طور خاص به خاورميانه و شرايط متغيّر آن نظر بدوزد. او اضافه می کند که در خاورميانه، نقطه ی تمرکز، ايران خواهد بود: هدف فوری آمريکا. او از يک تحرّک اوج گيرنده ی سياسی، ديپلماتيک، مدياتيک، و نظامی بی سابقه عليه ايران می نويسد. چرا که فرصت چندانی برای جرج بوش باقی نمانده است؛ و او بايد هرچه می خواهد عليه ايران انجام دهد را به سرعت عملی کند. >>>

EXTREMES

98% Muslim

PART 2 of "Where do we go from here?"

08-Nov-2007 (13 comments)
You and your generation have been living under the most brutal, savage and radical regime on the planet. For the past thirty years Islam have been forced on you from the barrel of a gun and more importantly you have been bombarded with their propaganda day in day out, and forced to learn their ideology at school. However I am yet to find a faithful Muslim among you. If what your claim about Islam being forced on our ancestors is right then you all should have become good little Muslims as well. But we can all see, this enforcement and brutality have not only did not win you over but it also had an opposite effect on you. >>>
SCE Campaign
08-Nov-2007
Makwan Mouloudzadeh faces death for crimes supposedly committed as a 13-year-old, which even his accusers admit never occurred.... >>>
Bahman Mahmoudi
08-Nov-2007
The Saint Louis man used to be a train conductor in Iran, going from Tehran to Ahwaz which was an oil city in the south >>>

CHOICE

 گل  یا  گور

دنیا اگر گلستانی باشد، ایران می تواند گلی از آن و اگر گورستانی، گوری از آن خواهد بود

08-Nov-2007 (one comment)
آیا کشور ما بالاخره خواهد توانست بدون گسترش بی وقفه رشته های گوناکون پیوستگی وهمبستگی با کاروانهای پیشرفت وتمدن در دنیای کنونی راهی کم هزینه به سوی توسعه ای با شاخص های جها ن متمدن قرن 21 بازکند؟ کسانی براین باورند یا چنین مینمایانند که مصالح ایرانی آزاد وبا ثبات درتقابل آشتی ناپذیر بامنافع حال و آتی کشورهای پیشرفته سرمایه داری غرب قراردارد.>>>
Daryush
08-Nov-2007 (11 comments)
Go Googoosh!! >>>
alimostofi
08-Nov-2007 (one comment)
Provide your time and date of birth to find friends. >>>
dusha
08-Nov-2007 (3 comments)

بسم ا.. نور  >>>