Archive - Nov 2007

What happened?

There are millions of Iranians, inside and outside of Iran, who are still trying to make sense of what happened to them and their country almost 30 years ago. Some blame it on the British, some on the Americans and some on location of Iran being the crossroads between East and West and therefore more at risk of being the victim of the whims of external forces and their interests. There are also those who have a fatalistic view of this all being the will of Allah and it all becoming very clear soon, an “Aha!” moment in the future.>>>

Kharistan

Have you ever heard of planet Kharistan? Don't be fooled by the name! There are no donkeys in Kharistan. I doubt it anyway. I just recently heard about the existence of this very interesting planet. And amazingly it is also populated. Populated, not by aliens, but by human beings who somehow managed to reach this planet no farther than 1.000503108 trillion light years away. Or maybe it was the other way around and some of them reached planet earth! They mostly have dark skin but not too dark, dark hair, and some are also quite European-looking, almost blond, all of Caucasian race, with almost commonly large ugly noses, pretty much like average Iranians>>>

روشنفکری ایرانی و چهار لایه متناقض

روشنفکری ایرانی حاصل میل ایرانی ها به جبران عقب ماندگی های خود در دو سده اخیر بود. انقلاب مشروطه به عنوان اولین حرکت عظیم سیاسی در ایران عموما به عنوان نقطه عطف روشنفکری از یک جریان خاص به جریان عام گرا تلقی می شود. در طول تاریخ صد و اندی ساله خود روشنفکری ایرانی از مسیرهای عجیبی گذر کرده است.>>>

Roodaki of "Samarghand"

On "BBC" referring to "Roodaki" as a "Tajik" Poet :) >>>

Iran’s Shahab Missiles

After the Iranian revolution (1979), the Iran - Iraq war (1980) forced Iran to seriously develop its indigenous military forces>>>

نهار روز " شکر گزاری"

"به به سلام، چه عجب از این طرفها آقا! خیلی خوش آمدین. مگه اینکه دیگرون دست شمارو بزور بکشند و بیارنتون اینجا، خودتون که اصلاً یادی هم از ما نمیکنین! نه باکفش بفرمائین، تورو خدا در نیارین، صفا اوردین، بفرمائید بریم تو ایوون همه اونجان، بفرمائین." و ماهم با عرض ادب، خضوع و خشوع معمول و چاق سلامتی با شیرین خانم و شوهرشان ایرج خان و چند تن دیگر از میهمانان ایشان که مثل بنده و دوستم مسعود قدری زودتر رسیده بودند دست دادیم و وارد منزل زیبای ایشان که در منطقه با صفائی بنام "پاسیفیک پلی صید" مجاور تپه های سر سبز "سانتا مونیکا" قرار گرفته است شدیم.>>>

Empty voyage

Ms. Rice tells us that George W. Bush has now decided to enter the diplomatic Texas Holdem poker sweepstakes, and that on his first hand, he's prepared to go "all in." She is assuring us that this time around Bush is playing for keepsies, with real peace chips; so that there won't be any question he's going all out to achieve reconciliation for Palestine. And he wants every Arab leaguer to commit, fully cooperate in this Annapolis effort, promising that there will be an open-ended agenda. Open-ended agenda, yeah sure; but meantime Hamas, and any other "unsavory" representation need not show up at Annapolis, for the midshipmen may tag them as "enemy combatants" and Shanghai them on a one-way trip to Guantanamo.>>>

Peace like a river...

Very soon the peace brokers are coming to meet in Annapolis. Men and women of different nationalities and faiths will sit down together by the water searching for peace in a conflict that seems to have no end. Their arguments have been in the making for more than a thousand years. Tonight I will go home to live in a peaceful sanctuary built by two people of different faiths that both cling to their one commonality - God, the One who makes all things possible. Who is full of compassion and mercy....and forgiveness. He holds no grudges to those who are truly regretful. >>>

Mothers and their sons: Secret whispers

Horse-drawn carriage
Skids the stone,
Cemetery's birds sing a
Redeeming but drunken atone.

White-haired woman
Bends on her hump,

From beneath the son says,

"I am safe and sound." >>>

Multi-Vitamins: Vegetarian and Vegan Alternatives

Alternatives to animal based multi-vitamin products.

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Brainstorm !!

There are a few of us together here in USA discussing how we can deal with extremists who believe in violance in and out of Iran ??

Here is one argument - certainly not mine;

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Our Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters

Let's "Honor" Them. >>>

My Brothers "Iranian"

Do Not Be "Fooled" By Talks of "Separation" and "Secession". >>>

Our Beloved "Iran"

Against Any "Seperation", or "Secession" Within Our Beloved Country. >>>

Persian Language for Romance

My mom is always worried about me eventually getting married to an American girl>>>