Ms. Negin Shaykh Alaslami -- human rights activist as well as a women’s rights activist and a member of One million signature campaign was arrested
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Chogha (Mount) + Zanbil (Basket). The large Choghazanbil temple is one of the three ancient monuments in Iran which have been registered in the Index of World Heritage...
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MIDDLE EAST
photo essay: My experience in Lebanon
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One of my favorite shows of the 60's. I still can remember Dr. Smith calling the Robot (Kaleh Pookeh Ahanee).
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Pop Singer Aref sings Patriotic Ode to Shah by composer Anoushiravan Rohani.
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Music video for the month of October I guess
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Now I now how this thing works, this makes it so clear.
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Pop Singer Dariush pays Tribute to Pahlavi Dynasty in song Talayedar
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Pop Icon Singer Sattar sings Golbanou in Tribute to Iran's Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi
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OPINION
The vast majority of Camp Ashraf residents are not so much members of a terrorist cult as they are victims of it
The Bush administration inherited many of Iraq's problems when it invaded that country, including an Iranian terrorist organization funded and armed by Saddam Hussein, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO). Though in the midst of a war on terror, the Bush administration chose in 2003 to protect 3,000 of the organization's militants and house them in a camp given to the group by Saddam — Camp Ashraf just north of Baghdad. Ever since, the fate of this State Department-listed terrorist organization has been unclear. Hated by Iraqis for its involvement in Saddam's crimes against the Iraqi people, the Baghdad government wants to expel the group. But no country is willing to take them
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TRAVELER
An ancient way of life is fast passing away
If you travel a hundred miles or so eastwards out of Isfahan, through a landscape of pink-coloured mountains and desert wastes inhabited by strange willowy trees and clumps of yellow grass, you come inexorably to the ancient city of Nain. Situated on the very edge of the great Kavir desert, Nain was once an important station on the Silk Road. Today, however, the concrete cubes of Modernity have lent it an air of apathy and neglect. Only the magnificent fortress of Nareen Ghaleh, towering over the city like a broken tooth, still speaks proudly of a rich and illustrious past. But Nain has secrets not disclosed to the casual visitor. On the main road leading to the centre is a low sandy hillside, honey-combed with countless caverns
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FICTION
The wedding was a grand ballroom affair at some fancy hotel in downtown Toronto
Hi Dear Brother, First, I apologize for this tardy response to your letter. What with the wedding, honeymoon trip and our return to Toronto, getting acquainted with my new life, I have not really had the time to digest all of it myself, let alone write you an account of it. The wedding can best be described as a circus. The successive faces of various amoos, khalehs, dokhtar-dayees, friends, business associates etc. whirled around me like we were all on some sort of a giant merry go round, until they all started blending and blurring together. As the wedding guests lunged towards me, with their wide, grimacing mouths and teeth as sharp as their designer suits, I could not tell whether they were going to kiss me or bite me
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