Ali P.
01-Oct-2008 (19 comments)

The X-ray glasses and the Nas'ta'leegh software

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SCE Campaign
01-Oct-2008

The death sentences of the juvenile offender Mahyar Haghgoo, and his mother Maryam, were approved by Iran's supreme court

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علم و دانش

azaadeh
rfi / آرش ادیب زاده
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01-Oct-2008
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Manoucher Avaznia
01-Oct-2008
A Good Death For Others: In the summer of 1987 more weapons were introduced to the Iraqi side of the conflict. Some of them could be found in our area of defense. >>>
Food for Thought
01-Oct-2008
Forget the bailout, follow Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. Find out more below... >>>

Distressing

azaadeh

Police: Gassing of Mosque in Ohio Was Not a Biased Crime

Democracy Now / Amy Goodman
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01-Oct-2008 (one comment)
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Darius Kadivar
01-Oct-2008 (one comment)
Hollywood Star Anthony Quinn enjoys the company of Iran's queen Shahbanou Farah and fellow Iranian co-star ( Pouri Banai ?) while eating a traditional Persian dish. >>>
Hossein Bagher Zadeh
01-Oct-2008
در روزهای اخیر دو سند منتشر شده است كه هر كدام از یك تحول فرهنگی در جامعه مدنی و سیاسی ایران، یكی در داخل كشور و دیگری در خارج آن، حكایت می‌كند. این دو تحول، یكی در زمینه حقوق بشر است و دیگری در باره دموكراسی>>>

TRAVELER

Beautiful in its own way

Beautiful in its own way

Photo essay: Istanbul & Damascus

by Pouya Alimagham
01-Oct-2008 (12 comments)

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Darius Kadivar
01-Oct-2008 (one comment)
Fereydoune Farrokhzad and Martik sing and joke in French until Ebi joins in. >>>
Cheezaki
01-Oct-2008
OK, fine... I'll try some contemporary selections. Warning, you may not like what I'm listening to these days. Let us start in the UK. "Thou Shalt Always Kill", by Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, 2007. >>>

DOCUMENTS

Facts on the ground

Facts on the ground

The status of the Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa

by Fathali Ghahremani
01-Oct-2008 (6 comments)

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ISLANDS

Effective control

The status of the Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa

01-Oct-2008
Too often Great Powers assumed that the world was their playground. They drew lines on a geographic map, creating political entities -“facts on the ground”. This meddling in regional politics has come to haunt the world in the form of multiple border disputes. The Powers ignored the fact that no inhabited land is a “clean slate” and an unacceptable line in the sand sows the seeds of future conflicts. Thus border conflicts have become part of the tradition of the postcolonial world. One such dispute is brewing between Iran and the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf over the status of three islands, Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb and the Lesser Tunb >>>

MONEY

The last straw

The wealth of nations and the American economic crisis

01-Oct-2008 (4 comments)
One wonders at times what constitutes the wealth of a nation. How can one consider a nation wealthy, or not so? Is gold the yardstick? Precious metals? In truth, the tangible measure of a country’s wealth nowadays is the hard currency reserves of that country, and that information is conveniently published in certain magazines and newspapers, for instance, The Economist. So let’s go over these figures (and mines’ are not the most recent): At the top of the list stands China with more than a trillion dollars worth of hard currencies. Next to china … (yes you guessed correctly) is Japan with more than 800 billion dollars. We see the South East Asian countries dominating the top ten. At about number 11 stands Russia>>>

Different approaches

News Goffer

Bloggers from Iran, Pakistan, respond to U.S. Debate

PBS/FRONTLINE World Blogs / Omid Memarian/Arif Rafiq
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01-Oct-2008
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