Earlier this year I travelled to Qazvin to find traces of the 40 Polish
men, women and children who had died there, victims of the Polish
Exodus from Siberia in 1942. What I found distressed and saddened me
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I met a dutch student today around 30 years old, we chat a little and he asked me if I am a Turkish? I replied I am Iranian.
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«سنگ صبور» آخرین کتاب عتیق رحیمی نویسنده و سینماگر افغانی - فرانسوی، معتبر ترین جایزۀ ادبی فرانسه را از آن خود کرد. «سنگ صبور» را سرودی برای آزادی و عشق توصیف کرده اند.
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Ever since Ahmab Batebi’s arrival to the United States there has been great controversy in regards to Mr. Batebi’s personal life. This I believe has been a great distraction from his political/human rights activities.
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Graphic Images: IRI , first in the world to prosecute l and jail the defendant on spot.
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Limited understanding of what is going on
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POLICY
New U.S. President and the Middle East
by Patrick Clawson & David Makovsky
The Obama strategy offers the hope that Iraqi politicians will be motivated to deal with their country's problems... Iran, on the other hand, presents a different set of challenges. A major U.S. effort to engage Iran is inevitable, primarily because the United States must reverse the common perception -- in the United States and around the world -- that Washington is at fault for the lack of progress on the Iran front. The United States is going to have to make a major effort to show that it is prepared to walk the extra mile for compromise. Washington has not been able to secure support for greater sticks against Iran; it can only gather such support if it is seen as also offering carrots. In other words, on the Iran nuclear issue, carrots are the only way to get to sticks.
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COMMENTARY
Today, America and the world feel much safer, more content and more at ease with each other
By the US electing Obama President, the world that has been waiting patiently for a different America, is happy and elated to welcome the United States back into the community of nations. It has been a very sad and troubling eight years, not only for the rest of the world, but for the US itself: two wars launched, with neither over; ecology, environment and sustainability all undermined and devalued; the worst financial calamity in a century, nourished and nurtured by "casino capitalism"; international treaties and conventions torn up; torture rationalized; detainees whose guilt and crime have not been proven, disappearing beyond judicial reach; the rule of international law weakened; enemies emboldened, while allies were undermined
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