Oceanside Harbor in San Diego: Check out some pictures
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ABADAN
Photo essay: Visiting home
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Azam Nemati >>>
Speaking recently at Hafeziyeh Stadium in Shiraz (May, 2008) about how the Iranian people will stand their ground
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TRAVELER
We arrived I was thrilled to hear the much familiar Abadani accent
It seemed like I had waited for eternity, but March 13 finally arrived. This would be my second trip to Iran in nearly 25 years. I spent the entire year working and cut off all my social and cultural activities because I was too busy. During 2007, I only attended two very small gatherings and two weddings and I was perfectly fine. Unlike last year, this year I had reasons, beyond my control, to be afraid of going to Iran. I am too old to change, have no fear and figured if I got held up, I would just deal with it
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HE IZZ CRAZYYY lol Dr. Hassan Abbasi, the head of the Center for Doctrinal Analysis in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, speaking on Iranian TV in June, 2004.
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WATERWAY
Changing the name will be a very significant blow to the Persian identity
This website, and many other Iranian ones, have for some time already been inundated by blogs and threads about a possible danger, the danger that the name for the gulf that is located in the Middle East, south of Iran, to be named Arabian Gulf, from its historical name of Persian Gulf. The concern is indeed genuine, and I quite agree with it. Many changes in this world, especially in the world of mass communications, democracy, lobby etc, take place not necessarily because the change is right, but because the change is well promoted, propagated and sustained. So, the Iranian community is doing its right bit to take preventive actions against the possibility of this name change, in the future
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DISCOVERY
Oil painting discovery, in Bamyan, Afghanistan
Researchers have discovered what is believed to be the first use of oil painting at Bamyan in Afghanistan, (part of Persian Empire at the time of painting) predating European oil painting by some six centuries. After the destruction of the Buddhas, 50 caves were revealed. In 12 of the caves, wall paintings were discovered. In December 2004, Japanese researchers discovered that the wall paintings at Bamyan were actually painted between the fifth and the ninth centuries, rather than the sixth to eighth centuries as previously believed
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Last night, after dinner and during the chaie portion of the evening, my wife and a few other Iranian Bahais were discussing the future of Iran and how glorious it will be
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STORY
Fate could not be that cruel
Roxanne was smoking her fifth cigarette of the night, leaning against one of the side doors at the police station, which opened into a narrow side street. With Majid’s whereabouts unknown, she did not feel safe enough at her hotel and had asked Ramin to allow her to hang out with him. The memory of Majid holding her daughter’s photograph threateningly would not have allowed her to go to sleep anyway. Thank god she had been able to reach Manou to take the necessary precautions. He had taken Setareh with him to shomaal, to the popular seaside resort that lay to the north of Tehran, where nobody would know they were
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قانون قصاص جان محكوم به مرگ را در اختیار بازماندگان مقتول میگذارد تا آن را بفروشند. با این تفاوت، كه خریدار این كالا جز خود قاتل نمیتواند باشد، و اگر او نتواند آزادی خود را بخرد، صاحب كالا میتواند او را سر به نیست كند
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