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Photo essay: Dale Chihuly's glass exhibition
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More and more highly educated professionals in S. California or elsewhere in U.S. and Europe are getting married past their mid thirties.
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Also what the Prophet Mohammad said about fgm according to the person who did the research
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During the months of August and September, all prison visits were canceled; families were told not to bring any medicine or food for their loved ones.
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هله ای کعبۀ مشرق که تو خاک وطنی:
بر وبومت همه گل خیز چه دشت و دمنی.
گاه و ناگاه بکوشم که ز مهرت بکنم دل
چه کنم ره نتوان برد، که جزئی ز منی.
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Carpenter (Najar) carving beautiful sculptures with wood.
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Beltway insights for the Iranian-American community by
NIAC staff.
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IRAN
by Assad Homayoun
The Islamic Republic would actually welcome either of two misguided U.S. strategies — negotiations or war. Both strategies will strengthen their repressive control over Iran and will allow them to extend their strategic hegemony over much of the Middle East, into parts of Central Asia and the Indian Ocean region. The Islamic Republic has a long record of using negotiations as a tactic of buying time to further its illicit policies. Besides, official negotiation means officially recognizing the legitimacy of the other side — which is something the clerical regime has longed for. Official negotiations will also be interpreted as the U.S. government’s concession to the clerical regime. Do the prime supporters of global terrorism deserve rewarding?
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AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan remains in deep turmoil and the situation appears to be deteriorating with every passing day. Two recent events should crystallize the evermore deleterious situation which is currently unfolding. First, is the most recent of assassination attempt on the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, at the end of April, in which he barely escaped with his life. And second, last week’s assault by Taliban forces on a prison in Kandahar, which the authorities were helpless to thwart and resulted in the return to the dusty and forlorn battlefields of southern Afghanistan of some 400 hardened Taliban fighters. These events mark the most recent in a string of incidents which have dogged the Afghan government and its beleaguered president
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