Archive - Jul 2008

Video: Ahmadinejad's Solutions and Projects

Speaking about his administration's solutions and various projects for the various provinces he recently visited. He also speaks about the water shortage afflicting certain areas of Iran. >>>

pictory: The Shah's Last Ride

Footage of the Shah of Iran's exile and ultimate arrival and demise in Cairo, Egypt on July 27th 1980.

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Video: Iranian national basketball team in USA

Here are 2 new video clips about the Iranian basketball team in USA, Watch >>>

Cultural Exchanges Cannot be Ignored, Part 1 of 2

Beltway insight for the Iranian-American community. >>>

Iran: New Cases of Stoning and Arrests

Beltway insights for the Iranian-American community

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Lawmakers Turn Backs on Blockade Resolution

Two members of U.S. House of Representatives withdrew their cosponsorship of H.Con.Res 362, the controversial bill that many experts interpret as recommending a blockade of Iran>>>

keep your miseries to yourself

Robert Reich is a stanford grad and a CPA who operates from his one-man office above my store>>>

Baha'i homes set on fire

Acts of arson targeting homes and vehicles are the latest violent tactics directed against the Baha’is of Iran. >>>

نهار در تل آویو

مکان: اتاق فرمان، مرکز بسیار محرمانه و سرّی ستاد فرمانده ای کّل نیروهای نظامی ایران در تهران. حاضرین: فرماندگان نیروهای زمینی، هوائی، دریائی و سپاه پاسداران، یک آیت الله نماینده دفتر رهبری، اکبر آقا آبدار باشی، یک بچه گربه و چند تا مگس سمج. دستور جلسه: اطلاعات محرمانه از طرف سفارت انگلیس در مورد حمله اسرائیل و آمادگی ایران برای دفاع از وطن. آیت الله خطاب به فرمانده نیروی هوائی: خوب تیمسار شما بفرمائید در صورت برخاستن هواپیماهای اسرائیل از خاک آن کشور و مشاهده آمدن آنها بسوی ایران در دستگاههای رادار شما، آیا چه سناریوهائی را پیش بینی کرده اید و نقشه برخورد شما باآنها چیست؟>>>

Interview with Author of National Geographic Article on Iran

Marguerite Del Guidice talks about her travels all over Iran and her experiences with the people there! >>>

White Man’s Unending Burden

There is no rush on the part of the conservative classes of the western societies, since the British troops, the staunch allies of the U.S. military juggernaut, have a lot more annihilation to do in Iraq and Afghanistan. Des Brown and the House of Commons have not specified the deadline and the number of troops to be redeployed from Iraq to Afghanistan, which by the nature of its resistance to foreign invasion and occupation may become a long-term target of the Pentagon and NATO. According to Gordon Brown the tasks of the 4,100 British troops in Basra in southern Iraq is to train and mentor the 14th division of the Iraqi army. Just like any other benevolently occupying power, it must prepare the social conditions and educate the Iraqis>>>

Seasonal writers

Non-political writers seem to be more of a seasonal type for this matter, and most of them seem to disappear before reaching their true peak because they are usually too busy with their daily lives. Professional quality journalism and writing needs money, and the Internet has so far failed to come up with free truly quality material to match commercial publications (with mostly paid journalists). The job of the unpaid blogger becomes even more hazardous when he is constantly faced with the frustrated and untalented commentator whose best inspiration is at best a jackass, or other phrases in excusable 'French'. What a blogger had hoped to be a pleasant hobby turns out to be a choice between extreme politicisation at best, or too often simply an unpleasant encounter with the anonymous>>>