Darius Kadivar
18-Aug-2008 (one comment)
A French Interview of the Shah where he claims to Iran's right to nuclear military capability. >>>

RELATIONSHIPS

Kissing all the frogs*

It seems everybody hurts in a different way

18-Aug-2008 (23 comments)
What does it take to be truly happy in life? Is it absolutely necessary to have a lover or a partner in life in order to be happy? Why are so many people out there looking, looking, and looking? Is our search for love a part of our yearning for our “personal legend” as reflected by Paulo Coelho? Can we have perfectly satisfying and rewarding lives without a love interest in the center of it? And, after all, how hard can it be to find someone? Most of us are looking for only one person in our lives, no more. If you think about it, there are more or less the same number of men as there are women in this world, give or take a few (million!) >>>

THINK

Stupid, and proud of it

Rational thought and free inquiry vs. faith

18-Aug-2008 (9 comments)
Through centuries of living, learning, experimenting, experiencing, innovating and gaining vast knowledge, man has evolved to the next level. Today we are guided by our conscience and act with humanity; we no longer are bound by “one book”, rather we have many books to choose from for any aspect of our lives. Hitchens writes: “Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind … and the soul. … Religion spoke its last intelligible or noble or inspiring words a long time ago, … the devotions of today are the echoing repetitions of yesterday, sometimes ratcheted up to screaming point so as to ward off the terrible emptiness.” >>>
sadegh
18-Aug-2008 (91 comments)
The Listening Post's Meenakshi Ravi reports on Shooting Back. It is a project organised by Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem which gives cameras to Palestinians in the West Bank >>>

Kiarostami receives first Jaam-e Jahan-Nama Award

Darius Kadivar

12th Iran Cinema Celebration honor Iranian Film Maestro

payvand/Mehr News Agency
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18-Aug-2008
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SCE Campaign
18-Aug-2008 (one comment)
The groups demanded that China honour its promise to respect human rights, a condition upon which it was awarded the Games in 2001. >>>

LETTERS

"چشمی هست که از اشک لبریز نشود؟"

می خواهم بگویم که زیبایی های زندگی هیچگاه فراموش شدنی نیست

18-Aug-2008 (6 comments)
وصیت نامه ها و نامه ها یی که می خوانید بخشی از اسناد جنایات حکومت اسلامی اند , این وصیت نامه ها و نامه ها,که در آستانه ی اعدام قربانیان نوشته شده اند, نیازی به تفسیر و تحلیل ندارند ,گلواژه هایی هستند که خود به روشنی سخن می گویند و هر کدام عطر خویش می افشانند, سخن و عطر شور زندگی و عشق به آزادی و آزاده بودن تا حد جان دادن در ره این عشق. می توان با نظرات سیاسی و عقیدتی این قربانیان مخالف بود اما نمی توان و نمی باید بر این همه شور وعشق چشم بست و به آنان که داس تاراج شور و شادی وعشق در دست داشته و دارند رخصت داد به تاراج گل هایمان ادامه دهند, و یا تاراجگری های ضدانسانی شان به فراموشی سپرده شود. >>>
darius
18-Aug-2008
That's why, I prefer home made food... >>>

VIEW

We are all Baha'is

Discrimination against Baha’is has been so intense that human rights activists have also come to accept it

18-Aug-2008 (29 comments)
The criminal scheme of Baha’i-killing, of which the Hojjatieh Society was the standard-bearer and promulgator before the [1979] revolution – a scheme whose promoters came to power with the emergence of the Islamic Republic – is at its foundation a felonious concept intended to bring about religious cleansing through the murder of all Baha’is. If there had been no barriers to this planned genocide, such as international laws or global reaction, then no doubt by now the leaders of the Islamic Republic would have fully implemented their atrocious scheme.>>>

به آمريكا مشرف فرموديد

Hajminator

Pervez Musharraf resigns as president of Pakistan

The Guardian
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18-Aug-2008
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Kaveh Farrokh not associated with Azarbaijan Movem

Maryam Hojjat

Azarbaijan Movement for Democracy and Integrity of Iran

IranAzar.net
recommended by Maryam Hojjat
18-Aug-2008
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A very Balanced report of Iranians by Turkish Hist

Maryam Hojjat

A very Balanced report of Iranians by Turkish Historian

Turkish Weekly
recommended by Maryam Hojjat
18-Aug-2008 (one comment)
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Ali Ohadi
18-Aug-2008 (2 comments)
نمی فهمم چرا وقتی کسی عقاب نیست، حتمن کلاغه، یا اگر کلاغ نیست، حتمن عقابه؟ >>>

But where would the Emirates be without Iran?

News Goffer

UAE cities at odds over lifestyle, ties to Iran

The Associated Press
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17-Aug-2008 (one comment)
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Cheezaki
17-Aug-2008
"Mad World" by Tears for Fears. 1982. Warning! Sad song but contains serious 80's dance moves!>>>