LIFE

Paused moments

Paused moments

Photo essay

by Parviz Forghani
01-Mar-2008 (14 comments)

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PERSIAN GULF

Money beats history

Boeing tries to get into the business of rewriting maps

01-Mar-2008 (15 comments)
This is an article I found on Boeing’s monthly employee newsletter in praise of their presence in Saudi Arabia. In of itself it is no more than a propaganda piece to appease their minuscule investment in the Arabian Peninsula. But what struck me odd was the fact that the author had mentioned “Arabian Gulf” in place of the “Persian Gulf”. This is a clear violation of the UN charter and I protested this act in a letter to the editor, author and a senior VP of the Boeing Company. Needless to say I have not heard back from any one>>>
SCE Campaign
01-Mar-2008 (6 comments)
Rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei: child executions violates international conventions and in direct violation of Iran's laws >>>

FEAR

ترس آفرينی

تاريخ ترس محتسب خورده

01-Mar-2008 (7 comments)
انتخابات دورهء نهم رياست جمهوری را می توان آغاز دورانی دانست که حکومت اسلامی مستقر در ايران به انتهای ديگر «مدرج حقانيت» می رسد و ديگر چيزی از حقانيت آن باقی نمی ماند و، بنا بر قوانين خلل ناپذير علم، از آن پس چاره ای ندارد تا، برای باقی ماندن بر سرير قدرت، راه سرکوب تمام عيار را در پيش گيرد. البته، از همان ابتدای تشکيل حکومت اسلامی، سرکوب جرء ذاتی سياست های اجتماعی اين حکومت بود، اما اگر در ابتدا می توانست اين سرکوب را متوجه آنها که «طاغوتی» و «استکباری» و «ضد انقلاب» خوانده می شدند نمايد، در طی زمان دامنهء اين سرکوب گسترده تر شد و، پس از پايان دورهء موسوم به «اصلاحات»، همهء جامعه را فرا گرفت. اکنون روزی نيست که خبری از اعدام و سنگسار و دست و پا بريدن و از کوه پائين انداختن نباشد.>>>
Iconoclast
01-Mar-2008 (3 comments)
New Statesman, World Affairs: Kurds are Iranian, natural brothers by race and language roots to Persians >>>
Behnam.sezavar
01-Mar-2008 (9 comments)

This video make me to rethink about values in life.

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POETRY

Gates are Falling

Those that are lucky hear the gate chimes

01-Mar-2008 (one comment)
Early morning calls are bad news for most
I have been there too, I HAVE been most
But today, you see I receive a call
Frantic and hurried, deserving a big toast
How do I tell you of my fluttering chest?
To be composed through this, to be at my best?
How do I let the world know I’m soaring?
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mertsi1340
01-Mar-2008 (4 comments)
A non-Iranian gentleman singing in Persian. >>>
Obama2008
01-Mar-2008 (5 comments)
There are only four more days until the crucial contests in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island>>>
Shirin Saeidi
01-Mar-2008
Limits on international solidarity, intellectual exchanges with Iranian women. >>>
Shaer
01-Mar-2008 (one comment)

"Self Explanatory".

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Kamangir
29-Feb-2008 (7 comments)

The Iraq I saw through their television

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Disenchanted
29-Feb-2008 (9 comments)

"The coming nuclear showdown with Iran is a certainty," Hagee wrote [in 2006] in the Pentecostal magazine Charisma

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POINT

Transsexuals in Iran

Another anti-Iranian propaganda that doesn't exactly work how it should

29-Feb-2008 (45 comments)
If you are a Jewish Iranian, living in the U.S. from the age of 6, it is very likely you don't like Ahmadinejad. So of course you would like to show how you hate him and how he is such a liar and how evil the entire government he represents is, in any way you can. So you decide to attack one of the only positive angles Iran has been reported: Sex-change. And why not connect it to Ahmadinejad's speech in your city's university, Columbia, where he said in Iran homosexuality doesn't exist the same way it does in the U.S. (We all know the united Republican>>>

SALVATION

راه نجات

نياز به سرب مذاب نيست

29-Feb-2008 (17 comments)

راه نجات، هيچ به جز انقلاب نيست
جز اين، هر آنچه هست به غير از سراب نيست

گفتند انتخاب کن از بين شيخ و شاه
اين هردُوان يکند، نه! اين، انتخاب نيست

چون شد که رفت او و به جايش نشست اين؟
فرزند من مپرس! که ما را جواب نيست

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