IRAN-U.S.

No friend of ours

A U.S.-Iran strategic realignment would be undesirable

08-Oct-2009 (5 comments)
For the United States to align itself with a government such as the Islamic Republic of Iran would be to kick the opposition in the teeth. The Islamic Republic has shown that it is neither Islamic nor a republic -- in the elegant phrasing of Iran's respected "dissident ayatollah," Ali Montazeri. And now it is running scared. The regime is afraid to kill protesters, since doing so only inflames the opposition. At the September 19 Quds Day protests, it did not even arrest them, aware of how socially explosive the accusations of retaliatory prison rape have been. In contrast, protesters were bold enough to stand next to Ahmadinejad and shout "resign, resign" when he was interviewed on state television>>>

NUCLEAR

Some Success In Round One

The term "sanction" was never uttered in Geneva talks

08-Oct-2009 (one comment)
The European Union Foreign policy Chief Javier Solana at the end of his talks with Iran's negotiating team at Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 1st reported Iran's readiness to allow the Inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit its recently declared uranium enrichment plant. The visit relieved the tension orchestrated by President Barack Obama and his European allies, President Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain. Another progress was that the U.S. and other world powers agreed to process low-enriched uranium from Iran>>>
sbglobe
08-Oct-2009 (6 comments)

Do you know Amsterdam or Paris?

 

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ebi amirhosseini
08-Oct-2009 (5 comments)
توی آن شهر یک دختری هم بود به اسم فاطمه، که او را هم بس که چموش و آتشپاره بود فاطمه ارّه (فاطمه ارقه) می‌گفتند و تنابنده‌یی ازعزب‌اوغلی‌های شهر جرأت نمی‌کرد برای گرفتنش پا پیش بگذارد. >>>

AIPAC Issues Ultimatum to Mr. Obama

capt_ayhab

US lawmakers call for Obama's report on Iran by January 31

AFP / AFP
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08-Oct-2009 (one comment)
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TOH DEEGEH KHAFEH SHOH !

Darius Kadivar

Rafsanjani say's "Obama's promise of change could affect Iran-U.S. ties"

Mehr News Agency via Payvand
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08-Oct-2009 (one comment)
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"the West cares more about its own security"

Jahanshah Javid

Britain is appeasing Iran, Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi says

TIME / Martin Fletcher
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08-Oct-2009
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farnad darnell
08-Oct-2009 (6 comments)
One moment I'm in an orphanage in Tehran, the next I'm sitting here writing this, wondering where "here" is>>>

RETREAT

تغییر سیاست خارجی یا وقت‌کشی؟

چه انگیزه‌هایی باعث شده که رژیم در این مذاکرات تن به عقب‌نشینی بدهد؟

08-Oct-2009
عقب‌نشینی جمهوری اسلامی در مذاکرات ژنو البته و به ظاهر در مقیاس محدودی بوده است. موافقت با ارسال اورانیوم تغلیظ شده در حد 3 تا 5 در سد به روسیه برای تغلیظ آن تا 19.75 در سد، دعوت از نمایندگان آژانس بین‌المللی انرژی اتمی برای بازدید از تأسیسات تازه اعلام شده در قم، و گفتگوی مستقیم نمایندگان جمهوری اسلامی و آمریکا در حاشیه کنفرانس، ظاهرا گام‌های کوچکی در حل مناقشات هسته‌ای ایران با غرب بشمار می‌رود. ولی اگر به مواضع رسمی دولت ایران و رجزخوانی‌های چند ساله اخیر آقای احمدی‌نژاد توجه کنیم به وضوح دیده می‌شود که این گام‌های به ظاهر کوچک از یک چرخش فاحش رژیم جمهوری اسلامی در سیاست هسته‌ای و خارجی آن حکایت می‌کند>>>
Mehrban
08-Oct-2009 (18 comments)
Writing love- in response to Nazy Kaviani's invitation>>>
FG
08-Oct-2009
Yes, apparently there is a proper method which makes everything OK according to the Ayatollah >>>
Nabarz
08-Oct-2009
Perisan Homa is name of a plant with medicinal and spiritual properties; name of the spirit presiding over the Homa plant>>>

There's ONE thing Iran isn't accused of doing, YET

Ostaad

Whodunit? Sneak attack on U.S. dollar

Politico via Yahoo! News
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08-Oct-2009 (2 comments)
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onlyinamrica
08-Oct-2009 (40 comments)
How to make koobideh kabab >>>

Mahmoud made it on the list

Majid Zahrai

The Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said During a U.N. Speech

Foreign Policy
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08-Oct-2009 (2 comments)
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