Archive - May 2009

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An Identity Case

The whole thing started in early June when Mohsen, whose Canadian name was Molson, bought a dog—a white Shih-tzu, only three months old. He had recently moved to a new apartment in downtown Vancouver after the separating from his wife. For ages his daughter Anahita had been asking him for a dog. In spite of the fact that it was not at all a good time to get her the puppy, Molson could not resist buying the Shih-tzu when a friend of his said he wanted to give away the puppies their dog had given birth to. Anahita couldn’t take care of a puppy by herself. Neither could his son, a two-year-old who moved around not much better than the puppy on all fours>>>

Pictory: Shah Muhammad Reza & Prince Reza With Imam Reza

Shah < - > Akhund

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Palestine, 1892, Telegram: “the Sun of Bahá has set”

After 40 years of imprisonment, Bahá’u’lláh's ascension was communicated to Sultan Abdu'l-Hamid in a telegram which began with these words>>>

عنکبوت

نه دستم به کابل می رسد، نه صدایم. گیرم که صدایم هم می رسید، او که نخواهد فهمید چه می گویم. بنظر نمی رسد زبان همدیگر را درک کنیم. شاید اگر فریاد بزنم... >>>

Defending conscience

Change for Equality on May 2nd reported that six members of One Million Signatures Campaign, the campaign to change the discriminatory laws, were arrested during and after a peaceful demonstration which was held to celebrate May 1st. The police forces attacked the demonstrators even before they congregated and left many of the people with bloody faces. There were more than 150 arrested and among them was Campaign activist Kaveh Mozafari, Jelveh Javaheri’s husband. Jelveh was home when the intelligence forces raided their residence taking everything that potentially might have been useful to fabricate a case for pressing a charge against them including unthinkable and random items such as Jelveh and Kaveh’s University degrees!>>>

pictory: Shahpour Bakhtiar plays Chess with History (January 1979)

Shahpour Bakhtiar becomes Prime Minister of the Shah of Iran. Paris Match photo shows him playing chess in the palace gardens upon taking office.

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pictory: Khalkhali "The Hanging Judge" a good Father ? (circa 1980's)

Sadeq Givi aka Sadegh Khalkhali known as the "Hanging Judge" seen here with his children. (circa 1980's)  >>>