US is after Terrorist IRI's Front Companies

IranFirst

US Treasury Takes Action Against Iran Over Shipping

Wall Street Journal / Jeff Bater
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27-Oct-2010
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Iran a Nuclear State?

Afshin Ehx

IRAN AS A THRESHOLD NUCLEAR STATE?

Race For Iran / Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
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27-Oct-2010
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Israel Is a Danger to the Planet

Afshin Ehx

ISRAEL IS THE MOST IMMEDIATE THREAT TO THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET

My Catbird Seat / Jeffery Blankfort Interviewed
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27-Oct-2010
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IRAN

People to People

People to People

Photo essay: Rick Steves in Iran and other stories

by Abdi Sami
27-Oct-2010 (9 comments)

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Non-Jews Ought to Serve Jews as Donkeys

Afshin Ehx

Major rabbi says all we non-Jews are donkeys, created to serve Jews

My Catbird Seat / Khalid Amayreh
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27-Oct-2010
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Ahmadinejad's Visit to Lebanon

Afshin Ehx

Iran's Power Play

My Catbird Seat / Ayman El-Amir
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27-Oct-2010
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VIEW

Arabian Gulf?

Fueling ethnic tensions in the Persian Gulf is not a strategy for Middle East stability

27-Oct-2010 (7 comments)
Instead of using the historically accepted term - and observing State Department protocol - "Persian Gulf", Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro referred to the "Arabian Gulf", a politically charged phrase with a relatively recent but insidious history. While it may sound like a mere matter of semantics to some, in a region marred by ethnic tensions, usage of "Arabian Gulf" is a serious signal that could portend a dangerous, counterproductive path for the US ahead>>>

IDEAS

ابتذال تخيلات

نامه حميد دباشی، احمد صدری و محمود صدری به يورگن هابرماس

27-Oct-2010 (15 comments)
اخيراً آقای آرامش دوستدار طی نامه مفصلی برخی از مواضع اخير شما در باره دگرگونی های فکری در ايران، حقوق مسلمانان در غرب، و شرايط همزيستی دين و مدرنيته در جهان معاصر را مورد انتقاد شديد قرارداده اند. ديدن انسانی چنين تهی از اميد و خوشبينی، نه تنها نسبت به ايران و ايرانيان بلکه نسبت به همه انسانيت، جداً تاسف آور است. اميدواريم که نامه ايشان را بعنوان نشانه و نمونه ای از شرايط اخلاقی و فکری سرزمين ما تلقی نفرمائي>>>

HERITAGE

The Guards of the Shahanshah

How to fight, carry weapons, ride horses and learn archery

27-Oct-2010 (4 comments)
The Immortal (Anûšiya or Anauša) were an elite regiment of hand picked men trained from childhood into elite warriors; they were the imperial guard of the Achaemenid Shahs. According to Herodotus of Halicarnassus the reason why they were called the immortals was because “it was invariably kept up to strength; if a man was killed or fell sick, the vacancy he left was at once filled, so that the total strength of the corps was never less -and never more- than ten thousand.” Surviving Achaemenid colored glazed bricks and carved reliefs represent the Immortals as wearing elaborate robes and gold jewelry>>>

STORY

Sama’ (The Audition-3)

"I have no past!”

27-Oct-2010
My male voice should have caused the naked woman to screech and run out the bath chamber, instead her powerful grip tightened around me even more and the scrubbing worsened. “Let me go!” I heard myself scream. “ Me go!” I heard my own plea echo in the bath chamber. Kicking and flailing was useless. It only caused her to miss her intended spot behind my ear and soap me in the eyes instead. “My eyes, my eyes, they burn!” I wailed >>>

The "A.T. Security Prison" of Isfahan

Fesenjoon
اخبار روز
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27-Oct-2010 (one comment)
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U.S. Midterm Elections, Obama and Iran

LoverOfLiberty

U.S. Midterm Elections, Obama and Iran

STRATFOR / George Friedman
recommended by LoverOfLiberty
27-Oct-2010
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Obama's best chance for re-election: Attack Iran

MOOSIRvaPIAZ

Would a Beaten Obama Attack Iran?

realclearworld / George Friedman
recommended by MOOSIRvaPIAZ
27-Oct-2010 (4 comments)
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sobh
27-Oct-2010 (one comment)
تظاهرات ایرانیان در شهر لوس آنجلس بر ضد جیمی کارتر >>>

NOVEL

افسون یك نگاه

ادغام قدری حقیقت، دنیایی فانتزی و همراه با چاشنی ابهام ها

27-Oct-2010
با پاهای لرزان به دیوار سفید هال خانه‌مان تکیه کردم و نفسی عمیق که از سر ترس، شرم و خوشنودی گویا ساعت ها در سینه ام حبس کرده بودم با رضایت بیرون دادم، گویا نتوانستم به درستی همه هوای جمع شده داخل ریه ام را به بیرون بدهم. نفس عمیق دیگری کشیدم و این بار با هیجان بیشتر نفس حبس شده ام را اندک اندک بیرون فرستادم و هر بار احساس سبکی بیشتری کردم>>>