STORY
“To the unidentified F-14 pilots... I have been ordered to find, and if necessary destroy you."
Inside the cockpit of an Iran Air Boeing 727, two pilots are quietly maneuvering the passenger plane through the night sky. Captain Shahram Nasseri and his copilot Payman Izadi try to busy themselves with routine cockpit chores, but their tension is clearly visible. They exchange nervous glances at one another. Every few seconds, one of the men looks at his window to look at the two fighter escorts that are flanking them on both sides. Izadi’s headset is lowered and is hanging lose around his neck. A voice can be heard trying to repeatedly hail the flight. It’s an airport tower
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When the IRI Think Tank get together on this website to speak about the Right to their Freedom of Speach and submit their views as to the virtues of democracy it can be summed up to something like this. Please Be Tolerant and Respect Their Opinion !
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Iran Bans St. Patrick's Day Parade and 4-Shanbeh Souri Celebrations!
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NOVEL
Excerpt form "The Age of Orphans"
by Laleh Khadivi
A girl with a basket of onions on my hip. That is how they find me. I walk alone beside the field, under the skies of late summer, my shawl slipping to my shoulders. They come, two men on two horses, at full gallop. When they see my skin tanned from the sun and my eyes greener than the onions stalks in my arms, they slow and stop, one to stare and the other to ask.
Are you Agha Barzani’s girl? I nod. Just as much as these onions are his onions I am the Agha’s girl I want to say.
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An Interview with the Shah's Son by Christoph Lehermayr (News.at) about the Mullah Regime, its atom bomb, his succession to the throne and his image of Austria. (Austrian Equivalent of French Point de Vue Magazine )
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STORY
چیزی که توجه زن را جلب کرد، نگاه خیره و شیفتۀ او در آخرین لحظه بود
زن هر روز ماشینش را در یک کوچه بنبست پارک میکرد و حدود سه دقیقه پیاده میرفت تا به محل کارش برسد. هوا ابری بود. زن فکر کرد:«امروز حتماً بارون میاد.» در میانۀ راه، مردی را دید که به سویش میآید؛ انگار که درخواستی دارد. به چند قدمی هم که رسیدند، با شنیدن صدای آژیر پلیس، مرد لحظهای سرِ جایش ایستاد، خیره به زن نگاه کرد، سپس ناگهان برگشت و با سرعت از او دور شد
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