Archive - Jul 2011

Shoring Up Assad

Unfortunately, if Iran has its way, Assad won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Iran has reportedly provided an emergency financial lifeline to the regime in the amount of $5.6 billion as billions pour out of Syrian banks by nervous depositors seeking safe haven in Beirut or Istanbul-based banks. As I reported earlier, intelligence analysts have irrefutable proof that Iran has dispatched advisers from its domestic secret police forces (The Law Enforcement Service or LED) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) to take over direct supervision of anti protest suppression>>>

The Ancient World War

Sassanian Iran and Byzantine Rome were possibly the only two empires on earth to be “hyper-powers” during late antiquity; the Greek speaking Christian Romans (or Byzantines) dominated the countries of Italy, Spain, Greece, Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor (Turkey), Armenia, western Mesopotamia (Iraq) and the Balkans. The Zoroastrian Sassanian Persians ruled an empire that included parts of India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, eastern Mesopotamia and Tajikistan. These two empires were neighbours and bordered each other from the time of their individual establishment>>>

Killing for Cause

The complicity of religion in killing for cause gives rise to significant questions>>>

قهر قهر تا روز قیامت

فردا که آمدی
یادت بماند
پوست کاغذی خوشبوی آدامسم را بیاوری
که رویش عکس خروس داشت >>>

بیستمین سالروز ترور دکتر شاپور بختیار

در ششم آگوست ۲۰۱۱ به مناسبت بيستمين سال ترور ددمنشانه دكتر شاپور بختيار به فرمان رهبران جمهوری اسلامی در قبرستان مونت پارناس در آرامگاه موقت دکتر شاپور بختیار گرد هم می آییم >>>

רמדאן

Short and sweet >>>

Shahrnush Parsipur: "I was Never Physically Tortured by the SAVAK"

Poetess Shahrnush Parsipur in an interview with Luna Shad admits that she was never tortured by SAVAK the Shah’s secret Police despite being detained for 54 days following her protest against Golesorkhi’s execution.>>>

War War to Victory! (English & Persian)

A long poem by Ali Abdolrezaei. Translated by Abol Froushan >>>

Jebhe Melli Needs to Come Clean

As one reads the historical events surrounding the 1979 revolution, there are many characters whose actions played a role in the grievous outcome of this revolution>>>

Dark Veins

A poem by Ali Abdolrezaei,We both fight in the same street / you are shot there / I die here>>>

لولوی سر خرمن آمریکا و اسرائیل

یک عده گرگ در حال تاراج ، تجاوز و قتل مردم ایران هستند >>>