MOJAHEDIN

Radical by Nature

The MEK will never become a moderate political force

20-Aug-2011 (48 comments)
The presumption that the MEK would transform itself into a “moderate” political group if delisted is flawed. The MEK did not become “radical” as a result of being “listed” as a terrorist organization in 1997. It was an extremist group way before that date. What fuels its radicalism and taste for terrorism is not how it is termed by the State Department or the nature of its relationship with the U.S, but its fanatical ideology, pugnacious discourse, undemocratic structure, leadership, mission and agenda>>>

POWER

قدرت مطلقه

شباهت بنیادین نظام ولایت فقیه و حکومت سلطنتی در ایران

20-Aug-2011 (30 comments)
سلطنت پهلوی و حکومت اسلامی با نفی آزادیهای سیاسی مانع رشد سیاسی، گسترش سازمانهای مدنی و در نتیجه باروری و خلاقیت اجتماعی و سیاسی گردیده اند. تک صدایی در نظام ولایت فقیه با شعار حزب فقط حزب الله و در دوران محمد رضا شاه با شعار حزب فقط حزب رستاخیر به جامعه تحمیل گردید. در چنین فضاهایی قدرت مطلقه پادشاه یا ولی فقیه حق تعیین سرنوشت ملت را نفی میکند >>>

THEATRE

All Atheists Are Muslims

Zahra Noorbakhsh’s show has sold out every performance since its debut

20-Aug-2011 (13 comments)
A few years, before Zahra Noorbakhsh moved to the New York stage, her grandma didn’t want to shake hands with me. At the time, Zahra was an undergrad literature major at Berkeley and may have thought it was about time her conservative Muslim grandmother met her real-life friends. After so many years in the U.S., I had forgotten that when you greet a chadored Iranian woman of grandma’s generation, proper etiquette is to look down at your feet as you say your salaam. Then if it turns out she’s not ultra-conservative, she’ll let you know>>>

POETRY

Vincent and Franz
20-Aug-2011
The ones who know where I was born
Don’t believe a word of mine.
Iran has no foreigners
Let alone two in your side of town.
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Pejman7
20-Aug-2011 (10 comments)
Los Angeles Times writes about Persian instrument Santur "Iranian version of violin" !!. I left a comment. >>>
Anahid Hojjati
20-Aug-2011 (11 comments)
بوته گلِ سفید
تن داده بود
به بوته هایِ  سرخ و صورتی

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Saead Soltanpour
20-Aug-2011
مصاحبه با دکتر محمد گیلائو – مدیر کامیونیتی سومالی کانادایی های تورنتو و جمشید باقرزاده مسول روابط عمومی بنیاد فرودین در ارتباط با قحطی در سومالی>>>

Mr. Ahmadinezhad, Where is the stolen money?

Pictorial: Poverty in Tehran

Roozbeh_Gilani
Ayandeh News
recommended by Roozbeh_Gilani
20-Aug-2011 (one comment)
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Khamenei in direct charge of Iran TV censorship

child poverty in Iran

Obama demands Regime Change in Syria

vildemose

Is Asad Next??

Informed Comment / Juan Cole
recommended by vildemose
20-Aug-2011 (2 comments)
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These images are near Mashad, Iran and not Gaza!

Simorgh5555

The Village of Ghandab: Stopped at the Point of Zero

Peyvand News,Com / Fahimeh Sadat Tabatabei
recommended by Simorgh5555
20-Aug-2011 (one comment)
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Anonymous Observer
20-Aug-2011 (22 comments)
Time to get serious with these terrorists. >>>