Archive - Aug 20, 2012

UNCONFIRMED: Dreaded head of Syrian Air Force Intelligence dies in Russian hospital

Pro-Assad RT breaks the story>>>

"The Iranian Americans" Documentary

Responding to concerns regarding PAAIA's role in the production of the PBS documentary, The Iranian Americans. >>>

IAAB's 5th International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora @ UCLA: Register Now!

IAAB 5th International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora, with keynote speakers Professor Hamid Naficy and Noosheen Hashemi, will take place on October 13-14, 2012 at UCLA>>>

کارپردازان انگلیس در ایران: ٣٧ - شیخ حسن روحانی

در این قسمت به معرفی سی و هفتمین کارپرداز یعنی شیخ حسن روحانی می پردازیم

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Dire Straits

The ruling regime in Iran negotiates from a position of weakness. Why? Because it lacks internal legitimacy, and instead of mobilising a mass social base against this treachery it continues to perpetrate even more treachery against its own people. The US and its allies know this and thus take advantage of it. Instead of negotiating behind closed doors with 5+1 or any other such configuration, shuttling from Istanbul to Baghdad to Moscow to God knows where, the ruling regime in Iran needs to negotiate with their own people>>>

Astrology of Sun in Amordad or Leo and Moon in Mehr or Libra 2012.

You can see that the Moon is now opposite Uranus. Ooh Uranus you say. Wild things. Yes in ancient Iran it represented the ability to go beyond the conventional.>>>

A Day in History

Ahmad Shayegan, his eldest son, has published his memoirs (in Persian) titled, “The Political Life, Writings and Speeches of Seyed Ali Shayegan,” Agah Publishers, 2005, Tehran. In dedication to Ahmad and all the men, like his father, who stood by the man who sought nothing except dignity and prosperity for his nation, I took a few pages from the book and translated them for this occasion>>>

به کدامین گناه (۳)

دختر جوانی تعریف کرد که هنگامی که پدر و مادرش دستگیر شدند، مادرش او را حامله بوده، اما با اینحال، زن حامله را شلاق زده و شکنجه کرده بودند. او در زندان، چهل روز بعد از اعدام پدرش به دنیا آمده و تا ۴ ساله گی همراه مادرش در زندان بود. او می گفت: "تا وقتی که در زندان بودم، چون در آنجا به دنیا آمده و رشد کرده بودم، ایده ای از زندگی آزاد و دنیای بیرون نداشتم>>>