Archive - 2012

عاقبت کار به کجا خواهد کشید؟

در شدیدترین بحران اقتصادی دوران حکومت، صف‌بندی‌های جدیدی در حال شکل‌گیری است، و در این صف‌بندی‌ها هاشمی رفسنجانی نقش فعالی را به عهده گرفته است. او که خود را قهرمان «عبور از بحران» در دوره‌های مختلف جمهوری اسلامی می‌شناسد، اکنون یک‌بار دیگر به میدان آمده تا شاید بتواند کشتی پر تلاطم «نظام» را از توفان سهمگینی که گرفتار آن شده برهاند>>>

War with Iran and the Economy

With the rise in conservatism and the likely success of Mitt Romney in the upcoming presidential election, there will be a renewed effort to beat the war drum in regard to Iran. Given the disappointing economic conditions here in the U.S., there might be popular support for war, especially among some politicians and economists who believe that war will jump start our stalled economy. In a September 5, 2010 article in The New York Times, renowned economist Paul Krugman stated: “From an economic point of view, World War II was, above all, a burst of deficit-financed government spending”>>>

Mirkarimi Win Bittersweet for Iranian-Americans

Today, I am happy that Ross Mirkarimi is the proud Iranian-American Sheriff of San Francisco, the highest elected Iranian-American official in history. >>>

بوسیدن چیست

در حین بوسیدن بدون انکه متوجه باشیم ضمیر ناخودآگاه ما دستخوش فعل و انفعالات خواهد شد>>>

نه خاتمی بت است و نه نفس زندان رفتن ارزش

نه خاتمی بت است و نه نفس زندان رفتن ارزش >>>

A Role in International Courts

Payam Akhavan works as defender and prosecutor in international courts. Payam Akhavan was the first prosecutor of the post-Nuremberg international criminal courts, prosecuting criminals such as former Yoguslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, and helped with truth commissions and criminal tribunals in other countries such as Rwanda, Cambodia, and Guatemala. Akhavan was the first prosecutor of the post-Nuremberg international criminal courts>>>

The Crime of Teaching

I never met her, however, the picture her sister draws of her makes me feel I have known her for ages. In all the photos I have seen of her, she wears an innocent smile. A smile now captive in a prison cell in Evin. Nooshin was teaching a group of young students who according to “The law" are not permitted to seek higher education in Iran and because of this crime she is in prison today. Nooshin was once one of those youth, herself, who were denied education in that country>>>

شکوه پشت بام

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A gem of a film

‘Do you think she’s going to come? Do you think she’ll be here?’ repeatedly asked some friends of mine I happened to bump into in the queue for The Patience Stone – an Afghan film I had been eagerly awaiting ever since I set my paws on the TIFF brochure some weeks ago – as I eyed a mass of conspicuously Iranian-looking faces, fingering my ticket. Waiting in line, it seemed the audience that evening was more interested in catching a glimpse of Iranian actress Golsfhiteh Farhani than seeing a film from one of Afghanistan’s most renowned novelists and directors, Atiq Rahimi>>>

Visiting the Crocodiles

My neighbor and her grandchildren
Are going to the zoo
To visit the crocodiles of the Nile river
Who, everyday after lunch
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دو بیتی های ویژه ۶

گفتند دلی نیست که ویران نشد از عشق
با عشق عجین گشت و پریشان نشد از عشق  

گفتم که ندیدم به جهان هر که غمی داشت
از درد بجان آمد و درمان نشد از عشق
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We have a lot of Khomeini's! But where are 'our' Newton's and Voltaire's?

Places where religious thought reign supreme will always remain debauched and hesitant infested with internecine wars and disasters>>>