Date

IDEAS

Equality vs. Justice

We need to abolish any woman-centered law in the industrialized societies

10-Oct-2009 (43 comments)
About 40 years ago as the feminism around the world raised to a visible phenomenon, a heated dialogue came up with a question posed as, what is it that the feminist are eagerly going after? Answering some difficult questions such as, if the justice equates to equality for women’s right, or women are equal to men, was set to the top of feminists’ agenda. Is happiness the key? We should know by now that changes and advancements in our lives are motivated by an underlying and mysterious physiological effect in our body and soul called happiness>>>

NOVEL

هوس ۲

سه نفر را برای دل خودت کشتی، سه نفر را هم باید برای دل من بکشی

10-Oct-2009
لجبازی موتور امشب از نوع دیگری بود. این وسیله که تا امشب بیمار بود گویا همین امشب هم مرده بود. یک لحظه بیاد اتومبیل حاج آقا افتاد که بی صاحب درون ویلا مانده بود. می توانست پانصد متر راه آمده را باز گردد و آن را تصاحب کند. حداقل تا رسیدن به شهر و رهایی از این مکان شوم. اما برای روشن کردن و به راه انداختن آن نیاز به سویچ داشت و سویچ ماشین یقینا نزد حاج آقا بود. حاضر بود هزار سال در آنجا بماند اما دوباره پا به درون آن اتاق نگذارد و آن جنازه ها را مجددا نبيند.>>>

POETRY

بیا به تماشای آفتاب بنشینیم

تقدیم به: دختران آفتاب

10-Oct-2009
مادران داغدار
انگشتان پیروزی
در هوا می‌رقصاندند
و ما نشان می‌دادیم که می‌توانیم
دستان خود را گره کنیم
>>>

POETRY

The End of the Road
10-Oct-2009 (2 comments)
And now, Majid,
You've ended here
Leaning back in a rocking chair
With a baby's swing nearby--
A gift you bought for Âzad
And now should go to Good Will.
What did you want
And where have you gotten?>>>

IRAN-U.S.

No friend of ours

A U.S.-Iran strategic realignment would be undesirable

08-Oct-2009 (5 comments)
For the United States to align itself with a government such as the Islamic Republic of Iran would be to kick the opposition in the teeth. The Islamic Republic has shown that it is neither Islamic nor a republic -- in the elegant phrasing of Iran's respected "dissident ayatollah," Ali Montazeri. And now it is running scared. The regime is afraid to kill protesters, since doing so only inflames the opposition. At the September 19 Quds Day protests, it did not even arrest them, aware of how socially explosive the accusations of retaliatory prison rape have been. In contrast, protesters were bold enough to stand next to Ahmadinejad and shout "resign, resign" when he was interviewed on state television>>>

NUCLEAR

Some Success In Round One

The term "sanction" was never uttered in Geneva talks

08-Oct-2009 (one comment)
The European Union Foreign policy Chief Javier Solana at the end of his talks with Iran's negotiating team at Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 1st reported Iran's readiness to allow the Inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit its recently declared uranium enrichment plant. The visit relieved the tension orchestrated by President Barack Obama and his European allies, President Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain. Another progress was that the U.S. and other world powers agreed to process low-enriched uranium from Iran>>>

RETREAT

تغییر سیاست خارجی یا وقت‌کشی؟

چه انگیزه‌هایی باعث شده که رژیم در این مذاکرات تن به عقب‌نشینی بدهد؟

08-Oct-2009
عقب‌نشینی جمهوری اسلامی در مذاکرات ژنو البته و به ظاهر در مقیاس محدودی بوده است. موافقت با ارسال اورانیوم تغلیظ شده در حد 3 تا 5 در سد به روسیه برای تغلیظ آن تا 19.75 در سد، دعوت از نمایندگان آژانس بین‌المللی انرژی اتمی برای بازدید از تأسیسات تازه اعلام شده در قم، و گفتگوی مستقیم نمایندگان جمهوری اسلامی و آمریکا در حاشیه کنفرانس، ظاهرا گام‌های کوچکی در حل مناقشات هسته‌ای ایران با غرب بشمار می‌رود. ولی اگر به مواضع رسمی دولت ایران و رجزخوانی‌های چند ساله اخیر آقای احمدی‌نژاد توجه کنیم به وضوح دیده می‌شود که این گام‌های به ظاهر کوچک از یک چرخش فاحش رژیم جمهوری اسلامی در سیاست هسته‌ای و خارجی آن حکایت می‌کند>>>

IRANIANS

Good New - Bad News

Instead of finding ways to help the movement, fossils try to claim it

08-Oct-2009 (2 comments)
First the Good News: We – The Iranian Immigrants of all ages - just made a great showing in New York, of representing our much oppressed countrymen inside Iran. I was there for both days and certainly saw enough to know the majority of Iranians will build on their cumulative showing and will do even better in the future. I am certain of that – especially now that I see so many of our youth, breaking the old taboos and getting involved in politics relating to Iran.>>>

NOVEL

هوس

بر کردار امشبش هر نامی می توانست بنهد مگر جنایت

08-Oct-2009
صدای پارس سگها، تاریکی شب، بیگانگی با محیط و بیشتر از همه خشم و سراسیمگی او را درمانده کرده بود. هرچه تلاش می کرد نمی توانست در آن فضای کم نور عقزبه های ساعت را ببیند اما می دانست چیزی به طلوع خورشید نمانده و بزودی شب شکسته و روز آغاز خواهد شد. نمی توانست پیش از برآمدن آفتاب خود را به شهر برساند و در روشنایی روز هم نمی شد با آن حال و روز و سر و وضع در برابر چشم مردم ظاهر شود. تازه فرضا هم که خود را به خانه می رساند مگر چقدر فرصت داشت در آنجا بماند و به سر و وضع خود برسد.>>>

POETRY

درحسرت  ُهرم آفتاب
08-Oct-2009 (2 comments)
وسردمان بود ما،
در عنفوان بلوغ.
تب ِ داغی دربطن تن داشتیم و
لرزش موجی بر جدار جان؛
و در انبوه ِ ازدحام ِ شهر شلوغ
ما مدام سردمان بود >>>

U.S.-IRAN

The cheating card

Obama makes up IAEA rules for Iran

06-Oct-2009 (7 comments)
For weeks, if not months, Obama borrowing a page or two from George Bush's ghastly playbook, worked hard to create a "coalition of the willing." 1) The post-election unrest and its aftermath involvement of security forces in Iran provided a golden opportunity for Obama's administration to rally a united front of the imperialist nations against Iran's nuclear program and at its center the uranium enrichment industry. 2) In Eastern Europe, Obama scrapped the plans for a ballistic missile defense system with an eye to attract Russia to the coalition and finally, 3) he slapped tariffs on Chinese tires to pressure them to remain a silent opposition>>>

TORA BORA

Akmed Strikes Back

Must you use a most unimaginative derogatory name such as 'Akmed' to refer to all of us?

06-Oct-2009 (4 comments)
I was getting on a flight to start my vacation. When I approached my seat, a nice Texan lady in the seat next to mine started eyeing me with a bit of suspicion. "What's wrong with you?... Your hair is all... dark and ethnic. Your eyes are so... not blue... so demonic. You look so... unlike us. Oh my god! I'm scared." Before I could react she began screaming frantically: "Marshal! Air marshal!" A mean-looking large man and a tiny one trying to look mean by chewing a toothpick jumped out of their seats, pulled out their Tasers, approached and assumed shooting postures. "Don't move, scumbag," yelled the large one>>>

STORY

The News

“It happened last night, in his sleep,” she said

06-Oct-2009 (21 comments)
There are good days and bad days, even good years and bad years. But then, there are years like the year my son was born. It was the same year my father died. Who knows how these years are supposed to be called? A simple ringtone started this all. It was my mother. Father’s stroke was two months behind us and everything, like in fairy tales, was going to work out just fine. Father was going to wake up one morning, remembering us and remembering who he was and we were going to talk about the past the same way we used to tell a story with happy ending>>>

POETRY

زاهد مکار
06-Oct-2009 (4 comments)
یارب ار زاهد مکار نهد چهره به خاک
نیک داند که کند خاک پلیدی را پاک

دامن آلوده، تن آلوده، ردا آلوده
این بود زاد ره رجعت او در فتراک

ظاهرش پاک و درون ناک و عمل در لاک است
نییت‌اش ناسره، معجون ریا، جوهره ناک >>>

POETRY

Fuzzy Logic, fuzzy thought, and fuzzy Dardedel

In honor of Lotfi Zadeh an old friend and wonderful soul

06-Oct-2009 (3 comments)
Strolling on a foggy night,
Talking to Zadeh, a witty scientist,
I discovered how fuzzy our minds are.
When I told him that my lover wore red silk
He asked me: 'What shade of red?'
I said: 'Well, it was not maroon or magenta or pink,
But a sexy red just a little lighter than the stoplight
That freezes people in their tracks.' >>>