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New Fears

The latest U.S. National Security Estimate reportedly revises the conclusions of a controversial 2007 NIE on Iran, which argued that the regime had halted its clandestine work on a nuclear weapons program. When the 2007 estimate's "key judgments" were declassified and released, they offered a starkly different perspective than the message emanating from the Bush White House, which had been emphasizing a growing Iranian threat. Yet public perception of the 2007 NIE largely ignored one of its other key findings: that Iran was continuing to develop uranium enrichment technology>>>

Thank God you are God

I used to read what is claimed to be your last holy book written in Arabic, the Quran, because Mullahs have told us, and still do, that Quran cannot be translated into any other language. Although prohibition against translation seems to be more of a theological matter rather than a translational issue, I believe it is more a political concern. The Islamic clergymen believe that Quran is your word, God, and if it is translated into another language, it then becomes the word of human beings>>>

Part of the Family

A month ago, I had never had a boos. I was just a Berkeley guy, an English teacher of all things, who didn’t know a single Persian word, who was missing out on a huge Persian world. Those days are shadowy to me now, almost as though I was a different person, an outsider. In the few weeks since I have joined the staff at Golestan, in Berkeley, California, I have listened to the sounds of the school—the students, Yalda joun, the teachers—and, I think I have learned something. Now, I think I’m part of the family>>>

زیرپوش ایتالیایی

شش ماه بعد از انقلاب، اژدر سردرگم بود. در همان موقع دولت آمریکا اعلام کرد که افسران نیروهای مسلح و پلیس ایران از سرگرد به بالا می توانند به راحتی به آمریکا مهاجرت کنند. داستان از آنجا جدی شد که تعدادی از دوستان نظامی اژدر تصمیم گرفتند با استفاده از فرصت به دست آمده خود را بازخرید کرده و به آمریکا بیایند. اژدر در مسیر گردباد حوادث قرار گرفت و طوفان ما را آورد اینجا. کالیفرنیا>>>

سگها بیشتر از آدمها

مهربان؟
كی رحم داشته این خاندان؟
گوشت
گوشتِ تازۀ جوان
حلال است و طیب و طاهر
محلول در فقهِ پویا،
متنِ فتوا.
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ماه گرفت

خرمن زلف تو چون روی تو ناگاه گرفت
یک زبان بانک بر آمد ز جهان ماه گرفت

سینه پوشاندی و من غمزده گفتم یارب
شب یلدا شد و خورشید سحر گاه گرفت
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