Date

OBAMA

پیام اصلی اوباما

او در شرایطی ممکن است به ایران حمله کند که (همانند لیبی) مطمئن باشد بخش بزرگی از مردم آن را «خیرخواهانه» خواهند دید

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
25-Mar-2011 (24 comments)
اگر آمریکا طرحی برای حمله نظامی به ایران داشته باشد، باید بتواند پیش از آن «خیرخواهانه» بودن حرکت خود را به مردم ایران بقبولاند. باید بتواند نشان دهد که آمریکا تنها با رژیم ایران خصومت دارد و با مردم ایران دوست است. باید تصویر آمریکای متجاوز را از ذهن مردم ایران بزداید و تصویر انسانی‌تری از آن به ایرانیان عرضه کند. باید با زبان و فرهنگ مردم ایران سخن بگوید و خود را با دردهای آنان آشنا نشان دهد. از قربانیان سرکوب رژیم نام ببرد، و از شاعران محبوب ایران نقل قول کن>>>

SHAHYAD

A Monument of Many Faces

Waiting for her people to return to her

by Morteza Baharloo
25-Mar-2011 (4 comments)
Shahyad stands tall, proud and clad in white, as if she were the Bride of Iran. When conceptualized, she was to represent the grandeur of Iranian civilization and also provide a gateway welcoming visitors into the capital. Iranians, known for their obsessive hospitality, created an “arch of triumph,” or taq-e nosrat, located adjacent to the airport to greet every visitor. Like many historic Iranian monuments, the expansive grounds surrounding the tower were intended as a venue for celebrations, parades and other cultural events and activities>>>

STORY

چهار فصل

صبحی بر می خیزی و می بینی که زمین مانند بستری شده از پر قو

by Fatemeh Zarei
25-Mar-2011 (one comment)
دلم می خواهد که تو بهار قشنگ شهر مرا ببینی. آی که چه لذت بخش است. به اندک زمانی شاخه های ترد باریک و خشکیده گره گره می شوند. این گره ها بزرگ می شوند چنانچه تو خیال می کنی هر شاخه تسبیح بلندی ست با دانه های گرد منفصل. و راستی که تسبیح اند. خوبتر که نگاه کنی و دل به دانه ها بدهی تسبیح آن جوانه های کوچک مچاله را می شنوی که آرام آرام سر از سجده کردگار برمی دارند و در رقص آرام سبکشان در شکفتن، شادی می پراکنند>>>

POETRY

چهاروتیک
by Alef Mahan
25-Mar-2011
اندوه، مرگ و كینه
دستِ اهرمن پر است همیشه اما
با چهار دستِ خالی ما
عشق را تكخالِ دل بودیم >>>

POETRY

پنجم فروردین
by Mahnaz Badihian
25-Mar-2011 (one comment)
فرقی نمی کند که روز پنجم فروردین است
یا روز بیست و چهارم مارچ
سرزمین مادری که نیست
اینجا درختان شکوفه هم که می دهند
نمیدانند که نوروز با فدمهای با شکوهش
به آنها جلوه داده است >>>

IDEAS

The Empire’s Plan

For a new “democratic” Middle East

by Behzad Majdian
23-Mar-2011 (22 comments)
The new imperial plan for the Middle East capitalizes on the willingness of the modern middle-classes of the region to enthusiastically serve the international class of super-rich. They would gladly cooperate if they get some semblance of political power and some of what they think they are entitled to: individual rights and freedoms, and some opportunities in the neo-liberal economic environment to fulfill their consumerist dreams>>>

POLITICS

Green is not dead

Tyrants are falling

by Marian Brehmer
23-Mar-2011 (9 comments)
Hamid points out from the window of his flat. The 24-year-old student, Muslim, lover of classical Iranian music, turns into a witness when he recalls the events of 2009: "The whole road over there was occupied by the Basij, baring the protesters from escape." His apartment block is located in one of the calm sidelanes of Tehran's Azadi Street. This busy thoroughfare connects Azadi Square in the west of the city with the big Enqelab Square. "Azadi" means freedom in Persian and "enqelab" is the revolution>>>

FANTASY

فرشته ی افتاده از آسمان

بی اختیار در حال ذوب شدن در نگاه گرم و آسمانی فرشته افتاده از آسمان بودم

by hadi khojinian
23-Mar-2011 (16 comments)
اولین فرشته روی سقف افتاد. تا بلند بشوم، فرشته ی دوم در کنار رودخانه افتاد. سومی به روی درخت های باغچه افتاد و تا چهارمی به روی زمین بیافتد دوان دوان گرفتمش تا صدمه ای نبیند. فرشته ی چهارمی چشمان خیلی درشت زیبایی داشت. صورتش را دست زدم. آرایش نداشت. نه پودر سفید کننده و نه حتی ماتیک رنگی به لب هایش. با اینکه آرایش نکرده بود عجیب زیبا بود>>>

STORY

Mother and Child

It was a happy decision, but not too many people saw it that way

by siamak vossoughi
23-Mar-2011 (5 comments)
One summer I worked at a summer school. It was a good job, because there were kids. There was also a young mother of one of the boys who had to stay in the class in the morning otherwise the boy would feel too terrible. The boy was five. His name was Benny. He was a great man when his mother stayed in the class. He never got in anybody's way and he could join in with what anybody was doing. He didn't draw any distinctions, between boys and girls, between the boys who played sports outside and the ones who looked for ants>>>

POETRY

كشورم ايران
by G. Rahmanian
23-Mar-2011 (8 comments)
كشورم ايران است
زادگاه كورش و اردشير بابكان
روسيه از دوستان و
چين هم از خودمان
غرب جزء دشمنان است
>>>

EYDI

Norooz Blues

Arman and Arvin Hosseini sing and play New Year blues

by Arash Hosseini
21-Mar-2011 (4 comments)
...>>>

PAHLAVI

Reza Joon, man up or get out!

Need to challenge IRI with courage not words

by Siamack Baniameri
21-Mar-2011 (186 comments)
Pahlavi strikes me as a person who genuinely believes and respects personal freedoms. He displays a high degree of intelligence and great love for his country. He also seems to be an opportunistic politician who gets his moments in the spotlight as they come. He is not a risk-taker and does not seem to have the killer instinct that his grandfather had. And ultimately, he does not strike me as someone who can satisfy Iranians’ “Rostam Syndrome.” Maybe someday he will prove me wrong... but it’s highly unlikely>>>

POINT

That won't fly

Protecting Libyans or fighting Gaddafi?

by Guive Mirfendereski
21-Mar-2011 (5 comments)
Gaddafi is a tyrant and he should be removed from power through legitimate means, one of which is revolution, armed insurrection. But one gets the sense, this antipathetic personality is being attacked because he is so unappealing. If his lunacy was ever an issue, then what has taken the West all this time to remove him from power? If his attack on the insurrection is cause for protecting the civilian population, the U.N. needs to clarify if the protection of civilian innocents is really the same as protecting the insurrection from losing the struggle for power>>>

VIEW

Killing Qaddafi

Western media and military campaign against Libya

by Ardeshir Ommani
21-Mar-2011 (5 comments)
Edward Said was of the opinion that Orientalist scholarship was and continues to be inseparably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it... It is under the spell of such demeaning ideologies as Orientalism, humanitarian intervention, defense of democracy, free trade, glorification of military power and patriotism, which is currently ingrained in the mainstream American psyche, the U.S. ruling class and its allies savagely threaten, invade, massacre and plunder the material resources of other nations>>>

HYPOCRISY

What About Them?

Turning a blind eye to wholesale massacres in Bahrain and Yemen Hypocrisy

by Piyalechi
21-Mar-2011 (6 comments)
My understanding is that the operational goal of the military ass-kicking being meted out against Gaddafi is to stop him from slaughtering his people that oppose him and want him out of power. That is a noble goal that I have no argument against... What I am concerned about though, is that Libya isn’t the only Muslim country where the natives opposed to the government are being killed en masse by the government guns. In Bahrain and Yemen also, the opposition has been mowed down by government troops like it’s nobody’s business!>>>
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