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قهوه ترک، سیگار بهمن و نون خامهای ...
در این اوضاع و احوال، تهران فقط در ایام عید قابل بازدید است. سال پیش، هوا ملایم و لطیف بود؛ مثل همان موقع که آقا محمد خان عاشق پایتخت جدیدش شد! همه زده بودند بیرون، و جمعیت شهر رسیده بود به حداکثر ظرفیت مجاز برای زیست انسانی - یعنی چیزی حدود دو میلیون. مسیر سرازیری از پارک ساعی تا کافه نادری را پیاده آمدم؛ که بنظر من، بهترین روش برای لذت بردن و شناختن هر شهری ست
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POETRY
انبوه قلب ترا
باد ترانه میخواند
در ذهن پوک زمان
و قلب خیس تو
در کوچه ها ی خلوت درد میگذرد
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THINKING OF YOU
Express your love and appreciation
by AI
Traditional Nowruz celebrations include the preparation of a Haft Sin table which literally means the seven s’s. Seven items beginning with the Persian letter sin (equivalent to the English s) and which represent spring time are set out. To honor this tradition, this year Amnesty International has selected seven cases, all of them prisoners of conscience who have been identified by Amnesty International as “individuals at risk” and are therefore targeted for intensified campaigning
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DEMOCRACY
Finally this 32 year fermentation process seems near completion
Today a new dawn, a new era, is prevailing over the shores of Middle East and North Africa. It feels like a new life, a new beginning, even though for us Iranians our path may be longer to reach the dawn. Nevertheless, the end of this long, dark and torturous night is near. Soon everyone will witness the rays of the rising sun in the East. The recent out pours in the Middle East and North Africa for democracy are perhaps the result of what brave and undeniably courageous Iranians did in June 2009 - standing up against the most brutal regime, our region has ever seen
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NEW YEAR
The Persian New Year will find its way to my home and into my heart
I try to look at the positive side. The error in that puzzle seems to have been the kick I needed in my guts. It has told me that even if the world is not celebrating, it’s up to
me to make a small
haft seen, light Norooz candles, and pray for mankind. After all, this ancient feast is all that’s left of my Iranian-ness, it will forever define my identity and is the legacy I shall leave to my children. I can’t allow anger or sorrow to mar the optimism of vernal equinox
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POETRY
Ruffled Mother-Earth
Rattles unworried islands
Obliterates lives
Vicious ocean waves
Carry more catastrophes
Jolted Japan aches
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POETRY
چار تکبیر بدنیا زدم و هر چه به دنیاست
دیده را بستم و جز مهر تو از جمله گسستم
چون سیه مستی ام از نرگس مست تو مرا بس
دل گسستم ز سوای تو و در پای تو بستم
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POETRY
شنها را میتوانم شماره کنم
و آب دریاها را پیمانه بگیرم
من صدای خاموشی را می شنوم
و میدانم که مرد گنگ چه میگوید.
هشدار! بوی تند سنگ پشت میآید
با آن لاک استخوانی اش
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RADIATION
Can you imagine the nightmare if a natural disaster hits Bushehr?
The Iranian people -- especially those living in Bushehr, the sight of the nuclear power-plant-to-be -- must be feeling not merely a sense of sadness for the people of Japan in these days of severe hardship and suffering. As the people of Bushehr in particular start digesting the implications for them and start to find out about more details of the unfolding disaster in Japan, they certainly will be reflecting on their own situation and the possible threats directed at them by the nuclear power plant that has yet to go live, in their port city on Persian Gulf
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QUESTIONS
Japan tsunami and Iran’s quest for nuclear energy
It is time for Iran too to revisit its nuclear ambitions. Unlike Japan, Iran is immune to devastating tsunamis, as Iran possesses no oceanfront. But like Japan, Iran has proven to be an earthquake prone country. An earthquake of a similar magnitude as experienced near the cost of Japan can potentially threaten Iran’s nuclear reactors. Furthermore, Iran’s oil and gas and other industrial sectors have historically suffered from under-investment, grave negligence, and lack of overhaul. If anything, this history raises concerns about the safety of the Iranian nuclear reactors in the long run
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ACCOUNTABLITY
Holding Iran accountable for its human rights abuses
by Joanne Levine
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Suzanne Nossel spoke on Capitol Hill at an event sponsored by the National Iranian American Council before Congressional staffers, civil society and the press to make the case for creating a Special Rapporteur on Iran at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. "The case for a new mandate focused on human rights in Iran is powerful," Nossel said, explaining that the human rights situation in Iran has deteriorated since the 2009 Presidential elections
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SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR
کانال مستقیمی برای انعکاس اخبار مربوط به نقض حقوق بشر در ایران در سازمان ملل
ما در سالهای اخیر شاهد آنیم که جامعه جهانی بیش از گذشته به نقض حقوق بشر در ایران اعتراض میکند و کمتر روز و هفتهای است که صدایی در محکومیت رژیم ایران بلند نشود. این صداها همچنین در نهادهای بینالمللی و به خصوص سازمان ملل پژواک پیدا کرده است، به طوری که اکنون پس از نزدیک به یک دهه موضوع تعیین یک گزارشگر ویژه برای ایران در دستور کار شورای حقوق بشر قرار گرفته است
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IDEAS
If we can't stand up for NoRooz, then what do we stand for?
Once again, my personal NoRooz tradition and mission of bashing the inherently wrong and unduly horrendous English spelling of nowruz begins like Spring herself, anew. Once again, I carefully prepare to gird my loins as the necessary backlash arrives from those haplessly less versed than I in Anglicus Lactosa, and hopelessly trapped in Encyclopaedia Iranica, and we begin our endless dance once again
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POETRY
It concerns me
when we joke about catastrophes
It concerns me
when in our scale; the price of oil is heavier than freedom
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