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Charshanbeh Soori on Fire

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Do we need hemayat?

It might be worth our while to pay closer and for once unbiased attention to the United States and its policy toward Iran. We’d see that as with the Mossadeq episode, as with the pre- and post-Islamic Revolution of 1979, as with the turmoil following the fraudulent presidential elections of June 2009, this policy, when it exists at all, is muddled and pulling in different directions. The White House, State Department, CIA, experts and analysts inside and outside the government, all come up with different and contradictory conclusions>>>

Where is USrael?

When we were kids we were all asked by our teachers or parents or friends where a specific country was and if we had good knowledge about its history, geography, etc. Even as grown-ups, we have been faced with these questions. If we did not know the country, then we asked for clues. So I want to ask you where is USrael? I bet you have never heard of such a county. Am I right? So I’ll give you more clues to see if you can point it out on the map of the world>>>

Eid Didani ba Skype

In October 2003, I wrote an article about how the world is changing, how the information era is making what we perceived as normal life become obsolete. No more walks to the grocery store, online shopping has taken over Mr Petal shops and Amazon is the way to go, (oh hell where I am they deliver a can of coke with a phone call…for Free!). The change is so vast that we are seeing classic symptoms; regimes collapsing; Old orders retreating; Essential commodity costs rocketing, and earthquakes telling us as men we are certainly not the super power. By the time we reach the equinox, on March 21 god knows where we maybe!>>>

Newspapers & Cigarettes

Kal-Abbas is mad. Stark naked, like the day he was born, he runs out of his tattered house into the street, hollering at the top of his lungs. He curses at the people, as they try to get out of his way. When he sees women, Kal-Abbas stands still, leering. They scream and run away, holding on tighter to their chadors. He yells and runs after them, schlepping his bare feet over the hot & dusty asphalt. The neighborhood kids stop playing ball and follow him, laughing and screaming: “Divooneh! Divooneh !” Kal-Abbas beats his chest and wiggles his wrinkled penis, repeating: “Divooneh! Divooneh!”>>>

The Master

When I first heard Tara Kamangar perform with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra I had a feeling that she would soon be invited back on the same stage. As it turned out, the next time I heard her perform, Kamangar was not a behind a grand piano locked in a precise and passionate embrace with a Rachmaninoff piece; the versatile concert musician was improvising gypsy-jazz with a fiddle tucked under her chin, accompanying the group Kiosk. This March 18, Kamangar will be back on the Oakland Symphony stage, this time the young master has a Beethoven concerto under her piano fingers>>>

غم اعتياديست

باد
 یادگار جنبش برگیرا
خسته
 در گوشهایم زمزمهمیکرد >>>

Different kind of bean

Libya is important because it has oil and much investment in European countries. As a polity is still rather Bedouin; it is a tent-republic in all of its manifestations down to the surrounding where Colonel Gaddafi holds court. He is not a very likable fellow and perhaps it was this antipathy among the Amercians that prompted President Obama to utter the words that no head of state should ever utter regarding another one: “He must go,” said the president. Just as Geroge W. Bush said of Saddam Hussein>>>

Not property, live-stock or slaves

Despite the knowledge that breaking the law might lead to execution, women have been noticeable at the forefront of the movement for democratic change in Iran. These activists have faced harassment, torture, travel bans and detention. The most inconceivable types of torture are inflicted on female prisoners who are only provided with the minimum of health services behind prison walls, if any>>>

The Ambassador

Hatefi was an assistant to a friend of the family stationed in the London embassy. He had been told to look after me, and he did so with great kindness. He also enjoyed taking time off from the office to take me and himself sightseeing. He liked to talk, and teaching me the ways of the world gave him a good excuse. We arrived at the embassy and walked up to the reception hall, the rumble of party chatter all around us. The ambassador was at the entrance, greeting the guests>>>

The Train that Traveled to Meet God

The train that was traveling to meet God had a brief stop at Station Earth. The Prophet turned to the people of earth and said, "Our destination is God. Who out there wants to join us? Which one of you wants to experience both love and suffering with us? Who is willing to believe that this life on earth is just a passing station?" Centuries passed but only a few people boarded the train>>>

پزشک بدون مغز و زن بدون آب

براش مشروب و شام خریدم، و یه قصه کاسب شدم. رشتی بود، ولی‌ جین و تونیک رو به سبک انگلیسی‌‌ها می‌‌خورد؛ بدون یخ! دستهای پینه بسته و صورت چرمینش، آدم رو به یاد عمله‌های لر می‌‌انداخت. صداش اما خیلی‌ گرم بود، و چشماش شادابی کودکانه داشت. ماهی‌ دم سیاه (داسی) کیپ تاون رو با سالاد خیار‌گوجه محلی ... که عین سالاد شیرازی خودمونه ... به اشتها می‌‌خورد و با پیشخدمت‌ها به زبون "سواحلی" شوخی‌ و خنده میکرد>>>

هوس تازه

قرار عشق بازی را در ترن شمال غربی گذاشتیم. راس ساعت به ایستگاه قطار رسیدیم. در کوپه ی بی - چهار نشستیم. تا به خانه برسیم سه ساعت و چهل و هشت دقیقه وقت داشتیم. قرار گذاشته بودیم که نیمه لباس هایمان را در بیاوریم و کاری با نیمه ی دیگر نداشته باشیم تا به حس واقعی اش برسیم. همین که ترن شروع به حرکت کرد شروع به بوسیدن لب های همدیگر کردیم>>>

Demiurge

The ruler who is weak
has had three names:
the Accuser, the Fool
and the Masker of Truth.
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Down but not out

Khamenei might be okay with a weak Rafsanjani but he does not want to see him eliminated. What Rafsanjani did was that he convinced Mahdavi-Kani to run. This man [Mahdavi-Kani] is a very conservative but a moderate cleric. Rafsanjani and Mahdavi-Kani have been political allies for many years. This [Mahdavi-Kani’s nomination and subsequent victory] was a team effort led by Rafsanjani. Mahdavi-Kani has always been viewed as someone who could mediate between different factions in the Islamic Republic>>>