IRI

Out of Ideas

Nader Hshemi says "War of ideas in Iran is over"

by Lewis Gropp
24-Jul-2011 (7 comments)
Most of Iranian society today is comprised of young people. They are highly educated, globalized, and most notably, unlike their parent's generation – they are non-ideological. What I mean by this is they are not interested in towing a party or propaganda line and, broadly speaking, they desire great personal and political freedom, support political pluralism, nonviolent social change and human rights. Most young people in Iran do not buy into the regime's propaganda. For how long can the Islamic Republic rule and seek to manipulate a recalcitrant population by telling lies, exaggerating threats and manufacturing crises?>>>

IDENTITY

هویت ایرانی یا هویت اسلامی؟

هرچه اسلاميست ها عليه هويت ما تاخت و تاز می کنند اين هويت بيش از پيش در وجود ما شعله می کشد

by shokooh.pasargad
24-Jul-2011 (10 comments)
در ماه های گذشته، هر آیت الله و امام جمعه و شیخ و ملایی، و هر به اصطلاح نماینده ی مجلسی، و هر سیاستمدار و متفکر مذهبی وابسته به حکومتی میان حرف هایش از چیزی به نام «هویت اسلامی» سخن می گوید و تاکید می کند که: «هویت ما اسلامی است و نه ایرانی». من در این جا سه نمونه از گفته های این افراد را که دو تای آن در نشریات رسمی دولتی منتشر شده و در واقع به نوعی تفکر کل حکومت اسلامی را مطر ح می کند برایتان می آورم:>>>

BAHAI

There are no others

Conference: “Intellectual Othering and the Bahai Question in Iran”

by bordbar
24-Jul-2011 (4 comments)
Some speakers described how Iranian society has neither been able to take advantage of the contributions made by Bahais nor has it acknowledged the historical implications of their actions by othering Bahais. Drawing upon a chapter from her new book Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement, Dr. Farzaneh Milani shared that history books in Iran do not discuss Tahirih as one of the first initiators of the women's rights movement in Iran. Similarly Behrouz Jabbari provided evidence for the unfortunate omission of poetry by Iranian Bahais from anthologies>>>

BOOK

Defining Iran

Some Islamists do appeal to Iranianism, but their notion of Iranianism is nothing but Islamism

by bparhami
24-Jul-2011 (8 comments)
Iranianism does not have a single interpretation. Pahlavi’s version was based on the ancient Achaemenid era, with its grand civilization, often symbolized by Cyrus and Darius and given the geographic moniker “Persia.” Competing with the interpretation above is the Sassanid era “Iranshar” or “Iranzamin” (empire/land of the Aryans, roots of the modern name “Iran”), just prior to the Arab invasion. The latter interpretation represents a less grandiose, and more historically accessible, picture of an era when Iranians were already monotheistic under Zoroastrianism>>>

WINEHOUSE

مثبت بی نهایت یا منفی بی نهایت؟

نمی توان صراحتا اعتیاد و مشکلات اخلاقی یک هنرمند را به صرف هنرش نادیده گرفت

by flertishia11
24-Jul-2011 (18 comments)
برایم جالب بود که بعضی دوستان به خصوص دوستان خارج نشین از این خواننده یک اسطوره ساختند. شاید اگر می شد صراحتا اعلام می کردند که چه اشکالی دارد که او معتاد بود؟ معتاد هم یک انسان است (که صد البته هست) همان قدر که هیتلر هم انسان بود. همان قدر که استالین و دیکتاتورهای فعلی انسانند! همان قدر که همه ی ما انسانیم و حق حیات داریم. اما آیا واقعا اعتیاد کاری شایسته و قابل توجیه است به صرف اینکه فرد مورد نظر در زندگی شخصی یا نوع تربیتش مشکلاتی داشته؟>>>

MOJAHEDIN

Bad Idea

Why delisting MEK threatens democracy movement

by jamal.abdi
22-Jul-2011 (105 comments)
The unprecedented campaign in Washington to remove the Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations represents a critical threat to Iran's indigenous democratic movement. Unlike Iran's democratic opposition, which advances through nonviolence the principles of democracy and human rights, the MEK is an undemocratic organization that pursues its agenda through violence. Delisting the MEK and freeing the group to inject violence into Iran's democratic opposition movement would help derail yet again Iran's century-long struggle for democracy>>>

VIOLENCE

در ناگزیریِ دادخواهی و بخشش

چگونه رفتار کنیم که قربانیِ خشونت خود عاملِ خشونت نشود؟

by Peyman Vahabzadeh
22-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
گستردگیِ آنچه بر ما، جوانان دهه‌ی شصت، رفت را شاید به خوبی بدانیم. به گمان من،‌ امّا، هنوز هم به درستی از ژرفای زخمی که برداشته‌ایم، آگاه نیستیم. و این جای درنگِ بسیار دارد و جای ژرف‌اندیشی پیرامونِ جایگاهِ امروزین خویش ــ جایگاهِ مائی که از آن روزهای خشونتِ لجام‌گسیخته و اهریمنانه جان به در برده‌ایم. از همین روست که مسئولیت به یاد آوردنِ آنچه بر ما و بر نسل ما رفته بر شانه‌هایمان سنگینی می‌کند>>>

CHARMED

Game, Set and Match

Shahrzad Sepanlou concert at Yoshi’s

by Ari Siletz
21-Jul-2011 (7 comments)
By the time we got to the encore, the audience’s polite “let’s wait and see” clapping had turned into a heartfelt applause of delighted surprise. Stage time was short at San Francisco’s Yoshi’s Jazz Club and we weren’t sure if we were even going to get that encore. But when its final note was played, the crowd enthusiasm broke the critic’s barrier. It was as though a tennis champ had slammed a powerful ace blowing away his opponent with game, set and match>>>

STORY

At the Coffee Shop

"You know I've still never seen my father's grave?"

by siamak vossoughi
21-Jul-2011
"Well well well," said Gholamhossein Mohammadizadeh "Look what the cat dragged in." He said it in English, owing to the fact that cats did not drag anybody in in Iran. "If this wasn't such a high-class establishment," Ali Reza Karimi said "I'd give you the one-finger salute." The men laughed. "When'd that ever stop you before?" Gholamhossein said. "You got a point there," Ali Reza grinned. "I thought this guy had to work late today," said Akbar Hashemi as Ali Reza stood in line for coffee>>>

POETRY

شبگیری
by Jahangir Sedaghatfar
21-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
پیر ِ ما هم دیری است دگر بار سفر بسته است...
این زمان ما امّا،
چشم ِ بیدار به تقویم زمان خیره و
شب مانده هنوز؛
ما به امید یکی‌ صبح ِ جوان، >>>

VIEW

Conscientious Mistake

U.S. Army is tacitly accepting Islamic doctrine of jihad

by Adm. James A. Lyons
20-Jul-2011 (18 comments)
By granting conscientious objector status to Pfc. Abdo, the Army is tacitly accepting a key tenet of the Islamic doctrine of jihad, as embraced by al Qaeda and other terrorists groups, which states that any incursion by non-Muslims into the Islamic lands makes it the duty for all Muslims to fight the "occupiers." This view is shared by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has challenged American efforts in Afghanistan as "unwelcome outsiders," in effect, occupiers>>>

STRONGMAN

Gentle Giant?

Rouhullah Dadashi was no hero

by Siamack Baniameri
20-Jul-2011 (75 comments)
Rouhollah Dadashi was nothing more than a steroid-infested thug who was a part of the government intimidation machine. During the uprising of 2009, while Iranian youth were beaten, killed, raped and tortured, Dadashi dedicated his strongman competition title to Ahmadinejad and called him the greatest Iranian alive. He was a basiji enforcer and received allowance from the government for personal training services he provided to Basij and Sepah. In a nutshell, Dadashi was Islamic Republic’s Shahban "Beemokh" Jafari>>>

MURDOCH

زلزله سیاسی بریتانیا و مطبوعات آزاد

مطبوعات آزاد مهمترین رکن

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
20-Jul-2011 (one comment)
بزرگ‌ترین شرکت مطبوعاتی جهان در معرض گسترده‌ترین اتهامات جنایی شنود تلفنی و رشوه به پلیس در این کشور قرار گرفته است. تنها و تنها یک عامل توانست طلسم این مافیای قدرت را بشکند و به رابطه فسادآمیزی در قدرت که بیش از سه دهه ادامه داشت خاتمه دهد: تحقیقات یک روزنامه‌نگار و پیگیری یک روزنامه. و تنها در یک جامعه آزاد و با حضور روزنامه‌های آزاد و فارغ از دسته‌بندی‌های قدرت است که چنین تحقیقاتی امکان انتشار پیدا می‌کند>>>

MOSSADEGH

کودتای 30 تیر 31

آنهایی که قدرت را از طریق تظاهرات خیابانی به دست می آورند لاجرم در تظاهرات دیگری آن را از دست میدهند

by cyrous moradi
20-Jul-2011 (84 comments)
روز 30 تیر 31،دکتر محمد مصدق که نهادینه کردن دموکراسی در ایران را از اهداف همیشگی خود اعلام کرده بود، نظیر همه روشنفکران ایرانی، قول خود را فراموش کرد و با روشی غیر دموکراتیک و به شکل کودتا، مجدداً قدرت را در دست گرفت. با وجود آنکه در رفراندوم 16 مرداد سال 1332، مردم به انحلال مجلس رای دادند با اینحال، انحلال واقعی آن در همان روز 30 تیر سال 1331 و به دست خود دکتر مصدق صورت گرفته بود>>>

POETRY

My planet, my home
by Roshanak Amrein
20-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
... young and old
fall like autumn leaves
and we say:
Ah.. don’t look at this tyranny,
this ruin
this darkness
It brings sorrows and the sorrow >>>
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