INDEPENDENCE

Stealing riches

What should the third world do in order to protect itself

by Ben Madadi
14-Dec-2007 (10 comments)
Why so many Iranians fear of their INDEPENDENCE to be taken away by the US or other foreign countries, INFIDEL, or maybe more of a fidel nature? This fear is a very old one and we can mostly guess about its causes and origins. Of course this is nothing particular to Iranians, and I have seen citizens from Lybia or Iraq to Uganda, Congo or Venezuela and so forth to have similar fears. Why are these people afraid of the West (what is perceived as the most modern and powerful countries in the world) threatening their INDEPENDENCE, or maybe pride, or maybe... >>>

INNOCENT

Call from death row

My instincts tell me that at the end of this black night, a warm sun is going to shine in the sky

by Ali Mahin Torabi
13-Dec-2007 (68 comments)
Walls, only walls. I am surrounded by walls. I cannot forget any of the terrifying moments of these last few days. I don't want to think about how time is running out. Only a few more days... From the first day of my arrest, five years ago, until now, the sky is all I can see. During all these unbearable moments, I can only stare at the endless fences of my prison. I can only see its towers and its barbed-wires which pierce my heart. Do you hear the bleeding of my wounded heart?>>>

HYPOTHETICAL

What would you tell him?

Innocent question for you Iranians, who happen to be Muslim

by Cameron Niakan
13-Dec-2007 (42 comments)
"I am 35 years old, and live in Iran," he tells you. OK. 35? This is not IranianSingles.com. The guy looks at least 55 for God's sake. But fine, you let it go.
"Ehhhhhhh iroonee hasteed? Pas cheraa zoodtar nemeegeed? Cheh lahjatoon khoobeh. Taazeh oomadeed? Kojaa veezaaa gerefteed?"
Ignoring you, he continuous: "Life is not bad, although it could be better. There's a corrupt group of individuals that are powerful and run the show, and the central government has not been very stable, but, personally, I can't complain too much. I want to see my country prosperous, Iranians good to each other, and world peace." >>>

ART

Shape and purpose

It was as though all my life I had been longing for the way clay feels in my hands

by Nazy Kaviani
13-Dec-2007
Quite by accident, I came to know an accomplished Iranian artist in our community in Berkeley. His name is Farrokh Shehabi, and he is a ceramics artist. Though he is an engineer by education and profession and managed his construction business for many years, for the past ten years he has found his lost love and passion, pottery. He says about that passion: “It was as though all my life I had been longing for the way clay feels in my hands, as it finds shape and purpose, each piece telling its own story.” >>>

POLITICS

شانس آخر

چقدر برای اصلاح طلبی شانس موفقیت وجود دارد؟

by oazadi
13-Dec-2007 (one comment)
آنالیز کردن این دوره بسیار حساس تاریخ دمکراسی در ایران بی شک راه موثری برای درک بهتر ماجراست. در یک بررسی جامعه شناسانه می توان موقعیت بقرنج جریان اصلاحات در ایران را بهتر درک کرد. در شرایط کنونی اصلاحات ضعیف است. با یک شکست محصول اشتباهات سابق روبروست و از خیلی جاها صدای مخالفت می شنود. اصلاحات اساسا با سه چالش روبروست: چالش با محافظه کاران انحصار طلب ، چالش با براندازی خواهان و چالش های داخلی سه طیف سنتی ، رادیکال و میانه رو در درون جریان اصلاحات.>>>

POETRY

My Liberty
by jamh
13-Dec-2007 (one comment)
In your jewel studded dress now
you strike your favorite pose
amidst ruined houses of clay.

I lament death for sure,
but also the transformation
of your beacon of Hope
to this burning sword. >>>

LOVE

خانه ای از شن و ماسه

شیفته و بی قرار جلوی درب خانه می نشینم تا که تو بیایی

by hadi khojinian
13-Dec-2007
برایم نوشتی که مرز رویا و واقعیت را گم کرده ای و این چه خوب است و دلت می خواهد در این مرز توهم بمانی نه برای همیشه که چند گاهی ! اسامی فراوانی برای خواندن تو هر روز تمرین می کنم هر روز به تنم آب می زنم خوش بو ترین عطر ها را به پوستم می زنم لباس جدیدی برای خودم می خرم هر روز جلوی آینه می ایستم و خودم را برانداز می کنم تا غبار زمانه را از خودم بر چینم.>>>

NUCLEAR

Warped logic

You masturbate in the closet, you beat your wife and Iran had a nuclear weapons program

by Guive Mirfendereski
13-Dec-2007 (22 comments)
of the NIEThe ink is dry on the 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear capabilities. And yet the Bush Administration keeps watering down its message. One official after another has been going around calling Iran still dangerous and still a threat and still deserving of greater sanctions! So, I ask, per the line in David Letterman’s shtick, “NIE: Is this anything?” It is something alright: It is a first rate exercise in obfuscation: perhaps, it is designed to facilitate a military strike on Iran by allowing the elaboration of and attention to other reasons for continued enmity toward or possibly even attacking Iran >>>

MMM

Feel good foods

Christmas is coming… (And its not just the ‘Goose’ that’s going to get fat!)

by Shabnam_Ghayour
13-Dec-2007 (21 comments)
Even before the Christmas period falls upon us, we are already recovering from the holiday aftermath of Thanksgiving. Greed has once again, gotten the better of us and some of us are paying the price in the form of fatigue, sluggishness and weight gain. So what on earth are we supposed to do when we haven’t yet reached the ‘Mother’ of all holidays, Christmas? Well, I don’t know about you, but barely a week into December and I’m feeling lethargic, heavier and generally not at my peak. In anticipation of the Christmas season, I have decided to eat sensibly to prevent any needless weight gain even before the Christmas and New Year is upon us. >>>

LIFE

Touched by an Angel

What right do I have to complain about life?

by Setareh Makinejad
13-Dec-2007 (2 comments)
The pain we are all feeling is real and devastating. It is true that our dear little Lauren is finally free of pain. Her suffering is finally over. How we all wish her life story would not have ended here prematurely, two months short of her 14th birthday. This is so unbelievably unfair. Lauren was denied the chance to fully experience life. Just as she was blossoming as an intelligent, beautiful young lady, her body was viciously attacked for the third time by Cancer, one of the worst enemies of the mankind>>>

PEOPLE

War on error

Stories of Muslims in post-9/11 America

by Melody Moezzi
12-Dec-2007 (18 comments)
Lounging contentedly on the bed in her apartment some thirty-five stories directly above the FDR, Roxana looks at me standing over her and proclaims, "Interview me," as though she were Julia Roberts promoting her next blockbuster. I know this is going to be difficult. I have known Roxana for over eight years now. We met in college at Wesleyan when she was a senior and I was a freshman, and within days, we were inseparable. She was the only other Iranian girl I had heard of at Wesleyan, and she seemed to know everything and everyone there was to know there. We were both loud,opinionated, sarcastic, and naive.We were also both virgins and agreed that men were useful almost solely for opening unyielding jars of pickles and hooking up electronic equipment>>>

HOSTAGE

Day 52

Christmas in Tehran

by Brian Josepher
12-Dec-2007 (17 comments)
With the Christmas season in full swing and the day rapidly approaching, I thought it might be a good idea to recollect on a Christmas past. The date was December 25, 1979. The location was Tehran, the American embassy, a building on the grounds known as the Mushroom Inn. This was day 52 of the global shift known as the hostage crisis. “Hello, my name is Joseph Subic Jr. I am a Sergeant in the Marine Corp. I would like to begin my statement with the personal. I traveled this country before the embassy takeover. I saw different towns, different villages. I saw a way of life>>>

RIGHTS

Dignity and justice for all

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains as relevant today and it was 59 years ago

by Elahe Amani
12-Dec-2007 (3 comments)
December 10 we not only celebrated Human Rights Day, but also the launch of the year long campaign leading to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The theme for 2008, the year long campaign is “Dignity and justice for all of us”. As we reflect today, there are many reasons to celebrate how far human community has come since 1948, in it’s journey of protecting and ensuring fundamental freedoms for each member of human race. The life of the declaration, conceived as an outcome of the soul of a world severely injured by the horrors of the Second World War has been a very dynamic life.>>>

POETRY

by Mohammad Ilyas
12-Dec-2007 (3 comments)

جهان را کند مهر درونٍ سینه بند

چه کوهها وچَرَا چوپان و گوسفند


شکرِ خداتعالی که چشمم نمی رسد

سرِ شانه مار هستند که دِلم راگزند

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HUMOR

در باب غنی سازی اورانیوم

بعد از کریسمس دوباره کمی داد وقال در مورد ایران خواهند کرد،

by Jeesh Daram
11-Dec-2007 (8 comments)

- میگم عباس آقا، این جریان آقای بوش چیه که میگن دستگاهای اطلاعاتیش ریدمون زدن، و هرچی در مورد غنی سازی اورانیوم در ایران میگفتن غلط از آب در اومده؟ راسته؟

- نه بابا، اینا همش برنامه است. مگه بلا نسبت شما، اینا خرن، که بیان برضد خودشون حرف بزنن ورئیس جمهورو بیخودی کنف کنن و بگن اشتباه کردیم؟ این از جای دیگه آب میخوره.

- آخه اینا که میدونی آمریکائی ان، تا یخورده دستشون به آدم میخوره، زود میگن "آیم ساری" شاید ازین نظره؟
 

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