Archive - Sep 2007 - Blog entry

Rehabilitating Iran's Military

The recent news about the change of leadership at the "Sepah Pasadaran" got me to thinking about how absurdly inefficient the current Iranian defense structure is. Take a country with a limited amount of resources available to allocate to its defense needs, then find yourself forced to split those resources between two identical organizations (the "Artesh", and the "Sepah") created, in parallel, to meet the defense needs of that country?!?! >>>

اندر جدال زرافشان و میلانی

 وقتی انتقادی درکار است، چگونگی بکار گرفتن کلمات است که نیت اصلی نویسنده را روشن می کند که قصد اصلی اش کوبیدن  است و یا سازندگی. وقتی از صیف وسیعی از کلمات موهن برای بیان نظراتمان استفاده می کنیم، یعنی عصبانی هستیم و بی منطق، و چیز دیگری رنجمان میدهد و به چیز دیگر آویزان شده ایم. و در هر حال متوجه این نیستیم که خوانندگان ما که در واقع مخاطب واقعی ما هستند، دارای آنچنان شعور، بینش، و استدلالی هستند که بتوانند بین آن دو تمیز قائل شوند. سخن در این است.   

 

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بی آزادگی کی ارزشی دارد این جان ما

This summer, I was thinking about AZADI word. When you look for it in Iranian literature and discussion you find a huge vacuum! So I’d like to propose you a new version of EI Iran. May be it could help to start a discussing letting us to define what is AZADI for Iranians! >>>

Iranian rappers in LA

Two-part video clips on Iranian rappers feel about living in USA. I feel like they have a lot to say which we can learn about them. >>>

Portraying Iranians as insects

Let me assure you that I'm not writing at the behest of any certain group or organization but solely on behalf of our shared humanity in the meager hope that I may arouse some level of moral decency at your paper that would offer an apology to the 70 million Iranian people you have offended.
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America fights back

Bahman Mahmoudi writes: President George W. Bush and his Vice-President Dick Chaeyney have concluded that it is time to straighten the record so that history would reflect a better image of their imperial rule and collect better speaking fees. Mr. Cheyney suggested to deport all Iranians and let them go home and enjoy the fruits of the Islamiic revolution in 1979. >>>

Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran--anyone see this article?

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New Weblog

This Weblog denoted to Honar & Adabiat Farsi. >>>

Silver Lining To A National Tragedy.

"Tasliyat." The recent election of a known scoundrel to the leadership post of an important decision-making council in Iran's body-politic amounts to nothing short of a national tragedy, and a reconfirmation of repeated observations and experiences over 28 years establishing either the inability or unwillingness of Iran's "rohaniyat" (as evidenced in the outcome of their vote in this very same election) to properly address the challenges and needs facing the Iranian nation.>>>

Iranians Depicted as Cockroaches by US Newspaper

In the early 1990s, prior to the Rwandan genocide, the minority Tutsi group in Rwanda were constantly called inyenzi, or cockroaches, by those who sought to destroy them. The strategy was to dehumanize the minority group, making it easier to inspire others to join in destroying the minority group, thus resulting in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The same rhetoric has often been used by Israeli soliders and generals which have been connected with Palestinian massacres.>>>

welcome to real iran

welcome to real iran >>>

Pavarotti on fire

I had bought the season tickets to the opera at New York's Lincoln Center months in advance and by the time of the performances, I had almost forgotten about them. One day I looked at my tickets and noticed that two of them were for a performance on the following day. Since I had no one to go with, I took the tickets to college the next day and after the end of my afternoon class, I decided I would walk the halls and stop random girls and ask them if they would like to go to the opera -- in two hours. Why not? I would have said yes! >>>

Luciano Pavarotti will never die

I just learned Luciano Pavarotti has passed away. Such a terrible day for humanity.>>>

Esfandiari Released Based on Senator’s Request

I’m not sure if this classifies as “dialogue” between the two countries, but lost in the news concerning Haleh Esfandiari and Parnaz Azim’s released is that it was done primarily through Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s orders. According to the LA Times, Khamenei was replying to a letter from Esfandiari’s boss, former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton, the co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, who wrote a “respectful letter asking for Esfandiari’s release and pledging to work for peace between the U.S. and Iran.”>>>

می‌خواهم تا وقتی که می‌ميرم زنده باشم.

پائولو کوئیلو٬ نویسنده‌ی برزیلی٬ کسی است که تا کنون حدود نود میلیون نسخه از کتابهایش به فروش رفته است. رمان سال ۱۹۸۸ او٬ کیمیاگر٬ به ۶۳ زبان ترجمه شده و حدود ۴۰ میلیون نسخه فروش داشته است. او نقد و شناخته شده است برای زبان نوشتاری ساده و فلسفه‌ی دوران تازه‌اش. طرفدارانش با شوق داستانهای رمزآمیزش را می‌خوانند و دنبال می‌کنند. آخرین کتابش٬ جادوگر پورتوبلو ٬ هم اکنون منتشر شده و در کتابفروشی‌ها است >>>