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قسمتی از ماموریت "حاجی آقا" به "حجت الشریعه" برگرفته از "حاجی آقا"ی صادق هدایت

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دلایل حمله چنگیز مغول و چیرگی بر ایران از دیدگاه احمد کسروی

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Me & Rushdie (2)

I joined the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) in March 1981 (back then it was still called by its post-revolutionary name, Pars). My aunt, Laleh Bakhtiar, knew the head of the English section and was determined to get me a job. She had become my de facto parent since I arrived unannounced at her Tehran home a few months prior. I was barely 19 and living with relatives who wondered when I was going to get a life. All I did was buy every newspaper and magazine I could get my hands on and take pictures of the revolution parading in front of my eyes. >>>

Dazzling tar performances

Classical Persian music on Youtube>>>

Iranians can not be Iranian in their own country!

For Act 3, scene 5: Remembrance of victims of bloody massacre of the September 1987 by the Islamic Republic establishment.

Music: Soprano

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NANEH MAN QARIBAM!

Once again I met one of those Iranian women who couldn’t stop talking about all the difficult times she had with her ex-husband and how she suffered being married to an Iranian pig! I know there are lots of flaws with our men (and women, sorry ladies ;-)) but these type of women who live in western countries and came all the way by their ex-husbands’ support (and still living off the money they provided to them), should shut up! >>>

Speech Acts

شـــــکستــــه نفســـی

Farzad Sharifian defines the cultural schema of shekasteh-nafsi “modesty.” Speakers downplay their talent, skills, and achievements  

 

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Shirazi - The Ultimate Persian Rice Salad

TGhazaye Irani shegeft angiz ast! As someone who is Persian, I can tell you that the Persian rice salad (aka Shirazi) is one of the most diverse salads to exist on the planet. Although, implied to be just a standard regular salad, it is confusing and if made incorrectly, it can turn into a generic mess. Ghazaye morede alagheye shoma chistand? Ghazaye Irani shegeft angiz ast! Bayad be meile khodane ghazaye ra dashte bashi. (brought to you by Sarah Afshar.)

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قهرمانان ملي -مجله تهران

 قهرمانان ملي -مجله تهران >>>

Calling Dr. Holakouee

Dr. Holakouee, why can’t these women simply say, “I married the a..hole cause I wanted to get out of Iran? …AS IN DESPERATELY!” Like many Iranian women, and some men, I have come to adore Dr. Holakoueeand his noble cause in doing the impossible: healing our troubled psyche. Walt Disney once said, “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” Is it Dr. Holakouee? I think he’s the tower of knowledge, and wisdom in Farsi, and he’s always gracious and very consistent with his programs. But I wonder if he’s capable of doing the “impossible.” >>>

Making love to readers

A Blogger told me ...

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Iranians abroad

During my last decade that I spend my time out of Iran mostly in Europe and North America, I met a lot of Iranians from different backgrounds who left the country and settled down in a Western country for a better life or to get rid of the Islamic government. I met a lot of people in Europe who paid a lot to smugglers to bring them to Europe and how much money they spent to get an asylum-ship. >>>

Me & Rushdie

In 1991, I wrote a piece for the my college paper's April Fool's edition. The fake commentary on the state of affairs in the Middle East offended so many Arabs on the Albuquerque campus of the University of New Mexico that I had to write another column explaining the joke. My April Fool's piece (I have the clip somewhere in my junk boxes, but too lazy to look) said something to the effect that Israel should just take over the entire Middle East and civilize savage Arabs and Muslims.>>>

Command of man broadens hope

This Iran never did, nor never shall,
Give way to the repression of black conqueror,
But when it first did help to restore itself.
Now these her braves are well nurtured again,
Come from every corners of world in intellect arms,
And we shall shock them: nought shall make us rue,
If Iran to itself do rest but true. >>>

Technically speaking, war is actually obsolete.

This isn’t a war, this is a transition team sent in by corporate during a disastrous merger! And the unwilling stock holders in this blunder are us! Recently the administration seems to be on a strange “come clean“ kick. President Bush has finally admitted that the execution of the war has not been “perfect”, and some “mistakes were made”. Almost chuckling. >>>