Some Success In Round One

The European Union Foreign policy Chief Javier Solana at the end of his talks with Iran's negotiating team at Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 1st reported Iran's readiness to allow the Inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit its recently declared uranium enrichment plant. The visit relieved the tension orchestrated by President Barack Obama and his European allies, President Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain. Another progress was that the U.S. and other world powers agreed to process low-enriched uranium from Iran>>>

تغییر سیاست خارجی یا وقت‌کشی؟

عقب‌نشینی جمهوری اسلامی در مذاکرات ژنو البته و به ظاهر در مقیاس محدودی بوده است. موافقت با ارسال اورانیوم تغلیظ شده در حد 3 تا 5 در سد به روسیه برای تغلیظ آن تا 19.75 در سد، دعوت از نمایندگان آژانس بین‌المللی انرژی اتمی برای بازدید از تأسیسات تازه اعلام شده در قم، و گفتگوی مستقیم نمایندگان جمهوری اسلامی و آمریکا در حاشیه کنفرانس، ظاهرا گام‌های کوچکی در حل مناقشات هسته‌ای ایران با غرب بشمار می‌رود. ولی اگر به مواضع رسمی دولت ایران و رجزخوانی‌های چند ساله اخیر آقای احمدی‌نژاد توجه کنیم به وضوح دیده می‌شود که این گام‌های به ظاهر کوچک از یک چرخش فاحش رژیم جمهوری اسلامی در سیاست هسته‌ای و خارجی آن حکایت می‌کند>>>

Good New - Bad News

First the Good News: We – The Iranian Immigrants of all ages - just made a great showing in New York, of representing our much oppressed countrymen inside Iran. I was there for both days and certainly saw enough to know the majority of Iranians will build on their cumulative showing and will do even better in the future. I am certain of that – especially now that I see so many of our youth, breaking the old taboos and getting involved in politics relating to Iran.>>>

هوس

صدای پارس سگها، تاریکی شب، بیگانگی با محیط و بیشتر از همه خشم و سراسیمگی او را درمانده کرده بود. هرچه تلاش می کرد نمی توانست در آن فضای کم نور عقزبه های ساعت را ببیند اما می دانست چیزی به طلوع خورشید نمانده و بزودی شب شکسته و روز آغاز خواهد شد. نمی توانست پیش از برآمدن آفتاب خود را به شهر برساند و در روشنایی روز هم نمی شد با آن حال و روز و سر و وضع در برابر چشم مردم ظاهر شود. تازه فرضا هم که خود را به خانه می رساند مگر چقدر فرصت داشت در آنجا بماند و به سر و وضع خود برسد.>>>

درحسرت ُهرم آفتاب

وسردمان بود ما،
در عنفوان بلوغ.
تب ِ داغی دربطن تن داشتیم و
لرزش موجی بر جدار جان؛
و در انبوه ِ ازدحام ِ شهر شلوغ
ما مدام سردمان بود >>>

The cheating card

For weeks, if not months, Obama borrowing a page or two from George Bush's ghastly playbook, worked hard to create a "coalition of the willing." 1) The post-election unrest and its aftermath involvement of security forces in Iran provided a golden opportunity for Obama's administration to rally a united front of the imperialist nations against Iran's nuclear program and at its center the uranium enrichment industry. 2) In Eastern Europe, Obama scrapped the plans for a ballistic missile defense system with an eye to attract Russia to the coalition and finally, 3) he slapped tariffs on Chinese tires to pressure them to remain a silent opposition>>>

Akmed Strikes Back

I was getting on a flight to start my vacation. When I approached my seat, a nice Texan lady in the seat next to mine started eyeing me with a bit of suspicion. "What's wrong with you?... Your hair is all... dark and ethnic. Your eyes are so... not blue... so demonic. You look so... unlike us. Oh my god! I'm scared." Before I could react she began screaming frantically: "Marshal! Air marshal!" A mean-looking large man and a tiny one trying to look mean by chewing a toothpick jumped out of their seats, pulled out their Tasers, approached and assumed shooting postures. "Don't move, scumbag," yelled the large one>>>

The News

There are good days and bad days, even good years and bad years. But then, there are years like the year my son was born. It was the same year my father died. Who knows how these years are supposed to be called? A simple ringtone started this all. It was my mother. Father’s stroke was two months behind us and everything, like in fairy tales, was going to work out just fine. Father was going to wake up one morning, remembering us and remembering who he was and we were going to talk about the past the same way we used to tell a story with happy ending>>>

زاهد مکار

یارب ار زاهد مکار نهد چهره به خاک
نیک داند که کند خاک پلیدی را پاک

دامن آلوده، تن آلوده، ردا آلوده
این بود زاد ره رجعت او در فتراک

ظاهرش پاک و درون ناک و عمل در لاک است
نییت‌اش ناسره، معجون ریا، جوهره ناک >>>

Fuzzy Logic, fuzzy thought, and fuzzy Dardedel

Strolling on a foggy night,
Talking to Zadeh, a witty scientist,
I discovered how fuzzy our minds are.
When I told him that my lover wore red silk
He asked me: 'What shade of red?'
I said: 'Well, it was not maroon or magenta or pink,
But a sexy red just a little lighter than the stoplight
That freezes people in their tracks.' >>>

A military strike would be a disaster

Why would anyone be shocked by the so-called revelation that another uranium enrichment facility exists somewhere near Qom? It amazes me how even Iranians of the Diaspora, who know the Islamist regime well, seem distressed by it all. I am not claiming to have known any more than anyone else about this, but I certainly never believed that the Iranian government was capable of being transparent about anything, least of all about its nuclear program. Deception is a form of negotiation. And transparency is as alien a concept to this regime as fairness and justice>>>

انقلاب مجازی

ایدئولوژی اینترنت فردگرا و دمكرات و حتی بی سالار است ولی از نزدیك كه نگاه كنید می­بینید كه این فقط همان ایدئولوژی كار است نه حقیقتش. این وسیله در عمل به هیچ­وجه مروج توسعهٌ یكسرهٌ آزادی فردی نیست و در شبكهٌ وسیع اینترنت فرد بسیار تنهاتر و بی دفاع تر از آنیست كه تبلیغ می­شود. این تصور كه وسیله ای تكنیكی پیدا شده كه كار سیاسی را آسان یا بی مخاطره می­كند، جای كوشش و سازماندهی در صحنهٌ جامعه را می­گیرد و آنرا نالازم می­سازد حرف مفت است. دمكراسی با این تكنیك و آن تكنیك تضمین نمی­شود، فقط با همت و هشیاری مردم است كه شكل می­گیرد و بر پا می­ماند>>>