New and unexpected hope

A few months ago a group of 14 Iranians traveled around europe and the United-States by bicycle in order to bring the message of peace and friendship of the Iranian civil society to other nations, in a project called 'Miles for Peace'. This is a summary of their experiences after this intense trip and talking about their future projects. See video clips on Youtube and their own blog: milesforpeace.org/blog. People can also sign the petition support dialogue and peace between Iran and other nations.

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گزينه های انحلال حکومت اسلامی

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ديگر در اين مورد ترديدی وجود ندارد که حکومت اسلامی به هيچ روی نمی تواند جلوه ای از جلوه های رابطهء مدرن قدرت و مردم و، در نتيجه، نمود خاصی از يک حکومت دموکراتيک باشد. در عين حال، اين حکومت ديکتاتوری، بخاطر متعهد نبودن در برابر مردم و خدمتگذار نبودن به آنها، صرفاً منشاء اشاعهء فساد و تباهی است.

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On the eve of a very real war

Most American-produced plays -- even the good ones -- are fluff when it comes to troubling contemporary issues. But Golden Thread's production of Motti Lerner's Benedictus, which I caught opening night at Portrero Hill's Thick House, is in an altogether together different class. Why? Because it presents its two principal characters -- Iran-born childhood friends, one Muslim, one Jewish, who meet at a Benedictine Monastery in Rome -- in the round. No pat movie of the week answers are provided>>>

The Beatles

I went to the restroom and was standing beside the tall guy and told him I had not heard such beautiful music in a long time, who was writing for them? He told me his name was John Lennon and with his buddy, who was in the next stall they wrote all their own materials.>>>

Caspian cut

The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin is about to make a landmark visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Aside from the obvious prestige this unprecedented official state visit affords the beleaguered IRI, it is also fraught with myriad of geopolitical, political as well as commercial minefields. The ostensible reason for the visit is attendance of summit of the Caspian Sea leaders. The summit agenda is to iron out a workable division of natural resources of the heavily polluted body of water, mainly oil and gas, amongst the littoral states>>>

به یاد سهراب

چند شب پیش جایی مهمان بودم که صحبت سهراب سپهری شد. گفتم از قرار امروز سالروز تولد سهراب است. یکی از دوستان نازنینم که از مریدان اوست بعد از شنیدن این خبر از صاحبخانه قلمی خواست و تکه کاغذی. دقایقی در گوشه حیاط با خود خلوت کرد و مثل روشنفکران کهن کافه نادری در دود سیگار غوطه زد! !ده دقیقه ای بیش نکشید و صدا زد: ای نادر. بیا اینجا باهات کار دارم. علت را جویا شدم و گفت: بشین و گوش کن. و من سراپا گوش شدم...

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Watch out, here they come! (part 3)

We write the songs on guitar, and when you use a standard blues line up for the recording and the sound and everything, you become a bit bluesy! And our influences; people who we grew up (and grew old!) listening to were either blues players (like Stevie Ray Vaughan or B.B King or …) or influenced by blues players (like E.C, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin and of course Dire Straits!), so the blues element is there, but comparing to Adam e Mamooli, I must say we are less of a blues band. Actually, we are aiming to have no label and sound like KIOSK, that’s what I am talking about when I say we are not mature enough and we still don’t have our own genuine sound, but this album was a big step for us towards that goal.>>>

Maddening world

I’d swear this world has gone mad. This morning at work during our daily morning-coffee-Chitchat. I mentioned the racism killing in Antwerp to my colleague that’s an odd thing to mention at a morning-coffee session isn’t it? about 2 weeks ago I had read a short article about the proceeding of this psychopath, that has been stuck in my mind and I had mentioned this to my colleague, so today’s sentencing was something we couldn’t let pass by . This man had killed a black pregnant lady and had injured a Turkish lady if that’s not heinous enough.>>>

Petty role model

One of America’s greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, recruited a group of advisers from the prestigious Columbia University – they were known as ‘Brain Trust’. In their first one hundred days in office, the Brains Trust helped Roosevelt enact fifteen major laws beneficial to the country. Regrettably, today, Columbia under the leadership of a petty role-model, Lee Bollinger, is losing its prestige and has become a place of hate and discrimination. A noose was found in a lecture room of a black female professor>>>

Lion Heartz

As a young child, I grew up as a Persian Sufi Dervish and understood what being one was all about. As a young boy, I would get into countless confrontations over the color of my skin, friend, ego and who we thought was the toughest. My father would always see me come home with a black eye and a bruised body. He decided I should learn some self-defense, in order to defend myself and learn self control. My father who was a brown belt, and had three years in the Persian Royal Air Force, and was advanced in Persian Martial arts called: “Varzesheh Pahlevooni”>>>

هم زیبا کرباسی، هم ساقی قهرمان

ساقی: - این جزو ذات همه مان است که نیاز جنسی داریم. به خاطر این که روابط جنسی تنها چیزی است که راجع بهش محکوم می شویم. من اگر بیایم بگم دلم برای کوچه های ایران تنگ است همه کف می زنید، تحسین می کنید و می روید و چیزی هم حل نمی شود. اما وقتی من راجع به روابط جنسی حرف می زنم بیمار جنسی شناخته می شوم. شما ناراحت می شوید که من از مشکل معاشقۀ خودم حرف بزنم. >>>

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باز هم دلباز و دلگرم و روشن می ماند. >>>