In ancient Iran, we knew ecology. Iran and the Earth, were God and Heaven, as religions nowadays call it. We did not bury people and just a few Emperors' tombs are buried above ground. Knowledge of hydrology was developed in Iran. Look at Persepolis and see its sewage system. Look at qanats.
So for thousands of years our land was clean. Our river ... Continue reading »
All rumors came first on the “Gossip” column of “La Gazette de Lausanne" daily popular newspaper of Swiss (C.H). As usual from an unknown but reliable source quoting that the leader of Indoland in a very secret meeting with Swiss ambassador In Los Tunas (United States interests office in Indoland since 1980 located here in Swiss embassy in Los Tun ... Continue reading »
Culture is not secular. Culture has morals. Iranian culture has its own old Zend-Avestan morals, which by some standard are more secular. These secular morals civilized the world. As I mentioned earlier, Plato used it. But the secularity is Iranian. Our king does not use them. He uses secular or political tools, that have nothing to do with Irani ... Continue reading »
TEL AVIV -- Amid a heated war of words between Israel and Iran over the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions, one musician is hoping that an unconventional weapon will help cool the tensions.
Iranian-born Israeli Menashe Sasson, 67, broadcasts traditional Persian melodies for an audience in his old home country from a studio in Israel. He hears a n ... Continue reading »
A new wind instrument, named the yasnai, will be introduced during concerts that are being organized by tar virtuoso Kayvan Saket.
Mohammad Beigi, the creator of the instrument, will play it during the concerts, which will be held at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall from May 8 to 10, Saket said at a press conference on Monday. Beigi is an expert construc ... Continue reading »
"I LAHV YOU too mahch," said the glamorous woman with the clinking bangles. She was my dad's sister, my Aunt Mansoureh—known to all as Mali—and she beamed as she hugged me for the umpteenth time since she had arrived in Philadelphia from Iran. Because she barely spoke English and I didn't speak Persian, we communicated with smiles. In the kitchen ... Continue reading »
First a bit of ancient history. Even in those great glory days of three Empires, Iranians never always had a Persian Gulf Navy Fleet as such. Yes we did muster a massive fleet, built what is today the Suez Canal, and brought it to the mediterranean in the 5th Cent BC. And it was done with a woman in charge called Artemis. But that was not built by ... Continue reading »
INTRODUCTION A mummy is a human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold (ice mummies), very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions. Some authorities restr ... Continue reading »
In Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, Mohsen and Ahmad Daneshpour Moghadam are among those arrested on the day of Ashoora of 2009 (the day Shiites commemorate the historic killing their imams some 1400 years ago) and have been sentenced to death on charges of fighting God and cooperating with the Mujahidin Khalq organization. But in interviews with Ro ... Continue reading »
There have been many views about the philosophy of secularism. Secular is often defined as meaning “not specifically religious,” but this definition is not complete in understanding secularism as a philosophy. In this article, the term, the most common definitions, and the historic model of secularism, together with the various views on this ... Continue reading »
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