When she spoke of masses and injustice, there laid a thundering river of emotions   This is a follow up to "For Shohreh". It was two weeks after I had arrived in the U.S. Three weeks before leaving Iran, I had met with Manuchehr, Farhad, Majid, and others. Manuchehr and Farhad were university students. I had met them two years earlier as Hossein, ... Continue reading »

Watching the PBS program "The Iranian Americans", one can only be struck by the overwhelming self pity, sadness, and general lack of any satisfaction in spite of the overwhelming success of the stories that the subjects attempted to portray as the quintessential average Iranian American condition. Whether true or not, whether we all feel this dep ... Continue reading »

Please sit back and read this in full.  And then Take a Valium and Reread it, so you don't explode with Rage for feeling cheated as a victim of Mass Deception by the so called Free Media in the West and various Anti-Monarchists within Iran in the 1970's.   Here it is, get a chai, first and please be calm.  https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/197 ... Continue reading »

In a storm of bad news the regime has to do something to cheer up the regime's worried supporters.  I rarely pay attention to the regime's sites but this one's a hum-dinger, well produced and with nice English subtitles of the sort not often available.   The text which introduces the video is highly amusing with the usual heavy-handed, Goebbels tou ... Continue reading »