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 »
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 »
The threat of soft spoken, artistic, poetry loving IR appeasers and apologists is real folks. They have to be the most significant non-IR financed part of the Islamic Republic’s propaganda machine. They are overwhelmingly West residing, mostly educated—or at least pseudo educated—they travel to Iran frequently, and curiously, some are David Duke ... Continue reading »
Iranian New Year; Noruz (Nowruz, Norouz, Norooz), or New Day, is a celebration of spring equinox. It is the most cherished of all the Iranian festivals and is celebrated by all. This occasion has been renowned in one form or another by all the major cultures of ancient Mesopotamia. What we have today as Noruz with its' uniquely Iranian characteri ... Continue reading »
Norooz, the Persian New Year is celebrated by millions of Iranians around the world. Not only does Norooz mark the first day of Spring, it also marks the beginning of the Iranian calendar. This year Norooz begins on Wednesday, March 20th, however; there are festivities around the world that start before, as well as, after. Sale no mobarak! Los A ... Continue reading »
The Nowruz spread (sofreh in Persian) in Zoroastrian homes has seven (haft in Persian) items beginning with the letter "sh" or "sheen". Therefore it called a haft-sheen spread or table. The seven items are: Sharab or wine Shakar or sugar Shir or milk Shireh or syrup Shahd or honey Shirini or candy Shir-berenj or rice-pudding (recipe) The number s ... Continue reading »
By Joobin Bekhrad Originally published in REORIENT ‘YOU ASK YOURSELF A THOUSAND QUESTIONS PLUS ONE: WHO AM I?’ Haleh Anvari – Chador-dadar – London (Courtesy Galerie Kashya Hildebrand) As the bombs from Babylon fell from above across the hazy Tehran skyline, dotting the skirt of the mountain whereon Arash once let his felicitous arrow fly, my ... Continue reading »
http://irannewsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/chinese-ghormeh-sabzi-for-iranians.html ... Continue reading »
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