( خوشا شیراز و وضع بی مثالش ) ( خداوندا نگه دار از زوالش ) Sweet is Shiraz and its comparable site! O God, preserve it from decline! In 1783, Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'í travelled through Persia with the expectation that the advent of the Qá'im, the Promised One of Islám is drawing near. Amongst his students was a gifted young man named Siyyid Kázim- ... Continue reading »
The remarks given in the website read: "I would announce this. Everyone should know. Those who were disqualified, are not necessarily incompetent individuals. Do not suppose because this guy was disqualified, he fully incompetent. No. According to the law, he cannot participate in the elections as a candidated. But it's possible that the authority ... Continue reading »
For centuries, leaders of what is now modern-day Iran have evoked the legendary Cyrus Cylinder – the legal instrument dating back to 539 B.C.E. by which Cyrus II, the greatest of the Persian emperors, legitimized his rule, promoted civil and religious tolerance and even permitted Jews to return to Jerusalem, where they would rebuild the Second Temp ... Continue reading »
A view of Sheikh Zayed Road - a major highway in Dubai that has been the site of rapid urban development. (Image credit: Al Miller) Passing remarks, it turns out, can make a lasting impression. I had come to appreciate such remarks while conducting my dissertation fieldwork in Dubai during the course of 2010. That year saw me regularly engage ... Continue reading »
سعید جلیلی متولد سال ۱۳۴۴ در شهر مشهد به دنیا آمد. وی تحصیلات خود را تا مقطع دکتری علوم سیاسی در دانشگاه امام صادق به پایان رساند و سابقهای ۱۸ ساله در وزارت امور خارجه دارد. عنوان پایان نامهٔ او «سیاست خارجی پیامبر» بود. او در دانشگاه امام صادق به تدریس «دیپلماسی پیامبر» نیز میپردازد. جلیلی در زمان جنگ هشت ساله ی ایران و عراق به عنوان نیرو ... Continue reading »
1. Saeed Jalili; 2. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf; 3. Gholamali Haddad Adel; 4. Ali Akbar Velayati; 5. Hassan Ruhani; 6. Mohammad Gharazi; 7. Mohsen Rezaei; and 8. Mohammad Reza Aref.
The Guardian Council has qualified 8 candidates for presidential elections, Mashaei and Hashemi disqualified. Informed sources communicated the list of qualified candida ... Continue reading »
With the clarification of the names of the presidential contenders in Iran, the focus now has shifted to their possible policies. A key question for Iran analysts is what direction will Iran’s nuclear program - which has emerged as the most complex issue in Iran’s foreign policy since the end of the war with Iraq in the 1980s – take with each of th ... Continue reading »
It is a generally assumed that the Shah’s downfall led to the severing of ties between Israel and Iran, which up until that point resembled a love story. However, both Iran’s intellectual elite and the rest of the nation drastically changed their views of the Jewish State after 1967. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his wife, Queen Far ... Continue reading »
On the last available day, ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani arrived at the ministry of the interior to register himself as a presidential candidate. Rafsanjani was the Islamic republic’s fourth president, from 1989 to 1997, and is now once again standing as a ‘reformist’. In reality he is the candidate of capitalism and probably still one of the riches ... Continue reading »
Cambridge Dictionaries Online defines Altruism as "willingness to do things which bring advantages to other people, even if it results in disadvantage for yourself". In Persian, Altruism may be translated as Enssaan Doosti, Bashar Doosti, Nou@ Dousti (in which @ stands for the letter Ain), Az Khod Gozashtegi, Eissaar, etc. Oxford Dictionary identif ... Continue reading »
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