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Easily manipulated

Many years ago, when I was a student, I read an article about Iran in a foreign magazine that I think was Harper's. Two Western

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All Bamed out!

Over a year ago I came back to live in Iran after an absence of some twenty-five years. I came hoping to quell a longing

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Preemptive strike

I was just listening to a nationally syndicated ultra-conservative radio talk show host in the San Francisco Bay Area (one whose humanitarianism tugs at the cords of

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Then, why?

In mid 1980's, after going through haft khaan-e rostam, my family and I entered Canada with a couple of suitcases. We registered our children in a

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Collective sneeze

As I watched Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King, the movie that I had impatiently waited to see, in a local movie

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A tale of two beasts

It was a clear morning on August 6, 1945. The doom and gloom of World War II changed its course when Harry S Truman dropped

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