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West London afternoon

1.30pm I’m in Hanger Hill park in Ealing. A cyclist brushes past an old couple. They huff and puff. He stops and confronts them, American

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‫آشنا

    ‫چشمام رنگ درخته ‫رنگ خاکه ‫رنگ همون دیاره ‫که سایه هاش از کهربایه ‫ ‫من و تو ‫تو که چشمات رنگ آبه ‫دلت

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Hijacked my ass!

آقای حجتی کرمانی یکی از قدیمی­ترین مبارزان این دیار است که ۱۲ سال در زندان شاه بود. در خاطراتی که در مراسم سالگرد مهندس بازرگان

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فرهنگ عدم تحمل

پیشگفتار تاریخ جنبش چپ ایران را ترور یا “حذف فیزیکی” و قتل مخالفان و دگراندیشان درون حزبی و سازمانی آلوده کرده است . نه فقط

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Leila and me

We talk about the Shah here all the time but we never talk about Leila. I wrote a poem about Leila once. It was exactly

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Mind it!

Although there are many reasons we should believe that Iranians are very bright, intelligent, and ambitious people as individuals, but based on my limited observation

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Dear departed

Shiraz, late November 2007: Every time I’m in Shiraz I visit the “Daarol-Rahmeh” where a cousin of my mother, who helped raise me, is buried.

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