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Judas Priest

This is a video that uncle jj told me to put on the iranian of me playing “Breaking the Law” by Judas Priest: And this is

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The Not so Diplomatic Turn

Last week Iran responded to the latest European proposal regarding its controversial nuclear program. The so-called “Iran Six” were however neither amused, nor heartened by

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From honey to ashes

I always thought that if I ever wrote anything against Noam Chomsky all my ancestors would rise from their graves – and I’d just have

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Ammameh Gozaroon

One of the distinct sign of the importance of a community, in my childhood era, was the existence of important shops especially butcher shop and

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Same difference

It is an august hot day in Paris and nobody in streets, except tourists and me! I was walking by the way and find this

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Iranians…

Whenever I hear someone start a sentence with “maa irooniaa”… I know that it’ll be a negative comment. Sometimes, I hear things like “maa iroonia

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The case for Israel

Groucho Marx once said: “I find television very educational. Whenever somebody turns it on, I go into the other room and read a book.” When

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Iranian Psychology Study

I am doing a cross-cultural study for my Master’s thesis between Persians, Russians and Americans about how people reconcile contradictions. Please take my on-line survey–it

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داری میری

اگه چمدونت برای من جا نداره اگه وقت رفتنت دلم دیگه نا نداره   همون موقع کوچیک میشم قد یه پروانه میشم حالا هر کجا

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Shirin Ebadi in danger?

During the past few days news reports from Iran’s state controlled media has made allegations against Shirin Ebadi as being a Baha’i sympathizer and that

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The Marine

What airline does the Marine take after he is discharged to come back to the U.S.? I was surprised, but the answer for those marketing

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No threat from Iran

Adel Darwish of the pro-Israeli lobby group Just Journalism says (Letters, August 8) that “a collection of western academics and journalists have busied themselves with

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