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خیال خام

فتادم صد هوس در دل چو آمد روی زیبایت دل و جانم به لرز افتاد از آن ساق پریسایت. چو دانه هر سحر خواهم نمودن

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On Khomeini’s Racism

The following is a review of Baqer Moin’s biography of Khomeini. Moin discusses Khomeini’s anti-Jewish racism. ELAINE SCIOLINO is the author of the review.  

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PERSONALITY MATCH

Long, long ago, I did a personality match quiz out of curiosity. What type of man would make “Mr. Right for me”? What can I

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سلام پیری

مثل همیشه، بنا بر عادت، صبح یکشنبه هم خواب ناز به من رحم نکرد و ساعت ۶ بیدار شدم.  دست و رویم را میشستم و

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نصرتالله امینی درگذشت

کوشنده خستگی ناپذیر دموکراسی و حقوق بشر، بامداد روز دوشنبه ٣۱ فروردين، در ٩۴ سالگی، چشم از جهان فروبست. او از شمار آخرین یاران بازمانده

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Rebel with a pause

News that 31-year-old Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi has received an eight-year jail sentence for being a US “spy” comes a month after 29-year-old blogger Omid-Reza

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The Great Game is over

Darius the Great said: “I am not hot tempered. What things develop in my anger, I hold firmly under control by my thinking power.” The

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Laughing at Missiles

For a period of 2 months, ending April 20 1988, over 130 Al Hussein scud missiles hit Tehran. Apparently, there were never more than 11

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Brilliant fate

Last week, I went on a trip to Portugal where there is Islamic influence in its brilliant past. This gives them a certain nostalgia that

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