OMID IS BACK on BBC One with his new sketches. The London Olympics, Henry VIII, Napoleon and the credit crunch and darts players’ wives are

I was having lunch with my ex-girlfriend in Washington DC the other day and telling her what a nightmare of a husband I was during

The American journalist Roxana Saberi was jailed for espionage in Tehran after obtaining a confidential Iranian document about the American invasion of Iraq, it was

at times over the past year, i’d thought about writing a blog called khod koshi. and since the topic just came up, i thought i’d at least

There’s darkness in your candle And the inviting words you express, Conceals the coward in you. The senseless hollow notes you sing In your song

Iran’s deterrence doctrine is largely authored by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a wing of Iran’s military charged with the protection of the regime. The

Iran is currently capable of carrying out a conventional missile attack on Israel – a substantial but not existential threat, say two Israeli analysts who

An article titled ‘Iran’s missiles not an existential threat, study says’ published in Haaretz yesterday is a Cliffs Notes guide for anyone trying to understand

هر کسی در در این دنیا عیبی دارد و عیب من هم عشق به تاتر هست و ترجیح میدهم در تاتر و اگر نشد در

Watch any speech or interview with Ahmadinejad and judge for yourself. Where Hitler was fiery, Ahmadinejad is flat. Where Hitler was brilliant, Ahmadinejad is bland.

Sitting in a room, feeling cavalier There came to life an ornament From the ceiling like a chandelier A bear, reaching for me from the

شکنجه و آزار زندانیان سیاسی، از ابتدای به قدرت رسیدن اسلام‌گرایان در ایران تا به امروز، به عنوان یک شیوۀ رایج و سیستماتیک به کارگرفته

In his latest C4L video, Dr. Paul responds to the claim that discussing interrogations makes Americans less safe, and points out that we are most

On the evening of May 6, a capacity crowd of over 400 gathered in Crystal Cove auditorium to hear Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s

The London Olympics, Henry VIII, the credit crunch and darts players’ wives are just some of the targets of the second series of Omid Djalili’s

David is one of my favorite cartoonists. Just visit the page: http://www.seattlepi.com See his previous cartoons too. They are great.

“One finds only a tiny fraction of news coverage in the U.S. regarding the treatment of al-Haj, Hussein, Jassam and these other imprisoned journalists as

Now the televised debate, a long-established hallmark of US presidential elections, could be given an airing in an unlikely setting: Iran, which for 30 years

New York Zoo: Empress Farah of Iran attracts a small crowd, as she feeds on of the Elephants at the Bronx Zoo. The Empress and

Iranians have again shown the usual sympathy, support, petition-writing, being-ashamed, being outraged, etc. etc to express their feelings about the arrest of Roxana Saberi. Amnesty

From Misery Alley to Missouri Valley My Life Stories and More by Reza Varjavand Xlibris Publisher (2009) REVIEW Reza Varjavand arrived for the first time

Give me any episode of Ironside, Law and Order, or Murder She Wrote and I’ll happily turn into a couch potato. Courtroom scenes have always

 Stop Child Executions has sent the following letter about Delara Darabi to Iran’s head of judiciary, Ayatollah Shahrudi asking him to bring those responsible for

For Parinaz خیلی وقت بود که ندیده بودمش. یعنی راستش روم نمی شد که برم سراغش. دوستش داشتم. راستش رو بخواهید هنوز هم دارم. مگه

Dr. Fariborz Raisdana is known as an economist who breaks political-correctness barriers and as a passionate lecturer in whose lectures one barely notices the passage