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When I’m sad…

I was going to write in Farsi.  I like writing in Farsi better.  But the machine I’m using doesn’t have the Farsi fonts installed on

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Iran’s Mousavi defies crackdown

Iran protest leader Mir Hossein Mousavi says he holds those behind alleged “rigged” elections responsible for bloodshed during recent protests. In a defiant statement on

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Miscalculations abound in Iran

Twenty-eight years ago, on June 20, 1981, after almost two years of friction between the Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) – a militant revolutionary group –

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Brutal finale

In 1986, French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam’s car unexpectedly stalled on the steep, narrow roads zigzagging along Kupayeh’s austere mountain ridges, stranding him in the wind-whipped

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Neda

Beneath the haloed circle of lights the bird of truth flies over the waves of blood flowing like pomegranate juice, its melancholy song touching the

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Urgent help request

All of you outside of Iran, or with high speed internet go to following  link and leave it open, nothing will happen. It is  just a way

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همیشه می آیند

همیشه می آیند، با افق های زرین  دوردست و پرندگان بلند پرواز عهد بسته اند. از فراز سر ما می گذرند. هوای رفتن دارند، پای جهیدن و  بال پریدن. از شجاعت

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ندا

چه فضیلت است امشب مگر از خدا حرا را که به موج رعشه آرد سر و پای مصطفی را؟ چه ندا رسیدت از ره که

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What Paralyses Mullahs

There has been always a strong correlation between the structure of power in Iran and oil. Not only industry and services are heavily dependent on oil revenue, but

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Mousavi States His Case

Mir Hossein Mousavi, the reformist candidate challenging Iran’s authorities on the result of last week’s presidential elections, is a masterful tactician who wants to overturn

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