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Rudaba and Zal trivia

Follow up to quiz on the connection between the German fairy tale “Rapunzal” and Ferdosi’s Roudabeh and Zal. The story has so much fun trivia.

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November 9th

Perhaps the closest contemporary analogy to the fall of Communism is the democratic movement that is challenging the Islamic Republic of Iran. It has deep

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Iran warning over Yemen conflict

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has warned against foreign intervention in the conflict between the Yemeni government and rebels. Unidentified parties were adding fuel to

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Stirs Of Echoes …

Our grave yards are full of death bodies of mostly young Iranian citizens, over loaded with death bodies of those gone with the Wind, most

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Remote and wild

Earlier this year I was in Dizin skiing. On the one hand, Dizin is emblematic of a lot that’s wrong with the IRI. The lifts

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Sunni v Shi’ite

Only few weeks after the seizure of an IRR, the Islamist Rapist Republic originated ship carrying artillery shells destined for the Zaidi Shite rebels fighting

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