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It’s Time

Over the past year, the Obama Administration has missed successive opportunities to bring real international pressure on the Iranian government to address the severe human

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Iran: a political calculus

A military assault on Iran will have other disastrous effects: it would lead to more human-rights violations, worsen the situation for Iran’s middle class, push

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The Greatest Sin

In 1952, an emissary went to Ayatollah Boroujerdi (the highest ranking Shi’a cleric) to ask him to tell members of the Fedayeen-e Islam not to

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Waiting in Transit

“Suppose there’s someone who’s been bitten by A poisonous snake, and he’s about to die: What do you say, my lord, should happen to A

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Palestine-firsters

There seems to be a consensus among Iran watchers on number of indisputable facts. One being the country is not in a stable situation internally

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نمره ی ا نضبا ط

    با شعبد ه ‌ی سلا له‌ ی مکا را ن از شادی و از نشا ط ما کم کردند از ساقی و باده

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کِش

(از مجموعه داستانهای تلخ و شیرین. اثر مهران ) «کِش» ——— ترس از کشیده شدن مشکلی بود که کِش با خودش داشت. شب و روز

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Mirrors All Mine

Roza Ferdowsmakan is an Iranian born writer living in Phoenix, Arizona. Strangers in the Skies of the Dead is her first book of poems. On

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To save my mother

Try to picture this; I’ve tried with no success, maybe you’ll do better. You’re a proud eighteen year old young man from the legendry Iranian

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