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Waiting for Sarah

I went to visit Sarah Shourd’s mother, Nora, in Oakland a few weeks ago. Sarah Shourd is one of the three American hikers in prison

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What if…

We started talking and he asked if I ever thought what things would be like had the 1979 Islamic take over had not happened? I

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Cyrus Returns

: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lauds the Cyrus Cylinder as the embodiment of human values and a cultural heritage for all humanity. Speaking at a

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Lawyers

Do you remember the latest Iranian lawyer, Lady Nasrin Sotoudeh who for the crime of diligently defending her client was thrown into solitary confinement? Now

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Why Do We Hate Them Now?

Why is there so much anti-Muslim sentiment just now, nine years after September 11? (I was asked this by a Brazilian journalist, Manuela Franceschini, who

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Waking 9/11

When, on September 11, 2001, two terrorist attacks occurred on U.S. soil, Israeli political figures anticipated that the Americans would now be better able to

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ايرج ميرزا

ايرج ميرزا نامدار به جلال الملک، از نوادگان فتحعلی شاه، فرزند غلامحسين ميرزا، شاعر دربار مظفرالدين ميرزا در دوران وليعهدی بود. در تبريز زاده شد.

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فرزند وطن

خطایم چه بود که راندیم این چنین مرا دردانه ا ت را ای مهربان سرزمین دور؟ میپرسم و مام وطن میماند غم در دل آه

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Life support

Despite the well organized and financed claim to the contrary, the sheer volume of evidence goes to prove one thing and one thing only, in Iran,

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کدهای اهرنبورگ

نویسنده داستان و پاورقی در یک روزنامه دولتی هستم. با وجود آنکه نویسندگی کاری است ذوقی و اغلب آنها به مراکز دولتی تعلق ندارند ولی

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زبان یا خانه

ارامنه اوّلین ملیّتی هستند که در قرن بیستم به صورت دسته جمعی قتل عام شدند و از آن پس بعلّت شکنجه و پراکندگی، زندگی کردن

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