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The Red Persians

Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution is arguably the “Modern era’s last great revolution.” How could clergymen, steeped in esoteric medieval writings, incite a popular upheaval in

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Pomegranate

I came across this video describing the wrong way to open a pomegranate. My grandmothers would be turning in their graves if they saw this.

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Marxists for Freedom?

This is a response to an article by Azar Majidi about Shirin Ebadi and Akbar Ganji walking out on the Mohammad cartoonist’s free speech award

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بدون شمعدانی ها

به عادت سربازی، تا همین اواخر، سپیده صبح بیدار میشد و اصلاح میکرد. بعدش نوبت واکس کفش بود و اتوی کت و شلوار. نیم ساعتی‌

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Cheshmandaz.org

www.Cheshmandaz.org is a “news aggregator,” selecting relevant and interesting up-to-minute news, stories, analyses, commentaries, photos and videos from among major Persian news websites and blogs

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چهار شرط نظام پر برکت

رئیس منتصب نظام پر برکت در آستانه از سرگیری “مذاکرات هسته ای” با دولتهای جهان آزاد، چهار شرط تعیین کرد. گرچه هم نظام و هم

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Ja Khali

The Islamic regime is used by the US to cause problems in the area and allow the US forces to be in the area.  Once

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Forgotten Poet

How can I write? The paper is so small and the sorrows of the world so great they reach up to the stars. How am

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هفدهم اکتبر

این روز برای نخستین بار در سال ۱۹۸۷ با گردهم آمدن حدود صد هزار نفر در میدان تروکادروی پاریس، گرامی داشته شد و در سال

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