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Salam e Del

Official video for “Salam e Del” (“Greetings to Heart”) from “Spellbound” album. Label: Zang Records. Director: Mohammad Gorjestani. Produced by makeshift COLLECTIVE. Cinematography: Stephen Berke.

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روشنفکر دفرمه

صادق هدایت[1] تبلور سرگشتگیهای «روشنفکری» ما و «اعتراض» به عقب ماندگیها و واپسگراییهای باصطلاح «روشنفکران» اخته ی ماست که از ناچاری خاک بر سر کرد

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Are We Really So Special?

My children often remind me of how infatuated I am with my Iranianness and how obsessed I am with my cultural distinctiveness. Admittedly, we Iranians

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عکس یادگاری

همه دوستان آقای منوچهر یاسین زاده آشتاب معروف به مایکل آشتورن که مدت 52 سال مقیم آمریکاست کنجکاو بودند بدانند چرا مایکل بعد از این

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Messing with love, Bilakh!

To nip any manifestation of love and humanity in the bud, the great minds running IRR, the Islamist Rapist Republic, have decided to ban Valentine’s

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The new great leap backward

News from IRR, the Islamist Rapist Republic, indicates another Islamist Cultural Revolution has begun to hit all the institutions of learning, Washington Post reports: “

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The smoggiest of all capitals

TRAVELLERS flying into Tehran were recently denied their usual view of the sprawling metropolis and its majestic mountain backdrop. Instead they found themselves staring into

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India and Iran Sanctions

Last Monday, India’s central bank banned local companies from doing business with the United Nations’ Asian Clearing Union—a clear slap at Tehran, which uses the

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The End of a Reign

32 years ago, before the revolution, the strucutre of power in Iran was divided between two factions, and the Shah, above them both, had the

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