Opinion
2002
January-June
July-December
\IRANIANS
The
missing factor
Merely representing the most downtrodden people
By Amir
IRANIANS
Required
reading
A basic window of exposure to the dual nature of the Iranian
psyche
By Mark Dankof
MEDICINE
Doctors
without orders
More medical students, poorer results
By Mahyar Etminan
HEALTH
Salak
spreading?
Leishmaniasis has reached "epidemic proportions"
By Nazanin Mehrparvar
MEDIA
Faded
hope
If you are unsuccessful blame yourself not others
By Gari Gardner
AMERICA
We're
next
America is the next Empire that's going to suffer an outrageous
fall
By David Marshall
MIDEAST
Martyrdom,
murder or madness
A pervasive culture that immortalizes suicide bombing by
equating death with power has captured the imagination of a whole
people
By Alon Ben-Meir
IRAN-US
Ticking
clock
Should Iranians be glad they're in the "Axis of Evil"?
By Craig Lawrence
ANGER
I
cannot blame them
Why many expatriate earthquake experts won't go to Iran
By Mehdi Sharif
RETURN
I
no longer blame all of Iran
Iranians made a mistake and many are paying dearly for it
By Debra Johnson
Long
Live Iranian TV!
We should not always strive to bitch and scream about our own
pop culture
By Assal Badrkhani
Making
a difference in Iran
We prefer to spend life with loved ones rather than visiting
their grave
By A.S.F.
Bad
TV
Even the shows with political themes are mostly filled with
profanity and accusations
By Farhad Radmehrian
Caspian
quartet IV
Last of four-part essay on the environmental demise of the
Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
When
the day comes
Beware of men with ties, bowties, and Armani suits
By F.A. Ashtiani
Come
together
Interview
With Majid Tehranian
Broken
link
Persia And Iran are geographic (not racial) terms
By A. R. Begli Beigie
Language
of the armies
Urdu: A Derivative of Persian and Avestan
By Dr. Samar Abbas
The
new Islamophobia
Muslims as nemesis of the "civilized world"?
By R. Ebrahimi
French
text
Closing
the gap
How to translate our resources into positive influence
By Trita Parsi and Alex Patico
Caspian
quartet III
Four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian
Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
Icon
of democracy
51st anniversary of Mossadegh's election as prime minister
By Hamid Akbari
Out
of the trash bin
A sign of political convalescence and imaginative recovery
By Reza Bayegan
Can't
be fooled again
It is illegitimate and cheap to compare one dictatorship with
another
By Sana Aryamehr
Peaceful
coexistence
No scripture recommends democracy, socialism and individualism
as strongly as the Koran
By Mehdi Mokarram
Caspian
quartet II
Second of four-part essay on the environmental demise of
the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
Defending
our turf
In the present mood we have no alternative
By Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
Icon
of democracy
51st anniversary of Mossadegh's election as prime minister
By Hamid Akbari
One-way
ticket
Long history of betraying our own people and our friends
By Mansoor
Lotfi
Open
case
My husband is in effect a victim. A scapegoat
An interview with Mehrangiz Kar
By Fariba Amini
Caspian
quartet II
Second of four-part essay on the environmental demise of
the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
Out
of the trash bin
A sign of political convalescence and imaginative recovery
By Reza Bayegan
Can't
be fooled again
It is illegitimate and cheap to compare one dictatorship with
another
By Sana Aryamehr
Peaceful
coexistence
No scripture recommends democracy, socialism and individualism
as strongly as the Koran
By Mehdi Mokarram
Caspian
quartet
Four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian
Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
Better
than war
Mere fact that Iran and Azerbaijan are talking is grounds
for optimism
By Omid S. Marvi
Tabreek
o tasleeyat
Reza Pahlavi, Iranian of the year
By Jahanshah Javid
Beyond
measure
Great need for us to engage constructively
By Shahram Hashemi
When
words kill
Here, the word doesn't tolerate criticism; it censures
By R. Ebrahimi
See French
text
Why
does John Malkovich want to kill me?
Almost anyone who criticises US or Israeli policy in the Middle
East is now in the free-fire zone
By Robert Fisk
Black
vs Red ants
Israel is held to different standards
By Ali T. Kazemi
The
rest
Iran isn't all Persians
By Vahid Isabeigi
Popular
for the wrong reasons
Poor satellite TV programming
By M. H. Eslami, MD
The
Queen Bum
True magic of monarchy: fooling an entire population
By Sana Aryamehr
Maadar mord!
The utter weakness of the reform movement
By Dariush Sajjadi
Just peace
Wars are not fought on battlefields
By Terry Greenblatt
Who's
a Nazi?
Is this a fair criticism of Israel?
By William Baker
Act
as a community
We want to project positive, truthful images of Iranian-Americans
Interview with Trita Parsi
by Jahanshah Javid
Thoreauly
wrong
What it means to be an American
By Setareh Sabety
Enemy
of my enemy
Israel WON real estate in a fair and square war started by Arabs
By Yek Mihan Parast
All
they have is anger
And a sense of abandonment by the world
By Iskander Khaleeli
Today,
I am a Palestinian
I am ashamed of being an American
By Setareh Sabety
Iran
on the Brink
And the U.S. does nothing
By Michael Ledeen
Source: National Review Online
Whining
and Die-ning
Everything sucks these days
By Yek Nafar
The
Queen Bum
True magic of monarchy: fooling an entire population
By Sana Aryamehr
The
coming individualism
Iran's irreversibly metamorphic process towards democracy
See French
text
By R. Ebrahimi
Democracy
my foot
We have yet to learn to pass the surface and reach the substance
By Hashemi Hakimi
Blanket mistreatment
Iranians guilty until proven innocent
By David N. Rahni
A
lot of barking
But no real action against U.S. visa restrictions
By Behrooz Parsa
What
infuriates people
... is that many American politicians can walk outside in broad
daylight and say it's night
By Ali Khalili
Up
for grabs
From the Caspian to the Persian Gulf, Iran's territorial integrity
is under threat
By Vahid Isabeigi
Huge
blow
A terrible price to pay for a "feel good" ban on
Iranians wishing to visit the U.S.
By Gary Sick
Parisian
tragedy
The land of Descartes is poorer today
By Iqbal Latif
God
in a flower
I have learned this: God exists in everyone and everything
By Tara Ebrahimi
How
could they?
On efforts to ban Iranians from traveling to the U.S.
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
Taking
a bow
Who said individuals do not make history?
By Abbas F. Saffari
Challenging
the myth
Can Iranians have democracy?
By Ataollah Togha
Fear
and learning in America
Americans don't understand the Middle East?
By Robert Fisk
Double
standard
Because of its lack of fairness, the US administration will
not and cannot be a mediator
By Farhad Radmehrian
Explosive,
yet futile
Something more than illegal settlements, poverty and arrogant
Isreali soldiers are at work here
By William Baker
Children
of genocide
Happy Passover, my friend. May we see peace soon
By Fariba Amini
Hoshdaar
beh Iraaniaan
Warning to Iranians on copyright law
By Majid Roshangar
Misreading
U.S. intentions
American officials do not think of Muslims as a single
group
By Lee Howard Hodges
Hopeless
& humiliated
Suicide bombings may not be very difficult to comprehend
By Mahyar Etminan
The
center cannot hold
An alternative voice
By Majid Tehranian
Ground
realities
Israel's claim is devoid of any legal foundations, but...
By Iqbal Latif
Selective
morality
The Pentagon is conducting coverage of the Afghan war
By Lawrence Reza Ershaghi
Palestinians
will not go away
Conflicts between peoples contain more elements than can
be eliminated by force
By Edward Said
The
basic equation
The real fight is against forces of reason in both societies
By Shahriar Zangeneh
Human
nature
The one reality that drives the Middle East mess is "occupation"
By Farhad Radmehrian
Desperate
times
Israeli actions have gotten way out of hand, even for their
best friend to tolerate
By Jahanshah Javid
There's
a difference
State vs. individual terrorism
By Lev Grinberg
Martyrdom
is for lesser men
The apparent flaw within Palestinian polity is their inability
to perceive the ground realities
By Iqbal Latif
The
great insult
Islam and Iranian National Self-Esteem
By Omid Parsi
Berkeley
phase?
Berkeley women of color silent no more
By Shadi Rahimi
Civil
parade of faiths
Terrorism has no face or nationality
By Shahla Samii
Patriotism
and bigotry
Far too much of the latter since September 11
By Koupal Davoudi
Hard
to point fingers
Where there is hate, there is a reason
By Ali Khalili
Moral
credibility
Palestinians would do well to try a nonviolent strategy
By Lee Howard Hodges
In
other words
Persian origins of Anglo-Saxon words
By Sharon Turner
Axis
of excess
Are we at the edge of a global civil war among civilizations?
By Majid Tehranian
Placing
the onus
Of victims and perpetrators
By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
Largely
a myth
Gandhi's nonviolent strategy
By Lawrence Reza Eshraghi
Victimology
It is not America's moral responsibility to create or foster "free
societies" in the Muslim world. This is the responsibility
of Muslims themselves
By Lee Howard Hodges
Monkey
wrench
The IRI has once again succeeded in playing the loosing hand,
with Iranian national interest as its usual first victim
By Shahriar Zangeneh
Tazaade
goftaar va kerdaar
Shamsolvaezin: Contradictions
By Maral Karimi
Republic
bee republic
I detest all republicans: communistis, socialists and democrats
By Amir
Democracy
vs. Anarchy
Being a monarchist or a republican does not exempt you from
the human race
By Cyrus Kadivar
Rock
and no roll
Insisting on contentious issues does not bring unity
By Setareh Sabety
Anonymous
guesswork
We should not lower our voice
By Saeed Ganji
Made
in Russia
Another piece of crap
By Sepehr Haddad
Rolls
Royce vs. Gaari
Flying unreliable Russian aircraft
By Mahyar Etminan
A
lot to be said
Crucial days of the revolution
Interview by Fariba Amini
Once
bitten
Enough slogans; we heard them all during the revolution
By Amir Mehdi Noorbakhsh
The
ultra-motive
To attract foreign tourism and investment.
By Bahram Nassehi
Iran
is no Afghanistan
Iran and the US should listen to the voice of reason
By Hooshang Amirahmadi
Keeping
an open mind
Monarchy, republic, or secular democracy
By Guive Mirfendereski
Minus
mom & monarchy
I prefer a secular republic, but Pahlavi can play a pivotal
role
By Yek Irandoost
What
happened?
Why did the Googoosh generation turn fundamentalist?
Asghar Massombagi
Child
to killer
Reasons behind idolization of destructiveness
By Fatima Farideh Nedjat
Just
another show
Allow President Bush to do his job
By Bageh Torsh
Attack
from within
Dissident political theology in contemporary Iran
By Mahmoud Sadri
Fifth
time a charm?
Why test the monarchy again after four failures?
By Kazem Alamdari
Cat
in a bag
At the start of the 24th year of the Iranian Revolution
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Pursuit
of happiness
Iran and the American Revolution
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
Longing
for liberty
Then AND now
By Setareh Sabety
Bohraane
sarmaayedaari
A Marxist perspective
By Fedaii Khalq guerrillas
Of
kings and cylinders
Nothing among Iranians is ever as it seems
By Guive Mirfendereski
Bushiranians
"Duh, who do we support if America bombs Iran?"
By Peyvand Khorsandi
Please
reconsider
U.S. mindset bears almost no resemblance to the Iran of today
By Alan Hale
I
just felt the urge
I can't say if many Americans agree with me, but
By Dave Marshall
Yes.
"Axis of Evil"
Let's call it what it is
By Ali Sarshar
Give
me a break
When countries act like schoolyard bullies
By Sepehr Haddad
Not
our friend
Iran's oppressive autocracy cannot be America's ally
By Ramin Ahmadi
It
starts with us
No one will give us democracy
By Saeed Ganji
Still
alive
Varieties of religious reform in Iran
By Ahmad Sadri
How
do we rebuild?
The only true way to fight this is with ideas
By Al Bahmani
Man...
some people
... don't even know the meaning of SHAME
By Faz Rasti
Royal
blue vs. the rainbow
We don't need HIM to save us
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Iran
next?
U.S. military attack would prolong the reign of Iran's despotic
rulers
By Shahriar Zangeneh
Dummies
for democracy
Stop criticizing. Propose alternative solutions
By Xerxes Darius
All
are not equal
In the practical world, creating an "aghazadeh" is
a human social behavior
By Abdol Hamid Sheybani
Look
at the evidence
Prophet Muhammad and women's rights
By Persia Lover
Stay
away from courtiers
If you want to be regarded as a democrat, act like one
By Setareh Sabety
All
about freedom
... the Pahlavi State was
By Mihandoust
Shah
bee Shah
When you think "monarchy", "freedom" is not
the first thing that comes to mind
By Jahanshah Javid
Watching
the watcher
Monitor has put the human rights movement in Iran at risk
By Ramin Ahmadi and Joanne Cossitt
I
will watch his every move
Reza Pahlavi must throw away the old and start afresh
By Mehdi Amini
What
could lie ahead
Go for it and bring about change
By Shahla Samii
Don't
ask, don't tell
When does silence become collaboration?
By Setareh Sabety
Breaking
the stalemate
Desperate times require revolutionary initiatives
By Hamid Zangeneh
Gheirat
The war with Iraq was not Khomeini's fault
By Nima Kasraie
All
choked up
From Ground Zero to Iranian arms shipmenmts
By Guive Mirfendereski
I
feel better now
After writing how I feel about Iranians abroad
By Mehrdad Pishehgar
Vision
2002
Historical forces at work
By Majid Tehranian
Ship
of fools
Questions on arms shipments to the Palestinians Authority
By Rasool Nafisi
I'm
an optimist
Life is beautiful because people survived the holocaust
By A. Shahmolki
We
all want to smell roses
What we learned from 2001
By Fariba Amini
Killing
history
Not enough if we internalize insults to our history
By Jamshid Charmchi
Divergence
of beliefs
Iran, in the aftermath of September 11
By: Ali R. Rabi
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