Opinion
2002
July-December
January-June
LEGAL
Wider
front
Defending Iranians
By Abolala Soudavar
FAR OUT
Press
the button
One cannot have a dialogue with uncivilized nations
By Arya Abedin
APPEAL
1,
2, 3... testing
The demands of the people of Iran
AMERICA
Take
it from a good girl
Fight back!
By Shadi Akhavan
OPINION
Pass
Not the Turkish model
By Vahid Isabeigi
MEDIA
More
than that
Interview with Elie Chalala, the editor of Al Jadid magazine
By Elham Gheytanchi
IMMIGRATION
Get
involved, or perish
There are innocent people in jail. What are you going to do
about it?
By Payam Mohseni
IMMIGRATION
Only
the strong survive
"Gangs of New York": Painful story of immigrants
By Nat Bartel
GMT
Notes
from the edge
Blair's nemesis?
By Peyvand Khorsandi
RIGHTS
Oppressed
once more
America will not repeat its past mistakes. I will make sure of
it
By Assal Badrkhani
MEDIA
Moody
Rudi
Sublime stupidity of much of TV news
By Asghar Massombagi
REFORM
Sultanate
of reformists
The king is renamed "reform"
By Amir
CHRISTMAS
Truth
shall triumph
Notice of Resignation from Three Kings of Orient
By Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
COVER
Challenging
the Government of God
The Iranian reform and its permutations: How fundamentalism
gave birth to its opposite
By Ahmad Sadri
+ 33 new photos
DEMOCRACY
Completing
what we started
The fight for democratic ideals
By Saeed Razavi-Faqih
and Ian Urbina
IDEAS
The
ultimate question
Beyond the implications of evolution
By Everett E. Allie
FAITH
Children
of burning stars
Declaring a new faith: Old faith, new clothes
By Ramin Tork
STUDENT PROTESTS
I
smell ghormehsabzi
Students have spearheaded movements often blindly and emotively.
Let's hope it's different this time
By Parkhash
REFORMATION
From
cave to cathedral
The age of modernity
By Fatima Farideh Nejat
VELAYAT FAGHIH
Meltdown
Direct attack on the leader of the IRI
(In Persian.
See English
translation)
By Ghassem Sholeh Sadi
REFORMATION
From
monkey to man
A call for Islamic Protestantism
By Hashem Aghajari
OBSERVER
A
story worth watching
An Islamic reformation
By Thomas Friedman
DEBATE
Rumi
dar baraabare Molla Omar
A reply to Akbar Ganji's republican manifesto
By Mahmoud Sadri
GOVERNMENT
There
must be a reason
Half of the original members of the European Union are
monarchies
By Sen
ACTION
Baba
velesh kon
I want to do something to support freedom in Iran -- and
the U.S.
By Bijan Khazai
ISLAM
Kicking
the prison door
The Islamic world today is being held prisoner, not by
Western but by Islamic captors
By Salman Rushdie
LEFT HOOK
Long
live monarchists
A thanksgiving
By Guive Mirfendereski
PEOPLE
Soil
searching
Do we not question the very soil that bred and nurtured
tyrants?
By Moe
OPINION
Trading
human rights
For the European Union, trade comes first
By Cyrus Kadivar
COVER
The
dying days of a bad lie
The mullahs' last supper
By Shahla Azizi
DISCRIMINATION
Innocent
until proven Muslim
In America
By Anai Rhoads
ORGANIZATION
Unifying
the divided
Iranian-Americans and Iran
By Pouya Alimagham
RAN-U.S.
Only
a matter of time
War between Iran and the U.S.?
By Eric Frazier
OPINION
Iranian
problem, Iranian solution
We should not depend on anybody but ourselves in our nonviolent
fight for freedom
By Reza Pahlavi
OPINION
Khatami's
last chance
Hasn't the time come for Khatami to stop this ridiculous
game and once and for all call it what it is?
By Mani Farhoomand
OPINION
Lengesh
kon
Movement against mullahcracy -- with patience
By Shahla Samii
OPINION
Total
subjugation doctrine
Iran's independencen and earth's survival
By Moji Agha
MUSLIM
Defending
something I'm not
Fast-track to disinformation
By Shirin Sadeghi
OPINION
Ceausescu,
your velayat-ness
It is no longer if the IRI gets the message, rather when
and how
By Shahriar Zangeneh
CRITICISM
Haven
for the truly insane
Art in iranian.com
By Amigui
DIASPORA
Traveling
above
The immigrant's quest for a fuller meaning of life
By Leila Farjami
REVOLUTION
Fereydoun's
wound
Hoveyda in New York
By Amir
OPINION
Politics
of intimidation
Ideology & violence
By Fatima Farideh Nedjat
OPINION
Controlled
democracy
A political analysis of Iraqi freedom
By Iqbal Latif
STATE
The
unelected few
Promoting undemocratic governments around the world
By Guive Mirfendereski
LIFE
Gentle
strength
A revolutionary speaks on violence
By Siamak Vossoughi
RIGHTS
One
of us
It is our duty to defend Aghajari's
human rights
By Mani Farhoomand
OPINION
A
war of liberation
The war that America is currently trying to justify is not
By Salman Rushdie
IRAN
Getting
the job done -- by ourselves
Democracy is not something you buy from a store
By Mahrokh Mashadi
ELECTIONS
Need
to get involved -- now
Vote in Tuesday's U.S. elections
By Farhad Radmehrian
SOLUTION
An
apolitical solution
How to bring about political change in Iran
By Shahin Milani
STATE
Sustainable
democratisation
The rejection of absolutism implies a re-thinking of the
institution of the faqih
By Alessio Loreti
IRAQ
The
American way
Money=oil=money
By Azadeh Ensha
GEOPOLITICS
That
sinking feeling
Iran's bid for the Caspian
By Alex Vatanka
OPINION
Universal
voice
Countering jingoist voices
By Majid Tehranian
OPINION
Garden
vs. Wilderness
What is the American Dream?
By G.R. Sami Gorgan Roodi
IRAQ
Saudi
rescue plan
A tripple-hitter, if U.S. policy towards Iraq succeeds
By Hassan Farzin
IRAN
Generating
hope
... and eliminating fear to stop the brain drain
By Mohammad Ala
AMERICAN
We
are responsible!
It should be no surprise that terrorism abounds
By Brian Appleton
SPAIN
Right
in Madrid
People have yet to regard communism with the same horror
they rightly do Nazism
By Alidad Vassigh
OPINION
Breeding
new terrorists
Where does U.S. self-defense cease and aggression begin?
By Lee Howard Hodges
OPINION
Burn
Baghdad, burn!
Why we so urgently need to attack Iraq
By Pedram Moallemian
OPINION
Squandering
solidarity
An open letter to President Bush
By Alan Hale
IRAQ
WHY
is war unavoidable?
It is only unavoidable if the dominant powers insist on it
Farhad Radmehrian
UNDECIDED
Talk
some sense
Hating the Americans or the Iraqi government is not a starting
point
By Siamack Salari
SOLUTION
Democracy
matters
If Islam is ever to undergo a reformation, as Christianity and
Judaism did, it's only going to happen in a Muslim democracy
By Thomas L. Friedman
SELF-RIGHTEOUS
Israeli rules of war
Always a fighter, always a terrorist
By Amira Hass
OPINION
Naked
imperial policy
Letter to U.N. Secretary General
By Peter Attwood
COVER
This
is London
"Don't Attack Iraq" demonstration
Original photographs by Robert Leigh Banks
Altered by Jahanshah Javid
PROTEST
Taking
to the streets
Peace rally in London
By Shappi Khorsandi
OPINION
Vote
him out
How to get rid of Saddam Hossein cheaply and legitimately
By Kazem Alamdari
ETHNIC
Claims
and facts
On Azaris and Azarbaijan
By Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
CONVERSATIONS
Standing
up and speaking out
Or keeping down and staying silent
By Behrouz Bahmani
IRAN-U.S.
Resolutions
on Iran
On Capitol Hill
From National Iranian American council
FEAR
Az
saayeye khod betarseed!
Fear your own shadow
By Saeed Tavakkol
IRAN-U.S.
A
new strategy?
Nothing is going to happen. I mean NOTHING.
By Asadollah Bani
LANGUAGE
Facelift
Persian words that can replace their Arabic equivalents
By Vahid Isabeigi
DISCRIMINATION
My
last trip to the United States
For the first time in my life I understood what discrimination
means
By Picha
9/11
The
9/11 baby
Armin may have reflected on what kind of a world he blundered
into
By Moji Agha
CHUTZPAH
Shopping
is easier than jihad
Why I wonder, do so many people hate Americans? Well, they say
they do, but they don't really
By Alidad Vassigh
OPINION
Futility
of revenge
I cannot stay uncaring about the fate of the Mujahideen Khalgh
rank and file
By Shahriar Zangeneh
OPINION
The
seventh oil war
Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world
By Majid Tehranian
DIASPORA
Blending
in
I am really going to miss when we were just Iranians
By Termeh Rassi
COMMUNITY
Supporting
your own
It starts with wanting to see Iranians progress
By Said Rouhol-Amin
COMMUNITY
Supporting
your own
It starts with wanting to see Iranians progress
By Said Rouhol-Amin
UNIVERSITY
Lower
education
Universities, democracy and girls' education
By Mohammad Ghaed
RAPE
Aayaa
tajaavoz jensee hatk hormat ast?
Reducing reape to something less than a crime it is
By Maral Karimi
DIASPORA
What
do you want?
My desire is to have peace from my family
By Yasaman Rohani
LIFE
When
is it enough?
When can we say, I don't need to wait for anything, everything
I want or need is right here in this moment, right now
By Arezou Raeisghasem
REPUBLIC
Pyramid
of loyalty
God, King, Country? The very notion of kingship runs counter
to the universally recognized rights of the citizen
By Guive Mirfendereski
REPUBLIC
THIS
republic has to go
Because it fails to provide for democracy
By Amir
9/11
How
about 'God Bless the Whole World'?
Three times as many civilians have been killed in Afghanistan
than died in the WTC
By Shappi Khorsandi
9/11
International
Enough Day
September 11
By Afshin Levy
9/11
Beyond
economic interests
America has a golden oppurtunity of implementing its true
values of human rights and democracy in the Middle East
By Darius Kadivar
9/11
Strange
parallel
Charity begins at home so should anti-terrorism!
By Ramin Tork
9/11
Who
lost the world?
On the anniversary of 9/11 we must be troubled for having
squandered the sympathy of the world
By Ahmad Sadri
9/11
Reflections
on transnational terrorism
Remembering The Past And Imagining The Future
By Mansour Farhang
9/11
I'm
gonna live my life
Having some sort of Middle Eastern heritage is about the
same as being Black in the 60's
By Alborz Bahmani
9/11
Pillars
of Heaven
We will be the light that drives out the darknes
By Shahriar Afshar
9/11
Blame
belief
Fundamental principles that underpin terrorism
By Everett E. Allie
9/11
Tarnishing
of America's moral superiority
The once popular United States is not so popular anymore
these days -- not even in Europe
By Baraitna
9/11
The
troubling new face of America
Belligerent and divisive voices now seem to be dominant in
Washington
By Jimmy Carter
9/11
Drain
the swamp
... and there will be no more mosquitoes
By Noam Chomsky
9/11
Run
like a coward
Have no doubt about the resolve of United States
By Iqbal Latif
MIDDLE EAST
"W"
stands for "war"
Oil is thicker than blood
By Babak Khiavchi
BEHAVIOR
Shared
psychotic disorder
Mass illusion of absolute attachment to a cause
By Leila Farjami
IRAN
Fanciful
presidential flight
What Khatami's words really mean
By Reza Bayegan
9/11
Grand
conspiracies
September 11: Reality check
By Amir Khosrow Sheibany
RACE & RELIGION
Mixed
and matched
I heard the sensationalism that others described as fact
and decided he's 'the one'
By Nathalie Taghaboni
COMPARE
Passion
vs. possession
Cuba with all its marvelous idiosyncrasies
By Roozbeh Shirazi
9/11
Justifying
aggression
U.S. has gained sympathy to such an extent that it now
has a free hand to do as it wills and implement its worldwide agenda
without hindrance
By Sadaf Sadaf
REVIEW
Twilight
of religious marketability
Mohsen Kadivar in New York
By Amir
PERSIAN
Is
our language dying?
Should we totally discard the Arabic element in Persian?
By Vahid Isabeigi
9/11
Play
it very safe
and remember that the Middle East does not have monopoly
on lunatics and stupidity...
WOMEN
The
indirect approach
Women and broad-based sustainable development
By Fatima Farideh Nedjat
9/11
Play
it very safe
and remember that the Middle East does not have monopoly
on lunatics and stupidity...
9/11
United
we can
The world today is no longer the one we knew
By Mahyad M. Tousi
ETHNIC
Headless
cat
Perhaps we should start by examining ourselves
By Ramin Tork
WOMEN
Fulfilling
expectations
Who is an intern?
By Farzin Foroughi
IDENTITY
More
authentic, or less?
Iranian Nationalism has benefited from a more solid and
cohesive base
By Alessio Loreti
ETHNIC
Truncated
a version of Persia
Nationalism and culture
By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
AMERICA
The men from JINSA and CSP
Interesting dynamic among right-wing hawks
By Jason A. Vest
Source: The
Nation
MIDEAST
Reason
over blood
An overview of the Israel-Palestinian conflict
By Iqbal Latif
LANGUAGE
Politicizing
linguistics
It is a mistake to confuse ethnicity with language
By Reza Ordoubadian
PLAN
The
ideal scenario
For Middle East peace
By Majid Tehranian
PEACE
Finish
the story
Who is writing the Israeli-Palestinian story? Why can't the
author finish it?
By Kamran Talatoff
IRANIANS
Choice
& respect
Everything Iranians do, other Iranians take personally
By SSK
RIGHTS
Secular
or not
Religious intellectuals come short
By Ali Akbar Mahdi
PEOPLE
The same wish
How children feel about events of twenty-plus years ago
By Assal Badrkhani
ETHNIC
Who
are Azeris?
Important to emphasize the roots of Azerbaijan
By Aylinah Jurabchi
EXODUS
The
biggest injustice
Brain drain
By Ahmad Anvari
CHAOS
Stop
at the red light
Before changing the government
By Farhad Radmehrian
EDUCATION
Challenging
ignorance
... on Islam: A Ten-Point Primer for Americans
By Gary Leupp
MINORITY
Medieval
ignorance
The silence of Iranian polity towards Bahai persecution
By Iqbal Latif
IDEAS
The
Khshathric Society
We need a fresh, powerful ideology
By Delshah
METAMORPHSIS
Constant
or consistent?
One should be consistent in changing and growing
By Arash Kamangir
NATIONALISM
Loyalty
to our roots
At its most extreme, nationalism is quite like infatuation
By Ali Khalili
RACISM
Welcome
to the real world
If racism was a religion, it would have the greatest following
By Kendal Sheets
IRAN
Leave
it to the people
Democratic movement gaining momentum
By Narges Bajoghli
OPERA
The
Persian Tragedy
Sunset of the Persian Empire
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
SERIOUS
Standardization
of standards
My spurious attempt at being an "antalagh toloogh"
By Marjaneh Zahed-Khorassani-Kindersley
SCIENCE
Alien
Observations about photons
By Hossein Javadi
Persian text
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
IRAN
Man
yek javaane Irani hastam
I am young Iranian
By Galony
IRAN
Daarandegi
o baraazandegi
4,000 new Mercedes Benzs for Iran's police
By Behboud
MEDIA
Illusion
overdose
Iranian TV stations
By Leila Farjami
GLOBE
Good
idea
Why global civilization?
By Majid Tehranian
MIDDLE EAST
Open
your eyes
High time for Muslims to reject once antiquated clerics and leaders
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
STATE
Party's
over
Islamic Republic - the great 'national-socialist' experiment
in the Middle East
By Hossein Bagher Zadeh
FUNDAMENTALISM
Too
many to count
Similarities between Khamenei and Bush
By Farhad Radmehrian
MIDDLE EAST
Why
do you blow yourselves up?
I haven't blown myself up. Not yet anyway.
By Saghi (Sasha) Michaelis
'
AMERICA
A
strange kind of freedom
Biggest threat to liberty in the US: Jewish and Christian
fundamentalism
By Rober Fisk
MONARCHY
Can
we say "Who needs Norooz?"
Believing in a "lost cause"?
By Reza Bayegan
STATE
Give
this republic a chance
I will
By Guive Mirfendereski
ANNIVERSARY
Tic
tic tic
The timer is ticking for the Islamic Republic
By Shahriar Zangeneh
RIGHTS
Heechee
kam nadaaran
When are we going to recognize Bahais?
By Jahanshah Javid
MIDDLE EAST
Too
beautiful?
A free and prosperous Palestinian state?
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
MEDIA
Don't
ask, don't write
How the media spin works in favor of Israel
By John Mohammadi
CASPIAN
Strategic
adjustments
Export options for Caspian energy
By Alex Vatanka
REGIONAL
The
Triad
Russia-Iran-China
By R. Ebrahimi
COMMUNITY
Collective
action
Opposing unfair treatment
By Hazhir Rahmandad and Mehdi Yahyanejad
IRAN
Horrendous
trends
Imminent social explosion
By Vahid Isabeigi
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