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September 2005
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that's funny
Noam Chomsky: Deep cover CIA agent

fact & fiction
BBC Persian: The Achaemenid empire

iranians of the day
*
Parham Aarabi: Top-notch innovator
*
Sourian: World champ
* Goli Tavakoli: Sculptor
* Navid Ghedami: Ultimate Houston
* Zoe Zohreh Rastegar: Talk show host

ebrahim nabavi
BBC Persian: This week in review

media crackdown
BBC Persian: Iran free speech group condemns new press jury

looking for good lawyers
Iranian American Bar Association to establish San Francisco chapter

no free speech for you!
AP: New York Fire Department's Muslim Chaplain Resigns After 9/11 Remarks

anyway
* Video: Top 10 George W. Bush moments
* Haj agha, I'm looking for a husband. Can you help me?
* Song request from Tehran
* Video: Life is so unpredictable
* Video: Funny world
* Video: My milkshake

salman rushdie
NaderDavoodi.net: Up close and personal

that's hot
Body bilder: HomanMeshkat.com

vive la france
CS Monitor: On world stage, France's role is audience favorite

logo
Thanks to Shima Ziaie for the beautiful Halloween logo.
Email your creative logos in gif or jpg format

cartoons
Saman

* Jesus & Imam Mahdi
Radmehrian
* Veterans of jihad and martyrdom
Haji Agha
* TV after fall of IRI
* Cheh khabar in Canada?

major misery
BBC: Triple Iraq bombs 'kill dozens'

lastkick.com
Reuters: Iranian audiences gripped by Manchester United play

this weekend
Orange County Mehregan Festival

women
CS Monitor: In Iran, US runner joins the races
Washington Prism: Interview with Halleh GhorashiHaleh

quiz
The man who saw double

ali afshari
Iran student leader gets six year jail sentence
* Radio Farda
* AFP

anyway
* Video: Islamic Women's Olympics in Tehran
* Mandatory virginity test in Iran

poll
Nuclear standoff

nice
Irandokht.com

dying to see them
BBC: A judge in New York has ruled that pictures of Iraqi inmates abused by US troops should be released

nukes
AFP: Iran committed to NPT for time being: top negotiator
Reuters: EU-US camp shrinks at IAEA ahead of Iran showdown

hmm...
CS Monitor
* Why Iran isn't a global threat
* Iran's tough stance a hit at home

how to beat our women
... without leaving marks: Enameh

cool
BBC: Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled

daily show
Video: God & Katrina
Video: Oil or nothing

nukes
Guardian: Need for creative diplomacy

marg bar engelees
BBC: Tehran students attack UK embassy
FarsPhotos: Protest in front of the British embassy in Tehran

torture
Rooz: Iran's Intelligence Minister wants to resort to "white torture"

iranian-american
Know your rights campaign
IAPAC

cartoons
Saman

* Positive news
Radmehrian
* Khamenei & Koorosh-e Kabir
* Jamaleto esgh ast
Mahdad
* Javid Shah

alleged iranian of the day
Farhad Farhbaksh: "Prolific bank robber"

civil disobedience
BBC: Secretive "guerrilla" artist has decorates Israel's West Bank wall

one by one
BBC: House Republican leader Tom DeLay indicted with criminal conspiracy
Reuters: Stock sale may be costly for Senate Republican leader Bill Frist

commentary
Kaveh Afrasiabi: The high price of hounding Iran

retaliation
BBC Persian: Majlis moves to retaliate against IAEA

yeah... we all believe you
BBC: UK rules out Iran military action

just take over the embassy. we're good at that
Reuters: Iranians mob UK embassy after IAEA nuclear vote

hee hee
AP: Israel urges nations not to vote for declaration against Israel's atomic program

damn food
BBC: Ban on foods high in fat, salt or sugar in England's schools

beautiful civil disobedience
Guerilla street theatre in Tehran

nukes
BBC: Iranians mull new battlefront

mykonos
Radio Farda: Parts (8), (9), (10) & (11) of feature on IRI's assassination of opponents. Apparently there was also a plan to kill Hadi Khorsandi. Also: Parts (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

fascinating
madison.com: David Safavian is the first casualty in a probe that could very well lead to the arrest of other Bush administration officials

nukes
Reuters: Iran threatens to cut trade with nuclear critics
AP: Iran Threatens to Resume Uranium Enrichment
AFP: Russia urges Iran not to enrich uranium

alert
HumanRightsFirst.org
* Jailed Women's Rights Activist Needs Your Help
* Release Akbar Ganji

hossein derakhshan
Guardian: Beware the bomber, not the bomb

anyway
* Hassani: Get rid of Norouz holidays
* Stupid Idiots University
* Video: Star Wars Obeonekanobe at car dealership
* Qoran has answer to why America being hit by devastating hurricanes
* I guarantee you an Iranian picked the location
* International symbol of marriage approved
* Victoria's big secret in Amazon
* Persians on sale on e Bay
* Video: Stunt City

nukes
BBC: Iran threat to resume enrichment
BBC: Iran warns India on nuclear vote

god needs to get paid
Washinton Post: Bush Administration will pay religious groups for Katrina aid

norouz project
San Francisco World Music Festival

interesting
Six artists in San Jose: "Calling Into the Void" opens Sept 30th

cartoons
Haji Agha

* Iranian women soccer players
Mazloom
* Nuclear/Taxi agency
* Ahmadinejad: classroom
Mahdad
* Save us: Mojahedin
* Sharon and Bush
* Pahlavi brothers: Smile
Mahmoud
* iranian.com: 10

iranian-american twins of the day
*
Ahmadi boys: Moosh bokhoradeshoon!

nukes
Washington Post editorial: An Alliance on Iran

sit there and be quiet
Radio Farda: Judiciary reformist Abbassali Alizadeh demoted

iranian journalism on trial
BBC Persian: New media crackdown expected in Iran with formation of conservative-led juries

iran-iraq war veteran
Enameh

internet
Washington Times: U.S. tells nations hands off Internet

nukes
BBC: Iran warns against UN rebuke
AFP: Iran says UN referral would raise Middle East tensions

photo
NaderDavoodi.net: Poor boy, Dolat Ave., Tehran

photo
AliKhaligh.com: "No War", Washington DC

48 hours in tehran
Independent: The Iranian capital has plenty of treasures to discove

heritage
Observer: Tom Holland's masterly study, Persian Fire, brings an ancient empire to vivid life

anti-war
-- Washington: Big throng marches past White House
-- San Francisco: Largest war protest since conflict started
-- London: Largest war protest since conflict started

in the line of fire
Guardian: Iraqi journalism is dying, little by little, as its reporters are killed

heritage
CS Monitor: Where the relics meet the road: Ireland's highway dispute

where is my husband?
Gooya: Akbar Ganji's wife Masoujmeh Shafeie writes to Judiciaty Chief Ayatollah Shahroudi

anyway
* Googoosh fan: Merci savaad!
* Executive abdaarchi

snow in rasht
Photos: Winter 2005 (10 pix)

photographers' corner
PhotoSana.com

cartoons
Mahmoud
* Nothing is impossible
Mazloom
* Hurricane Rita hits Qom

nukes
AFP: Iran blasts 'illegal' nuclear move but says talks possible
AFP: US calls IAEA vote on Iran a 'significant step forward'
AFP: Canada says IAEA motion against Iran was late
BBC: Iran brands UN resolution illegal
Guradian: UK & US win vote to refer Iran dispute to UN
BBC: Pressure begins to build on Iran

is iran next?
Guardian: The precautionary principle

lovet mano koshteh
AFP: Ahmadinejad brings love to quake-hit Bam

maryam rajavi
NY Times: An implacable opponent to the mullahs of Iran

washington lecture
NIAC: Reza Aslan author of "No God but God" on the reformation of Islam

curious kid
Kourosh Ziabari's
ImaneEmrooz.com

wow
Iranian Blog News
1irani.com

fishy fire
BBC Persian: Iran oil pipeline fire kills three in Luristan

world's largest persian rug for...
Sheikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi

persian classical music in...
Northern Kentucky University

moooosh!
NaderDavoodi.net: Born on the White Revolution

oil money
AliKhaligh.com: Iranian gas station attendant counting cash

censorship ;o)
BBC: Racy ad ban in Brazil

nukes
BBC: IAEA passes EU motion that sets Iran up for Iran's referral to the Security Council
BBC: Iranians take pride as tensions mount

our friends!
Twelve nations -- including China and Russia -- abstained. Venezuela cast the only opposing vote on the IAEA board

surud i sol i 2005
Music: Tajik Pop

cool iranians of the day
* Ali Raissi-Dehkordy: Forbes interview with Savrow PC maker
* Nilou Motamed: Discovery Channel Travel Spies co-host

nukes
BBC: EU urges UN Iran nuclear debate

hennie farrow
Design: WallScapesByHennie.com

but of course!
Hrinfo: Regional Internet forum banned in Iran few hours before the start of the event

mykonos
Radio Farda: Parts (6) & (7) of feature on the Berlin trial against IRI agents following assassination of 4 political opponents in 1992. Also: Parts (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

music
* Elahe: "Jamileh Yekkeh Savaar" & "Az Khune Javaanaane Vatan Laaleh Damideh"
* Simin Ghanem: "Range Messi" & more
* Delkash: "Havas-haaye del"
* Roya: "Ashke Nedamat"
* Yasmin: "Shiraz" & ...

sociology
SociologyOfIran.blogspot.com

cool
New York Iranians present:
mshab.com

nukes
Reuters: EU Submits Iran Motion to U.N. Agency

dumb move
DRireland: Robert Fisk banned from entering U.S.

ebrahim nabavi
BBC Persian: Week in review

head-to-head
BCC: Iran-Iraq war veterans

nader davoodi
PictorialToronto.com: Sarah Jessica Parker's "Lovely"

cartoons
Saman

* Ahmadinejad's U.N. stamtement|
* Katrina vs Monica affairs
* Pledge of Allegiance: American flag
Mahdad
* Ahmadinejad, UN & Women
* IAEA chief's commission
Radmehrian
* Rafsanjani & Khamenei

repeat disaster
BBC: Storm overcomes New Orleans levee

nukes
Guardian: Europe backs down
Oxford Group: Iran's nuclear rights
AFP: West in disarray over moving on Iran
Reuters: Russia shields Iran from UN action

khosh jens
BadJens.com

despair
Washington Post: Opiates of the Iranian People

escape from reality
Washington Post: Celebrity magazines soar in popularity

buenos aires
Interpol cancels warrants for Iranians sought in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina
* Reuters
* BBC Persian

ehem
iranian.com turns 10
Washington Prism: Afshin Molavi's interview with Jahanshah Javid
* Persian translation
* English text

absolutly wasted
FARS photos: Booz bust in Tehran

anyway
* Video: Bush & Blair: Gay bar
* Video: World's biggest balls
* Video: Dumb dog vs. robodog
* Video: Expensive (tap) water

chogan
BBC: Polo comes back home to Iran

massive mess
BBC: Gridlock as masses flee US storm

censorship solutions
AP: French government-sponsored guide aims to help bloggers beat censors

iranians of the day
* Ali & Marjan: Newlyweds
* Niyaz: Hamishe Iranian of the day (3 pix)
* Houshmand Saliminejad: Sibil Koloft
* Reza Vedadi: Rezpod.com
* Sephr (Sam): Peace Corps in Niger
* Qashqaie Turkish girl: Gachsaran

persian in pop culture
Video: Madonna iTunes/Motorolla ad with Farsi Dari

more segregation
Kayhan: Buses for women passengers only to operate in Tehran

alliance for bam
Iranian Alliances Across Borders: Bam and Beyond: Seminar on rebuilding Bam, Nov 12, Columbia University

nukes
Reuters: Russia, EU in deadlock over Iran
BBC: EU drops hardline stance on Iran
Reuters: Russia rejects new EU atomic draft on Iran: diplomat

heritage
Guardian: Iran to rebuild spectacular tent city at Persepolis

allah o akbar
BBC: TV shows beam directly to mobiles in major UK trial

big deal
Guardian: Dutch talkshow presenters will consume drugs and engage in sex

cash
Guardian: France to pay cash for more babies

important
Washinfron Post: Pentagon nixes 9/11 hearing testimony

nukes
AP: Iran Gets Reprieve in Nuclear Standoff

domestic violence
NIAC: Resources for battered immigrant women (English) (Persian)

iranians: new york to los angeles
NYLAmagazine.com

goal
IranFootballCenter.com

copyright
BBC: U.S. authors sue Google over book plan

anyway
* Video: English ad for Sadaf foods
* Video: Ahe Reshteh Sadaf
* Video: Chai-e Sadaf
* Electronic salavat
* Muslim-Jewish harmony
* Ershad, American style
* CNN: Airliner fakes emergency so passengers can watch soccer game

nostalgia
Googoosh, pre-1979

* London concert
* With Ghorbani & son
* Red lobster!
* Beach pose
* Young lady
* Look at that hairdo!
* With Poori Banaie
* Concert for students
* Little girl
* Wedding ring

hamjensgaraa
Gay City News: A young, gay Iranian torture victim speaks out

clips
Mr. Za-eeeeee!
Iranian on Judge Judy

zahra kazemi
AFP: Canada demands justice over photographer murdered in Iran

katrina II
BBC: Houston mayor orders evacuation

cartoons
Mahmoud

* Love Brigade: Komiteh Mehrvarzi
* In structions to crime busters

nukes
AFP: Iran raises nuclear stakes
AFP: Canada demands justice over photographer murdered in Iran
Reuters: Russia, China threaten West's push on Iran

natioanl anthem
Music: "BeToChe"

pasargad
Radio Farda: Experts say Sivand Dam will not damage Pasargad or Persepolis

mehregan poetry
NIPOC Irvine: Submit poems to Irvine festival

nukes
CS Monitor: Iran bids to redefine nuclear limits

googoosh in concert
Pictures from Los Angeles performance (39 pix)

fogotten tribe
Iran Emrooz: The Bakhtiaris

nukes
AFP: Iran raises nuclear stakes, does not appear to be bluffing
AP: U.S. presses case for action against Iran
Reuters: EU lambasts Iran over nuclear ambitions

september 24
Anti-war rallies in U.S.
NotInOurName.net

oil
BBC Persian: What the world revolves around

toons
Haji Agha

* Cavemen: Paradise lost
* In Canada women are always right
* Canada gives more rights to gays than Muslims
Radmehrian
* Where did all the oil money go?
Kazem
* Storm: USA & Iraq
Mahdad
* Pahlavi: Mosalmoon

fantastic
iiketab.com
Finally after 30 years, something good out of Iran
-- Ramin T.

evin
Reporters Without Borders: No news of Akbar Ganji for past 25 days

mykonos
Radio Farda: Three part feature on the Berlin trial against IRI agents following assassination of 4 political opponents in 1992
(1) (2) (3)

oops!
Washington Post: Safavian arrested in Washington corruption probe

anyway
* Video: U.S. vs. stubborn enemy
* Video: L.A. ladies shopping
* Zoo animals could eat you

na behesht na jahanam
Radio Farda: Muslim women stage play in Zurich with critical eye on Islam

nukes
BBC: Russia resists UN threat to Iran
AFP: Israel, Iran clash over their nuclear programsAP: Iran warns against sanctions over nukes
Reuters: EU turns up the pressure on defiant Iran
AFP: No one trusts Iran: Rice
AFP: West threatens action on Iran; Iran threatens reprisals
AFP: Iran warns it could quit nuclear treaty
AP: Diplomats: Russia Resisting Iran Referral
* Guardian: Handle with care

new books (in exile)
www.baran.st

jazzman
* Darren Motamedy: Saxophonist

sexy makhmalbaf
IASA: Mohsen Makhmalbaf's new film "Eshgh" (Love) is too sexy for Iran

clips
Milad Tower
Imagine there's an earthquake and you're here
Bahram 9821

darab ghaffary
IAPAC: Iranian American Seeks City Council Seat in Sunnyvale, California

holocaust
BBC: Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies

majlese khobregan
Radio Farda: What is the Council of Experts for?
-- Mehrangiz Kar

nukes
Reuters: Israel: Iran may be 6 months from bomb know-how
AP: IAEA Chief Urges More Diplomacy on Iran
BBC: N Korea puts terms on nuke arms deal

neighbors
BBC: Afghanistan to begin poll count

ahmadinejad party
Hossein Derakhshan: What went on at Ahmadinejad's private party for Iranian-Americans in New York?

science
Hessamaddin Arfaei: An Islamic Science Revolution?

qorehkeshi
Video: August quiz champion

iranians of the day
* Hessamaddin Arfaei: Science Magazine
* Robert's 6th birthday: Family & friends (6 pix)
* Arshia: Oracle parking lot
* Bruce Bahmani: Ahmad Kiarostami

prince of persia
Eurogamer: The Sands of Time looks set for movie screen

nukes
* AFP: EU drafts Iranian Security Council summons

clips
I can also sing
Video: Driving and singing along with the radio
Jahanshah Javid

photoblog
* NaderDavoodi.net: Bahram Delavar

anyway
* Video: Football(s)
* Video: Football (bites)
* Exclusive: What has God revealed to man
* Computer worm unleashes Koran

injustice
AFP: Zahra Kazemi appeal verdict reached

heehee
BBC: North Korea agrees to give up its nuclear activities

living mask
BBC: US plans first face transplant

the forgotten
Radio Farda: Jailed student protesters hardly heard from

aaaaay nafaskesh!
AFP: New Iran president makes a splash at UN

nukes
Guardian: EU hits back over Iran's nuclear defiance

googoosh concert
Radio Farda: Googoosh performs in Los Angeles

cartoons
Mazloom

* Ahmadinejad: UN leaders group photo
Mahdad
* Ahmadinejad & Putin
* Scary Iranians at U.N.
Mahmoud
* Westwood-Lalehzar production
* Seksekeh
* Old farts Disco night
Haji Agha
* Iranian-Americans give Ahmadinejad a warm welcome
* Katrina: Americans attacking Americans
Reza007
* Ahmadinejad: Lord of War

ostad-e akhlagh-e dolat
Enameh: "State Ethics Scholar" Morteza Agha Tehrani will lecture the Iranian cabinet once a week on ethics

tahajjor
Safa in LA: Frustrating example of reactionary Muslims -- in America

nukes
AFP: UN watchdog meets on Iran nuclear programme
Reuters: Opposition hardens to UN action on Iran nuclear plans
* Reuters: EU powers start work on Iran nuclear resolution
* AFP: No military answer to Iran nuclear stand-off: British FM
* BBC: Iran warning on sanctions threat

most emailed katrina joke
What's President Bush's position on Roe vs. Wade?
Answer: He doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans.
-- BK

democracy?
BBC: Afghanistan holds landmark vote

no clear winner
BBC: Hung parliament looms in Germany

no news bad news
Radio Farda: 20 days with no news about Ganji

thank you
Remember M.A.? Iranians have collected money to save her from execution

hamjensgaraa
Deutche Welle: Interview with Arsham Parsi about Iranian gay & lesbian group

whatever
Ahmadinejad talks with CNN's Christiane Amanpour

nukes
BBC
* Ahmadinejad insists on nuclear rights
* UK's Straw attacks Iran nuclear stance

persian empire
NY Times: Rewriting Victors' View of Persian History

akbar ganji
UN special envoy calls on Iran to pardon dissident journalist
* U.N.
* BBC Persian

nazaram avaz shod
BBC Persian: Zahedan MP takes back resignation threat

save hassani. we need someone to laugh at
Gooya.com: Ayatollah Gholamreza Hassani target of assassination attempt

nukes
* BBC: Iran gets new US nuclear warning
* Reuters: leader insists on right to nuclear fuel cycle
* Reuters: Rice urges U.N. to stand up to Iran nuclear bid

sex
IHT: Results of U.S. sex survey surprise the experts

hossein derakhshan
Interview on VOA Persian TV

jerk
BBC: Pakistani activists have reacted with outrage to recent comments on rape victims by President Pervez Musharraf

reply to ahmadinejad
Mehrangiz Kar: Democracy for the UN? Why not for Iran? (Radio Farda)

losing struggle
BBC: The struggle for Iraq

must see
BBC Persian: Iranian Pop music pilgrims in Antalia festival (audio slide show)

next silicon valley mayor?
Darab Ghaffary running for Sunnyvale city council: ghaffary.com

bush notes
eyeranian.net: Bush goes to Security Council

brain drain
Radio Farda: Iran, India, China, South Korea top countries in losing best & brightest citizens to the West -- IMF

anyway
* Video: Katrina: New Orleans police in Wal Mart
* Good picture of the CN Tower in Toronto
* Video: God ruins everything
* Video: Workaholic
* Video: Smoking kills

ebrahim nabavi
BBC Persian: Week in review

farrokhzad
Radio Farda: Fereydoun Farrokhzad's murder detailed in German rights seminar

bigger than elvis
Guardian: Hafez, a poet who died over 600 years ago, still gets the crowds flocking

high art
Nasabs.com

nukes
* Guardian: UK leads threat to impose sanctions
* BBC: Ahmadinejad meets EU ministers
* AFP: Europeans revive talks with Iran, united action urged against terror

deep concern
SavePasargad.com

photoblog
Hungarian photographer's shots of Iran

nothing secret
BBC: Iran is ready to trade nuclear secrets with other Islamic states: Ahmadinejad

kooseh
Radio Farda: Rafsanjani never gives up

toons
Unknwon
* Ahmadinejad: National Geographic
Mahdad
* Ahmadinejad: UN
* Bush & Iraqi President Talebani
* Javid Shah!
* Ahmadinejad: Pahlavi
Haji Agha
* USA-Ahmadinejad
* Welcome Ahmadinejad
* Repentant refugee in Canada
Mazloom
* Ahmadinejad: U.N. translator

the reporter
gozareshgar.com

beauty with a purpose
Katrina relief: Miss World Canada Ramona Rina Amiri

shirin ebadi
Radio Farda: Iranian laws do not comply with international human rights conventions

politics
Rocky start in transfer of power to Ahmadinejad's governors
* BBC Persian
* Radio Farda

nukes
Reuters: West backs away from early U.N. move against Iran

prisoners of conscience
Radio Farda
* Seven hunger strikers appeal to UN
* Imprisoned human rights lawyer Zarafshan's health deteriorates

anyway
Bush to Rice: I need to go

iraq
BBC: Baghdad reels from more bombings

terrorism
BBC: Seven Algerians held in raids by UK

terrible katrina
* NIAC: Iranian American Katrina Relief fund
* Relief International

60's-70's music
* Badeizadeh: Maashine Mashti Mamdali
* Simin Ghanem: Ey Gole Man &...
* Moghaddam: Kaasebhaa
* Pooran: Eshghe Soozaan &...
* Kayvan: Duet with Dariush &...
* Yasmin: Abshaar
* Azita: Dokhtare Tanhaa
* Shamaizadeh: Esmeh To

sorry, tekrarari
Shermine Shahrivar : Miss Europe 2005 (11 pix)

two thumbs up
* March of the Penguins
* The Aristocrats
* Junebug
* 40-Year-Old Virgin

nonsesnse
Audio: Ahmadinejad's speech in New York

un protest
MKO rally against Ahmadinejad (4 pix)

non-iranians of the day
* Former hopstages Barry Rosen and Kevin Hermening

iranians of the day
* Khatef Eslamisharar: Blind journalist
* Hadi Hadizadeh: Dissident physicist fears going back to Iran
* Elnaz Soleymani: We are sorry

welcome, mr. president
Radio Farda: Iranians protest against Ahmadinejad in New York

anyway
* Roosari yaa toosari
* Which beer is colder? (For prosecutor Bakhtiari)
* Masturbation is murder

hojjatieh
Asia Times: Shi'ite supremacists emerge from Iran's shadows

mps resign
BBC Persian: 2 Majles members from Sisitan-Baluchestan resign in protest against new governor

jesus christ
Elam.com

united nations
BBC
* Annan urges bold UN reform
* Landmark UN world summit begins

photoblog
NaderDavoodi.net: In the safety of emigration / Sean Penn

iraq bleeds
BBC: A series of bomb attacks kill more than 100 in Baghdad

ganji
Akbar Ganji has been placed in solitary confinement after being transferred back to prison from hospital
* BBC
* BBC Persain

you said it
Bush: Iran has right to civilian nuclear program

60's-70's music
* Aref & Narmela : Dast Beh Dast
* Haydeh: Naameh
* Parto: Faalbeen &...
* Elahe: Raghibe Taazeh
* Giti: Marde Ghesehaa &...
* Parvin: Ahde Ashenaaee &...
* Pooneh: Hamishe Tanhaa &...

cartoon
Mahmoud
Esfahan forever

kaveh afrasiabi
Asia Times: Building a case, any case, against Iran

nukes
AFP: Bush appeals for international action on Iran

kurdistan
Amnesty International: Four Kurdish men reportedly facing imminent execution in Orumiyeh

alo?
ZangBezan.com

new photoblog
AliKhaligh.com

heehee
aref-adib.com: Darius, the London bus driver

da
BBC: Head of Iran's nuclear programme holding talks in Moscow

yes
BBC: Afghan President says US needs new approach to bringing peace

clips
* First solo flight in a glider
1970s Zarghan Imperial Airport, between Shiraz and Persepolis
Bahram 9821
* 4 JAHAAN
Chasing vanity plate on Highway 880
Jahanshah Javid

#1 movie
* Shaohreh Aghdashgloo : The Exorcism of Emily Rose (3 pix)

we are sorry
* Artist: Babak Golkar

offer
AFP: Iran says full cooperation with inspectors if allowed to make nuclear fuel

persian empire... eh
Sunday Times: The British Museum has rightly tried to shed light on ancient Persia, but Waldemar Januszczak isn’t sufficiently dazzled

salman rushdie
The Times: Lesson One for the modern Muslim: remember, this is not the 8th century

crown
PBS: Reza Pahlavi Interview with Fareed Zakaria

photoblog
NaderDavoodi.net: Tehran capital of motorcycles

anyway
* Qazvin fruit basket
* Bush rushes to New Orleans to fish
* Bush: One of the worst disasters to hit the U.S.
* Bumper sticker

toons
Heyrani

* Iran to give political asylum to Saudi kissers
Mahdad
* Ahmadinejad laundry
* Pahlavi: Savaad
Haji Agha
* Goeorge Walker Bush

iranians of the day
* Ario Ramazani : Raising money for Katrina survivors
* Ramin Bahrani: Director
* May: Mesle sharab

ganji
Radio Farda: Akbar Ganji's wife calls on Kofi Anan to demand Ganji's release from prison
Audio-Text

conscience
Radio Farda: Abdolkarim Lahiji on the history of executions in Islamic Iran and the bloody hands of current senior officials

thank you canada
"There will be no Shariah law in Ontario. There will be no religious arbitration in Ontario. There will be one law for all Ontarians."
-- Ontario Priemer Dalton McGuinty

the man with the bloody t-shirt
New Scotsman: Ahmad Batebi, Tehran's 'most wanted', breaks cover

beshkan beshkaneh
ajabanzaban.com: Khanom T teaches beshkan

cartoon
Mazloom
* Ahmadinejad NY t-shirts

anyway
* Video: Glorious goal
* Kiss my ass

nukes
BBC: Iran defies nuclear referral risk

uncovering women
TelegraphIndia: Hijab notwithstanding, Iranian women have carved out a space for themselves

privacy
BBC: Is total anonymity on the net something we should be afraid of?

9/11
NY Timnes: Taking Stock of the Forever War
-- Mark Danner

maadar ghahbehaa
Radio Farda: American company wins bid for internet filtering in Iran

hossein nushazar
Medad

anyway
* U-haul, Iranian style
* Video: Negro=Kaka Siah
* When I go to a Chinese restaurant and order cat, I expect to be served cat. Not donkey!
* Britain's naked rambler stripped of freedom

iranian of the day
* Natasha Behbahany: Katrina relief

can sharia in canada
Letter to premiere: Don't ghettoize women's rights

brilliant
TehranAvenue.com: Hadi Zaeri Moghaddam's animated evolution of the hijab in Iran

nukes
BBC: Rice urges China, Russia and India to seek sanctions against Iran

former colleague
BBC Persian: Ahmad Khadem-ol-Melleh appointed new IRNA boss
* Report
* Interview withe Issa Saharkhiz

welcome to new york, mr president
IranProtestUN.com

iran-india pipeline
BBC: Date set for S Asian gas pipeline

iran-india pipeline
Radio Farda: Date set for S Asian gas pipeline

cartoons
Reza007
* Ahmadinejad: Visa
Mahmood

* Thanks and PLEASE RETIRE
* Shaahzaadeh va gedaayaan
Radmehrian
* Ahmadinejad: Tire khalaas

anyway
* Video:Breakfast dance
* One for the Star Wars fans

he's running for president?
BBC: Colin Powell joins in criticism of the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort

afkaare khosoosi
ksajadi.com/fblog

london is the place to be
Persian Empire exhibit opens at British Museum
-- Photos
-- BBC Persian

clash of ideas
The idea of democracy was born in the fight against Persian despotism: that is how Herodotus tells it.
-- Jonathan Jones , The Guardian

clash of turbans
BBC Persian: Clash between conservatives and fundamentalists inevitable?

iranian americans
MIT Iranian Studies Group Survey of Iranian-Americans 2005
PowerPoint

anahita
Prague Daily Mirror: Unique statue of Persian goddess uncovered near Prague

reporters
Reporters Without Frontiers calls for release of 4 Iranian Kurdish journalists

privacy
BBC Persian: Why personal privacy has little meaning in Iran

no sharia!
BBC Persian: Opposition to Sharia courts in Canada

unnnbelievable
* BBC: Bush declares Katrina prayer

shookhee jeddee
* Audio: Hurricane Barbara

demoghrasy
BBC: Egypt challenger to seek re-run

andre agassi
AP: Agassi outlasts Blake in U.S. Open classic

poor rich country
UN report says Iran's rich-poor divide among world's worst
* Radio Farda
* BBC Persian

here & there
Few moments (7 pix)
-- Nadia Hashemi

iranians of the day
* Faraz Kheradpir: handsome boy
* Mamali: In Baghdad (5 pix)
* Sina Tehranchi: Zoroastrian frame
* Mojgan Kiki: & hubby: (4 pix)

anyway
* Video: Sporting accidents
* Romance books
* Don't shoplift
* Grrrrr, woof
* Welcome to Braxton

strange times, my dear
Los Angeles Times: PEN event holds up a mirror to Iran, the U.S.

assassination
BBC Persian: Suspects arrested in connection with judge assassination

drivin mad
Members of Tehran's public bus drivers union arrested
* Radio Farda
* ISNA news
* ISNA photos

ganji
Radio Farda: Journalist arrested for attending Ganji gathering
Audio-Text

rape
BBC: Pakistan's treatment of women comes under global spotlight

cartoons
Mahdad

* Ahmadinejad: Statue of Liberty
* Khamenei: Opiniom Medal
* Reza Pahlavi preparing for takeover

enjoy
Video (Channel 4): Report on Persian exhibit at British museuem

barbara antoinette
The Nation: Barbara Bush: Katrina aid is good enough for the poor

anyway
* Wedding car in Iran
* Bush x-ray

aftabeh yaadet nareh
AP: Iranian President Granted U.S. Visa

ebay
NY Times: Pierre Omidyar's Perfect Store Turns 10

cartoons
Saman

* Iraqi constituion
* Help: Katrina loses to Iraq
* Bush, Iraq, Katrina
* Katrina: Blacks
Radmehrian
* Ahmadinejad needs direction
* Revolution has been good to them
* IRI Police Academy

persian exhibit
The Guardian: US forces should take a lesson from the Persian kings

nukes
Reuters: Iran seeks to soothe West's nuclear concerns

didn't cia say 10?
The Guardian: Iran could acquire the bomb in five years, say British researchers

akbar ganji
Ganji back in prison after just two weeks to recover from two-month hunger strike
* Reporters Without Borders
* Radio Farda

nukes
BBC: No clear end to Iran nuclear crisis

kurdistan
Radio Farda: Two activists executed in Mahabad
Audio-Text

football
BBC Persian: Fans stay away from stadiums

hee hee
BBC Persian: Haddad Adel's trip to New York officially cancelled due of visa delays

anyway
* Vine, party and girl friend
* Audio: Wolf Blitzer's "so black"

shiraz
Kaakoo Maast & high-speed Internet (2 pix)

farhad aeesh
Panjereha.com

terrible katrina
* NIAC: WE can help
* Iranians in Dallas help victims
* Neeki o porsesh?
* Iran's free oil "offer"

cartoons
Heyrani

* Khamenei & Cyrus the Great
Mazloom
* Koroosh asoodeh bekhaab
* Bush & terrorism
Reza007
* Ahmadinejad welcomed in New York
Kazem

* Katrina: Sorrow

cool
IranianTruth.com

round up
BBC Persian: Plan to "increase public security" in Tehran in 20 days

life more important than nukes
Amnesty International: Death Penalty/ Fear of Imminent Execution. Sattar Sh (m)

nukes
* Kaveh Afrasiabi: ElBaradei's report deconstructed
* CS Monitor: Iran changes tack in nuclear standoff

very good
Radio 4 Live: Listen to Demitri Martin (Move to 14mins)
-- Peyvand Khorsandi

majlese moftkhoran
Radio Farda reports on Council of Experts (1) (2)

going nowhere
Radio Farda: Iranian artists in Berlin show Iran as stationary-bike

hossein derakhshan
250,000-Toman fine for "bad hejab": Connversation between Nazanin & a vice squad officer

photoblog
NaderDavoodi.net: Guys fighting over a girl

ashe reshteh
BBC Persian: Mother visits Canada -- and cooks
Video-Text

nukes
BBC: New report says Iran still some way from nuclear weapons, but warns of diplomatic showdown

bay area
Book signing: Nahid Mozaffari, and Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak promote Strange Times, My Dear"

shirin ebadi
AFP: Lawyers have dangerous job in Iran: Nobel laureatefrown

religion's last resort
Sarallah suicide brigade annouces plan to hold rally near Karaj Dam
* BBC Persian
* Radio Farda

iranian identity
Radio Farda: Interview with Abbas Milani

heritage
Bookmark
www.chn.ir

hindustan times
India, Iran brighten smile despite American frown

good
BBC: How Muslims around the world are reclaiming Islam

nukes
Reuters: Russia against referring Iran to UN Security Council

evin
* Radio Farda: Ganji's wife not allowed to visit him at Evin (Audio-Text)
* Ganji archive

maymand
UNESCO: Melina Mercouri Prize goes to the Iranian village of Maymand

mehrangiz kar
Radio Farda: Iran's legislators primary concern is security

start learning chinese
BBC: Will China become the world's new superpower?
-- John Simpsion

pasargad not in danger?
* Radio Farda: Pasargad foundation head says monument not in danger but has other worries
* Deutsche Welle: Rights group will sue to prevent destruction of historical sites
* BBC Persian: Will Pasargad go under water?
* Petition: More than 3,000 signatures so far
* Open Letter: Mirzadegi & Nooriala

nice
bidoun.com

googoosh's biggest fan
Bidoun: Private Devotion: The world of Pullniro

woohoo!
BBC: First Muslim Miss England crowned

theater
Mammad Aidani: Ten Years at La Mama: A Celebration

cartoons
Mahmoud

* Ton's Safa TV in LA
* Ghanbar Ghelyooni
Mahdad
* Pope face seen on Moon
* Pahlavi Cehlokababi
* Martians impregnating husband
Haji Agha
* Bush & terrorism
* Rafsanjani

Mazloom
* Aliens come for Khamenei

terrible katrina
* Mayor of New Orleans
* Michael Moore to Bush

five voices to islam
Plays in Zurich September 9th: "Nah Behesht Nah Jahanam" by Niloofar Beyzaie, Reja Alam &...
Page (1) (2)

paris fest
8-15 September: Sixth Iranian Theater and Performance Arts Festival in Paris

dadar cancel shod
U.S. refuses to issue visas to Haddad Adel & buddies
* BBC Persian
* ISNA
* Radio Farda

huge deal
BBC Persian: Deal sealed to carry gas from Iran through Pakistan to India

kurdistan
Radio Farda: Labor rep arrested in Sanandaj
AFP : Clashes with Kurds kill 120 Iranian police in five months

let him go
Radio Farda: Masoud Bastani still in detention 20 days after attending Ganji protest

abbas milani
Radio Farda: Iranian diaspora discussed at Mehregan seminar in San Diego

persian carpets
NY Times: A Quest for Carpets Reveals the Persian Past and the Soul

tochal
Video: Take a ride on the Telecabin
-- Bahram 9821

shame of iran
LA Weekly: U.S. remains silent on gay hangings

nukes
* BBC: Iran nuclear questions 'remain'
* Reuters: U.S. wants Iran referred to UN after report-diplomat
* BBC: India embarks on Iran diplomacy

photoblog
NaderDavoodi.net: Mosatazafaan...

anyway
* Video: Hard-hitting toothpaste (Hit)
* Video: Hard-hitting toothpaste (Revenge)
* Video: Parking experts (1)
* Video: Parking experts (2)
* Video: Parking experts (3)
* Video: Parking experts (4)
* Video: Shut up and hit the ball!

religious loonies
WorldNetDaily: Act of God destroyed New Orleans for public celebration of sin

iranian of the day
Windshield wiper girl: Tehran (five pix)

nukes
* Reuters: U.N.: Iran has tons of gas for nuke bomb
* Reuters: EU hopes Iran will resume nuclear talks-Straw

refreshing
* Jamshid Assadi: EU deal will realize Iran's right to peaceful nuclear technology
* EU proposal: Full text in Persian

khavaran
Radio Farda: Activists gather at cemetery to remember 1988 massacre

nice
7sang.com

ho meini
Washington Prism: Interview with Arvand Abrahamian on his new book "Khomeinism"

kurdistan
NY Times: Massoud Barzani secured virtually everything the Kurds were asking for in Iraq constitution

good journalist silent journalist
Rooz: Journalism has become a crime under Judge Saeed Mortazavi

shahkar
BBC: First show for Iran's Western art
Reuters: Iran puts rarely-seen Western art on display

san jose
Meeting: Remembering Summer of '88

here & there
* We weren't quite sure who to cheer for :p (3 pix)
* London (after all the tube incidents, etc) (6 pix)

persian
IRNA: New computer lingo

cartoons
Shagholam

* Do not enter UN: Ahmadinejad
* I (don't) Love NY: Ahmadinejad
* EU-IRI gamble Iran's future
* Great Iranian Circus
* Missile with Aftabeh warhead
* Reza Pahlavi's tireless struggle
* Reza Pahlavi enchained
* Reza Pahlavi: Leader in a museum
* Ahmadinejad: God your ugly
* Ahmadinejad marriage assistance plan
* Ahmadinejad at his office
* Ahmadinejad: Best of the Beast
* Ahmadinejad before selection
* Dubai's Iranian TV show (1)
* Dubai's Iranian TV show (2)

nukes
Reuters: IAEA finishes Iran report as EU readies UN push

quiz
Airport security

tabreek
Radio PGLO: Persian Gay & Lesbian Organization Radio

comedy
Video: Kaaf Show
Nozar Azadi's "Kaaf Show" staring Parviz Sayyad and Mary Apik dancing ballet in mid-1970s

crime against humantiy
Radio Farda: 17th anniversary of mass execution of political prisoners in Iran. Interview with Ramin Ahmadi
Audio-Text

kurdistan
BBC Persian: Four Iranian Kurdish journalists charged with acting against "national security"

wow
BBC Persian: Cheetahs found in the wild in Iran
BBC: Apes 'extinct in a generation'

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