December
2004
>>> Updates
archive
>>> This
month
2005
Happy
New Year
quiz
Harf-e
moft
iranians
of the day
* Reza & Leila:
Berkeley
* Ladan Yalzadeh:
Director
* Mina Family:
Happy New Year
* Siavash Pourkamali:
Genius
iri
history
Rise
and fall of Ayatollah Montazeri
help
Ramin
Ahmadi and three other doctors are leaving on a relief mission
to Sri Lanka new year's eve. Perhaps Iranians would like to help
December 30
tsunami
Web
logs aid disaster recovery
persian gulf
National
Geographic Falls Short on Changes Proposed to the Iranian-American
Community -- NIAC
iranians
of the day
* Shohreh
Aghdashloo: 24
* Sherry Kamali:
Student regent
anyway
Editorial
dilemma: Asia tsunami or potatoes in Ardabil?
susan sontag
Looking
at war
bam one year later
NPR: Bam
earthquake revisited. Also see photos
of Polish rescue workers, thanks to Amir Sheibany
elahe enssani
Iran's
domestic crisis: Its youth
coalition
Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to name opposition leader Shimon Peres
as his deputy in a coalition deal
winds of change
Egypt's
government feels growing pressure for political reform
obituary
Chicago Tribune: From
a young age, Firouz Amirparviz was fascinated with the human heart
presidency
Who
may or may not run for president this spring when Khatami's term ends
disaster
The
Red Cross says more than 100,000 may have died in the Asian disaster
apology?
"National
Geographic offered a written apology to Iran and expressed its readiness
to correct the mistake" -- Darius Kadivar
poll
What
kind of year will 2005 be?
shorts
* Calendar:
Children of Persia
* Beware of Green
Card scam
iranians of the day
* Majid
Baradar: Seismic engineer
* Nadia Bjorlin:
Bruce Willis
saudi arabia
Car
bombs rock central Riyadh'
shaahkaar
Forudgaah-e
Emaam, Shaahkaar-e Modiraan-e Jomhuri-e Eslami! -- Amir
jokes
Random
December 28
here & there
Recently
I came back from a trip to Iran and Greece and brought back a few
pictures -- FF
susan sontag
Last
article in New York Times Magazine (May 23, 2004) -- Sourena
persian gulf
A
proposal on changes to the National Geographic's maps is currently
being considered by the National Iranian American Council
persian gulf
NGS
has removed comments on occupation of islands in straight
of Hurmoz and have deleted the (Arabian Gulf) with large fonts,
instead they have added a text that says "Historically and
commonly known as the Persian Gulf, this body of water also reffered
to by some as the Arabian Gulf" -- Goudarz Eghtedari
anyway
* Tehran's
Bonsai Christmas
* I may have
to paint my car
* Skin-tight
pants
enameh
Har dam az een baagh
bari miresad
mojahedin
These
women have come from around the world to bring down Iran's ayatollahs
women
Author
and Activist Susan Sontag Dies
jim lobe
Hawks
Plan 'Peaceful' Regime Change in Iran
December 27
nuclear news
agency
AftabNews.ir
nostalgia
Early
1970s album covers
iranian of the
day
Kazem
Motamed-Nejad: Communications
Baghdad graffiti
"Terrorism" is
a drama play, its hero the criminal Saddam Hussein, its director
damned Bush, its writer Bin Laden
world's strongest
man
Vote
for Rezazadeh: email this form before December 31
parviz sayyad
...
as Amoo Norooz in new animated feature film
for sale
Tarikh.com
anyway
* Video: Ahvaz
modern dance
* Jam-e Jam:
How to build one
cool
SidewalkM.com
iranians of the
day
* Diba:
Cutest in the world
* Ramsar shelter (4
pix)
* Daniel Siaghi:
Dominic
z8un.com
Bam: One year later
robin wright
Freeing
Ourselves to Take Bold Diplomatic Action
ali akbar mahdi
Merry
ice: Midwest snow storm (18 pix)
cartoons
New
Yorker
* 16
cartoons
Mahmoud
* Black
beauty
Kazem
* Merry
Christmas: American Eagle
December 23
enameh
Merry
Christmas
the guradian
Dam
is threat to Iran's heritage
u.s.-bam
U.S.
university is offering to help restore an ancient city in Iran
that was devastated by an earthquake a year ago
the dollar
...
falls to an all-time low against the euro as new figures fuel concern
about the US economy
quote
I
know the old argument: Saddam was worse. But must we always compare
ourselves to this tyrant when we want to promote our dubious innocence?
-- Robert Fisk
apology
iranian.com has been inaccessible in many
of the world for the past 24 hours. I am not sure what the problem
was, but it seems to be getting back to normal now.
December 23
military
Center for Strategic & International
Studies in Washington DC report on Iran's military (Audio)(Text)
stoning revoked
Execution
by stoning will NOT be carried out against Hajieh Esmailvand
leyla mafi
Iran
confirmed that a court has sentenced a young woman to death for
prostitution
December 22
wow
PersianCyclopedia.com
photoons
Ramehrian: What's
missing (8 frames)
iranian school,
virginia
PersianCulturalCenter.net
ramin:
Fox
news is now using HOMICIDE BOMBER as opposed to SUICIDE BOMBER!
photo album
Shab-e
Yalda in Berkeley
poll
Do
you celebrate Christmas?
anyway
Persian
(Gulf) leaders
daftar tahkim-e
vahdat
Aqaaz
va paayaan-e Khatami dar daaneshgaah
iranians of
the day
* Sarah
Shahi: "The L Word"
* Hamid
Moslehi: Suing Michael Jackson
come see
Hoseein
Derakhshan at Stanford Wednesday
xmas logos
In addition to Ben
Bagheri's design, I got three lovely designs by Shahla
Ramzi: (1) (2) (3).
who are we?
Survey:
MIT Iranian Studies Group
cartoons
* Bullet-proof:
Iraqi elections
* Bush & Rumsfeld
ramin:
LA Times: My
Fight Against American Phantoms: Islamic scholar's revoked visa is a sign of
the times
human rights
ACLU:
US military interrogators abused Guantanamo detainees, including
inserting lit cigarettes in their ears
haah!
Isn't Ben Bagheri's Christmas
logo the cutest thing? :o)))
anyway
* Video: Your
letters to Santa
* Qazvin
fruit fair
arshin adib-moghaddam
The
neo-conservative factor
mahshid:
Flash animation: Taryaak
mko
US
appeals court reinstates terror indictments against providing money
to the Mujahedin-e Khalq
stuff
How about a Christmas logo with Santa Claus
for iranian.com? Submit your logo
in gif format here.
here & there
Association
of American Publishers $10,000 to publish translations of Iranians
novels
khejaalat daareh
The
UN General Assembly has censured Iran for human rights violations
moosh o gorbeh
Iran
will continue preparing raw uranium for enrichment, despite pledge
to freeze all such activity, diplomats said
December 20
boycott
Pajooheshgaraan: Tahreem-e
entekhaabaat-e riyaasat-e jomhoori
amnesty international
Iran:
One day left to save woman sentenced to be buried up to chest and
stoned to death
parham
Emrooz chon rooze akhare payiz bood, raftam
joojehamo beshmoram. Hanooz hamoon yedoonaro daram.
joke
Random
nostalgia
Early 1970s album covers
* Googoosh (6)
* Ebi: "Shab"
... and more
money
Dutch
parliament has allocated 15 million Euros to launch a TV news network
for Iranians
cartoons
Jamshid
* Zekki:
Person of the year
* Bush:
Santa
Mahmoud
* Aboo
Taleb: Boreedeh
Heidari
* Searching
in the dark
Kazem
* Bush:
Christmas gift
* Falloujah
iranians of
the day
* Majidy
family: Happy Holidays
* Googoosh:
Satellite TV
* Golden
Thread: Happy Holidays
* Morteza
Baharloo: Novelist
* Baby Sohrab:
Happy Holidays
* Mahnaz & Shahla:
Sisters
roya hakakian
Washington Post: Watching
the Uprising in Kiev Takes Me Back to Tehran
trita parsi
Whither
the Persian-Jewish alliance?
usa
Nearly
half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict
the civil liberties of Muslim Americans
canada
Ontario
Muslims should have the same rights as Catholics and Jews in the
province to seek arbitration based on religious law for family
disputes and inheritance cases
the guradian
Human
rights groups urge Britons to help save abused women from execution
by hanging and stoning
hadi
on referendom
Heyf ast shere
Hadi Khorsandi raa baa sedaaye khodash nadaashteh baashee.
-- Sayeh Saidi Sirjani
music
Buddahead: When
I fall (acoustic)
historic peace
offer :o)
In response to widespread criticism
by Iranians, National Geographic officials have offered to
make a change in their next World Atlas: "(Arabian Gulf)" would
be printed in a smaller font.
December 18
partow hooshmandrad
Dear Family and Friends! I wanted to send
you the good news of filing my thesis! I am grateful to your
love, kindness, and support. Happy holidays to all! Partow
nostalgia
Video: "Takhtekhaab-e
3 nafareh"
uproar
Conservatives
up in arms over "vulgar" dance performance in Iran Zamin
theater festival in Ahvaz (2)
cartoon
Mahmoud
* Unshaved
Persian woman
* Deshneh
Talaie
Kazem
* Stairway
to...
anyway
* Nissan
Qashqai
* Video: Sumo
soccer
yalda
Here is my version of iranian.com
logo for Shab-e
Yalda (The Eve of the Birth of Mithra, the Sun God). -- Shahla
Ramzi
amnesty international
Iranian
Woman to Be Buried Up to Chest and Stoned to Death In The Next
Five Days
wall street
journal
Anyone
want to guess the third-most used language on the Web, behind
English and Chinese? Farsi. Iran now has about 75,000 individual
Web logs. That's because a young, Toronto-based Iranian journalist
who publishes as Hoder created tools in Farsi to make it possible.
iranians of
the day
* Mahan & Rodeen
Sheibani: Iranians no matter where
* Shahkar
Binesh-Pajouh: Rapper
* Karim Ashoori:
Hojatoleslam Kickboxer
ramin tabib:
Send
a Cow gives direct, practical help to poor farmers in Africa
french-iranian
weblog
Vahid
Agha
December 16
cartoons
Iraj
* Mercy
killing
Saman
* Rumsfeld:
The arm you have
Jamshid
* Time
Magazine Person of the Year
* Merry
Christmas: Bush
anyway
* Video: First
Class photo
* Video: Car
under snow
* Road kill
cubical coincidence
The painter is
Sohrab Sepehry. My colleague has one just like it in his cubical
-- Fred Nejabat
afp
In
rebuilding historic Bam, experts and engineers dream of future
ali mostashari
Characterizing
the Iranian-American community
who are we?
Survey:
MIT Iranian Studies Group
oh...
It felt good :o)
cartoons
Mr.
Fish
* Presidential
materail
Saman
* Iraqi
elections: Free t-shirt
* Bush:
Forcing democracy
Iraj
* Got
life?
support rudi!
Send
a short message to CNN in support of Rudi Bakhtiar
December 15
nostalgia
Video: "Gholam
Jandaram"
the economist
One
day the ruling ayatollahs will lose their deadening grip on power.
But not soon
sima shakhsari
I have finally braved it and started blogging
in Farsi and English.
new book
Shiraz
in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City, by John
Limbert
go turkey!
The
European Parliament has called on European Union leaders to open
entry talks with Turkey on membership
thanks to shirin
ebadi
U.S.
clarifies embargo law on publishing, encourages publication of
dissident speech in Cuba, Sudan, Iran
what did he
do wrong?! :o)))
Top
UK government minister David Blunkett, a key ally of Tony Blair,
resigns over a visa for his ex-lover's nanny
anyway
* Outsourcing
Santa
* Audio: Omar
koshoon
stuff
Ring Ring!
M-"Exerted yani chi?"
J- "Yani ejraa... amal kardan ... exerted pressure yani feshaar ovordan..."
M- "...OK. Bye..."
J- "Bye..."
If she only knew how beesavaad I am...
baharloo football
forum
Iran
have announced their squad for the International friendly match
against Panama this Saturday December 18th
javaneh:
This is my
first logo :D
Agar bekhandi behesh, I’ll kill you :P
Boos boos,
Wife joon
December 14
annual report
NIAC:
Moving Forward
laleh h:
BuyBlue.org
babak:
Fascinating
debate on censorship in music and media in 1986. Sounds almost
prophetic. I miss Zappa :((
pictory
* Audio: Mottahari
against 13 Bedar
* ... and more
leila farjami:
poetrism.com vizheye
erotism
enameh
Thoughts on referendum
pix
Bloggers
deny torture while in custody (13)
Stuff
Design a Shab-e Yalda logo
for iranian.com. Only a few days left. Send your image here
robin wright
Western
Culture Is Seeping Into Iranian Society, Despite Lingering
Restrictions
crook of the
day
Iranian-American
gallery owner admits art fraud
December 13
american civil
liberties union
How
Deporting Immigrants After September 11 Tore Families Apart
and Shattered Communities
too good
aeeneh.com
the world we
live in
in
Persian
jaayezeh
10million.org
anyway
* BABA! Even
trees do it!
* Why I'm another
religious freak
* Kooftesh besheh:
Sultan of Brunei's private plane
* Fight to...
the end
leyla m., 19
Fear
of imminent execution/ fear of flogging
get well soon
Messages
to a music lover
bookstore
KetabName.com
blah blah
Kalamekhoda.com
cartoon
Mahmoud
* Akhoondinator
* Goftegoo-ye
tamadonhaa
Mak
* Arabic
Geographic
iranians of the day
* Ebi & Shadmehr:
Pop stars
* Farah
Pahlavi: David Frost
bbc
Iran's
first pop revolutionaries
persepolis
Under
Austrian management
anyway
* Kooftesh
besheh: Sultan of Brunei's private plane
* Fight to...
the end
Iranian Alliances
Across Borders
2nd
international conference in April 2005 at the University of
Maryland
javaneh:
Condom
cheest?
December 12
cartoon
Saman
* Iraqis
prepare for elections
new york times
Fired
as Risks, Iranian Couple Sues U.S. Labs
iranians of the day
* Afshari
family: Fired
* Hossein
Amanat: From Shahyad to Samoa
* Scott, Haideh & Lily:
First trip to Iran
* Reza Bagher:
Director
cartoon
Iraj
* Bush
armor in Iraq
* Poisoning
Arafat
* Jewish
state
* Bin
Laden: Humvees
* Road
map for peace
Persian Gulf
Flash: How
to spend your oil wealth
Mahmoud
Bollywood
forever
December 11
deported from canada, arrested in
tehran
More
on Haleh Sahba
farrokh alemi
I
have written a children's book: "The Whale in the Watermelon"
book
Christopher
de Bellaigue's insider guide to Iran
shorts
* Bad
ideas, good argument
* For Shab-e Yalda
* Phone sex: 4
out of 5
* Corrupt blessings
nostalgia
Video: Googoosh, "It's
too late"
Video: Googoosh, "Man
Amadeham"
December 10
cartoon
Saman
* Humvees?
Shoes!
Persian Gulf
Flash: Oil
for map
professor barzin mobasher
I travelled
to Bam 2 weeks after the earthquake and collected many slides
of the destruction
journalism
Death
toll for journalists is highest in decade
Abjeez
I'm not
big, but I'm in love
anyway
* BMW
for sale
* Holy Terminator
* Depressed server: (Error
page message box)
mahshid:
Isfahan
University students write to Khatami
bbc
Iranian
picture Beautiful City has won the main prize at the International
Film Festival of India
animation
"Watermelon
Love", has won numerous awards...
yalda
Thanks to Mehrdad
Aref for designing a logo to
mark Yalda (it's days away.... December 21?). Email your version here.
here & there
Nabipour
* Boats,
calm sea (5pix)
* Colors of
light II (18pix)
cartoons
Saman
* No
nukes for YOU!
* Ali
Karimi's mullet
Bahmani
* Josh & Omar:
NBC
Radmehrian
* Iran,
EU and Israel
stuff
I heard these words coming from the direction of the TV... gooshaam teez shod: "Kesaafat!
Alaan police-o khabar meekonam!" It was the opening scene of tonight's
episode of ER.
pictory
Christmas cards, 1952-1972: Sumbat
Der Kiureghian
design
Yalda is coming up. How about designing a logo for
iranian.com to mark the occasion? Have fun with it!
iranians of
the day
* Haleh
Sahba: Arrested
* Mehdy Kavousi:
Photo of the year
baharloo football
forum
World
cup qualifying schedules
anyway
* Iranland
Fighter Women Organization
* No tie for
footballer of the year
* "My art
work in moon"
audio
Students
vs Khatami: Sound bites from 16 Azar at Tehran University (thanks
Mashied)
video
Watch
Students vs Khatami (thanks payman)
fallujah
Lt.
Col. Steven Boylan in Baghdad, explains the F-16 video footage: "...
those were the people shooting at the Marines."
finally
4-month-old
quiz: The 1942 delegate from Iran has been identified
December 8
here & there
Niavaran
Park. 30 pix by Reza Memar
maziar behrooz:
"16
Azar" by Shahriar
music
Added
three more tracks from Rama Morovati's "Two worlds CD"
cartoon
Iraj
* Rumsfeld:
Arms
* UN
secretary general
Mahmoud
* Persian
wife
iranian of the
day
Ali
Karimi: Asian footballer of the year (4 pix)
enameh
What
would Iran and the U.S. talk about?
alireza tarighian
ICDLbooks.org:
If you type Farsi in the search it brings Farsi children books
javaneh:
Hamidreza
Alaghband's
Gerdbad.com
babak:
ApologiesAccepted.com
December 7
pictory
* Mid-70s
booklet
* Ali, a Persian
Yankee
* Brits, Turks,
Persians
* Aviation:
Ahmad Shah
* The Man From
Persia
* With Jackie
Kennedy
* 28 Mordad
stamps
And more
nader honarkhah:
Mountains
of Iran: Pictures and notes
iranians of
the day
* Saman
Alikhani: Bubblebath
* Mena Mina:
2 1/2
iranian football
Baharloo
forum turns 3-years old. New members welcome.
anyway
Picture
in picture in picture in ...
stuff
At least we have our priorities right when
answering poll questions
:o)
poll
Which
is more important?
anyway
* Queen
Elizabeth's Scottish guard
* Iraq terror
alert system
cartoon
Mana Neyestani
* Desperate
strategy
Mahmoud
* Hashal
khaf
* Mamal
San Jose
google for
persians
Programmer
group
16 azar
If anyone finds an
audio link to Khatami's Q & A session at Tehran university, please
pass it on
gozaareshgar
Audio: Dar
saf-e noon
ey kalak!
Iran
Hints It Sped Up Enriching Uranium as a Ploy
target
U.S.
Consulate Attacked in Saudi Arabia
cartoon
Radman
* USA
map: National Geographic
Moe
* Opportunist
of the day
filmmakers
AmiraniFilms.com
javaneh:
Wikipedia.org
is a free-content encyclopedia in many languages that anyone can
edit
December 4
abuse
The
United States Navy says it has begun an investigation into photographs
that appear to show some of its personnel abusing Iraqi detainees
open your eyes
You
asked for my evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here it is -- In Iraq, the
US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead
iranian of the
day
Reza
Pahlavi: National Geographic
mehrangiz kar
Audio: Interview
about call for referendum
sasan fayazmanesh
The
Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the "Mullahs"
reuters
Bones
suggest women went to war in ancient Iran
nice
pouya.org
nostalgia
* Video: Vossoughi & Googoosh: "Hamsafar"
* Video: Ghaatebeh
on the phone with Googoosh
cartoon
Saman
* Post-National
Geographic name
* al-Persians
protest
no relation
shasho.com
web
* ShabehJomeh.com
* MyOwnFlag.org
ramin tabib:
If
we could be so lucky
cartoon
Mazaheri: National
Geographic, also known as...
broadband
The
number of Europeans with broadband has exploded, with the web eating
into TV viewing habits
dariush kadivar:
"The
Shah of Iran: A Man to be Eliminated" will be aired on Channels
FRANCE 5 and TPS (Satellite and Cable Channel) Saturday, December
4
ramin:
TurnYourBackOnBush.org
cartoon
Moe: Referendum:
Choices
anyway
* LA
bookstore window
* Homeland
Security
* Saudi mass
wedding
* Video: My
next car
iranians of the day
* Malek,
Sepideh: Fashion
* Ali Reza:
Democratization
* J & M:
Birthday
here & there
* Lida
Ghaemi: Europe
* Reza Mazaheri:
Exhibition
maamaan says
it's ok
Farah
supports Reza Pahlavi's call for referendum
bbc
A
plan to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers seems to be getting
out of control
cartoon
Mahmoud
* Little
Mehrdad
BabakAndFriends.com
* Norooz
book (1)
* Norooz
book (2)
Jamshid
* Ho
ho ho
* Bush
voter
next door
US
building army base in Afghanistan near Iran border
the future?
Proposed
changes to the UN could transform the global body (and rules of war)
referendum
60000000.com has been filtered
in Iran. Here are temporary mirror sites:
* 60000000.tk
* 60000000.cjb.net
alexander
Oliver Stone,
who was in President Bush's class at Yale, uses "Alexander" to
offer a strident argument in favor of unilateral aggression against
foreign powers, on the ground that--guess what--it's good for
'em.
palestine
Marwan
Barghouti enters the race for next month's presidential election
cheshm-e hossein roshan
The
word "blog" has been picked as a top term for 2004
gay magazine in persian
MAHA,
No. 1
enameh
Bomb-e atom va...
very nice
BabakAndFriends.com
said amin:
BBC: Amir Reza,
an Iranian who contracted Aids through transfusions for a blood disorder
darius kadivar:
I am watching
a talk show on French TV called "Vie Privee Vie Public" with
a group of guests including Mansour Bahrami, our Tennis Champ
anoush khazeni:
Musicial Master Roger Waters: Very political
as usual; not very impressive musically but pink floyd/roger waters fans get
a kick out of this...
amazon.censorship
Amazon
has removed complaints about the National Geographic Atlas
iri.censorship
Iran
threatens Al Jazeera over Persian Gulf cartoon
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