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Rainbow of dictators

A day is not a day unless I check Iranian.com, and please excuse my vile language: it is just who I am, rude to the

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No friend of the masses

Some dear friends invited me once to go on a pro-Palestine or anti-Bush or anti-Israel – some yapping-dogs-versus-civilization event with plenty of red flags –

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Pakistani priorities

One of the many distressing news items one reads these days is the posted on this site, on Pakistan's plans to build another plant to

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Long live the king!

I do believe the media manipulate people, though probably there is no grand plot. Like consummate liars, they believe what they state. The “truth” it

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Please help me

Browzing this colourful site, I saw in the corner a little notice for Islamic Aid, or Children or Child Aid, asking for money to help

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What’s the problem?

I am still waiting for John Bolton, the tough-talking former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control, to be approved by the Senate or somebody as

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Alidad Vassigh

My mentor, Ulrich Von der Shtrapp, has always given me the best advice. He said, “Shtrubbel Cack-zee Voorde Poop.” Concepts were his trade (“Ayy-emm-e-koncepchul-thinkka,” he

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Alidad Vassigh

I am amused by my articles (“mama-jaan enqadr aartikel nanevis — mageh nagofti mikhaayi beri kelaaseh rap meseh siaahaa beraqsi, oun shalvaar gondehat ku?”); I

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Spineless EU

I wonder what the European Union will think and say when its policy of dialogue, a mixture of pleading and feeble threats, fails to prevent

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Alidad Vassigh

I recently read a heartening report in the International Herald Tribune, what a grand paper (They know a gent's walked into the café, with the

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Fermez la bouche

I'm no expert, I know, but I care not a jot and that is what matters in politics. When I hear the self-righteous rants of

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Walking on Arab Street

Professionally, it is a very bad time for me. My revenues have plummeted. As a stock, I have plummeted. As a prospect, I am as

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Dillis and doughnuts

I understand there was some concern at the United Nations recently. The Security Council met in front of TV cameras to discuss these concerns, serious

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Liaaghat nadaashtim

A reply to Alidad Vassigh's “Iruni-baazi” Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas pie. He stuck in his thumb And pulled out

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Iruni-baazi

The Spaniards, like Iranians, adore their cars, as shown by the noise, fumes and stench in Madrid, where I have graciously taken residence. Lanes restricted

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What was the joke?

An American official recently called North Korea's “Dear Leader” a tyrannical dictator and his communist country a hellish nightmare. I thoroughly condone such plain, exhilarating

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Op-pen dat societeee, bitch

Like I didn't have enough worries (anxiety, perpetual hunger), now the Euro has gone up. Every mouthful is 10-15% more expensive. I've started picking breadcrumbs

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Equally appalling

In response to Lawrence Reza Ershaghi's “When they invade Iran”: You, sir, are another of those self-satisfied socialists who do their denunciations from the comfort

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Where are you vermin?

I wonder where all the anti-war demonstrators have gone, you know, all those saintly if a trifle ignorant-as-f**k people horrified by their predictions of hundreds

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Heh?

I am discreetly leaving Barcelona for a week, Inshallah, to visit Lisbon. The authorities are not aware of this. I myself was informed at the

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Liberty fries

Whatever happened to the Axis of Evil? It was dramatic. It was Manichean, and catchy like “Al-Qaida folk”: I suppose, technically, even scum are folk.

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