You’ve all had your chances… Now it’s my turn. SOS is a good moniker for the new Shah’s of Sunset. But maybe we should modify

Recently the topic of leaving after a nasty Iranian.com street-fight has raised the age-old question this site seems to revolve around. To those writers who

An [Iranian] Mom is walking on the street and sees a homeless guy. The Homeless guy says, “Can you help me, I haven’t eaten in

Wishing everyone a happy and safe and above a sense of humor filled 1391

Hopefully with the recent parliamentary election in Iran last week, everyone now knows why you should NEVER vote in an Iranian election. I take that

Much has been said about the plight of the Palestinians. Subjected to the very same ghetto-fication tactics that the Jews themselves faced during WWII in

Blatantly copied from the VOA. Iran’s system of government, known as the Islamic Republic, is an autocratic council/committee based system, in which councils and committees

The controversy over the correct English spelling of NoRooz comes up every NoRooz. The self-appointed Guardian Council of NowRuz led by its Supreme Leader Dr.

Today NIAC spent what is hopefully left of it’s budget on a full page ad in the Washington Post calling for president Obama to hold

Yes, it’s Jahad, not Jihad. And it’s Moslem, not Muslim (mis-pronounced as Moose-lim). It’s also Eslam not Islam. The corrections I just made are how

Auditions for Farhadi’s next film in Tehran started today, this time, Farhadi has decided to work on a different angle, where an Iranian husband wearing

Tomorrow is Friday. Tomorrow is also what the government likes to call Election day in Iran. Well, I think we all know that it isn’t

My article on Farhadi’s win being a bittersweet moment, is generating a good debate. To clearly set the tone and present the facts on my

As usual it seems for the past 3 decades, whenever Iran wins anything on the world stage, which thankfully is rare, we as Iranians wince

WASHINGTON—A resolute President Obama warned Tuesday that if Iran remained unwilling to halt its nuclear program, the United States would consider any and all options

Any dictionary defines Insubordination as: disobedience, unruliness, indiscipline, bad behavior, misbehavior, misconduct, delinquency, insolence; rebellion, defiance, mutiny, revolt, recalcitrance, willfulness, awkwardness, perversity; informal acting-up, Law

In yet another bizarre communique, from another un-necessary, un-authorized (at least if you consider a vote by common Iranian-Americans at large to be authorization), self

Honestly, I don’t know why I was surprised to see nothing much reported about the meeting of Iranian opposition “somewhere near Stockholm” last weekend. I

I received an email from NIAC detailing the extensive efforts that the same 4 people who in my opinion seem to do anything there, have

I am sure you have seen the black outs on various sites, Google, Wikipedia, and in case you don’t know, this is a result of

Prologue: “But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the

At the height of selfish self promotion, PAAIA the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, or as I like to call them “New but unimproved

While it will never happen, nevertheless if not here, and if not now, then where the hell else is this going to be said? Yes,

I was about to write a long winded typically “bitter-bahmani” introductory paragraph as an equally long winded explanation of the purpose of this Top 10

Apparently even in the boundless space that film provides, Iranian filmmakers cannot separate from horrible reality. Apparently we cannot even drift away and experience even