I recently finished reading Brian Greene’s “The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos” which is a fascinating and surprisingly easy

Shirin Ebadi was in Warsaw, to attend the European Union’s “European Development Days”, one of those weird European trade shows, the ones without the actual

Although we may hate to admit it, the pattern is nevertheless crystal clear. In 1979 when Iran took the US embassy staff hostage, it released

With every new Kiosk album, I tear off the cellophane with a certain sense of excited trepidation. On the one hand, I can’t wait to

Some of us seek to argue for a soft landing for US-Iran relations through things like serious mutually beneficial and peaceful dialog, and discussion, and

Well this is awesome. It looks like we are finally getting somewhere! With the lines now drawn clearly, and less confusion coming from a rapidly

While I have had my disagreement with NIAC’s mission and tactics, I have always liked Trita Parsi personally, and as well intellectually. Honestly, I think

On November 17, the Al Jazeera show the “Stream” (which I am not sure they get the urological metaphor) hosted Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi

Watching the seeming chaos of the Occupy protests and the general lack of organization or the absence of any real political practical point to them,

One could theoretically, physically, and literally say “Thanks to NIAC, Iran got more sanctions.” Of course that would be a generalization. And nothing more than

Dear Activists (current and former), Thanks for letting me know that the government of Iran has finally jailed some of the former hostage takers. Each

Ross (Rostam) Mirkarimi became the first Iranian American Sheriff of San Francisco County and history last night in the local elections that also selected the

I don’t smoke, but if I do, I want to smoke whatever this guy smokes. Recently spotted at another boring Shirin Ebadi’s speech on the

Not being one for holding back my turrets syndrome against anything absurd, I am now fully against Facebook, and have left for good this time.

Recently I was invited by NIAC to send a pre-written letter opposing the new round of sanctions against Iran as a result of the Saudi

After the Oil company funded US coup in Iran in 1953, and the successful overthrow of Mossadegh by the CIA, another coup was carried out

OK, it’s been a week and not a peep has been heard from either NIAC or PAAIA and their thoughts on the recent “Plot”. To

Recently, probably longer than that though, I have noticed that my articles (are they really?) and posts have taken on a far more sarcastic and

It’s certainly wonderful that all of the Free-Iranian artists that have their work posted on this site, are Free to express their art and that

Not to be outdone by the US vis-a-vis (Don’t you just love saying vis-a-vis?) the sensational Iranian/Used Car/Mexican Cartel (now code named “Low Rider”) plot

PAAIA beat NIAC to the punch yesterday and rush announced it’s strongest condemnation of the Saudi Ambassador assassination plot by Iran that was foiled by

معموملاً یا اکثراً من مقاله هام رو به انگلیسی مینویسم. علتش این نیست که نمیتونم فارسی بنویسم یا بخونم. علتش اینه که متاسفانه فارسی زیر

For at least a solid year now, I have been reading the ridiculous claims (usually quoting academia) about the pointlessness of sanctions. I question this

On Saturday night, I: a) Either dreamed of God and am now the next prophet, or b) The combination of tomato sauce, quadruple (sorry Arash

Much has been said recently about the upcoming MEK de-listing as a terrorist organization. I say upcoming because I seriously doubt that there is any