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Appadana TV interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7S0JtfiKJA Rasool Aryadust aka Brian H. Appleton in live interview in Farsi on Appadana TV June 2009 I describe in Persian my first trip to

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Another nice guy

    Hamed Nikpay sang for us in September at the San Francisco United4Iran Solidarity Day.  http://www.amazon.com/All-Calm-Asoudeh-Hamed-Nikpay/dp/B001LX4IUI/ref=cm_cmu_up_thanks_hdr  

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Mr. Nice Guy

If you asked me who the nicest public personality I know is, I would answer without hestation, the singer Rushid Safarzadeh.  Two years ago I

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Ziba Karbassi; poetess of the Persian paradox

“The Third Sigh: Where are you, poetry?…Where are your blue stitches?…The heart of the world… has been torn apart “…http://www.zibakarbassi.webs.com/index.htm comment:Her poetry like Haiku in a few short

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Rooftops of Tehran

I can’t put it down…I mean starting just with the title, we all know about the rooftops of Tehran, how we slept on them under the

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Five days in Tehran

Tehran is a very large and beautifully picturesque city with many hidden worlds within worlds to discover, which runs downhill from the foothills of the

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Five days in Tehran

Tehran is a very large and beautifully picturesque city with many hidden worlds within worlds to discover, which runs downhill from the foothills of the

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The man who would be King

From Tales From The Zirzameen (www.zirzameen.com), by Brian Appleton. Chapter 6 How many mansions hath the kingdom of heaven! Sometimes I marveled at how many

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Xena’s gone

One day three weeks ago our favorite cat disappeared.  She was the most beautiful cat we have ever owned. She was smaller than a full

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The Shahnameh

Sometimes when the prospects look very dark and things like war loom on the horizon, casting a great pall over humanity like the negative era

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The Iranian dilemma

When I read articles like the one in the Wall Street Journal interviewing Reza Pahlavi by Nancy Dewolf Smith, I find it bewildering how a

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Imperialism is real

In reply to Omid Parsi's “The calm before the storm”: The Daie Jan Napoleon complex is one extreme and your philosophy of self blame is

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Make me Persian

Since Mr. Bush seems determined to invade Iran for the oil under the Iranians feet I think it is only fair that Iran should invade

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