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Cheering thy enemy

I read with interest Paul Klebnikov's article, Millionaire mullahs: Who Controls today's Iran? and I confess, if it had been published by a magazine that

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Total subjugation doctrine

These days Iranians are in a perplexingly funny situation. On the one hand we want, rather strongly, Saddam Hussein to go to “hell” — at

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Hafiz… Jogging!

An old poetic Persian proverb says: Har cheh begandad namakash mizanand. Vaay beh roozy keh begandad namak! My suggested trans-literation: Salt is added to whatever

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The 9/11 baby

I don't know if you read my 9/11 “diary” of last year — published in the Iranian.com on Friday, September14, 2001, entitled: “I am tired:

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Tah-digology

It is only a few months since I have arrived in the U.S. I am here for a relatively short visit. Being Iranian, I “hang

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Neighbor’s goose

This morning I had to cool my heels for a long time in my nun-run Catholic medical clinic to see my primary care doctor, and

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Poof!

Recently Mohsen koochooloo said to Amoo Moji, Salaam Amoo Moji jaan-e aziz: I know you hate commas. You say they come in the middle of

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Politics as usual

To the surprise of pundits and activists alike, the Iran Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) was extended for another five years and signed into law by

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