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Nima Kasraie

Forgotten wateropolis

A while ago, I was interested in doing some research on the water supplying methods used in Persian antiquity. Evidently, in many regions of the

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Al-Fiction

After killing almost a million people in trying to annex Khuzestan during the Iran-Iraq war, mutant remnants of Sheikh Khaz'al demagoguery are scurrying around trying

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Greater Iran

The purpose of this writing is not to present you with yet another flabby history lesson about Persia, something which I trust you all to

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What if

What would a US attack on Iran look like? What would it be like? I took some pics out of public webspace, doctored them with

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Humble earth

Another reason is that it is easily shaped, molded, or carved. Thanks to stucco, a wall of crudely fashioned stone blocks or raw brick, gives

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Up, up, and away!

On Monday morning when SpaceShipOne climbed 368,000 feet into space to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize, Anousheh Ansari, founder and CEO of Telecom

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Vital to our future

Regarding Shahriar Zanganeh's “Nuclear Roulette”, I thought it be necessary to voice some comments: He is making the right arguments for the wrong reasons. No

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Cool it

One of the truly unfortunate things about peaceful civilian nuclear power is the alleged association with nuclear wepaons. While there are places in the fuel

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Excavator of ancient Persia

Recently, UC Berkeley professor of Near Eastern Archaeology David Stronach, was announced the 2004 recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished

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Spiraling into oblivion

If only Frank Lloyd Wright were alive to see this. How can great architecture simply crumble to ruins. While the shrine of Imam Khomeini continues

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Heap of dust it is not

Upon visiting the oldest ziggurat in the world, one is only greeted with the solitary sound of dusty wind gusts. Here, tucked away in the

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Zyryab

The Spaniard Paco De Lucia, one of the world's greatest guitar legends, has an album titled “Zyryab” (“Zar Yab” in Persian) dedicated to an Iranian

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Iran rocks

While it may seem like every new Western Rock band is made up of angry punks railing against a world they think owes them something,

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Gheirat

I'm writing this comment as a response to Mehrdad Pishehgar's “I feel better now”. I feel there is one issue he shouldn't be feeling so

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