Mazloom just kindly translated his recent blog for me which posted a satire tracing Obama’s Iranian descent back to the days of the Qajars. Since the

This site has been a major part of my life pretty much since it opened up for blogging last year but actually I’ve been reading

www.uraniumpersonals.com It’s caught on. Everybody’s doing it.  uranium.com now has an Advice to the Lovelorn section. Kobra Khaanoom is our Dear Abby.  I do not

You are like a field radiant with roses.   You’re just waiting for a seed to sow. I know it.   All you have to

The more I travel the higher I climb the more rarified becomes the air the more tenuous my steps and yet   the closer I

I am not a political analyst. I am an airhead. My head for facts is like a sponge. I absorb them quickly, and they get

Admin has just informed us that there will no longer be Captcha Challenges on this website, perhaps forever.  This is a very sad day for me. Contrary

     Never on land or by sea will you find the marvelous road to the feasts of Hyperborea.                                                            Pindar   I did not go to

I am leaving this site for the fourteen millionth time along with fourteen million other people. I am leaving this site because it isn’t perfect and

 Bob Dylan has a song called Positively Fourth Street and that is where I live. On positively Fourth Street in Manhattan on the corner above the

The Iranian of the Day thread is always exciting. But last night, I noticed it was even more fascinating and abusive than usual. The Iranian of the

                  “the bloodline of the roses has pledged me unto life” (translation of this quote from forough is my own)*      and the white

http://iranian.com/main/news/2008/06/18/headscarves-tehrans-first-female-only-park (This news feed from Party Girl was headed by her supertitle: “Is This Good or Bad?”) http://iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/tahmineh-milani-park-segregation        Well I am not an Iranian woman

    I do not know anymore said the whoremonger to the whore who is you or what it’s for but every whoremonger needs a

I keep telling and telling you that this site has very high ratings on google and the world is watching us, but nobody seems to

There is a scene in the unexpurgated version of Apocalypse Now that is referred to as the Plantation Scene. The Martin Sheen character goes deeper

As I said in a recent blog, I am a khareji in Blogestaan. And ever since I’ve been here, I have read many long discussions

I studied Persian intensively in 2004 and 2005 but have really not touched it since then.  Is there anyone in the New York City area

for Benazir      I am alive I  have arrived I have slain the enemy within   You have slain me I have been slain I

I posted this yesterday on jj’s last blog, CONSIDER RESPECT in response to query about the benefits of registration by Sa,avar, a brand new registered

you are tearing you are tearing you are torn in two   like your nation your beautiful nation you are torn asunder   there are

or I Was A Khareji in Blogestaan I was a khareji in Blogestaan. As some of you know, not long ago (but what is time

I don’t like her, and if she wins the primary, I won’t be able to vote. Having said that, here is the text from her

I am writing an article about my experiences as a “Westerner” trying to understand how Western history was shaped by Persia. It is called “Approaching

As I told you recently in my article “Leila and Me”, there was a time following a relationship with a Persian man when I went