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Twitter Revolution

The twitter account I had neglected for so long came to good use since the fraudulent election results on Friday.  I found out that when

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Chase Them Crazy Liars out of Town!

Ahmadinejad is claiming landslide victory. The official ministry of interior results show 64% Ahmadinejad victory! Moussavi shouts fraud and demands recount. Not even the pro-Ahmadinejad

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Vote: A Change of Mind

It is difficult to change ones stance on an issue and not be accused of flip-flopping. It is especially hard to do here in Iranian.com

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Sounds of Spring

The sounds of spring have no reason To stop   Nature shows off her clout   Unable to anticipate Her fate   She continues  

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The Most Fragile

The Glass House, competing in the World Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival, is a one of those rare films that make you forget

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Feeling superior

Iranians can be extremely racist.  I was first made aware that Iranians were perceived, by others in the region, as arrogant racists by a Pakistani

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Audacious militarism

Once again Israel has illustrated that she cares little about public opinion. Israel has shown that she has the shameless audacity to bomb civilians in

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Proud New American

It is Election Day in the United States.  I am surprised at how excited I actually am.  It feels like it is my wedding day! 

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Heavy Norouz

This Norouz I sit, Heavy, The weight of my heart Pulling me down. I shed tears Centuries old, Tears of my ancestors. All those women

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Why I want Obama to win

I backed the war in Iraq even though I have always been a democrat. My reason for cheering the Americans when they invaded Iraq was

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Cant Bury a Good Heart

they buried a friend today whose heart, they say kept beating long after he was dead . what if all kind hearts stayed alive even

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Remember Jesus?

This is the first Christmas that I am without my children.  But I am not sentimental about Christmas not having really grown up with it. 

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Beebokhaars

I just read the Columbia Iranian student’s news release about Ahmadinejad’s invitation to that illustrious institution of higher learning and was disgusted. Does our youth

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Setareh Sabety

Then and now

It has been six years since the 9/11 attacks. I remember that day. It is one of those days that are stamped with a slow

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Ode to mid-summer

    Waking to the sound of cicadas Wrapped in the sweaty tulle of mid-summer Every movement lingers: becomes sensual The mind in a haze

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Ode to mid-summer

    Waking to the sound of cicadas Wrapped in the sweaty tulle of mid-summer Every movement lingers: becomes sensual The mind in a haze

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Breeding murderers

I am an American. Of the Iranian variety. I became an American largely because I wanted to be able to travel easier without having to

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Stop! Heart Stop!

Stop that ticking Never skipping A single beat All these years Drumming in my ears Thump, thump, thump Stop, I have had enough Tired of

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Death in translation

I have witnessed a person’s slow decline into death twice.  The first time it was my father.  At the age of ninety-eight he became bedridden

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Liquid suffering

What is it about these tears? Flowing so audaciously through the years. Vulgarly precipitous, Abundant To the point Of losing their meaning. Yet never free

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Scream (louder)

This Monday morning I went to check iranian.com like I do whenever I get a chance.  Living in France I am blissfully free of the

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Grading grief

  Sorrow comes in different grades: The one-night stand Who Runs  With the first rays of sun, Having had his fun. There is the one

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