Retreat: last minute efforts on the last chance...

Shifteh Ansari

Brazil and Turkey Near Nuclear Deal With Iran

New York Times / ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO and SEBNEM ARSU
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16-May-2010
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Sahameddin Ghiassi
16-May-2010
After so many years of work I have nothing left; now the price of the houses is low and if you want to sell them, you cannot get more that %40 of the original price>>>
faryarm
16-May-2010 (one comment)
May 14th, 2010 marks two years since the initialincarceration of 7 members of the Bahai community in Iran>>>
farshadjon
16-May-2010

یکی از مردان بزرگ ایران زمین که هیچ وقت هنر خود را برای چاپلوسی و تملق دولتمردان بکار نبرد.

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No Deals w Terrorist IRI w/o Adressing Humn Rights

IranFirst

Brazil's outreach to Iran ignores brutal repression

Washington Post / Editorial
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16-May-2010 (one comment)
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PANAHI

Moving appeal

Iranian democracy at the Cannes film festival

16-May-2010 (5 comments)
This year, two great figures are absent at the International Film Festival of Cannes. The first is Roman Polanski, and the readers of Huffington Post know that I have spared no effort to plead and defend his cause over the past seven months. (Moreover, the pathetic declarations of Ms. Charlotte Lewis haven't made the slightest dent in my determination.) But the name of the second is Jafar Panahi; he is Iranian. Tim Burton chose him to be a member of his jury, and if he is unable to be there, it is because he is incarcerated in the terrible Evin prison, near Tehran, where he was thrown by the obtuse and criminal fanaticism of Ahmadinejad's police>>>
Nahzi
16-May-2010 (8 comments)
It has been said that the "Melting Pot" is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous>>>

VIEW

Back to the past

This latest round of executions is about more than the old enmity with the Kurds

16-May-2010 (3 comments)
Five young Iranian Kurds were executed last Sunday in summary trials reminiscent of the era that immediately followed the fall of the Shah and the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Even according to government-backed press, the victims had been kept incommunicado for most of their imprisonment and had little or no access to lawyers — a violation of Iran’s own laws. Gone are the regime’s efforts at keeping up pretenses, at casting itself as the authentic but misunderstood regional democracy. The evolutionary clock, which the West briefly believed to have been ticking in Tehran, positively wound down last week>>>

REFORM

اصلاح طلبی؟

بنيادگرايان و اصلاح طلب های اسلامی بصورتی مشابه به لزوم «حکومت اسلامی» معتقد هستند

16-May-2010 (4 comments)
با اين نگاه می توانيم به روشنی ببينيم که بنيادگرايان و اصلاح طلب های اسلامی، بر خلاف آنچه بنظر می آيد، مشترکاً و بصورتی مشابه به لزوم «حکومت اسلامی» معتقد هستند، هر دو از چيزی به نام جدايي دين از حکومت هراس دارند، و هر دو اسلام و قوانين آن را راه نجات می دانند و ـ در عين حال ـ هر دو در پی «جهانی کردن اسلام» اند. اما تفاوت اين دو در اين است که بنيادگرايان در واقع نوعی از همان حکومت خلافتی عثمانی ها هستند به معنی يک ديکتاتوری مذهبی، زدن و کشتن و تا گلو در خرافات غوطه خوردن>>>
Sahameddin Ghiassi
16-May-2010
اختلافات مذهبی بین پدر و مادر نویسنده داستان ما بخوبی در لابلای نوشته های وی بچشم میخورد تا جایی که او نتیجه میگیرد که این اختلافات بیهوده و مایه خوشحالی استعمار گران است>>>

POETRY

Adolescent dream
16-May-2010 (4 comments)
Anytime but now.
Anywhere but here.
Give me the red soaked floor
of the coloseum.
A night at the palace
with a drunk Baudelaire.
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Orang Gholikhani
16-May-2010 (8 comments)
بهار رفت
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Busy as a bee

Shifteh Ansari

Iran jails women activists, arrests top former MP

AFP
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16-May-2010 (one comment)
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