The Prince
13-Feb-2010 (5 comments)
Been writing random sketches lately. This may be too much for Iranian.com. Like it or hate it. Hopefully not flag it>>>
darrvish
13-Feb-2010 (3 comments)

HAYEDEH LAST PERFORMANCE - SHIRIN JAAN (full song)

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFwmACOiNJk

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"The Green Movement showed its peaceful nature"

Shifteh Ansari

Norooz News
recommended by Shifteh Ansari
13-Feb-2010
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Faking a "victory" at high costs

Shifteh Ansari

IRAN: 22 Bahman protest yields new lessons for bruised opposition

Los Angeles Times
recommended by Shifteh Ansari
13-Feb-2010
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Bakhtiar's Assassin May be expelled ? ... ;0(

Darius Kadivar

Talks of possible exchange of French Clotild Reiss for Ali Vakili Rad pending French Judiciary's decision

France Soir
recommended by Darius Kadivar
13-Feb-2010
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FG
13-Feb-2010
So long as the Iranian government behaves legitimately, Iranians are obligated to obey it. >>>

Is the Green Revolution an insurgency?

Anonymous Observer

This Week at War: Are the Ayatollahs Using COIN?

foreignpolicy.com / Robert Haddick
recommended by Anonymous Observer
13-Feb-2010
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GREENS

Plan B

What needs to be done to liberate Iran

13-Feb-2010 (28 comments)
Does the fact that Thursday was a failure make the need for a Green triumph any less urgent? NO! Not if you are on the side of those innocent people who have shed blood in this struggle for democracy and freedom. Not if you think that a democratic Iran will be an antidote to extremism in the region and indeed the world. Not if you think that those who cheat, beat, rape and kill innocents should be held accountable. Does the failure of Thursday make the need for a reassessment of our approach a necessity? Yes! Yes, if you believe that strong leadership and clever planning are needed for a revolutionary movement to succeed against a foe who is brutal and who shuns all calls for local and internationally accountability>>>

VIEW

The Unhappy Anniversary

The Iranian system has reached a point of repression saturation

13-Feb-2010 (10 comments)
Thursday, on the 31st anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei’s government was fighting for its survival, as leaders of the country’s opposition Green Movement sought to take back a revolution gone astray. Even as demonstrators participated in carefully choreographed pro-government displays, the fact that the Iranian authorities had to turn off the Internet, disable access to Gmail, and fill the streets with riot police and paramilitary Basij served to illustrate the dilemma in which the Khamenei regime now finds itself>>>

ISRAEL

A question of survival

Understand why Jews must support Israel's right to strike Iran's nuclear plants

13-Feb-2010 (95 comments)
My involvement with the Persian secular democratic movement is motivated by a genuine compassion and empathy for the Persian people's appalling suffering at the hands of a barbaric totalitarian regime. In addition, I hold the leaders and members of the Persian secular democratic movement and some liberal Islamists in the highest admiration. On the other hand, as a Jewish Zionist, I naturally support Israel's right to strike Iran's nuclear plants in self-defense>>>

UCLA

Society of Professional Dreamers

Critically acclaimed films screened in Los Angeles until February 20th

13-Feb-2010
The 20th Celebration of Iranian Cinema kicked off this weekend at University of California, Los Angeles, featuring a collection of established and emerging talents from Iran. The goal of this greatly received show-case is, and has been, to present a diverse portrait of Iran’s variety of cultural communities, leading customs and expressions as well as ethnic minorities’ way of living. On Friday February 5th, the opening night was dedicated to Heiran (2009) Shalizeh Alizadeh’s first feature film>>>

Garbage heap of history?

homylafayette

Khamenei and Khomeini in the trash: And that's what their 'supporters' think of them...

homylafayette / homylafayette
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13-Feb-2010
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STORY

Ali Farhang Opens Up

All of my life I have wanted you to tell me how it was for you in prison

13-Feb-2010 (2 comments)
Ali Farhang was walking back from the park with his grandson Payman.  They had gone to the playground, where Payman had shown his grandfather the many things he could do with monkey bars and slides and swings.
    "Baba bozorg," Payman said.  "Why were you in jail?"
    "I was in prison because our people were not free and I thought that they should be." >>>

POETRY

 وای دلم
13-Feb-2010 (8 comments)
ای وای  دلم  که  رفته  از  دست  دلم
  هر کس که به دل نشست بشکست دلم
  دیوانه  دلم  اگر  کمی‌  عاقل  بود
  افسار  گسسته  دل  نمی بست  دلم >>>

POETRY

شیهه ی بهمن
13-Feb-2010
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