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The Ascension

Nader standing by itself just means rare and unusual. Applied to my cousin, it could just as easily mean “oddball.”

29-Aug-2009 (9 comments)
Aunt Tahmineh somehow knew she would remain barren until she had found a name for her future child. So for the first fifteen years of her marriage, she and her husband fought over what they would call their unconceived offspring. She liked authentic Iranian names, while her husband, a religious man, insisted on a character from the Koran. Finally they came to an agreement. If the child were a girl, they would name her Farangis, an ancient Iranian heroine. If it were a boy, they would name him Esma’il, a Koranic name which also appears in the Bible as Ishmael, the son of Abraham. Esma’il means “God listens.” Presumably, “God listens to us and has answered our prayer for a child.”>>>

POETRY

چلیپا
29-Aug-2009 (5 comments)
رخسار تو در ظلمت گیسوی چلیپا
صبح دل‌ عشاق بود در شب یلدا

پیمانه صهبای نگاه تو در آن صبح
خود مست و دو صد مست بر آن واله و شیدا

و آن موی که نخجیر گه گله دلهاست
در هر خم او کرده دلی‌ مسکن و ماوا >>>

POETRY

Lost Game
29-Aug-2009 (one comment)
To the wind I look
standing outside
awaiting you
impatiently
awaiting you with dreamy eyes
here behind all that is next to lost, I stand hopeless
awaiting for the wind to leave
without you
playing a lost game >>>
Fred
29-Aug-2009 (5 comments)
دوتوکویل خوندشون فیلش هوای هندستون خمینی رو کرده >>>

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Shifteh Ansari

UAE seized N.Korea arms shipment bound for Iran

Reuters / Louis Charbonneau
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29-Aug-2009
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Yabu really trying to milk it...

Q

Netanyahu compares Iranian bomb to Auschwitz; Merkel ignores PM and calls for settlement freeze

Haaretz
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29-Aug-2009
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Israeli boycott of Ikea proposed over organ story

Q

Netanyahu enters Sweden organ row

BBC
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29-Aug-2009
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Darius Kadivar
29-Aug-2009
Several British and US News Reels from the 1950's Oil Crisis Years with Prime Minister Mohamed Mossadegh. (circa 1951-1953) >>>

IAEA: No proof Iran has a bomb agenda

Shah Ghollam

U.N. nuclear watchdog denies hiding Iran information

Reuters / Reuters
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28-Aug-2009 (one comment)
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Loved-Ones of the Massacre of Prisoners in 1988

Masoud Kazemzadeh

People are chanting in Khavaran Golzar 28 August2009

Via YouTube
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28-Aug-2009 (2 comments)
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"Political Prisoner Commits Suicide"

Red Wine
28-Aug-2009 (6 comments)

از یاد داشتهای من

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bahram9821
28-Aug-2009 (one comment)

کلیپ رقص سنتی ایرانی‌ که در کاخ گلستان توسط خانم منیر وکیلی در سال ۱۳۵۷ تهیهٔ و کارگردانی شده.

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Sahameddin Ghiassi
28-Aug-2009
دوستم که افسر نیروی زمینی بود و در قسمت اداری آرتش خدمت میکرد. روزی به فرمانده که یک سرلشگر بود و با او هم خوب بود گفت تیمسار من زبانهای خارجی خوب میدانم و میتوانم تدریس و ترجمه نمایم. >>>
Kooshan
28-Aug-2009
beautiful song for Mohammad Mustafa >>>