"between the pragmatists and the radicals"

Shifteh Ansari

Iran’s Factional Disputes Grow Increasingly Bitter

New York Times / Michae Slackman
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27-Aug-2009 (one comment)
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Darius Kadivar
27-Aug-2009 (one comment)
Iranian-American historian, Iranologist, and author, DR. Abbas Milani interviewed on IRTV for series dedicated to historical events that shaped Iran in the past 100 years. Milani makes some interesting observations in this regard. >>>
bubbly
27-Aug-2009 (2 comments)
(It’s actually a spoof – script. It’s a dialogue between two cow friends.) >>>

Missiles

marissyb29

New Developments in Iran's Missile Capabilities

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs / Uzi Rubin
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27-Aug-2009 (3 comments)
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VERY sorry

Q

Iran 'show trials' make sorry spectacle

BBC / Roger Hardy
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26-Aug-2009
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STAGE

Anything but calm

Anything but calm

Photo essay: Hamed Nikpay in concert

by Nazy Kaviani & Arya Ghavami
26-Aug-2009 (4 comments)

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Noosh Afarin
26-Aug-2009 (3 comments)
مدرکی دیگر از جنایات لباس شخصی ها...... تذکر: تصویر این بلاگ بسیار دلخراش است ! >>>

Israel educational series

Shah Ghollam

Israel’s Democracy:Flourishing or Floundering?

politicaltheatrics / politicaltheatrics
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26-Aug-2009 (one comment)
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Jews speak out!

Shah Ghollam

Israel: A Stalemated Action of History

Counter Punch / GABRIEL KOLKO
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26-Aug-2009
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RAPE

The Sanctity of the Womb

Unspoken words form a knot in my throat

26-Aug-2009 (14 comments)
The last rays of the sun stream through the stained glass windows surrounding the altar of a temple, illuminating the corner where an old woman sits beside me in silence. The light refuses to make room for the darkness and somehow reminds the occupants to capture the essence of its radiance in their prayers. Both of us gaze at the shimmering beam and acknowledge its message with a faint smile. We have found momentary peace in that house of worship with our heads bowed and our lips moving in apparent prayer recited in English. The reality is different though: The old woman is uttering an ancient Hebrew verse from the Torah; I pray in my ancient tongue to Ahura Mazda for guidance>>>

TRIAL

Release Kian Tajbakhsh!

Those who love him are pained to see him used as a pawn in a power struggle

26-Aug-2009 (9 comments)
Pictures and video footage of Tuesday’s show trials in Tehran show Kian Tajbakhsh among a group of defendants associated with Iran’s reformist movement and accused of conspiracy to foment a “velvet revolution” in Iran. The pictures show Kian seated directly behind Said Hajjarian, a reformist ideologue and a principal defendant in Tuesday’s trial. The coupling of Kian, a secular Iranian-American academic, with the leaders of the Islamist reform movement of Iran is alarming. Dressed in blue prison pajamas and brown plastic slippers Kian looks thin and depressed>>>
FG
26-Aug-2009 (3 comments)
Comparing themselves with China, Iran's hardliners believe they can get away with murder and worse. >>>

Western hypocracy, not that we didn't know

Shah Ghollam

Israeli Nuclear Weapons & Western Hypocrisy

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26-Aug-2009
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REFORMISTS

خودزنی

به سختی می‌توان تصور کرد که جنبش اصلاح‌ طلبی از این سرکوب جان سالم به در ببرد. از سوی دیگر، این اقدام حاکمیت در نهایت یک عمل خودزنی بیش نیست

26-Aug-2009 (2 comments)
چهارمین جلسه نمایش مفتضح «دادگاه» دستگیر شدگان هفته‌های اخیر روز سه شنبه برگزار شد. در طی این چهار جلسه، غالب سران جبهه اصلاحات در برابر دوربین‌های تلویزیون رسمی جمهوری اسلامی مورد تحقیر قرار گرفتند و بسیاری از آنان به اظهار توبه و ندامت واداشته شدند. دادستان برای آنان و سایر متهمانی که در این نمایش ردیف شده بودند تقاضای «اشد مجازات» کرده است. علاوه بر آن، دادستان خواستار انحلال و ناقانونی شدن سازمان‌های متبوع آنان شده است. در مجموع، حاکمیت بر آن است که بر جنبش اصلاحی جمهوری اسلامی مهر ختام بزند و نه فقط اصلاح‌طلبان را برای همیشه از قدرت سیاسی محروم بدارد و بلکه محتوای نظری این جنبش را نیز نابود کند>>>