Ladder for the Soul
24-Apr-2009 (3 comments)
...And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.

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Ladder for the Soul
24-Apr-2009
"...though the news was rather sad, i just had to laugh">>>
Ladder for the Soul
24-Apr-2009 (2 comments)
Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love >>>
Ladder for the Soul
24-Apr-2009 (one comment)

John Martyn - Don't Want To Know  

...I just want to know about love

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An Israeli orange on every sofreh

rosie is roxy is roshan
24-Apr-2009 (11 comments)
As many of you are aware, three days ago I wrote a blog expressing my outrage at the clearly intentional suppression of all submissions sent to the publisher on Delara Darabi except for blogs>>>

America Letting its Guard Down Against Socialism

Farhad Kashani

Giving Back Cold War Gains

TownHall.com
recommended by Farhad Kashani
24-Apr-2009
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Executing Iranians is IRI’s Specialty

Farhad Kashani

Pornsite owners deserve death penalty: Iran prosecutor

BreitBart
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24-Apr-2009 (2 comments)
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VALI NASR

Bridging the gap

Talking with the first Iranian-American appointee of the Obama Administration

24-Apr-2009 (44 comments)
Before accepting his new position as senior advisor to special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Vali Nasr had already distinguished himself as one of the leading analysts on the Middle East and South Asia, appearing on CNN, ABC, NPR, and lending his expertise to articles in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Time Magazine and Newsweek. Author of The Shia Revival, Democracy in Iran, and The Islamic Leviathan, Nasr is also a Professor of international politics at Tufts University, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think-tank focusing on foreign policy. PAAIA's Rudi Bakhtiar caught up with Nasr as he prepares for his new role in the Obama Administration>>>

IRI Version of Islam in the Heart of America

Farhad Kashani

The Islamic Center of Hate in the U.S.A.

FrontPageMag
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24-Apr-2009
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IRAN-U.S.

Fighting together

Counternarcotics offers opportunity for U.S. cooperation with Tehran

24-Apr-2009 (10 comments)
On March 31, Washington took its first step toward engagement with Tehran through a diplomatic encounter with the Iranian government at the Afghanistan conference in the Hague. Even though the initial contact was awkward, it was clearly a step forward for the Obama administration, and both countries agreed that the opium/heroin trade was a destructive force in both the region and the world. As such, the United States should consider using collaboration on counternarcotics as an effective means to jump-start diplomacy with Iran. Although such an approach would be difficult, it could succeed if both sides focused solely on law enforcement, without the intrusion of politicians, intelligence operatives, and diplomats>>>

Even Amir Taheri sees the light

Ostaad

Ahmadinejad and the 'Sunrise Power' of Iran

asharq alawsat / Amir Taheri
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24-Apr-2009 (4 comments)
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VIEW

Free Saberi

... and all the others!

24-Apr-2009 (3 comments)
Roxana Saberi's case has by now become internationally known: The very photogenic Iranian-American journalist, who for the six years before her arrest in January had been working in Iran as a freelance reporter with different agencies including the BBC and the NPR, and after a closed-door summary 'trial', was sentenced to eight years in prison on espionage charges. The Iranian President Ahmadinejad along with the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, have since made public announcements, urging the relevant courts to play fair with Ms. Saberi's case and to allow her all the legal means available to her by law, including the chance for a fair defense>>>

REVIEW

In the name of love

Akbarzadeh's love affair with Haydeh

24-Apr-2009 (6 comments)
In "Hayedeh, Legendary Persian Diva," Akbarzadeh familiarizes us with the life and artistic achievements of one of the most popular Persian singers of the 20th century. In the words of conductor, Farnoosh Behzad, she was a singer "whose voice was unequalled in texture." And, in an interview, Frank Sinatra praised her voice. Hayedeh (1942-1990), whose real name was Massoumeh Dadehbala, was born in Tehran, and died in exile at age 47. In his film, Pejman Akbarzadeh shows the various periods of Hayedeh's artistic activities: Starting in 1960s, when she sang her first song in public, but remained unknown, until her discovery by Ali Tajvidi for the "Gol-ha-ye Rangarang" program on Iranian National Radio, followed by her turn to popular music>>>

POETRY

سرنوشت
24-Apr-2009 (4 comments)
شب ها
درست نیمه های شب
در بیداری من دراز می کشی و به خواب سردی فرو می روی
صورت تو کو؟
روز در زیر پوست تن تو رژه می رود
پوست تو کاشف رنگ نور است
روزها سردند
و روزنامه ها تصویر سایه های دست تو را چاپ کرده اند >>>