POETRY
He strained to hear, yes,
a female voice, repeating
"Djinni Djinn Djinn!
Come through the howlin' wind!
Come to your purple kin!"
It sounded like the falls
that Aladdin had stepped in
before he got himself lost,
the deepest rumble now
and more frightening
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Your idea that putting all the decision-making into the arthritic hands
of 16 (or so) older generation, internet-illiterate Iranians, is going
to be a bit problematic for us.
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Nasser G. Afshar, Editor of the Iran Free Press, wrote to President Nixon in 1972, criticizing him for planning to visit Iran
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You can Tweet that you just finished reading the full Divan-e-Hafez
(Divaneh?). Or you can Tweet that you just saw Googoosh eating a quiche
at Ivy
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In response to a television program, aired on Egyptian television, that called for the extermination of the Baha'is, mobs stormed the homes of Baha'is and set them on fire
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هنوز شاه سقوط نكرده بود كه خانههای "زال ممد" درخيابان جمشيد تهران سقوط كرد. در همان اولين روزهای سقوط نظام شاهنشاهی، شهرنو را با حكم آيتالله خلخالی و با بلدوزر ويران كردند
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دیگر نمیترسم از رسیدن روز
نمیلرزم از داستان مرموز
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A portrait of the Royal couple of Iran in exile took by Crown Prince Reza. Cuernavaca, Southern Mexico. (1979-1980)
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خوابم تعبیر شد. داشتم در اطاق رئیس غرق می شدم و هیچ قایق نجاتی هم نبود. Fiasco .
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