Khyber Pass--key to US-Iran diplomacy?

rosie is roxy is roshan

New route links Afghanistan to sea, via Iran

san francisco chronicle
19-Feb-2009
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Charity begins at home

rosie is roxy is roshan

Tehran to host ASA Intl. Humanitarian Film Festival

mehr news
19-Feb-2009
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Hostess with the mostest

rosie is roxy is roshan

Italy seeks to involve Iran in G-8 talks

financial times
19-Feb-2009 (5 comments)
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Darius Kadivar
19-Feb-2009
As part of a Bicentennial series, Time magazine presented a series of Messages to America from world leaders. This Message from the Shah of Iran appeared in the June 28, 1976 issue. >>>
Darius Kadivar
19-Feb-2009 (2 comments)

Khomeiny in Qom makes fun of a photo he saw of the Shah of Iran (with eyeglasses ?) and insists on his so called "cowardice" and "Stooge" like personality in front of a US president but the Ayatollah can't name the latter.

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Lies, Lies and Damn Lies!!!

MEHRNAZ SHAHABI

Who's Telling the Truth About Iran's Nuclear Program?

Anti War.Com / Mohammad Sahimi
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19-Feb-2009 (51 comments)
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not goddamn old enough

Jahanshah Javid

Reading Khamenei in Tehran

International Herald Tribune / Roger Cohen
recommended by Jahanshah Javid
19-Feb-2009 (one comment)
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khasteh shodam

Jahanshah Javid

Iran refusing to co-operate with nuclear inspectors, says UN

Guardian / Julian Borger, diplomatic editor
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19-Feb-2009 (one comment)
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first islamic republic

Jahanshah Javid

British Museum exhibits reign of Iran's Shah Abbas

AP
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19-Feb-2009
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tell me about it

Jahanshah Javid

Israeli rhetoric on Iran can lack consistency

REUTERS
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19-Feb-2009
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PEOPLE

The Lucky Star

The Lucky Star

Photo essay: Taking a peak at an erotic art event

by Sid Sarshar
19-Feb-2009 (20 comments)

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GIVING

Balls of love

Balls of love

Photo essay: Three suitcases full of soccer balls for Ugandan children

by Kia Sedghi
19-Feb-2009 (12 comments)

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NUCLEAR

Our Friend the Atom

“But what’s wrong with the Atomic Genie?” I asked

18-Feb-2009 (17 comments)
Malek Khanoum walked several steps from the minivan and took in a lungful of air. “The jasmines must be in bloom,” she smiled. Her voice was the same, confident and declarative. She had aged less than I imagined, but she dressed differently now. Brown headscarf, dark shoes like two eggplants, covered from neck to ankle in drab gray. Only her face showed. She had never worn makeup. Never needed it, even when she used to wear strikingly modern dresses and flashy high heels. I wondered how gray she had turned beneath her scarf. Her hair was once, as the American poet puts it, “one warrior innocent of defeat.”>>>

NON-FICTION

Give Me Back My Story

I don’t have harsh feeling toward Americans anymore

18-Feb-2009 (3 comments)
“Rooster” is one of those associations that connects me to major roads of my past, to the intersections from which different paths of association branch out. I can take any of these roads and soon be traveling to different spaces of my life and identity. It links me with many clusters of memories, to the street I was raised in, to my mother’s colleague Raana, to my playmates and a zoo we created together, to Americans, and to our yard which is itself associated with many other faces and stories. Finally I got you there. Now you are curious, asking, “How is it that your yard is associated with roosters? That is a good question that opens up a whole story of its own>>>

WAR

Casualties of Empire's Wars

High suicide rates among U.S. soldier suicides

18-Feb-2009 (3 comments)
On February 5, the U.S. Army announced there were 128 suicides in 2008, the highest since it began keeping records in 1980. It was the fourth year in a row that the numbers rose as the wars in the Middle East continued. Last year's Army suicide rate of 20.2 per 100,000 soldiers was also the first time since the Vietnam War that the rate was higher than the adjusted civilian rate. This is also higher than the current rate of the Marine Corps. The reason for the higher rates of suicides in the Army and the Marine Corps could be attributed to the fact that the two services have suffered the cruelty of the war in Iraq and have been subjected to repetitious deployments back to the killing fields of the Middle East>>>