PETS
Iran’s first and only animal shelter
The outlook for homeless animals in Tehran changed in 2003 because of animal lover Mrs. Fatemeh Motamedi. As a child, Motamedi grew up feeling empathy for all living creatures. “It broke my heart seeing all those stray animals around me and their struggles to find food. And I saw cruelty towards them, like ropes around their necks and things that made me think we need organizations and shelters to help them.” And help she did. Motamedi founded the Center for Animal Lovers, an advocacy group to improve conditions for stray and unwanted animals in Iran. Although Motamedi and her husband now live in Canada they were instrumental in founding VAFA, Iran’s first and only animal shelter
>>>
IRAN
Declaring the 12th of June, Ignore the Bully Day
Now that the recent election in the US is over with, there is another important election on the horizon. Namely the election of the next President of Iran. Once again this coming June 12th (oddly enough George Bush Sr's birthday), Iranians are forced to once again contemplate their unwinnable dilemma of staying away from the polls, or voting. Staying away seems unpatriotic. But voting means having to pick the lesser of 2 equally evil choices, courtesy of the all knowing and all seeing and all self involving theocratic dictatorship that really runs all of Iran's affairs from behind those scantily see-through skirts of the mollahs
>>>
IRAN-US
دولت امریکا یا حکومت اسلامی؟
آقای احمدی نژاد, رییس جمهور حکومت اسلامی, که بارها خود را "مطیع, فرمانبر و عامل" ولی فقیه, آیت الله خامنه ای اعلام کرده است, در پاسخ به در خواست باراک اوباما, ریاست جمهور امریکا, مبنی بر کنار گذاشتن "ابراز دشمني" از سوی حکومت اسلامی و برقراري "ارتباط دوستانه" با امریکا بار دیگر سیمای خود بزرگ بین, عظمت طلب‘ ستیزه جو و عوامفريب حکومت اسلامی را به نمايش گذاشت. يکروز پس از ابراز تمایل رييس جمهور جديد آمريکا براي مذاکره با ايران، محمود احمدي نژاد در سفر استاني اش در جمع مردم کرمانشاه، به اوباما چنین پاسخ داد: "اگر دولت جديد آمريکا به دنبال تغيير سياست هاي گذشته است بايد از ملت ايران عذر خواهي کند و تلاش کند سابقه سياه و جنايت هايي که عليه ملت ايران مرتکب شده اند را جبران کند.
>>>
POETRY
Long before prophet’s
Hatred disguised itself
As twisted truth, promising
Virgins in paradise’ turf.
Long before bigotry became
Official - calling Jews impure,
Christians infidels, Bahaie’s
non-existent for the sake of its moor.
>>>
Haydeh's never-before-heard song.
>>>
What's going on between UK and IRI these days?
>>>