Darius Kadivar
29-Jan-2009
A Very Cute and provocative photo of Princess Soraya in a French Magazine. (1960's) >>>

Rumi and Barks a fusion of Civilizations.

Navid K

Found in Translation: How a Thirteenth-Century Islamic Poet Conquered America

Religion Dispatches / Ryan Croken
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29-Jan-2009
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Now we know why GW told Israel to SFUP.

Ostaad

Russia and Iran get strategic

Asia Times Online / Sam Gardiner
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29-Jan-2009 (one comment)
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Iran Plays Carrot and Sticks with US

Darius Kadivar

Manouchehr Mottaki say's Tehran 'can co-operate with US'

bbc
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29-Jan-2009
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Dillusional, Desparate? both?

Suomynona

Netanyahu: Iran nukes trump global economy

AP / JOHN DANISZEWSKI
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29-Jan-2009 (11 comments)
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capt_ayhab
29-Jan-2009 (9 comments)
Hans Frank, “the butcher of Cracow” who became the governor of occupied Poland after 1939, describe Nazi Germany's intentions in the occupation of Ploand. Replace the word "Poland" with "Palestinian Occupied Territories">>>

as the world keeps looking away... (again)

IRANdokht

UN evacuates wounded civilians from Sri Lanka war zone

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29-Jan-2009 (one comment)
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Darius Kadivar
29-Jan-2009 (3 comments)

Steven Spielberg has started shooting in Los Angeles the first adventures of the Tintin Trilogy this week. Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn will be the first 3-D motion-capture movie due in theaters in 2011.

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LIFE

The day I became a woman

I never forget the joy of walking around proudly sporting two rings of blue thread in my ears

29-Jan-2009 (16 comments)
The day had arrived. I was both excited and scared. An elaborate meal was being prepared in our huge kitchen. Our “receiving room” (otaagh pazeeraee) had been swept and dusted and the doors to that wing of the house, usually closed during our daily life, had been left open, so I could see the beautiful red carpets and the elaborate furniture from where I was sitting. I could also see all the fruits and pastries arranged on the coffee tables, knowing full well that no one was to touch anything until the guests had arrived. Though this was one of my mother’s usual lunches with the women of our family, this was also a special day for me>>>

MOBARAK HITS BACK !

Darius Kadivar

Egypt attacks Iran and allies in Arab world

Reuters
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29-Jan-2009 (3 comments)
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The expendables

Fred

Egypt attacks Iran and allies in Arab world

Reuters
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29-Jan-2009 (3 comments)
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Playing the Hardline

Navid K

Is Gates Undermining Another Opening to Iran?

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29-Jan-2009
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LIFE

From BBC to Rumi

A story from the heart

29-Jan-2009 (4 comments)
Amidst the madness around us, the joys and the sorrows, sometimes it is soothing to read or write about something that is very personal and light. Two weeks ago, I was at the Philadelphia indoor food market where many vendors bring their produce and sell them at relatively low prices. Walking around I lost my Kafia, or let’s say someone picked it up after I dropped it. I felt really bad because I had had it for nearly thirty years; I had bought it in Iran and would wear it when going to meetings at Tehran University or around the corner at the many street gatherings, during the now long gone spring of freedom of 1979>>>
Darius Kadivar
29-Jan-2009 (one comment)
In the aftermath of his divorce from Soraya, the Shah was Romantically linked to Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy daughter of the deposed Italian king, Umberto II. Italian Tabloid La Domenica Del Corriere >>>