Natalia Alvarado-Alvarez
23-May-2008 (one comment)
We have come a long way..... >>>

A Letter from Iran

faryarm

For the love of God and Country..

NewNegah.org / Mehrdad
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23-May-2008
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alborz
23-May-2008

با گذشت يک هفته از دستگيري شش تن از اعضاي رهبري جامعه بهاييان در هفته گذشته، يک مصاحبه منتشر شده در ‏خبرگزاري فارس خواستار "تشکيل يک جريان مردمي" براي "مقابله و مبارزه با بهاييت" شده است تا به اين ترتيب ‏‏"دولت و حاكميت در برخورد با بهاييان تنها نمانند"

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bajenaghe naghi
23-May-2008
Just Because You Are Iranian I'll Stick It To You!>>>
SCE Campaign
23-May-2008

Nazanin is a singer, songwriter, international human rights activist, model, musician, actress and the former Miss World Canada....   For the complete interview and the slide show, please visit BR SPECIAL.

 

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FILM FEST

Suspended in New York

Suspended in New York

Photo essay: Director Bahar Behbahani at Tribeca Film Festival

by Sam Nosratian
23-May-2008 (3 comments)

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CIA SPIES TO BE HANDED TO AYATOLLAHS

almo5000

Pakistan May Turn Over U.S. 'Spies' to Iran

ABS NEWS
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23-May-2008
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Orang Gholikhani
23-May-2008 (5 comments)
فراموش کن حکایت نی >>>

B & W

Delicate balance

Delicate balance

Photography

by Shiva Tadayoni
23-May-2008 (8 comments)

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EDS
23-May-2008
Adjusted for inflation, Iran's export revenues from oil is now higher than the highest achieved during the Pahlavis.

 

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Obama: The threat of Iran is real

Obama2008

Obama's views on Isreal, Palestine and Iran

obamadotcom
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23-May-2008 (15 comments)
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IDENTITY

Growing pains that accompany becoming part of society outside Iran

23-May-2008 (83 comments)
Are you Persian? Asked the lady bank teller with dyed blond hair and otherwise very Iranian complexion. I answered “Baale Khanoom, Haletoon Khoobeh?”. Other times I have been asked “Are you Iranian?” It kind of dawned on me that as Iranians living in America, we might be facing an ‘identity’ crisis. Are we Persians, Iranians, Iranian Americans, Persian Americans, or Americans? I have seen all variations used many times. With our beloved homeland country Iran being in the news so often and almost always negatively, perhaps we want to somehow disassociate our selves from anything Iranian thus referring to ourselves as Persians or Persian Americans>>>

IRI

دوقلوهای به هم چسبیده

نظامی كه باید به دو نیم كرد

23-May-2008 (9 comments)
از روزی كه اسلامگراها محض ارتقای خمینی به مقام بزرگترین مرجع سیاسی و مذهبی به وی لقب امام دادند تا به امروز كه جسته و گریخته صحبت از تغییر كاركرد مجلس خبرگان و تحدید اختیارات رهبر شده است، این نظام مشكلی اصلی و اساسی داشته كه هنوز موفق به حل آن نشده و هرگز هم نخواهد شد: یكی شمردن دو اقتدار سیاسی و مذهبی. در حقیقت ماهیت نظام اسلامی از این پیوند ناساز شكل گرفته است و روشن است كه جدایی اجتناب ناپذیر این دو رشتهٌ حیات آنرا خواهد گسیخت. تا آن زمان اصرار در یكی دانستن ، دو اقتداری كه یكی نیست دو پیامد داشته كه شاهدیم: تنش در رابطهٌ این دو قدرت ناسازگار و ابهامی كه این رابطه را احاطه كرده است. این مشکلات در مورد رهبر نظام به بارزترین شکل هویداست. >>>
sadegh
23-May-2008 (9 comments)
Last month saw the popular election to the presidential office of a bearded and bespectacled cleric in the small Latin American Republic of Paraguay>>>

NATIONALISM

Myths of Separatism

A primary type of mass paranoia

23-May-2008 (44 comments)
Many Iranians fear separatism. They truly fear it and they act just like football fans, though their activities have so far been limited to talks and writings. An anonymous commentator in my previous article made a link to a video, and I clicked to watch it. I am sorry that I cannot call the guy on the video an idiot because (beside being also sorry for having used the word) I would be insulting idiots. Anyway, watching that video, and also many writings and talks on the Internet, I started to think that actually many Iranians have genuine fear that Iranian regions may some day separate from the rest (whatever would remain) of Iran. So, let's analyse the realities and see what is at stake beside football-like hooliganism and emotional wasteland>>>