Behnam.sezavar
02-May-2008 (one comment)
Iranian officials also state that Al-Qaeda is constantly posing a threat to them... >>>
Behnam.sezavar
02-May-2008 (10 comments)
The International Book Fair in Tehran (May, 2008) is the biggest book fair in the Middle East with ... >>>

HILLARY

Say you're sorry

Clinton's "Obliteration" remark is genocidal

02-May-2008 (66 comments)
Senator Clinton should apologize for using a genocidal term during her campaign. Her recent remark-- stating that if Iranians were to launch a nuclear attack against Israel, the United States would be able to obliterate Iran -- is out of the line, politically inappropriate, and reflects a hawkish approach toward foreign policy based on the Bush administration model. Even neoconservative warmongers who have been saber rattling with Iran over the past 8 years have never used such a term. If the media were not distracted by Rev. Wright's controversial remarks, this comment would cause a huge backlash against Clinton. >>>

EDUCATION

A plus

Iranian Scholarship Foundation gala brought in over half a million dollars

02-May-2008 (21 comments)
Actor-Comedian Maz Jobarani finagled his complicated schedule so he could accept Iranian Scholarship Foundation’s invitation to speak at their fundraising gala. An alternate choice for the event had been graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi. But Jobrani was more stubbornly persuasive in beating back his schedulers. A stellar cluster of young Iranian scholars needed his support, and no other engagement seemed more important. Jobrani immediately challenged his audience with a hilariously multi-layered routine about how his mother wanted him to be a lawyer--when he really wanted to be an actor. >>>

JEWS

Purim

Its message and origins

02-May-2008 (56 comments)
Purim is one of the most Persian of Jewish festivals. The story is essentially about how Haman, the Amalekite vizier (not a Persian), tried to abuse his power to massacre all Jews and how this was thwarted by the courage of the Jewish Queen Esther, the wisdom of his uncle Mordechai and the decree of the King Achashverosh of Persia (usually identified with Xerxes) who commanded that Haman and his offsprings be executed on the same platform they had prepared for Mordechai>>>

UNITY

 بالا تر از شعار

فقدان «منافع مشترک» در خارج از کشور

02-May-2008
خارج کشوری ها می توانند در راستای شراکت در امر سياسی ناظر بر داخل کشور به امکانات و توانائی های عملی خود بيانديشند و برای هموار کردن راهی که به انحلال حکومت اسلامی در ايران بيانجامد در ابعاد کارآمدتر توانائی خود عمل کنند. من، متأسفانه، تأسيس حزب و ايجاد اتحاديه های سياسی را از جملهء اين اقدامات نمی بينم و حتی اينگونه فعاليت ها را موجب عقب افتادن کار و اتلاف انرژی تلقی می کنم. اين احزاب و اتحاديه ها، که نطفه شان در لوله های لابراتواری خارج کشور بسته شده و در فضاهای آزاد و فارغ از وبال بال رشد می کنند، در فردای تغيير رژيم در ايران نخواهند توانست نقشی مؤثر بازی کنند. >>>

POETRY

نام های عزيز

بيدار شو!

02-May-2008 (2 comments)
هزار و يک شب از سنگ های آتش گذشتم
هزار و يک شب از صخره های ذوب شده،
قلعه های سنگ باران
و تازيانه های درد
خواب بودی و جادو، و نمی ديدی
که خورشيد از زخم هايم سر می کشد
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Jahanshah Javid
02-May-2008 (17 comments)
This video really made me laugh. You see a while back I was facing a major major crisis>>>
Jane13162
02-May-2008 (2 comments)
MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US has a special upcoming issue devoted to Iranian American Literature! >>>
sheila.dadvar
02-May-2008

may the force be by those who hear me out, literally and seriously.

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SarbazIran
02-May-2008 (42 comments)
6 minute video clip bringing up facts and the truth about how Iran was before 1979 and how it is now after 1979>>>

Practice Your Conflict Resolution Techniques

Monda

Shir Dokhtar e Esfahani

soheyli.com / Baharloo's TV Program
recommended by Monda
02-May-2008 (3 comments)
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Bahram Maravandi
02-May-2008 (one comment)
چمع‌آوری اطلاعات برای تشکیل سالنامه زادروز مشاهیر و نامداران ایرانی >>>

conflict over oil? kojaasho deedee...

Jahanshah Javid

The New Geopolitics of Energy

The Nation / Michael T. Klare
recommended by Jahanshah Javid
02-May-2008 (8 comments)
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sheila.dadvar
02-May-2008
what i have been doing instead of being active on the site, which i thought was going to do when started blogging. >>>