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Iranian parliamentary elections and Ahmadinezhad's discontents
On April 25, a second round of voting will determine the remaining eighty-eight seats of the Iranian Majlis. The first round, held on March 14, decided 202 seats and was considered a defeat for both the reformists and President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad. His reaction to the setback -- the dismissal of Interior Minister Mustafa Pur-Muhammadi, responsible for conducting the election -- is indicative of the difficult times ahead for the president and his allies, whose public and official support is steadily diminishing
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What gets on my nerves are the Iranians who live in the U.S. or U.K. and keep talking about Iran; how they miss it; how the long for it; how its the best place on earth.
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STORY
How could Mahin get Hossein out of this mess now?
Azadeh and Roxanne had just finished washing Yassi’s body at the mosque. It had been a grueling task. Azadeh remarked to herself that in death, Yassi resembled her more than she had during her lifetime, her body covered with cuts and scratches like her own. They had never looked so much like sisters. Except these wounds had not been self-inflicted and they had been deadly. Exiting the mosque, a feeble and trembling Azadeh was supported by Roxanne on her way home. The older woman had been at the side of the young girl almost exclusively for the past two days.
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POETRY
You, when you make love
you demand comfort
a bed of cedar
and a special mattress support
Us, when we make love
it is easy to arrange
with sheets, how great!
without sheets, just the same.
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Hitler dolls on sale in Ukraine
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Old Iranian man talks about revolution
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Ahmadinejad accused "a gentleman who still today has a important post at the centre of power" of controlling a massive cigarette smuggling network.
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