IRANIANS

Coming of Age

Making collective achievements match individual success stories

24-Sep-2011 (one comment)
Over three decades after their mass migration began from their homeland, Iranian-Americans have reached the pinnacle of success in their new home. In widely diverse fields -- from media to high-tech entrepreneurship, from senior ranks of the U.S. government to academia – people of Iranian origin have truly “arrived” in America. Now, having conquered the peaks of career achievement, they also want to give back. Having done exceptionally well, now they also yearn to do good>>>

STORY

The blue lake of tears (3)

Before the dawn broke, the Queen had a sudden insight

24-Sep-2011
Once she stepped out of her daughter's room, the Queen experienced a strong tension inside her between her concern for the Princess and her hate for the girl’s shadow. She had a compulsion to find the shadowy boy to kill him, but she knew of the sorrow her daughter would suffer if she went through with her idea of eliminating the boy. The Queen didn’t know what to do with her stressful dilemma. All night, her moods rivalled the erratic movements of the stock markets of today’s world>>>

POETRY

خدای قابیل
24-Sep-2011 (one comment)
روحشان را به شیطان فروختند
خدایانِ مُرده
تجسمِ ماندگاری
حتا بر مستانِ كوچه
سوی جهنمِ آسمانی >>>
Farah Afshari
24-Sep-2011
در بهاری که منش خواب به سبزی دیدم
برگ برگ از سر هر شاخه سلامی به زمین می افتاد >>>
Nabarz
24-Sep-2011
I love you, I yearn for you, your green land and hillocks>>>
Mark Dankof
24-Sep-2011 (one comment)
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern makes two prescient observations about the Zionist-Central Banking-War Party’s drive to incite an American-Israeli conflict with Iran>>>
Mark Dankof
24-Sep-2011
I told Press TV/Iran that Michael Collins Piper’s book, Final Judgment, on the Israeli Mossad links to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is absolutely compelling >>>
Saead Soltanpour
24-Sep-2011
دکتر عباس آزادیان - روانپزشک - مهمان برنامه این هفته "راه حل" >>>

Do the roots of the Arab spring lie in cinema?

Darius Kadivar

Cinema and the Arab spring: the revolution starts here

guardian.co.uk / Sukhdev Sandhu
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24-Sep-2011 (one comment)
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Parham
24-Sep-2011 (13 comments)
A music mix for my friends on iranian.com>>>
Darius Kadivar
24-Sep-2011 (3 comments)
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons>>>

No Hope & Change for Obama and AIPAC

Afshin Ehx

A President Who Is Helpless in the Face of Middle East Reality

The Independent / Robert Fisk
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24-Sep-2011
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U.S. & Israel's Devastating Diplomatic Defeat

Afshin Ehx

Why the Middle East Will Never Be the Same Again

The Independent / Robert Fisk
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24-Sep-2011
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To Leave or Not to Leave; That Is the Question

Afshin Ehx

What is the US up to in Iraq?

Aljazeera / Pepe Escobar
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24-Sep-2011
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Cartoon

Afshin Ehx

NATO's Democracy

MrZine / Kritikal Point
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24-Sep-2011
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