Date
Venus
02-Oct-2007
از ميان دشتی ﭙر ازگلهای شقايق كه تا كمرم می رسيد و از هيچ سويی مرزی نداشت قدم بر ميداشتم در حالی كه دستانم را روی گلها می كشيدم . شبنم سحری به وجودم يك نوع لذت بی تعريفی می داد. آزاد و رها بودم، بدون هيچ گونه واهمه ای . قلبم احساس شادی عجيبی میكرد. میرفتم از ميان گلهای شقايق سرخ. ميرفتم و ميرفتم. نمي دانم چند ساعتی تا اينكه ديگر ﭙاهايم توان رفتن نداشتند.
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Nazy Kaviani
01-Oct-2007 (8 comments)
The small group of Iranians who pulled off the feat, each were a source of pride and honor to me as an Iranian, proving that we can do anything we want to do, so long as we gather around a cause we all understand and appreciate. >>>
Sheila K
01-Oct-2007 (4 comments)

Britsh MPs visiting the Pentagon to discuss America's stance on Iran and Iraq were shocked to be told by one of President Bush's senior women officials: "I hate all Iranians."

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bahmani
01-Oct-2007 (11 comments)
Adding the anti spam addition question on Iranian.com is fun but getting boring!>>>
alimostofi
01-Oct-2007 (6 comments)
Now here are some brave people. >>>

ART

Heroes

Heroes

Digital art, paintings and drawings

by Ali Nedaei
01-Oct-2007 (4 comments)

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HOMOSEXUALITY

Blown out of proportion

All we hear about is the distorted version of Ahmadinejad's statement about homosexuals. Why is that?

01-Oct-2007 (52 comments)
A few days ago, I was home minding my own business, eating my yogurt (as they say in Farsi/Persian) when a friend told me over the phone that Ahmadinejad had made a fool out of himself by saying that there are no gays in Iran. Because I don’t have cable television, I could not listen to Ahmadinejad’s talk at Columbia, live on TV. I had to trust that the president “gand zadeh” as my friend put it. She was upset not only because of Ahmadinejad’s alleged statement about the lack of homosexuals in Iran, but also because of Bollinger’s disrespectful and rude introductory remarks. >>>

MEDIA

Inferior news for inferior people

The great propaganda machine called VOA

01-Oct-2007 (19 comments)
The history of propaganda in the US is as old as the country itself. After all, what else can justify eradication of millions of Native Americans on the grounds that they’re savages or enslavement of millions of others because their color is a sign of their inferiority? However, for the moment, we can look at post-WWII history and all the relevant US laws. VOA is controlled by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which also runs Radio and TV Mari (targeting Cuba), Radio Sawa and AlHurra TV (in Arabic), Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe (targeting eastern Europe), and Radio Free Asia.>>>

STORY

ماههای آخر

دقیقن چهار ماه و هیجده روز است که " ره نمی پیمایم "

01-Oct-2007 (5 comments)
فکر نمی کنم بتوانم تاب بیاورم. دردهای جسمی ندارم، یعنی جسمی که درد می کرد، دیگر نیست. پنج ماه و دوازده روز پیش از من جدا یش کردند. آن را ا ز من گرفتند." چپم " را همان روزهای اولی که به جبهه رفتم، هنوزعرق ام خشک نشده بود، که از دست دادم....دومی را؟ خیلی باها ش کنار آمدم، اما حالا آن را هم ندارم. درد جسمی هم ندارم. دیگر نیستند که به مجرد کم شدن اثر مُسَکن، درد را روانه کنند.اگر هم بودند، دیگر کاری ازشان ساخته نبود. اما درد فکری چرا، خیلی هم دارم. گاه مدتها سرم را روی دست هایم می گذارم و درمانده، جان می کنم.>>>
xivaro
01-Oct-2007 (11 comments)
Call your Congress and Senate and Write to Khamenie and Ahmadinejad's office, if you can. >>>

PLAY

Thus, the dialogue began...

A conversation with the creators of "Benedictus"

01-Oct-2007 (one comment)
In the small set of San Francisco's Tick House, four theatre artists sit around a table and talk. What is different about this theatrical discussion is who these people are and what has brought them together. Who could imagine that the Israeli playwright Motti Lerner, the Iranian director Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, the American dramaturge Roberta Levitow and Golden Thread Theatre Company's Iranian-Armenian artistic director Torange Yeghiazarian would get together to make a play -- Benedisctus -- about the relationship between Iran, US and Israel?>>>

VOICES

Creative protest

Creative protest

Wide variety of protesters greet Ahmadinejad at Columbia University

by Qumars Bolourchian
30-Sep-2007 (11 comments)

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bahmani
30-Sep-2007 (33 comments)
I was going to write something but found this instead. I think she says it well...>>>

SATIRE

The last of the Aryans

Aryans were all white skinned with blonde and blue eyes, so what happened?

30-Sep-2007 (34 comments)
It is with a great sadness that I have to announce the passing away of the last Aryan living in Iran. Professor Zoobin Atash-band passed away in his house of natural causes. He was 103 years old. Never married and with no living relatives the late Professor Atash-band was known to be the last Aryan living in Iran. I had the rare privilege to meet with him at a coffee shop near his residence about three weeks ago discussing a variety of subjects. Professor Atash-band was a scientist in fields of nuclear physics and applied mathematics. Below are some of the questions I asked and his responses:>>>

POETRY

Gold mines in America

God bless them all

30-Sep-2007 (11 comments)
I had gone to all-boys kindergarten, grade school,
high school and college.
It was time to do some thing about it. Being a short
Iranian male is a serious handy cap in America and
a reason for rejection by all the non-fat Amercan females.
That was when I discovered the overweight American
females. >>>