Archive - Dec 15, 2007

Boy w mental disorder on death row: File sent for retrial

16 yr old Reza Padashi's file was sent for retrial after having been sentenced to death despite the diagnosis of medical officials >>>

It was a pomegranate

Pomegranate fruit has a fascinating history of traditional use as a food, as a medicine, and as a cultural icon, which dates back thousands of years. The pomegranate originated from Persia and has been cultivated in Georgia, Armenia and the Mediterranean region for several millennia. Pomegranates were one of the earliest fruits to be domesticated and their range now includes the Far East, India, the Mediterranean, and the Americas. The wild pomegranate did not grow natively it originated in eastern Iran and came to the Aegean world along the same cultural pathways that brought the goddess whom the Anatolians worshipped as Cybele and the Mesopotamians as Ishtar>>>

To only dream

In my dream
The lover – no longer- plants his seed
In Earth’s womb bringing life to all
Who lie in peace

In my dream
A walk down childhood’s alley
A knock on the cracked wooden door laced with grace
Opens to tales as long as “a thousand and one nights”
Where Deeve rides the white horse and saves us all
From the Prince’s claws >>>

فردای يلدا

آتشکده ام برفراز بلندايي بود؛ همانجا که گلِشاه مهربان هر روز می نشست و ساعت ها با خاک و آب و هوا گِل درست می کرد و آدم می ساخت، نيلوفر آبی می ساخت، گاو بزرگ می ساخت و پرنده هايی با بال های زرد و سبز و سرخ. آدم ها دو تا که می شدند برمی خاستند و رقص کنان می دويدند، نيلوفرها به رنگ زر می شدند و بر آب های آسمان حرکت می کردند، و گاو بزرگ از عشق بارور می شد و به تنهايي همه ی گندم های جهان را می زاييد تا پرنده ها از ازل تا به ابد بر سر گندم ها پرواز کنند.>>>

فیوز انفجار کشیده شده

به نظرم همه ما می باید آسوده خاطر تر باشیم. مداخله نظامی امریکا هیچ نتیجه ای جز فاجعه برای کشور ما نمی آورد، که در این بحران نشان داده شد چه جائی در گفتمان ملی ما دارد ــ بالا تر از همه چیز، از جمله خودمان. به نظرم اینکه فرصتی پیش آمد که بتوان نظرگاه (پرسپکتیو) نیرو های مخالف را عوض کرد فرا آمد مثبتی بود. ما برای ایران مبارزه می کنیم نه با جمهوری اسلامی. اگر در میدان هستیم از دوستی با ایران است که موجودیت هر روزی اش با این رژیم تهدید می شود، نه دشمنی با این و آن، حتا با جمهوری اسلامی. از سوی دیگر چشم انداز زشت و نگران کننده مردمانی که پویش قدرت و رسیدن به بیشترینه خواست های خود دیدگانشان را تیره کرده است، در سرو صدای دو سه ساله گذشته پدیدار گردید.>>>

A Jewel

You don't want to think of it as some kind of jewel, as something like a glass of water to a man dying of thirst >>>

From the "Womb" of "Creation" - How To "Solve" A "Problem"

Self Explanatory.

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Ali's file sent for review - execution halted

Iran's Etemaad newspaper reported today that the head of Iran's judiciary Ayatollah Shahrudi denied Ali's execution and referring to inconsistencies in the file sent it back for further review. >>>

On MKO, monarchists and creeps in dirty night robes.

An entry that some people may find offensive. >>>

Perverse Double Negative

Whose intelligence?>>>

Justice under god

Justice must correspond to the necessities of our time. The penal system of the Islamic Republic of Iran is not in compliance with our society’s expectations. Our Iranian norms of morality and Islamic jurisdiction cannot complement each other. To describe how this system was mechanically imposed on our society, we must go back to the first years after the revolution of 1979 in Iran to see how the IRI steadily developed an ever greater repression with a growth in the number of executions and increasing violence throughout the country>>>

Goober

Most of us are familiar with those cheap 10-10 numbers we can all use to call friends or family members during those holiday times of year. And if you're more technically advanced, you've probably even used such things as Skype or instant messaging to stay connected. Today I've discovered an even better option for staying connected, not only during the busy holiday season, but for any time of year. It's called goober>>>

نه مرسی

پس چکار باید کرد

بدنبال قدرتمندان رفتن , ارباب گرفتن

مثل یک پیچک گمنام دور کنده درخت گشتن

با نوازش این قیم بالا رفتن با تزویر و سرعت

بجای بلند شدن در آسمان با حمت و قدرت ؟

نه مرسی

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Of Hookers and Mojahedin

Back in the old days in my hometown, like most other cities in Iran, there were two kinds of hookers >>>