Manoucher Avaznia
17-Sep-2008 (8 comments)
It was the second day of winter 1986. The sun had already set and the snow-spotted Alborz Mountains to the north of Tehran were still visible behind a haze of smoke hovering the city. Two night earlier I had toasted the birth of the Iranian god of Mehr>>>

CARLA ROCKS METTALICA

Darius Kadivar

Mrs Sarkozy meets Metallica on TV

bbc
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17-Sep-2008
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Ali P.
17-Sep-2008 (6 comments)
Hadi Khorsandi's on US Presidential Election >>>

Iraq is Very Quiet ! (for Who?)

shinie head

Twin bombing hits Iraqi capital

bbc world news
recommended by shinie head
17-Sep-2008
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Is Baba-Karam "Kosher" ?

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Rabbis black-list non-kosher music

bbc world news
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17-Sep-2008 (2 comments)
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Enki Catena
17-Sep-2008 (6 comments)
BBC Documenteray Israel's Post Military Trip to India >>>
AmirAshkan Pishroo
17-Sep-2008 (6 comments)
Given the magnitude of the crisis in the wider Middle East, the Palestinian-Israeli crisis should be seen for what it is: a potato issue.
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Ervand Abrahamian

Maryam Hojjat

A History of Modern Iran

Cambridge.org / Ervand Abrahamian
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17-Sep-2008
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Tainted and Deadly Food for America !

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Exports tested as China milk scandal spreads

AP
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16-Sep-2008
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PUBLIC OPINION

In Iranian eyes

Based on surveys taken in Iran in early 2008

16-Sep-2008 (13 comments)
The findings of the WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO) and Terror Free Tomorrow (TFT) surveys offer two messages to those wanting to see change in Iran's policies: (1) Iranians want their government to talk with the U.S. about specific issues and approve of their government's making policy concessions on both regional issues and its nuclear program in order to achieve normalized relations with the U.S. (2) At the same time, Iranians are relatively content with their government's responsiveness to their needs. The shortcomings many Iranians perceive in their economy are not widely blamed on President Ahmadinejad's government. While most Iranians reject the idea of a religious autocracy, most are not unhappy with the way they see their leaders being chosen and governing the country>>>

OBSERVATIONS

The Iran I saw

Expatriate reflects on Iran vacation

16-Sep-2008 (18 comments)
As painful as it may seem to the nearly three million expatriate Iranians in Diaspora and their few million brethrens, highly educated westernized elites and technocrats inside Iran, there are independent studies that if a national referendum were to be held in Iran today that the majority of the people, against their own long-term interests and without their cognizance, would still cast their ballots in favor of retaining the current Islamic Republic, perhaps with some in-house reforms. When the conditions are ripened for a fundamental political change, as history has repeatedly indicated-the case in point is the overthrow of the Pahlavi Dynasty- a society would rise to rid itself of the incumbent system, irrespective of the hitherto harsh repressive measures imposed on it>>>

PAKS TO KILL AMERICAN GIs

shinie head

Pakistan troops to fire on Americans crossing border

telegraph.co.uk
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16-Sep-2008
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Daniel M Pourkesali
16-Sep-2008 (14 comments)
Judging from the universally unenthusiastic if not outright negative perception of Iran, it is time that its publicists, namely those who represent Iran in various international arenas, finally realized some of their vast shortcoming>>>

AIRPORT

Welcome to London! Just kidding.

UK immigration officials harass IranAir passengers

16-Sep-2008 (32 comments)
A few weeks ago I returned from close to four months of fieldwork in Iran conducting research for my doctoral thesis. However, I and the 460 other IranAir passengers were caught off guard by an unwelcome greeting from UK immigration officers. As we set foot off the airplane, our passports were checked, an experience I have never had flying in from other countries. Having just spent hours in Imam Khomeini airport, I was witness to the thorough and professional examination of passports and Visas; thus, I could not understand the logic behind this act except harassment of those who decide to fly with IranAir. >>>
darius
16-Sep-2008 (one comment)
This Book and debate session happened in B.C by Greg Felton ,a writer and a investigator reporter. >>>