Archive - 2008

The real choice

Is war between Israel and Iran inevitable? To listen to Iran's radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or Israel's Iranian-born transportation minister Shaul Mofaz, or even recent reports that Israel carried out a major military training mission over the Mediterranean to rehearse an attack on Iran, you might be left with that impression. Mr. Mofaz's comments last month indicating he would attack Iran didn't help perceptions either. The immediate effect of his statement was a record increase in oil prices – giving Mofaz's Iranian nemeses a windfall of several million dollars... Any serious effort to address the Iranian challenge must recognize the true nature of the conflict. There is nothing apocalyptic about the nuclear stand-off or the Israeli-Iranian rivalry. Rather, these are strategically driven conflicts that can be managed and even resolved through the appropriate level of diplomacy>>>

Yeh toop daram Khal-khali-yeh

Iranians in general are strong believers of the Conspiracy Theory. We thrive on political skepticism and for many years I had blamed that on the intellectuals, who pondered over taboo issues, read forbidden books and stirred suspicion. Much like the main character in My Uncle Napoleon, most of us blamed the British for our country’s problems and believed any misfortune befalling us was caused by outside powers. As I reflect on some old Persian nursery rhymes, hidden messages begins to surface, voices that have been there all along, except no one ever bothered to listen hard enough to hear them. Unlike the spider in Reverent Fulghum’s book, our rhymes fail to teach perseverance and one in particular seems to be aimed at taking away what little autonomy was left us>>>

Listen, please!

We start to have problems with listening to others and hearing them properly, when we are angry with each other. When our ego is hurt and we feel that we have been insulted, we often want to get back at the person responsible and so we stop listening to them. In these circumstances, we sometimes get very carried away and interpret everything that they say in the worse possible way to make them look bad and foolish to ourselves and others, so as to confirm what we think of them. We might even convince ourselves that they cannot be saying anything sensible or kind because then they would have been kind and sensible to us>>>

The Man in the Moon

I had begun my military service as a draftee, and like the other greenhorns out of college, was looking at a two-year tour of duty. A few days before reporting to the base, I went to the barber and asked for a sefr-chahar. He obliged by shaving off the curly afro I had spent years cultivating and I left feeling several kilos lighter. As time progressed, there were further signs of the government’s decay and loss of control. After every weekend, the number of soldiers in our unit dwindled as more and more heeded the call to desert the infidel army>>>

Skinny dipping anyone?

Women are this world's biggest secrets.>>>

How are we going to destroy Iran?

How Bahai's hate Iran and want to destroy it!

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CHESS: Iranian or Indian Invention?

I found this article very intresting: Edited by Shapour Suren-Pahlav>>>

Real men beg!

A friend of mine called on the phone. He said he missed his wife, even though he initiated divorce, hated being married and believes he can't be a good husband or father. "Should I beg her to come back?" he asked. >>>

جدل حکیم و عاشق

نه به بزم باده نوشان اثر از ثبات بینم.

نه به جمع خوش نوازان هنر حیات بینم.

 

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Can you help?

Please read my story to see if you or someone that you know can help. >>>

ای هم زبان من این را بخوان

چه که من و تو مسئولیم تا بدانیم که بر سره ده ها هزار هم وطنمان چه می آید؟ تاریخ قضاوت خواهد کرد که من و تو دیدیم اما بی گمان و خیال از آن گذشتیم

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The Shah's Last Ride Apostrophe French TV

William Shawcross on Popular French Talk Show in 1989 interviewed on his Biography on the Shah of Iran entitled The Shah's Last Ride >>>