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The Riddle of Natanz

Forget all about stories of nuclear complexes, underground chambers and uranium enrichment centrifuges

01-Dec-2008 (4 comments)
I have always been drawn to those who are dangerous in some way: those who love too passionately, who think (and act) too radically, whose imaginations are easily heated to incandescence. So I should not complain when I get burned and lose everything. We need to experience the “Grand Passions” at least once in our lives. We need to live life at white-hot heat to feel that we are truly alive and human. “I am alive, therefore I bleed. I am human, therefore I weep”. But what I value more than the “grand passions” of Life is a subtler form of emotion that is paradoxically more potent than passion. I hesitate to call it “tenderness” because that word has other implications, but I have no other word large or clean enough to describe it. Physical consummation is no more than a crude metaphor for this Love. It flows from the most vulnerable places in us, those of least resistance which, I suppose, we have to call the “soul”.>>>
Forbidden Love

Another look at "Vis and Ramin"

01-Dec-2008 (one comment)
The Persian romance of Vis and Ramin, which has influenced the European legend of Tristan and Isolde and the Georgian tale of Visramiani, was composed in 1050's by Fakhraddin Asa'd Gorgani in Isfahan, Iran. It is one of the oldest examples of forbidden love in Persian literature in which a man passionately falls in love with his sister-in-law. For this reason, Vis and Ramin has not been welcome by the Persian literati in the past and present. Nezami Ganjavi (1141-1209), who wrote his romance Khosrow and Shirin, more than one century after Vis and Ramin tries to distance himself from Gorgani as follows>>>

POETRY

اتو کاری
01-Dec-2008 (2 comments)
این روزها کار و بارم شده
که کابوسهایم را اتو کنم
خوابهایی که در آنها قوز کرده روی زمین
اتو می کنم چینهای صورت مادرم را
شب تا صبح، و قلب مچاله ی خودم
و نقشه ی چروک دنیا را
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Nazy Kaviani
30-Nov-2008 (13 comments)
The long night outside...>>>
Monda
30-Nov-2008 (10 comments)
First Grade Textbook, edition 1387. (To the Original writer: Congratulations on your wonderful creativity!)>>>

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I Have a Crush on Alex Trebek
30-Nov-2008 (5 comments)
IRANdokht
30-Nov-2008 (50 comments)
محمدرضا گلزار یا روح الله علفزار؟  در مورد شایعه ممنوع التصویر شدن محمدرضا گلزار
از ابراهیم نبوی >>>
Darius Kadivar
30-Nov-2008 (2 comments)
State Visit to Iran of Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of the Republic of India greeted by Iran's Royal Couple at Mehrabad Airport. Late 1960's Tehran  >>>
Darius Kadivar
30-Nov-2008 (8 comments)
Royal couple visits the Worlds Largest Refinery of its time in the Middle East. >>>
ebi amirhosseini
30-Nov-2008 (16 comments)
خدايا آنكه را عقل دادي چه ندادي و آنكه را عقل ندادي چه دادي ؟  ((خواجه عبدالله انصاري )) >>>

The Axis Gets Panicky

Darius Kadivar

IRI accused of Trying to Assassinate Opponents in Europe

New York Sun
recommended by Darius Kadivar
30-Nov-2008 (6 comments)
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Orang Gholikhani
30-Nov-2008 (11 comments)
شهر فرشتگان >>>
Darius Kadivar
30-Nov-2008 (2 comments)
Summer of 1976, Crown Prince Reza with Farah Fawcett T-Shirt with his mother the Shahbanou. >>>

free tickets

Favela

Six Pillars to Persia radio show is due to give away four tickets

www.resonancefm.com / Fari Bradley
recommended by Favela
30-Nov-2008
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Arash Monzavi-Kia
30-Nov-2008 (16 comments)
Similarities between the Jewish state of Israel and the Islamic republic of Iran show that, there are many paths to ruthless conduct>>>