Archive - Jul 2008

Trita Parsi on the Repercussions of a US Military Strike against Iran

The indomitable Trita Parsi lays out in the clear light of day the repercussions of a US strike against Iran and debunks the hollow rationale and warped logic which has been postulated by its proponents>>>

Radiant

you are like a field

poem

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THE ARMENIANS OF IRAN

As you enter each location, it feels like you are standing in the center and are turning 360 degrees >>>

راه سوم

اگر در هر یک از فرهنگهای جهان به دویست سال پیش برگردیم ملاحظه می کنیم که دین محور اصلی جامعه بوده است. دین نیروی متحدّ کننده و نگهدارنده جامعه بود و به آن معنویت و بینش می بخشید. >>>

Wrath of Mother Sea

Ire of Mother Sea on the shore and sea

Has broken the bonds one can ever see.

Rich of her bosoms that used to nosh all

Has become deathbed to kill and bury.

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Making music, not war

On Saturday, June 28, when the fear of looming war against Iran was on the rise, here, in Prague, Iranian and Israeli musicians came together to perform in a warm and memorable concert in a prestigious and the oldest Czech world music festival, Respect, in a Woodstockesque flavor and atmosphere. Saeed Shanbehzadeh, a maestro of Ney-Anban (or as we call it in southern Iran: Ney-Anbooneh), after an hour of playing Bushehri ethnic music together with his 15 year old son Nagheeb, a very skilled drummer and percussionist, invited two Israeli percussionists participating in the festival to join them and let the people listen to an improvisation>>>

حمله اسرائیل به ایران -بایدها و شایدها

باید به نمایندگان مجلس، رهبران احزاب، کلیساها، رسانه ها، و یهودیان کانادائی نوشت که اختلاف بین ایران و اسرائیل جنگ قدرتی است بین جناحهای جنگ طلب دو کشور که خواهان روشن شدن آتش جنگ هستند تا بتوانند بحران را از داخل کشور به خارج از مرزهای خود منتقل کنند>>>

Obama's Jimmy Carter Disaster

President Carter's misguided approach to raising human rights (catered to fundamentalists and communists) in the context of US-Iran relations, led to the Shah's fall. Iran then became a theocratic abyss, whose radical fundamentalists tolerated far more abuse and torture of political prisoners than the Shah ever had, and supported a stream of terrorist acts and causes. The individuals who comprise Iran's theocracy are now the worlds, as well as the vast majority of the Iranian people's greatest enemies. Now, Barack Obama has said that he is inclined to meet with the internationally controversial Iranian President at the right time after due preparation and advance work by US diplomats>>>

Banking on God

Khums and Zakat are two charitable sums paid respectively by Shiites and Muslims collected by religious authorities in charge of them. Although, they are primordially supposed to be contributed among poor Seyyeds (descendents of the Prophet Muhammad) and the poor in the community.To some extent, they cover the questions of financial support for Jihad and terrorist activities in and out of the Muslim community, legitimacy of booty, and the financial benefit of the collectors, in Iran, the clergy. Booty (Ghanima / Ghanaemis taken by Mulims from “Infidels”) is legal after paying Khoms / Zakat. However, the lands which have been seized as spoils of war belong to the Muslim society>>>