Hossein Bagher Zadeh
27-Aug-2008 (4 comments)
در این شرایط، حمایت‌های‌ صریح خامنه‌ای از سیاست‌ خارجی احمدی‌نژاد امید غربیان را برای تعدیل آن تبدیل به یأس می‌‌كند و تنها موضع جنگ‌طلبان را تقویت خواهد كرد >>>
LanceRaheem
26-Aug-2008 (one comment)
Reprint of an article I wrote a few years ago. >>>
mahmoudg
26-Aug-2008
on a executive jet ride circa 1976 >>>
darius
26-Aug-2008 (2 comments)
The original song was performed by Camaron de la Isla. This is the originl lyric and my translation of it to English. Hope you enjoy it. >>>
Manoucher Avaznia
26-Aug-2008 (3 comments)

عزیزان نشسته در دل میخانه های گرم

جامتان لبریز و لبهاتان پر از لبخند؛

من دچار خشم توفانم.

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sadegh
26-Aug-2008 (5 comments)
Youtube: Clintons4McCain founder & PUMA gets smacked down on Hardball... I unfortunately don't have enough time to break down all the disturbing, malicious and bigoted presuppositions which frame these misguided "ladies">>>
Paymaneh Amiri
26-Aug-2008
Omid, a memorial in defense of human rights in Iran. >>>
sarasepidzadeh
26-Aug-2008 (2 comments)
Here is a short clip from the show Mixed Nutz - Persian Adventure. Babak learns how to haggle Iranian-style! >>>
darius
26-Aug-2008 (one comment)

Warning : it contian graphic material.

An amateur camera recorded the fire following a plane crash that took place on Sunday in Kyrgyzstan, killing at least 68 people.

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CARS

Driving American

It was in my mother's cars that we raced up and down the interstate all through the '80s and '90s

26-Aug-2008 (5 comments)
I first saw America from a silver Buick that called to my mother from a dealership along the New Jersey turnpike. We'd been in this country less than a week and were no more committed to America than to the rental car we'd picked up at the airport. Then she spied the Buick. I imagine something about its width and breadth and the regal redness of its plush interior put her in mind of "Charlie's Angels," a big hit back then and also the inspiration for the fringe she was sporting that year. It was ours that very day.In all the years since, I've wondered about that car and its role in all that happened afterward.>>>

CHINA

Will America Tolerate China's Rise?

Silver Medal, Gold Pride … and the 2008 Beijing Olympics

26-Aug-2008 (2 comments)
This Olympiad was not that much different, and the medal race approach was simply the passing of the supremacy baton from the United States to China, even if the United States resorted to “its own way” of counting success by giving equal weight to gold, silver and bronze medals, instead of granting the appropriate relevance to the gold as it is done in most of the world. As for the forty billion dollars spent by China preparing for the Olympics, much of it in building superior installations, such sum may seem as politically pretentious and overbearing for a nation still emerging out of a developing world and a population four times that of the United States>>>

HYPOTHETICAL

The Democratic Republic of Qazvin

Qazvinis became richer and happier while Iranians did not have much of the same fun

26-Aug-2008 (7 comments)
Before there was the Internet or even the steam engine and alike, there was a dynasty ruling over Iran, the Qazar dynasty. And there was a nice chap, a king, named Qazanfareddin Shah Qazar, who inherited the kingdom from his father, Mammad Quli Bay Mirza Zulfaqar Oghlu. Times were peaceful, as the neighbouring kingdoms were fighting each other, so Iran was spared the fuss! Qazanfareddin Shah was very thoughtful of his subjects. He always listened to his subjects. He was a good king. He was kind to his subjects, but he could not be kind to all his subjects, so he always tried to have some middle ground, some reasonable approach to handling the affairs of the state>>>
mahmoudg
26-Aug-2008 (9 comments)
Full bar on Emirates >>>

STORY

گرگ بیابان

مردانه صفت! گرد جهان گردیدم .... نامردم اگر مرد به دوران دیدم

26-Aug-2008 (7 comments)
از وقتی امید تصمیم گرفت مینی بوس قسطی بخرد، دل تو دل زنش، الهام نبود. احساس بدی داشت. با وجود آنکه امید هزاران بار نقشه را برایش توضیح داده و گفته بود که با کار سخت می تواند در ظرف حد اکثر 5 سال قسط ماشین را بدهد و آن وقت می شوند ارباب خودشان باز دل تو دلش نبود. اصلاً به دلش برات شده بود که این کار برایشان آمد ندارد. الهام بیشتر ترجیح میداد که امید بر روی ماشین دیگران کار کند و مزد بگیرد. اینجوری فرصت بیشتری داشتند با هم باشند و هر دو بچه از اینکه پدرشان را سرحال میدیدند خوشحال تر بودند. آنها می توانستند شب جمعه ها به منزل مادر بزرگشان بروند و خودشان را برای بزرگترها لوس کنند. امید دیگر تصمیم خود را گرفته بود و شمر هم جلودارش نبود چه برسد به الهام. همه چیز در چشم به هم زدنی انجام یافت و مینی بوس 21 نفره جدید امید خیلی سریع دم در خانه آفتابی شد.>>>

POETRY

تو دلي
26-Aug-2008 (one comment)
توي دلت مونسم تا به حال گريه كردي ؟
اشكها قظار شده ، پنهان از چشم ديگران كردي؟
گريه با آهي پر از سكوت در دل شب
گريه با حس درد با دل خالي در نيمه شب
گريه ترس و بي هق هقه كنار معشوق
گريه سرد و پر صدا در كنار سكوت درياچه عشق
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