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Mossadegh

A kiss is a promise that I'm not going to overthrow any democratically-elected government

09-Jul-2008 (12 comments)
"Wait," the young man said. He was Iranian and he had told the girl, who was American, that he was Iranian and not Persian. They had kissed once and then he'd stopped.
"I have to tell you about Mossadegh."
"What?"
"Not what, who. Mossadegh was a man. He was the prime minister of Iran in 1953. He was overthrown by an American coup. I have to tell you about him because I shouldn't be the only one thinking about him when we kiss." >>>

From Bad To Worse...

News Goffer

Gulf Action-Reaction Cycle Could Spin To War

The Huffington Post / Joe Cirincione
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09-Jul-2008 (2 comments)
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BAHAI

New age martyr

Anniversary of the execution of The Bab

09-Jul-2008 (47 comments)
This day, on 9 July 1850, at noon, the Bab was put to death by firing squad in the public square of Tabriz, Iran. Six years earlier, He had declared that He was a messenger of God whose mission was to prepare the way for the imminent arrival of the Promised One of all religions who would come to establish a new age of peace and prosperity in the world. In 1863, Baha’u’llah announced publicly that He was that Promised One. The Bab attracted tens of thousands of people to His teachings, thousands of whom were killed in persecutions that swept Iran>>>
sadegh
09-Jul-2008 (31 comments)
This video takes a critical look at the MEMRI TV 'news service' upon which all faux-journalists so heavily rely e.g. Tom Freidman of the NYT...As'ad Abukhalil has also over the years done a beautiful job of demolishing the ideological preconceptions which determine MEMRI TV coverage >>>
alborz
09-Jul-2008

The Martyrdom of the Báb took place on July 9, 1850 at noon. An event with no parallel in history save the crucifixion of Jesus, it is commemorated as a solemn Holy Day by Bahá'ís around the world.

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SCE Campaign
09-Jul-2008
۲۴ سازمان جهانی و منطقه ای حقوق بشر از مقام های ایران خواسته اند مجازات اعدام چهار نوجوان را لغو کنند، به مجازات اعدام افرادی که در هنگام ارتکاب جرم کمتر از ۱۸ سال داشته اند پایان دهند و ...>>>
SCE Campaign
09-Jul-2008 (one comment)
24 international and regional human rights organizations including Stop Child Executions, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watcch called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution>>>
Rosie T.
09-Jul-2008 (9 comments)
On Vali Khan, Qajar Courtier, Obeid Zakani and friends. >>>

but she'll be forgiven for the foreplay

Parham

British woman faces six years for sex on Dubai beach

Times Online / Nico Hines
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09-Jul-2008
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Faramarz_Fateh
09-Jul-2008
Imagine a world without Bush, Ahmadinejad, Khamenei, Putin, leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, the freaGing Pope, Ehud Olmert, Jerry Falwell, John McCain, Hugo Chavez, O' Bin Laden, etc etc.  The world would be a beautiful place wouldn't it? >>>
Kouroush Sassanian
09-Jul-2008 (7 comments)
She was the first always to declare Spring: >>>

Shakespeare, Persia, and the East

Maryam Hojjat

Shakespeare, Persia, and the East

Mage Publishers / Cyrus Ghani
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09-Jul-2008
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bajenaghe naghi
09-Jul-2008 (15 comments)
i think i am to sensitive for nothing.>>>
eyeranian
09-Jul-2008 (2 comments)
I hope Kobra Khanoom doesn’t mind but I am taking JJ’s suggestion to reply to all questions from my own male point of view, so this is one of hers: >>>