IRAN-U.S.

Axis of change

Open letter to Obama

07-Jul-2008 (12 comments)
With Israel rehearsing an attack on Iran and the Bush administration considering the alternative of a low-level diplomatic mission in Tehran, it is necessary to revisit your June 4th speech to the AIPAC convention in Washington. In that address, you denounced the Iraq War as a conflict which strengthened Iran and asserted that Iran has always constituted a greater threat to Israel than Iraq. You stated that Iran now constitutes the greatest challenge in the region. You even asserted that Iran is part of a “tyranny of oil” in which the high price of oil is “one of the most dangerous weapons in the world” because petro-dollars abet the killing of Israeli civilians and American soldiers. In so doing, you are taking an easy road to “toughness” on national security issues that still allows you to trumpet your opposition to a war that is now overwhelmingly unpopular>>>

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Please don’t nuke us!

Hey Americans! We Iranian-Americans digest our food the same way you do!

07-Jul-2008 (20 comments)
By now I’m sure you’ve all seen Voices for Peace: Fifty Iranian-Americans Promoting Peace with Iran. Perhaps the idea behind it was decent enough. And maybe, at the end of the day, having it is better than not. And yet, as a fellow Iranian (ixnay the American), there were many things that made me uncomfortable. I do not think it is prudent at the moment to promote the idea of: “don’t attack Iran”. While many of us are extremely worried, publicly, we should promote the idea of direct, unconditional requests for talk with Iran. Lest we forget, she too remains a sovereign nation and has the right to decide when and if she wants to open her doors>>>

DIASPORA

Epiphany
07-Jul-2008 (2 comments)
Uprooted
from Persian gardens
of my dawning bed,
I was a cypress tree replanted
in eternal ice of Montreal, muttering
Gilles Vigneault’s "Les gens de mon pays"
for the saffron sun, sidewalk café sitting
in summer’s shade, reading my mother’s
letter from Tehran >>>

How do Iranians react to threats of attack?

trnniran

Trita Parsi talks about the effect of threats on Iranian public opinion

The Real News Network
recommended by trnniran
07-Jul-2008 (one comment)
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Lieberman wants stronger action against Iran

trnniran

Sen. Joseph Lieberman says Arab nations, not just Israel, want US to stop Iran's nuke program

The Real News Network
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07-Jul-2008 (3 comments)
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sadegh
07-Jul-2008 (14 comments)
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>>>
Rosie T.
07-Jul-2008

you are like a field

poem

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Have you asked, if he's unhealthy?

Maryam Hojjat
07-Jul-2008 (3 comments)
As you enter each location, it feels like you are standing in the center and are turning 360 degrees >>>

Iranian Studies in Italy is now in jeopardy

Maryam Hojjat

Iranian Studies in Italy is now in jeopardy

Encyclopaedia Iranica
recommended by Maryam Hojjat
07-Jul-2008
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Photos: Morality Police crack down in Tehran

Darius Kadivar

Iran's Morality Police began a new phase in their campaign against Western-style clothing and hairstyles

Via Payvand / Mehdi Ghasemi and Alireza Sotakbar, ISNA
recommended by Darius Kadivar
07-Jul-2008 (6 comments)
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alborz
07-Jul-2008 (9 comments)
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. >>>
Manoucher Avaznia
06-Jul-2008 (2 comments)

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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IRAN-ISRAEL

Drums of peace

Drums of peace

Photo essay: Iranian and Israeli musicians in Prague bridge their countries

by Nima Tamaddon
06-Jul-2008 (7 comments)

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IRAN-ISRAEL

Making music, not war

Iranian and Israeli musicians in Prague bridge their countries

06-Jul-2008 (one comment)
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>>>