B & W

Delicate balance

Delicate balance

Photography

by Shiva Tadayoni
23-May-2008 (8 comments)

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EDS
23-May-2008
Adjusted for inflation, Iran's export revenues from oil is now higher than the highest achieved during the Pahlavis.

 

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Obama: The threat of Iran is real

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Obama's views on Isreal, Palestine and Iran

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23-May-2008 (15 comments)
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IDENTITY

Growing pains that accompany becoming part of society outside Iran

23-May-2008 (83 comments)
Are you Persian? Asked the lady bank teller with dyed blond hair and otherwise very Iranian complexion. I answered “Baale Khanoom, Haletoon Khoobeh?”. Other times I have been asked “Are you Iranian?” It kind of dawned on me that as Iranians living in America, we might be facing an ‘identity’ crisis. Are we Persians, Iranians, Iranian Americans, Persian Americans, or Americans? I have seen all variations used many times. With our beloved homeland country Iran being in the news so often and almost always negatively, perhaps we want to somehow disassociate our selves from anything Iranian thus referring to ourselves as Persians or Persian Americans>>>

IRI

دوقلوهای به هم چسبیده

نظامی كه باید به دو نیم كرد

23-May-2008 (9 comments)
از روزی كه اسلامگراها محض ارتقای خمینی به مقام بزرگترین مرجع سیاسی و مذهبی به وی لقب امام دادند تا به امروز كه جسته و گریخته صحبت از تغییر كاركرد مجلس خبرگان و تحدید اختیارات رهبر شده است، این نظام مشكلی اصلی و اساسی داشته كه هنوز موفق به حل آن نشده و هرگز هم نخواهد شد: یكی شمردن دو اقتدار سیاسی و مذهبی. در حقیقت ماهیت نظام اسلامی از این پیوند ناساز شكل گرفته است و روشن است كه جدایی اجتناب ناپذیر این دو رشتهٌ حیات آنرا خواهد گسیخت. تا آن زمان اصرار در یكی دانستن ، دو اقتداری كه یكی نیست دو پیامد داشته كه شاهدیم: تنش در رابطهٌ این دو قدرت ناسازگار و ابهامی كه این رابطه را احاطه كرده است. این مشکلات در مورد رهبر نظام به بارزترین شکل هویداست. >>>
sadegh
23-May-2008 (9 comments)
Last month saw the popular election to the presidential office of a bearded and bespectacled cleric in the small Latin American Republic of Paraguay>>>

NATIONALISM

Myths of Separatism

A primary type of mass paranoia

23-May-2008 (44 comments)
Many Iranians fear separatism. They truly fear it and they act just like football fans, though their activities have so far been limited to talks and writings. An anonymous commentator in my previous article made a link to a video, and I clicked to watch it. I am sorry that I cannot call the guy on the video an idiot because (beside being also sorry for having used the word) I would be insulting idiots. Anyway, watching that video, and also many writings and talks on the Internet, I started to think that actually many Iranians have genuine fear that Iranian regions may some day separate from the rest (whatever would remain) of Iran. So, let's analyse the realities and see what is at stake beside football-like hooliganism and emotional wasteland>>>

RAIN

خبرت هست که از خویش خبر نیست مرا

هیچ وقت پیش نیامده که الفبای کتک خوردن از یادم برود

23-May-2008 (6 comments)
روزهایی را به یاد می آورم که خیس از عرق بودم تمام دیوارهای اتاقم مملو از نم و آب بودند اتاقم را برای ساعتها می بستند تا روح و جسمم عرق کنند و آزارم دهند تا اعتراف کنم به همه آنچه که انجام نداده ام .سالهاست از هر چه اعتراف حالم به هم می خورد اعتراف به کرده ها و نکرده ها ، ولی از پس این همه سال این را به خوبی یاد گرفته ام که تنها اعتراف به عاشقی کنم اعتراف به سبکی تحمل ناپذیر هستی ام .اعتراف به اینکه تنها این قلب در هم فشرده از درد و اشتیاق برایم باقی مانده است . >>>
Bang Man
23-May-2008

This site claims to be Iranian but after several years of detail scrutiny, this Iranian thinks other wise – Lash-Khor,YES but not Jegar-Khor !

 

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I_ran_ian
23-May-2008 (2 comments)
Leading UAE newspaper's website hacked >>>

FORGET ABOUT SLAVARY, YOU ARE THE MASTER !!!

zirak

Obama: 'Unshakable commitment' to Israel

Chicago Tribune
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23-May-2008 (5 comments)
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Chavez's socialisim is struggling

David ET

71% of Venezuelans are unhappy with failing economy

Bloomberg / Matthew Walter
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23-May-2008
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Shorts
23-May-2008 (one comment)
Non-religious, non-political, and not-for-profit foundation established in 2008 to celebrate the art and culture of Iranian Americans in the widest extent>>>

Washington's conflicting strategies on Iran

trnniran

Washington's conflicting strategies on Iran

The Real News Network
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23-May-2008 (one comment)
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Sharp Net Decline in Terrorist Violence

poonehtehrani

Sharp Net Decline in Terrorist Violence

CBC Radio One: The Current / Anna Maria Tremonti
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23-May-2008 (one comment)
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