Bang Man
09-Feb-2008 (20 comments)
Book Review: Jonathan Cook's "Israel and the Clash of Civilisation>>>
Last Stance
09-Feb-2008 (3 comments)
We used to be alright, what happened? 29th anniversary of a dark period which changed everything. >>>
Behnam.sezavar
09-Feb-2008 (5 comments)
Ferdowsi University Student in Mashad criticizing govenrment about the way it treats broad-minded political activists during Ahmadinjead's presidential campaign >>>
Shaer
09-Feb-2008 (4 comments)
"Self Explanatory". >>>
SCE Campaign
09-Feb-2008
Today Amnesty International issued an update and URGENT CALL to save Rizana Nafeek from imminent beheading >>>
Darius Kadivar
09-Feb-2008 (3 comments)
A gourmet rat was the big cheese at the 35th celebration, winning 9 Annie Awards. No Win for Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis as OscaR Momentum approaches. >>>
Curious Joe
09-Feb-2008 (2 comments)
In 2008, many of us think that things are getting worse>>>
persian westender
09-Feb-2008 (4 comments)
(…Or the story of a little lonely tree with no solution at the end and possibly no moral)>>>
hooman
08-Feb-2008 (one comment)
DJ and YouTube Star, Hooman is representing his Persian roots and taking to the streets on HoomanTV.>>>

TRAVELERS

River runs through it

River runs through it

Photo essay: Guilin, China

by Shahriar
08-Feb-2008 (8 comments)

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STORY

She brushed her body on my canvas and took a more compromising position

08-Feb-2008 (3 comments)
“Don’t, don’t make a move for a second and let me crush you right on the wall. You’ll pay for invading my privacy in the middle of the night.” I was loudly declaring its death sentence but the fly sitting comfortably on the wall wasn’t scared. It was mocking me with its disgusting compound eyes the very moment I was issuing the death warrant. The second I raised my hand it flew off and insanely crashed its head to the window glass and then circled around the room. I patiently traced it with my eyes>>>

MOSSADEGH

Academic coup

When "great" scholars play a deadly role

08-Feb-2008 (63 comments)
Most of the key players of the 1953 coup have since died, but Ann (Nancy) Lambton is still living in the English countryside. Although she is now very old, she has never publicly acknowledged her role in the 1953 coup. Maybe she is just too ashamed. Ann played a decisive role in the affair. She was the expert and the foreign analyst who advised the British government, worked in high circles and recommended that no compromise with Mossadegh was to take place under any circumstances. She saw Mossadegh as a danger! Yes, indeed he was dangerous to their plans of bloody greed and power. >>>

QUESTIONS

تجربه‌اندوزی از تاریخ

نگاهی گذرا به ریشه‌های قتل‌عام زندانیان در سال‌های ۶۰ و ۶۷

08-Feb-2008 (21 comments)
نگاهی گذرا به تاریخ ربع قرن اخیر کشورمان، نشان‌می‌دهد که نطفه‌ی‌ قتل‌عا م زندانیان سیاسی، در فردای انقلاب بهمن و در اولین ساعت‌های بامداد بیست و ششم بهمن‌ماه در پشت‌بام مدرسه‌ی علوی، با اعدام نعمت‌الله نصیر ی، منوچهر خسروداد ، رضا ناجی و مهدی رحیمی چهارتن از امرای ارتش شاهنشاهی که نقش مهمی در سرکوب و کشتار مردم ایران و نقض گسترده‌ی حقوق بشر به عهده داشتند، بسته شد و پیوسته رو به رشد گذاشت! شاید هم ریشه آن را بتوان به یک هفته قبل از پیروزی انقلاب برگرداند؛>>>
masoudA
08-Feb-2008 (61 comments)
Are we ever going to ? Time to take a stand , not just to save Iran, but America, as well as the World !

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WOMEN

Beyond elite demands

Grass-root efforts to change discriminatory laws

08-Feb-2008 (9 comments)
One of the main criticisms against the Iranian women’s movement is that it advocates for the demands of elite groups and disregards the demands and needs of women at the grassroots. Critics claim that the Iranian women’s movement is an elite movement rather than a grassroots movement, and given the fact that the discourse of elite classes differ from that of the masses, ordinary women cannot participate in this movement. Women’s rights activists in recent years too have heard criticisms that claim that the demands of the women’s movement are in reality the demands of a group of Tehran-based and educated women>>>