IRAN

Good old days

We envied the people who lived in the west, especially the United States

17-Jan-2008 (122 comments)
I don’t remember problems when I lived in Iran during the Shah. I remember that we were not wealthy but had everything that we wanted. I guess the reason was that Shah took care of the government employees. My father was a teacher. We lived in a one bedroom apartment, four of us. The school was about 10 minutes from our apartment. At the time I thought that we are living in a backward nation. I thought if we had such happy life in Iran, how life would be in the west, especially in the United States. I envied the kids that were born in the west. To me, going to the west was an impossible dream>>>

DEMOCRATS

Lesser evil

U.S. presidential candidates under the banner of change

17-Jan-2008 (4 comments)
While America's Fuehrer tours the palaces of his moneyed-buddies in the Middle East, ranting incessantly -- and stupidly -- about Iran... and the inconceivable and "personal" promise of regional peace, the present Democratic pretenders to the Pennsylvania Avenue domicile, who also anticipate dominance over a Reichstag just a short jog away, deliver soft blows at each other as if all these non-sense, non-issues really meant anything. Anything relevant, that is, to the chaotic economic and foreign policies that define the sorry state of our nation these days!>>>

MEDIA

Messing with your mind

Europe vs. Iran: Using propaganda for social change

17-Jan-2008 (19 comments)
The propaganda aimed at social change through creating new norms and values is being directed more and more towards children. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, this new target group was selected in an earlier stage, in the early 1980’s when the new babyboom was old enough to go to school and learn about the values of the Islamic Republic. Schoolbooks had changed, resulting in text books with stories derived from the Qoran, carrying values of martyrdom, submission to Islam, our brotherhood with the Palestinians and last but not least the fight of the good (the Islam) against evil (the West)>>>

POETRY

مافیای عشق
17-Jan-2008 (2 comments)
خورشید که میتابد
پاهایم دراز می شود
در شهر دنیا و میگذرد
از مرز تمدن
با خلخالی از گل بوسه های آدمی
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MaryamTabrizi
17-Jan-2008 (6 comments)

Little Iranian kid telling story . . .

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Jahanshah Rashidian
17-Jan-2008 (78 comments)

 

شیطان زاده

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Shaer
17-Jan-2008 (7 comments)

"Self Explanatory".

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Nazy Kaviani
16-Jan-2008 (13 comments)
A Persian Love Story...>>>
SCE Campaign
16-Jan-2008 (26 comments)
The case of Amir Amrollahi, who was sentenced to death at the age of 16 , was sent to be carried out. >>>
Behnam.sezavar
16-Jan-2008
Hasan Rahimpur Azghadi of the Iranian Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution reading letter from Ayatollah Khomeini about exporting the Islamic revolution >>>
Kouroush Sassanian
16-Jan-2008 (12 comments)

Muslims are allowed to engage in deception! Iranians are masters at it!

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David ET
16-Jan-2008 (2 comments)

 و سکوت تماشا  

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ASHOORA

Crying for the camera

Crying for the camera

Photo essay

by MK
16-Jan-2008 (101 comments)

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Orang Gholikhani
16-Jan-2008 (9 comments)
شبی بدنیا آمدم / چندی قب از شب یلد / چه ساعتی نمیدانم / همش سکوت بود >>>
Daryush
16-Jan-2008 (7 comments)
Watch a full show about Tehran broadcast on BBC 4 >>>