Paymaneh Amiri
09-Jan-2009 (17 comments)

Love talks, hate walks, or it should.

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Israel on deathbed

Q

UN: Ceasefire Call Ignored; The Miseries of Settler Colonialism

Informed Comment / Juan Cole
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09-Jan-2009 (one comment)
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bjnicnafs
09-Jan-2009 (one comment)
"خواجه نصیر الدین " دانشمند یگانهی روزگار در بغداد مرا درسی آموخت که همه ی درسبزرگان در همه ی زندگانیم برابر آن حقیر مینماید و آن این است : >>>

Egyptian Legend

smhb
qudsdaily.com
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09-Jan-2009 (3 comments)
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Souri
09-Jan-2009 (one comment)
در تهران دوباره برف بارید>>>
Orang Gholikhani
09-Jan-2009 (3 comments)
برف میبارد امروز
میروم آهسته با شک >>>
Shorts
09-Jan-2009 (one comment)
When the shovel arm hits the overpass, how fast do you have to be going to slice the bridge in half?>>>
friskycatdad
09-Jan-2009 (one comment)
My Friends Need Help
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Thank you Avi

Jahanshah Javid

How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe

Guardian / Avi Shlaim
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09-Jan-2009 (10 comments)
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IRAN

Voting in the Dark

Iranians want change but have not yet figured out a way to create change

09-Jan-2009 (10 comments)
In a few months Iran will hold presidential elections, which most likely will result in Ahmadinejad remaining as president. This will not be due to an expression of what the majority of Iranians want but due to the fact that there still remains a slight chance that Iran will be attacked. After America invaded Iraq preparations were made within the Iranian power structure for war, and this included installing Revolutionary Guard hardliners throughout government organizations, with Ahmadinejad being the most visible. Essentially a shadow military junta has been created so as to back up the theocracy in the event Iran has to go on a war footing>>>

MEDIA

Welcome new source

Launching BBC Persian TV

09-Jan-2009 (25 comments)
We finally had some good news: BBC Persian TV, the second professional news and television program, is slated to launch by the end of this month. Many of the journalists and editors of PTV -- as the BBC refers to it -- are my old friends and colleagues and most of them have no TV background. But there is no need for panic, the BBC always offers the best (or one of the best) training programs. Almost all of the 140 PTV employees have now completed their courses on TV journalism. BBC PTV has only one rival: VOA Persian, news and feature programs run by VOA out of Washington. DC, but many experts believe the quality and content of the VOA programs do not meet BBC standards>>>

REZA SHAH

British, Persian or German?

An illiterate bully who soon became intoxicated with power

09-Jan-2009 (39 comments)
Reza Shah truly instigated the wide ranging modernization of Iran from a filthy, backward and lawless shell-of-an-state, to a functioning and advancing society. With the new roads and trucks, the all too frequent famines of the earlier twentieth century disappeared. Under the new army’s watchful eyes, bandits and tribes could no longer rob the caravans or invade towns and villages. The new schools and colleges gave hope and purpose to many youths for a better future and the flourishing of their talents. Emancipation of women encouraged that half of the population to play a more active role in public life. Municipal modernizations, public health initiatives and vaccinations, lowered the infant and general mortality rates and provided a brighter outlook for young families. >>>
Niloufar Parsi
09-Jan-2009 (119 comments)
what is the solution to the incredible carnage in Gaza? >>>

Holocaust Denied

Monda

The Lying Silence of those who know

AntiWar.com
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09-Jan-2009
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