The Fascist regime spying on Yemen

Farhad Kashani

Yemenis Convicted of Spying for Iran

The Media Line
recommended by Farhad Kashani
01-Apr-2009
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hossein.hosseini
01-Apr-2009 (2 comments)
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, 'Common Sense', who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. >>>

Will Obama Support The Yabu?

capt_ayhab

Obama Leaves Israel as 'Lone Ranger’ in Nuclear Iran

Israel National News / Hana Levi Julian
recommended by capt_ayhab
01-Apr-2009 (one comment)
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is he a maniac?

Jahanshah Javid

Will Netanyahu attack Iran?

Haaretz / Aluf Benn
recommended by Jahanshah Javid
01-Apr-2009 (35 comments)
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CELEBRATION

Nowruz in New York

Nowruz in New York

photo essay: 5th annual Persian Parade

by javad fakharzadeh
01-Apr-2009 (23 comments)

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Empires Duplicity

smhb

The secrets of Obama's surge

LA Times / Pepe Escobar
recommended by smhb
01-Apr-2009 (one comment)
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bitamg
01-Apr-2009
“An imaginative and engaging history of Tehran that uses a petulant barbed humor to deliver a steady stream of irony about this drastically transformed society.”  —Variety >>>
capt_ayhab
01-Apr-2009 (2 comments)
A Man who was arrested for forcible rape, was cleared of charges because he claimed he was seduced by the devil>>>

Religious Prosecution

babak pirouzian

Iranian couple's Journey to freedom fulfilled

The Globe and Mail / Janes Armstrong
recommended by babak pirouzian
01-Apr-2009 (2 comments)
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faryarm
01-Apr-2009 (16 comments)
زندگی بهائیان در ایران یک مهلکه و مخاطرهی دائمی است. تلاش مداومی است برای رسیدن به مقام و جایگاه انسانی. بیائیم دورنمای تازه ای از زیبایی آزادی و عدالت حقوقی در مقابل دیدگان خود و آنان بگستریم.>>>

TALKS

Expect major catfights

The Iran-U.S. rapprochement dance

01-Apr-2009 (8 comments)
The Obama administration's recent overtures for a reconciliation with Iran have come in the form of sweet talk of opening up of fisted hands, accompanied with a quotation from the wily and clever Sa'di, one of our more popular poets (1184-1283?). The initial Iranian responses to these Obama overtures are starting to resemble the coy Iranian bride's ladylike silence upon first being asked if she would take the man. Initial reactions from the Iranian government were predictable rebukes and denunciations to the effect that nothing has changed in reality, that the Americans should draw some lessons from their past and present behavior if they really want better relations with Iran>>>

ELECTIONS

The contender

Tehran Mayor Ghalibaf resigns, then withdraws resignation

01-Apr-2009 (10 comments)
Sometimes news takes time to get out of Iran - particularly when it comes to internal strife in the upper political echelons. But eventually, major clashes leak out. This week the news emerged that Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the mayor of Tehran and Ahmadinejad's main rival in the Osulgarayn (Principalist) movement, resigned from his post just before the end of the previous Persian calendar year - approximately March 18 or 19. A number of days later, he was reinstated to his job after his resignation was rejected by senior officials, most likely the supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei.>>>

HYPOCRISY

What is happening to us?

Are we programmed to forgive our own tormentors and only raise our voices against “outsiders”?

01-Apr-2009 (3 comments)
Whenever the victim(s) is Muslim and the aggressor not, the probability of Muslim outrage is exponentially far greater than when both are Muslims. When there is a role reversal that is the aggressor is Muslim and victim is not this observation does not hold. For example lets take the case of the eight year war the late Saddam Hussein started and imposed on Iran. Although no reliable statistics exists, the number of victims are put at anywhere between one to two million. That is one to two million victims with zest for life, beloved families and unfulfilled dreams who overwhelmingly were Muslim>>>

BLOGGERS

«قانون جرایم رایانه‌ای»

سركوب وبلاگ‌نویسان گسترش می‌یابد

01-Apr-2009 (14 comments)
در هفته‌های اخیر موج وسیعی از سركوب وبلاگ‌نویسان به راه افتاده است. در روزهای آخر سال گذشته، اطلاعیه شدید اللحنی از سوی «مرکز بررسی جرائم سازمان یافته اینترنتی» وابسته به سپاه پاسداران منتشر شد كه از برخورد سازمان یافته و با بهره‌گیری از پیش‌رفته‌ترین فن‌آوری‌ها برای كنترل نشر اینترنتی حكایت می‌كرد. در این اطلاعیه گفته شده بود كه ده‌ها سایت و وبلاگ «ضد دینی» و «ضد اخلاقی» بسته شده و ۱۸ نفر بازداشت شده‌اند. در همان روزها خبر فوت مشكوك وبلاگ‌نویس امیررضا میر صیافی در زندان اوین منتشر شد و گزارش‌های بعدی شائبه قتل او در زندان را تقویت كرد. و اكنون «معاونت مبارزه با جرایم خاص و رایانه ای» در نیروی انتظامی، وبلاگ ‌نویسان را با ارسال یك «هشدار» بی‌سابقه مورد تهدید قرار داده است>>>

POETRY

Nowruz in exile
01-Apr-2009 (13 comments)
I stitch
my skirt
to the spring
of the hostess city,
my skin to the
reminiscence
of springs past
in my city of birth,
and I celebrate
the new year's feast,
Nowruz, on Cyberspace! >>>