Archive - Jun 2009

Academics' Declaration of Support for Iranian Demonstrators

Today the New York-based Campaign for Peace and Democracy circulated the open letter below from academics in support of the demonstrators in Iran>>>

Brutal finale

In 1986, French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam’s car unexpectedly stalled on the steep, narrow roads zigzagging along Kupayeh’s austere mountain ridges, stranding him in the wind-whipped village. Walking among the sand-dusted brick houses, Sahebjam was accosted by a desperate woman, Zahra, who feverishly related a terrifying true story of a village conspiracy involving blackmail, misogyny, and murder. Zahra told the journalist that she, as a woman in Iran, no longer had a voice and she pleaded with him to “take her voice” and tell the world her story. Speaking into Sahebjam’s tape recorder, Zahra recounts the tragedy of her 35-year-old niece, Soraya, who was stoned to death for the crime of adultery, a crime that she did not commit>>>

Neda

Beneath the haloed
circle of lights
the bird of truth
flies over the waves
of blood flowing
like pomegranate juice,
its melancholy song
touching the jasmine >>>

Urgent help request

Someone send me following email: Please share with others... WE NEED YOUR HELP. >>>

همیشه می آیند

 از فراز سر ما می گذرند.
 هوای رفتن دارند،
 پای جهیدن و  بال پریدن.
 از شجاعت و ایثار سرشار اند.
 بیزاراند از بوی تعفن مرداب،
 از  حس ماندن و در جا زدن،
 از مطیع و دلمُرده و سرکوفته زیستن
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ندا

تصویری حک شده
در وجدان زمان
قلب پیر مات شده
از نازکی حیات
که از دست رفت >>>

What Paralyses Mullahs

The domestic consume of gasoline is estimated 75 million litres a day, of which 36 million is imported by India. If the import is stopped, Iran's domestic consummation can be paralysed within a week >>>