Islamic "republic" Justice

FG

Iran: Lawyer spent 10 weeks in prison "for nothing"

Los Angeles Times / Ramin Rostaghim and Barzou Daragahi
recommended by FG
02-Sep-2009
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Did a sympathizer write farcical confessions?

FG

Show Trials Not Playing Well With Iranian Public

NPR (National Public Radio) / Corey Flintoff
recommended by FG
02-Sep-2009 (4 comments)
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Powerful at any rate.....

Yaasi

Purge of Iranian Universities Is Feared

The New York Times
recommended by Yaasi
02-Sep-2009
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تلنگر
02-Sep-2009
میدونی این روزا مجلس در آشفتگیه خوش خدمتی به بیت رهبری چه حرکات عجغ وجغی از خودش بروز میده؟>>>
FG
02-Sep-2009
Forced conferssions?  Nonsense!  The regime has an alternate explanation. >>>
fozolie
02-Sep-2009
Murder of Mojahedin in Azarbijan by Russian Troops >>>

US employers are cheating their workers

Shah Ghollam

Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated, Study Says

NY Times / NY TImes
recommended by Shah Ghollam
02-Sep-2009 (one comment)
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FG
02-Sep-2009 (3 comments)
Even as conservatives trumpet Khamenei's alleged "concessions," new excesses show his incorrigibility >>>

مرتضوی در مراسم تودیع

“arbitrary” arrests of journalists

TelevisionWashington.com

Iran press freedom defender slams “arbitrary” arrests of journalists

TelevisionWashington.com / WashingtonTV
02-Sep-2009
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Nabarz
02-Sep-2009 (4 comments)
Mighty Anahita with splendor will shine,Incarnated as a youthful divine.Full of charm her beauty she will display,Her hip with charming belt she will array>>>

IRAN

Restless dream

Whither this land that has touched my soul?

02-Sep-2009 (7 comments)
I have wondered in recent weeks why Iran has touched me so deeply. I have travelled to 25 countries in my life. In all of them, I have marveled at various aspects of culture, history and natural beauty. And yet this 25th country I visited, Iran, has touched me more than all others. It is a land that has haunted my dreams, touched my soul, and shifted my consciousness. Little did I know that, after visiting Iran, I would never be the same again. From unexpectedness came an appreciation inexpressible by frail words>>>

STORY

The Ascension (2)

When Nader stood up, his eyes glowed a wild red

02-Sep-2009 (5 comments)
This rare creature used to hang out at our house a lot. He wasn’t welcome anywhere else because he made other parents uncomfortable. And for good reason. When children played with him, someone always lost a shoe, fell off a bicycle, broke a tooth, or was stung by a scorpion. But my mother was impractically softhearted and couldn’t bear to see the child rejected like this. She felt sad to see Nader placed in the social outhouse from the very moment of his birth. I was born in a hospital, so instead of the outhouse, I was taken to a nursery. Yet even that wasn’t good enough for my mother>>>

SIGHEH

درسهای استانیسلاوسکی

مشدی کاملاً گیج شده بود. عطرتن دختره تمام فضای بقالی را پر کرده بود.

02-Sep-2009 (2 comments)
مشدی عباد اندکی در خود فرو رفت. 15 میلیون پول زیادی بود. ولی وقتی به یاد گل چهره افتاد، دوباره سینه اش آتش گرفت. سرش را پائین انداخت و چشمانش را بست. قباد منتظر ایستاد. مشدی عباد به روی خودش نیاورد. قباد این بار با متانت خاصی قدم پیش گذاشت و گفت: میروم با گل چهره بر گردم. یک تاکسی برایمان بگیر تا برویم منزل تو. البته من وسط راه پیاده می شوم. ولی ... سکوتی برقرار شد. مشدی خوب میدانست که قباد میخواهد موضوع پول حل و فصل شود. مشدی عباد با مهارت یک بازاری مکار از صحبت در باره پول واهمه داشت. خودش را به کوچه علی چپ زد>>>

GHOST

Jen

Jen

We were told that her house was the primary residence of Jens and their immediate families

02-Sep-2009 (2 comments)
My ominous association with ghosts goes back to my early childhood years. Aunt Sedighe my father’s youngest sister lived in Shoushtar, one of the oldest cities in the world, dating back to Achaemenian dynasty (400 BC). Shoushtar used to be the winter capital of Sassanian dynasty and it was built by the Karoun River. The river was channeled to form a trench around the city. A subterranean system called ghanats connected the river to the private reservoirs of houses and buildings, supplied water during times of war when the main gates were closed. The ruins of these ghanats still exist and one was connected to Aunt Sedighe’s house where my cousins and I explored if we dared to>>>