Archive - 2010

جشنهای ایران باستان

همه می دانیم که ایرانیان قدیم جشنهای بسیاری داشتند اما به جز چند جشن معروف مانند نوروز و مهرگان و سده ، آگاهی چندانی از دیگر جشنهای پیش از اسلام نداریم>>>

آیا امشب میکنه، یا فردا میکنه، یا پس فردا؟

به جای این روضه‌های صد تا یه غاز، برید به اون ارباب‌های آخوندتون بگین که دست از صدام حسین بازی‌، تروریست پروری‌، آدمکشی و تجاوز ور دارند، تا لازم نباشه از ترس و لرز مجبور باشند که هر شب تو بغل موشک سی‌ متری و زیر بمب صد کیلو تنی بخوابند>>>

Mosaddegh and the Shah

Mosaddegh could not win our support - when needed – because he could not convince the rest of us that his cause was ours. Despite their colossal differences, in this regard at least, he and the Shah were similar>>>

پرسپولیس ، پرسپولیس

آهنگ پرسپولیس با صدای شادروان فرزین برای طرفداران تیم پرسپولیس در دهه ۵۰. >>>

WORLDS APART…BUT UNITED IN VISION

On August 14, several Canadians (and non-Canadians) hiked to the top of Grouse Mountain, a popular Vancouver attraction>>>

د ره ی پلنگ

از قلب جا ده ها و ز انبوه مرغزار>>>

Predicting War

Is there a happier journalist last week than The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg? So much ink has been spilled discussing, critiquing, and debating Jeffrey Goldberg's Iran piece, a calculation of the very high probability of an Israeli military strike against Iran in the coming year, you'd think Goldberg was determining Iran policy himself. All this is set against a backdrop of right-wing hysteria over the mosque in lower Manhattan and the supposed failure of liberals to understand the true nature of the threat of Islamofascism>>>

Going Critical

At a ceremony this Saturday near the southern Iranian coastal city of Bushehr, Russia will begin the process of loading fuel rods into Iran's first civilian nuclear reactor. Theoretically distinct from the rest of the regime's disturbing nuclear program, the Bushehr plant nevertheless remains a major international concern. The low-enriched uranium in the fuel rods would, if diverted, substantially increase Iran's existing stock of the material, which many suspect is already being used to develop nuclear weapons>>>