Archive - Apr 2010

Theocracy vs. Democracy

Today, there is a serious discourse among Iranian intellectuals, secularists as well as religiously minded ones, about whether Iran should have a secular government or continue on a more moderate path of religious democracy. This discussion is even more relevant after the rise of the Green movement. Should a semi- religious state evolve if and when the concept of Velayat-e- Faqih is gone? I think that advocates of the idea of a religious state, members of Washington think-tanks or scholars, are mistaken to advise their governments that Iran is better off under religious rule>>>

Killer candidate

The Islamic Republic of Iran, in a provocative act, has announced its candidacy for the United Nation Human Rights Council, a UN organization based in Geneva. The candidacy of Iran comes at a time that during the last 10 months, Iranians are experiencing one of the darkest periods of human rights violations since 1979 revolution. The candidacy of Iran for the UN Human Rights Council is comparable to electing apartheid South Africa to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination>>>

Sherlock Holmes’ Daughter (1)

Sherlock Holmes didn’t look the same the second time he came to my dreams. How old was I the first time he visited? Let’s piece the clues together. It was the night we saw The Hound of the Baskervilles. I was able to sit still in a theater, but my kid brother hadn’t been born yet. That means I was around six years old. There’s more. My parents were getting along, or we wouldn’t be going to the movies together. That narrows it down to a particular week in the October of that year. Yes, it was during this happy week that Holmes came to my dreams and gravely predicted a murder>>>

Kristallnacht

The present poem recounts the horrible events of that nightmare of a night in a quasi-delirious, almost hallucinatory fashion The brackets designate those moments when the observer pauses the narrative to loudly protest the painful scenes, which are taking place before the eyes.>>>

Fright

During a bumpy ride
I took the chance of
holding your hand in mine.

It was cold and white,
and only trembled
as you looked up surprised
>>>

My Trip to Vietnam

As soon as I landed in Vietnam, I was greatly attracted to that place>>>

Sanctions is IRI's best friend! Cannot survive without it!

Active neutrality is the best weapon for the US against the regime. Sanctions and the threat of military attack is the life line for the regime without which it cannot survive>>>

خلقيات ما ايرانيان" به قلم روانشاد محمد علی جمال زاده

آنچه در زیر میخوانید شرح احوال ما بعنوان ایرانی البته به عقیده مرحوم استاد محمد علی جمالزاده می باشد >>>

دنباله مرگ کبوتر سفید و ( دوست سبز پوش من)

ولی واقعا اگر تو به لباس راهبه در آیی آنطور که من ترا مجسم میکنم باز بسیار زیبا خواهی بود >>>

بچه بابی آهای سگ بابی. بچه مسلمون آهای بچه سید بچه آخوند. خارجوی؟

ناصر میگفت من وقتی یاد گذشته و این کلمات بچه بابی سگ بابی میافتم راستی که بعد از شصت سال هنوز به تن من رعشه میافتد>>>

First Iranians who founded the First System of Postal Services

Reliable evidences indicate that the first regular postal system in the world was established in ancient Iran where the horse-riders and horse-drawn wagons carried mail. >>>

Turning off fire in Tehran

The bad level of readiness and cooperation in Iran>>>