POLITICS
A year after Iran's controversial election
by Camelia Entekhabi-Fard
Ayatollah Khamenei's "new face" and stubborn unwillingness to moderate his support for Mr. Ahmadinejad for the sake of the country's nuclear program is moving the future of Iran towards a dangerous direction of confrontation that has prompted members of the opposition and prominent conservatives--most notably Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani--to temper their public accusations of election fraud and alter their strategy to bring about governmental reform
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A short and funny persian version of Snow White.
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NUCLEAR
Obama's letter to Lula exposes US dishonesty
Washington supported mediation by Brazil and Turkey when it did not expect them to succeed and turned its back when they accomplished exactly what the Obama administration said it sought from Iran. The full text of a letter sent by President Obama on April 20, 2010 to President Lula da Silva regarding Brazil's and Turkey's negotiations is now available and we reproduce it here. In the letter, the White House strongly encouraged the intermediaries to negotiate with Iran for a single purpose, namely to persuade the Islamic Republic to send 1200 kg of its low enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for fuel rods for the Tehran Research Reactor
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چونکه انسان دید مرگ خود زِ پیش *** دانش محدود ومجهولات خویش
بیم و امیدش خدا را آفرید *** وز خیالش قدرتی آمد پدید
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POETRY
There is a new species on the scene
Another miracle of evolution
Like you and like me
Black pelicans in a black see
Covered in oil and tar
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The picture you see is Gaza. How many cities in Iran look as nice and plush? But that is not the image everyone in the world sees.
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My review of the new PoP movie and the new released "game" Prince of Persia : The Forgotten Sands. The view ain't pretty
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