DEMOCRACY

Voices of Chile

Voices of Chile

Photo essay: I see parallels with my home country, Iran

by Cyrus Omoomian
12-Oct-2011 (5 comments)

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Souri
12-Oct-2011 (29 comments)
This is an interview with Amirkhosravi, Amouee and Issa Safa>>>

RESTRAINT

Spiraling Out of Control

It takes greater courage to stand for restraint than to opt for war

12-Oct-2011 (26 comments)
Simply put, U.S.-Iran tensions have long been a powder keg, overflowing with nuclear programs, human rights abuses, Stuxnet and secret assassinations. And the alleged terror plot against the Saudi Ambassador shows how easily a single incident can spark a wider conflict. Without serious efforts to defuse a crisis that is steadily spiraling out of control, we are on the precipice of a major war in the region. This is why a containment policy can turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy>>>

More than meets the eye...

Fair

Alleged Iran plot could have been trigger for war in Middle East

The Guardian UK / Julian Borger
recommended by Fair
12-Oct-2011 (one comment)
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PLOT

Wait... War?

No legal ground to attack Iran

12-Oct-2011 (9 comments)
Despite what many pundits assert, even if it were established through irrefutable evidence that Iran was indeed behind the foiled plot to assassinate the Saudi’s ambassador to Washington, International law would still not grant the U.S or Saudi Arabia a right to armed reprisal. In fact, even if the assassination attempt had been carried out successfully, it would still have been quite difficult for the State Department’s Legal Adviser to assert ground for a lawful use of force against Iran>>>
shahireh sharif
12-Oct-2011 (one comment)
Photo essay: I woke up to the hubbub of builders talking over the rhythmic noise of hammers. Curiously, I peeped over the edge of the balcony>>>

BUILDING

Nest in the Sky

Nest in the Sky

Photo essay

by shahireh sharif
12-Oct-2011

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REACTION

Does Assassination Justify Sanctions?

Clearly, Iranians aren't suffering enough!

12-Oct-2011 (3 comments)
For at least a solid year now, I have been reading the ridiculous claims (usually quoting academia) about the pointlessness of sanctions. I question this especially today with the more than obvious and ever so clear revelation that Iran has been busted now dead to rights, having plotted, bought and paid for an assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US >>>

MOVEMENT

Where's the Persian Spring?

The struggle for democracy persists

12-Oct-2011 (17 comments)
How has the Islamic Republic of Iran persisted when all indications point to its imminent collapse? Indeed, one of the most stylized facts to emerge from the study of democracy and dictatorship in the last quarter-century involves the robust relationship between a nation’s political elites and its prospects for democracy. As elites become divided in authoritarian regimes, the state becomes increasingly vulnerable to these fissures and inevitably collapses>>>
Anonymous Observer
12-Oct-2011 (50 comments)
It's nothing but IR propaganda. >>>

PRESSURE

می‌توان بی‌تفاوت بود و احساس مسئولیتی نکرد؟

فشار حقوق بشری جامعه جهانی علیه ایران

12-Oct-2011
تنها اقدام جامعه جهانی از طریق نهادهای حکومتی و سازمان ملل ممکن است بتواند تأثیر عملی بر رفتار رژیم ایران بگذارد. از این رو باید از اقدام اخیر اتحادیه اروپا در تحریم کسانی که در نقض حقوق بشر در ایران دست داشته‌اند استقبال کرد، و از جامعه جهانی خواست که این گونه تحریم‌ها را توسعه دهد. هم‌چنین باید برای کشاندن پرونده حقوق بشر رژیم ایران به مراجع بین‌المللی و از جمله شورای امنیت سازمان ملل تلاش کرد>>>
ayatoilet1
12-Oct-2011 (6 comments)
You have to believe everything that is coming out of Obama Administration from now till next November is designed to support his re-election. I mean everything. >>>
Esfand Aashena
12-Oct-2011 (22 comments)
There are going to be belog after belog, article after article, comments after comments on this pelot!  So get yours in before it's too late! >>>
ayatoilet1
12-Oct-2011 (2 comments)
If you listen carefully at what Mormon leaders are saying, there is a subtext to the Republican Front Runner and his future Secretary of State>>>
Fred
12-Oct-2011 (one comment)
مجوز وزارت فرهنگ و ارشاد اسلامی >>>