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Iran and the Nuclear Weapons Club
by Patricia DeGennaro
The very countries calling on Iran to scrap their nuclear program are armed to the teeth with their own nuclear weapons. The United States, the United Kingdom, France and Israel are all nuclear powers. Germany, the Netherlands and the rest of the NATO countries are "sharers" of nukes kindly supplied to them by the US. Together they could destroy all of mankind ensuring that no life will exist on this planet for, lets say, the next several million millenniums
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CONFRONTATION
Why it is NOT a good idea
Some of us seek to argue for a soft landing for US-Iran relations through things like serious mutually beneficial and peaceful dialog, and discussion, and well, for lack of the these days rarely used term, diplomacy. Having seen how entrenched Iran is after 32 years. If there was a chance to overthrow the current system and move it back on track to democracy, I think a pragmatic, less idealistic person would say, that time has passed
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WEST
by Barbara Slavin
The Islamic Republic of Iran is now more isolated than it has been since the 1980s, but it also has a greater capacity to respond in ways that could disrupt the world economy - affecting the price and supply of oil, for example. Iran has more mature asymmetric capabilities to carry out acts of violence abroad through groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. And it has more missiles that could attack Saudi oil fields, as well as a steadily growing stockpile of partially enriched uranium that could be turned into nuclear weapons if Iran so chose
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Terry Jones of the Monty Python Band is also a History Enthusiast. In a Documentary for British TV called "The Barbarians", he introduces us to Rome's Enemies: Here Come the Parthians, Enjoy
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Simorgh and Zal animation circa 1977. 2D animation. Sublime
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As unbelievable as it may seem, the Greens may run again in the next presidential election because of one man.
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FREE SPEECH
بیانیهء جمعی از شاعران ،نویسندگان و کوشندگان سیاسی برای دفاع از آزادی بیان
by Supporters of Free Speech
ابراز نظر علی میرفطروس، پژوهشگر تاریخ ایران دربارهی حکومت و براندازی آن بشکل جراحی نظامی، بهانهای برای «منتقدان شرمگین» رژیم شده است. این گرگانِ در لباس میش - به عمد - از درک کُنه نوشتهی این چهرهی سرشناس ادبی و فرهنگی ناتوان میمانند تا بتوانند چراغهای سبز چشمکزنشان را از دور و نزدیک برای حکومت روشن کنند. بساط توطئه، ترور شخصیتی، جوسازی و خاکپاشی به چشم مردم را میگسترانند و با فریاد «واسلاما»، «وامیهنا» به ترویج تفتیش و سانسور آن هم درجهان آزاد میپردازند
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Today I was informed that security forces went to his home where he lived with his wife and young boy, and took him to prison
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Creating fictitious wars.
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