Archive - Feb 10, 2012

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Yes they can

Obama's engagement policy has failed. In fact, they support Ayatollah Khamenei's assessment that the core goal of U.S. policy is regime change. The door to rapprochement is closing. To keep it from slamming shut, the United States should declare, without condition, that it does not seek regime change in Tehran. Beyond that, the recognition of several principles is essential to bettering U.S.-Iranian relations after more than 30 bad years>>>

What is AIPAC planning?

These are strange times for those of us who follow the debate about a possible war with Iran. It is clear that the Israeli government and its neoconservative camp followers here in the United States are increasing pressure on President Obama to either attack Iran or let Israel do it (in which case, we would be forced to join in). But the idea of another Middle East war is so outlandish that it seems inconceivable it could actually occur>>>

Q&A with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi on Radio Farda

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran interview on Radio Farda in Prague followed with a Q&A with fellow compatriots. February 10th, 2012 >>>

Human drama buried in politics

The imagery in this Rumi quatrain is actually enacted in a scene in Luna Shad’s documentary, Keys To My Home. The exiled journalist, Neema, shops for a gift for his friend and colleague, Delbar, whose red tape ordeal in Turkey is over and has now started a new phase of the refugee’s bureaucratic nightmare in Paris. “No, not that color, Delbar would never wear it,” says another refugee helping him shop as they sort through various colors on the rack. Colorless, the robe of fortune is my prison>>>

از هذیان شهریار تا هذیان ترکان

بعضی اوقات، ممکنست هذیان های شاعرانه به حقیقت نزدیک باشد

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کار و کسبِ روان

روانشناسی در واقع به نوعی مذهب مدرن شده است و مذهب به اقتضای طبیعتش، چه سنتی و چه مدرن، نه سودای شناختن روان دارد و نه قصد معالجه ی "مجانین" . مذهب سیاهی لشکر می خواهد . هر چه بیشتر بهتر! هر چه فرمانبردارتر مقبول تر! و لشکری که سیاهی صفت بارزه اش باشد جز از سیاهی ها و سردرگمی ها و سرگردانی ها، ره به جائی نمی برد. تا به حال که نبرده است>>>

How to respond to aggression

Teddy Roosevelt's accurate analysis of the beginings of Islam.

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