WAR

What will you do after America destroys Iran?

Do whatever you can to prevent this from happening

18-Sep-2007 (29 comments)
TEHRAN, Iran -- What’s the connection between; the theft of the 2000 Gore-Bush election, Cheney’s secret meeting with oil executives, September 11th 2001, the invasion of Iraq, and plans for destroying Iran’s military defenses and setting it’s economy back 50 years? The connection is Peak Oil. If you have not figured this out and are still lost in your hatred for the mullahs, or still worshiping the Pahlavi’s, or are part of the Rajavi cult, then you are in for a very rude awakening.>>>

NOOSH E JAAN

Got food?

God bless ‘Sprinkles’ of Los Angeles and ‘Kara’s Cupcakes’ in San Francisco for introducing such sinful cakes into my life

18-Sep-2007 (4 comments)
Sunshine fills the living room of a deluxe apartment in sunny Santa Monica, California, as I sit here enjoying the remaining 4 days of my vacation. Watching ‘Mystic Pizza’ with Julia Roberts (Circa 1988), with occasional mysterious clicking sounds coming from what I presume to be the sink area. I’m hungry. I begin to think what I could whip-up using the few ingredients available in the home of a young, high-protein eating, married couple who tend to eat out a majority of the time….Not much to work with, I can tell you. Having been granted free reign over the kitchen by my generous hosts, I am allowed to do as I wish in their exquisite kitchen>>>

BLISS

Charkh-o-Falak

Summer days in Tehran

18-Sep-2007 (one comment)
The big Charkh-o-Falak was visible from our small kitchen window, where I would sit for hours during the long summer afternoons and evenings of Tehran in the 1980's. I watched the kids on the streets play soccer or just look at the Charkh-o-Falak, be lost in its magic, hoping that my Dad would come home any minute after work and take me there. I can still hear the happy screams of children who were riding the big Charkh-o-Falak. >>>
Darius Kadivar
18-Sep-2007 (one comment)
Marjane Satrapi's Animated Movie Persepolis has been a Box Office Summer Hit in France with more than 1 Million viewers to date and Heads to the 2007 European Film Academy (EFA) and is a possible Contender to the American 80th Oscar Ceremonies in 2008... >>>

RIGHTS

 توجیه آپارتاید دینی ایران

اظهارات اخیر محمد جواد لاریجانی

18-Sep-2007 (8 comments)
آقای لاریجانی اگر زحمت زیادی نیست محبت بفرمائید و در پیشگاه اهل تحقیق و صاحبنظران و در فضای باز اینترنت نشان بدهید در کدامین برهه و کدام مورد بهائیان با "کسانی که با جان و مال مردم این سرزمین تعرض می کنند" "دوستی و مهربانی و عدم سخت گیری" نشان داده اند؟ در کدام زمان و مکان زنان بهائی در روابط جنسی متعدد "آزادانه" عمل کرده اند. آیا بی بند و باری جنسی و فساد اخلاقی بی سابقه کنونی ایران نتیجه سیاستگذاری و روشهای بهائی است یا آموزه های اسلامی؟ چرا پس از بیش از ربع قرن حکومت اسلامی فحشا و اعتیاد در ایران بی داد می کند>>>
Sophie
17-Sep-2007

She feels a butterfly in her stomach;

B-Complex doesn't fix it - her heart aches when she thinks of him!

She experiences anxiety and breathing hard;

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Sophie
17-Sep-2007 (10 comments)
I just got off the phone. It has happened again! It's not new anymore and I am not surprised! She dumped him since she decided she doesn't want to share him with another woman! Tough decision though as she likes him very much!It seems like a trend these days: Iranian men have lost their place, they don't have the role of a provider anymore, they don't have the power of a family man. They have lost their place in the society! Iranian men are confused! Those with money have found a way out: polygamy - Iranian Style!>>>

OPIUM

ا ز تهران تا تورنتو

تریاک همچنان قربانی می گیرد

17-Sep-2007 (2 comments)
با دستگیری ( عادل _ الف) 48 ساله ساکن تورنتو در فرودگاه پیرسون (1) به اتهام همراه داشتن و وارد کردن 8/3 کیلو گرم تریاک به کانادا یک پرونده دیگر به لیست قاچاقچیان تریا ک اضافه شد و بار دیگر وسوسه پولدار شدن سریع یک نفر را به زندان انداخت . د رهر حال از انجا که این دستگیری اولین مورد نبوده و آخرین ان هم نخواهد بود بهتر است که کمی به این پدیده خانمانسوز که راه خود را از شرق به غرب همراه عده کمی از مهاجرین ناخلف باز کرده است بپردازیم .
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Borumand_M
17-Sep-2007
Alan Turing in 1950 suggested thatwe can tell apart a computer from a human for the fact that a computer can not deceive us! So there seems to be a fundamental divergence atleast at the individual level between intelligence and morality?! To put it bluntly, being honest is morally difficult but intelligently easy!>>>

POINT

Worse than Islamic fundamentalism

Aryanism, a threat to Iran and the region

17-Sep-2007 (58 comments)
Western governments, especially the US administration, must think many times before wishing for the annihilation of the Iranian Islamic government. Although the IRI is a relatively dangerous one it has not proved yet prepared to do anything serious other than annoying Israel. Such fundamentalist regimes are usually more in danger of implosion than being destroyed by an outside force, so time may just be enough to solve what is seen as an imminent threat. The same also happened with Communism, which was far more dangerous than Iranian Islamism. Many Iranians, and Westerners alike, hating the Islamic regime of Iran, for simply being Islamic, do not contemplate about what is going to replace it.>>>
persianwind
17-Sep-2007 (2 comments)
Midoni bad az 8 sal eanja bodan baram neshanehai uon var ea hokme dige pida kardeh.bazie vaghta migam beza az daftarm raj bezanam harfae rou ke ta hala hichkas neshnedeh?! ama shayad na!! beza az ean be bad benvisam az ghablesh v az halash... >>>

PEOPLE

Poetry in portraits

Poetry in portraits

Photo essay: Iranians in the countryside

by Shiva Tadayoni
17-Sep-2007 (7 comments)

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FOOTBALL

My favorite sport

Interview with Reza Pahlavi

17-Sep-2007 (100 comments)
I have to say that football (or soccer, as it is called here) was definitely my favorite team sports. I played the game, along with my classmates, during most of our school years. I would not be exaggerating if I said that we played over 250 days a year! I have many good memories of playing; not only with my classmates, but also joining an impromptu game with people I would meet during my travels around the country. For instance, playing with locals on Kish Island, our in an Air Force base in Ahvaz, or some village kids in Kalardasht. The best memories are from the practice sessions we used to have in Sa’ad Abbad with members of the Iranian National Team!>>>

ARCHITECT

Love at first site

It’s like playing Tetris in three dimensions all day long

17-Sep-2007
I had waited for this moment for a long time - ever since I was a little boy, my father would take me to construction sites. I have vivid memories of the slender, brown, glazed tiles in the stairwell of the seven story office building my father built in Tehran more than thirty years ago. I have vague recollections of him and his architect trying to figure out how to add a second basement after the building was nearly completed - something which they did while everyone held their breath. I remember going to pick out land with my parents and my sister for a house in a new development west of the city - Tract 103. I remember going to the Design Architect’s office with my dad. >>>

EMAILS

Infinity

I plan to write a whole bunch of new e-mails before I depart

17-Sep-2007 (2 comments)
Writers often talk about the urge to write their sudden inspirations on whatever comes handy, and frankly, I don’t really care to know how many bestsellers were conceived on a roll of toilet paper. I never experienced such urge, at least not until 4:00 a.m. this morning. Amid allergies that made breathing impossible and reminded me of imminent mortality, a sudden discovery flashed in my mind. Millions of visions of what may come once we die appeared before me, none of which had to do with sorrow, fear, or even regret. In fact, it was a most optimistic moment, so uplifting that by 4:11 I was out of bed and at my computer.>>>