Archive - Sep 16, 2009 - Article

نامه به آقای منتظری

در خاکی که امروز بیش از هرچیز دیگری به فرهنگ آزادمنشی ،تحمل دگر اندیشی و مردم سالاری نیاز دارد، کردار شما آقای منتظری، به مراتب سنگین­تر و زیباتر از هر سخنرانی، به برپایی چینن فرهنگی یاری داده و می‌دهد. روز از نو روزی از نو. این بار کودتاگران ۲۲ خرداد روی ساواک را سفید کردند، و شما بار دیگر چراغ بدست به میدانی باز آمدید که هرگز ترکش نکرده بودید. شما حتی در حبس خانگی چند ساله­تان بر علیه استبداد سخن می‌گفتید. خط مشترک و متحد کننده‌ی تمامی آزادی خواهان امروز بر کناری این رژیم استبدادی و قرون وسطایی و بر سر کارآوردن نظامی­ست که از سر تا پایش بر رأی آزادانه‌ی مردم بر قرار باشد>>>

Persia is Iran

I've always considered Reza Shah Pahlavi's 1935 decree requesting that the country formerly known as Persia be referred to as "Iran" by foreign governments with which it had diplomatic relations to be a mistake. Naturally, once governments began to refer to the country as Iran, their citizens followed suit. This change at once led to a severing in the Western consciousness of Iran from the Persian culture of classical antiquity, and also created a situation in which the name of the country can easily become confounded with that of its neighbour and recurrent rival, Iraq, a name which entered the mainstream vocabulary of Western languages only in 1932 with the founding of the Kingdom of Iraq in that year>>>

S&M Iranian Style - Finale

As we followed Manijeh joon up the stairs, I could see she was not wearing underwear and if she was it must have been the transparent kind: a newly arrived model from Victoria’s Secret, her favorite place. Just the thought of her kos-excited outfit (or lack of it) scares me. I just find the whole thing frightening in a weird way. It’s like being in a war zone. At any moment something is going to go wrong. It made me feel edgy and tense and defensive>>>

Follow the Stream

She surrenders to the future
Won't fight her obstacles so grand
Washes off the past and moves on
Getting closer to nature’s chants

She knows her pains are senseless
In greater scheme of things
River beds will show, the years that go
Nothing’s permanent it seems >>>