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CHARLATANS
26-Jul-2009
Iran's Non-President Mamuti has said he is sorry that "some people do not know" his side-kick, Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, the well-known "friend of the peoples of America and Israel". Most people, of course, would thank God they've never had to get to know a charlatan who can make Mamuti look honest and educated. Mamuti, who appointed Essi as his top adviser after Khamenei took extraordinary action to prevent him from becoming vice president, says he likes him "for one thousand reasons." People would normally say "one thousand and one reasons"; but of course Mamuti is not normal.>>>
POETRY
26-Jul-2009
Abraham, walk me through the fire
Past fear, and desire
Lead me up into the mountain
Show me the eternal fountain
Teach me not to shudder
Introduce me to my brother >>>
Past fear, and desire
Lead me up into the mountain
Show me the eternal fountain
Teach me not to shudder
Introduce me to my brother >>>
23-Jul-2009 (8 comments)
I am part Iranian, part Danish. Mention of my Iranian blood stops people in their tracks these days. It used to be something that most outside our San Francisco bubble avoided. "Iranian". Not anymore. The world is watching, not enough, but the world is finally watching. So people want to know how I feel. What is this conflict about? How am I impacted as an Iranian woman? Yes, they hear the catch word of the day, "Iranian", and they want to know how I feel. Hm. I was on Facebook the moment the video of the now-well-known-then-unknown-and-nameless-woman Neda's death was released. I watched her die>>>
PRESSURE
23-Jul-2009 (3 comments)
نظام در خود متناقض جمهوری اسلامی ایران دچار شدیدترین بحران هویتی خود در طول حیات سی‌ساله‌اش شده است. این نظام بر اساس تلفیق دو مفهوم متناقض «جمهوریت» مبتنی بر رأی و انتخاب جمهور مردم و «اسلامیت» كه حاكمیت را از آن خدا و «نمایندگان» او بر روی زمین می‌داند شكل گرفته است. تناقض این مفاهیم در قانون اساسی این نظام جابجا متبلور است. علاوه بر این، تأكید بر این مفاهیم متناقض در مواضع و گفتارهای مراجع این نظام و به خصوص آیت‌الله خمینی فراوان دیده می‌شود. دو گفته مشهور او، یعنی «میزان، رأی ملت است»، و این كه اگر مصلحت نظام اقتضا كند می‌توان (نه فقط رأی مردم و بلكه) حتا اصول دین را هم تعطیل كرد، از نمونه‌های آشكار آن است. این تركیب متناقض البته پایدار نبود و روزی خواه ناخواه از درون ترك بر می‌داشت. و ترك امروز پیش آمده است. >>>
UPRISING
23-Jul-2009 (12 comments)
More than one month has passed since the ruling faction of the Islamic Republic tried to silence all voices of dissent by rigging the election results and staging a semi coup-d’etat. By now it looks like a large portion of young Iranians have come to share the views that many intellectuals and progressive forces have had since before the elections: a regime which is founded on injustice and fear is not reformable; a view that reflects the realities of the streets of Iran today. Meanwhile, the so-called reformists and their supporters outside Iran, who had received a severe blow on the night of the elections, saw their game of haggling within the system completely crushed and ruled out by the Supreme Leader>>>
POINT
23-Jul-2009
بعد از چانه زدنها و بگیر و ببند های بی حساب و کتاب و فراوان که سالها در جمهوری اسلامی رواج داشته، و بعد از برگزاری انتخاباتهای کوچک و بزرگی که در آنها همیشه لیستهای منتخبین شامل نامهای مورد تائید از سوی امام زمان بوده که از صندوق بیرون میآمد، بالاخره در چند روز گذشته یک نفر پیدا شد وقضیه را برای همه روشن کرد که همه اینها زیر سر چه کسی است! حضرت آیت الله محمد یزدی که در طول سه دهه گذشته با مواضع و رفتار بسیار روشن خود در پشت حزب الله، کاملا روشن کرده بود که به هیچ چیزی کمتر از حکومت الله بر روی زمین رضایت نمیدهد و در این راه از صدور هیچگونه فتوا و پشتیبانی از انجام هیچگونه عمل خبیثانه مانند قتلهای زنجیره ای خودداری نخواهد کرد، بالاخره خیال همه را راحت کرد و گفت که حکومت اسلامی مشروعیتش از خداست و اصلا نیازی به "مقبولیت" از طرف خلق خدا ندارد>>>
POETRY
23-Jul-2009 (2 comments)
We're all innocent, yes we are
The soldier shooting at the innocent in fright
The woman riding in the back of a police car
The rapist that got his heart filled with envy, with filth
The heartless tycoons who built weapons to feed their greed
The little girl raped and left on the sidewalk
The children who play in the pool to cool off from the heat >>>
The soldier shooting at the innocent in fright
The woman riding in the back of a police car
The rapist that got his heart filled with envy, with filth
The heartless tycoons who built weapons to feed their greed
The little girl raped and left on the sidewalk
The children who play in the pool to cool off from the heat >>>
NUCLEAR
21-Jul-2009 (2 comments)
After nearly a month of international focus on the civil unrest in Iran following the June 12 presidential elections, the G8 summit in Italy brought renewed global attention to Iran's nuclear program; the summit's leaders promised to reassess international outreach to Iran at the September G20 meeting in Pittsburgh. The following statements from U.S., European, and Israeli government officials on the status of Iran's nuclear program highlight the differing interpretations of Iran's nuclear deadline>>>
VIEW
21-Jul-2009 (3 comments)
The burst of publicity on the Iranian people’s peaceful freedom fighting has proven to be not always so peaceful through our television and laptop screens. In my house, such broadcasts are particularly poignant. YouTube videos are playing throughout the house, surrounding my parents and me with the sounds and struggles of the Iranian people’s bittersweet cries. We’re also surrounding ourselves with the sounds of loving and creative solidarity events like poetry readings and musical collaborations from all across the globe. Sometimes it feels like it’s all right here in my living room, right here in America>>>
DOWNFALL
21-Jul-2009 (3 comments)
آقای هاشمی که عمری است با توسل به حیله گری و قساوت، نظام و مرکزیت خود را در آن حفظ کرده است، با سرمستی ناشی از سی سال بر اریکه قدرت نشینی، قادر نیست که به این مسئله ی اساسی معترف شود که این مرتبه، این مردمند که تصمیم خواهند گرفت و به هیچ چیزی کمتر از برقراری عدالت و استقرار دموکراسی در ایران رضایت نخواهند داد. ولو او و دیگر سران نظام هم نخواهند که مانند شاه اعتراف کنند که ((صدای انقلاب ملت را شنیده اند))، این انقلاب آغاز شده است. خیزش جاری مردم فقط یک ((بحران)) گذرا نیست که با به مشهد رفتن آقای هاشمی و تجدید ((بیعت)) با علمای طرفدارش برطرف شود. آنچه در ایران در جریان است، یک انقلاب قوی مسالمت آمیز برای احیای غرور ملی پایمال شده ایرانیان است>>>
REFORMISTS
21-Jul-2009 (4 comments)
تا آنجا که من خبر دارم و خوانده ام، آقای محسن مخملباف در این چند هفته، دوبار به پارلمان اروپا دعوت شده، بار اول به همراهی خانم ساتراپی و بار دوم به احتمالی تنها. در این هر دوبار، آقای محسن مخملباف نه از ایده ها و آرمان های من در مورد ایران حرفی زد، که چنین قراری هم نبوده است، و نه به اعتقاد من از این فرصت بسیار مناسبی که به دست آورد، استفاده ی کافی کرد تا در مورد اوضاع اخیر در ایران، به وسعت تظاهرات بی باکانه و تحسین برانگیز مردم در خیابان های تهران و شهرهای دیگر ایران، و به وسعت هزینه ای که مردم برای این شهامت خود پرداخته اند، روشنگری کرده باشد. از جمله ی این کمبودها، یکی هم استفاده ی خانم ساتراپی از یک سند جعلی علیه حکومت اسلامی در پارلمان اروپا بود>>>
MOSHIRI
21-Jul-2009
اى خشمِ به جان تاخته، توفانِ شرر شو
اى بغضِ گل انداخته، فريادِ خطر شو
اى روىِ برافروخته, خود پرچمِ ره باش
اى مشتِ برافراخته, افراخته ترشو
اى حافظِ جانِ وطن، از خانه برون آى
از خانه برون چيست كه از خويش به در شو >>>
اى بغضِ گل انداخته، فريادِ خطر شو
اى روىِ برافروخته, خود پرچمِ ره باش
اى مشتِ برافراخته, افراخته ترشو
اى حافظِ جانِ وطن، از خانه برون آى
از خانه برون چيست كه از خويش به در شو >>>
OUTLOOK
19-Jul-2009 (17 comments)
If the system continues on its current path of humiliating the free minded and modern citizens, then the possibilities of a more open, less intrusive and democratic Iran will instead give room to a more invasive, dictatorial and heavily censored media. This would be a natural path since the government would not be able to answer a large portion of its society’s demands. Naturally, the underground press, anti system organizations and oppositions would blossom. One would expect the end of the system in the long run. The mistake that the Islamic Republic’s Sepah has done is the miscalculation that did not consider the people factor>>>
UNDERCOVER
19-Jul-2009 (10 comments)
It seems some Muslims in the U.S. have only two things to worry about, Halal meat and veiling (hijab). While Halal meat can be found only in the freezer of ethnic food stores, the veil is visible everywhere, even around public swimming pools. It is considered the most distinctive, controversial, and often resisted sign of Islamic identity especially in Western countries. In some Middle Eastern countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia where hijab is mandatory, the so-called Islamic dress codes are stringently enforced by police. Occasionally, we see a video clip on YouTube of a screaming young lady resisting arrest or begging for mercy while she is being dragged by the so-called Iranian morality-enforcer police toward a waiting police car>>>
REVIEW
19-Jul-2009 (2 comments)
Bahman Maghsoudlou's "Grass: Untold Stories" not only tells the story of the film Grass, the pioneer 1924 still-documentary on the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe from their summer to winter quarters in Southwest Iran, but also the lives of three American adventurers who made the film. The book describes, in detail, and on the basis of a variety of sources, including the memoirs and books written by the three Americans adventurers, their life experiences, most importantly, their unusual adventure in making the film Grass. The first half of the book deals with their lives before leaving for Iran and the second their extraordinary adventure with the Bakhtiari migration>>>
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