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Iran's Faulty Toolbox

Every tool at Iran's disposal comes with serious limitations

by Matthew M. Reed
07-Oct-2010 (21 comments)
Iran's arsenal is familiar by now. It includes the "oil weapon," armies, proxies, and ultimately nuclear weapons. Each tool of leverage is seriously flawed but that does not prevent alarmists from overstating their effect. Upon further review, Tehran's arsenal is generally weak. Use of the "oil weapon" is unrealistic. According to the US Government Accountability Office, "between 50 and 76 percent of the Iranian government's revenues in recent years" came from oil exports>>>

PRISONER

Nine years? For what?

Tabarzadi's response to his trial

by Heshmatollah Tabarzadi
07-Oct-2010 (8 comments)
I call upon public opinion and educated and impartial human beings to judge the way the laws and trial procedures were implemented in my arrest, detention, interrogation, trial, and sentencing. I wish for that judgment to be placed on a page of the history of this era in order to show the way I have had to endure the present situation, putting my best asset, my life, out of my control like this. If we focus on the fact that everyone’s life is his most valuable asset, we will heed caution in issuing prison sentences or illegal detention orders>>>

SANCTIONS

تحریم‌ها و سبزها

رهبری جنبش سبز به یک سیاست خارجی فعال نیاز دارد

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
06-Oct-2010 (5 comments)
اقدام آمریکا در تحریم هشت مقام امنیتی و قضایی جمهوری اسلامی بیشتر جنبه نمادین دارد و در عین حال حامل دو پیام مهم است. یکی خطاب به حاکمان در ایران که دایره فشارهای بین‌المللی بر آنان روز به روز تنگ‌تر خواهد شد، و دیگری خطاب به مردم ایران که آمریکا با آنان دشمنی ندارد و نه تنها حساب آنان را از حساب حکومت جدا کرده و بلکه در دفاع از آنان حاضر است بر حکومت فشار وارد کند>>>

STORY

شاخه ترد اطلسی

افسوس و فریاد از این رخداد های ناگهانی که بیشتر می دِرود تا برویاند

by Abbas Sahraee
06-Oct-2010 (one comment)
حامد تنها فرزندمان بود، و چقدر هم شبیه مادرش بود. وهمین مایه دلنشینی که در چهره اش جا گرفته بود، علاقه مرا به او دو چندان کرده بود. و من بخاطر او و بخاطر مالامالی عشقی که از سیمین در سینه داشتم، هرگزدیگر ازدواج نکردم. از همان موقع با اینکه کمر خودم زیر بار این واقعه شکسته بود، او را مثل بچه گربه به دندان گرفتم>>>

POETRY

ناتمام
by Hengameh Fouladvand
06-Oct-2010 (7 comments)
هنوز ذهنِ برگ
نمیداند چیست این خطِ ناتمام
لرزه لرزهُ نور دررگم , خندهُ من , راز پیچیدنِ زرد و سرخ و نارنجی
لحظهُ التماس در شتابِ رنگ
قرمز بی پروای
لبم
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TANZ

اولین سوره برای اسلام رحمانی احمد (ص)

مگر آقای صدری چه کم دارد که ادعای دین جدیدی مشابه قبلی‌ها نکند؟

by Mahmoud Farjami
04-Oct-2010 (4 comments)
از مجاهدان وبلاگستان یاسر میردامادی می‌تواند یاسر احمد (ص) باشد. اکبر گنجی هم باید ابولهب باشد. اسمش را می‌گذاریم اکبر لهب. تبت یدا اکبر لهب و تب (نوبه). خلاصه اینکه برای همه جا هست. ریا نباشد برای خودم هم سهمی در نظر گرفته‌ام. انگشتان ناقصی دارم (گریه حضار) که آن را هم تقدیم می‌کنم و مقام تایپیست وحی‌های منزل به احمد (ص) را برای خودم کنار می‌گذارم. تعریف از خود نباشد در این کار استعداد هم دارم>>>

FRIEND

Caged Lion

The Sentencing of Heshmat Tabarzadi

by Reza Mohajerinejad
04-Oct-2010 (7 comments)
I try to call Tabarzadi’s family every few weeks. There is so little that can be done outside of Iran to help his case. However, what I have realized through this last imprisonment, is that very little is known about him in the English-speaking media. In Iran he has a large following. He is known for his work before and after 18 Tir. This morning when I spoke with his son, Hossein, I asked him what we could do, and he said, let people outside of Iran know about my father>>>

1979

Slaughter in Qarana

Thirty-one years after the tragedy

by Behdad Bordbar
04-Oct-2010 (8 comments)
Qarana, a Kurdish village in Western Iran, was attacked by armed agents of Gholam-Reza Hasani, the Friday Imam of Urmia on 11 Shahrivar 1358 (September 2, 1979). In the course of this attack, 42 women, men, children, infants, and old peoople from the village were killed. This disaster occurred in the disturbed atmosphere following the revolution when armed Kurdish groups were fighting the government's forces, but according to the existing information and eye-witnesses' explanations, the villagers of Qarana were unarmed>>>

POETRY

موقتی
by akoohbor
04-Oct-2010 (5 comments)

وقتی که رویا

در سیاهچال حقیقت در بند شد

عکس آسمان را بر چشم هایت منگنه کن

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LESBIAN

Free to be who we are

Saye Sky's song for "ALL Iranian women and ALL Iranian lesbians"

by Ghormeh Sabzi
01-Oct-2010 (5 comments)
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IRAN-U.S.

The question is why?

Why doesn't the U.S. talk to Iran?

by Ismael Hossein-Zadeh & Karla Hansen
01-Oct-2010 (33 comments)
Why have successive U.S. administrations been reluctant to enter into a conflict-resolution dialogue with Iran, which could clearly be in the national interests of the United States? The answer, in a nutshell, is that U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, is driven not so much by broad national interests as they are by narrow but powerful special interests—interests that seem to prefer war and militarism to peace and international understanding>>>

IDEAS

Better Muslim Than Gay

Is it not a greater sin to deny people their basic human and civil rights based on an alleged sin?

by Melody Moezzi
01-Oct-2010 (45 comments)
It is from a position of relative privilege that I sense a strong religious and civic obligation to address the most pressing injustices that face our nation today and beseech the rest of my community to do the same. I know that many Muslims, as well as Jews and Christians, may think that homosexuality is wrong based on their readings of their religious texts. And while I wholeheartedly disagree with them, I still appeal to them to follow the greater teachings of our respective faiths>>>

STORY

پریاپوس (1)

از همان اول احساس کردم که پریاپوس از ایرانیها خوشش نمی آید

by cyrous moradi
01-Oct-2010 (one comment)
جناب پریاپوس، فرزند نامشروع دیونوسوس (Dionysus) و آفرودیته (Aphrodite) و سمبل باروری در یونان قدیم شمرده میشود، دارای آلتی است بلند و بزرگ وهمیشه راست. به قولی Large, Permanent Erection (LPE). واژه پزشکی Priapism به افتخار ایشان وارد فرهنگ طب شده و به مردانی اطلاق می شود که به پیروی از جد بزرگوارشان پریاپوس همیشه خدا دچار LPE هستند. حالا تصورش را بکنید که من باید با جناب ایشان بیست روز تمام در این اوضاع و شرایط بروم ایران>>>

POETRY

رخت شویی

(With English translation)

by Majid Naficy
01-Oct-2010 (4 comments)
تنها صدای ماشین رختشویی به جا می ماند
و رخت های من و تو
از یادهای خوشبوی شبانه تهی می شوند:
از بوی هیزم و نمناکی علف
از لکه های شراب روی پیراهن تو
و سرخی تمشک بر سرآستین من >>>
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