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LIFE

Predictions of a Great Guru

I dreamed Iranians have installed democracy after hundred-fifty years of bloody struggles

by Majid Amini
20-Mar-2010 (5 comments)
When I was a kid growing up in the small city of Shahr-e-Rey, about ten kilometers south of Tehran, where its major industry was importing corps and exporting Bacheh Akhond, baby mullahs, most exciting entertainment in our daily life was to sit around with the other kids watching each other grow. Moving to the capital, Tehran was the most stimulating experience in my life. Everything appeared unimaginably different: much bigger, shinier, newer, and on the grandest of scales, so spectacular that could drive a kid literally mad>>>

STORY

Green Skies (3)

You have an important decision to make within the next few minutes, Mr Rahmati

by anonymous111.2
20-Mar-2010 (8 comments)
Colonel Nazemi is standing in the falling snow.With his right hand, he is holding the collar of his navy blue coat tight against his freezing neck.He is holding a radio in his left hand.Standing next to him are the military police major and lieutenant who had shown up at his office earlier.There are about a dozen other men, officers and maintenance men, standing behind him.They are all gazing at the sky.Lt. Parsaa has radioed in, and they are awaiting his arrival.They know that his aircraft has been hit and is severely damaged>>>

POETRY

هفت سین کوچک
by Orang Gholikhani
20-Mar-2010 (7 comments)
هفت سین کوچک من
بگو کجاست ریشه من
در خاک یا آتش و باد
هستی،  نبرد
در انتظار عیدی شاد
هفت سین کوچک من >>>

ACTION

Bebinim 'o' Tamasha Konim

Lobbying Google to put up the Haft Seen

by bahmani
17-Mar-2010 (4 comments)
As we come up on yet another NoRooz, we once again wince in anticipation as to whether this will be a Google-ful or Google-less one. Each year, people better than me, have called, emailed, blogged, begged, tried to bribe Omid Kordestani's secretary, and even tried to ambush Omid at parties to convince our mightiest sword at Google to convince that small, evil, mean-spirited graphic designer in the basement, whose privileged job it is to put up the holiday logos, to stop playing with himself for 5 minutes, and put up a God-damned Haft Seen Google logo for once>>>

POLITICS

Rafsanjani's Long-Term Strategy

Empowering Himself Through Helping the Greens

by Masoud Shafaee
17-Mar-2010 (6 comments)
Empowering Himself Through Helping the GreensAs the Persian Nowruz New Year fast approaches and Iran's post-election crisis enters its ninth month, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remains as mercurial a figure as ever in Iranian politics. True to his nickname of Kooseh, or "The Shark," Rafsanjani has been paying lip-service to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei while simultaneously signaling (if only tacitly) solidarity with Iran's Green opposition movement. With his reputation as an incredibly calculating figure, it is hard to believe that this contradiction is coincidental>>>

DEFIANCE

بزرگترین اشتباه خامنه‌ای

چهارشنبه‌سوری، خط گسل بین رژیم و مردم ایران

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
17-Mar-2010 (5 comments)
میلیون‌ها‌ ایرانی از زن و مرد و کوچک و بزرگ در سراسر کشور که در این شب در مراسم چهارشنبه-سوری شرکت کرده‌اند - در خانه یا خیابان، در شهر و روستا - با حضور خود به خامنه‌ای که گفته بود از این کار اجتناب کنید «نه» گفته‌اند. آنان عملا گفته‌اند که ولایت او را نمی‌پذیرند. آنان بدون نیاز به شعار و پرچم و تظاهرات حرف خود را زده‌اند. آنان خط بطلان بر ولی فقیه و اعتبار و اقتدار او کشیده‌اند. قاطبه آنان نیاز نداشته‌اند که به خیابان بیایند و نارضایی خود از حاکمیت را داد بزنند>>>

SCHOOL

I know I’m in the right place

What makes Golestan such a unique asset to Iranians

by Natalia Barr
17-Mar-2010 (12 comments)
I am passionate-borderline obsessed- with food. My philosophy: if you can make it, why buy it? I jump fences to pick lemons, I make my own apple cider vinegar, I own nine aprons, and I’ve been known to swoon over the vibrant leaves of my garden’s purple potatoes. I’m stubborn in my ways of healthy eating and I (used to) think white rice is akin to a bowl of sugar. However, in the past several months, I’ve learned not only how to tame my convictions, but that above all else, food is celebratory. After graduating from Bauman College, a Nutritional Education and Culinary Arts school, I began an internship cooking lunches for an Iranian language immersion school>>>

MORALITY

Tiger, Tiger

Now that he's on the path to righteousness, the apostles show up for supper

by Bernard Radfar
17-Mar-2010 (3 comments)
I've had enough. Of all that isn't said, and then what is. One can't sit at a sushi counter without overhearing people talk about Tiger as if Hiroshima was just bombed. He is the next stop in this salad bar of stale ingredients we now get delivered as the nightly news, passing the baton from Monica Lewinsky to O.J. and MJ. Fed are the insatiable appetites of undernourished people on couches armed with powerful remote controls, changing from one analysis to the next as more journalists dig up revelations. So he proclaimed his apologies and hugged those that are willing to forgive, or at least identify with him, on camera>>>

POETRY

در انتظار بهار
by gheyaspour
17-Mar-2010 (one comment)
در سکوتی سنگین
که نفس در تنگنای سینه حبس میشد
و نبض
که بیتابانه میزد
بر رگ
چونبی‌دادرسی بر زنجیر >>>

NOVEL

خانم معلم 6

می دانی این قبرستان چقدر برای مردم تولید شغل کرده؟

by Dariush Azadmanesh
17-Mar-2010 (one comment)
مردم ما برعکس همه جای دنیا تغییرات را گلچین کرده اند. یاد گرفته اند رانندگی کنند و با کامپیوتر کار کنند اما هنوز که هنوز است حاضر نیستند در مزخرفات فکری و عقیدتی خود تجدید نظر کنند. هنوز هم برای درمان سرطان در ته دلشان ترجیح می دهند بجای سر زدن به پزشکان ماهر و استفاده از تکنولوژی درمانی نوین به یک به اصطلاح امامزاده در پرت ترین جای کشور بروند و خودشان را به ضریح پر برکت مقبره اش ببندند و آبی که کاغذهای چرک آلود رمالها را در آن تلیت کرده اند بخورند>>>

MUSIC

Toro Yadam Miyareh

New from Luna Shad

by Musicman
15-Mar-2010 (13 comments)
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QUESTION

How smart are sanctions?

Sanctions ultimately harm ordinary citizens

by Ali Fathollah-Nejad
15-Mar-2010 (14 comments)
This time, the warmongers' silly season found its apogée in U.S. neo-conservative Daniel Pipes' advice to Obama to "bomb Iran," which appeared shortly after Tony Blair, having outlined why he helped invade Iraq, remarked ominously, "We face the same problem about Iran today." The Chilcot Inquiry in the United Kingdom on how the Iraq War was launched ironically coincided with a considerable military build-up in the Persian Gulf region. All this occurred amidst the continued struggle of Iran’s civil rights movement and proclamations of Western leaders to be in support of the latter’s efforts. But is there any evidence for this?>>>

NUCLEAR

Khan's Story

Pakistani scientist Khan describes Iranian efforts to buy nuclear bomb

by R. Jeffrey Smith & Joby Warrick
15-Mar-2010 (7 comments)
The father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program has written an official account that details an Iranian attempt to buy atomic bombs from Pakistan at the end of the 1980s. Bombmaker Abdul Qadeer Khan states in documents obtained by The Washington Post that in lieu of weapons, Pakistan gave Iran bomb-related drawings, parts for centrifuges to purify uranium and a secret worldwide list of suppliers. Iran's centrifuges, which are viewed as building blocks for a nuclear arsenal, are largely based on models and designs obtained from Pakistan>>>

VIEW

Scholarly Mistakes

Should ISIS take sides?

by Fariba Amini
15-Mar-2010 (32 comments)
On May 27, 2010, the International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS) will hold its three-day biennial conference in Los Angeles, California. It is jam-packed with interesting panels. Scholars of Iran from around the world will be attending. But this time around there is a controversy brewing. It involves the attendance of a scholar from an Israeli university in the occupied territories. In the past, many scholars from different Israeli universities have attended and given papers at the conference. There has never been an objection. But this time, the matter is different>>>

TRAVELER

Journey to Alamut

The history of the Assassins did not end with the sack of Alamut

by Ryszard Antolak
15-Mar-2010 (11 comments)
There is probably no other place in Iran better known around the world than the fortress of Alamut. This place has spawned so many legends of paradisiacal gardens, beautiful houris, intoxicated hashish addicts, ruthless assassins and other fanciful nonsense that they have reached to the utmost limits of incredulity. Yet for all that, it is a truly awe-inspiring place. Even had you known nothing of its religious or political history; even if you had never heard of Hasan Sabbah, of the Assassins, the Ismailis or the grand proclamation of the Qiyamat, this place would seize the mind of any casual traveller who beheld it>>>
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