USA

Friendless

We throw our money, goods and services and still America is hated

by Peter Stern
02-Aug-2010 (11 comments)
In today’s world, war is our business. In 2010 the U.S. is busy warring and pushing its imperialistic control throughout the world. We are located militarily in more nations than ever before. It takes billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to maintain that action. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel, etc., all have something in common. These Mid-East nations gladly accept our billions of tax dollars for military munitions, various goods and services, yet flagrantly they hate us>>>

LEADER

Supreme Mistake

Khamenei has has doomed himself to the fate of the fort

by William R. Stimson
02-Aug-2010 (13 comments)
Since he stole the majority of the people’s votes in last year’s election, Iran’s Supreme Leader has also stolen for himself, or tried to, every other public occasion all through the year. Already by far the most powerful tyrant Iran has ever known, he demonstrated again and again, all year long, before the shocked eyes of the world to what unbelievably murderous and perverted lengths he will go not just to snuff out every last vestige of his people’s freedom – but to break their very spirit>>>

STORY

خورشیدگرفتگی

مهم این بود که مشخصات قوم جدیدی که قرار است حاکم شوند چیست؟

by cyrous moradi
02-Aug-2010 (one comment)
تحقیقات دریانی نشان میداد که تنها چند ماه قبل از ترور ناصرالدین شاه، در 28 فوریه سال 1896 کسوفی کلی روی داده بود و منجمان به شاه اخطار کرده بودند که روزهای خوشی در انتظارش نیست. در دوم ماه می همان سال ناصرالدین شاه در شاه عبدالعظیم ترور شد و پیشبینی منجمان به حقیقت پیوست. عمده مشغولیت ذهنی دریانی این بود که بعد از کسوف تابستان ، چه قومی به حکومت خواهند رسید و چه کار ها خواهند کرد>>>

VIEW

Beating the Drums of War

In spite of our gallant stand we were outmatched

by NASSER SHIRAKBARI
01-Aug-2010 (3 comments)
The idea of war on Iran makes me sad. But when you square up ignorance verses hegemony, greed and power, with absence of prudent diplomacy many must die. That is where we are, the night before – the nightmare!U.S. preparation for war with Iran has been going on for a long time as a contingency plan in case no agreement can be reached on the over-blown nuclear program. As expressed by Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff, in a forum at Columbia University “we in the pentagon, we plan for contingencies all the time and certainly there are options which exist”, reference to dealing militarily with Iran’s nuclear endeavor>>>

US & THEM

پیکار ما، و جنگ آنها

آنقدر هم بی‌اطلاع نیستیم که ندانیم سیاست بشردوستانه با سیاست جنگ‌طلبانه تفاوت دارد

by Roozbeh Paksar
31-Jul-2010 (one comment)
واقعیت آن است که ما (چه سبز و چه غیرسبز) نه بیشتر از دیگران متوهم هستیم، نه خرافاتی‌تر و نه جاهل. واقعیت آن است که ما به درستی دریافته‌ایم که پیکار ما و جنگ آنها دو چیز متفاوت است. و این، حتی اگر گاه و بیگاه مسیر پیکار ما برای آزادی و دموکراسی در ایران در نقاطی با نقشه راه دعوایی که غرب با جمهوری اسلامی بر سر غنی‌سازی اورانیوم دارد تلاقی کند>>>

REVIEW

Contemporary Iran

Book looks at sociopolitical landscape in twenty-first-century Iran

by bparhami
31-Jul-2010
According to the back cover blurb, this book collects in one place the results of field work and insights of "both internationally renowned Iranian scholars and rising young Iranian academics ... As evident from the two chapters discussed in depth, the chapters in this volume vary greatly in their objectivity, completeness, and relevance. Nevertheless, this book is a head-and-shoulder above similar volumes published in recent years about the sociopolitical landscape in the twenty-first-century Iran. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning about social and political issues in today's Iran>>>

POETRY

این کافه چه می خواهد
by Afshin Babazadeh
31-Jul-2010 (2 comments)
این کافه به دستان من رشک می ورزد
غذای سوخته می دهد
آبجوی خوبی ندارد
صندلی هایش مرا لق می کنند
خرده های شکر روی میزهایش
تراشیده از مجسمه قهرمانی است ناکام >>>

NUKES

The Case for Attacking

Nuclear Iran will be significant threat to U.S. and beyond

by Fernando Espuelas
29-Jul-2010 (36 comments)
Israel has stated in the past that it will not wait indefinitely to respond - read unilateral military strike - to what it sees as Iran's hostile intent in developing illegal nuclear weapons capability. Israelis rightly see a nuclear Iran as an existential threat - a threat repeated over and over again by the Islamic Republic's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an avowed Holocaust-denier. The U.S. has also said that it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. The stage is therefore set for a confrontation>>>

SHAH

کارنامه محمد رضا سوادکوهی

فراخوانی برای نگاه بیطرفانه تاریخی به زندگی آخرین شاه ایران

by Mahmoud Sadri
29-Jul-2010 (26 comments)
اگر رضا شاه به سلطنت نمی رسید و نام خانوادگی پهلوی را اختیار نمی کرد شهرتش احتمالاً سواد کوهی می بود و پسرش نیز محمد رضا سوادکوهی خوانده می شد. و شاید استفاده از این ترفند زبانی سرپناه مناسبی برای گریز از کولاک حب و بغضی باشد که هنوز نام و کارنامه شاه را دنبال می کند و امکان داوری محققانه در باره او را از ما می گیرد. تقارن حکومت آخرین سلسله پادشاهی در ایران با عصر ایدئولوژی نیز به دشواری کار می افزاید>>>

PAHLAVIS

All The Shah's Men

Political life after WW II

by Sohrab_Ferdows
29-Jul-2010 (8 comments)
Decades after Shah of Iran has been overthrown to accommodate implementation of certain policies in the region of Persian Gulf and Middle East to serve the interests of certain group of people in the world, we are still witness to the same propaganda nonsense that brought our nation to one of the lowest points in the history which is comparable to the times when Iran was overrun by Arab and Mongolian invaders centuries ago. To add more to this, one of the saddest issues of our time is glorification of ignorance under the guise of political correctness to justify and spread misinformation towards our history>>>

BROTHERS

به یاد سه برادر

تنها سه تن از هزاران نفری که در چنبره خشونت گرفتار شدند

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
29-Jul-2010 (10 comments)
من در دهه اول پس از انقلاب، سه برادر را در مصاف مجاهدین با جمهوری اسلامی از دست داده‌ام، ولی کمتر در باره آن‌ها سخن گفته‌ام. این روزها، اما، دو نوشته مرا به یاد آنان انداخت. یکی درج متن «وصیتنامه» منسوب به برادر کوچکم محمد در رجا نیوز بود که به نقل از کتاب «قدرت، و دیگر هیچ» نوشته خواهرم طاهره در آن جا آمده است. و دیگری، یادداشت آقای هاشمی رفسنجانی به مناسبت سالگرد عملیات فروغ جاویدان/مرصاد در سال ۱۳۶۷ بود که بیش از هزار کشته از مجاهدین بر جای گذاشت>>>

VIEW

Iranian Re-Revolution

How the Green Movement Is Repeating Iranian History

by Michael Singh
27-Jul-2010 (9 comments)
On June 10, when the Iranian opposition movement cancelled its planned commemoration of the anniversary of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed reelection, commentators assumed that the Green Movement was finally finished. For months, it had been criticized as lacking strong leadership and for being unable to seriously challenge Iran's entrenched regime. But the history of political turmoil in twentieth-century Iran suggests that the movement may yet survive. After all, movements propelled by similar social currents have succeeded in dramatically changing Iran in the past>>>

CRITIQUE

'Rational' Americans vs 'Irrational’ Iranians

John Limbert's "Negotiating with Iran"

by Examiner
27-Jul-2010 (3 comments)
Despite Limbert’s unquestionable mastery of the subject, commendable intentions and deep affection for Iranians, it should be recognized that this book is written by an American diplomat for (primarily) American readers, in the vernacular they are at ease with. Its goal is not to make waves, or to challenge their self-perception, worldview, or institutionalized narrative. For an astute Iranian-American reader however, "Negotiating with Iran," with its mild tint of Orientalism and a patronizing tone, is somewhat unsettling: not necessarily offensive, but more like an alarm clock going off in a hazy Sunday morning>>>

STORY

سرزمین مردم نیک (2)

سرت را بکوب به سنگی و آن دنیا را جستجو کن

by divaneh
27-Jul-2010 (8 comments)
شب به پایان می رسد. سپیده دم و دروازۀ شهری. مرد به شهر در آمد و تماشا گرفت. کوچه و بازار لخت و خالی و خاموش. از روبرو یک رهگذر سر را خراب از باده بسیار نوشیده نجوا کنان آهنگ بی رنگی قدم می زد. مرد گوش فرا داد. هر باده ای با بوسه ای، هر بوسه ای با باده ای. و چه زیر خندی بر لبهای مست نشسته بود. مرد راه خود گرفت؛ او چه می داند از آن ارزشهای زیبای زندگی>>>

STORY

Sunday in the Park

It was something about the way Iranians looked

by siamak vossoughi
27-Jul-2010
There were Iranians for as far as the eye could see, if those eyes were those of 13-year-old Bahman Sohrabi, and the first thing he felt when he arrived at the park was that he was a blank piece of paper, and in this place he could be what he showed himself to be, nobody had any expectations of him except for the expectations they had of themselves - to be a speaker of the language, an appreciator of the food and the music and of nature, and a general participator in the whole thing. At school he found the spaces for a guy who did not want to be a participator in the whole thing right away. He found them in himself and in the school>>>
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