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Saaleh Akhar

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The Maharajas’ Jaipur

Tourists are beckoned by the colors of Rajasthan. Splashed over gelatin or equivalents, these colors draw the magic of their aesthetics from contrasts. The women of Rajasthan defy the drab monotone of a semi arid environment by riots of red, green, blue, and orange in their garments. Colorful spices and dried fruit in the markets are the answer to the dearth of fresh, tasty produce and fruit. The wildly extravagant Maharajahs painted their whole capital city of Jaipur lipstick pink to impress their foreign guests. The colorful trash generated by their impoverished former subjects mock this folly>>>

Green Light

Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light an Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. The resolution, H.Res. 1553, provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel's use of "all means necessary" against Iran "including the use of military force". US military leaders have warned that strikes could be catastrophic to US national security interests and could engulf the Middle East in a "calamitous" regional war>>>

On Hair

All my life I’d had long hair. While the rest of me didn’t look distinctively Iranian, I had the long, thick, wavy hair Persian girls are known for. Little did I know while I had a full head of it, that my hair was an integral part of me, as superficial as that sounds, but it was. A few weeks after I was diagnosed with breast cancer, my nurse Tammy talked to me about the eight rounds of chemo that I was set to receive before surgery. I saw a look of trepidation cross her face as she started to talk about me losing my hair>>>

The E Factor

Is ethnicity important in women’s struggle for their rights, at all? Studying English in middle school, this question seemed an exciting one. It made me imagine myself abroad and answer it proudly. But, this innocent imagination was shattered. Yes, I grew up as a woman facing the reality of much discrimination. Discriminations that kill you and re-kill you, shape you and reshape you, frame you and reframe you to the point that you don’t know who you are>>>

Master Builders

The glorious Achaemenid Persian empire dominated all of the Middle East commencing from 550 to 330BC , Alexander the great conquered the Persian kingdom and destroyed the capital city of Persepolis .By all means the Sassanians (who were the descendants of the Achaemenid Empire) wished to revive the former glory of the Achaemenid Empire, this included their structural design, the Greek conquest of Persia inaugurated the spread of Hellenistic art into Western Asia; but if the East accepted the outward form of this art, it never really assimilated its spirit>>>

عیسی گلسرخی

آنچه این روزها، پس از گذشت سی سال از پیروزی آن انقلاب، در جای‌جای این کشور ‌می‌گذرد بیانگر آن است که آن رفتار انسانی تنها «آرزوی ما جوانان مسلمان» بود، چون «رهبر جمهوری اسلامی» ثابت کرده است که برای چند روز زمامداری بیشتر و حکومت مستبدانه بر مردم، از هیچ راه و روشی نمی‌گذرد. اکنون شاهدیم که سیدعلی خامنه‌ای از جنایت‌های بشر در جهان شرق و غرب، هر آنچه را که بدترین بوده است برگزیده و در این کار دست جنایت‌کاران معروف جهان را در کشتار مردم بی دفاع از پشت بسته است>>>

Can Obama keep his promise?

The early verdict on the new Iran sanctions is that even the "smart" sanctions have proven to be, well, dumb. Instead of targeting Iranian government officials connected to the nuclear program or who are complicit in human rights abuses, the new sanctions are punishing young Iranians who have been the greatest allies of democracy, human rights, and accountability in Iran. Late last week, it was revealed that young Iranians looking to attend college abroad are now facing serious impediments because of new sanctions>>>

The Neocon Method

One time-honored method for obscure writers to gain notoriety is to viciously attack a much more popular writer or public figure in the hopes said person will respond in kind — witness my constant attacks on Barack Obama, who I thought by now would at least answer me during a weekend radio address or something. Anyway, it’s not surprising that Benajamin Kerstein (who?), a writer for The New Ledger (the what?), would choose to blast the much more popular and accomplished Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald for being insufficiently “pro-Israel” given the latter’s blistering and effective attacks on the policies of the apartheid state>>>

تروریسم کور

اگر تروریسم کور از نوع آن چه که در زاهدان اتفاق افتاد به ایران راه باز کرده، باید آن را در درجه اول مرهون فرهنگ ایدئولوژیکی دانست که جمهوری اسلامی در شکل‌گیری و تبلیغ و ترویج آن در خاور میانه نقش اول را بازی کرده است. تصادفی نیست که تروریسم کور در خاورمیانه و غرب آسیا و شمال آفریقا عمری کم و بیش برابر با عمر نظام اسلامی حاکم بر ایران دارد و با ادامه حیات آن از طریق تروریست‌های اسلام‌گرا به سراسر جهان نیز گسترش یافته است>>>

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Bomb Iran?

Joe Klein of Time magazine has a new piece out this week indicating that after being largely dismissed during the Bush administration, "the military option is very much back on the table" with respect to Iran's nuclear program. And while he notes that "the White House remains as skeptical as ever about a military strike," the Pentagon, the CIA and Central Command seem to be doing serious planning about how such a strike might be carried out. Klein cites an Israeli military source who suggests that the Central Command has a much better plan now due to better "human intelligence": >>>

Mojahedin 1, USA 0

Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington ruled that the U.S. State Department cannot arbitrarily designate the People's Mujahadin Organization of Iran (PMOI) as a foreign terrorist organization, thus imposing criminal penalties on any American citizen who offers so much as a nickel to the group. The State Department had since 1997 -- with little or no explanation- repeatedly re-designated the PMOI as a foreign terrorist organization>>>

Waiting for Azrael

Directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud were back on the French Croisette in Cannes, but this time not to present a new movie but announce the making of two in a near future. The first En Attendant Azrael aka Waiting for Azrael will start shooting on the 19th of July at the Legendary Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and will be followed by Le Onzième Laureate aka The Eleventh Laureate described by it's creators as something of a Western Spaghetti with a Persian flavour, set on the Caspian Sea>>>