GREENS

Pushing the boundaries

First anniversary of this generation's movement

by Helaleh F.
13-Jun-2010
On the first anniversary of the Green Movement, there is a high level of uncertainty regarding the future which could only be evaluated by going towards the past. By now it is almost self-evident what engined this social transitional force. The Green Movement is a child of a social transformation in Iran which has started long before the rigged election on June 12th, 2009 and mostly initiated and supported by the young generation to reorient the country towards a modernization process>>>

NEDA

Time of Death

New video of Neda Agha-Soltan's final moments

by greenrev88
11-Jun-2010 (103 comments)
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VIEW

Alive and Important

The Green Movement

by James Miller
11-Jun-2010 (5 comments)
What are the results of the struggle of the opposition movement in Iran? Not failure. Externally, the movement has inspired Hillary Clinton (with the direction of some of the State Department's staffers, and perhaps our letters to them), America's foreign policy has evolved from the false dichotomy of "invade or ignore (Bush)" to one of fostering developing democratic movements through the use of technology and a "Three Cups of Tea" outreach process to people in Iran, Sudan, Cuba, Venezuela, and China. This process will take while, but internally, as a direct result of the Green Movement, the regime is getting weaker>>>

JUDGE

Guilty as Charged

“Judge of Death” and two colleagues have presided over most political trials since last year’s unrest

by Omid Memarian
11-Jun-2010 (3 comments)
Within the Revolutionary Courts, three judges – Abolghasem Salavati, Mohammad Moghiseh and Pir-Abbasi – stand out for their role in presiding over joint and individual trials involving hundreds of defendants. Although some of these trials were held in public, the three judges remain shadowy figures. It is unclear what their legal backgrounds are, or how they came to be appointed. There are no pictures of Moghiseh or Pir-Abbasi, and they do not appear at public events. Pir-Abbasi’s first name is not even known>>>

FILM

Complex Women, Simple Men

Kiarostami's “Copie Conforme”

by Saideh Pakravan
11-Jun-2010 (one comment)
“Copie Conforme” is a film by Abbas Kiarostami which means that it’s s-l-o-w. Slow enough to make you fidget in your seat. Slow enough to take you back to the days of the interminable scenes of couples-- walking apart from each other and not talking—in those excruciating Antonioni films of the sixties. Slow enough to give you time to wonder about the nature of cinema. Should it be entertaining? Should it encourage reflexion? Can it be boring? Then, because it is a film by Abbas Kiarostami, “Copie Conforme” goes way beyond that first impression. >>>

POLYGAMY

من و چهار شوهرم

صدای ناخرسندی زنان در باره سنت توهین کننده چند همسری

by ونداد
11-Jun-2010 (5 comments)
به گونه ای تصادفی، مقاله ای در مجله «مری کلر» با عنوان «چند همسری در اسلام» نظرم را به خود جلب کرد که به دیدگاه های یک روزنامه نگار عربستان سعودی به نام « نادین البدیر» پرداخته بود. در این مقاله آمده است که نویسنده فوق تلاش کرد تا با خلق یک ادعای خیالی پر هیاهو به واقعیت دردناک و ضد انسانی چند همسری در اسلام انتقاد کند. به عنوان یک ایرانی به ذهنم رسید که ماجرای فوق ربط زیادی با جامعه ایرانی ندارد ولی ... در بهت تاسف باری متوجه شدم که برداشت اولیه ام از واقعیت به دور است>>>

STORY

Sherlock Holmes Daughter (8)

The only opponent to have unequivocally outwitted Sherlock Holmes

by Ari Siletz
11-Jun-2010 (4 comments)
Paul said Christie’s condition hadn’t changed. She was still under observation in a windowless hospital room devoid of sharp objects, lacking a television set or even electrical outlets. I said I wanted to go see her, but Paul insisted she didn’t want any visitors. Maybe she didn’t mean me and Paul was just mad about my going over to Katie’s. Hiding my feelings was hard work, but it had to be done. If Paul sensed that I had fallen in love with Katie, her appraisal value would suddenly double and the love triangle stalemate would be broken. There was only so much Christie’s illness could do to forestall his leaving her for Katie>>>

KIOSK

Letter to the Sardar

Music video

by Arash Sobhani
10-Jun-2010 (5 comments)
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SANCTIONS

Winners and Losers

The major losers include Ahmadinejad and Khamenei

by Masoud Kazemzadeh
09-Jun-2010 (39 comments)
This fourth round of sanctions plus one UNSC presidential statement makes five UNSC actions against the fundamentalist regime regarding its suspected nuclear weapons program. UNSC resolutions are INTERNATIONAL LAW. All these UNSC resolutions are demanding the fundamentalist regime to stop its uranium enrichment. 1. The biggest winner is the Obama administration. The Obama administration’s diplomacy was able to convince Russia and China, two states that have been close to the fundamentalist regime, to vote in favor of this resolution.>>>

IMAM ALI

خامنه‌ای سرنوشت علی را برای خود رقم می‌زند!

خامنه‌ای می‌خواهد خود را در حد امام اول شیعیان بالا بکش

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
09-Jun-2010 (6 comments)
کار شبیه سازی در حکومت ایران به اوج رسیده است. روحانیان حاکم بر ایران از حد مجتهد و نایب امام به مراتب فراتر رفته‌اند. اگر روزی آیت الله خمینی نایب امام زمان بود و به نام او حکومت می‌کرد، در طول زمان او از این مرحله گذشت و به سر حد امام معصوم رسید. لقب امام که در ابتدا مفهوم «پیشوا» را برای او به ذهن می‌آورد کم کم جایی برای او در ردیف امامان شیعه باز کرد و احکام او، حتا در ارتکاب جنایت و خشونت، لازم الاتباع تشخیص داده شد>>>

STORY

The Trip Home

Somewhere around France, where the Iranian was lost

by siamak vossoughi
09-Jun-2010
The two friends came home to what had become their home, a rooming-house in Utrecht, Holland, late at night and slept and awoke full of a feeling that something was gone and it was: They had come home from a trip through Europe and they were now face-to-face with the question of whether it had been the places they'd gone to or if it had been movement itself, and if it had been movement itself, what were they going to do about that? They knew one thing: They were great friends, for all that was spoken and unspoken on their trip>>>

POETRY

I miss
by anna402
09-Jun-2010 (3 comments)
I miss the view of a snow-covered mountain wherever I am
I miss homemade yoghurt
I miss putting ketchup on pizza
I miss holding onto my headscarf on the back of a motorcycle
I miss the clock always at 10.30 in my granddad’s bedroom
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ISRAEL

The third strategic threat

The war on NGOs and humanitarian activists

by Thomas Keenan & Eyal Weizman
07-Jun-2010 (8 comments)
With very few exceptions, direct and intentional attacks on aid workers or human-rights advocates have hitherto been largely the work of undisciplined militias, ragged armies, criminal gangs, and police-states. The perpetrators have included the Taliban, the Bosnian Serb army, Iraqi insurgents, and the organisers of Latin America’s “dirty wars”. Now, with the lethal raid on the Mavi Marmara, is Israel in this respect following in their footsteps? >>>

ONLINE

The Secret to a Longer Life

Most of my time is sucked into the Internet

by Ghahremani
07-Jun-2010 (4 comments)
I’m not the first to notice how short the days have become. Ask anybody, even kids, and they’ll say the same. However, I must have been one of the first to suspect God of tampering with time. I mean, how would we know if He moved the earth a bit faster to shorten our days? But I checked, and I was wrong. I sat in front of a good, reliable clock and said it out loud, “One-Mississippi-two Mississippi,” and no, the seconds had the same length and, sure enough, there were sixty of them in each minute>>>

RESIGNED

کودتای زمانه

چرا از رادیو زمانه استعفا کردیم؟

by Bita Bakhtiari
07-Jun-2010 (8 comments)
بهنام و من، امروز بعد از سه سال از بخش خبر رادیو زمانه استعفا کردیم. من در این بخش از زمانه در همه سطوح کار کرده‌ام. به عنوان خبرنگار ساده و مترجم تا ادیتور خبر. کار در زمانه یکی از درخشان‌ترین دوره‌‌های حرفه‌ای من و بهنام بود. به خصوص از پس از انتخابات ریاست جمهوری که توانستیم در حد خودمان، اخبار جنبش سبز را در این رسانه منعکس کنیم و تا اندازه‌ای سهم کوچکی در اطلاع‌رسانی درباره حوادث این دوران داشته باشیم>>>
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