POETRY

خطابه ی کفر
by Jahangir Sedaghatfar
09-Dec-2010
مرا به جرم کدام معصیت
به دوزخ زیستن
کفاره مقرر داشتی؟
گناه من همه پارسایی بود و
دست به سینگی دراطاعت مطلق >>>

POETRY

تاب رویا
by kavir
09-Dec-2010 (one comment)
رو در سمت تو جاریست
گامهایم
و نفسهایم
که از کنار تو میگذرد >>>

IRI

Siege Mentality

Complex stage of rule and protest, dissent and apathy

by Nasrin Alavi
07-Dec-2010 (26 comments)
Yet even a paranoid can have real enemies - and delights in conjuring more from its delusions. Three decades of sanctions and suspicion from the west have nurtured revolutionary Iran’s sense of siege. The regime uses every particle of hostility to blame any domestic problem or upheaval on foreign powers, the United States and Britain above all. It is skilled too in sustaining the alarmist message that internal enemies are in the pay of or serving the interests of these nefarious outsiders>>>

HOLIDAY

How many of you celebrated Chanukah?

Every year around this time I think of Mrs. Lovi

by Ghahremani
07-Dec-2010
Living in Highland Park, Illinois for over twenty years, and mingling among its 90% Jewish population, I should have known better than to expect my second grader to be happy with one night of Christmas. But since Christmas and Chanukah often came around the same time, none of us had paid attention. Then came a year such as this, when the two events were weeks apart and on a Monday, when I picked up my son from school, I noticed a new gloom in his attitude>>>

STORY

مسواکتو می دی من؟

به شرطی شب پیشت می مونم که مسواکتو بدی من دندونامو بشورم

by Fatemeh Zarei
07-Dec-2010 (53 comments)
چی؟ از سر کار بیام پیشت؟ باشه میام ولی اگه از سر کار بیام، خسته و کر و کثیفم. اگه بخوام دوش بگیرم حوله ات رو می دی بهم؟ یه چیز دیگه، با من میای حموم، پشتمو لیف بزنی؟ اصلاً با هم حموم کنیم با هم زیر دوش جیش کنیم. میگم که، اگه یه چیزی ازت بخوام گوش می دی؟ چیز عجیبی ازت نمی خوام ولی تورو خدا نه نگو. می گم دودولتو بده من باهاش جیش کنم. یعنی من بگیرمش تو جیش کنی. پسر چه باحال می شه>>>

STORY

A Genius of Happiness

To name it felt like we were putting ourselves above it

by siamak vossoughi
07-Dec-2010
It was ridiculous. That was the only way to think about it. Or absurd. It was best to move carefully around it. The only way we could make sense of that love was to treat it like something very fragile. We found our home among the most fragile places in the world. That was where we saw how strong it was, because their fragility would not be anything new. I already know what that is, we would think. I already know what that kindheartedness is, we would think when we saw the Vietnamese janitor at my sister's school who liked seeing us whenever I went to walk her home>>>

POETRY

یادها-3
by BejanBaran
07-Dec-2010 (3 comments)
تبعید خاطرات را ویران میکند-
با عدم تکرارشان در دیدار و گفتار؛
نبود نزدیکان، دوری محیط آشنا
متروکی بازگویی آنها.
گورستان حافظه شهر است؛
>>>

MAHSA

Love won't tear us apart
by jamh
07-Dec-2010
I suppose,
in this climate of fear
and uncertainty,
about money, work
or even a whole country
>>>

MAHSA

Innocence Lost

Seven-year-old's eloquent anger at Islamic Republic

by unity4iran
06-Dec-2010 (209 comments)
...>>>

WIKILEAKS

Neither wrong nor illegal

Our instrument of last resort for bringing some accountability to those in power

by Daniel M Pourkesali
06-Dec-2010 (7 comments)
After reading the article titled ‘WikiLeaks: U.S.-Iran Relations "Now What" Moment?’ by NIAC’s Reza Marashi who identifies himself as a former Iran desk officer at the U.S. State Department, I failed to see exactly what ‘lessons learned’ are being presented following release of thousands of the not-so-diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks -- an act that the writer repeatedly labels as an “inexcusable security breach” throughout his treatise>>>

VIEW

Perpetual waste of talents

Why Iran is in doldrums, scientifically

by Fesenjoon
06-Dec-2010 (16 comments)
That Iran, with 10% of the world's known oil reserves, 2nd in natural gas reserves, and an intelligent eager workforce, is going through the most dire of circumstances in living memory, is not a secret. Iran's economy is basically in the doldrums. It looks up to countries like Qatar, Emirates, and Turkey for how to get things done, and is ruled by a ruthless religious dictatorship, all while its environment plummets down the drain>>>

STORY

Sama’ (The Audition-4)

I felt my breath deepen with stage fright. I was not ready.

by Ari Siletz
05-Dec-2010
Oddly, reciting the foreboding doomsday verses had restored my calm. I was bones and dust now, but soon I would remember who I was and what I had done. The verses were not grim warnings, but a merciful promise. Finally, this was to be the day when ignorance and oblivion would end and I would know where I fit in God’s plan when I was alive. Does man think that he will be left aimless? I recited the Koranic promise out loud over and over again>>>

STORY

بیگ اچیومنت

مردم ایندولند چقدر باید دستشویی بروند و چقدر فضولات تحویل نیروگاه بیوترمال بدهند تا کل کشور آباد بشود؟

by cyrous moradi
05-Dec-2010
اصرار مقامات ایندولند بر ساخت و راه اندازی نیروگاه های بیوترمال فقط روسیه و چین را خوشحال کرده است. سازمان ملل، انباشت منابع عظیم فضولات انسانی در نزدیکی نیروگاه را تهدیدی برای همه; جزایر همسایه ایندولند; تلقی می کند ولی آلفونس علی و مهندس مایکل نرون میگویند مرغ یک پا دارد و باید هر چه زود تر این نیروگاه راه اندازی شود. حالا دیگر موضوع حیثیتی شده و تحقق راه اندازی و تولیدانرژی از این نیروگاه بیگ اچیومنت رهبران ایندولند خواهد بود>>>

POETRY

حماسه حلاج 2
by Mahmoud Seraji
05-Dec-2010 (4 comments)
این نشود تا نرهاند ز تن
مرغ سعادت به هوای وطن
مقصد جوینده نیاید درست
نیت اگر بود بجز نام دوست >>>

VIEW

Don't Bother

An agreement with the mullahs would be not worth the paper it is written on

by Hossein Askari
03-Dec-2010 (89 comments)
The clerical regime has brought severe costs, such as economic mismanagement, brutality and religious pretensions, and no tangible benefits. Reminiscences about the Shah’s regime are becoming increasingly frequent and nostalgic. The clerics and their supporters believe that the United States is bent on getting rid of them and that their best hope for long-term survival is the nuclear program, which they cannot abandon. Realists in America and in Europe know that the real problem is not Iran’s nuclear quest but its regime>>>
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