CRISIS

What will be the next move?

Resolution in favor of the republican side is a necessity for avoiding another upheaval

by Ardeshir Ommani
22-Jan-2010 (28 comments)
The current unrest was the result of three forces joining hands: the most visible of the three was the role of the foreign powers and the financial and logistical support they provided to the pro-western and well-to-do strata in Iran who received their ideological, political and practical directions from foreign, particularly the U.S. and British intelligence operatives, Iranian counter-revolutionaries acting as the long arm of the U.S.-U.K. organizations that channel funds into the accounts of anti-government links>>>

FOLLOW UP

Great danger lurking

1979 all over again, Part 2

by areyo barzan
22-Jan-2010 (2 comments)
If we do not address the issue of leadership properly and fail to develop a viable strategy to deal with it we could be sleep walking into another dictatorship and in 30 years time our children would have to go through this hell all over again. If the 1979 generation knew their history and learned from the mistakes and failures of 1941, they would not have made those fatal errors and as a result our people wouldn’t have been at this point today. Now if we make the same mistakes by not learning from their errors we could simply doom of children to another thirty years of the same>>>

STORY

ملافه های نور

سبزه ها را کنار زد. در چادر گندم، کنارم دراز کشید

by hadi khojinian
22-Jan-2010 (3 comments)
آفتاب به ملایمت ملافه ی نورش را به روی ما کشید و در سایه روشن باد خنک هر دو به خواب رفتیم. مورچه ها از سر و روی ما بالا می رفتند. پاهای کوچک شان رد پا بر جا نمی گذاشت. همه چیز روال عادی خودش را طی می کرد. سالی و من در رویای خوش زندگی فرو رفته بودیم. تلنگرهای باد و دست های گیاه کنار دستمان خوابمان را آشفته نمی کرد. ثانیه ها و دقیقه ها می گذشتند. در معبر نور خورشید به بالا می رفتیم. دست های یکدیگر را گرفته بودیم. هیچ فشاری در کار نبود. فقط لمس بود و لمس! >>>

POETRY

رستاخیز

برای سهراب

by Jahangir Sedaghatfar
22-Jan-2010 (one comment)
سرو گونه
            تندیس قامتی از بلند ِ استقامت است،
ریشه در ژرفا و
                 سبز و سیراب و
طراوت سرشت! >>>

DICTATOR

خامنه‌ای اهل سازش نیست

دیکتاتور به کمتر از تسلیم مطلق راضی نیست

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
20-Jan-2010 (12 comments)
خامنه‌ای صریحاً دست دراز شده از سوی موسوی را پس نزده است. او ظاهرا از موسوی (و خاتمی و کروبی و هاشمی رفسنجانی) به عنوان «خواص» یاد می‌کند و می‌خواهد که آنان در دایره خودی‌ها باقی بمانند. ولی او اهل مذاکره نیست، و بلکه فقط تسلیم مطلق را می‌طلبد. او گفته است که «خواص باید خط و مرز خود را با دشمن به صورت شفاف مشخص کنند». او برای این که مشخص کند منظورش از «دشمن» کیست اضافه کرده است که «عده ای در فضای فتنه و غبار آلودگی با زبان اسلام را نفی و در عمل نیز جمهوریت نظام را نفی می کنند و انتخابات را زیر سؤال می برند انتظار از خواص این است که مرز و موضع خود را شفاف مشخص کنند»>>>

ASSASSINATION

Academics fear more killings

Concern grows in the wake of particle physicist's death

by Declan Butler
20-Jan-2010 (4 comments)
Iran's scientific community is reeling after the assassination on 12 January of Masoud Alimohammadi, a particle physicist at the University of Tehran. Alimohammadi was killed by a bomb as he got into his car to go to work. "Everyone is worried that this may be only the start, and that there may be more killings of academics to come," one researcher says. Nature interviewed half a dozen scientists in Iran who knew Alimohammadi, all of whom requested anonymity. Nature magazine interviewed half a dozen scientists in Iran who knew Alimohammadi, all of whom requested anonymity>>>

KHALAJI

Prisoner of two regimes

From the prison of the Shah to the prison of Khamenei

by Mehdi Khalaji
20-Jan-2010 (12 comments)
In the very cold winter of 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, returned to Qom, the spiritual capital of the Shiite world, for the first time after his long exile. A huge crowd came out that day. As he made his way to the stage, passing through those who pressed together to see him, the ayatollah's mantle fell off. Once he had settled in his chair, he noticed how chilly he was. "I'm cold," he said. Within seconds, another mantle fell over his shoulders and wrapped him warm>>>

INTELLECTUALS

نقد روشنفکری دینی

فکر مترقی از دین باید در قالب مناسک و نهاد ها رسوخ کند تا بتواند باقی بماند

by Ahmad Sadri
20-Jan-2010 (3 comments)
پاکدینی بنیاد گرایانه و نقد روشنفکری دینی هردو واکنشی به شرایط تفکر و زیست مدرن هستند. هر دو اینها بنام "پویا" نمودن دینی که ظاهراً متحجّر و آلوده به خرافات بود و برای نجات آن از هجو و هجا و حمله های بی محابای دین ستیزان تفسیر سنت ستیزی از دین ارائه داده اند. اما تفاوت ایندو گروه در اینست که بنیاد گرایان با تکیه به نهادهای منسجم و احساسات دینی صورتهای جدیدی از مناسک مذهبی آفریفته اند که تداوم اندیشه آنها را تضمین میکند. ولی روشنفکران دینی بنا بر اقتضای طبع خود از نهاد آفرینی و باز سازی مناسک سر باز زده اند>>>

POETRY

Already dead
by Azadeh Azad
20-Jan-2010 (6 comments)
touch of thoroughness
beauty is painful
I nurse nothingness
 
swaying sunflowers
meadows of blue, green, orange
loneliness, gunshot >>>

SCHOOLS

Moulding minds

Tehran seeks to shape regime-friendly education

by Sahar Sepehri
18-Jan-2010 (19 comments)
As they struggle to fend off their political opponents in the here and now, Iran’s rulers are also taking a longer-term view with an ambitious project to indoctrinate future generations from an early age. Plans to inject school education with more Islamic content, anti-western values and pro-regime and separate content for boys and girls amount to an attempt at an Iranian-style “Cultural Revolution.” The plan is reminiscent of the upheavals in education that followed the 1979 revolution. >>>

INJUSTICE

قانون فدای مکتب؟

میراث تاریخی باورمندان بیدادگر از "غائلۀ درایفوس" تا قتل های زنجیره ای 77 و تعدیات 88

by Mahmoud Sadri
18-Jan-2010 (6 comments)
مرتکبین قتل های زنجیره ای مانند بانیان محکومیت درایفوس، یک عده مزدور و قاتل بالفطره نبودند.... معتقد و منضبط بودن جنایتکاران نه تنها ذره ای از شناعت اعمالشان نمی کاهد بلکه به مصداق دزد با چراغ آمده قبح اعمالشان را دو صد چندان می کند... منطق قاتلین این بود که معاندین خطرشان از قاچاقچیان و اشراری که اعدام می شوند بیشتر و امکان مجازات قانونی شان کمتر است. بنا براین، و با فتاوا و اجازه هائی که از معدودی مجتهدین و روحانیان متصدی امور برای این اعدامها گرفتند دست به خون متفکران، روزنامه نگاران، محققین، و فعالان سیاسی ایران آغشتند>>>

CONSUMERISM

I Scream, You Scream

... We all Scream for Ice Cream

by varjavand
18-Jan-2010 (4 comments)
A world full of differentiated products is like a kitchen cabinet stuffed with a variety of vitamins. Although, they are good for you, too much of them may be detrimental to your health. It seems people in rich countries like the United States have an endless craving for variation, from SUVs to electronics to even simple products like ice cream, yogurt, and not to mention, Beanie Babies. No matter how many different versions of a product are already in the market, it seems manufacturers always have newer ones coming and consumers have an insatiable desire to buy them>>>

HERITAGE

The Persians

The first Iran-based civilization was created by the people of today’s Khuzestan

by Arash Monzavi-Kia
18-Jan-2010 (3 comments)
Fifty thousand years back, a group of Africans moved into Asia and Europe. When the last ice-age ended 10,000 years ago; a group of those migrants created the first world civilization (Sumer) in today’s Iraq. Later on, the Sumerian civilization was flooded by waves of Semitic immigrants (forefathers of today’s Jews and Arabs) and at about 5,000 years ago, morphed into the Akkadian civilization. The Akkadians in turn were defeated and absorbed into the Assyrian and Babylonian states>>>

REVIEW

This moment it is

Arash T. Riahi's "For a Moment Freedom"

by Bita Shafipour
18-Jan-2010 (one comment)
For a Moment Freedom tells the story of three groups of heroes, a communist family with a son, two young hip friends with their cousin’s two children, and a simple Kurdish man and an Iranian man, who become good friends after living in Turkey for too long. They all reside at a rundown hotel in the ghettos of Ankara. They share the same daily schedule: going to the UN headquarter, standing in the line for 8 hours to talk to someone in charge and being told to go back home and come back the next day>>>

POETRY

Perseus Rex
by jamh
18-Jan-2010 (2 comments)
As I daydreamed in class
I often wondered about the face
hung over the blackboard
above Ferdowsi's famous rhyme
on wisdom being power.

But power is a funny thing.
Never a mean to an end,
it permeates your core.
>>>
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