POETRY

کبوتری پریده‌ام
by Mahmoud Seraji
11-Jan-2010 (4 comments)
به ره نشسته‌ای چو من، نترسد از ملامتی
ز جان گذشته کی‌ کند، هراسی از شماتتی

ز دست یار بی‌ خبر، که کرده سر به زیر پر
دگر به جان مختصر، نمانده استقامتی >>>

IRAN

The Center of the Universe

Suspicion and arrogance toward the external world

by oktaby
09-Jan-2010 (80 comments)
"Iran cannot yet decide whether it is more Iranian or Moslem. Future Iranians need to cope with this dichotomy. Perhaps the reemergence of some degree of the nationalist, pre-Islamic legacy will moderate Iran's more zealous Shi'ite side." The future of Iran as we know it is in flux, this is critical time for Iranians to exert the most influence on what Iran of tomorrow will look and feel like. Understanding ourselves, our history, ideas and ideals will help us make better sense of the deluge of news, information, propaganda and emotions coming at us, and temper our views and responses>>>

EXILES

Polish War Cemetery at Anzali

On behalf of the men, women and children who died here

by Ryszard Antolak
09-Jan-2010 (20 comments)
The grand, wrought iron gates of the Polish wartime cemetery have not been opened for decades and are permanently padlocked. Entrance can be gained using a smaller, more prosaic, gate at the western end of the compound. As with the other Polish war cemeteries in Iran, this site is cared for by the local Armenian community, a service for which it deserves a deep debt of gratitude. Arrived with a bouquet of red and white flowers in my arms, I am welcomed at the door by the caretaker, Mr. Reza Moghadam, a slim, gentle, self-effacing man who leads me leisurely through what looks like a secret garden rather than a graveyard>>>

POETRY

Haikus on the Green Movement
by Azadeh Azad
09-Jan-2010 (8 comments)
the dead of winter
warmth in the Sunshine Café
earl gray tea and cake
 
my laptop is on
Iran on BBC world
riots, blood, fire >>>

STORY

جنگ جنگ تا پیروزی – فصل دو

عملیات‌ والفجر

by Shazde Asdola Mirza
09-Jan-2010 (11 comments)
"انسان گرگ انسان است." هر کی‌ گفته راست گفته، چون هشت سال جنگ جنون آمیز رو حتی گرگهای وحشی هم نمیتوانستند تحمل کنند، اما ما ایرونی‌‌ها و عراقی‌‌ها با جشن و پایکوبی پیش بردیم. در نیمه‌های جنگ، عملیات‌های والفجر نقطه اوج اون همایش دیوانه وار بود. محسن رضائی در یک مصاحبه گفت "برادران سپاه عملیات‌ها میکنند"، و صدا و سیمای جمهوری اسلامی اون عبارت رو به مرتبه اعلا رسوند. اما "والفجر" ساخته هاشمی‌ رفسنجانی‌ بود که تو نماز جمعه اعلام کرد که، آخرین حمله نهایی‌ ایران و منجر به سقوط صدام خواهد بود.>>>

NOVEL

حرامزاده - 2

چرا شعارهای مرگ بر زمین و زمانتان را نثار خودمان نمی کنید که درحال حاضر احمق ترین مردم دنیا هستیم؟

by Dariush Azadmanesh
09-Jan-2010
شعار های گوناگونی بروی تابلوها و پارچه های رنگارنگ نوشته شده بود. مرگ بر آرژانتین، مرگ بر آمریکا، مرگ بر اسرائیل، مرگ بر انگلیس، مرگ بر منافق، مرگ بر ضد انقلاب، زنده باد انقلاب، زنده باد رهبر و غیره. حدود پنجاه دانشجو که الهه نیز در میان آنان بود این اعلامیه ها را در دست گرفته و جلوی ساختمان ال ایتالیا در برابر سفارت آرژانتین تجمع کرده بودند. چند تن از دانشجویان در حال آتش زدن پرچمهای آمریکا و آرژانتین بودند و چند تن دیگر نیز با صدای بلند شعار می دادند. الهه اصلا حال و حوصله آن برنامه را نداشت و اگر قبلا وعده همراهی به دوستانش نداده بود هرگز حاضر نمی شد در تجمع امروز شرکت کند>>>

APOLOGISTS

Letter from a Tehran Jail

A response to Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett

by patrickdisney
07-Jan-2010 (65 comments)
In the New York Times, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett–both of whom I deeply respect–argued that the protesters in Iran make up a small, demographically isolated minority of Iranian society, and their activities therefore have very little chance of enacting real, substantive change in Iran’s political system. The Leveretts, in downplaying and even denigrating the activities of Iran’s dissidents, I fear that they will have justified the accusations that are sure to be flung their way – accusations of acting as apologists for the government, of disparaging a courageous and non-violent protest movement, and even of siding with Iran’s violent regime>>>

WITNESS

Bloody Sunday

Even the smallest thing you can do may end up having some big results in the end

by Mahtab Deljoo
07-Jan-2010 (one comment)
Within that few seconds of going to the street and looking around to gauge the situation, I lost my cousin. Looking around to find her while trying to plan for the best way to escape, I saw a woman who had fallen(sitting on ground) being surrounded by at least four or five of the savage guards who were hitting her by their batons mercilessly. It was just through the color of her disheveled hair, still so vivid in my mind, that I knew she was not my cousin. And I knew that I had to run, otherwise I would be trapped by a few and would have the same experience that woman was having>>>

LION & SUN

پدید آورده ی عشق

تاریخچه ی شیر و خورشید

by Samineh Baghcheban
07-Jan-2010 (20 comments)
از سالهای سال پیش دلم می خواست که از تاریخچه ی شیر و خورشید مان سر در بیاورم. از قضای روزگار، در منزل همین خویشاوند عزیز که قفسه هایش از انواع کتابهای علمی پر است، "تاریخچه ی شیر و خورشید" نوشته ی احمد کسروی به چشمم خورد. برداشتم و نگاهی به آن کردم. جالب بود. این جزوه از طرف کا نال یک در لس انجلس به تاریخ 2009 چاپ شده بود! شروع به خواندن کردم. با همه ی ارادتی که به این پژوهشگر،همشهری ی عزیزم آقای احمد کسروی دارم، باید بگویم که سبک نگارشش برایم سنگین و فهمش در بار اول دشوار است>>>

THEOCRACY

دین و دولت

مبارزه با اعتقادی شش هزار ساله

by Mahvash Shahegh
07-Jan-2010 (4 comments)
در هم تنیدگی دین و دولت در ایران  از بعد از انقلاب اسلامی شروع نشده و سابقه ای ۶۰۰۰ ساله دارد. در شاهنامۀ فردوسی توسی که سندی براستوره و تاریخ  ایرانیان است  گفته می شود که  چهارمین پادشاه اساتیری ایران – جمشید شاه - به هنگام اریکه بر تخت پادشاهی چنین  گفت:
"منم "  گفت  "با فرۀّ ایزدی / همم شهریاریّ و هم مؤ بدی
بدان را ز بد دست کوته کنم / روان را سوی روشنی ره کنم" >>>

STORY

The Flower Shop

All she wanted from him just then was to walk down the street holding flowers

by siamak vossoughi
07-Jan-2010
At the beginning, they were like anybody else. They were wrestling with the notion of what a man and a woman together are supposed to be, and their respective notions were wrestling with each other, knowing that the best they could hope for was a light and gentle wrestling, which it was. You couldn't run from those notions, and you couldn't spend all your effort on trying to knock them down either. They went back to when you were a boy and a girl, and you might knock down that boy and girl in the process>>>

WISH LIST

Unite Under Ten Demands

A call to unity

by Setareh Sabety
06-Jan-2010 (74 comments)
So what is to be done? How do we move forward to help bring about democracy, which everyone seems to want, in Iran. We have to come up with a set of demands that are broad enough to include all the disgruntled factions who want to help the popular yet still largely middle class struggle in Iran. We have to unite or we will not be strong enough against a regime which all agree will not hesitate to have a blood bath to save itself. The ten demands of the five intellectuals should be embraced because they provide the democratic framework within which we can debate the future of our beloved Iran>>>

REALITY

My personal green movement!

How many of us will return to Iran to be a part of these historic times?

by Siamack Baniameri
06-Jan-2010 (15 comments)
I got an email from a fella Twitter/Facebook warrior the other day, announcing that he had posted his “personal anti IRI demonstration” video on YouTube. Turns out that he and a few of his cyber vigilante friends held demonstrations in the basement of his house in Los Angles which included shouting anti IRI slogans and dancing to a pro green movement rap music followed by burning Khamanie’s posters (faces were blurred for fear of reprisal). As I was watching this so-called private demonstration, I wondered how my fellow Iranians inside Iran feel about this>>>

WARNING

چوبه‌های دار در راهند

رژیم جمهوری اسلامی طرح اعدام تعداد زیادی از اسیران سیاسی را در دستور کار خود قرار داده است

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
06-Jan-2010 (5 comments)
در تظاهرات حکومتی روز 9 دی، شعارهای دستوری حاکمان عمدتا حول اعدام دور می‌زد. از آن پس نیز همه عوامل رژیم، از کیهان شریعتمداری و تارنماهای وابسته به حاکمیت گرفته تا امامان جمعه و نمایندگان ولی فقیه و تا وزیران کشور و اطلاعات و فرماندهان انتظامی و سپاه و رییس قوه قضاییه و دادستانها و نمایندگان مجلس جمهوری اسلامی ایران پیوسته از شدت عمل و قتل و اعدام سریع زندانیان و اسیران و مخالفان حاکمیت سخن می‌گویند. یک آیت الله (حائری شیرازی) با هیجان و تأیید، اعدام‌های سریع نوجوانان در سال ۱۳۶۰ به دست موسوی تبریزی را به یاد بینندگان تلویزیون ایران می‌آورد >>>

FORWARD

Transition to democracy

Keeping the Green Movement alive

by Jalal Alavi
06-Jan-2010 (one comment)
The Islamic Republic is in dire straits, and deservedly so. Years of economic mismanagement (exacerbated by three rounds of UN-imposed sanctions), political repression, rampant corruption, and international adventurism seem to have taken their toll on the regime. A good indication of the regime’s increasing vulnerability to external pressure was the inability of the hardliners to prevent, just a few days ago, massive opposition protests from taking place on the streets of Tehran and other major Iranian cities during the Ashura ceremonies>>>
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