Archive - Dec 13, 2011 - Article

Go All the Way: Nuke Iran

Are there no more sane diplomats or politicians amongst us? On the eve of 2012, are we witnessing a lack of leadership and sanity on the part of the American policy makers? Even though Obama offered to negotiate, the IRI hardliners chose not to sit and continue with the talks. However, negotiation is not a one-day or one way process. It takes months to come to a compromise in order to avoid a catastrophe. The factionalism in Iran stops any attempts in its tracks>>>

Waste of Dollars

Whatever policy the United States adopts toward Iran, it will need to communicate it to the Iranian people. This will not be easy. Iranians are subject to heavy anti-American propaganda from the Islamic government. Not only are there no diplomatic relations, Tehran even creates many problems for people-to-people exchanges like student scholarship programs. The main tool of U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran is generous government funding of Voice of America's Persian TV and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Persian program>>>

The New Dress

The message that the narrator sends could be that while women’s clothing frequently substitutes for the limits put on women, it also suggests the possibility of change and opting for new identities. The essential issue for us is not to allow our clothing and its associated social pressures to control our psyche, as it happens to Mabel, but to be able to use clothing in order to actively transform the way we think of ourselves and the way we let others think about us>>>

اصفهانی حاضرجواب

رضا ارحام صدر ( 87-1302) بازیگر خنده آفرین اصفهانی به تازگی در شهر خود درگذشت. نمایش های او مانند "گز سلامتیان" و "بستنی چمنزار" شیرین بود و جذابیتی جهانگردانه داشت. من چند بار همراه با پدر مادر و یکی از خواهرانم که همکلاسی همسر ارحام صدر بود به دیدن نمایش هایش رفته بودم که نخست در پاساژ کازرونی نزدیک چهارباغ و سپس در تالاری نزدیک "پل فلزی" در محله ی جلفا برگزار می شد>>>

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