ARAB SPRING

Learn From Iran

Advice to women in Arab world

by Julie Tomlin
17-Dec-2011 (2 comments)
The emergence of Islamic identity is just one of the potential threats to women's status in the wake of the Arab Spring according to Iranian-born Sussan Tahmasebi who is working to pass on the lessons learnt by the women's movement in her native Iran. The strengthening of Islam, division among secular and Islamic women and a widespread belief that the quest for women's rights should be put on hold until after the revolution all could pose a threat to women's status in countries like Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, says Tahmasebi>>>

NUCLEAR

Take Hostages, Wait for Cash

You want Iran to stop their Nuke program? Offer some cash!

by bahmani
17-Dec-2011 (2 comments)
Although we may hate to admit it, the pattern is nevertheless crystal clear. In 1979 when Iran took the US embassy staff hostage, it released them 333 days later after Ronald Reagan promised them cash, and several other promises he somewhat delivered and reneged on. The arms for hostages, and the Iran-Contra affair, are all there for you to review, of course Wikipedia has the details, but please, choose your own source, it's all perfectly visible>>>

NPT

ان.پی.تی فقط یک معاهده نیست. یک «معامله» است

آنچه برای تداوم و تحقق مقاصد ان.پی.تی اهميت دارد، برقراری توازن ميان تعهدات طرفين است

by Reza Nasri
17-Dec-2011 (9 comments)
معاهده‌ی ان.پی.تی متشکل از سه رکن اساسی است. رکن اول آن رکن «منع تکثير» است که مطابق آن کشورهای غير هسته‌ای متعهد شده‌اند که از دستيآبی به سلاح هسته‌ای خودداری نمايند. رکن دوم آن رکن «خلع سلاح» است که مطابق آن کشورهای مجهز به سلاح هسته‌ای متعهد شده‌اند که ضمن خودداری از توليد بيشتر سلاح‌ هسته‌ای، تدريجاً خلع سلاح نمايند. و رکن سوم،‌ رکن «حق دستيآبی به فن‌آوری صلح آميز» است که مطابق آن نه تنها حق دستيآبی همه کشورها به تکنولوژی هسته‌ای صلح‌آميز به رسميت شناخته شده>>>

PARSIPUR

آسیه در میان دو دنیا

همه جا هست، هیچ جا هم نیست. تا مى آیم بگیرمش در مى رود.

by Shahrnush Parsipur
17-Dec-2011 (2 comments)
آسیه، چهارده ساله، صدمترى دورتر از آخرین خانه ى روستا، نزدیك گورستان روى سنگى نشسته بود كه نامش را بالش رستم گذاشته بودند. داشت به نام خودش مى اندیشید. فكر كرد كاش اسمش صدیقه بود. نخستین بارى كه این نام را شنیده بود دچار این حس شده بود كه در اصل یك صدیقه نامى بوده است. و به خودش گفت دیگر باید فرار كنم. از سه روز پیش كه ماه جبین كتكش زده بود داشت به فرار فكر مى كرد، و مرد كه از دور پیدا شد آسیه فكر كرد به همین شوهر مى كنم>>>

POETRY

The first day
by jamh
17-Dec-2011
For some reason
there was a vast desert
in the heart of Tehran.
I happened to look up,
suddenly not occupied
with mischief and fun.
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STATEMENT

Workers Unite! Against War!

There would be no room for campaigning for human rights when cities are bombed and civilians slaughtered

by Iran Labor
15-Dec-2011 (19 comments)
We, trade unionists in Tehran and other cities, extend our warm greetings to you from half way across the world. Please forgive us for not sending you a video message. Unfortunately trade unionism is considered a dangerous offense by the Iranian government and labor activists here are persecuted like dangerous criminals. Hence the need for extra caution even in a simple message of greeting such as this>>>

CAMP ASHRAF

بن بست خطرناک

از جامعه جهانی می‌خواهیم که برای دادن پناهندگی به ساکنان اشرف حد اکثر همکاری را به عمل آورند

by 200+ Signatures
15-Dec-2011 (8 comments)
ما امضاکنندگان زیر، صرف نظر از مواضع و عملکردهای سازمان مجاهدین خلق ایران و مرزبندی‌های مشخصی که با آن داریم، خواهان حل و فصل مشکل اردوگاه اشرف به صورت انسانی و مسالمت‌آمیز هستیم و نسبت به عواقب سوء و فاجعه‌بار کاربرد زور و هر اقدامی که سلامتی و حیات ساکنان اردوگاه را به خطر بیندازد هشدار می‌دهیم. ما معتقدیم که ساکنان اشرف باید از حقوق انسانی و بشری خود و از جمله حق پناهندگی برخوردار شوند>>>

KIOSK

Fresh ground free-range cynical intellectualism

Album Review: "OUTCOME OF NEGOTIATIONS"

by bahmani
15-Dec-2011
With every new Kiosk album, I tear off the cellophane with a certain sense of excited trepidation. On the one hand, I can't wait to taste all the new cool ear-candy Arash Sobhani has picked out for me, from the candy shop of treats in his head. Arash Ali Wonka. On the other, there is a pragmatic fatalistic Iranian innate fear in me that always hovers just far enough out to like here- that at some point Sobhani is going to fizzle>>>

NOVEL

Children of a Lesser Nation

Ultimately, our future isn’t in the stars, but in our mind and hearts

by Majid Amini
15-Dec-2011
Cyrus’s throat is painfully dry as the deafening scream of the alarm clock wakes him up around half past five the following morning. In disbelief, he feels that his throat is about to crack open every time he swallows. Remembering a remedy prescribed by his mother, he gargles warm water with a pinch of salt before taking a shower. He hopes it may temporarily ease the painful dryness. By the time he washes down two slices of buttered toast with a cup of hot tea sweetened with honey, he senses his body temperature is rising>>>

CLINT

پند و اندرزی از کلینت ایستوود
by gorgahoo
15-Dec-2011 (5 comments)
اَکتور معروف کلینتِ ایستوود
مشغول اجرای نقش در فیلم بود
شغل بانتی هانتِری بُد نقش او
رستم او و ایمپالا هم رخش او
در پِیِ یک بِیل جامپِر سِفت و سخت
تا کند دستگیر کروکِ تیره بخت >>>

POETRY

Paradoxialism
by Alef Mahan
15-Dec-2011 (one comment)
خطهای پریشان
اشاره‌های مبهم
لكه‌های رنگ
اما دقیق، منظم
سایه‌های آفتابی
از فرشتگانی عریان اما زمینی
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WAR

Go All the Way: Nuke Iran

Possibility of military action has gained new momentum

by Fariba Amini
13-Dec-2011 (86 comments)
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>>>

VOA

Waste of Dollars

Persian broadcasting service in its present form

by Mehdi Khalaji
13-Dec-2011 (4 comments)
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>>>

IDEAS

The New Dress

Review of Virginia Woolf's short story

by Azadeh Azad
13-Dec-2011 (2 comments)
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>>>

COMEDIAN

اصفهانی حاضرجواب

نگاهی به ریشه های تاریخی نقش رضا ارحام صدر

by Majid Naficy
13-Dec-2011 (one comment)
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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