Date

POETRY

آقا یعنی چه؟
25-Apr-2012 (5 comments)
رفته ای کلاب شطرنج، آقا یعنی چه؟
داده ای خانم خود رنج، آقا یعنی چه؟
پسران وطنم با تو لعب می بازند
من به صورت بزنم خنج، آقا یعنی چه؟>>>

MUSIC

Ba'd Az To

New song by Shahin Najafi

23-Apr-2012 (25 comments)
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SEX

The Ayatollah Under the Bed(sheets)

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, all politics may not be sexual, but all sex is political

23-Apr-2012 (15 comments)
Perhaps it's not entirely surprising that Iran's Shiite fundamentalists -- not unlike their evangelical Christian, Catholic, Orthodox Jewish, and Sunni Muslim counterparts -- spend an inordinate amount of time pondering sexuality. They are human, after all. But the sexual manias of Iran's religious fundamentalists are worthy of greater scrutiny, all the more so because they control a state with nuclear ambitions, vast oil wealth, and a young, dynamic, stifled population>>>

OPPOSITION

ترسی بدتر از مرگ

از من پرسيده شد که «شما چگونه می خواهيد مملکت را منحل کنيد؟»

23-Apr-2012 (4 comments)
در کنفرانس مهرداد مشايخی برايم آشکار شد که، در واقع، موضع گيری «انقلابيون سابق» بر اين استدلال استوار است که در فقدان يک «رهبری کاريزماتيک» و يک «دولت مرکزی مقتدر»، هر نوع دست زدن به «ترکيب حاکميت کنونی» شيرازهء کل مملکت را از هم می پاشد و اقوام (يا به زبان خود اقوام، مليت ها) سر به شورش بر می دارند و مملکت را تکه تکه می کنند>>>

GHAVAMZADEH

Best Researcher in the World

Translation of a piece by Mazyar Mahdavifar

23-Apr-2012 (8 comments)
It was around the 1370s 1380s period when we finished the theory portion of our studies at the university and entered a hospital as medical students. They divided us up into groups of ten and sent several groups to different hospitals. Some went to Hezaar Takht e Khaabi, some to Farabi, and some to Raazi. I, along with some of the groups that were supposed to do rotations in internal medicine, ended up in Shariati Hospital>>>

STORY

هندسه ترسیمی رقومی

چگونه کشیدن هر خط یک زندگی‌را می‌سازد یا نابود می‌کند

23-Apr-2012 (26 comments)
سال آخر دبیرستان بود و درس عجیب و غریبی بنام "هندسه ترسیمی رقومی". مثل بیشتر محصلین دیپلم طبیعی، به حساب و هندسه بی‌ علاقه بودم، و داشتم از پنجره طبقه چهارم به ساختمان آنطرف خیابان ذل میزدم. معلممان که مانند اغلب دبیران باسواد ریاضی‌، رشتی بود، چند بار صدا زد و حتی یکبار گچ پراند، شاید بجای خیال پردازی به درس "بسیار مهم" او توجه کنم>>>

POETRY

روز روشن
23-Apr-2012 (24 comments)
آسمان تاريک نيست
بر تارک اين آبى بى انتها
لکه اى نيست از ابر سياه.
طوفان در کرانه آرامش
در کمين ننشسته است >>>

POETRY

سرود های ماندگار عشق -۷
23-Apr-2012 (11 comments)
برگ مسیحا نفس آمد به بار
کز نفس اش تازه شود روزگار
سطح جهان بود مثال حباب
سبزه و برگ آمد و شد انقلاب
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TALKS

Cheering for Failure

Why Netanyahu is afraid of diplomacy

21-Apr-2012 (65 comments)
The bar had been set very low for the talks. But progress was made, not because neither side compromised, but precisely because both did. The Iranians dropped their precondition for addressing the nuclear issue, and the US agreed to resolve the issue within the framework of the NPT, sending yet another implicit signal that Washington will accept enrichment on Iranian soil under strict inspections. Of course, Netanyahu is wrong in arguing that Iran gained time>>>

HOPE

Nuclear weapons are anti-Islamic

Possibility that talks may eventually lead to a solution?

21-Apr-2012 (2 comments)
We have to believe, if only occasionally, that things may work out after all. Case in point, the nuclear talks with Iran being held in Turkey. For Iranians, renouncing nuclear weapons in exchange for a) at least a partial lifting of the sanctions that are crippling its economy and causing grumbling in the population—not good for the regime— and b) being allowed to continue enriching uranium for peaceful energy purposes>>>

NUCLEAR

All Quiet

Chomsky and Galloway on American media’s duplicity

21-Apr-2012 (4 comments)
Checking out the US media recently I have noticed a dramatic downturn in anti-Iran rhetoric. Now that the Israeli leaders got what they wanted from the Obama administration, in terms of more weapons and money and a relief from forced negotiation with Palestinians, the scare tactic about nuclear Iran has died off. Israel was a clear winner and achieved what it wanted without firing a shot. By now more people should come to the point of understanding that all of this brouhaha was about “Mullah’s Blanket”>>>

REVOLUTION

زمین تا آسمان

تفاوت انقلاب 1688 انگلستان با انقلاب 1357 ایران

21-Apr-2012 (2 comments)
تنها با یک نگاه کلی به این دو انقلاب، می بینیم که اهداف انقلاب انگلیس مشخص و شفاف و مورد تأئید عموم و یا اکثریت ملت بود ولی خواستۀ اکثریت مردم ایران، این بود که شاه برود! نتیجۀ پیروزمندانۀ انقلاب 1688 در پرتوی اهداف مشخص: قدرتمند کردن مردم در مقابل حکومت، احترام به حقوق و شعور مردم و شرکت آنان در تعیین سرنوشت خویش، قانونمندیِ سیستم و امنیت اجتماعی، و اقتصاد باز و پویا با حد اقل امکانات برای بهبود زندگی مردم بود>>>

POETRY

سبزِ اروتیک
21-Apr-2012 (one comment)
كلاهِ سرما
تازه افتاده اما
كوچكترین شیرینترین نازكترین نازترین
تكه لباسِ تو ای دوردست >>>

REPLY

آکله های اشرف
21-Apr-2012 (69 comments)
آکله های اشرف
نه راه پیش دارند نه پس
نه مسعود آدم حسابشان میکند
نه دیگر مردمان عاقل دنیا
زیرا آکله بودن را انتخاب کردند>>>

TERRITORY

Rude Awakening

Iran's territorial integrity not on the table

19-Apr-2012 (19 comments)
The announcement on Tuesday 17th April by the United States expressing sympathy with the United Arab Emirates and in support of a negotiated settlement between Iran and the government of that Persian Gulf state over the three so called disputed islands is a dangerous step with drastic ramifications for the future relationship between the Iranian nation and the United States. It is a slap in the face and a rude awakening for a nation who receives regular messages of goodwill from the President of the United States>>>