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REALITY
01-Apr-2012 (6 comments)
You've all had your chances... Now it's my turn. SOS is a good moniker for the new Shah's of Sunset. But maybe we should modify it to SOSAS Because clearly, desperately, someone certainly needs to Save our Ship, and Souls to boot. In spite of everything that is wrong about it, the Shah's of Sunset is likely to stay. [Daram Cheshmesh Mizanam, beh Amrikai-ha Nagin!] The more we scream about it, the more everyone watches, and the more the producers are inclined to keep it going>>>
LIFE
01-Apr-2012 (one comment)
Last night I had a fabulous dream, though it couldn’t have had a more bizarre setting. While the location seemed suitable for a wedding, I knew it was the San Diego Museum of Art, a magnificent building in a floral garden. However, unlike other times, on this visit only one section of the museum was open for viewing as the rest prepared to receive hundreds of guests. The entire event seemed to be about my homeland Iran, its glorious history, and even NoRooz>>>
IDEAS
01-Apr-2012
“Dowlat-Abadi: No. Protesting censorship has its own form according to the circumstance. I protest in one way, another will protest in another way. But, in fact, censorship is not a matter to be solved by using the sword. We want the problem to be solved. We want to make it understood that censorship is an unnecessary matter; because in every society, there are a series of taboos, and our writers in Iran respect these taboos. Therefore, censorship can no more play the important role it has given itself.” What taboos is Dowlat-Abadi talking about?>>>
STORY
01-Apr-2012
در گوشه‌ای از این دنیای درندشت، مامان بزرگ خوبی روی صندلی مخصوصش نشست و به چهار جفت چشم زیبایی نگاه کرد که میهمانش بودند. پیژاماهای خوشرنگ صورتی، آبی، لیمویی و بنفش «جوجه‌ها» اتاق خوابش را رنگارنگ کرده‌اند. همه روی شکم دراز کشیده‌اند. همه دستها را زیر چانه زده‌اند؛ و همه منتظرند که باز هم یکی از داستانهای شیرین مامان بزرگ را بشنوند>>>
POETRY
01-Apr-2012 (12 comments)
کنار زن ها بایستد
مردی که نه در مقابل آن ها
نه بالای سرشان
و نه در دامنشان—
مردی که جرات کند کنار
بایستد. >>>
مردی که نه در مقابل آن ها
نه بالای سرشان
و نه در دامنشان—
مردی که جرات کند کنار
بایستد. >>>
IMAGINE
30-Mar-2012 (12 comments)
Imagine that you wake up tomorrow morning and discover that during the night. Israeli planes had conducted a bombing raid on Iran. How would your world have changed? Apart from the sensational headlines and breathless reports, the initial change might not be very significant. You would probably want to know whether the United States approved or assisted in the attack on Iran's nuclear sites. In fact, it doesn't really matter>>>
KASRAVI
30-Mar-2012 (16 comments)
کسروی نشان میداد که پایگاه اجتماعی ارتجاع در ایران همان توده های مردم زحمتکش اند که آن روزها رفقای چپ همه امیدشان را به آنان بسته بودند. و اتفاقا این این تحصیل کرده ها و فرنگ رفته ها بودند که از حقوق بشر و آزادی دفاع می‌کردند، و در مقابل هم این رنجبران و زحمتکشان شهری بودند که به آزادیخواهان هجوم می‌بردند و بر رویشان چاقو و چماق می‌کشیدند>>>
STORY
30-Mar-2012 (5 comments)
My ominous association with ghosts goes back to my early childhood years. Aunt Sedighe, my father’s youngest sister lived in Shoushtar, one of the oldest cities in the world, dating back to Achaemenian dynasty (400 BC). Shoushtar used to be the winter capital of Sassanian dynasty and it was built by the Karoun River. The river was channeled to form a trench around the city>>>
POETRY
30-Mar-2012 (4 comments)
VIEW
28-Mar-2012 (3 comments)
The whole sales pitch behind the U.S.-sponsored European missile defense program in Eastern Europe has been about thwarting the Iranian missile strikes on European targets. If after the election, the U.S. would become “flexible” – meaning, conciliatory and concessionary – with respect to the deployment of missile defense in Eastern Europe, it would be in part because the Iranian threat – actual or perceived – is no longer there or substantially degraded>>>
CRIMINAL
28-Mar-2012 (4 comments)
اگر برای نشان دادن درجه سبعیت، وحشی‌گری، بدویت فرهنگی و ایدئولوژیکی رژیم حاکم بر ایران تنها یک دلیل و شاخص لازم بود همین نحوه رفتار و برخورد آن به مسئله اعدام کفایت می‌کرد. رژیم‌های زیادی در جهان به کشتن و بستن و سرکوب و زندان و شکنجه دست می‌زنند. ولی همه این کردارها یک توجیه «عقلی» دارد: حفظ یا اعمال قدرت. کشتن خونسردانه فرد اسیر و بی‌دفاع و بی‌خطر که به نام اعدام انجام می‌شود، اما، کمتر توجیهی در حفظ یا اعمال قدرت می‌توان داشته باشد>>>
REPLY
28-Mar-2012 (8 comments)
Azar Majedi of the Organisation of Women’s Liberation - Iran has attacked the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar and supporting video of Iranian women as being similar to the tabloids (namely the Sun’s page 3), ‘dim-witted idiocy’ and ‘buffoonery’ and Golshifteh Farahani’s nudity as ‘commercial’ whilst supporting Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy’s nudity. Her attack is a masterpiece in dishonesty, hypocrisy, and regressive politics. Let me explain>>>
LIFE
28-Mar-2012 (9 comments)
This writing is not about my life but about a generation of Iranians between the ages of 45-55 who left Iran around the revolution. It’s the naked truth about an entire generation of exiled people who have lost their identity, their hopes and dreams, feel alone and lost and for the most part live in severe undiagnosed depression>>>
IDEAS
28-Mar-2012
It is obvious that for Dowlat-Abadi, the origin of censorship by the “cultural management” is not its fundamentalist ideology and repressive attitude, but only its dogmatism. That’s why a few sentences ahead, he sympathized with the censors of the Ministry of Islamic Guidance as victims of their own actions. He said, “This discourse that they want to hear and hear it from the mouth of others, because they don’t hear it, they constantly repeat it themselves; what’s the use?">>>
TALK
26-Mar-2012 (3 comments)
Thankfully, a commonsense and long overdue proposal has been introduced in Congress by Representative Barbara Lee (Democrat, California) and nine other Representatives to dispense with the absurd "no contact" policy on the U.S. side. The bill, the Prevent Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons and Stop War Through Diplomacy Act (H.R.4173) would finally lift the ban on talking to Iran. Not only would eliminating this policy put us in a much better position to resolve the standoff, it will put the onus on the Iranians>>>
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