BOOK

The Ten Phases of Ansbach

The Armageddon scenario is not discovered before it is too late

21-Jan-2012 (one comment)
Farah sat in the study with ImAn on her lap soothing and comforting as her little girl’s crying had now ceased and the comfort of the antibiotic ointment was calming the nerve endings in her slightly brushed cheek. It was apparent to Amir almost immediately that his daughter had come very close to being seriously hurt. The housekeeper wanted to stay before leaving for her errands incase Farah still needed her for ImAn, but it seemed that the little girl had gained her composure as she slowly released the hold on her mother and regained confidence in her surroundings>>>

POETRY

خرسند
21-Jan-2012 (one comment)
هنوز هوا در سینه ام تنگ است
دیگر نیمه شب ها در بیداری راه نمی روم
در خواب هایم به زندگی تان می آیم
آنجا که گفتی مرده ام
قبول >>>

YES

Could Israel live with a nuclear Iran?

IRI may be deterred by Israel's capability to strike back

19-Jan-2012 (14 comments)
Three months before the recent upsurge in tension with Tehran over its nuclear program, an Israeli think tank simulated fallout from what many here consider the unthinkable: an Iranian nuclear explosive test. The results of the simulation, published this week, are not the Middle East doomsday that some here have warned of. Rather than use the weapon to attack the Jewish state - as many Israeli leaders fear - the experts playing Iran leveraged the newly unveiled military power as a bargaining chip with the US and Europe>>>

OPINION

Why Regime Change Won't Work

The assumption that democracy would magically ensue

19-Jan-2012 (8 comments)
One of the most popular things on the Republican campaign trail is regime change in Iran. Mitt Romney favors it, Rick Santorum favors it, and Newt Gingrich even has a plan for doing it. Give these guys some credit: At least they don't suffer from the common illusion that a few days of bombing will lastingly set back Iran's nuclear program. Unfortunately, the idea that regime change would do the job isn't much more reality-based>>>

UNCONVENTIONAL WAR

حملات نظامی نامتقارن علیه ایران

جنگی که اکنون در جریان است بیشتر قربانیان خود را از مردم عادی یا نادخیل در سیاست‌های نظامی حکومت می‌گیرد

19-Jan-2012 (5 comments)
جمهوری اسلامی در معرض یک حمله نظامی قرار گرفته است. در این برخورد نظامی، هویت حمله کنندگان مشخص نیست و آنان از تاکتیک جنگ‌های نامتقارن علیه جمهوری اسلامی بهره می‌گیرند. این برای رژیم اسلامی بسیار دردسر ساز شده است. رژیم خود را برای حمله نظامی متعارف آماده می‌کرده است تا با تاکتیک جنگ‌های نامتقارن به آن پاسخ دهد. ولی اکنون خود گرفتار حملات نظامی نامتقارن شده است>>>

QAJAR

میهمانی قجرها  و جای خالی اردشیر

"فی الواقع از خودمان خوشمان آمد"

19-Jan-2012 (14 comments)
جای "اردشیر محصص" خالی که گزارشی تصویری از جلسه سالانه شام خاندان قاجار قلمی می کرد. پس از دیدن ویدئو این میهمانی وآشنایی با بازماندگان جلیل القدر این خاندان بخصوص "حضرت اقدس والا سلطان علی قاجار" و بیانات ایشان در پایان ویدئو درباره صدو چهل سال خدمات خاندان قاجار به ایران، فکر کردم این مطالب را بنویسم چون با دیدن آن قیافه ها و شنیدن آن صحبت ها بدون نوشتن این مطلب نمی توانستم با خودم کنار بیایم>>>

POETRY

گلشیفته فراهانی
19-Jan-2012 (2 comments)
دگمه های نگاهت را بازکن
تا نافِ هستی
ترا می خواهم ای حقیقت
ترا می خواهم ای حقِ عریان.
>>>

REPLY

Neither War Nor Nuclear-Armed Iran

Reshaping the Middle East via a policy of common security

17-Jan-2012 (7 comments)
Joschka Fischer’s concerns and warnings should be taken seriously by every responsible politician and urge him or her to look for ways that could prevent the approaching catastrophe. It is however disappointing that his article does not address those considerations for a diplomatic solution. On the contrary, in his assessment of possible threats Fischer constructs a deadlock, which in the final analysis presents a war on Iran as the only possible alternative to a nuclear Iran>>>

KABOB

Moby Dick Explains it all

Persian food is always best served like revenge, slowly

17-Jan-2012 (7 comments)
I'm in DC for a job/project, and whenever I'm in DC for a job/project or for any other reason, right around the corner from PAAIA, and about 16 blocks from NIAC, too far to walk (poor NIAC!), on the opposite side of the corner from one of the only remaining Krispy Kreme shops around, when I can, when I remember, I try and frequent my favorite east coast Chelokababi. Moby Dick House of Kabob. Before you say it, skip it, trust me, I'll deal with it at the end>>>

BOOK

چهل مَتل از کودکی

تقدیم به بزرگترا تا بدونن کوچیکترا چی فکر می کنن

17-Jan-2012 (3 comments)
"چهل مَتل از کودکی" نام کتاب تازه ایست از خانم فرشتۀ کوثر. طنز شیرین خانم کوثر در این متل ها هم همچون دو کتاب دیگرش خود را چنان که باید، می نمایاند و از ظرافت فکری، نازک اندیشی وخوش ذوقی نویسنده حکایت می کند. طنز کوثر در این کتاب یک جمله یک سطری نیست بلکه آن را می توان دربافت و رابطه داستانها واشخاص مختلف با یکدیگر یافت>>>

STORY

Take Our Daughters to Work Day

Nasrin did not say anything about her day at the salon

17-Jan-2012 (2 comments)
Take your daughter with you to the place where you work, the school had said. Take her to see where you work so that she can see herself working some day. Girls need to see that they can become anything they want to be. I do not want her to see where I work, Nasrin thought. I do not want her to see me sweeping up the hair after a customer leaves. I would rather tell her about Iran, about the school and my classroom and how the other teachers used to come to me for advice. I would rather tell her about that>>>

POETRY

ملاقات با رابعه در خانه عشق

تابلو رابعه

17-Jan-2012 (11 comments)
روزی ز سر شباب و مستی
واز شورش اشتیاق شایان
رفتم به طواف خانه عشق
در باغ جنان به کوچه جان >>>

WHODUNIT

Assassinations with a Message

Life expectancy is short for Iranian nuclear scientists

15-Jan-2012 (2 comments)
Does the killing of nuclear scientists stop or delay the Iranian nuclear weapons plan? Hardly. There are thousands of scientists and technicians on the job, and killing a few dozen individuals does harm the development of nuclear bombs, but only marginally. However there are ancillary by-products which could be the intended side effect of each of these operations: to instill fear and practically immobilize other scientists still working>>>

ASSASSINATION

 ترور دستاویزی برای خشونت متقابل

بیانیه محکومیت ترور کارشناسان هسته ای

15-Jan-2012 (10 comments)
ما به عنوان مخالفان فعال جنگ، ترور مصطفی احمدی روشن از مدیران تاسیسات هسته ای نطنز را که در 21 دی ماه در تهران اتفاق افتاد، بمانند هر ترور دیگری، شدیدا محکوم می کنیم. ترور در هر شکلی محکوم است و با هر هدفی صورت گیرد، اقدامات صلح طلبانه را خنثی می کندو مشروعیت و دستاویزی برای خشونت و ترور متقابل بوجود می آورد>>>

SANCTIONS

Going Nowhere

U.S. meets resistance on harsh Iranian sanctions

15-Jan-2012 (10 comments)
If this article were written to advise non-existing rational leaders of the White House and the U.S. Congress, my strong recommendation to them, at risk of being called naïve, would be that they should immediately announce that the U.S. has no plan of going to war against Iran and declare all sanctions are halted and negotiations over Iran's nuclear program would begin. The reason for such an advice is that the present sanctions regime and further aggravation and possible war with Iran are utterly going against U.S. interests and credibility>>>