CHARMED

Game, Set and Match

Shahrzad Sepanlou concert at Yoshi’s

by Ari Siletz
21-Jul-2011 (7 comments)
By the time we got to the encore, the audience’s polite “let’s wait and see” clapping had turned into a heartfelt applause of delighted surprise. Stage time was short at San Francisco’s Yoshi’s Jazz Club and we weren’t sure if we were even going to get that encore. But when its final note was played, the crowd enthusiasm broke the critic’s barrier. It was as though a tennis champ had slammed a powerful ace blowing away his opponent with game, set and match>>>

STORY

At the Coffee Shop

"You know I've still never seen my father's grave?"

by siamak vossoughi
21-Jul-2011
"Well well well," said Gholamhossein Mohammadizadeh "Look what the cat dragged in." He said it in English, owing to the fact that cats did not drag anybody in in Iran. "If this wasn't such a high-class establishment," Ali Reza Karimi said "I'd give you the one-finger salute." The men laughed. "When'd that ever stop you before?" Gholamhossein said. "You got a point there," Ali Reza grinned. "I thought this guy had to work late today," said Akbar Hashemi as Ali Reza stood in line for coffee>>>

POETRY

شبگیری
by Jahangir Sedaghatfar
21-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
پیر ِ ما هم دیری است دگر بار سفر بسته است...
این زمان ما امّا،
چشم ِ بیدار به تقویم زمان خیره و
شب مانده هنوز؛
ما به امید یکی‌ صبح ِ جوان، >>>

VIEW

Conscientious Mistake

U.S. Army is tacitly accepting Islamic doctrine of jihad

by Adm. James A. Lyons
20-Jul-2011 (18 comments)
By granting conscientious objector status to Pfc. Abdo, the Army is tacitly accepting a key tenet of the Islamic doctrine of jihad, as embraced by al Qaeda and other terrorists groups, which states that any incursion by non-Muslims into the Islamic lands makes it the duty for all Muslims to fight the "occupiers." This view is shared by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has challenged American efforts in Afghanistan as "unwelcome outsiders," in effect, occupiers>>>

STRONGMAN

Gentle Giant?

Rouhullah Dadashi was no hero

by Siamack Baniameri
20-Jul-2011 (75 comments)
Rouhollah Dadashi was nothing more than a steroid-infested thug who was a part of the government intimidation machine. During the uprising of 2009, while Iranian youth were beaten, killed, raped and tortured, Dadashi dedicated his strongman competition title to Ahmadinejad and called him the greatest Iranian alive. He was a basiji enforcer and received allowance from the government for personal training services he provided to Basij and Sepah. In a nutshell, Dadashi was Islamic Republic’s Shahban "Beemokh" Jafari>>>

MURDOCH

زلزله سیاسی بریتانیا و مطبوعات آزاد

مطبوعات آزاد مهمترین رکن

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
20-Jul-2011 (one comment)
بزرگ‌ترین شرکت مطبوعاتی جهان در معرض گسترده‌ترین اتهامات جنایی شنود تلفنی و رشوه به پلیس در این کشور قرار گرفته است. تنها و تنها یک عامل توانست طلسم این مافیای قدرت را بشکند و به رابطه فسادآمیزی در قدرت که بیش از سه دهه ادامه داشت خاتمه دهد: تحقیقات یک روزنامه‌نگار و پیگیری یک روزنامه. و تنها در یک جامعه آزاد و با حضور روزنامه‌های آزاد و فارغ از دسته‌بندی‌های قدرت است که چنین تحقیقاتی امکان انتشار پیدا می‌کند>>>

MOSSADEGH

کودتای 30 تیر 31

آنهایی که قدرت را از طریق تظاهرات خیابانی به دست می آورند لاجرم در تظاهرات دیگری آن را از دست میدهند

by cyrous moradi
20-Jul-2011 (84 comments)
روز 30 تیر 31،دکتر محمد مصدق که نهادینه کردن دموکراسی در ایران را از اهداف همیشگی خود اعلام کرده بود، نظیر همه روشنفکران ایرانی، قول خود را فراموش کرد و با روشی غیر دموکراتیک و به شکل کودتا، مجدداً قدرت را در دست گرفت. با وجود آنکه در رفراندوم 16 مرداد سال 1332، مردم به انحلال مجلس رای دادند با اینحال، انحلال واقعی آن در همان روز 30 تیر سال 1331 و به دست خود دکتر مصدق صورت گرفته بود>>>

POETRY

My planet, my home
by Roshanak Amrein
20-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
... young and old
fall like autumn leaves
and we say:
Ah.. don’t look at this tyranny,
this ruin
this darkness
It brings sorrows and the sorrow >>>

MUSIC

Bandare Landan

Ajam Band's joonoobi spirit in heart of England

by mehrdadm
19-Jul-2011 (7 comments)
...>>>

WAR

Red September

Former CIA official says Israel will bomb Iran soon

by MJ Rosenberg
17-Jul-2011 (3 comments)
A longtime CIA officer who spent 21 years in the Middle East is predicting that Israel will bomb Iran in fall, dragging the United States into another major war and endangering U.S. military and civilian personnel (and other interests) throughout the Middle East and beyond. Earlier this week, Robert Baer appeared on the provocative KPFK Los Angeles show Background Briefing, hosted by Ian Masters. It was there that he predicted that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is likely to ignite a war with Iran in the very near future>>>

FORGIVENESS

آشتی ملی و بخشش

رسيدن به آشتی ملی بدون ايجاد روند خشونت زدايی غير ممکن است

by Ramin Jahanbegloo
17-Jul-2011 (21 comments)
يکی از خطراتی که آينده سياسی جامعه ی ايران را تهديد می کند اين است که روحيه خستگی اجتماعی و اقتصادی و بلاتکليفی سياسی که بر جامعه حکمفرماست خيلی زود تبديل به فرهنگ قهر و خشونت و نفاق ملی شود و خيلی ها به اين نتيجه برسند که برای مرهم گذاشتن بر زخم های چند دهه گذشته بايد زخم های جديدی را به وجود آورد>>>

STORY

پروندۀ مورچه های له شده

گفتم: یعنی حضرت بهاءالله بچه هم که بود مورچه نکشت؟

by divaneh
17-Jul-2011 (94 comments)
همیشه در این اندیشه بودم که چگونه ممکن است مورچه ها له نشوند و خوب می توانم بیاد بیاورم که این سوالی که ممکن است به نظر برخی بی اهمیت بیاید چگونه در افکار من جایی برای خویش باز کرد. نشسته بودم و مورچه ها را با انگشتهایم له میکردم و از این کار در آن عالم کودکی با داستانهایی که در مغزم راجع به این حشرات بدبخت ساخته بودم لذت می بردم>>>

LOTTERY

Green Card Movement

I have become the leader of a major movement, a revolution perhaps

by Layla Kamm
17-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
It’s been raining in Tehran for two days and the Alborz Mountains have been covered with small amounts of scattered snow. In the U.S. today they held the much contested mid-term elections where the Republicans have taken over the House. I try to stay out of the election hype and now the post-election results because here, in Iran, I am now leading my own political party—The Green Card Party and I have started a new movement: The Green Card Movement>>>

TRUST

اعتماد پشت و رو ندارد

چرا با مادرم اینکار را کرد؟ چرا با من—دختر محبوبش اینکار را کرد؟ چرا ما را کشت؟

by nilofar-shidmehr
17-Jul-2011 (4 comments)
عکسی نشانم داد. عکس سیاه و سفید دخترکی چشم و مو سیاه که تولدش بود. پشت سر او پدرم ایستاده بود با یک زن. از این صحنه هیچ چیز یادم نمی آید جز حرف پدر که گفت این عکس توست و این زن هم مادر واقعی ات. هیچ یادم نمی آید چند ساله بودم ولی آنقدر عقل داشتم که بببینم آن دختر توی عکس من نیستم>>>

POETRY

Tehran Today
by bnamus
17-Jul-2011 (one comment)
We have become a petition nation
An abbreviated abomination
Every other day
I am asked to put my name to >>>
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