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Iranians can not be Iranian in their own country!

For Act 3, scene 5: Remembrance of victims of bloody massacre of the September 1987 by the Islamic Republic establishment.

Music: Soprano

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NANEH MAN QARIBAM!

Once again I met one of those Iranian women who couldn’t stop talking about all the difficult times she had with her ex-husband and how she suffered being married to an Iranian pig! I know there are lots of flaws with our men (and women, sorry ladies ;-)) but these type of women who live in western countries and came all the way by their ex-husbands’ support (and still living off the money they provided to them), should shut up! >>>

Speech Acts

شـــــکستــــه نفســـی

Farzad Sharifian defines the cultural schema of shekasteh-nafsi “modesty.” Speakers downplay their talent, skills, and achievements  

 

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Shirazi - The Ultimate Persian Rice Salad

TGhazaye Irani shegeft angiz ast! As someone who is Persian, I can tell you that the Persian rice salad (aka Shirazi) is one of the most diverse salads to exist on the planet. Although, implied to be just a standard regular salad, it is confusing and if made incorrectly, it can turn into a generic mess. Ghazaye morede alagheye shoma chistand? Ghazaye Irani shegeft angiz ast! Bayad be meile khodane ghazaye ra dashte bashi. (brought to you by Sarah Afshar.)

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قهرمانان ملي -مجله تهران

 قهرمانان ملي -مجله تهران >>>

Calling Dr. Holakouee

Dr. Holakouee, why can’t these women simply say, “I married the a..hole cause I wanted to get out of Iran? …AS IN DESPERATELY!” Like many Iranian women, and some men, I have come to adore Dr. Holakoueeand his noble cause in doing the impossible: healing our troubled psyche. Walt Disney once said, “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” Is it Dr. Holakouee? I think he’s the tower of knowledge, and wisdom in Farsi, and he’s always gracious and very consistent with his programs. But I wonder if he’s capable of doing the “impossible.” >>>

Making love to readers

A Blogger told me ...

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Iranians abroad

During my last decade that I spend my time out of Iran mostly in Europe and North America, I met a lot of Iranians from different backgrounds who left the country and settled down in a Western country for a better life or to get rid of the Islamic government. I met a lot of people in Europe who paid a lot to smugglers to bring them to Europe and how much money they spent to get an asylum-ship. >>>

Me & Rushdie

In 1991, I wrote a piece for the my college paper's April Fool's edition. The fake commentary on the state of affairs in the Middle East offended so many Arabs on the Albuquerque campus of the University of New Mexico that I had to write another column explaining the joke. My April Fool's piece (I have the clip somewhere in my junk boxes, but too lazy to look) said something to the effect that Israel should just take over the entire Middle East and civilize savage Arabs and Muslims.>>>

Command of man broadens hope

This Iran never did, nor never shall,
Give way to the repression of black conqueror,
But when it first did help to restore itself.
Now these her braves are well nurtured again,
Come from every corners of world in intellect arms,
And we shall shock them: nought shall make us rue,
If Iran to itself do rest but true. >>>

Technically speaking, war is actually obsolete.

This isn’t a war, this is a transition team sent in by corporate during a disastrous merger! And the unwilling stock holders in this blunder are us! Recently the administration seems to be on a strange “come clean“ kick. President Bush has finally admitted that the execution of the war has not been “perfect”, and some “mistakes were made”. Almost chuckling. >>>

If you look like a wuss, we have good news for you!

What are YOUR stereotypes of Iranian men? My own personal stereotype of an Iranian man would definitely differentiate between East Coast (holla!) and West Coast (wassup?). Also, undoubtedly, there's a big difference between the Iranian man of southern cali (clad in gold/platinum chains) and northern cali (with intellectual pretensions). >>>

شبنامه شماره نهم منتشر شد ..... شبنامه مرز پرگهر در ايران

شبنامه شماره نهم منتشر شد >>>

Seminal Contributions of Historical Iranian (Persian) Philosophers, Poets, Physicians and Scientists, Revisited.

There seem to be an intensifying orchestrated effort in the west particularly the U.S. to neglect, discount, discredit or convolute the multifaceted contributions of philosophers, physicians, scientists, historians and artisans of the past few millennia in south, south-central, south-west Asia, and north Africa--a vast area now collectively referred to by the fabricated name, the Middle East >>>

Tell Congress to Stop the March to War with Iran !

President Bush announced today that he has authorized US forces in Iraq to confront Iran militarily. "I have authorized our military commanders in Iraq to confront Tehran's murderous activities," Bush said in a speech to US war veterans in Reno. Simultaneously, US forces raided a hotel in Baghdad and detained ten Iranians who according to a U.S.-funded radio station included members of an Iranian negotiation team. This move comes amidst a campaign by the White House to escalate the rhetorical war between Washington and Tehran, in which the President has taken concerted new steps toward war. This flurry of rhetoric has largely rung hollow in the halls of Congress, as members are away for summer recess. >>>

Are You Willing to Participate in a Survey?

Call me paranoid, but having lived in places where governments have no problems with violating personal rights, I kind of freak out when someone calls me specifically to ask my opinion based on my nationality/ethnicity. >>>

Lovin' it

Ditchin' it and lovin' it.... >>>

And God said, "Get a Decent Haircut!"

Latest crackdown on Iran's hair salons, shows that the ruling elite inside Iran have way too much time on their hands. Although Iranian youth have been pushing their luck for centuries! >>>

Twelve years later

I think the year was nineteen ninety two

When on SCI, I first set my eyes on you

SCI was home to xAle, dAyi, Amo, JR and you

G-man, Ben, Mac, Ostad and Mr. Mortazavi too
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Returning to his vomit

During a Press Briefing on January 9, 2003 in Manila, Philippines; a reporter asked then Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton a question: "On Iraq; the arms inspectors have not found any specific weapons of mass destruction that you've been outlining so far. What would be the justification for the U.S. Government to take military action if indeed it does?" >>>

Revolutionary Guards are terrorists, but it's founder can teach in the United States

Revolutionary Guards are terrorists, but it's founder can teach in the United States

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Islamic Republic's flag taken down, Iran's flag raised instead

The following are pictures of a car dealership in North Hollywood that, prior to being informed, was flying the flag of the Islamic Republic. After a visit by an MPG member of the Los Angeles branch the auto dealership enthusiastically proceeded to bring down the Islamic Republic's flag and instead fly the genuine flag of Iran which was donated by Ketab Corporation.

Iranians living abroad can participate in relatively easy forms of activism such as the event that was described above to protect Iran's history, culture and territorial integrity.

The pictures below once again prove that Los Angeles is the ever-present capital of the Iranian opposition.

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Fine, Let's Talk about Sex, baby

Let's get the most important issue out of the way: Apparently I've been drinking the wrong wine: Merlot is out and Shiraz is in if your name is not Sally but Sadaf. Phew...thanks Mr. Bahmani...To think that all this time, I wasn't doing what Iranian women do. (For the record, my comment on well done steak and Merlot was SARCASTIC. I'm a quarter French. My French ancestors would nefrin me if they ever caught me eating a piece of meat mal cuvee!)  >>>

I married myself

As an Iranian girl, it is so hard not to get obsessed with getting married. There is so much pressure from our families and from society but it also seems like a lot of it is internal. I want to get married, I want to share my life with someone, I want to have children - but before I can do that successfully, I need to learn how to love myself. >>>

Missing: Donna Jou still not found!

Donna Haghigat Jou has been missing since June 23, 2007 and her Family misses her much. >>>

79 children on the execution row in Iran.

In February 2007 when Stop Child Execution Petition and website at www.stopchildexecutions.com were launched we were aware of 25 recorded cases of children awaiting execution in Iran. Due to highened awareness about the subject within Iran every month parents and lawyers of more children in Iran have contacted SCE and others asking for help.

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گزارش بیست و چهارم آگوست

ساعت سه و نیم با جی قرار گذاشته بودم در پاپ مترو نزدیک ایستگاه قطار لیورپول.پنج دقیقه دیر رسیدم چون یک ایستگاه قطار را اشتباهی سوار شده بودم .شب قرار بود برای مسافرت دو هفته ای به هلند و چند جای دیگر برود .دو ساعتی با هم گپ زدیم و طبق معمول پر از لذت و شادی برایم بود ، محور حرفها از شیما و مارینا ، از پروژه تواب سازی و نیروهای اپوزوسیون و از جزیره و ایرانی هایی که هنوز در دنیای آزاد در سال پنجاه و هفت مانده اند و دنیا را سیاه و سفید می بینند بود .>>>

1001 Jobs !!

Welder to the Stars. On the way to Mars. Designing the Malls. Building the Stalls. Poker is my game. Evening I start. <!--break-->

Iranians are the smartest people I know. Always thinking, always doing. <!--break-->

Tell all of us what you do. Your fun, different, weired, way out there jobs. No rules, nothing is in and nothing is out.<!--break-->

I will report with the results in the next posting.

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The New Iranian.com Site

The new Iranian.com site is very nice and COOOOL... but it's like I have remodeled my kitchen and now I have to find where all the pots and pans and other items are in the kitchen cabinets! I now have to look for the "news headlines", the "Iranians of the day", the silly cartoons (!)>>>

A Cordial Request from Management

Management should look into implementing a lasting “ignore feature” for use by registered users at their discretion. Hossein Derakhshan (hoder) has entered into Iranian.com dome.  He deserves to be permanently zapped by me clicking on “ignore” feature. He will be off my screen. This power of choice does not violate his right of speech.   >>>

Just Issue a "fatwa" about whoever thinks " Mosaddegh" was a human being!

Due to Ms. Mahshid Amirshahi article about the old and boring topic of " 28 Mordad" as a person who belongs to a generation that had nothing to do with the revolution like to say I am sick and tired of intolerable, rigid- minded and narcissistic people belong to the past. I don't underestand why nobody has right to criticize Mosadegh or think diffrent about "28 Mordad". A person like " Jalal Matini" runs a research about that era and he does not say a word from himself but brings a lot of evidence get accused by pro Mosaddeghs as " Shahollahi" ( Such a meaningless word) and even somebody is claming "Matini" is an illitrate man in leteracy! >>>

Iranian Satellite Station Defrauds Audience

The following is an account by a friend of mine, Borhan, evidencing, yet again, the lack of both journalistic and quality care by most Iranian satellite stations.

As I was flipping channels out of curiosity to see if anyone with 1/10 brain about producing TV material has arrived on Persian satellite television to surprise me with something bearable, I stopped to look at some sort of auction on Kanal Yek Television (Channel One) was having with a lady who looked like Shirin Ebadi with a shorter hair-cut at 9:20PM on August 26, 2007. After a few seconds I noticed she was using the word IPod to describe the product, when I looked and listened closer, I noticed that the product was indeed NOT apple's Ipod but rather one of these many Chinese knock-offs of Ipod [The linked product is the closest thing to that I could find online] >>>

Shit that keeps me up

I often wonder what happens if a suicide bomber finds out that one of his 40 virgins is not a virgin. What is the return policy in heaven? >>>

Iranians and blogs

Iranians are largest contributors to the blogosphere (percentage wise). >>>

Iran is golden! طلا برای والیبالیستهای نوجوان ایران

Iranian youth volleyball team is the world champion!>>>

It's in BETA!

Well, let's get this party started, shall we? The site is officially in Beta which means, it still has problems. But that's what I get paid the big (har har) bux for... >>>

RE: Can't Keep My Promise, Mother

To the author of this article:

Dear,

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Haleh Esfandiari and National Endowment for Democracy

Given the nature and the history of the National Endowmanet for Democracy anyone, in any country who has had any ties with NED and its affiliate organisations deserves to be charged and fairly and justly prosecuted. >>>

Iranian woman slut; Iranian woman prude: blah blah blah

Thing is, by now, Iranians have lived for enough of a time in the US that trying to link their behavior to anything as banal as the place of their parents' origin is just a stupid exercise. Perhaps for the first generation immigrants these questions are still questions, but for people of my generation who were born and raised in all parts of the US, we get our culture from so many different parts that to say "you're a slut cause you're Iranian" or the opposite just doesn't hold.>>>

How I Became A Blogger

I feel Iranians must also speak to others in the world to tell them stories about Iran, themselves, their thoughts, their values, and their hopes and fears. There is also a growing number of Iranians who were born and raised outside of Iran and unfortunately cannot read Farsi. This shouldn’t discount them as Iranians. They should still be able to find other Iranians with whom they can communicate.>>>

This is the Phantom of Iranian.com

To All Iranian.com viewers: This is my lovely abode. I expect my income to be 180K a year and be deposited in a 10-year CD with a minimum of 5% APY. A modest 10% raise per year will suit me. At the end of ten years term, I will send you a lovely note with a rose and with instructions for collection. >>>

Imam Mehdi's call center

I saw in CNN that a call center in Iranian city of Ghome answers calls from folks who want to contact Imam Mehdi. "Hello?...." >>>

Made my soul fly

Khaton Khanom writes to Marina Nemat, author of  Prisoner of Tehran:  My dear Marina, I read your book while traveling to Tehran. It was a long, tiring trip, but I used every minuet of it to read the book. I have to admit, It had been such a long time since a book moved me like that and made my soul fly. In Tehran, everything I saw, everywhere I went , I found something that took me in to your world and your book. I visited your old neighborhood , but it looks very different than what you had described so beautifully.

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زندگي

زندگي زيباستִ زندگي بي نظير است ִ زندگي سخت استִ زندگي ياوه استִ زندگي يك موجود زيبا اندام استִ زندگي يك موجود زيبا صورت استִ زندگي اخلاقي مرموز داردִ زندگي از همان ابتدا كه با چشماني گريان از رحم مادرخارج مي شوي بهت مي گويد وفا ندارد, بهت مي گويد كه روزي تو را رها خواهد كرد ولي نمي گويد چگونه, كي و كجاִ. >>>

Bush is Alienating the Population in Iran

How the designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization will alienate the Iranian people from the US even further: The New York Times articulated the following statement upon news that the Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran may be designated as a terrorist organization: "Labeling Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization — as the State Department now proposes — is another distraction when what the Bush administration needs to be doing is opening comprehensive negotiations with Tehran..." >>>

Celibacy and Morrissey

Right behind the eternal questions of which came first, the chicken or the egg, and why did the chicken really cross the road, stands the sexuality of Stephen Patrick Morrissey, aka lead singer of the Smiths. Was he a repressed homosexual as many like to believe or asexual and celibate as he repeatedly claimed? Many more informed than I have pondered this question, both in print and in late night drunken sessions as his glorious music blasts into a dimly lit room.

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Hate it but again, you can not stop loving it

It is a bit complicated. When I moved to US, we lived in Long Island, New York. I went to high school there and then college and then grad school. I was working on a cool project when the whole dot com era tanked and I had to take on a contract job in Downtown, Los Angeles (big move ey!) So I packed everything into my car on a Friday and drove to LA to start the job that following Monday. >>>

Whores witth a Pen

Fuck analysts, experts, sources not wanting to be identified, sources close to Pentagon, anonymous western officials at the IAEA, military sources in Iraq, and the like. In fact fuck the journalists, reporters, correspondents that use these sources, and fuck the news agencies and the media they work for. >>>

What do you mean you're celibate?

I have recently taken a vow of celibacy. By recent, I mean REALLy recent. Like two days ago. This blog will be a chronicle of this new and perhaps fascinating (both for myself and for the readers) stage of my young tender life. No, I am not some kind of Iranian nun: My body does not belong to god. And nope, I don't think the body is a temple. I am also not, what is called an "incel," an involuntary celibate. Believe you me, this is all voluntary.>>>

ما در کجای تاریخ ایستاده ایم؟

اگرکلمه «تواب» را با بهایی، مجاهد، کمونیست، ساواکی و یا هر چیز دیگری عوض کنیم باز با اعتراضی مشابه روبرو خواهیم شد، گیرم که از گوشه ای دیگر و به وسیله جمعی دیگر. یکی از ویژگی های ذهن بسته و مستبد همین است که در رفتار فکری خود بسیط است و وابسته به چند محرک مشخص و از پیش تعیین شده. ذهن استبدادی فردیت نمی شناسد. دیدش سنگی است و واکنشش سنگی. نه تعادل می فهمد و نه تکامل. مثل سنگ بسیط است و فقط یک چیز! فعال حقوق بشر بودن یعنی آدم از حق فردی که با او موافق نیست دفاع کند. و اگر نه سنگ ایده ئولوژی خود را به سینه زدن از کسی فعال مدنی و حقوق بشری نمی سازد!>>>