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PAHLAVI
28-Feb-2009 (34 comments)
During the great oil boom of the 1970’s, the irrational exuberance of the Iranian upper classes and the unquenchable greed of the royalty played havoc with the domestic economy. Hoveida’s half-baked plans for hasty modernization and the Shah’s expensive upgrades for the army, created a number of economical and social dislocations. That deluge of projects, which were unnaturally fuelled by the soaring oil prices, played havoc with the fledging Iranian economy and infrastructure; creating cyclic booms and busts, deficiencies and speculations, inflation and hoarding>>>
BLOGGERS
26-Feb-2009 (3 comments)
The Iranians belong to the most busy users of the Internet worldwide. Seven million people surf regularly, there are about 80,000 private Internet sites. Only in Teheran there exist 5.000 Internet cafés. "Today the Iranian Internet diaries make Farsi to the fourth-most frequent language, in which the sites are written", writes Nasrin Alavi, author of "We are Iran". Her book shows a picture which isn't similar to the official Iran. In the net there are no taboos. One writes about everything what is hidden, otherwise, in the Iranian republic with pleasure. The Blogger discuss drugs and sex, about the Mullahs and their power avarice, about war, torture and prison, about religion and the custom guards>>>
ROCK
26-Feb-2009
گروه راک «حک» یکی از گروه های فعال در شکل گیری موج موسیقی راک ایران در یک دهه اَخیر بوده است. این گروه مانند بیشتر گروه های راک در ایران یک پروژۀ موسیقی یک نفره می باشد که با همیاری و همکاری موسیقی پردازان متعددی از جمله؛ نوازندگان گروه راک «سرخس» و شهرام شعرباف رهبر گروه راک «اوهام» و نوازندگان و موسیقیدانان حرفه ای مانند؛ رضا اَبائی، کسرا ابراهیمی، اِحسان خواجه مولائی، مونا نامور، علی جبرئیلی به رهبری «مانی صفیخانی» تاکنون به پیش رفته است. پروژۀ حک در سال 2001 میلادی آغاز به فعالیت کرده و تا به امروز 4 آلبوم در سبک های آلترناتیو، فیوژن-راک و پروگرسیو-راک انتشار داده است.>>>
JUSTICE?
24-Feb-2009 (20 comments)
It is now thirty years that the Islamic regime has been engaged in a brutal, systematic and organized persecution of the Baha’is in Iran. This religious sadism, however, has recently been much more intensified. The Islamic Republic forces elementary school teachers to publicly humiliate the Baha’i children, and with utter inhumanity to insult their religion. This is one of the manifestations of their brand of “Islamic Justice” whose like is rarely seen even among the most despotic and racist contemporary regimes of the world. The reactionaries, led in this “holy war” against these children by the leaders of the Hojjatiyeh Association [a secret anti-Baha'i society], have opened up new chapters in the annals of courage and humanity>>>
ADULTERY
24-Feb-2009 (164 comments)
من چون از سکس با شوهرم بدم میامد، برای مدت طولانی فکر می کردم که من اصولا سرد مزاجم، که من از سکس بدم میاد و مشکل خیلی بزرگی در این زمینه دارم. نمیدانستم باید به کی بگم و چه کار بکنم. می دانستم داشتن ارگاسم برای زنها در انتهای عشقبازی با یک مرد چیز مهمیه و خیلی دلم می خواست من هم بدانم که چه احساسیه، اما نمی دانستم باید چکار کنم. حداقل سه بار متوجه شدم که بهم خیانت کرده، اما چون فکر می کردم من سردمزاجم، بعد از قهر و آشتی های وحشتناک بعدش، بخشیدمش و باهاش زندگی می کردم. تا اینکه با مردی سر کارم آشنا شدم و نمیدانم چطور شد که عاشقش شدم. او هم زن داشت. شش ماهی کاری نمی کردیم بجز اینکه تمام روزمان را با هم سرکار بگذرانیم.>>>
LECTURE
22-Feb-2009 (35 comments)
Thirty years ago the Iranian revolution overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy in Iran. It subsequently became known as the Islamic revolution, although it had a much wider base than that, and it was only its further developments that led to the Islamic revolution. The shah believed that he was highly popular with his own people, an illusion which was both due to the rapid increases in the standards of living and the fact that his system did not allow any criticism, least of all of his policies, to be made by anyone however high in society. He would therefore gauge his relationship with the people from sycophantic reports and stage-managed demonstrations of public support on certain occasions. His greatest tragedy, thus, was that he became a victim of his own propaganda>>>
KHAVARAN
22-Feb-2009 (3 comments)
نظام اسلامی با فرستادن قربانیان تصفیۀ زندانها به خاوران میخواست حذف متافیزیکی آنان را مکمل حذف فیزیکی آنها بنماید. از دیدگاه مذهبی کافرستان نقطه ایست که آنچه نفی کنندۀ تقدس است باید یکسره و بی تمایز در آن گنجانده شود. یکسره و بی تمایز از این جهت که مذهب برای آنچه ضد تقدس است ارجی قائل نیست تا بین اجزای آن تمایزی قائل گردد و به حسابی از یکدیگر مجزایشان سازد. همۀ آنها را فقط به تناسب خود تعریف میکند و یکسره نفی مینماید، اصلاً برایشان اعتبار مستقل قائل نمی شود تا تعریفی اثباتی از آنها عرضه بدارد. از این دیدگاه کافرستان محل نیست شدن آن چیزهایی است که از اصل نمی بایستی بوده باشد و حوالۀ عدم مطلق شده است
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POLITICS
20-Feb-2009 (23 comments)
After the 1953 coup, Shah’s reign as an autocratic monarch started. Similar to his father’s rule, soon the parliament became a rubberstamp of the royal decrees, and the political rights were in effect suspended. However, it still took the Shah another decade before he could gain the absolute power over his court, the army and the Persian nobility. Meanwhile, he had to contend with his family, who were forcing him into divorces and remarriages; the power-hungry generals of his army, who were planning coups behind his back; and the older and wiser nobility, who were trying to teach and mentor him! Besides, the country was dirt poor and most people were illiterate and living in abject poverty>>>
WOMEN
20-Feb-2009 (28 comments)
Since becoming president in 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become one of the most widely known Iranian politicians. In direct contrast, his wife has been one of the most discreet spouses in Iranian political history. The world got its first glimpse of her in 2005, after she accompanied her husband on a trip to Malaysia. However, she did not speak any words and has hardly ever appeared in front of cameras since then. What was even more mysterious was her identity. She was only referred to as Mrs. Ahmadinejad in the very few reports which mentioned her. Her real identity was strongly protected>>>
NON-FICTION
18-Feb-2009 (3 comments)
“Rooster” is one of those associations that connects me to major roads of my past, to the intersections from which different paths of association branch out. I can take any of these roads and soon be traveling to different spaces of my life and identity. It links me with many clusters of memories, to the street I was raised in, to my mother’s colleague Raana, to my playmates and a zoo we created together, to Americans, and to our yard which is itself associated with many other faces and stories. Finally I got you there. Now you are curious, asking, “How is it that your yard is associated with roosters? That is a good question that opens up a whole story of its own>>>
ASSAULT
18-Feb-2009 (26 comments)
در گرماگرم صف‌آرایی‌های جناح‌های‌مختلف حكومتی برای تصرف قوه مجریه جمهوری اسلامی ایران، در سایه زمزمه‌های رسمی و نارسمی برای ارتباط و تماس و گفتگو با آمریكا كه این روزها شدت گرفته است، و در برابر بحران شدید اقتصادی كه اكثریت مردم را تحت فشار قرار داده و آینده سختی را در برابر آنان نهاده است، رژیم جمهوری اسلامی به یكی از ترفندهای همیشگی خود دست زده و موجی از بهایی‌ستیزی به راه انداخته است. این موج از چندی پیش با دستگیری ده‌ها نفر از بهاییان آغار شده و تا به امروز به اتهام جاسوسی برای هفت تن از آنان منجر شده است. در آخرین مرحله از این موج بهایی‌ستیزی، آقای قربانعلی دری نجف‌آبادی دادستان كل كشور طی نامه‌ای خطاب به خلف خود در وزارت اطلاعات خواستار آن شده است كه با «تشكیلات بهائیت» برخورد شود. >>>
MASSACRE
17-Feb-2009 (9 comments)
The area being destroyed in Khavaran is a desolated plot next to the cemetery of religious minorities. Families of the victims call this place "the rose garden of Khavaran" - for a rose, in a culture where it is often safer to use poetry, represents a fallen freedom fighter. The Iranian leadership calls it the "place of the damned" or the "graveyard of the infidels". There are no gravestones, monuments or markings there because the government hasn't allowed any, but families of the victims have quietly gathered at the Khavaran cemetery every September over the last 20 years to commemorate what they call "the national catastrophe" - the largest state crime in Iran's modern history>>>
TRUTH
17-Feb-2009 (15 comments)
چند روز پیش، برای نخستین بار پس از دو دهه، جمهوری اسلامی ایران رسما و علنا رهبران جامعه بهائی ایران را به جاسوسی برای اسرائیل متهم کرد، تا یکبار دیگر جامعه بهائیان ایران را به شرایطی بازگرداند که تا نیمه دهه 1360 شمسی به آن دچار بودند. اکنون حجت الاسلام دری نجف آبادی، دادستان کل کشور، نیز بهائیان را به "جمع آوری اطلاعات و فعالیت های نفوذی و تخریب پایگاه های اعتقادی مردم" متهم کرده و خواهان مقابله وزارت اطلاعات با تشکیلات بهائی در کلیه سطوح شده است. ایراد اینگونه اتهامات سیاسی برعلیه بهائیان تکرار مکرر ادعاهایی است که اکنون برای نزدیک به هفتاد سال درباره بهائیان مطرح شده است.>>>
REVOLUTION
15-Feb-2009 (30 comments)
Allow me to go back to the beginning of the revolution, or maybe a little bit before. It was 1978. The Iranian revolution was in full swing. I was a teenager full of life and passionate about a big change, like so many young people during that period. We were all ready to get rid of the monarchy and bring justice and equality to our country. The future was so bright and it was right in front of us; we could be free from the hands of a dictator! Finally the time had come: 1979 was glorious. The Shah left the country! However, the glory of the 1979 revolution did not last long for many Iranians. Women were the first to be targeted by the new regime.>>>
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