POLITICS

Green is not dead

Tyrants are falling

by Marian Brehmer
23-Mar-2011 (9 comments)
Hamid points out from the window of his flat. The 24-year-old student, Muslim, lover of classical Iranian music, turns into a witness when he recalls the events of 2009: "The whole road over there was occupied by the Basij, baring the protesters from escape." His apartment block is located in one of the calm sidelanes of Tehran's Azadi Street. This busy thoroughfare connects Azadi Square in the west of the city with the big Enqelab Square. "Azadi" means freedom in Persian and "enqelab" is the revolution>>>

EYDI

Norooz Blues

Arman and Arvin Hosseini sing and play New Year blues

by Arash Hosseini
21-Mar-2011 (4 comments)
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POINT

That won't fly

Protecting Libyans or fighting Gaddafi?

by Guive Mirfendereski
21-Mar-2011 (5 comments)
Gaddafi is a tyrant and he should be removed from power through legitimate means, one of which is revolution, armed insurrection. But one gets the sense, this antipathetic personality is being attacked because he is so unappealing. If his lunacy was ever an issue, then what has taken the West all this time to remove him from power? If his attack on the insurrection is cause for protecting the civilian population, the U.N. needs to clarify if the protection of civilian innocents is really the same as protecting the insurrection from losing the struggle for power>>>

VIEW

Killing Qaddafi

Western media and military campaign against Libya

by Ardeshir Ommani
21-Mar-2011 (5 comments)
Edward Said was of the opinion that Orientalist scholarship was and continues to be inseparably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it... It is under the spell of such demeaning ideologies as Orientalism, humanitarian intervention, defense of democracy, free trade, glorification of military power and patriotism, which is currently ingrained in the mainstream American psyche, the U.S. ruling class and its allies savagely threaten, invade, massacre and plunder the material resources of other nations>>>

THINKING OF YOU

Dear Freedom

Express your love and appreciation

by AI
18-Mar-2011 (one comment)
Traditional Nowruz celebrations include the preparation of a Haft Sin table which literally means the seven s’s. Seven items beginning with the Persian letter sin (equivalent to the English s) and which represent spring time are set out. To honor this tradition, this year Amnesty International has selected seven cases, all of them prisoners of conscience who have been identified by Amnesty International as “individuals at risk” and are therefore targeted for intensified campaigning>>>

DEMOCRACY

We Can

Finally this 32 year fermentation process seems near completion

by Ardavan Bahrami
18-Mar-2011 (10 comments)
Today a new dawn, a new era, is prevailing over the shores of Middle East and North Africa. It feels like a new life, a new beginning, even though for us Iranians our path may be longer to reach the dawn. Nevertheless, the end of this long, dark and torturous night is near. Soon everyone will witness the rays of the rising sun in the East. The recent out pours in the Middle East and North Africa for democracy are perhaps the result of what brave and undeniably courageous Iranians did in June 2009 - standing up against the most brutal regime, our region has ever seen>>>

RADIATION

Nuke Plants? Please!

Can you imagine the nightmare if a natural disaster hits Bushehr?

by Reza Fiyouzat
16-Mar-2011 (41 comments)
The Iranian people -- especially those living in Bushehr, the sight of the nuclear power-plant-to-be -- must be feeling not merely a sense of sadness for the people of Japan in these days of severe hardship and suffering. As the people of Bushehr in particular start digesting the implications for them and start to find out about more details of the unfolding disaster in Japan, they certainly will be reflecting on their own situation and the possible threats directed at them by the nuclear power plant that has yet to go live, in their port city on Persian Gulf>>>

QUESTIONS

Bushehr? Earthquake? Disaster?

Japan tsunami and Iran’s quest for nuclear energy

by Hamid Karimianpour
16-Mar-2011 (41 comments)
It is time for Iran too to revisit its nuclear ambitions. Unlike Japan, Iran is immune to devastating tsunamis, as Iran possesses no oceanfront. But like Japan, Iran has proven to be an earthquake prone country. An earthquake of a similar magnitude as experienced near the cost of Japan can potentially threaten Iran’s nuclear reactors. Furthermore, Iran’s oil and gas and other industrial sectors have historically suffered from under-investment, grave negligence, and lack of overhaul. If anything, this history raises concerns about the safety of the Iranian nuclear reactors in the long run>>>

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR

گزارشگر ویژه برای ایران

کانال مستقیمی برای انعکاس اخبار مربوط به نقض حقوق بشر در ایران در سازمان ملل

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
16-Mar-2011 (4 comments)
ما در سال‌های اخیر شاهد آنیم که جامعه جهانی بیش از گذشته به نقض حقوق بشر در ایران اعتراض می‌کند و کمتر روز و هفته‌ای است که صدایی در محکومیت رژیم ایران بلند نشود. این صداها هم‌چنین در نهادهای بین‌المللی و به خصوص سازمان ملل پژواک پیدا کرده است، به طوری که اکنون پس از نزدیک به یک دهه موضوع تعیین یک گزارشگر ویژه برای ایران در دستور کار شورای حقوق بشر قرار گرفته است>>>

IDEAS

NoRooz NEVER cowbug

If we can't stand up for NoRooz, then what do we stand for?

by bahmani
16-Mar-2011 (13 comments)
Once again, my personal NoRooz tradition and mission of bashing the inherently wrong and unduly horrendous English spelling of nowruz begins like Spring herself, anew. Once again, I carefully prepare to gird my loins as the necessary backlash arrives from those haplessly less versed than I in Anglicus Lactosa, and hopelessly trapped in Encyclopaedia Iranica, and we begin our endless dance once again>>>

POETRY

It concerns me
by Shoja
16-Mar-2011 (3 comments)
It concerns me  
when we joke about catastrophes
It concerns me
when in our scale; the price of oil is heavier than freedom >>>

PROTEST

Charshanbeh Soori on Fire

Video clips form Iran

by Ghormeh Sabzi
15-Mar-2011 (9 comments)
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IRANIANS

Do we need hemayat?

Please stop absurdly expecting outside help as a concerted effort

by Saideh Pakravan
14-Mar-2011 (12 comments)
It might be worth our while to pay closer and for once unbiased attention to the United States and its policy toward Iran. We’d see that as with the Mossadeq episode, as with the pre- and post-Islamic Revolution of 1979, as with the turmoil following the fraudulent presidential elections of June 2009, this policy, when it exists at all, is muddled and pulling in different directions. The White House, State Department, CIA, experts and analysts inside and outside the government, all come up with different and contradictory conclusions>>>

GEOGRAPHY

Where is USrael?

The only superpower in the world

by Mohammad Reza Tavakoli Saberi
14-Mar-2011 (5 comments)
When we were kids we were all asked by our teachers or parents or friends where a specific country was and if we had good knowledge about its history, geography, etc. Even as grown-ups, we have been faced with these questions. If we did not know the country, then we asked for clues. So I want to ask you where is USrael? I bet you have never heard of such a county. Am I right? So I’ll give you more clues to see if you can point it out on the map of the world>>>

WOMEN

Not property, live-stock or slaves

Inhumane, irrational and outdated laws against women must come to an end

by Elham Yaghoubian
11-Mar-2011 (15 comments)
Despite the knowledge that breaking the law might lead to execution, women have been noticeable at the forefront of the movement for democratic change in Iran. These activists have faced harassment, torture, travel bans and detention. The most inconceivable types of torture are inflicted on female prisoners who are only provided with the minimum of health services behind prison walls, if any>>>
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