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EGYPT
29-Jan-2011 (50 comments)
Don't bring religion to government. We Iranian people unfortunately did, and the results are far worse than what we had. Fortunately, you do not have a powerful character like Khomanee who said one thing, before reaching power, and the opposite after. But still, avoid those who provide their strict religious belief as the solution, for complex problems that faces us today. Our problems today, require collective cooperation and rational thinking, and the freedom to do so>>>
UPHEAVAL
29-Jan-2011 (one comment)
منطقه خاور میانه آبستن حوادثی است. در لبنان، حزب الله قدرت خود را در سقوط حکومت نشان داده است و اکنون برای ایجاد حکومت مطلوب خود زورآزمایی می‌کند. در فلسطین، مذاکرات صلح با سماجت اسراییل در توسعه شهرک‌ها در مناطق اشغالی به بن‌بست برخورد، و اکنون نشر اسناد محرمانه‌ای که حاکی از دست و دل بازی مذاکره کنندگان فلسطینی در عرضه امتیاز به اسراییل بوده، به اعتبار حکومت خودگردان فلسطینی به شدت صدمه زده و زمینه را برای افزایش نفوذ و اعتبار حماس فراهم کرده است>>>
GRIPE
23-Jan-2011 (140 comments)
برخی از دوستانم مرا نکوهش کرده که از مردگان به جز نیکی سخن نگویم و خرده گیری نکنم ولی این نگرش درست نیست زیرا در آن صورت دیگر کسی نباید از کارهای خمینی ایرادی بگیرد زیرا او نیز مرده است. اگر از کاستی این شاهزادهگان سخن گفتم از کینه و سنگدلی نبوده بلکه از فقر کارنامه باقیمانده آنهاست چه بسا اگر بازده شایسته ای از خود به جای میگذاشتند آنها را میستاییدم و به تلاششان افتخار میکردم اما افسوس اینگونه نبوده>>>
INDIFFERENT
21-Jan-2011 (10 comments)
حضور بی‌تفاوت مردم در صحنه‌های قتل (مانند حادثه سعادت‌آباد) یا اعدام‌های علنی در ایران به درستی تکان‌دهنده و مشمئز کننده است. ولی مگر همه ما ناظر «سونامی اعدام» در ایران نیستیم؟ پس چرا در برابر آن بی‌تفاوت ایستاده‌ایم و واکنشی نشان نمی‌دهیم؟ و واقعا تفاوت کسانی که خبر این اعدام ها را می‌شنوند و دست کم انزجار خود را نشان نمی‌دهند با کسانی که به تماشای صحنه قتل ایستاده‌اند چیست؟ >>>
IRAN-ISRAEL
18-Jan-2011 (19 comments)
We know from history that whenever Israel saw that WMD were acquired by its enemies it took it as a threat to its existence and hunted down those involved very vigorously. For example, Israel took direct action against German scientists who worked to develop radiological weapons in Egypt in the early 60’s. It also took action against scientists who were involved in Iraq’s WMD pursuit in the 80’s, including allegedly the assassination of Gerald Bull who was a Canadian scientist working for Iraq>>>
ALIREZA
18-Jan-2011 (14 comments)
To understand the reaction many of us had to Alireza’s death, you need only look as far back as our history over the last century. I am not a monarchist. I am also not religious. I was still a child when the Shah of Iran packed his bags and left, replaced by the Islamic regime that has been in power since the revolution in 1979. Had I been an adult at that time, I believe I would have been in support of opposition to the throne, but only in so much as to support secular democracy in my country>>>
1979-2011
16-Jan-2011 (9 comments)
32 سال بعد از روز "شاه رفت"، آسمان ایران را ابر سیاه استبداد گرفته است. ازتولد "گفتمان آزادی" - دستاورد بزرگ جنبش سبز- تانهادینه شدنش، تا تبدیل شدنش بعنوان یک عنصر جاری فرهنگی، عمر درازی باید. ما. من و تو. همه ما. دیگر تاج شاهی برداشته و عبای آخوندی بدوش انداخته ایم. در لفظ گفتمان آزادی را فریاد می کنیم، در عمل به آن رنگ استبداد می زنیم. من خونریز ازتبار تاریخی ما آمده، چرخی زده و گفتمان روزرا به رنگ خود درآورده است. >>>
EXECUTION
16-Jan-2011 (63 comments)
Since the beginning of the New Year, Iran has hanged 47 prisoners, or an average of about one person every eight hours. Iran executes more people per capita than any other country, and in absolute numbers, is second only to China. On Saturday, 15 January 2011, Iran hanged a Kurdish prisoner some Iranian websites have identified as Hossein Khazri, a Kurdish political prisoner on the death row. A local official in the province of Western Azerbaijan told media that “a member of the Pejak (an armed Kurdish guerilla group)” was hanged in Urumiye prison on Saturday morning>>>
RESPONSE
16-Jan-2011 (4 comments)
The execution of Shahla Jahed does not offer any special insight into the Iranian nation’s understanding of women, let alone any entrenched cultural or social misogynistic tendencies. Ms. Yazdani’s flawed premise draws a link between a murder conviction and the socio-cultural condition of a people. At best, the Jahed execution might offer insight into institutional misogyny in Iran, expressed in a possibly flawed legal judgment. However, to then take that judgment and draw from it conclusions about a nation’s democratic maturity and its understanding of women seems to me to be an unfounded and uninformed leap>>>
OCCUPATION
14-Jan-2011 (7 comments)
Most people know that Iran is occupied by an Islamist regime but not all understand to what degree this occupation pervades. As an Iranian film-maker who was born and raised under the reign of the Islamic regime, I can show in my work the injustice and inequality of my society. Ahmadinejad pushed for militarization of the regime and reestablished the Islamic fundamentalism in Iran, censorship was imposed rapidly and film making and cinema were under complete restriction by the government>>>
ALARM
14-Jan-2011 (12 comments)
Zaynab Jalalian, a 27 years old Kurdish woman, was arrested in Kermanshah in early 2007. She was dispatched to the infamous Sanandaj prison soon after. This is the same prison which bears witness to Ehsan Fattahian’s execution, and the tragedy of two sisters Nasrin and Shahla Ka'bi who were violently annihilated. The same place which is plagued by the memory of Shahriar who was forced to carry on his back the tortured body of his brother Ahsan (Nahid) to an untimely and unjust death by the bullets of a firing squad>>>
HOPELSSS
12-Jan-2011 (16 comments)
در این تردید نمی‌توان کرد که از دید آقای موسوی ما با حاکمیتی روبرو هستیم که از پایه توطئه‌گر است و برای ایجاد جامعه‌ای شبیه کره شمالی (با کمی بزک مردمسالاری) بیست سال تلاش کرده است. به روشنی، چنین حاکمیتی کمترین علاقه‌ای به رأی مردم و صندوق رأی جز به عنوان وسیله‌ای تبلیغاتی برای نمایش «مشروعیت نظام» نخواهد داشت. به عبارت دیگر، موسوی به این جا رسیده است که در نظام جمهوری اسلامی فعلی، دیگر نمی‌توان به صندوق رأی به عنوان وسیله‌ای برای اعمال حق انتخاب مردم امیدی بست>>>
LETTER
12-Jan-2011 (8 comments)
It is natural, and also required that a democratic party or organisation has its own leader. Obviously a democratic party or organisation would be crushed if it would exist in Iran, however there isn’t a reason why there can’t be such an entity outside of Iran. What I personally would like to see is if you could travel to different countries in Europe, e.g. Sweden, and arrange conferences, meetings and public speeches. The issue could e.g. focus on what you, together with us (me, my father’s generation, students, politicians and so on), could do in order to build a democratic platform in Iran>>>
SHAH
12-Jan-2011 (25 comments)
There have been at least a dozen books on his life. Most have been “commissioned,” written to lionize or demonize him. Even those that were dedicated to finding and reporting the truths of his life were stymied by the fact that much remained hidden in still-classified documents, mired in adulating or acrimonious whispers, or marred by conspiracy theories concocted by his friends and his foes, or by himself. He was one of the pivotal figures of the second half of the twentieth century, and certainly one of the most tragic>>>
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| Majid Tavakoli: Prisoner of the day | Iterview with mother | Dec 02 |
| احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
| Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
| Nasrin Sotoudeh: Graffiti | In Barcelona | Nov 30 |
| گوهر عشقی: مادر ستار بهشتی | Nov 30 | |
| Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
| محمد کلالی: یکی از حمله کنندگان به سفارت ایران در برلین | Nov 29 | |
| Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |