نقش رهبری در جنبش سبز

تهور جوانانی که با شعار ضد دیکتاتوری این روزها به خیابان ریخته‌اند حاکی از آن است که حربه سرکوب دیگر نمی‌تواند این حرکت را متوقف کند. عوامل رژیم در تبلیغات خود سعی می‌کنند که تظاهرات اعتراضی مردم ایران را کوچک و پراکنده نشان دهند و در مقایسه با تظاهرات عظیم و پر سر و صدای کشورهای دیگر منطقه آن را ناچیز بنمایانند. ولی بسیج سرتاسری نیروهای دولتی برای مقابله با این تظاهرات «کوچک و پراکنده» نشان می‌دهد که تا چه حد رژیم از این گونه تظاهرات در هراس به سر می‌برد>>>

رئیس جمهور؟ پادشاه؟ یا هیچکدام؟ نگاهی به دموکراسی

در پیامد رویدادهای اخیر ایران و افزایش روز افزون نارضیاتیهای مردم که سرنگونی اجتناب ناپذیر رژیم اسلامی را در پیش خواهد داشت مطلبی که اهمیت ویژه ای دارد انتخاب شیوه حکومت بعدی ایران است تا بار دیگر از چاله به چاه نیافتیم و از اشتباهات گذشته جلوگیری کنیم زیرا متأسفانه خوی دیکتاتور منشی در میان انسانها وجود دارد و اگر قوانین کشوری اجازه شکوفایی آن را بدهند دیری نخواهد کشید تا دیکتاتور جدیدی جای قبلی را بگیرد>>>

نیروهای نظامی در روزهای تاریخی

سکوت بیش از این در برابر جنایات حاکمان جمهوری اسلامی ایران مسئولیت نیروهای نظامی را در ادامه وضع موجود هر روز سنگین تر میکند تا جائیکه شاید یک پارچگی کشور را به خطر بیاندازد. دیگر بحث بر سر احمدی نژاد و موسوی نیست. اینک خامنه ایست و باند ملایان و چاقوکشان حامی او که در مقابل مردم ایستاده و سکوت ارتش و سپاه این نهادها را بکلی از مردم جدا نموده و به ابزاری حقیر برای ادامه حاکمیت یک ملای جنایتکار و غارتگر و پادوهای بد طینت و بی کفایت او تبدیل میکند>>>

A Book to Devour

In late 2010, at the end of the first decade of the millennium, Shabnam Piryaei – a poet-teacher-filmmaker-born in Iran just after the revolution and raised in California – published her first book, Ode to Fragile. This book is a collection of her poetry and writings that meet at the intersection of prose, poetry, and plays – three of which have been produced as films. Through her voice as a writer and the voices and images espoused by the diverse, magical, realistic, abused, and abusive characters is a powerful reflection of power dynamics in our collective, glittering and scarred, human experience>>>

Bumpy Road to Freedom

In the summer of 2005, shortly after Ahmadinejad had first been elected President, I visited Iran. I saw with my own eyes the many changes that had taken place. I remember trying to enter Tehran University. A few bassijis (herasat ) were at the gate and would not let me in. I entered from another gate where the guy who was a bit nicer allowed me in on the condition that I would not go into classrooms. I kept to my promise but managed to interview a few students. They had voted for Ahmadinejad>>>

Green Ideas Survive Movement

While the Islamic Republic may have relative advantage over its opponents in the immediate future, its long-term survival is by no means guaranteed given the growing public disillusionment and dissatisfaction. Even if we were to assume the death of the Green Movement, we must not forget that the Iranian people, its upper, middle and base classes, will continue to struggle for their corresponding needs, namely economic development, political reform, and social justice>>>

No Opposition. No Justice.

The Truth is Iran cannot today, nor tomorrow, nor the next day change under this system of insane zealots, that thinks everyone else is crazy. If they think we're crazy, and we think they are crazy, we've a got a bigger problem, than waiting for peaceful reform to change the game. To change the game you have to show the other side that you are equal to the challenge. The challenge is that a real alternative to this form of government exists>>>

زن های مست باردار

کلاه تازه ام رو سرم کردم تا در برابر سرما و باد تندی که رو به صورتم می وزید از من محافظت بکند. باد همه پلاستیک های غذایی را که مست ها به خیابان ریخته بودند را به سمت دریا می برد و کلاه قشنگم از پره ی گوش هایم به گرمی نگهداری می کرد و حس اینکه سوار ماشینم بشوم را از من می گرفت چون دلم می خواست رو به باد بیایستم و تخمم هم نباشد که قرار است چه سرنوشتی در انتظارم باشد>>>

Bougainvillea

You and I planted this flower
And placed it on my balcony
So when you are not here
I find your image
On its paper petals >>>

Forget About 1979

Is Egypt like Iran? It is a comparison that just a month ago would have been unthinkable. During the height of the 2009 protests in Iran, the Washington Post ran an article under the headline, “Arab Activists Watch Iran and Wonder: ‘Why Not Us?’” Now, with Mubarak gone and a resurgent Green Movement again taking to the streets across the Islamic Republic, the question has been unexpectedly reversed: Could Iran become like Egypt? Many Iranians look to Egypt and wonder, why not us?>>>

The New World Order

The Arab and Muslim nations in a short span of time, less than a month proved that for self-governance and real democracy – and not just corporate money-dictated elections – they have no need for a bully like George W. Bush at the head of a group of militarists from Texas and Zionist thieves from Brooklyn, New York to come down seven thousand miles to force the sword of "democracy and civility" down their throat, using bullets, depleted uranium, bombs, drones and the terrorists of Black Water Xe>>>

The Curse of the British Map Maker

Once again, the world has been turned upside down by the Curse of the British Map Maker. Once upon a time, after the British army successfully turned back the scourge of the Ottoman Empire, the British Map Maker went to work. Being English, and naturally anal retentive, he could not stand the irregularities of the borderless Arabia and Northern Africa (and later Sub Saharan Africa but that is another story for another bed-time), and with an extra long ruler and an extra sharp pencil, began drawing straight lines in the sand. For fun and profit>>>