MIDEAST

Leaky Axis

Blow to U.S. and Israel's hopes for a new anti-Iranian alliance

09-Dec-2010 (36 comments)
Iran is winning and Israel is losing. That is the startling conclusion we reach if we consider how things have changed in the Middle East in the two years since most of the WikiLeaks State Department cables about Iran’s regional difficulties were written. Lebanon’s Sunni prime minister, once a virulent critic, quietly made his pilgrimage to the Iranian capital last week. Israeli hopes of separating Syria from Iran have been dashed. Turkey, once a strong ally of Israel, is now seeking better relations with Iran and with Lebanon’s Shiites>>>

MOSSAD

«عملیات خداحافظی»

ترور، این حربه برگزیده رژیم، اکنون علیه فعالیت‌های هسته‌ای خود آن به کار گرفته شده است

09-Dec-2010 (35 comments)
اکنون تقریبا مسلم شده است که ترور دو متخصص هسته‌ای در خیابان‌های تهران در هفته گذشته کار عوامل موساد، سازمان امنیتی اسراییل، بوده است. ترورها هدفمند بودند (و نه کور)، حذف فیزیکی افراد شاغل در فعالیت‌های هسته‌ای ایران را دنبال می‌کردند، پیچیدگی و مهارت زیادی در اجرای آن‌ها به کار رفته بود، و مجریان آن بدون جا گذاردن اثری از خود از صحنه گریخته‌اند. هم به لحاظ انگیزه (فعالیت‌های هسته‌ای ایران) و هم به لحاظ اجرا، این عملیات همه نشانه‌های مشخصه کار موساد را در بر دارد>>>

BIRTHDAY

My Day, Rights Day

I hope we can stop this cycle of death, retribution, and revenge

09-Dec-2010 (2 comments)
December 10th is my birthday, and it coincides with Human Rights Day. I am grateful to be alive and well, but every year I realize that when it comes to global human rights, things are not any better, and Iran has certainly topped the list in the recent past. I wish I could write a jolly piece but my heart and soul are not joyful these days. Iran last year ranked second in executions, between China and the United States>>>

AMNESTY

From Political Activists to Homosexuals

Interview with Ann Harrison, Amnesty Int’l Middle East Specialist

09-Dec-2010 (4 comments)
A new definition of PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE caught my eye in an email exchange with a friend at Amnesty International. While it included political prisoner, the definition was much broader than what Iranians usually have in mind. I asked Ann Harrison to further explain how Amnesty International defines prisoners of conscience. Ann Harrison, a Middle East specialist, has worked for Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme for over 13 years in total since 1989>>>

MANIFESTO

Our Responsibility

Culture of human rights cultivates tolerance

09-Dec-2010
The cultural concept of human rights is universal: all human beings, male and female, are born equal with an essential dignity manifested in living freely and responsibly. The universality of human rights is founded on the interdependence of all human beings, so it is historically logical to stress that the principle of human rights belongs neither uniquely to the West, nor the East, but all people everywhere. A fair account of the history of human rights needs to be acknowledged by those aspiring to have theirs recognized>>>

STORY

کسی با بادبادک سفر کرده؟

خدایا نخ پاره نشه. خدایا تو رو خدا نخِ من پاره نشه. خدایا بادبادکم را بهم برگردان

09-Dec-2010 (7 comments)
هزار تا بادبادک ساختم که هوا نرفت. هزارتا بادبادک ساختم که به اولین آنتن روی پشت بامهای دوروبر گیر کرد و پاره شد. هزارتا بادبادک ساختم که باد بُردشان و از همه چیز فقط نخی در دستم ماند. اما امروز آن خال سیاه تهِ آسمان هفتم که هی پیدا و ناپیدا می شود و مثل ماهی گیرکرده به قلاب، مال من است. بله مال من است>>>

POETRY

خطابه ی کفر
09-Dec-2010
مرا به جرم کدام معصیت
به دوزخ زیستن
کفاره مقرر داشتی؟
گناه من همه پارسایی بود و
دست به سینگی دراطاعت مطلق >>>

POETRY

تاب رویا
09-Dec-2010 (one comment)
رو در سمت تو جاریست
گامهایم
و نفسهایم
که از کنار تو میگذرد >>>

LOVE

Romeo Returns

Romeo Returns

Photo essay: Visiting Juliet's home in Verona, Italy

by Jahanshah Javid
07-Dec-2010 (22 comments)

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IRI

Siege Mentality

Complex stage of rule and protest, dissent and apathy

07-Dec-2010 (26 comments)
Yet even a paranoid can have real enemies - and delights in conjuring more from its delusions. Three decades of sanctions and suspicion from the west have nurtured revolutionary Iran’s sense of siege. The regime uses every particle of hostility to blame any domestic problem or upheaval on foreign powers, the United States and Britain above all. It is skilled too in sustaining the alarmist message that internal enemies are in the pay of or serving the interests of these nefarious outsiders>>>

HOLIDAY

How many of you celebrated Chanukah?

Every year around this time I think of Mrs. Lovi

07-Dec-2010
Living in Highland Park, Illinois for over twenty years, and mingling among its 90% Jewish population, I should have known better than to expect my second grader to be happy with one night of Christmas. But since Christmas and Chanukah often came around the same time, none of us had paid attention. Then came a year such as this, when the two events were weeks apart and on a Monday, when I picked up my son from school, I noticed a new gloom in his attitude>>>

STORY

مسواکتو می دی من؟

به شرطی شب پیشت می مونم که مسواکتو بدی من دندونامو بشورم

07-Dec-2010 (53 comments)
چی؟ از سر کار بیام پیشت؟ باشه میام ولی اگه از سر کار بیام، خسته و کر و کثیفم. اگه بخوام دوش بگیرم حوله ات رو می دی بهم؟ یه چیز دیگه، با من میای حموم، پشتمو لیف بزنی؟ اصلاً با هم حموم کنیم با هم زیر دوش جیش کنیم. میگم که، اگه یه چیزی ازت بخوام گوش می دی؟ چیز عجیبی ازت نمی خوام ولی تورو خدا نه نگو. می گم دودولتو بده من باهاش جیش کنم. یعنی من بگیرمش تو جیش کنی. پسر چه باحال می شه>>>

STORY

A Genius of Happiness

To name it felt like we were putting ourselves above it

07-Dec-2010
It was ridiculous. That was the only way to think about it. Or absurd. It was best to move carefully around it. The only way we could make sense of that love was to treat it like something very fragile. We found our home among the most fragile places in the world. That was where we saw how strong it was, because their fragility would not be anything new. I already know what that is, we would think. I already know what that kindheartedness is, we would think when we saw the Vietnamese janitor at my sister's school who liked seeing us whenever I went to walk her home>>>

POETRY

یادها-3
07-Dec-2010 (3 comments)
تبعید خاطرات را ویران میکند-
با عدم تکرارشان در دیدار و گفتار؛
نبود نزدیکان، دوری محیط آشنا
متروکی بازگویی آنها.
گورستان حافظه شهر است؛
>>>

MAHSA

Love won't tear us apart
07-Dec-2010
I suppose,
in this climate of fear
and uncertainty,
about money, work
or even a whole country
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