TANZ
مگر آقای صدری چه کم دارد که ادعای دین جدیدی مشابه قبلیها نکند؟
از مجاهدان وبلاگستان یاسر میردامادی میتواند یاسر احمد (ص) باشد. اکبر گنجی هم باید ابولهب باشد. اسمش را میگذاریم اکبر لهب. تبت یدا اکبر لهب و تب (نوبه). خلاصه اینکه برای همه جا هست. ریا نباشد برای خودم هم سهمی در نظر گرفتهام. انگشتان ناقصی دارم (گریه حضار) که آن را هم تقدیم میکنم و مقام تایپیست وحیهای منزل به احمد (ص) را برای خودم کنار میگذارم. تعریف از خود نباشد در این کار استعداد هم دارم
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FRIEND
The Sentencing of Heshmat Tabarzadi
I try to call Tabarzadi’s family every few weeks. There is so little that can be done outside of Iran to help his case. However, what I have realized through this last imprisonment, is that very little is known about him in the English-speaking media. In Iran he has a large following. He is known for his work before and after 18 Tir. This morning when I spoke with his son, Hossein, I asked him what we could do, and he said, let people outside of Iran know about my father
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1979
Thirty-one years after the tragedy
by Behdad Bordbar
Qarana, a Kurdish village in Western Iran, was attacked by armed agents of Gholam-Reza Hasani, the Friday Imam of Urmia on 11 Shahrivar 1358 (September 2, 1979). In the course of this attack, 42 women, men, children, infants, and old peoople from the village were killed. This disaster occurred in the disturbed atmosphere following the revolution when armed Kurdish groups were fighting the government's forces, but according to the existing information and eye-witnesses' explanations, the villagers of Qarana were unarmed
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POETRY
وقتی که رویا
در سیاهچال حقیقت در بند شد
عکس آسمان را بر چشم هایت منگنه کن
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TRAVELER
Photo essay: Budapest needs a face-lift, or maybe not
by
Jahanshah Javid >>>
IRAN-U.S.
Why doesn't the U.S. talk to Iran?
by Ismael Hossein-Zadeh & Karla Hansen
Why have successive U.S. administrations been reluctant to enter into a conflict-resolution dialogue with Iran, which could clearly be in the national interests of the United States? The answer, in a nutshell, is that U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, is driven not so much by broad national interests as they are by narrow but powerful special interests—interests that seem to prefer war and militarism to peace and international understanding
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IDEAS
Is it not a greater sin to deny people their basic human and civil rights based on an alleged sin?
It is from a position of relative privilege that I sense a strong religious and civic obligation to address the most pressing injustices that face our nation today and beseech the rest of my community to do the same. I know that many Muslims, as well as Jews and Christians, may think that homosexuality is wrong based on their readings of their religious texts. And while I wholeheartedly disagree with them, I still appeal to them to follow the greater teachings of our respective faiths
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STORY
از همان اول احساس کردم که پریاپوس از ایرانیها خوشش نمی آید
جناب پریاپوس، فرزند نامشروع دیونوسوس (Dionysus) و آفرودیته (Aphrodite) و سمبل باروری در یونان قدیم شمرده میشود، دارای آلتی است بلند و بزرگ وهمیشه راست. به قولی Large, Permanent Erection (LPE). واژه پزشکی Priapism به افتخار ایشان وارد فرهنگ طب شده و به مردانی اطلاق می شود که به پیروی از جد بزرگوارشان پریاپوس همیشه خدا دچار LPE هستند. حالا تصورش را بکنید که من باید با جناب ایشان بیست روز تمام در این اوضاع و شرایط بروم ایران
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POETRY
(With English translation)
تنها صدای ماشین رختشویی به جا می ماند
و رخت های من و تو
از یادهای خوشبوی شبانه تهی می شوند:
از بوی هیزم و نمناکی علف
از لکه های شراب روی پیراهن تو
و سرخی تمشک بر سرآستین من
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FESTIVAL
Photo essay: New Iranian flicks at San Francisco Film Festival
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Nazy Kaviani >>>
MARRIAGE
Iranian women poised for major setback
by Shayan Ghajar
In the past month the government has pursued the passage of laws through parliament that would roll back what limited legal rights women are granted in Iran. In late August, a controversial bill, ironically dubbed the "Family Protection Bill," was reintroduced to the Iranian parliament after languishing three years while tabled for review. Articles 22, 23 and 24, seek to impose heavy taxation of women's alimony and dowry, remove the requirement to register temporary marriages, and eliminate the need for a husband to prove financial solvency or ask his wife's permission before marrying another woman
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STONING
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claims vs. truth
by Farshad Hoseini
Last year, under public pressure, Ahmadinejad outrageously declared that Neda had been killed by protestors rather than the regime’s own security forces. This year, he has outrageously announced that Sakineh was never sentenced to death by stoning. The reason for his absurd claim is not that there is any truth in it but because of the massive international protest movement against stoning and executions in Iran led by the International Committee against Stoning and the International Committee against Execution
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ADMISSION
در صف مقدم حرکتی میلیونی در یکی از سختترین شرایط مبارزه سیاسی ایران
خانم رهنورد در مصاحبه اخیر خود با نیکآهنگ کوثر در سایت «خودنویس» از این قتل عام تحت عنوان «جنایت» و «لکههای سیاهی ... که به آب زمزم و کوثر سفید نتوان کرد» یاد کرده است. فراموش نکنیم که رهبران اصلاحطلب در جمهوری اسلامی تا همین یکی دو سال گذشته حتا به ندرت حاضر میشدند در مورد این فاجعه سخنی بگویند. و اکنون زهرا رهنورد در عین این که از همسرش به عنوان یک «مذهبی دوستدار امام خمینی» یاد میکند ابایی ندارد که قتل عام سال ۶۷ را جنایت و لکه سیاه بنامد.
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