Master Builders

The glorious Achaemenid Persian empire dominated all of the Middle East commencing from 550 to 330BC , Alexander the great conquered the Persian kingdom and destroyed the capital city of Persepolis .By all means the Sassanians (who were the descendants of the Achaemenid Empire) wished to revive the former glory of the Achaemenid Empire, this included their structural design, the Greek conquest of Persia inaugurated the spread of Hellenistic art into Western Asia; but if the East accepted the outward form of this art, it never really assimilated its spirit>>>

عیسی گلسرخی

آنچه این روزها، پس از گذشت سی سال از پیروزی آن انقلاب، در جای‌جای این کشور ‌می‌گذرد بیانگر آن است که آن رفتار انسانی تنها «آرزوی ما جوانان مسلمان» بود، چون «رهبر جمهوری اسلامی» ثابت کرده است که برای چند روز زمامداری بیشتر و حکومت مستبدانه بر مردم، از هیچ راه و روشی نمی‌گذرد. اکنون شاهدیم که سیدعلی خامنه‌ای از جنایت‌های بشر در جهان شرق و غرب، هر آنچه را که بدترین بوده است برگزیده و در این کار دست جنایت‌کاران معروف جهان را در کشتار مردم بی دفاع از پشت بسته است>>>

Can Obama keep his promise?

The early verdict on the new Iran sanctions is that even the "smart" sanctions have proven to be, well, dumb. Instead of targeting Iranian government officials connected to the nuclear program or who are complicit in human rights abuses, the new sanctions are punishing young Iranians who have been the greatest allies of democracy, human rights, and accountability in Iran. Late last week, it was revealed that young Iranians looking to attend college abroad are now facing serious impediments because of new sanctions>>>

The Neocon Method

One time-honored method for obscure writers to gain notoriety is to viciously attack a much more popular writer or public figure in the hopes said person will respond in kind — witness my constant attacks on Barack Obama, who I thought by now would at least answer me during a weekend radio address or something. Anyway, it’s not surprising that Benajamin Kerstein (who?), a writer for The New Ledger (the what?), would choose to blast the much more popular and accomplished Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald for being insufficiently “pro-Israel” given the latter’s blistering and effective attacks on the policies of the apartheid state>>>

تروریسم کور

اگر تروریسم کور از نوع آن چه که در زاهدان اتفاق افتاد به ایران راه باز کرده، باید آن را در درجه اول مرهون فرهنگ ایدئولوژیکی دانست که جمهوری اسلامی در شکل‌گیری و تبلیغ و ترویج آن در خاور میانه نقش اول را بازی کرده است. تصادفی نیست که تروریسم کور در خاورمیانه و غرب آسیا و شمال آفریقا عمری کم و بیش برابر با عمر نظام اسلامی حاکم بر ایران دارد و با ادامه حیات آن از طریق تروریست‌های اسلام‌گرا به سراسر جهان نیز گسترش یافته است>>>

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Bomb Iran?

Joe Klein of Time magazine has a new piece out this week indicating that after being largely dismissed during the Bush administration, "the military option is very much back on the table" with respect to Iran's nuclear program. And while he notes that "the White House remains as skeptical as ever about a military strike," the Pentagon, the CIA and Central Command seem to be doing serious planning about how such a strike might be carried out. Klein cites an Israeli military source who suggests that the Central Command has a much better plan now due to better "human intelligence": >>>

Mojahedin 1, USA 0

Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington ruled that the U.S. State Department cannot arbitrarily designate the People's Mujahadin Organization of Iran (PMOI) as a foreign terrorist organization, thus imposing criminal penalties on any American citizen who offers so much as a nickel to the group. The State Department had since 1997 -- with little or no explanation- repeatedly re-designated the PMOI as a foreign terrorist organization>>>

Waiting for Azrael

Directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud were back on the French Croisette in Cannes, but this time not to present a new movie but announce the making of two in a near future. The first En Attendant Azrael aka Waiting for Azrael will start shooting on the 19th of July at the Legendary Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and will be followed by Le Onzième Laureate aka The Eleventh Laureate described by it's creators as something of a Western Spaghetti with a Persian flavour, set on the Caspian Sea>>>

Sherlock Holmes' Daughter (10)

Katayoon and I spent the night together at her house the night before her business trip with Paul. Tradition be damned, I didn’t want to waste the last few hours of our romance yelling futile accusations and hearing pointless denials. But I felt justified in being irked at her for what she had pulled on me in front of Paul. That morning while he and I were huddled over a project, she came from behind and hugged me around the neck. She had thrown down the gauntlet, and there was nothing I could do but let my feelings do the reacting>>>

سلول

قاضی محمدی در سلول راه می رود و مدام با خود حرف می زند. می نشیند، بلند می شود، می نشیند، دوباره بلند می شود. بوی دلزننده ی معده اش توی دهانش پیچیده و کلافه اش کرده است. مدورانه قدم می زند، می ایستد، دوباره قدم می زند. خودش را روی تخت آهنی و درب و داغون توی سلول می اندازد. صدای قژقژ تخت اعصابش را بیشتر خورد می کند>>>