LOUD and CLEAR

This year’s massive demonstrations of university students are not only the capital but also in a dozen major cities, are being joined by the populace, including families, parents, grandparents as well as siblings, and have taken a new direction. The demonstrators are primarily chanting slogans against their own government and its figureheads including the “supreme leader”, and multitude of failing or ill conceived polices>>>

Dangerous game

The United States needs to learn from the mistakes of its recent past and find pragmatic solutions to foreign policy challenges of our time. The ‘war against terror’ is an asymmetric struggle that requires new innovative strategies. This is nothing like the Vietnam, first and second Persian Gulf wars, or in fact any other conventional battlefield-based conflict. Hence, the Obama administration bears the moral responsibility to take existing and emerging threats from rogue regimes and organizations seriously.>>>

It has nothing to do with being Persian!

I always hear: “He is just another typical Persian guy. He tries so hard to be everything but him self”, or she is just “Another pretentious Persian girl, good by day, nasty by night”… We as young Iranians, as people from different cultural backgrounds, can be unconsciously incompetent in the area of moral identity. The problem is: we distinguish, separate and/or confuse our values. Generally speaking we separate the parameters of social acceptance (of our current environment) from a perceived outline of what is expected from us ethnically, as Iranians>>>

آمریکا! متشکریم!

ایران، تمامیت ارضی و استقلال سیاسی خود را مرهون بزرگ مردی است که در سالهای پرآشوب بعد از جنگ جهانی دوم در مقابل زیاده خواهی های استالین و ارتش سرخ ایستاد .Harry S. Truman سی و سومین رئیس جمهور آمریکا در 12 آوریل سال 1945 به دنبال مرگ فرانکلین روزولت جانشین وی شد و با اقتدار کامل تا 20 ژانویه سال 1953 از کاخ سفید، ایالات متحده را در سالهای طوفانی پایان جنگ در اقیانوس آرام که با تسلیم ارتش امپراطوری ژاپن به ژنرال مک آرتور پایان یافت و همچنین مقابله با نفوذ روزافزون شوروی در نقاط مخالف جهان، رهبری کرد>>>

I Have Someone in Calgary

I have someone in Calgary
Who is still thinking  of me.
When I saw her in Tehran
She was waiting for a child.
We went to the front yard at night
To count the shots of firing squads >>>

This Moment

In an infant’s crying,
In a hammer’s pounding,
In a river’s thundering roar,
In a mother’s teardrops,
In a friend’s hand reaching out,
In a stranger’s heartfelt smile,
In a night’s union of moon and
His mistresses, a thousand anxious stars >>>

Like Water to a Fish

The other day I read an article by a long-time friend and fellow activist, Heshmat Tabarsadi. I was struck by the powerful words, the courage that did not mince words, but cut directly to the point. Tabarzadi still lives in Iran, and it is for him and for the thousands of others fighting for freedom for Iran, that we must come out on 16 Azar. I met Heshmat more than a decade ago. We were both growing our student organizations, and we forged an alliance called the United Student Front>>>

Heritage taken hostage

This issue has very important implications for the United States. First of all, one can imagine how much dislike, distrust, and suspicion would be incurred by a Western power dragging another culture's ancient heritage to the auction block. America's museums are national institutions that are often trusted to hold and display the cultural materials of other societies around the world. They are not bank accounts or slush funds to be raided whenever money is needed>>>

Club Foot

Now
Her name is Nora
She is 7 months old.
She moves her little feet
90 degrees inward and back to straight
with complete flexibility >>>

طلایع

پیشتازان
خطرگرانند،
از جَـنمی برتر
که در آوردگاه شدائد
سازشگرانه نزیستند >>>