JUSTICE

A Role in International Courts

Interview with Payam Akhavan, Part 1

by Soheila Vahdati
10-Oct-2012 (4 comments)
Payam Akhavan works as defender and prosecutor in international courts. Payam Akhavan was the first prosecutor of the post-Nuremberg international criminal courts, prosecuting criminals such as former Yoguslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, and helped with truth commissions and criminal tribunals in other countries such as Rwanda, Cambodia, and Guatemala. Akhavan was the first prosecutor of the post-Nuremberg international criminal courts>>>

GOLSHIFTEH

A gem of a film

The Patience Stone

by reorient
10-Oct-2012 (one comment)
‘Do you think she’s going to come? Do you think she’ll be here?’ repeatedly asked some friends of mine I happened to bump into in the queue for The Patience Stone – an Afghan film I had been eagerly awaiting ever since I set my paws on the TIFF brochure some weeks ago – as I eyed a mass of conspicuously Iranian-looking faces, fingering my ticket. Waiting in line, it seemed the audience that evening was more interested in catching a glimpse of Iranian actress Golsfhiteh Farhani than seeing a film from one of Afghanistan’s most renowned novelists and directors, Atiq Rahimi>>>

VIEW

Three Scenarios

Crisis in Iran

by Robert Dreyfuss
08-Oct-2012 (2 comments)
The collapse the rial, poses a fundamental challenge to Ayatollah Khamenei. When I last visited Iran, in 2009, a nearly universal refrain -- among ordinary Iranians, business people, and especially among the circle of big-business types associated with Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who backed the Green Movement -- was that the pain of economic sanctions was biting harshly>>>

CRISIS

Bad News For Mahmoud

Facing a harsh backlash from Rial's crash

by Omid Memarian
04-Oct-2012 (5 comments)
On Sept. 4, Ahmadinejad had dismissed speculation that the country’s currency was in deep trouble. When asked whether the rial would reach an exchange rate of 30,000 to the dollar, the president called such predictions “psychological warfare.” Now, just four weeks later, the rate has jumped to 35,000 rials to the dollar, and a Tehrani business owner reports that the exchange market has nearly shut down, with no one willing to sell off dollars for the quickly depreciating rials>>>

فاجعه

واقعیت و پیامدهای جنگ هسته‌ای

تصویری واقعی از جنگ هسته‌ای و عواقب وحشت‌آور آن

by Reza_Fani_Yazdi
04-Oct-2012 (2 comments)
داشتن تصویری واقعی از فاجعه هسته‌ای و عواقب وحشت‌آور آن از آن جهت امروز برای ما ایرانیان لازم است که نه تنها مسئولین نظام با شاخ و شانه کشیدن‌های قلدرمنشانه در جهت دستیابی به سلاح هسته‌ای بازی با مرگ و نابودی کشور را جدی نمی‌گیرند، که حتی بخشی از مردم و برخی شخصیت‌های اپوزیسیون نیز گاه حتی استفاده از سلاح هسته‌ای و مداخله نظامی اسرائیل و امریکا را به قیمت فروپاشی نظام جمهوری اسلامی نیز توجیه می‌نمایند>>>

مجاهدین

باند سیاه

باید نقش خطرناک و مزدورانه سازمان مجاهدین را افشاء کرد

by Azar Majedi
04-Oct-2012 (14 comments)
این کله معلق زدن ها، عملیات مزدورانه با سازمان مخفی اسرائیل یا آمریکا و خریدن و عکس گرفتن با منفورترین چهره های سیاست فاسد آمریکا، نه تنها سازمان مجاهدین را یک قدم هم بقدرت نزدیکتر نخواهد کرد، بلکه چهره یک فرقه مافیایی با پرونده سیاه این سازمان هر چه بیشتر نزد مردم و در ذهنیت جامعه تثبیت می شود>>>

IDEAS

NORMAL Muslims and REAL Islam

So the question is what is the mystery around “REAL Islam”?

by Zorumbaa
04-Oct-2012 (2 comments)
What this newly invented term “Normal Muslims” mean? I assume there must be a reality of “Abnormal Muslim” as well? What is the NORMAL ISLAM anyway? Can anyone define it as is? I am not asking your opinion i.e. what it ought to be or some interpretation of someone else’s interpretation. Your opinion of course is respected and you are entitled to it, but I am asking, rephrasing my question, is Quran THE NORMAL ISLAM, and everything else is just somebody’s opinion and interpretation? >>>

بمب اتمی

دفاع نه تهاجم

سکوت ایران، اضطراب اسرائیل و خطر جنگ

by Nader Habibi
02-Oct-2012 (7 comments)
ایران قادر به حملهٔ اتمی‌ به هیچ کشوری بدون مواجه شدن با یک تنبیه اتمی‌ شدید نخواهد بود و بنابر این دست به چنین کاری نخواهد زد. لیکن متأسفانه شعارها و تهدیدهای ضّد اسرائیلی برخی‌ از سران ایران از جانب گروهی از اسرائیلی‌ها جدی گرفته میشود و بخود می‌گویند با توجه به این تهدیدها باید جلوی برنامه اتمی‌ ایران را به هرقیمتی بگیریم>>>

روشنفکران

چه باید کرد؟

به قول چپ های آماتور بهمن 57

by cyrous moradi
02-Oct-2012 (9 comments)
اگر قشر روشنفکر و اوپوزیسیون با زبان مشترکی برای گفتگو و ابزارهایی برای شروع و ادامه گفتگو در هر کشوری وجود داشته باشد، میتواند از این فرصت های تاریخی استفاده کند و گرنه بعد از پایان هر گونه تحولاتی آش همان آش است و کاسه همان کاسه>>>

اپوزیسیون

بازار شام آلترناتیو هاى ارتجاعی

از شورای ملی برای انتخابات آزاد تا کنگره ملیت های ایران فدرال!

by Azar Majedi
30-Sep-2012 (17 comments)
یک روز سبزند و اصلاح طلب حکومتی، یک روز سکولار دموکرات؛ یک روز از مردم می خواهند که ساختار شکنی نکنند، روز دیگر خواهان انحلال رژیم اسلامی می شوند؛ یک روز در استکهلم، واشنگتن و بروکسل مشغول توطئه آلترناتیو سازی از نوع لیبی - سوریه برای ایران می شوند، روز دیگر یک بخش شان "شورای ملی برای انتخابات آزاد" تشکیل می دهد و بخش دیگر "کنگره‏ ملیت‌های ایران فدرال">>>

MILITARY

Weapons Do Not Make Iran Invincible

A surprising method to reduce conflict

by David R. Leffler
29-Sep-2012 (3 comments)
Invincibility is a commendable goal – but can powerful weapons really provide an invincible defense shield? "Invincible" means "incapable of being defeated." Throughout time, scientists have applied new technologies to achieve invincibility, but without success. History shows that adversaries inevitably devise methods to counter new weapon systems, and no doubt they will do the same with Iran weapons>>>

IRI

Talk But Look Beyond

Under intensified pressures, Khamenei could acquiesce

by Ray Takeyh
24-Sep-2012 (11 comments)
The latest tussle over red lines and deadlines on Iran’s nuclear program obscures some of the genuine dilemmas now confronting the international community. For a long time, the major powers had hoped that imposing strenuous sanctions on Iran could produce an interlocutor willing to negotiate honestly and to adhere to an exacting arms control agreement. But time may no longer permit the patient exercise of coercive diplomacy>>>

AFGHANISTAN

Getting Worse

The tide has turned against US-led forces

by Hossein Shahidi
23-Sep-2012 (2 comments)
I’ve just returned from a week in Kabul, where I took part in conferences. The flow of news and conversations with friends demonstrated that life in Afghanistan is filled with more tension than before. The Taliban who were overthrown by the US-led invasion in 2001 are now in control of many parts of Afghanistan, at least at night, and carry out repeated attacks in areas where they do not have direct power, including Kabul>>>

تبعید

چوب دو سر طلا

ایرانیان خارج از کشور

by Amir Ladan
23-Sep-2012
چرا نمی توانیم، قادر نیستیم و نمی خواهیم منسجم باشیم؟ شک، سوء ظن، بدبینی و بی اعتمادی که زائیدۀ رژیم های خودکامه، مستبد و خداسالار می باشند؛ این خصلت های بازدارنده، طی دوران در فرهنگ ما رخنه کرده و جا افتاده است. مانتسکیو می نویسد: "در ایران دامنۀ شک و تردید؛ بدبینی و بی اعتمادی نا متناهی و بی انتهاست." >>>

WAR

The Consequences

US military forces can destroy Iran, but...

by Shahir ShahidSaless
21-Sep-2012 (4 comments)
The current deadlock lies in the polemics between two divergent doctrines. Iranians do not succumb to the US-led pressures because they surmise that retreat under coercion would represent the beginning of the end for the Islamic Republic. Meanwhile, the Americans base their policies on the assumption that Iran’s government will surrender upon such time as sanctions finally threaten their survival. But what if the US assumption does not conform to reality which is most likely the case? Then what?>>>
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