IRAN-U.S.

Strikes, Sanctions and Scapegoats

Is Iran capable to take a sober decision about how to deal with the outside world?

by Gary Sick
10-Aug-2010 (21 comments)
For the pundits, there are only two questions about U.S.-Iran relations that are of any importance: (1) Will Israel and/or the United States attack Iran? and (2) will the new sanctions have enough bite to persuade Iran to change its nuclear policy? Despite all the printers ink spilled on these two issues, the answers are an easy no and no. Neither the United States nor Israel will take the military option off the table, thereby giving the pundits (and the crowd that is dying to repeat Iraq) latitude to keep the distant prospect of military action on the front pages, where it has been for years>>>

IDEAS

راههای طی شده (5)

طلایه داران تفاهم و گفتگوی بین ادیان

by Mahmoud Sadri
04-Aug-2010 (2 comments)
منازعه میان مذاهب چیزی جز جدال تیره چشمان در آب روشن نمی تواند بوددر منظر مولوی، جلوه حقیقت ماورائی در آینه های متکثر فرهنگی و تاریخی نه امری استثنائی و اتفاقی بلکه پدیداری مقدر و لازمه آفرینش است. همچنانکه آگاهی و گذر از این محدودیت دیدگاهی نیز لازمه تکوین جهان و انسان است. متدینین ادیان گوناگون مانند نقاطی در پیرامون یک دایره اند که همه به یک مرکز واحد متوجه اند ولی هریک از زاویه خویش آنرا می بیند>>>

LEADER

Supreme Mistake

Khamenei has has doomed himself to the fate of the fort

by William R. Stimson
02-Aug-2010 (13 comments)
Since he stole the majority of the people’s votes in last year’s election, Iran’s Supreme Leader has also stolen for himself, or tried to, every other public occasion all through the year. Already by far the most powerful tyrant Iran has ever known, he demonstrated again and again, all year long, before the shocked eyes of the world to what unbelievably murderous and perverted lengths he will go not just to snuff out every last vestige of his people’s freedom – but to break their very spirit>>>

PAHLAVIS

All The Shah's Men

Political life after WW II

by Sohrab_Ferdows
29-Jul-2010 (8 comments)
Decades after Shah of Iran has been overthrown to accommodate implementation of certain policies in the region of Persian Gulf and Middle East to serve the interests of certain group of people in the world, we are still witness to the same propaganda nonsense that brought our nation to one of the lowest points in the history which is comparable to the times when Iran was overrun by Arab and Mongolian invaders centuries ago. To add more to this, one of the saddest issues of our time is glorification of ignorance under the guise of political correctness to justify and spread misinformation towards our history>>>

ETHNICITY

The E Factor

Role of ethnicity as an added burden in women’s struggle for their rights

by Faranak Farid
25-Jul-2010 (3 comments)
Is ethnicity important in women’s struggle for their rights, at all? Studying English in middle school, this question seemed an exciting one. It made me imagine myself abroad and answer it proudly. But, this innocent imagination was shattered. Yes, I grew up as a woman facing the reality of much discrimination. Discriminations that kill you and re-kill you, shape you and reshape you, frame you and reframe you to the point that you don’t know who you are>>>

STUDENTS

Can Obama keep his promise?

Young Iranians hold the greatest hope for a democratic Iran

by jamal.abdi
22-Jul-2010 (15 comments)
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>>>

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The Neocon Method

The Case of Greenwald and Parsi

by Via Chris Davis
22-Jul-2010 (24 comments)
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>>>

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Bomb Iran?

What would that accomplish?

by William Hartung
20-Jul-2010 (8 comments)
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": >>>

POLITICS

آثار هرج و مرج

جنبش سبز و سرنوشت آن پس از یک سال

by Sohrab_Ferdows
13-Jul-2010 (one comment)
نیروهای مستقل ملی با حضور و تلاش خود توانسته اند با شعارهائی که منعکس کننده خواسته های واقعی مردم بود ابتکار عمل را بدست گرفته و هدفهای جنبش را گسترده تر کنند. بعضی از این شعارها مانند "نه شرقی نه غربی جمهوری ایرانی" و "نه غزه نه لبنان جانم فدای ایران" به روشنی نشان میداد که شعارهای کلیشه ای "رای مرا پس بده" و امثال آن هرگز خواسته های اساسی مردم را منعکس نمیکند و این خواسته ها بسیار فرا تر از لغو نتایج یک انتخابات بوده و با اساس و پایه جمهوری اسلامی سر و کار دارد>>>

IDEAS

Scriptures and Science

Quran... and natural sciences?

by Disenchanted
13-Jul-2010 (15 comments)
Those who search and often find scientific facts and nuggets in scriptures are not aware of the absurdity of their claims. For the simple reason that these books are ancient and having been written thousands of years ago can not keep up with ever changing of scientific paradigms. Despite the fact that our phenomenological understanding of nature remains the same (water is always wet, fire burns, sun is bright yellow, etc) our theoretical understanding evolves with time>>>

QUESTION

What threat?

The Iranian Threat

by Noam Chomsky
05-Jul-2010 (54 comments)
Instead of taking practical steps towards reducing the truly dire threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, the US is taking major steps towards reinforcing US control of the vital Middle East oil-producing regions, by violence if other means do not suffice. That is understandable and even reasonable, under prevailing imperial doctrine, however grim the consequences, yet another illustration of "the savage injustice of the Europeans" that Adam Smith deplored in 1776, with the command center since shifted to their imperial settlement across the seas>>>

FEARS

هراس از پیروزی

از چه نگرانند؟

by Ramin Kamran
05-Jul-2010
هر گاه صحبت از براندازی نظام میشود هراس از فروریختن كل دستگاه حكومتی، پیدایش خلاء سیاسی و خطر تجزیۀ مملكت نیز خود نشان میدهد. البته نظام اسلامگرا هم كه بقای خود را در گرو احتراز مردم از براندازی میبیند به این هراس دامن میزند ولی مشکل فقط از تبلیغات حكومتی برنمی خیزد. سؤالی كه اخیراً یكی از دوستان با من در میان گذاشت دلمشغولی بسیاری است: اگر این نظام به ناگاه سقوط كند چه خواهد شد؟ آیا سرنوشتی نظیر یوگوسلاوی و تجزیۀ مملكت در انتظار ما نیست؟>>>

IDEAS

راههای طی شده (4)

طلایه داران تفاهم و گفتگوی بین ادیان: پلورالیسم مجرب و پلورالیسم مقّدر

by Mahmoud Sadri
30-Jun-2010 (one comment)
پیشتازان تفاهم و گفتگوی بین ادیان چه کسانی بودند؟ می توان آرا آنان را در دو مقوله پلورالیسم مجرب و پلورالیسم مقدر خلاصه کرد. گروه اول چند گانگی دینی را در تجربه می دیدند وامکان تقلیل این تکثر مذهبی را به یک دین و آئین واحد بعید بلکه نا ممکن می یافتند. هرچند در عمل آنرا می پذیرفتندو به آن بها می دادند، در نظر توضیح و تفسیری عقلی یا دینی بر این تکثر نداشتند. نتیجه این بود که مقدسات و معتقدات دیگران را محترم می شمردند و از جدل و جدال دینی پرهیز می کردند>>>

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WAR WITH IRAN

Stay tuned for yet another Western government’s crime against humanity in the name of peace and stability

by Abarmard
23-Jun-2010 (74 comments)
It appears that the war train in the Middle East is on the way. There are no doubts that the issues of internal struggles for freedom and foreign policies are irrelevant factor to the Western governments. They are neither concerned about the Green movement nor the Nuclear technology in Iran. What ticks the Western governments off is the same unjust, bias, and bully mentality to bring a stray nation back at servicing their Western governments>>>

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The long journey to nowhere

The U.S. has become the bully on the world block

by Peter Stern
21-Jun-2010 (8 comments)
Faintly in my memories I recall an America that was beautiful in many ways. We were a righteous national community, in a good way, respectful and hard-working. During my lifetime, I have watched with much helplessness as we reached middle age the beauty started to fade, and our actions became centered on greed and self-fulfilling daily lives with eyes that could only envision a myopic short-term span. More or less we evolved into an “if it feels good, do it” and “whoever has the most toys wins” mentality that forced a massive change in our general climate, as a nation and a people>>>
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