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با مذهبى ها چه بايد كرد؟

به مجرد اينكه پا از خط قرمز ايذائ دينى فراتر نهاده شد بايستى برخورد كرد

by Amir-Human Orfi
21-Jun-2010 (2 comments)
به راستى تكليف ايرانيانى كه تعلق خاطرى به ايمان مذهبى ندارند در قبال ايرانيان مذهبى از مومن و متدين و متشرع و متعصب و متصلب گرفته تا امثال دكتر سروش كه ادعاى روشن انديشى دارند چيست؟ در اين نوشته نشان خواهيم داد كه روش هاى رايج و معمول مواجهه ى بى مذهب ها با مذهبى ها كامياب نبوده اند و نه تنها مسيرهايى بوده اند كه ره به هيچ منزل صوابى نبرده اند بلكه مايه ى تحريك بيخودى احساسات و واكنش هاى افراطى مذهبيون هم گرديده و حاصل عكس به بار آورده اند>>>

IDEAS

Happy Medium

Constitutional Monarchy with Democracy

by bahmani
17-Jun-2010 (18 comments)
Now that the election is a year old and over, and the protests have proven to have been nothing more than an accidental flicker, all but off now, we can all finally relax and revel in it's gloriously pre-determined result. And maybe it's still too soon to be writing this, but I've been waiting a whole year to write this, chomping at the bit to get to this piece, since I was one of those crying for people in Iran NOT to vote, and didn't have any faith or emotional investment in either result. Seeing as it was never an honest true reflection of a free people>>>

GREENS

A Movement, not a Coup

What was the Green Movement? A debate rages

by Juan Cole
15-Jun-2010 (3 comments)
Partisans see the Green Movement as a sign that Iran is on the verge of a massive democratization. Critics see it as an exaggerated hiccup, barely more important than the student protests of the late 1990s, which amounted to nothing. Which interpretation is right has implications for US foreign policy. If the regime is tottering, the Obama administration can afford to batter it with sanctions and ignore it, hoping to help it fall. If it is strong and enduring, then it will have to be dealt with and probably direct negotiations are called for>>>

GREENS

Pushing the boundaries

First anniversary of this generation's movement

by Helaleh F.
13-Jun-2010
On the first anniversary of the Green Movement, there is a high level of uncertainty regarding the future which could only be evaluated by going towards the past. By now it is almost self-evident what engined this social transitional force. The Green Movement is a child of a social transformation in Iran which has started long before the rigged election on June 12th, 2009 and mostly initiated and supported by the young generation to reorient the country towards a modernization process>>>

VIEW

Alive and Important

The Green Movement

by James Miller
11-Jun-2010 (5 comments)
What are the results of the struggle of the opposition movement in Iran? Not failure. Externally, the movement has inspired Hillary Clinton (with the direction of some of the State Department's staffers, and perhaps our letters to them), America's foreign policy has evolved from the false dichotomy of "invade or ignore (Bush)" to one of fostering developing democratic movements through the use of technology and a "Three Cups of Tea" outreach process to people in Iran, Sudan, Cuba, Venezuela, and China. This process will take while, but internally, as a direct result of the Green Movement, the regime is getting weaker>>>

SANCTIONS

Winners and Losers

The major losers include Ahmadinejad and Khamenei

by Masoud Kazemzadeh
09-Jun-2010 (39 comments)
This fourth round of sanctions plus one UNSC presidential statement makes five UNSC actions against the fundamentalist regime regarding its suspected nuclear weapons program. UNSC resolutions are INTERNATIONAL LAW. All these UNSC resolutions are demanding the fundamentalist regime to stop its uranium enrichment. 1. The biggest winner is the Obama administration. The Obama administration’s diplomacy was able to convince Russia and China, two states that have been close to the fundamentalist regime, to vote in favor of this resolution.>>>

ISRAEL

The third strategic threat

The war on NGOs and humanitarian activists

by Thomas Keenan & Eyal Weizman
07-Jun-2010 (8 comments)
With very few exceptions, direct and intentional attacks on aid workers or human-rights advocates have hitherto been largely the work of undisciplined militias, ragged armies, criminal gangs, and police-states. The perpetrators have included the Taliban, the Bosnian Serb army, Iraqi insurgents, and the organisers of Latin America’s “dirty wars”. Now, with the lethal raid on the Mavi Marmara, is Israel in this respect following in their footsteps? >>>

WORLD

New global balance

Brazil-Turkey and Iran

by Mariano Aguirre
03-Jun-2010 (6 comments)
The balance of power that has reigned in the international system since the end of the cold war is undergoing profound shifts. Iran’s agreement with Brazil and Turkey on 17 May 2010 over the treatment of its enriched uranium, and the sanctions that the United States wishes (through a United Nations resolution) to impose on the Tehran government over Iran’s nuclear programme, reveal this system’s deep cracks. The change can be measured in the way that (as an editorial in Le Monde noted) discussion of issues such as nuclear proliferation, which used to be confined to permanent members of the UN Security Council, now finds countries from the global south playing a key role>>>

ISIS

Iran Specialists Face Challenges

Meeting against a backdrop of civil unrest

by Fariba Amini
27-May-2010
The 2010 Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS) is taking place on May 27-30 in Los Angeles, California. This is the first time the conference is held in California. Previous venues have been Bethesda, MD, London and Toronto. ISIS is a broad international, independent organization. Established in 1967, it is becoming larger every year as the study of Iran becomes vital for the region and the world at large. Its members, most of whom are academics, study the many aspects of Iran’s history and culture, from ancient times to the present>>>

VIEW

Cold Reaction

Washington push for Iran sanctions complicated by nuclear fuel deal

by Trita Parsi
21-May-2010 (6 comments)
A noticeable irritation can be sensed in Washington. After months of investing in a new UN Security Council resolution and an escalation of the conflict and apparently winning agreement among the permanent members of the council for such a measure two emerging powers had the audacity to intervene and find a solution. Brazil and Turkey should keep their expectations low, however, because there will not be any thank you party for them in Washington anytime soon>>>

NUCLEAR

Don't get too carried away

What the Iran deal is missing

by Meir Javedanfar
18-May-2010 (9 comments)
The nuclear deal announced Monday between Iran, Brazil and Turkey has certainly gotten many analysts and reporters excited, not least the LA Times, which described the agreement as, possibly, a ‘stunning’ breakthrough. And it could be. According to Ramin Mehmanparast, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, the deal will entail the transfer of 1200 kilograms of Iran’s low-enriched uranium (LEU), which has been enriched up to 3.5 percent, to Turkey. Once there, it will be exchanged for nuclear fuel. But we shouldn’t get too carried away>>>

REFORM

اصلاح طلبی؟

بنيادگرايان و اصلاح طلب های اسلامی بصورتی مشابه به لزوم «حکومت اسلامی» معتقد هستند

by shokooh.pasargad
16-May-2010 (4 comments)
با اين نگاه می توانيم به روشنی ببينيم که بنيادگرايان و اصلاح طلب های اسلامی، بر خلاف آنچه بنظر می آيد، مشترکاً و بصورتی مشابه به لزوم «حکومت اسلامی» معتقد هستند، هر دو از چيزی به نام جدايي دين از حکومت هراس دارند، و هر دو اسلام و قوانين آن را راه نجات می دانند و ـ در عين حال ـ هر دو در پی «جهانی کردن اسلام» اند. اما تفاوت اين دو در اين است که بنيادگرايان در واقع نوعی از همان حکومت خلافتی عثمانی ها هستند به معنی يک ديکتاتوری مذهبی، زدن و کشتن و تا گلو در خرافات غوطه خوردن>>>

VIEW

Fighting Chance

A democratic victory in Iran would be great news for the peace process in the entire ME

by Fred
13-May-2010 (3 comments)
First, some indisputable basic facts: Republican Presidents have occupied the White House for twenty years of the thirty one years that Islamists have been ruling over Iran. The bane of Islamists, the Iran Libya Sanction Act, ILSA, was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat. The proposed Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act which will replace ILSA has passed both Houses of Congress and is being prepared for President Obama’s signature>>>

VIEW

Profoundly off

The Leveretts and accountability of American analysts on Iran

by Omid Memarian
10-May-2010 (25 comments)
The list of foreigners who unconditionally support the Islamic Republic of Iran is short but not unexpected: Omar Albashir of Sudan, Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah, Khalid Mashal of Hamas, and Hugo Chavez of Venezula might be at the top. Add to this list an unlikely duo: Flynt Leverett and his wife, Hillary Mann Leverett. Notwithstanding over two decades of collective experience working for organizations and entities like the CIA, ... the Leveretts are currently America's most prominent, and abrasive, defenders of the Iranian regime and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad>>>

IDEAS

The Evolutionary Road

Winding and dangerous struggle between modernity and tradition, authority and freedom, vengeance and tolerance

by Arash Monzavi-Kia
10-May-2010 (5 comments)
The Western legacy itself has had two contradicting effects in relationship to the host colonies. On the one hand, the Western ways are desired, for achieving the same level of advanced and civilized lifestyle. At the same time, the Western values are rejected, due to the ingrained mistrust and hatred invoked by the memories of colonial dominance. This love-and-hate relationship is more pronounced wherever the host culture is less robust and secure within its own merit and value system>>>
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