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Transferring the Spirit of Rostam to Iranian Arms and Armor By: Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani
Generations of Iranians have grown up with the story of Kaveh Ahangar. Kaveh saved many people by starting a rebellion against the tyrant Zahak Mardush. Zahak had been terrorizing Iranians for years, feeding the brains of their children to the snakes who had grown on his shoulders. I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
More quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. An Iranian who Advocates his nation's Disintegration By: Dr. Kaveh Farrokh
Parnian is a descendant of Karim
Khan Zand from both sides of her family. She,
like the majority of Kurds and Lurs vehemently
reject people like Sor who are designated
as "Jash". Jash
in Kurdish means a stupid man who behaves like a braying donkey for
his enemies. People like Mr. Esfandiari, Mehrdad Izady and Dora Sor keep forgetting that the majority of By: Firouz Malek-Madani, Ph.D.
Aya vaght-e an naresideh ast ke az khaab-e sokre aavar bidaar shavim? By: Dr. Ahmad Panahandeh
A review on Houshang Nahavndi's Book about the Last Shah of Iran
May
I draw your attention to a new book by Houchang Nahavandi, a former
Minister of the last Shah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi). Please see
the attached file for a picture of the front cover. Saal-e 2006 saal-e Kourosh-e Kabir By: Hoomer Abramian, Australia
Two paintings by Partov Zia in London (November 22 - December 22)
Az Bijan Sokhan migooyam, honarmand-e tabeediy-e Irani Seresht-e Irani Dr. Jalil Doostkhah writes abut Bijan Assadipour, the talented artist, journalist, and author
Negaahi be ketaab-e "Neveshtan baa durbin" , interviews with Ebrahim Golestan By: Parviz Hamzavi
Readers
of the world unite
In the book club of her dreams, Iranian-born writer and English professor Azar Nafisi imagines making room for U.S. President George W. Bush, his predecessor Bill Clinton and even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of her native land who was rebuked by the United Nations in October for his remarks that Israel should be "wiped off the map." Introducing "We are Iran: The Persian Blogs" A book By: Nasrin Alavi Sent by: Amil Imani
Theirs is not the Iran of bearded ayatollahs and thuggish militias, but a country that has educated itself to the point where it finds the Islamist fundamentalists antiquated and laughable, where adult literacy (and computer literacy) is higher than in many European states, and where 70% of the population is under 30 and keen to usher in a new Iran. As one blogger (safsari.persianblog.com/) wrote: The Breathtaking Jewelry Museum of Iran By:
Sara Mashayekh
The National Treasury of Iran located in the Central Bank, on Tehran’s Ferdowsi Avenue, is home to the most exceptional jewels of the country. It is officially named “The Treasury of National Jewels” but is commonly referred to as the “Jewelry Museum.” The museum is only open to the public 3 days a week from 2 to 4 in the afternoon and according to a law made by Reza Shah that is still in force today, the government’s representatives are required to be present while the collection is open to the public. The Crown Jewels of Iran are by far the largest and most dazzling jewel collection in the world. So valuable is the collection that it backs the Iranian national currency as a reserve.
Publicly
Financed Enlightening Entertainment For Immediate Release: - January 1, 2006
My Dear Fellow Humankind, My name is Bahram Maskanian and I am a Persian American man. Early 2004 I became aware of a few alarming reports about the existence of a highly active slave trade within and around Iran / Persia. I began researching the issue and soon found out that not only the barbaric and tragic problem of human trafficking and slavery exists in Iran, but that the criminal mullah's regime profits on the sacrifice of defenseless young Iranian women and men. Based on my research, and also on the testimony of a few survivors of this heinous practice, I wrote a screenplay for a feature film entitled: - Shackles Mozart's 250th marked in Austria BBC
Soheil Danesh Eshraghi excellent Caricature
Born
in 1984in Tehran.Graphic designer and cartoonist.
Iranian Film Festival 2006 in Boston Sent by: Amil Imani
The
Freer Gallery's tenth annual festival of Iranian films features five
new films showcasing the best in contemporary Iranian filmmaking. This
year's edition includes films by both new and established directors,
along with special guests and an animated film for families. All films
are in Farsi with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.
Darius Kadivar's Corner Paris Report
About the Author: Darius KADIVAR is a freelance journalist born to an Iranian father and French mother. He works and lives in France. JOYEUX NOEL, a movie worth seeing You sure want to bite life with all your might after seeing it and not necessarily just for the title
French
Role Model : Eternel Immigrant Charles Aznavour ...
A year ago, I had the oppurtunity to
see French Singer crooner Charles Aznavour on French TV talk Show
Vivement Dimanche dedicated to former Empress of Iran Farah
Pahlavi. Azavour sang a touching song "Voyages" aka
"Trip" with his second daughter Katia and shared souveniers
with the Empress. French
Iranian director Robert Hossein to stage
Copyright
© Shirin Tabibzadeh, Cupertino, 2000 -2005
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Iran:
Religion and Love
For Iran's young population, celebrating a solemn
religious holiday while also gearing up for the excitement of Valentine's
Day created an enthralling cultural dichotomy on the streets of Tehran
last week.
Bonfire of
the Pieties BY AMIR TAHERI "The Muslim Fury," one newspaper headline screamed. "The Rage of Islam Sweeps Europe," said another. "The clash of civilizations is coming," warned one commentator.
Devoted and
Defiant Born to a blacksmith, educated as a revolutionary, trained as a killer and derided by rivals as a mystical fanatic, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is easily cast as the personification of everything there is to fear about a nuclear Iran. But he may be worse than that—not because of how he looks to the outside world, but because of what he represents inside his country.
President Bush Delivers State of the Union Address February 01, 2006
Tonight, let me speak directly to the citizens of Iran: America respects you, and we respect your country. We respect your right to choose your own future and win your own freedom. And our nation hopes one day to be the closest of friends with a free and democratic Iran. (Applause.)
By: Farhad Mafie Many foxes will grow grey, but few grow good" B. Franklin
January 28, 2006
In response to Tehran's foolish decision to restart its nuclear enrichment program, the U.N. Security Council finally got serious about dealing with the Iranian threat.
Prepare
yourself for the Unthinkable: War Against Iran May be a Necessity The unimaginable but ultimately inescapable truth is that we are going to have to get ready for war with Iran. Being of a free-speaking, free-thinking disposition, we generally find in the ......
Iranian
Mojahedin Accepts Defeat - Rejects Armed Struggle
LONDON -- "The Mojahedeen Khalq Organisation (MKO) rejects armed struggle and commits itself only to non-violent means of struggle (against Iran), the Baghdad-based Organisation has reportedly decided, after more than two decades of futile armed struggle aimed at toppling the Islamic Republic.
LONDON -- "The Mojahedeen Khalq Organisation (MKO) rejects armed struggle and commits itself only to non-violent means of struggle (against Iran), the Baghdad-based Organisation has reportedly decided, after more than two decades of futile armed struggle aimed at toppling the Islamic Republic.
Good article, please read Now would be a good time for the peace community to sober up and find a conscience. After failing numerous moral tests after September 11, 2001, the academic left, the anti-war agitators have an opportunity with Iran.
M. Azad, the famous poet and translator died from cancer on January 16th, 2006 God bless his soul
A Carnival of Iran Absurdities January 17, 2006 Treating the issue of Iran's alleged nuclear ambition as a hot potato, the European trio of Britain, Germany and France have decided to pass it on to the International Atomic Energy Agency and from there to the U.N. Security Council.
Sex,
Drugs and HIV: No Strangers to Iran
Doctors and patients together try to raise awareness and save lives TEHRAN -- On the outside, things look pretty good for Abdullah and his wife Zoreh. They've been happily married for five years and just had their first child, Ali Reza, now six months old.
Iran's
Nuclear Decision Starts Shock Wave After breaking the seals on its once-secret nuclear facility at Natanz, Iran has now set the stage for a long-threatened showdown with Europe and the U.S.
Link to Reza Pahlavi interview with Foz News
C'MON!
2005 WASN'T SO BAD AFTER ALL
Ignorance, the Greatest Threat Facing America By: Amil Imani The intention of this article is to provoke a much needed debate on the nature of a phenomenon called "Islamic Terrorism.” Most people in America assume that the phenomenon called "Islamic Terrorism" started after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City.
January 07, 2006 Since the election of new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June, Iran's leaders have taken to making unusually frank statements committing their country to mastering the entire nuclear fuel cycle, thus giving them the potential to divert enriched uranium or plutonium for constructing nuclear weapons. Here is a sampling:
Waiting for an Explosion in Iran
By stating his wish to see Ariel Sharon, “the criminal of Sabra and Shatilla dead and joining his ancestors”, the news Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demonstrated that not only he is genuine
January 06, 2006 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon lies on his deathbed, and alongside him perhaps the hope of peace in the Middle East. Iran's rabble-rousing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatens the fragile situation -- potentially leading to a coflict that would engulf more than just the region.
WELL-HEELED
IRANIANS FALL BY THE WAYSIDE
Domestic
Threats to Iranian Stability: Khuzistan and Baluchistan Print Mail
U.S. makes its case with laptop clues
In mid-July, senior U.S. intelligence officials called the leaders of the international atomic inspection agency to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Danube in Vienna and unveiled the contents of what they said was a stolen Iranian laptop computer
For
Jews, there have always been two Irans PALO ALTO, California The Bible is full of praise for Persia (today's much-maligned Iran) and for its rulers. In the Book of Ezra, God speaks through the proclamations of Cyrus, the king of Persia, who declares, "The Lord God of Heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem."
By: Iqbal Latif Chirac has played its foreign policy of 'pacification' partly to keep its 5 million immigrant population mollified. In the first disturbing assertion that a European country and its capital can be brought to a halt by the massed forces of Islamist ....
United States Releases 2005 International Religious Freedom Report
The U.S. Department of State released the seventh Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, which examines the status of religious freedom around the world.
European cities on guard for French-style violence By Erik Kirschbaum
The U.S. Department of State released the seventh Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, which examines the status of religious freedom around the world. A
group of students from the Teheran University writes to the Nobel
Prize winner Harold Printer Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature for this year (2005). In his speeches that he delivered at various places, including Turin University , he lashed out at the American foreign policy. He gave those speeches after he had undergone a.....
Bush's
Great Middle East Gamble Since 9/11, President Bush and this most convulsive region of the Muslim world have become Siamese twins, inseparably connected in Iraq. If the Iraqi experiment takes--and we will certainly know whether a new democratic Iraq is alive and kicking by the en.....
Regime
Change The clerical cabal that rules Iran is pushing its captive population ever closer to the precipice. President Ahmadinejad's declaration that Israel should be "wiped out" has dramatically enhanced Iran's isolation. The regime's best hope is that China's insatiable hunger for energy will lead Beijing to use its veto power to thwart a possible U.N. sanction.
Bush
Calls Iran and Syria 'Outlaw Regimes'
President George W. Bush on Friday called Iran and Syria "outlaw regimes" and said countries that support terrorism are just as guilty of murder as those who commit the violence. "We're determined to deny radical groups the support and sanctuary of outlaw regimes. State sponsors like Syria and Iran have a
October 28, 2005 The new president of the Islamic Republic, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has radically changed a key aspect of Iran's regional policy by committing his administration to the destruction of Israel. In a speech Wednesday, Ahmadinejad .....
Blair Hints at Military Action after Iran's 'Disgraceful' Taunt October 28, 2005 Tony Blair gave warning last night that the West might
have to take military action against Iran after worldwide condemnation
of its President’s call for Israel to be “wiped off the
map”.
A few letters to Michael Ledeen on AEI Conference The individuals who are the panelists at AEI’s event on October 26, 2005, “The Unknown Iran; Another Case for Federalism?”are not representatives of Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Baluchis, and Arabs. Some of the panelists support extremist views that are not .......
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