Saturday, November 19, 2011

Persian Translation of Avec Le Temps (Leo Ferre Lyrics & Patricia Kaas Performance)



با زمان
با زمان، همه چیز میگذرد
چهره را فراموش میکنیم و صدا را هم
قلبی که نطپد، زحمت رفتن نمیکشد
فراتر نمیجوید، رها میکند و اینچنین بهتر است

با زمان
با زمان همه چیز میگذرد

دیگری را که دوست میداشتیم، که زیر باران می جستیم
دیگری را که ازیک نگاه میخواندیم
در میان کلمات و خطوط و زیر نقاب
پیمانی آراسته که در خواب میشود
با زمان، همه چیز ناپدید میشود

با زمان،
با زمان همه چیز میگذرد
حتی دوست داشتنی ترین یادگارها از چشم می افتند
وقتی که زیر نوری مرده آنها را جستجو میکنیم
در شنبه شب هایی که مهربانی تنها میماند

با زمان همه چیز میگذرد
کسی که رویش حساب میکردیم، برای یک سرما خوردگی ساده، برای یک هیچ
کسی که به او از هوا میبخشیدیم تا جواهر
کسی که برایش روحمان را میفروختیم به یک سکه پول
کسی که به دنبالش پادو میزدیم مثل یک سگ
با زمان، میرود،
همه چیز درست می شود

با زمان
با زمان همه چیز میگذرد
گرمای محبت را فراموش میکنیم و آوای صدا را هم
که چون بیچارگان نجوا میکرد
'دیر نکن، سرما هم نخور'.

با زمان
با زمان همه چیز میگذرد
و احساس میکنیم چو اسبیم از پا افتاده
و احساس میکنیم که منجمدیم در بستر حادثه
و احساس میکنیم که بی کسیم هر چند بی خیال
و احساس میکنیم که فریب خورده ایم در همه سالهای رفته
اما در واقع
با زمان
دیگر عشق نمی ورزیم

ترجمه شده از متن فرانسه شاعر و خواننده لئو فره
مترجم: Naj of Neoresistance
لطفا اگر استفاده میکنید، منبع را ذکر کنید



Avec le temps...
Avec le temps, va, tout s'en va
On oublie le visage et l'on oublie la voix
Le coeur, quand ça bat plus, c'est pas la peine d'aller
Chercher plus loin, faut laisser faire et c'est très bien


Avec le temps...
Avec le temps, va, tout s'en va


L'autre qu'on adorait, qu'on cherchait sous la pluie
L'autre qu'on devinait au détour d'un regard
Entre les mots, entre les lignes et sous le fard
D'un serment maquillé qui s'en va faire sa nuit
Avec le temps tout s'évanouit


Avec le temps...
Avec le temps, va, tout s'en va
Mêm' les plus chouett's souv'nirs ça t'as un' de ces gueules
A la Gal'rie j'farfouille dans les rayons d'la mort
Le samedi soir quand la tendresse s'en va tout seule


Avec le temps...
Avec le temps, va, tout s'en va


L'autre à qui l'on croyait pour un rhume, pour un rien
L'autre à qui l'on donnait du vent et des bijoux
Pour qui l'on eût vendu son âme pour quelques sous
Devant quoi l'on s'traînait comme traînent les chiens
Avec le temps, va, tout va bien


Avec le temps...
Avec le temps, va, tout s'en va
On oublie les passions et l'on oublie les voix
Qui vous disaient tout bas les mots des pauvres gens
Ne rentre pas trop tard, surtout ne prends pas froid


Avec le temps...
Avec le temps, va, tout s'en va


Et l'on se sent blanchi comme un cheval fourbu
Et l'on se sent glacé dans un lit de hasard
Et l'on se sent tout seul peut-être mais peinard
Et l'on se sent floué par les années perdues
Alors vraiment
Avec le temps on n'aime plus.




Léo Ferré

(source)

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Golden Quince and its ruby Jam

How do you go from the yellow fruit to it red jam?
A pictorial instruction on the facebook page.




Summary: wash well, chop well, and simmer for 4 hours; and don't spill your sugar!

Who is the real terrorist?

Here, there is enough said about the rumors that Mossad and the terrorist opposition to Iranian regime, MEK, are congratulating themselves about successful sabotage of Iranian military base. I recommend this post by Richard Silverstein.

Because the Iranian officials are denying possibility of sabotage, I am not going to comment or speculate. We are in war-times and like a good citizen, I will stick by the military command of my country.
However, this song, The Seven Devils, by Florence + The machine, really resonates with me on this occasion:



Holy water cannot help you now
A thousand armies couldn't keep me out
I don't want your money
I don't want your crowd
See I have to burn
Your kingdom down

Holy water cannot help you now
See I've had to burn your kingdom down
And no rivers and no lakes, can put the fire out
I'm gonna raise the stakes; I'm gonna smoke you out

Seven devils all around you
Seven devils in my house
See they were there when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done

Seven devils all around you
Seven devils in your house
See I was dead when I woke up this morning,
And I'll be dead before the day is done
Before the day is done
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/f/florence_and_the_machine/seven_devils.html ]
And now all your love will be exorcised
And we will find you saying it's to be harmonized.
And it's an even sum
It's a melody
It's a battle cry
It's a symphony

Seven devils all around you
Seven devils in my house
See, they were there when I woke up this morning
And I'll be dead before the day is done

Seven devils all around you
Seven devils in your house
See I was dead when I woke up this morning,
And I'll be dead before the day is done
Before the day is done
Before the day is done
Before the day is done

They can keep me alive
'Til I tear the walls
'Til I slave your hearts
And they take your souls
And what have we done?
Can it be undone?
In the evil's heart
In the evil's soul

Seven devils all around you
Seven devils in your house
See I was dead when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done
Before the day is done

Monday, November 7, 2011

120 Iranian Writers and Professors warn against attacking Iran

The list speaks for itself.

These individuals have a strong record of opposing the draconian ways of the Iranian regime: they are philosophers, historians, political activists, women right activists, journalists and etc .

However, they have all signed a petition to oppose not only the dictatorship of Iran, but dictating the 'New Middle East" project.

"Humanitarian help doesn't come through the tanks"!
Some of the signatories are (I will complete the list the moment I have some time):
  • Ervand Abrahamian; professor and teh author of "Khomeinism"
  • Shoja Azari
  • Sirus Aryanpour
  • Dariush Ashuri professor, historian, translator
  • Hamid Ahmadi
  • Reza Afshari, professor, historian, human rights
  • Mehran Adib
  • Abolfazl Ordukhani
  • Zinat Esmailzadeh
  • Reza Aghnami
  • Babak Amir Khosravi
  • Noushabeh Amiri: journalist, Roozonline.
  • Ebrahim Khalife
  • Fariba Amini
  • Mehdi Amini
  • Mohammad Amini
  • Abdolali Bazargan, son of the first post-revolution prime minister; writer and activst
  • Manijeh Baradaran
  • Mohamad Borghei
  • Nasrin Basiri
  • Reza Bourghani
  • Behrouz Bayat
  • Hamid Beheshti
  • Farzaneh Bazrpour
  • Golbarg BashiWomen rights activist academic
  • Kourosh Parsa
  • Siyavash Parsanejad
  • Shahrnoush Parsipour Writer, feminist, one of the earliest writers to suffer IRI prisons
  • Akram Pedramniya
  • Ali Porsan
  • Amir Pishdad
  • Shahram Tehrani
  • Asadollah Tyurchi
  • Ramin Jahanbeglu Philosopher, arrested on charges of espionage and put in jail in 2006-7 in Iran.
  • Bahram Chubineh
  • Reza Haji
  • Houshang Hasanyari Professor, Royal Military college, Canada
  • Fatemeh Haghighatju Reformist member of parliament (in exile)
  • Hamid Hamidi
  • Mohsen Heydarian
  • Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani (Old communist)
  • Parviz Dastmalchi
  • Hamid Dabashi ("A leading cultural observer")
  • Mehran Rad
  • Mostafa Rokhsefat
  • Mohsen Rezvani
  • Ali rezayee
  • Saeed Rahnema
  • Mohammad Rahbar
  • Mina Zand
  • Mandana Zandian
  • Hamid Zangeneh
  • Hamid Salek
  • Hamid Salek
  • Behrooz Setoodeh
  • Faraj Sarkouhi (Writer who fled chain murder of Iranian writer/intellectuals)
  • Mohammad Sahimi (regular contributer to PBS frontline Tehran Bureau)
  • Jalal Sar afraz
  • Ali Shakeri
  • Ahmad Shakeri
  • Masoumeh Shafii
  • Parviz Shokat
  • Mohammad Saber
  • Shahla Salehpour
  • Farhad Soufi
  • Ashkbous Talebi
  • Reza Alijani
  • Noreddin Gheravu
  • Reza Fani Yazdi
  • Hossein Foruzin
  • Parastu Forouhar (artist and the daughter of Parvaneh and Dariuch Forouhar, leaders of a nationalist political party, who were murdered in their home by the IRI)
  • Puyan Fakhrayy
  • Mansour Farhang professor of foreign relations
  • Kambiz Ghaem-magham
  • Mohsen Ghaem Magham
  • Hossein Ghazian
  • Frous Ghoreishi
  • Mostafa Ghahremani
  • Sam Ghandchi
  • Morteza Kazemian (Journalist in exile)
  • Abdee Kalantari (author and editor of Nilgoon)
  • Mehrangiz Kar Lawyer, women/human rights activist, whose journalist husband committed suicide since the IRI did not allow him to leave Iran for treatment and visit with his family.
  • Aziz Kramlu
  • Ali Keshtgar
  • Hossein Kamali
  • Hamid Kosari
  • Azadeh Kiyan Political scientist, Paris U.
  • Taghi Kimiyai
  • Mehdi Gerami
  • Iraj Gorgin Journalist
  • Akbar Ganji Journalist who survived an 80 day hunger strike due to being illegally detained by the IRI judiciary.
  • Reza Goharzad
  • Abdolkarim Lahiji Human rights lawyer
  • Bahman Mobasheri
  • Malihe Mohamadi
  • Morteza Mohit
  • Farkhondeh Modaresi
  • Abas Ma'roufi Novelist who is sent on exile and has turned into publisher
  • Reza Moini
  • Hassan Makaremi
  • Aliakbar Mahdi
  • Hayedeh Mogheysi
  • MohammadAli Mehrasa
  • Homayun mehmanesh
  • Ziba Mir Hosseini
  • Yaser Mirdamadi
  • Reza Nafe'i
  • Shirin Neshat Photographer and director of Women without Men
  • Asghar Nosrati
  • Mehdi nourbakhsh
  • Mohammadreza Nikfar, Philosopher and contributer to opposition Radio Zamaneh
  • Bahman Niroomand
  • Soheyla Vahdati
  • Parvin Vafayee
  • Nader Hashemi
  • Ata Hodashtina
  • Hossein houshmand
  • Yusef Yazdi

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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Akbar Ganji: Another look at Israel's bombing of Iran

Akbar Ganji is known to all who know about Iranian politics. He was an insider; a member of the IRGC; who published a damning book about the system of terror and assassination of the Iranian intellectuals, that was guided from the supreme leader's office. For this, he suffered jail and torture; and went to the brink of death with an 80-day hunger strike.

He is now a political refugee; in the US of A.

He has published the following outline of WHY an Israeli bombing of Iran should outrage the citizens of the 'free' world.


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These days, the possibility of Israel's attack on Iranian nuclear facilities has again become the news headline. According to these reports, Israel's Right wing prime minister and the minister of defense are seriously campaigning to get the support of the rest of the cabinet to attack Iran. However, the heads of the Israeli army and Mossad are against it. Israel has tested a long-range missile aimed for Iran, and according to a poll, 41% of Israelis want a military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities. What is the problem?

The Israeli government claims dangers of a nuclear Iran. Two points must be noted:

First: Iran has been a member of the International atomic energy agency (IAEA), since its establishment in 1956. In 1970, Iran became a signatory to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In 1972, Iran has been under IAEA's inspections. However, Israel is neither a member of IAEA, nor a signatory to NPT, and no international organization ever inspects Israel's nuclear facilities.

Secondly, it is said that Israel does own about 200 nuclear warheads; while the American and Israeli authorities say that Iran "might" reach nuclear capacity in the future. If, despite all sanctions, Iran can acheive such deed, it will at most have one 80-Kg bomb with which it cannot go against Israel's 200.

Then, so far, it is Israel who doesn't recognize the international community and bullies all. How?

Israel says that all Middle Eastern countries have to be a member of and under strict surveillance of IAEA; but that they are an exception. Israel says that they have the right to owning hundreds of nuclear bombs, but other regional governments are not entitled to even enriching uranium, Where has this "discrimination" and "special right" come from? Is it not because the USA is behing Israeli's bullying of the hundreds of millions of the people in the region?

Israel and its fanatic supporters create this special right with a claim. The claim is that it is only Israel that faces threat, and not other regional governments; therefore, Israel should have access to deterrents. However a few points must be noted with regards to this claim:

One: Military Aggression and Occupation
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
In the 20th century, Iran has not launched any military attack against any nations; rather it has itself been the victim of military attacks by the regional countries which has led to more than a million death and more than 1000 billion dollars of damages.

However, Israel has come to exist after occupying the palestinian territory in 1948. The Israeli government has dislocated the Palestinians out of their homes and has denied them their basic rights.

Israel claims that it is a government. A modern government is defined by national borders. Question is, where are Israeli borders? Israel does not accept any international borders.

According to the UN resolution 181, official recognition of Israeli government, 45% of Palestine belongs to Palestinians, 54% to Israel and 1% is the international zone. Israel does not accept this resolution. To deny this resolution is to deny the existence of Israel; for it was with this resolution that Israel would be internationally recognized.

The Israeli government has shrunk the Palestinian territory to 22% (from 45) after the 1967 war. That is, so far, it has occupied 78% of the palestinian territory. In later steps, in other occupied territories it has begun settlement construction for Jewish citizens. On the other hand, 2-3 million palestinians who live in the occupied territories are not considered citizens, i.e. they have no passport and no other citizen rights.

According to an agreement between the US, Russia, EU and the UN, an independent Palestinian government must be formed. However, Israel does not concede and is buying time so that the problem of the occupied territories would be forgotten with the passing of the first generation.

The Israeli government has bombed the nuclear facilities of Irag and Syria. In fact, it is Israel who attacks other countries on a whim, with various excuses.

If owning nuclear facilities is illegal, Israel owns uncontrolled ones. If seeking nuclear weapons is illegal, Israel owns hundreds.

Of course, the governments of the US, Israel and Iran have formed military groups in other countries and use them against this or that. Iran does such actions in Lebanon (Hizbollah), Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. But here too, all governments should be condemned for such violation of international law.

Two: Committing War Crime
++++++++++++++++++++++
The Iranian government has not yet been accused or convicted of "war crime" or "crime against humanity". However, the UN has condemned Israel for "war crime" in Gaza.

Three: The Problem of Terrorism
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Iranian government has killed hundreds of the Iranian opposition, assassinating them inside or outside Iran. The Israeli government too has assassinated many Palestinians inside or outside Palestine and around the globe. One example is the injection of poison to Khaled Mash'al in 1997; that according to Paul McGeough [Kill Khalid], called for Bill Clinton's intervention pressuring Israel to provide the antidote.

Another example is the terror in Qatar on EU passport, which angered the Europeans about counterfeiting their passports. The British Foreign Minister expelled an Israeli diplomat for counterfeiting 12 passports to kill a Hamas leader.

As such, Israel is a government that is formed by occupation and has carried on with "terror" and "war crime"; that doesn't accept the EU/US/UN/Russia agreements to allow the owners of the land have a small share of their territory; and is seeking a war with Iran on false excuses.

Four: National Security and Interests
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The "nuclear grandiosity" project of Ayatollah Khamenei is not supported by all Iranians. At least we know that many political parties are opposed to it. Basically, Khamenei is not seeking people's approval for this.

But, do other countries, even the Western democracies, hold or have held a referendum when attempting it? Moreover, which one of the Wester democracies that already owns nuclear bombs has sought the "satisfaction" of the people?

Governments that own the bomb justify it under pretense of "National Security" of "National Interest". So does Israel. Now the question is" Shouldn't "national security" or "national interest" compel Iran and other regional governments to seek nuclear weapons too?"

Five: Democratization of the Middle East
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
If the Arab Spring leads to democratization, it will harm Israel, because the authoritarian and corrupt regimes that do not have popular support inside their countries, and are under support of the Us or other European countries, obey the dictated policies of the West.

If these countries start having political and democratic structures, they have to answer to their people. The public opinion of the people of the region will no longer stand for discrimination and injustice. The people of the region will demand their governments to consider their "national security" and "national interest".

If Israel owns nuclear weapons, the "democratic governments" of the region will have to seek them to guarantee their national "security and interest". Therefore, and for other reasons, Israel is against democratization of the Middle East. Israel was the only government defending Husni Mubarak to the last day. This support cost Mubarak dearly.

Six: Israeli and Iranian governments, true friends
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Right-Windgers of Israel want that Ali Khamenei and Mahmud Ahmadinejad to hold the wheel of power in Iran so that they can justify their invasive policies in the Western world.

The Islamic Republic is also using the threat of Israel to justify many of its oppressive acts, especially the ruthless crackdown on the opposition.

These two governments strongly need eachother.

However, Iranians are fighting for a peaceful transition from the "despotic supreme leadership" to a "democratic system based on freedom and human rights", which won't be anti-Western either.

Israel knows that such a system is not to their advantage; for if there is a democratic government in Iran, it will certainly seek the "national security and interest" of Iranians, without opposition to the West; and thus Israel will no longer have a boogieman to scare the Western powers with.

Seven: All or None
++++++++++++++
In supporting democracy and human rights, you can't have a two tear system. You can't say that the national security and interests of Israel are important, but those of Iran are not. If Israel, and Pakistan and India and Kazakhstan and ... own nuclear weapons, the future democratic government of Iran will also seek them. This means throwing the region in a nuclear proliferation race.

The best policy is to destroy all weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. This is an all or none policy. Either no country should have them, or if one does, the rest will seek them too.

Instead of unequivocal support of the unilateral and aggressive policies of Israel, the United States should work with all governments and the UN towards nuclear disarmament. In his 2009 4th of June speech in Cairo's Al-Zahra University, Obama said:

I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not. No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons. And any nation – including Iran – should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
It is possible, and a must, that with a collective security agreement, guarantee the security of all including Israel. But, defending discrimination and special rights is against the values of democracy and human rights. The middle east has a young population. This generation that doesn't withstand the local despots, will not stand for the foreign ones either.

It is true that true independence comes from a national government with the actual votes of each citizen. However, the foreign aggressors cannot beat on the head of a nation with the excuse that the local despot is beating them.

P.S. Sorry I have not read this and it is perhaps full of typos and etc; but judging from the mushroom explosion of the text in the facebook, I thought it is important to provide the world with "another look". I now have to eat breakfast and earn a living, so please forgive errors and point them out to me for correction. (Naj)

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Image of a dream: translated lyrics of Dariush's song "تصویر رویا"

Dariush is our king of pop! His songs and his voice made me cry throughout my teen years. I stopped listening to him when I "grew up" and became a 'tough' girl who needed to kill Iran in her in order to succeed "abroad". I heard a version of this song on the facebook; and it made me cry. I just share it with a translation of the lyrics. Let me know if you like the music. I am curious.



Moonlight floods the night شب از مهتاب سر میره
The moon full in water تمام ماه تو ابه
like the image of a dream شبیه عکس یک رویاست

When you sleep, the world sleeps تو خوابیدی جهان خوابه
Earth goes around you زمین دور تو میگرده
Time is in your hands زمان دست تو افتاده

Look تماشا کن
Your silence has deepened the night سکوت تو عجب عمقی به شب داده
In sleep, you are like a sketch تو خواب انگار طرحی از
of a flower, the moon and a smile گل و مهتاب و لبخندی

The night begins from شب از جای شروع میشه
where you close your eyes که تو چشماتو میبندی
I hold you تورا اغوش میگیرم
my body fills with dream تنم سریز رویا شه
the world, the size of a lullaby جهان قد یه لالایی
that fits in my arms توی اغوش من جاشه

I hold you تورا اغوش میگیرم
It becomes darker هوا تاریک تر میشه
God comes closer than your hands خدا از دست های تو به من نزدیکتر میشه

The earth goes around you زمین دور تو میگرده
The time is in your hand زمان دست تو افتاده
Look تماشا کن
how your silence has deepened the night سکوت تو عجب عمقی به شب داده

The house fills تمام خونه پر میشه
of this dreamy image از این تصویر رویایی
look تماشا کن
look تماشا کن
how cruelly beautiful you are چه بی رحمانه زیبایی

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Digging photos

I am homesick ... my family has all left my end of the world, they are all in Iran; and I am digging photos. And putting them on the facebook page of my blog.

Something about facebook is soothing to my short temper of these days and my short attention span.

I want to go home ... to go to Iran; and smell something familiar ... my mother.

What have I to say any more ... what have I to say about Iran? ...