tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43786878394050645532012-01-25T01:29:56.812ZThis blog is about fairness; about looking at objects from multiple perspectives. Stable transformation comes only slowly; and only if the environment is free of sporadic jitters of passion and anger that destabilize growth. I strongly believe that the path to peace crosses through the battle with self.Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comBlogger8911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-88345257360195630542012-01-22T19:59:00.005Z2012-01-22T23:09:16.255Z

My previous post got plenty of comments; I was surprised. But, from the comments, I got a sense that some were not focusing on the crux of the problem I was trying to address (which was the de-contextualization of an actor's professional choices and attributing them into political activism)Here's a recap:Just as the Golden Globe victory of an Iranian Film, "A Separation" by Asghar Farhadi,

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Golshifteh Farahani, the 29 year old Iranian actress has appeared (together with 31 other young actors) before the camera of the fashion photographer and video artist Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Mondino's commissioned work for the Cesar Academy takes two forms: - A photo series called Espoirs 2012, Génération Spontanée that was published in Le Figaro's Madam section, featuring 7 of these actors (

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Today, another physicist is blasted up, by a magnetic car bomb.This makes the number of science victims to 5. Here's a list, in chronological order.Wednesday 11 Jan 2012, car bomb kills Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, and the director for commecial affairs at the Natanz enrichment facility. According to Huffington post, yesterday, Israeli military chief Gen Benny Gantz was quoted saying to a

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The Ballad of Tara is made by the Iranian Master, Bahram Beyzai. It was made in the year of the revolution, 1979, and banned as soon as the Islamic Republic took place! The film features one of Iran's best female theater actors, Sousan Taslimi, who was forced off of screen and stage, after the revolution, because "her face and beauty transpired too much charisma and force"[see this interview

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با زمانبا زمان، همه چیز میگذردچهره را فراموش میکنیم و صدا را همقلبی که نطپد، زحمت رفتن نمیکشدفراتر نمیجوید، رها میکند و اینچنین بهتر استبا زمانبا زمان همه چیز میگذرددیگری را که دوست میداشتیم، که زیر باران می جستیمدیگری را که ازیک نگاه میخواندیمدر میان کلمات و خطوط و زیر نقابپیمانی آراسته که در خواب میشودبا زمان، همه چیز ناپدید میشودبا زمان،با زمان همه چیز میگذردحتی دوست داشتنی ترین یادگارها از

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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Earthquakes ...Up close and personal ...

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I am in a stage of my life that I think many matters do not deserve more than a line to say about. I am making a facebook page for Neo Resistance to do that--occasionaly.And I keep this blog for writing in detail about what inspires me. Here's the page:

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Circumstance will be getting plenty of attention.Circumstance will be loved by people who take pleasure from watching its gorgeous Iranian girls dance, flirt, perform erotics on eachother, half naked, half dreaming, half asleep, half awake.Circumstance will be talked about as the first Iranian film about 'Lesbians'.Circumstance will likely offend the sensitivities of some fundamentalist here or

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These days, the incredible sentence given to the theater actress Marziyeh Vafamehr, one year of imprisonment and 90 lashes for appearing without head dress in an Iranian-Australian PhD-dissertation film by the Iranian Poet, and recently film scholar, Granaz Mousavi, has shocked the theater and cinema community into action.How can it be? After all, appearing without a scarf and with a shaved head

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Seriously; uncle Sam, what is behind all this?!Need excuse for Saudi-pimped war-mongering?!A couple of Iranians subcontracting a Mexican drug ring to do their dirty jobs?! I always thought they are master-terrorists, according to your allegations of their bombing in Argentina and Saudi Arabia and etc.!!! So now, the master-terrorists have become so STUPID to subcontract their dirty jobs?!! This

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I picked up The Cypress Tree on Amazon, shortly after it was published by the London publisher Bloomsbury. I didn't know the British-Iranian woman that had written the book and nor did the Iranian community--as far as googling and poking a couple of friends suggested. Lately, I am interested in how the second generation Iranians (well educated and articulate) revisit our country.When I received

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More on Iranian music ...Today, I discovered a 34-year old vocalist, Hamed NikPay- حامد نیک پی-who experiments with translating world-wide vocal techniques to make a genre of (perhaps a Peter-Gabielesque or Dead-Can-Danceing ?) fusion music that is rich with traditional Persian poetry, traditional Persian string-instruments--which he effortlessly mixes with his vocal timber--and flamenco, jazz,

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Little have I found inspiring to blog about, until providence put me in contact with Torang Abedian and reminded me of her documentary film that I never got a chance to watch: Not An Illusion.In recent years, the Iranian Underground Music has got some overground attention, as at least four films shot in Iran have made it to the international ecran; very succesfully too:Tehran-Tehran (2010)--A

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That after filling an appointment form (e.g. MD Anderson) you read:"Medical and financial eligibility need to be established prior to confirming an appointment."

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The American Golden Gate doesn't open to Iranians unless in Ankara, or Abu Dhabi.I wrote about my share of Turkish grief last time that I got my parent's green card affairs sorted.Here's a new and even more distressing account:We need to obtain emergency visas for family members who are in Iran. We need all of us together, united, pulled in one pool of faith and energy, to unwrap the whirlwather

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We are hit by crisis again, a medical one, a deadly one. The Bin Laden of all diseases has aimed at the core of our family. The ugly spider has grabbed my little sister's lung; and we are geared for the battle of our life, like legendary amazons.We are fighting the battle in America; in one of the top cancer treatment centers of the country (and perhaps the world.) When it comes to medicine,

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Now pictures of Bin Laden, dead and alive are the front pages of social and press media! Bravo, Obama, you got Osama! This is good for your plunging ratings; and truly we do not want Donald Tramp run the show; you are still the eye candy and the gospel to the ear!However, the "standard" speech you gave, out of the "God Bless America" handbook, failed to impress me. You talked about killing a man

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I saw The Wall a few weeks ago; I shall see it again in a couple of weeks. On the cutting edge of audio-visual technology, Roger Waters was unrelentingly political, globally so. The second picture of his opening, Neda Agha Soltan, the woman whose death-on-screen shocked even the most ardent of so-called lefty pro-Ahmadinejadists that used to be the friends of this blog (until they turned their

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تو بالای کوهیاز آن عرش سنگینصدایم کن آوای آزاد(صدای مرا قرنها دره ها در ربودند و من از سکوت سخن شرم دارم)...تو نزدیک هوریاز آن نور زرین مرا آفتابی کن ای خفته بیدارمرا دیر بازیستدر چادر شببه دوری ز خورشید محکوم کردندبدون ستارهپر از خواب خرگوش...تو بر بال ابریاز آن اوج آبی مرا قطره ای بخشکه خود را بشویمو گلبرگهای من از تب نمیرند...Pained by the unjust fate of Siamak Pourzand ...

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Haven't got anything to say. My country is not very interesting these days. And I have more important things to do; that will bring me international fame and fortune without any relevance to Iran. To be honest, I have stopped even following the Iranian news, but if you want a synopsis:It's a HILARiOUS macabre! I'm not gonna bother with why the child-birthing organs of our supreme leader are the

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Another new year, stuck in loneliness. Half of the family is in Iran, the country that has now become forbidden for me. Another half in America, the country that is too far to travel to when on a time-budget. Well, who says being busy is bad? It keeps the mind off of a lot of things; off of Iran; off of loneliness; off of the fact that I did not do spring-cleaning; that I decided against having a

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I have been browsing the nuclear-energy seeking media of IRI to see if/how they are covering Japan's earlthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear leak axis of catastrophy. It seems that they are fully covering the Tsunami and Earthquake news, even exaggerate the number of fatalities, but are COMPLETELY omitting any news about the nuclear leak and the likely melt-down that is unnerving the world. Ironically, the

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Here it is. take my word for it, I'll translate it for you when back from business-trip.

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Poor kids.This boy is hardly 12. He is holding a baton. On the green ribbon he is wearing, a large logo or IRGC is printed or embroidered. This picture is taken by a Fars-News (i.e. Ahmadinejad mercenary) photographer.These "poor" people, who are apparently the 'popular base of Ahmadinejad', have little ideological faith in him. But, the pimp, the whore pimp, the drug crook, the IRGC is the one

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At this moment, I wish to do something other than this. If you have come here, you are perhaps looking for updates about how the protests in response to the kidnapping of Mousavi and Karoubi went. You are perhaps looking over the Internet for 'exiting' images of people confronting the Basiji thugs or the riot controllers. You are perhaps hoping to hear big crowds shout "Down with Khamenei". You

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Mousavi and Karoubi are under arrent and are transfered to Heshmatiyeh prison (A prison in Shargh of Tehran, in a miltary complex tat was established during Shah, and wish is in the same "complex" as teh Revolution Court is). That's what the heavy artillery in Tehran streets meant. That's what the appearance of the minister of intelligence on TV meant. He really had no evidence against the '

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In a recent article, Seyed Mostafa Tajzadeh, argues that despite the election promises by the totalitarian wing of the regime, expressed by the right-winger Haddad Adel, the mismanagement of Ahmadinejad's extremist administration, corruption, meddling of the armed forces in the election and the atmosphere of detention and oppression after the election, has diminished Iran's international

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Well, Iran is a country that has a constitution; according to which: All people of Iran, whatever the ethnic group or tribe to which they belong, enjoy equal rights; color, race, language, and the like, do not bestow any privilege.[art 19]; All citizens of the country, both men and women, equally enjoy the protection of the law and enjoy all human, political, economic, social, and cultural rights

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By the way, the thugs have broken into Karoubi's house, have locked him and his wife up in separate rooms, have changed the locks on their house doors; and have read a statement that they are "soldiers of Seyed Ali" (i.e. Khamenei) and that they are waiting for his signal to behead Karoubi and his wife."وب سایت سحام نیوز حمله کنندگان به منزل مسکونی آقای کروبی را "اوباش حکومتی" خوانده و خبر داده

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He is suggesting that the security forces should strongly stand up to "the hypocrites who are planning to assassinate innocent Iranians today"!!!!Uhm!So the scenario is written?Someone is going to shoot down a few Basijis and this will give the security forces under this shit-face the justification to open fire on the rest?Well, this scenario has been circulating around for a few days; so this is

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Today, Feb 20, a new letter from Karoubi is published on his news site (translated below, and all exclamation marks are his.) This coincides with another effort by people to take the streets, while the officials are issuing repeated threats of blood-shed and spamming mobile phones that the protests are cancelled.In this letter, Karoubi warns of fascism and asks the judiciary to enforce the law

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Asghar Farhadi's film "The Separation of Nader and Simin" wins the top award of the International Berlin Film Festival.Of his work, I have seen About Elly; and I found it to be great, a breath of fresh air in the Iranian Cinema genre. (see an interview with the director, in English.) His About Elly won the silver bear of Berlin festival and was the best narrative films in 2009 Tribeca.He is an up

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Ali Motahari is a conservative (else he would not be in the guardian-council-vetted parliament).In response to the "death" orgy invitation extended by dinosaur Jannati, the head of the guardian council in the Friday prayer after Feb 14 protest, he has written a letter to Jannati; which is acknowledging how 'angry' people are and how they 'rightful'!! want to prosecute the leaders of the green

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Persian Source:http://www.rahesabz.net/story/32859/In the Name of God,Dear Mr Najjar, the honorable minister of State of the IRI, with greetingsWe inform that honorable official that in the past four days, between hours 1:00-3:00 am, approximately 100 men and women have been gathering in front of the residential complex in North-Dibaji, Azarmina district in front of Mr Karoubi's residence; and by

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Some fascist, who often tries to 'edify' blog posts that bring to attention the hypocritical facts of the IRI, has commented that the men and women in this 19 minutes video of Feb 14 protests in Iran are "bache-soosool", or "sissy & prissy, gigolos, spineless, spoiled ", and that the regime will never fall with such actions! [in other words, he belittled the bravery of the protesters in this

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This is the most amazing piece of video I have seen.And I think when we are this scared; then this is the only option remaining for hope.Quick explanations: --firing garbage bins is to alleviate the burning due to tear gas.--people are chanting: we are children of war, fight we fight back. down with dictator their ammunition is over

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-34110532131773477932011-02-18T14:40:00.006Z2011-02-18T17:10:41.745Z

The buzzword among my friends today has been "we are 'scared'! "Mousavi and his wife have gone completely missing. Their guards are dismissed. Anyone who approaches their street is immediately surrounded by the masked-men who are residing in a van that is blocking the entrance of their home. Apparently, even the city-cleaners are from the intelligence ministry. Anyone who accesses the Pastor

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-87136624260356340422011-02-17T16:24:00.003Z2011-02-17T16:45:12.793Z

A new message from Karoubi has just been published.In his message, he first apologizes to his neighbors for the harassment the IRI thugs have created; for having them and their families to hear profanities that are not even expected from the governmental thugs (I suspect sexual profanities and insults shouted towards him and his family members.) Next, he addresses some of the conservatives, like

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-57501780710133132212011-02-16T19:55:00.004Z2011-02-17T07:45:32.245Z

This one didn't have the "Basiji Looks", so they just decided to do the photographic honor while posing beneath the coffin.How is it possible?!Also, read this more elaborate explanation by my blog-sister.

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Among those, who were killed, on the day that our Supreme leader did not permit a peaceful protest in support of the Egyptians, who had just toppled their dictator amidst out leader clapping for the cause, was a theater student by the name of Sane' Jaleh; a Kurdish student of Arts.Upon news of his death circulating, the fascist regime of Iran pulled yet another rat out of the hat: they issued a

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-32493776955552066322011-02-14T20:05:00.003Z2011-02-14T20:22:19.874Z

FarceNews confirms that gunshots have been fired, people are injured and some are in clritical condition. But they blame it on Zionists and Mujahedin (whose members they have been recently executing.) One really doubts the 'might' of this regime, how can they stand to the "wolrd Imperialism" if they are so vulnerable to Zionists and Mujahedin who are constantly testing their legitimacy?!?!?!

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-32793009829251043042011-02-14T16:10:00.003Z2011-02-14T19:51:05.641Z

Yo, supreme leader ... PULL THE STRINGS OF YOUR DOGS ... you are failing yourself and us before the eyes of the world ... beating women? breaking into women's houses because they chant against dictatorship?You have a guest, Abdullah Gul, the Turkish Islamist Friend! ... HOW DO YOU THINK THE ISLAMIC WORLD CAN SUPPORT YOU/IRAN AGAINST YOUR "REAL" ENEMIES?WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!for all Persian

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-66942193340066300242011-02-14T13:57:00.002Z2011-02-14T14:04:47.794Z

The gorilla in chief, Naghdi (نقدی) had recently suggested that the Egyptian thugs who attacked protesters on camels tried to act like Iran's basijis, but didn't succeed because they were corrupt! The video above shows some of the non-corrupt fascist bikers that Commander Naghdi has sent out for the SUCCESSFUL beating and killing of the Iranians who are trying to gather in support of the

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-13490534257171766352011-02-14T10:48:00.003Z2011-02-14T11:20:25.441Z

This is a charming adaptation of an old song "mara beboos" (Kiss me), that is adapted by the Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who lives in exile in the US. I translate the lyrics, but it's not their poetic value, but the melody and the video synchronization with soft performance of the singer, and the time of its release, at a time that the Iranians are holding the regime accountable to the

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-85133410458094935782011-02-14T09:25:00.004Z2011-02-14T10:41:15.881Z

Photo copyright: NeoresistanceReally, Mr Khamenei! Isn't it ironic? The greens have made a call to come to streets in solidarity with the Egyptians, whose cause you were cheerleading; and you have filled the city with your guards?!? And locked up Mousavi and Karoubi? And cut the internet, although not so long ago your rookie, Larijani, was advising Mubarak that cutting internet is not going to

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-9378929771070644102011-02-13T20:38:00.005Z2011-02-13T22:18:40.657Z

I was 7 when revolution happened. And this was my favorite revolution song by Mojtaba Mirzadeh (مجتبی میرزاده). A few years later; when music was banned, I taught myself to play this song on a little melodica. This was the only kind of music we were allowed to perform in school; although I remember clearly when the "guidance!" teacher interrupted us, in grade 6, when we performed بهاران خجسته

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-32185161186846438502011-02-12T18:32:00.007Z2011-02-12T19:31:40.928Z

The size of the 22-Bahman anniversary rally was announced, by no one other than the head fascist, Keyhan newspaper, to be 50,000,000 (yes 50 million is more than 2/3rd of Iran's population!). They also put some picture of this 50 million strong event on the world display (the top picture is an undoctored one of them!)This population count reminds me of their vote count, to which people reacted in

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-48512664051632187842011-02-12T13:15:00.003Z2011-02-12T14:24:00.688Z

This video was shared by an Egyptian friend of mine. It is remarkable! It debunks the notion of "lunatic" muslims. It also debunks the notion that Egypt's was an Islamic revolution. Beyond the voice of the Imam who leads these silent prayers, a larger crowd roars and whistles joyously. It is nice when something beautiful like this happens before our eyes ... may Egypt disambiguate all of us of

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-17357957396380058332011-02-11T20:12:00.004Z2011-02-11T20:46:41.114Z

After 18 days, the Egyptian dictator heard the voice of a leader-less revolt. He killed 300; He pledged that he will die on Egyptian soil, and he stepped down.The Christians protected the muslims who stood to prayer; the same muslims who formed a human shield to protect the Christians from fanatic bombers.The army, did not fire on them.The dictator apologized for the killings.80 million

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-34310399558310155572011-02-10T16:21:00.007Z2011-02-10T18:19:20.099Z

I don't call my parents often. It is either the time difference or the mood difference. I have never been a talky kid. In the 18 years that I lived with my parents, I spent more time reading and listening (despite the fact that mother wanted and challenged us to be opinionated and expressive kids). I don't like talking about life trivia, and I prefer to write about other things. With my parents

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-50646306618028041962011-02-06T13:11:00.009Z2011-02-06T22:02:11.112Z

When I saw this [Karoubi and Mousavi asking permit to rally in support of Egyptians and Tunesians], I laughed, loudly; and gave a mental hug to their timely call!You have certainly heard how Khamenei is trying to hijack the intention of uprisings in Egypt and Tunesia, as a continuation of Iran's Islamic and anti-imperialist revolution, appropriating it into the camp of Islamist reawakening and

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com74tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-52453519351396969792011-02-05T23:26:00.005Z2011-02-06T13:48:41.798Z

Tonight, I was in a gathering where passages of this were read. I had totally forgotten it; had swept all those feelings under the rug too. But, that deep heart break I felt, when Iranian election was "stolen", came back to me ... and made me cry ... to remember a proud dream that fell on the floor; shattered.Tonight, at this gathering, I listened patiently, to some British researcher, running

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-8350461341858982292011-01-31T20:36:00.003Z2011-01-31T22:31:31.564Z

I had in the past made posts related to part 1 and part 2 of this award-winning BBC4 documentary.As I am trying to take bird's view of what is happening in Egypt, what is happening in Iran (execution orgy) and about Iran, I started thinking about Part 3 of this documentary. The first part of this episode is about Iran's collusion with the USA over Afghanistan and Iraq--and the arrogance of Bush

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-54293435565596780882011-01-24T21:14:00.002Z2011-01-24T21:16:21.405Z

Just see for yourselves; the crimes for which Iran hangs .........MONSTERS!

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Women Without Men (Shirin Neshat, 2009) deserves a place amongst those cinematic masterpieces that will have remained obscure, perhaps for ever.Despite winning the Silver Lion of the Venice Film Festival in 2009 (for best director), and despite generating a lot of paparazzi and revolutionary buzz around Shirin Neshat's "green" and "feminist" appearance on the red carpet, the film received

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-31190107879468081812011-01-23T09:38:00.017Z2011-02-07T20:43:59.045Z

His death shook everyone:Another kid of "The King of Kings" (the megalomaniac Mohammad Reza Shah, who wanted to restore Iran's monarch glory, who went head to head challenging and threatening the regional ambitions of the Israelis and the pan-Arabists, and who was dragged from the throne by assistance from Americans of whose subordination he was accused) laid in his own cold blood. At the time of

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-16198645859549039132011-01-20T22:48:00.005Z2011-01-21T11:49:59.423Z

Do you still read this blog? Are you an old friend? I feel so disconnected from this blog, from my old friends, from Iran. My life is revolving around other things: science, photography, music, memory, sports, shoes!!What have I to say? That the IRI's found a solution to population control: executing one convict every eight hours? Yes, some are political too. Often Kurds; those whom the rest of "

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-71239379514890620452010-12-29T21:18:00.009Z2010-12-29T23:26:45.873Z

Ali Saremi, the 62 year old prisoner, is killed.He was hanged yesterday; abruptly, without due process, when his family was awaiting news--because they had heard rumors of their father's execution, yet they had hope that the rumors were unfounded as the legal procedures that would indicate his execution was imminent were lacking. Their fears came true when two ambulances stopped in front of the

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-16058965979148367012010-12-27T12:38:00.002Z2010-12-27T12:54:25.422Z

They have sentenced a Kurdish student activist to death (on the bogus charges of armed encounter with the IRGC). His execution, which was to take place yesterday, got stayed! But, the IRI has arrested all of his family members and no one knows where they are (see this for English) and what is going on! In the meantime, they may have started preparing another execution stand, for another Kurdis

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-78738790892173840412010-12-13T19:06:00.002Z2010-12-13T19:11:39.401Z

I didn't like this fellow, although compared to Ahmadinejad he was mellow. But, the haste with which Ahmadinejad fired him (while he was on a diplomatic trip abroad), and his resolve to f%#k up universally, compells me to SCREAM:I HATE THIS BASTARD AHMADINEJAD.Really, don't look for any deep meaning into this, and don't expect any analyses. Ahmadinejad doesn't make rational decisions ... the

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-82320515199062585612010-12-04T22:50:00.015Z2010-12-05T01:39:23.669Z

Last week, the criminal court decided to carry out the punishment of death for a woman (Shahla Jahed) who was accused of killing the wife (Laleh Saharkhizan) of her famour soccer-player lover (Naser Mohammadkhani). This was Iran's O.J Simpson trial; except that here, there was a woman to prosecute, and evidence for the potential involvement of Mohammadkhani were all slipped under the rug. Judging

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-59250771203633887652010-11-29T11:07:00.007Z2010-11-29T18:24:47.328Z

Update: I have been trying to catch bits and pieces from these 250,000 cabels, and one thing that is becoming increasingly clear to me is the RACIST media spin, which is trying to divert the damaging attention from the US department of foreign affairs and instead scapegoat the "dubious Arabs" and the "dangerous Persians" ... all concerns I expressed a few hours ago before North America woke up

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-12314003613813647212010-11-14T20:24:00.012Z2010-11-14T23:11:05.322Z

This is a book by a rising figure in Iran's "third-generation" novelists. The 53 year old author is Shahriar Mandanipour, whose books, nine of them, saw a brief window of opportunity during the reformist era of Khatami's presidency (but were banned until then and afterward). Two years after the crowning of Ahmadinejad and his cultural assassins, Mandanipour gave up living in Iran. An American

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-57176581114240284142010-10-30T13:07:00.004+01:002010-10-30T14:33:04.527+01:00

A comment by a fellow blogger friend on this post prompted me to look into the history of translation in Iran; and luckily I stumbled on this title:Nima Yushij (or Yooshij) is the father of Persian Modern Poetry, the so called "شعر نو" (She'r-e No). His contribution to Persian literature comes from breaking with the millennium-old tradition of rhyme and length of a given verse, allowing the

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I was browsing parlemannews.ir; the news port of Iran's reformist minority in the Iranian parliament, Majles, that I came across a post "The event of Mr President's birthday cake"! A quick surf yields brand new information which has fallen off of our radars:While we were busy mourning the death of our youth who claimed their votes, while we were suffering the agony of our human right lawyers who

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-71801554396192458032010-10-24T18:58:00.005+01:002010-10-24T20:31:59.328+01:00

Abulfazl Hasani, in charge of the so called "office of expansion" of the ministry of sciences has announced that the following departments will no longer receive incentives for academic development and expansion. Although, they will continue to accept students, the current curriculum is based on Western schools of thinking, and does not correspond to Islamic Principles. Within the next 5 years,

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-26353606362888345482010-10-21T05:01:00.008+01:002010-10-21T06:39:25.427+01:00

This is a growing list of WONDERFUL Iranian novels; all classics. And luckily they are now available in English, German, Dutch, French. I provide a hyperlink so you can investigate them further. They are not expensive, so perhaps it is a good idea to take a break from Iranian bloggers, the contemporary phenomena, and try to understand Iran through the writings of some of the finest writers of the

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-53952934561814156192010-10-19T00:57:00.003+01:002010-10-19T00:59:41.663+01:00

And I thought people cared about Iranian politics!:)

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-58526022492938544422010-10-15T20:13:00.003+01:002010-10-15T20:41:52.020+01:00

I want to forget my home...the sunny days ... the smell of rice in the back alley ... I want to forget it ... want to forget my roots ... want to never miss it again, never never miss it again ... and never remember I grew up in country where I was denied the right to dreams ...

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-4908680930330098422010-10-08T17:51:00.007+01:002010-10-08T18:02:32.297+01:00

I LOVE this cartoon. And, I personally think the Iranian women movement will have been better off without that group of feminists who are still stuck in the mud of "patriarchic power balance", "sexualization and objectification" and a whole lot of other nonsense! To defend women's ACTUAL civil rights is one thing, to gender-theorize a cause and become sexophobic is another. Yes, most feminists

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-11924450359844334992010-09-30T13:52:00.011+01:002010-10-07T03:44:20.833+01:00

These days, Iranian women and Iranian women activists are fiercely battling a retrograde legislation that Ahmadinejad tabled in 2007 and is now put to vote."The Legislation of Family Support". Ahmadinejad's objective, as he states is the following:با عنايت به نقش و جايگاه ويژه نهاد خانواده در نظام حقوقي و تربيتي اسلام و با توجه به غيرشرعي اعلام شدن بخشهايي از قوانين مربوط به حقوق خانواده و وجود

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I am just returning from a semi-private screening of this film.It is directed by Iran's best-known and most advertised (by French intellectuals) filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. He is iconoclastic. Copie Conforme is full of Kiarostami's signature cinematographs: long monologues in a car, close-ups, very long takes, handheld cameras that disorient and distanciate, and yet a rhythmic marriage of time

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-65224022198716582812010-09-25T20:55:00.005+01:002010-09-25T21:04:20.984+01:00

http://revolutionaryfesenjan.blogspot.comShe is an Iranian woman, gorgeous like sun, intelligent and passionate and generous with her time and keyboard. She doesn't chicken out like I do; she doesn't hide like I do, she doesn't sit on her liberal ass like I do. She has not given up, like I have.You want to understand how the so called "progressive [assholes] who meet with Ahmadinejad" are

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-12992447618041410382010-09-24T18:00:00.003+01:002010-09-24T19:42:16.152+01:00

Obama has done and exclusive interview with BBC which will be broadcast soon to Iranians, as Obama's direct reach to the people of Iran. But, I just saw a little excerpt of his statement about Ahamadinejad's 9/11 accusations:"Mr Ahmadinejad's statements are in total opposition to the reaction of the Iranians, who were first to come out in the middle east condemmning the attack and holding candle

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That's it! He means it :)

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IGNORE IT!He is an attention seeker; and says completely outlandish things to get your stupid (as proven by the chain of TV interviews that preceeded this UN event) and sensationalist media all worked up with another freak-show.BOYCOTT ANY REPORT/PUNDITRY ABOUT THAT LOAD OF CRAP!

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-12196873368732148622010-09-20T19:40:00.004+01:002010-09-20T19:53:03.839+01:00

Here are two videos; taped tonight Sept 20 2010; Shahrivar 29, 1389. First women and children and men ... allaho-akbar ... supporting Mousavi and Karoubi and reminding the little dictator and his gang that people are not afraid ... in the second video the guards come, in two vans, and blow whistles to hush people and intimidate them ... the cameraman starts ... ALLAHO_AKBAR ... and more voices

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This is coming from Mousavi's facebook news page:According to numerous reports the pressure on Green leaders is increasing. Last night security forces attacked the office of Mir Hossein Mousavi and after searching the place confiscated some of the properties including documents and computers. Since few weeks ago and following the brutal attacks on Mehdi Karroubi’s residence by plain-clothes

Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-12715082478928786752010-09-05T21:26:00.005+01:002010-09-05T22:47:20.200+01:00

For once I am going to believe them! They have issued a statement, condemning the attacks, denouncing that the 'pious' Basij or Sepah would have anything to do with such horrendous actions, admitting that these attacks have come from 'divisive and self-motivated' elements; and have finally cautioned that this is a time to be vigilant about any such acts that endanger the country's unity and

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I dragged me to the embassy with a cocktail of nausea, grudge, tears, swears, huffs and puffs. I went back and forth over the application and asked myself and my husband: "Is it worth the trouble to renew my passport when I never want to go back?"; "Is it sensible to do what makes me puke, filling a form that needs to bear the permission of my husband or father for me to obtain an Iranian

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BEGINS ...

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This is Keyvan Samimi کیوان صمیمی. Keyvan is a journalist: the editor of the banned periodical Naameh نامه (letters), who also blogged on a now banned site, Kharabaat خرابات. He was also a member of National committee for peace. A committee formed in 2007, by a call from human rights Nobel laureat, Shirin Ebadi, and in response to increased foreign threats about IRI's nuclear program. Their

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Arjang Davoudi (also spelled as Arzhang Davoodi ارژنگ داوودی) has been in prison since 2003. He is an ardent and vocal activist; he was sentenced to 15 years of prison; and 74 lashes for having dared to spoken to a Canadian journalist, who worked on a documentary (Forbidden Iran) about the death of Zahra Kazemi (an event that crystallized the rift within the ranks of the IRI, as it happened under

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Please see persiantoenglish.com ...

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His name is Hossein Nouraninejad. I don't know him. I didn't care to know any/many of these reformist journalists when the reformists were in power in Iran. In fact, before this election fiasco, I considered them and Ahmadinejadists entities of the same fabric. But, Hossein is in prison since September 2009. He is not granted a leave (not even on bail) since then. Not even for the new

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Please see International Federation for Human RightsTheir names are:Majir Tavakoli (this is his second strike. He is suffering ulcer, and kidney failure). He is the brave engineering student who stood up and called Khamenei to task. He is the one who was arrested and forced into women clothing. Iranians responded to this media scandal by wearing a veil, and starting a media counter campaign of "I

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Yup; his wish to go down the history sewage with full glory of an attempted assassination was about to come true. (media-watching and updating below; the contradictions of IRNA and FALSE news are getting hilarious!)Two days ago, after a significant amount of finger pointing at this, that and the other; and telling the west that looloo (genie) has taken the mameh (boob); meaning that middle east's

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Mohammad Nouri (1929-2010) was the singer of my parent's generation. I heard him more because my aunt played and sang his songs on the guitar and a relative was said to have dated him in pre-revolutionary glory-days. Nouri was one of the first "fusion" musicians of Iran: influenced by folk songs, and performing them in western style, as far as the vocals and the orchestra composition were

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Israel?Zionists?American Imperialism?Islamophobed?Great Satan?NOPE!!The greens!Yup!It is because of the Greens that 'Obama', the person, has slapped Iran with crippling economic sanctions.Says who? The False News quoting some unknown Friday Imam, speaking to the students of an unknown university, in a Kurdish province: Kermanshah! This Mullah believes that it is because of the Green elements

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I am a bit busy these days, but in one of the most recent idiocies of the Iranian hardliners, and Ahmadinejad's propaganda machine: Fars News, one of the IRGC who-is-whos, who was forced on Mousavi's Cabinet, during the Iran-Iraq war (sacred defense, for Iranians) attempts to undermine Mousavi by expressing how Anti-War he was as the head of the government of the time.A summary of what this crook

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Disclaimer: if you come here by way of a link from Michael Ledeen, please be advised that I am ADAMANTLY opposed to the war mongering views held by this gentleman, and as part of my fight against local and global fascism, I hold his school of thought in utmost contempt. (July 27, 2010)Today, I came across a report about the aftermath of Zahedan's Jundollah Bombing of the 14th of July, 2010. The

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Disclaimer: I am no soccer expert; and I hardly know Iran's current national team. I watch the world cup every four years. I do not care about any specific team, but in general I like people with southern looks and attitudes: they dance the ball!This post is just to say, to the readers of this blog, who I suspect are mostly North American, and thus only recently become interested in soccer, that

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