UPRISING

People fight back

Protests take violent turn as security forces become targets themselves

27-Dec-2009 (33 comments)
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RESISTANCE

Taking a Stand

Taking a Stand

Photo essay: People on the offensive

by Photographers
27-Dec-2009 (10 comments)

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RAHBAR

Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears

Photo essay: Khamenei and Iranian leadership at Ashoora ceremony

by Khamenei.ir
27-Dec-2009 (18 comments)

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MARTYRS

Neda ye Ashura

Neda ye Ashura

Video & posters of contemporary resistance against evil

by akkassbashi
27-Dec-2009 (13 comments)

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REGIME

On the Ropes

For the Iranian people victory is near

26-Dec-2009 (4 comments)
The military regime in Tehran is in its final days. The signs of an imminent collapse, perfectly traceable on the Iranian streets, are evading the most prominent Washington experts. The slogans on the walls, the nighttime chorus of Allah-o-akbar on the rooftops, the crowds chanting "death to the dictator," all signaling a collective defiance despite the brutal backlash, and all reflecting a mass mobilization unseen since the 1979 revolution. The recurring cycles of peaceful protests and state violence is part of a larger transformation sweeping through Iran. But in Washington, this magnificent collective action spurs only arrogant dismissal on the part of the Iran policy industry >>>

REACTION

Multiplied, not Humiliated

Broken taboos in post-election Iran

26-Dec-2009 (one comment)
The on-camera martyrdom of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 26-year old philosophy student shot dead during the protests after the fraudulent presidential election in Iran in June, caught the imagination of the world. But the post-election crackdown has two other victims whose fates better capture the radical shift in the country’s political culture. One victim was the protester Taraneh Mousavi, detained, reportedly raped and murdered in prison, and her body burned and discarded. The other is Majid Tavakoli, the student leader arrested on December 8, after a fiery speech denouncing dictatorship during the demonstrations on National Student Day>>>

MONTAZERI

«پدر حقوق بشر»؟

يکی از القاب کاملاً بی معنی که به آيت الله منتظری داده شده

26-Dec-2009 (8 comments)
تا کنون لقب «پدر حقوق بشر ايران» متعلق به کورش بزرگ بود و او را ـ به خاطر تاکيد بر چند اصل مهم مثل آزادی مذهب، لغو برده داری، و آزادی انتخاب مکان زيست و مجری آن شدن ـ با اين عنوان بزرگ می خوانند. اما آيا به راستی چگونه می شود هم به اعلاميه ی تبعيض برانداز حقوق بشر معتقد بود و هم هر کسی را (هر چقدر خوب و مومن) که تا دم رفتن به نهاد ولايت فقيه و قانون اساسی تبعيض آفرين جمهوری اسلامی باور داشت و او را «پدر حقوق بشر» خواند؟>>>

NAMJOO

اسارت و انقلاب

آلبوم جدید محسن نامجو؛ "آخ"، دو آلبوم در یک مجموعه

26-Dec-2009 (2 comments)
آلبوم جدید محسن نامجو مثل همیشه ساختار گریز و گستاخ است. آثار این مجموعه مانند گذشته چیدمانی کانسپتوالیستی از شعر و موسیقی می باشد که درک زیبائی شناختی آنها تنها با نگاهی علمی و بی طرفانه بر موسیقی، شعر، هنرپیشگی و آوازخوانی امکان پذیر است. رویکردی خارج از ساختارهای سنتی با دریافتی خردگرایانه و امروزی از میراث های فرهنگی ایران و جهان همراه با نگاهی فردگرایانۀ هنری در وصف حال و روز ما ایرانیان>>>

MUSIC

Hamash Delam Migireh

Mohsen Namjoo with Golshifteh Farahani

25-Dec-2009 (24 comments)
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CHRISTMAS

Michelle's Gift

Michelle's Gift

Photo essay: To a great mom, sister and lady

by Jahanshah Javid
25-Dec-2009 (9 comments)

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HOMOSEXUALS

Let us all be together

Statement by Homosexual Students at Iran’s Universities

24-Dec-2009 (9 comments)
At a time when two human rights organizations in Iran --which consist of students-- have been courageous and forthright in taking up the rights of minorities and especially sexual minorities who have been excluded from civil rights protection, the representatives of the Green Movement who are devising the outlines of the new constitution, avoid mentioning the rights of minorities. If we do not pay attention, the first opportunity for correcting the defects of the constitution will lead not to reform but to a future imprisoned by prejudice and exclusion>>>

INSPIRATION

مرگی حرکت آفرین

منتظری می‌رود تا با شعله‌ای که در دل میلیون‌ها ایرانی بر افروخته درد سر بزرگتری برای حاکمان جمهوری اسلامی ایجاد کند

24-Dec-2009 (2 comments)
درگذشت ناگهانی آیت الله منتظری صحنه شطرنج سیاست ایران را دستخوش تلاطم جدیدی کرد. جنبش سبز که بزرگترین چالش سیاسی در برابر جمهوری اسلامی ایران را در طول حیات سی ساله آن ایجاد کرده با از دست دادن «پدر معنوی» خود گویی حیات تازه‌ای یافته است. اجتماع عظیم هواداران این جنبش در قم و شعارهای کوبنده آنان که مراسم رسمی تشییع جنازه را تحت الشعاع قرار می‌داد یک‌ بار دیگر به حاکمیت نشان داد که با حرکتی رو به رشد و خاموش ناشدنی روبرو است>>>

REDEMPTION

در کنار مردم

منتظری،روحانی که در برابر خمینی ایستاد

24-Dec-2009 (2 comments)
آیت الله منتظری اگرچه خود از بنیانگذاران ولایت فقیه در ایران پس از انقلاب بود اما در راه جدا کرده ی خود از خمینی بود که دریافت این سیستم کارایی ندارد و گرچه هرگز با صراحت از رد اصل ولایت فقیه که زمانی از حامیان جدی آن بود سخنی به میان نیاورد اما با موضع گیری ها و سخنرانی ها و نیز نامه ی تاریخی خود پیش از فاجعه ی ملی تابستان 67 نشان داد که جای او نه در کنار ولایت فقیه که در کنار مردم است>>>

FOOD

The important jewel

One can only hope that Mumbai's historic Parsi restaurant will live on

24-Dec-2009 (2 comments)
My visits to Mumbai, nay India, tend to be centred on visits to Britannia restaurant. (If my plane from Goa arrives later than 2pm, it means waiting until 12 o’clock the next day to eat. It’s well worth not eating for three days in advance in order to stock up like a camel at Britannia.) In fact, those who come to India for spiritual experiences surviving on a plate of dal, prayers, and sweeping an ashram at the crack of dawn baffle me – the closest I have come to a spiritual experience in this great country is the explosion that occurs halfway through a plate of sali boti – diced lamb>>>

STORY

The Conversation

Sometimes at night I felt like Tehran and San Francisco would speak to each other

24-Dec-2009
The dream was a moment, as best as I can remember. It was at Pike Place Market in Seattle. It was late in the evening, around closing time. The cobblestone streets were wet but it had stopped raining, and the day's crowd had thinned out to the market workers and a few last shoppers. The lights of the shops and stalls lit up the night, and I was saying my goodbyes after work, with a little bag of groceries in my hand. In the dream I was vaguely Italian, in the way that Iranians find themselves vaguely Italian when they try to find themselves in American stories>>>

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