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What hope could you ever have in a world such as ours if you are shaken to your core by something as simple as this film? Well I finally bit the bullet and saw 300. I must say that I was thoroughly entertained and impressed. I really should stop being swayed by the opinions of the herd that populates the labyrinth of today's communication networks and has been handed a rather large megaphone to which I find myself subjected more often than I would like; but that is merely a weakness on my own part. What I saw at the crux of the story was not a battle between people of different nations but that of ideas. Here, the Greeks and Persians are merely the vehicles of those ideas, carrying the message through the story as the plot unfolds >>> TOONS
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Photo essay: Meeting iranian.com's favorite writer Siamack Baniameri
One has to wonder, why at this critical juncture has the IRI embarked on a campaign to harass Iranian women? The world antiwar movement is doing its best to avert a flood of missiles and bombs heading toward Iran. Many Iranian nationalists have joined in with the same aim. But, this is not because there is any love between these groups and the IRI. The antiwar movement is doing it to avoid another Iraq, and Iranian nationalist are in it because they love their country and want to minimize further damage to Iran and her future. No one, absolutely not one of these groups is defending Iran, because of its regime. One has to wonder, why at this critical juncture they have embarked on a campaign to harass Iranian women. Are they nuts? Don’t these gentlemen (stretching the word here) realize that if the tide of public opinion turns, they are in deep trouble? >>>
Observing the Islamic Republic from the vantage point of outside, I can't help but be reminded of the mid-Seventies Observing the Islamic Republic from the vantage point of outside, I can't help but be reminded of the mid-Seventies. The same explosive brew of economic and social factors seems to be fomenting once again only on a much larger scale. The combination of overpopulation, high unemployment, recession, housing crisis, devalued currency and the high cost of military posturing has brought the country to the brink. Add to this the suffocating social and sexual repression and it's a wonder the populace hasn't exploded yet. Having failed miserably in management of the country's immense natural resources (like an incompetent son running the family fortune into the ground) the regime seems content to assert itself primarily through harassment of women >>>
In response to Mahasti Shahrokhi's "Esteaareh dar she'r jorm neest"
In response to Nazli Kamvari's "... haalaa mikhandim"
SINGER
Photo essay: Haale concert in Toronto
In response to Paul Schroeder's photos of Abadan "Memories of an American boy", I also was born and raised in Abadan and although people who were raised in oil company subsidized housing have wonderful memories, I don't remember Abadan to be that great. It was hot and sticky in the long summers for us the other people in Abadan; the unseen people, the dark people, the people without the swimming pool, air conditioned housing, movie theater, the people whose summers were never ending and all they remember is heat -- extreme heat -- and the only relief they had was to swim in the filthy water the city discharged >>> LIFE
Photo essay: Recovering from one of my “temporary amnesia” episodes I found myself in one of my favourite locations
Aspen conference in Berlin
On Hossein Derakhshan's critique of Akbari Gani's videws
Shirin Ebadi ahould stick to defending the brave men and women who fight to institute change within Iran It has been suggested by some distinguished Iranian figures such as the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Shirin Ebadi and a few media pundits such as Abbas Milani, that the government of Iran should hold a national referendum on the country’s nuclear program. President Bush can learn a lesson or two in democracy. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, next on his ‘hit’ list, an attorney calls for a referendum to determine the energy needs of the people. And to think that the United States of America is spending billions of dollars developing a new generation of Reliable Replacement Warheads, or as Joseph Cirincione calls them, Ridiculously Redundant Warheads (RRW) to take America to another war to dictate democracy! >>> ABADAN
>>> Photo essay: Abadan in 1958
Mohsen Namjoo is a mix Dylan, Farhad, Esfehani with the traditional "moghami" lyricism and still there is also another substance to it somewhat hard to explain! Seldom if ever we have had talents exactly like Mohsen Namjoo in Iran, albeit we do have had great talents with similar authenticity and ingenuity in other shapes of traditional or mixed-style musical and lyrical performance all integrated into a single performer / singer. If we're talking the Sixties and Seventies, Farmarz Aslani has been one such phenomenal artist of course playing Guitar-Flamingo in a masterfully while singing from both Hafez as well as his own lyrics. our beloved late Farhad was another typical example playing (piano and guitar accompaniment) and singing live on stage all by himself while being quite good with orchestral performances in the studio too. Foroughi was also good in his own right >>>
A modern Orientalist view of Iran An article titled "A Nation of Nose Jobs, Not Nuclear War" by Peter Hitchens in Mail on Sunday is only one of many recent audacious pieces that amalgamates two favorite issues used to support the American propaganda machine against Iranian sovereignty: women and the nuclear energy program. In a disingenuously compassionate tone, and using literary chicanery for his aim, the author draws unsuspecting readers in by impersonating a wide-eyed, open soul in search of understanding an enigma. The piece starts out like so many others of its genre, which, as the late Edward Said has comprehensively explained in his thesis on Orientalism, dates back to the 19th century >>> MILLIONS OF LETTERS On Roozbeh Shirazi's "John McCain bombs it": I simply must protest Roozbeh Shirazi's attack on the character of our Vice President. Dick Cheney does not shoot friends in the chest. Dick shoots friends in the face. And then gets them to express regret for having put Dick through the ordeal. If we cannnot distinguish good from bad when it comes to Dick, then how can have we have a meaningful conversation about John McCain singing about bombing Iran? Clearly, McCain was simply giving us some straight talk about what should be funny >>> More letters Part 2, Part 1
Nobody speaks for all Iranian women
Greeks, Romans, Persians and the West
Iranians and the "300" movie
How could a decent human being make fun of the complicated life an educated, working mother and wife who is also involved in and attentive to social issues, leads? I was saddened and disappointed to read Mahasti Shahrokhi's poem, "Feminizme maa bee norooz ast". What a talented poet Ms. Shahrokhi is, with beautiful imagery and thoughtful choices of words, and so capable in tying ideas together, especially when she borrows words with double meaning (esteareh). I am also proud of her for the tribute she pays Forough Farrokhzad, who continues to deserve to be cherished and celebrated by all Iranian men and women. Beautiful form and fancy expression aside, this was a really rude and unfair depiction of what has been transpiring with our women's movement over the past few years. Calling these brave and dedicated women names such as hairy, stupid, whining, screaming, and thoughtless is probably the most anti-women thing I have ever seen sent their way, and all this from another woman? >>> TRAVELERS
Photo essay: In 1980 war came knocking and my family left
Great news! Iran and US have started talking, thanks to bumper stickers: Try to understand, try to put themselves into the shoes of the killer It is so very easy for us to condemn acts of evil, to pretend that all is well “with us,” that the evil that has been committed has emerged from the belly of a beast, that the other fellow, the one who committed the act, is someone very different than we are, someone beyond our capacity to understand, never realizing that we do such a thing in order to justify our angered need to condemn our foe. The much more difficult task is to take the time to understand our enemy, to try to understand why such a person may have chosen to do what he did, for in doing such a thing we begin to understand ourselves, and in better understanding ourselves we are led to the realization that we are in no way different from that of our enemy, that rather than choosing to hate him, we have little choice but to forgive the one we have been taught to hate >>>
A smack around the face with a baseball bat would have been less numbing I was lucky to get my old job back. He was hesitant at first, Arthur, who owns the shop, afraid that the media pack would be tailing me, disturbing the peace of his bookshop, which for thirty years he’s managed to keep. I got a job with Arthur after university. It was only meant to last for a month or two, fifteen years ago. What happened? I’ll be blown if I know. Time moves on even if you don’t. TV was never going to bring back those years. I wear a beard now but still get the odd “You’re Clive Goodson aren’t you?” That’s right -- from Remote Control, the show where viewers vote to decide whether you can eat with your housemates, whether dinner would be roast lamb or cashew nuts and whether you are allowed to use the swimming pool. Every nook and cranny of our personalities, every orifice of our anatomy was there for every crook and granny in the nation to gawp at >>>
Ganji's moral dilemma
The movie 300 will make Iranians stop calling themselves Persians for heaven’s sake and instead of clinging to something vague in the past, we Iranians can find something meaningful in our present and future. Who cares if we had tyrants in the past? But we should care not to appoint a tyrant as our ruler for the present and future generations. Instead of taking pride in our PhDs and Doctorates and calling ourselves with titles such as Doctor and Engineer all the time and thinking that Persians are the best, we should try to be humble and nice to people in our daily lives. Maybe this way, people would have more respect for where we have originally come from. Unfortunately, I have seen this stupid attitude in the Iranian community in the past. Iranians don’t respect others who have no degrees, properties, or >>>
I start rotting in a world without soul, surrounded by women in black chador with eyes that never sees, with a heart that never feels, with a brain that never wonders Raising my hand, still keeping the grape in between my fingers, looking at the people around me at the table. I raise my hand, pushing a little bit harder, hearing the sound of smashing of something, maybe a grape. The woman sitting in front of me, wearing a black chador with soulless eyes, looking at me, reflecting back my disgust by watching her creepy face. She is absorbed by her food, devouring the meat, chewing with force the rough rotten piece of dead animal, blood pouring by the side of her mouth. While breathing, the "IB-Islamic Bitch" looks at my guilty hair, with despise. I return her the favor by staring at her filthy black chador. Her hands, bloody, cutting the meat, her mouth full of potential vomit, swallows the decaying pieces, with pleasure >>>
WOMEN
Photo essay: New crackdown on "bad hejab" women & men
Interview with fashion designer Sanaz Shirazi As Iranians abroad continue to immerse themselves in all realms of business wolrdwide, a few have gone in the way of fashion. Like celebrity favorite Behnaz Sarafpour (BehnazSarafpour.com) or Manny and Neda Mashouf (founders of Bebe clothing, bebe.com), Iranian-born Sanaz Shirazi (SanazShirazi.com) is a budding apparel designer with a modern take on traditional asthetics. Below is an interview with the innovative artist, enjoy >>> TRAVELERS
Photo essay: Laguna Mountain, California
Taking pride in the likes of Xerxes is quite worrisome How do we define a tyrant in Iran? If Xerxes was not a tyrant then who was a tyrant? My knowledge of history does not go into much detail so I cannot pretend to be an expert. But so far as I know Xerxes was himself the same Persian king who attacked Sparta and Athens after his father Darius had attempted the same thing and had failed. Why did they want to take over Greece? Was it because the Greeks wrote petitions asking them to liberate Greece from their unjust rulers? Obviously, many Persians of today (those who think they are the descendants of the ancient Persians) who get so angry about criticising the Achaemenid rulers think that Darius or Xerxes were just rulers who intended no harm >>>
Living as a foreigner is like playing a guessing game The day I left Iran for good in 1983, I had no idea what living as a foreigner really meant, but now I do. Being a foreigner no matter where I am, I always comprehend at most half of what people say. It means not getting jokes, not making connections between an old TV show character and something that is happening at the present time. I feel as if I've been thrown onstage to play a role I haven't learned yet. I feel as if I'm trapped at night in a labyrinth, trying to find the exit. Being a foreigner means I've lost this deep sense of belonging to a place. It feels like an endless struggle just to try to look like everybody else >>>
For Fariba If you can’t fix the economy, SURGEON
Photo essay: Making a change in somene’s life by operating on low-income kids with cleft lips CINEMA
Photo essay: Actor Behrooz Vosooghi honored in Toronto
Americans have a strange love affair with guns The old saying "violence is as American as the apple pie" should really be understood as gun violence. Theirs is not the "respect for your gun as a sacred object" folklore of some warrior cultures, say the Kurds who have fought insurgency battles for decades; nor is it the rural tradition of having to shoot an occasional deer or scare off the odd fox of the Germans and the French. The gun, solitary, cool, independent, is an abstraction that stands for a certain concept of Americansim itself. It's also democratic. God may have created people unequal but Samuel Colt made them equal. Put a gun in every citizen's hand and they'll have a level playing field in their pursuit of happiness >>>
Keh emroozash az dirooz gosasteh
Language of the ax
On the 40th anniversary of the Irannian writers association
Akbar Ganji, religion and political theory
Incompetent remarks about how to address the situation in the Middle East are dangerous Between two crazy presidents (Bush and Ahmadinejad) pumping nationalist fists in order to mask their insane and ideological causes, it is not the time to make brash, insensitive, and careless comments. Lightening up is a luxury that we cannot afford. Because war is serious. Dropping bombs on people is serious. Sending thousands of soldiers to to kill poorer soldiers in other nations is serious. I'm sure that anyone returning from Iraq would argue that their experience was serious as well. I'm sure that your war experiences were serious as well >>> ART
Paintings
I prepare the quinces by washing them good
I am invited to a beheading at dawn
Sympathy for far-right themes are definitely the weakest point of Sarkozy's campaign and will repulse many of those from the second and third generation immigrants Today France is voting in the first round of presidential election to select the two candidtaes for the presidency among whom the president will be chosen on may 6th 2007. In a campaign which was full of surprise, the last straw has yet to be drawn. Among the 12 candidates president-to-be, only four according to the polls have the possibility of being in the last two selected. The three leading candidates have tried to seduce their respective camps by using slogans such as "renewal=hope" for the Socialists' Ségolène Royal; "ambition=assertiveness" for Nicolas Sarkozy of the right-wing UMP, and "filling the gap=crossing the divide" for François Bayrou of the centrist UDF >>>
US. Politicians need to be sent a unequivocal message that there is no place for pathological comments like that in our public discourse. Period. "I am already against the next war," read the bumper sticker on a car ahead of me. I long to tell the driver: the next war is already here; Islamists are waging it in every corner of the globe and the "moderate Muslims" are either actively supporting them, placing the blame on the West, or simply looking the other way. This war aims to wipe out everything that free people cherish, including the right of expressing their sentiments. Banishing war has been the perennial dream of mankind's best, while its worst have been frustrating its realization. To renounce war unilaterally and unconditionally is surrender and death >>>
Deep regrets and strong dissatisfaction with the recent decision of the American Chemical Society to cancel the membership of several of its members living in Iran Dear University Friends: You have heard that the American Chemical Society (ACS) has adopted a new policy to expel its members from the Embargoed Countries including Iran, and to restrict their access to its publications. ACS is giving for this new policy exactly the same reasons that we have heard from IEEE (Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers) 6 years ago, namely the possibility of heavy fines if they continue to have members in Iran. It is very disturbing, because the Congress has not passed any new Sanction Law, and OFAC has not issued any new rulings since September 2003, when it revised its ruling and declared a general license to all organizations regarding activities such as information exchange >>>
US. Politicians need to be sent a unequivocal message that there is no place for pathological comments like that in our public discourse. Period. If John McCain is not held accountable for his indescribably callous remarks about bombing Iran, it will represent the most high profile failure of the Iranian-American community to date. Apparently after 6 years of George W. Bush, there is still room to be a war-hungry, red-blooded moron in American politics. Actually, some Americans can’t get enough of them. John McCain visited South Carolina on Thursday on the campaign trail. When one of South Carolina’s finest asked a question about “sendin an airmail (that means bomb in local speak) to Tay-ron”, McCain all but took out the pointy white hat and his matchbook to set the cross on fire >>>
Senator John McCain while on a campaign in N. Carolina, was videoed singing “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” to the tune of the Beach Boys “Barbara Ann”. To this ‘hero’ of the Vietnam War, the White House means not only prolonging the Iraq war and the death of more Americans and slaughter of Iraqis, which he has strongly endorsed , but also the genocide of innocent Iranians. Given that he is lagging behind in fundraising, it comes as no surprise that he should target Iran, lie about Iran’s aspirations to destroy Israel, and hope to receive AIPAC’s blessings and be bank-rolled by them. No doubt, in spite of inciting mass murder, the mainstream media will boost his popularity with the backing of AIPAC, and he will be the frontrunner for the 2008 Republican elections. The war hero who learned nothing from Vietnam and the killing massacre that went on there >>> STORY
Children's book ART
Photo essay: Collage
The geo-political relations between the US and Iran will produce a world wholly removed from the one we know now The aim of this paper is to outline the possible and probable relationships which might soon come to exist, between the United States and Iran. These ideas, although far removed from more popular opinions regarding near-future relations between said countries (these being that the USA will destroy Iran and/or Iran will crumble from within) are, by my estimation, more likely to actualize than not. Although my contentions and logic might at first seem fantastic or utopian, I ask the reader to suspend their disbelief until the conclusion of the work. My arguments are cumulative and arranged so as to compound their soundness. In short, my thesis is a hypothesis: the geo-political relations between the US and Iran will produce a world so wholly removed from the one we know now, that historians will come to understand it as the end of modernity >>>
Anyone with a lifestyle deemed immoral by the rigid standards of Islam is fair game for murder There is good news for those believers with vigilante tendencies: it is now legally acceptable to kill people who act “immorally” in Iran. If before it was merely tolerated now it is totally, legally acceptable, to murder in Iran as long as you murder the “right” people: those who drink alcohol, fornicate, play cards, or do any drugs are all fair game. Especially if they are not mullahs who do it on the sly. In fact you don’t even have to prove that they were acting immorally you can simply intuit. That is enough as long as they are simple lay people not connected to a big wig mullah like Rafsanjani whose offspring are known to have a penchant for partying >>>
I want to feel your tongue and not the razor against my skin There were many Somalis in Pakistan waiting for resettlement to the West. She was one. She was a refugee, a Qax in her own language. According to the Pakistani laws it was unacceptable of the refugees to pursue higher education. The two of us worked voluntary or involuntary from seven in the morning to three in the afternoon. One day when the driver was taking us to our homes I realized she is in pain. I asked her if she needs help and she told me there is nothing anyone can do to undo the trauma she had suffered as a four year old, and the pain she experienced each month. She was one of many victims of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) an act wrongly understood as an Islamic law. In her case it was the infibulation, the worst case of FGM >>> ART
Photography
The New York Times has a news item on its Thursday's front page that is old news to most, if not all, Iranians. The Islamic vigilantes in the pay of the state who had admitted to gruesomely stoning, drowning and burying alive five people to death were exonerated by the Islamic Republic's Supreme Court. What sets this latest publicly acknowledged episode apart from the others is the Islamic Supreme Court's ruling. Up till now the other cases were either not reported, were swept under the rug by the authorities, the victims were demonized posthumously and if all failed, a show trial was staged, a sentence announced and the culprit(s) never saw a day of incarceration, let alone capital punishment so favored by the Islamic courts >>>
No sunflower has ever turned her face away from the sun, except this one in the corner of the prison yard. Her face leans on the wall, her frail stem curves towards us. The seed fell in the prison yard from a pigeon’s beak when the bird heard the torturing sound of whipping lashes from the interrogation room. The pigeon sighed and the sunflower seed, released from its mouth, fell in the empty prison yard. The seed felt deserted, and desired not to flourish. The seed preferred to remain barren. The seed was depressed. But drops of rain penetrated her body and whispered their soulful melodies >>>
Last night I was out with friends and I began to gravitate toward the strong, silent one in the bunch By now you must know I'm this way: sex is furtive and desire more so. I am quiet when I'm most myself and I seek quiet men because I know there's something interesting under all that silence, and I suspect it comes out best in sex. Men who are loudmouths can rarely deliver, and it's so incredibly sexy when a guy hangs back and watches. It makes me nervous, unsettles me, and suddenly I'm hot. A strange reaction to discomfort and perhaps a recipe for ending up with a serial killer one day. Or a voyeur, which isn't so bad for an exhibitionist. Ironically these quiet men turn me into a loudmouth and a flirt, the only way I can publicly channel this strange tension >>>
Until that day comes, we ought to heed our brave sisters' calls for justice and freedom Years ago, my mother, father and I went to Esfahan one summer. One evening, after having been out sightseeing and strolling around Maidan-e Iman on a beautiful starlit evening, my dad asked my mother if we could take a bus back to our hotel instead of risking our lives in a taxi. My maman, having grown up in Iran and being accustomed to Iran's unique driving etiquette, was never rattled by the fact that the only rule of the road in Iran is that there are no rules. Although she didn't particularly like riding buses, on this evening she agreed, but only for my dad's peace of peace mind. After waiting at the bus stop for what seemed like an eternity amongst people who stared unapologetically at this Iranian woman standing with a man who was clearly a foreigner and boy they couldn't quite figure out, our bus finally appeared >>> PARADISE
Videos and photo essay: Hossein Khodadad's Iranian paradise in northern Califnornia
Sorry to say goodbye like this. I had to rush for the train I threw myself under. In two to three days you’ll receive another packet with the DVD I made -- CCTV footage of my first suicide attempt, which failed (the 5.30 to Brighton was late). It also contains my final speech to the family. It is my wish for it to be played after the funeral. My last request is that Michael be barred from shovelling any earth on to my coffin. I know he would take a secret pleasure in this, nice though he is. If I hear those thuds I will never rest in peace. I’ve put cash for Tim’s trumpet lessons in the microwave. It’s important that these continue. He has a future as a trumpet player. Perhaps, when he is sixteen, he can learn the harmonica. I wanted to learn an instrument, but I’m dead now >>> EVENT
FAMILY
Virginia Tech mass killer's parents are really the ones who are responsible Here is the bottom line. This piece of trash killed 32 people. Gun laws have nothing to do with that fact. He could have obtained the weapons anywhere. He could have just as easily driven to Richmond and bought one on the street. To respond to Setareh Sabety ["Breeding murderers"], if your children spent time in a Maryland public school, I am sure you are aware that in neighboring Washington D.C., handguns are illegal. The city has one of the highest murder by firearm rates in the U.S. This idiot went through the legal channels to obtain a firearm because he wanted recongnition. He knew that his name would be on the front page of every newspaper or news website. This little shit just wanted to be noticed. And you call him a poor Korean? That's insulting to decent Koreans >>>
Ethos of the American public schools When I read about the poor Korean student who went on a rampage in Virginia Tech I was sure that I had made the right decision two years ago. I have attended American schools and Universities and taught in them. The best years of my life were spent at Boston University. Where I learned to think, argue, teach and write. Where I learned that most important of skills so well taught at American institutions: analytical thinking. But I have also attended and taught at the American Public High Schools, one of the most horrible places for a young individual to grow. I remember attending Palo-Alto high school in 78-79. Now, anyone familiar with California schools system knows that Palo-Alto is one of the best high schools in the system. But for a foreign student, at the time, it was a vast, cold and unwelcoming place >>>
An American reflection on the Virginia Tech massacre I remember the feeling of the world falling and crashing all around me, like the very bodies of concrete, humans and steel falling from the Towers, as I ran, hysterical, into the principal’s office to call my brother, to know that he was okay. My insides still twist upon themselves when I relive the bona fide terror of hearing that busy signal sounding over and over again, instead of his voice. I returned my parent’s call yesterday, letting them know that my cousin goes to UVA, not Virginia Tech. It stands at 33 dead, a sunny day on a pretty American campus. That doesn’t sound right. That body count sounds like it came out of an afternoon in Baghdad, or some dusty village in Afghanistan, like yesterday’s 9 dead and 25 wounded in the town of Kunduz, located on the other side of the world >>> A Jew and a Muslim
Nobody could argue that they did not have the facts to make the right decisions Two years ago I created a cyber identity by writing a "presidential speech" which was posted by Iranian.com on February 23, 2005. The purpose was to bring into the open a multiple of issues within the context of an alternative peaceful future and hopefully starting a debate about Iran's future during a time that it is under military threat. At that time nobody had even heard of Ahmadinejad. I know I had not heard of him and I keep a close eye on material on Iran that is written in English. I decided to give this cyber person the name of Cyrus Mossaddegh. I purposefully used two D's because I didn't want anybody to think I was from the Prime Minister Mossadegh family. I chose Cyrus because he was the greatest leader Iran has had in terms of foreign policy >>>
For the third time, the attempt to change the domain names of sex/porn sites from .com, .net, .nl etc endings to .xxx has been stopped. You will be shocked when you find out which groups and organizations have been opposing this change. Church groups, search engine providers, first ammendment rights protection groups are amongst some of these organizations. Over the past 3 years, some of the largerst porn site operators have made huge donations to churches to oppose this change. The logic they use is that if .xxx becomes the defacto address, children will find these sites easier. Some groups claim that no one person or group has the right to determine what is pornography and what is not >>>
I feel it's difficult to discuss pride when Dr. A and others in that regime choose policies that are hurting Iran's reputation and its people Unfortunately the convenience of saying "Iranian policies are complicated. I don't know. We have great food and art, though" seldom satisfies the inquiries or me. I want people to think highly of Iran, because it is a great place, the land of our ancestors. I don't tolerate people who think negatively about Iran, unless they are basing that judgment on facts. Media coverage about Iran, especially media in Iran, doesn't make help. Maybe it's too bad for us, but it may have nothing to do with immigrant identity. Part of being patriotic is explaining what's wrong, not just discussing the easy topics. And even though it's not easy to argue for Iran lately, most Iranians are doing their best >>>
Hossein Derakhshan appears vicious, unfair, and jealous. Is he all that? Hossein Derakhshan is not a spy, a traitor, or a snitch, as he has been labeled.† He is a flamboyant man who loves Iran and writes sensational material, some days with a sharp sense of timing, and some days not.† Many of the people he attacks viciously used to be his colleagues, his friends.† In acting hastily and emotionally, he appears vicious, unfair, and jealous.† Is he all that?† I don't think so.† I sense that like all other Iranians wh |
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