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Opinion

2002
July-December
January-June

LEGAL
Wider front
Defending Iranians
By Abolala Soudavar

FAR OUT
Press the button
One cannot have a dialogue with uncivilized nations
By Arya Abedin

APPEAL
1, 2, 3... testing
The demands of the people of Iran

AMERICA
Take it from a good girl
Fight back!
By Shadi Akhavan

OPINION
Pass
Not the Turkish model
By Vahid Isabeigi

MEDIA
More than that
Interview with Elie Chalala, the editor of
Al Jadid magazine
By Elham Gheytanchi

IMMIGRATION
Get involved, or perish
There are innocent people in jail. What are you going to do about it?
By Payam Mohseni

IMMIGRATION
Only the strong survive
"Gangs of New York": Painful story of immigrants
By Nat Bartel

GMT
Notes from the edge
Blair's nemesis?
By Peyvand Khorsandi

RIGHTS
Oppressed once more
America will not repeat its past mistakes. I will make sure of it
By Assal Badrkhani

MEDIA
Moody Rudi
Sublime stupidity of much of TV news
By Asghar Massombagi

REFORM
Sultanate of reformists
The king is renamed "reform"
By Amir

CHRISTMAS
Truth shall triumph
Notice of Resignation from Three Kings of Orient
By Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian

COVER
Challenging the Government of God
The Iranian reform and its permutations: How fundamentalism gave birth to its opposite
By Ahmad Sadri
+ 33 new photos

DEMOCRACY
Completing what we started
The fight for democratic ideals
By Saeed Razavi-Faqih
and Ian Urbina

IDEAS
The ultimate question
Beyond the implications of evolution
By Everett E. Allie

FAITH
Children of burning stars
Declaring a new faith: Old faith, new clothes
By Ramin Tork

STUDENT PROTESTS
I smell ghormehsabzi
Students have spearheaded movements often blindly and emotively. Let's hope it's different this time
By Parkhash

REFORMATION
From cave to cathedral
The age of modernity
By Fatima Farideh Nejat

VELAYAT FAGHIH
Meltdown
Direct attack on the leader of the IRI
(In Persian. See English translation)
By Ghassem Sholeh Sadi

REFORMATION
From monkey to man
A call for Islamic Protestantism
By Hashem Aghajari

OBSERVER
A story worth watching
An Islamic reformation
By Thomas Friedman

DEBATE
Rumi dar baraabare Molla Omar
A reply to Akbar Ganji's republican manifesto
By Mahmoud Sadri

GOVERNMENT
There must be a reason
Half of the original members of the European Union are monarchies
By Sen

ACTION
Baba velesh kon
I want to do something to support freedom in Iran -- and the U.S.
By Bijan Khazai

ISLAM
Kicking the prison door
The Islamic world today is being held prisoner, not by Western but by Islamic captors
By Salman Rushdie

LEFT HOOK
Long live monarchists
A thanksgiving
By Guive Mirfendereski

PEOPLE
Soil searching
Do we not question the very soil that bred and nurtured tyrants?
By Moe

OPINION
Trading human rights
For the European Union, trade comes first
By Cyrus Kadivar

COVER
The dying days of a bad lie
The mullahs' last supper

By Shahla Azizi

DISCRIMINATION
Innocent until proven Muslim
In America
By Anai Rhoads

ORGANIZATION
Unifying the divided
Iranian-Americans and Iran

By Pouya Alimagham

RAN-U.S.
Only a matter of time
War between Iran and the U.S.?

By Eric Frazier

OPINION
Iranian problem, Iranian solution
We should not depend on anybody but ourselves in our nonviolent fight for freedom

By Reza Pahlavi

OPINION
Khatami's last chance
Hasn't the time come for Khatami to stop this ridiculous game and once and for all call it what it is?
By Mani Farhoomand

OPINION
Lengesh kon
Movement against mullahcracy -- with patience
By Shahla Samii

OPINION
Total subjugation doctrine
Iran's independencen and earth's survival
By Moji Agha

MUSLIM
Defending something I'm not
Fast-track to disinformation
By Shirin Sadeghi

OPINION
Ceausescu, your velayat-ness
It is no longer if the IRI gets the message, rather when and how
By Shahriar Zangeneh

CRITICISM
Haven for the truly insane
Art in iranian.com
By Amigui

DIASPORA
Traveling above
The immigrant's quest for a fuller meaning of life
By Leila Farjami

REVOLUTION
Fereydoun's wound
Hoveyda in New York
By Amir

OPINION
Politics of intimidation
Ideology & violence
By Fatima Farideh Nedjat

OPINION
Controlled democracy
A political analysis of Iraqi freedom
By Iqbal Latif

STATE
The unelected few
Promoting undemocratic governments around the world
By Guive Mirfendereski

LIFE
Gentle strength
A revolutionary speaks on violence
By
Siamak Vossoughi

RIGHTS
One of us
It is our duty to defend Aghajari's human rights
By
Mani Farhoomand

OPINION
A war of liberation
The war that America is currently trying to justify is not
By Salman Rushdie

IRAN
Getting the job done -- by ourselves
Democracy is not something you buy from a store
By
Mahrokh Mashadi

ELECTIONS
Need to get involved -- now
Vote in Tuesday's U.S. elections
By Farhad Radmehrian

SOLUTION
An apolitical solution
How to bring about political change in Iran
By
Shahin Milani

STATE
Sustainable democratisation
The rejection of absolutism implies a re-thinking of the institution of the faqih
By
Alessio Loreti

IRAQ
The American way
Money=oil=money
By Azadeh Ensha

GEOPOLITICS
That sinking feeling
Iran's bid for the Caspian
By Alex Vatanka

OPINION
Universal voice
Countering jingoist voices
By Majid Tehranian

OPINION
Garden vs. Wilderness
What is the American Dream?
By G.R. Sami Gorgan Roodi

IRAQ
Saudi rescue plan
A tripple-hitter, if U.S. policy towards Iraq succeeds
By Hassan Farzin

IRAN
Generating hope
... and eliminating fear to stop the brain drain
By Mohammad Ala

AMERICAN
We are responsible!
It should be no surprise that terrorism abounds
By Brian Appleton

SPAIN
Right in Madrid
People have yet to regard communism with the same horror they rightly do Nazism
By Alidad Vassigh

OPINION
Breeding new terrorists
Where does U.S. self-defense cease and aggression begin?
By Lee Howard Hodges

OPINION
Burn Baghdad, burn!
Why we so urgently need to attack Iraq
By Pedram Moallemian

OPINION
Squandering solidarity
An open letter to President Bush
By Alan Hale

IRAQ
WHY is war unavoidable?
It is only unavoidable if the dominant powers insist on it
Farhad Radmehrian

UNDECIDED
Talk some sense
Hating the Americans or the Iraqi government is not a starting point
By Siamack Salari

SOLUTION
Democracy matters
If Islam is ever to undergo a reformation, as Christianity and Judaism did, it's only going to happen in a Muslim democracy
By Thomas L. Friedman

SELF-RIGHTEOUS
Israeli rules of war
Always a fighter, always a terrorist
By Amira Hass

OPINION
Naked imperial policy
Letter to U.N. Secretary General
By Peter Attwood

COVER
This is London
"Don't Attack Iraq" demonstration
Original photographs by Robert Leigh Banks
Altered by Jahanshah Javid

PROTEST
Taking to the streets
Peace rally in London
By Shappi Khorsandi

OPINION
Vote him out
How to get rid of Saddam Hossein cheaply and legitimately
By Kazem Alamdari


ETHNIC
Claims and facts
On Azaris and Azarbaijan
By Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian

CONVERSATIONS
Standing up and speaking out
Or keeping down and staying silent

By Behrouz Bahmani

IRAN-U.S.
Resolutions on Iran
On Capitol Hill
From National Iranian American council

FEAR
Az saayeye khod betarseed!
Fear your own shadow
By Saeed Tavakkol

IRAN-U.S.
A new strategy?
Nothing is going to happen. I mean NOTHING.
By Asadollah Bani

LANGUAGE
Facelift
Persian words that can replace their Arabic equivalents
By Vahid Isabeigi

DISCRIMINATION
My last trip to the United States
For the first time in my life I understood what discrimination means
By Picha

9/11
The 9/11 baby
Armin may have reflected on what kind of a world he blundered into
By Moji Agha

CHUTZPAH
Shopping is easier than jihad
Why I wonder, do so many people hate Americans? Well, they say they do, but they don't really
By Alidad Vassigh

OPINION
Futility of revenge
I cannot stay uncaring about the fate of the Mujahideen Khalgh rank and file
By Shahriar Zangeneh

OPINION
The seventh oil war
Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world
By Majid Tehranian

DIASPORA
Blending in
I am really going to miss when we were just Iranians
By Termeh Rassi

COMMUNITY
Supporting your own
It starts with wanting to see Iranians progress
By Said Rouhol-Amin

COMMUNITY
Supporting your own
It starts with wanting to see Iranians progress
By Said Rouhol-Amin

UNIVERSITY
Lower education
Universities, democracy and girls' education
By Mohammad Ghaed

RAPE
Aayaa tajaavoz jensee hatk hormat ast?
Reducing reape to something less than a crime it is
By Maral Karimi

DIASPORA
What do you want?
My desire is to have peace from my family
By Yasaman Rohani

LIFE
When is it enough?
When can we say, I don't need to wait for anything, everything I want or need is right here in this moment, right now
By Arezou Raeisghasem

REPUBLIC
Pyramid of loyalty
God, King, Country? The very notion of kingship runs counter to the universally recognized rights of the citizen
By Guive Mirfendereski

REPUBLIC
THIS republic has to go
Because it fails to provide for democracy
By Amir

9/11
How about 'God Bless the Whole World'?
Three times as many civilians have been killed in Afghanistan than died in the WTC
By Shappi Khorsandi

9/11
International Enough Day
September 11
By Afshin Levy

9/11
Beyond economic interests
America has a golden oppurtunity of implementing its true values of human rights and democracy in the Middle East
By Darius Kadivar

9/11
Strange parallel
Charity begins at home so should anti-terrorism!
By Ramin Tork

9/11
Who lost the world?
On the anniversary of 9/11 we must be troubled for having squandered the sympathy of the world
By Ahmad Sadri

9/11
Reflections on transnational terrorism
Remembering The Past And Imagining The Future
By Mansour Farhang

9/11
I'm gonna live my life
Having some sort of Middle Eastern heritage is about the same as being Black in the 60's
By Alborz Bahmani

9/11
Pillars of Heaven
We will be the light that drives out the darknes
By Shahriar Afshar

9/11
Blame belief
Fundamental principles that underpin terrorism
By Everett E. Allie

9/11
Tarnishing of America's moral superiority
The once popular United States is not so popular anymore these days -- not even in Europe
By Baraitna

9/11
The troubling new face of America
Belligerent and divisive voices now seem to be dominant in Washington
By Jimmy Carter

9/11
Drain the swamp
... and there will be no more mosquitoes
By Noam Chomsky

9/11
Run like a coward
Have no doubt about the resolve of United States
By Iqbal Latif

MIDDLE EAST
"W" stands for "war"
Oil is thicker than blood
By Babak Khiavchi

BEHAVIOR
Shared psychotic disorder
Mass illusion of absolute attachment to a cause
By Leila Farjami

IRAN
Fanciful presidential flight
What Khatami's words really mean
By Reza Bayegan

9/11
Grand conspiracies
September 11: Reality check
By Amir Khosrow Sheibany

RACE & RELIGION
Mixed and matched
I heard the sensationalism that others described as fact and decided he's 'the one'
By Nathalie Taghaboni

COMPARE
Passion vs. possession
Cuba with all its marvelous idiosyncrasies
By Roozbeh Shirazi

9/11
Justifying aggression
U.S. has gained sympathy to such an extent that it now has a free hand to do as it wills and implement its worldwide agenda without hindrance
By Sadaf Sadaf

REVIEW
Twilight of religious marketability
Mohsen Kadivar in New York
By Amir

PERSIAN
Is our language dying?
Should we totally discard the Arabic element in Persian?
By Vahid Isabeigi

9/11
Play it very safe
and remember that the Middle East does not have monopoly on lunatics and stupidity...

WOMEN
The indirect approach
Women and broad-based sustainable development
By Fatima Farideh Nedjat

9/11
Play it very safe
and remember that the Middle East does not have monopoly on lunatics and stupidity...

9/11
United we can
The world today is no longer the one we knew
By Mahyad M. Tousi

ETHNIC
Headless cat
Perhaps we should start by examining ourselves
By Ramin Tork

WOMEN
Fulfilling expectations
Who is an intern?
By Farzin Foroughi

IDENTITY
More authentic, or less?
Iranian Nationalism has benefited from a more solid and cohesive base
By Alessio Loreti

ETHNIC
Truncated a version of Persia
Nationalism and culture
By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar

AMERICA
The men from JINSA and CSP

Interesting dynamic among right-wing hawks
By Jason A. Vest
Source: The Nation

MIDEAST
Reason over blood
An overview of the Israel-Palestinian conflict
By Iqbal Latif

LANGUAGE
Politicizing linguistics
It is a mistake to confuse ethnicity with language
By Reza Ordoubadian

PLAN
The ideal scenario
For Middle East peace
By Majid Tehranian

PEACE
Finish the story
Who is writing the Israeli-Palestinian story? Why can't the author finish it?
By Kamran Talatoff

IRANIANS
Choice & respect
Everything Iranians do, other Iranians take personally
By SSK

RIGHTS
Secular or not
Religious intellectuals come short
By Ali Akbar Mahdi

PEOPLE
The same wish
How children feel about events of twenty-plus years ago
By Assal Badrkhani

ETHNIC
Who are Azeris?
Important to emphasize the roots of Azerbaijan
By Aylinah Jurabchi

EXODUS
The biggest injustice
Brain drain
By Ahmad Anvari

CHAOS
Stop at the red light
Before changing the government
By Farhad Radmehrian

EDUCATION
Challenging ignorance
... on Islam: A Ten-Point Primer for Americans
By Gary Leupp

MINORITY
Medieval ignorance
The silence of Iranian polity towards Bahai persecution
By Iqbal Latif

IDEAS
The Khshathric Society
We need a fresh, powerful ideology
By Delshah

METAMORPHSIS
Constant or consistent?
One should be consistent in changing and growing
By Arash Kamangir

NATIONALISM
Loyalty to our roots
At its most extreme, nationalism is quite like infatuation
By Ali Khalili

RACISM
Welcome to the real world
If racism was a religion, it would have the greatest following
By Kendal Sheets

IRAN
Leave it to the people
Democratic movement gaining momentum
By Narges Bajoghli

OPERA
The Persian Tragedy
Sunset of the Persian Empire
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani

SERIOUS
Standardization of standards
My spurious attempt at being an "antalagh toloogh"
By Marjaneh Zahed-Khorassani-Kindersley

SCIENCE
Alien
Observations about photons
By Hossein Javadi
Persian text

IRANIANS
The missing factor
Merely representing the most downtrodden people
By Amir

IRANIANS
Required reading
A basic window of exposure to the dual nature of the Iranian psyche
By Mark Dankof

MEDICINE
Doctors without orders
More medical students, poorer results
By Mahyar Etminan

HEALTH
Salak spreading?
Leishmaniasis has reached "epidemic proportions"
By Nazanin Mehrparvar

MEDIA
Faded hope
If you are unsuccessful blame yourself not others
By Gari Gardner

AMERICA
We're next
America is the next Empire that's going to suffer an outrageous fall
By David Marshall

MIDEAST
Martyrdom, murder or madness
A pervasive culture that immortalizes suicide bombing by equating death with power has captured the imagination of a whole people
By Alon Ben-Meir

IRAN-US
Ticking clock
Should Iranians be glad they're in the "Axis of Evil"?
By Craig Lawrence

ANGER
I cannot blame them
Why many expatriate earthquake experts won't go to Iran
By Mehdi Sharif

RETURN
I no longer blame all of Iran
Iranians made a mistake and many are paying dearly for it
By Debra Johnson

Long Live Iranian TV!
We should not always strive to bitch and scream about our own pop culture
By Assal Badrkhani

Making a difference in Iran
We prefer to spend life with loved ones rather than visiting their grave
By A.S.F.

Bad TV
Even the shows with political themes are mostly filled with profanity and accusations
By Farhad Radmehrian

Caspian quartet IV
Last of four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski

When the day comes
Beware of men with ties, bowties, and Armani suits
By F.A. Ashtiani

Come together
Interview
With Majid Tehranian

Broken link
Persia And Iran are geographic (not racial) terms
By A. R. Begli Beigie

Language of the armies
Urdu: A Derivative of Persian and Avestan
By Dr. Samar Abbas

The new Islamophobia
Muslims as nemesis of the "civilized world"?
By R. Ebrahimi
French text

Closing the gap
How to translate our resources into positive influence
By Trita Parsi and Alex Patico

Caspian quartet III
Four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski

Icon of democracy
51st anniversary of Mossadegh's election as prime minister
By Hamid Akbari

Out of the trash bin
A sign of political convalescence and imaginative recovery
By Reza Bayegan

Can't be fooled again
It is illegitimate and cheap to compare one dictatorship with another
By Sana Aryamehr

Peaceful coexistence
No scripture recommends democracy, socialism and individualism as strongly as the Koran
By Mehdi Mokarram

Caspian quartet II
Second of four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski

Defending our turf
In the present mood we have no alternative

By Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian

Icon of democracy
51st anniversary of Mossadegh's election as prime minister
By Hamid Akbari

One-way ticket
Long history of betraying our own people and our friends
By Mansoor  Lotfi

Open case
My husband is in effect a victim. A scapegoat
An interview with Mehrangiz Kar
By Fariba Amini

Caspian quartet II
Second of four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski

Out of the trash bin
A sign of political convalescence and imaginative recovery
By Reza Bayegan

Can't be fooled again
It is illegitimate and cheap to compare one dictatorship with another
By Sana Aryamehr

Peaceful coexistence
No scripture recommends democracy, socialism and individualism as strongly as the Koran
By Mehdi Mokarram

Caspian quartet
Four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski

Better than war
Mere fact that Iran and Azerbaijan are talking is grounds for optimism
By Omid S. Marvi

Tabreek o tasleeyat
Reza Pahlavi, Iranian of the year
By Jahanshah Javid

Beyond measure
Great need for us to engage constructively
By Shahram Hashemi

When words kill
Here, the word doesn't tolerate criticism; it censures
By R. Ebrahimi
See French text

Why does John Malkovich want to kill me?
Almost anyone who criticises US or Israeli policy in the Middle East is now in the free-fire zone
By Robert Fisk

Black vs Red ants
Israel is held to different standards
By Ali T. Kazemi

The rest
Iran isn't all Persians
By Vahid Isabeigi

Popular for the wrong reasons
Poor satellite TV programming
By M. H. Eslami, MD

The Queen Bum
True magic of monarchy: fooling an entire population
By Sana Aryamehr

Maadar mord!
The utter weakness of the reform movement
By Dariush Sajjadi

Just peace
Wars are not fought on battlefields
By Terry Greenblatt

Who's a Nazi?
Is this a fair criticism of Israel?
By William Baker

Act as a community
We want to project positive, truthful images of Iranian-Americans
Interview with Trita Parsi
by Jahanshah Javid

Thoreauly wrong
What it means to be an American
By Setareh Sabety

Enemy of my enemy
Israel WON real estate in a fair and square war started by Arabs
By Yek Mihan Parast

All they have is anger
And a sense of abandonment by the world
By Iskander Khaleeli

Today, I am a Palestinian
I am ashamed of being an American
By Setareh Sabety

Iran on the Brink
And the U.S. does nothing
By Michael Ledeen
Source: National Review Online

Whining and Die-ning
Everything sucks these days
By Yek Nafar

The Queen Bum
True magic of monarchy: fooling an entire population
By Sana Aryamehr

The coming individualism
Iran's irreversibly metamorphic process towards democracy
See French text
By R. Ebrahimi

Democracy my foot
We have yet to learn to pass the surface and reach the substance
By Hashemi Hakimi

Blanket mistreatment

Iranians guilty until proven innocent
By David N. Rahni

A lot of barking
But no real action against U.S. visa restrictions
By Behrooz Parsa

What infuriates people
... is that many American politicians can walk outside in broad daylight and say it's night
By Ali Khalili

Up for grabs
From the Caspian to the Persian Gulf, Iran's territorial integrity is under threat
By Vahid Isabeigi

Huge blow
A terrible price to pay for a "feel good" ban on Iranians wishing to visit the U.S.
By Gary Sick

Parisian tragedy
The land of Descartes is poorer today
By Iqbal Latif

God in a flower
I have learned this: God exists in everyone and everything
By Tara Ebrahimi

How could they?
On efforts to ban Iranians from traveling to the U.S.
By Katayoon Hadizadeh

Taking a bow
Who said individuals do not make history?
By Abbas F. Saffari

Challenging the myth
Can Iranians have democracy?
By Ataollah Togha

Fear and learning in America
Americans don't understand the Middle East?
By Robert Fisk

Double standard
Because of its lack of fairness, the US administration will not and cannot be a mediator
By Farhad Radmehrian

Explosive, yet futile
Something more than illegal settlements, poverty and arrogant Isreali soldiers are at work here
By William Baker

Children of genocide
Happy Passover, my friend. May we see peace soon
By Fariba Amini

Hoshdaar beh Iraaniaan
Warning to Iranians on copyright law
By Majid Roshangar

Misreading U.S. intentions
American officials do not think of Muslims as a single group
By Lee Howard Hodges

Hopeless & humiliated
Suicide bombings may not be very difficult to comprehend
By Mahyar Etminan

The center cannot hold
An alternative voice
By Majid Tehranian

Ground realities
Israel's claim is devoid of any legal foundations, but...
By Iqbal Latif

Selective morality
The Pentagon is conducting coverage of the Afghan war

By Lawrence Reza Ershaghi

Palestinians will not go away
Conflicts between peoples contain more elements than can be eliminated by force
By Edward Said

The basic equation
The real fight is against forces of reason in both societies
By Shahriar Zangeneh

Human nature
The one reality that drives the Middle East mess is "occupation"
By Farhad Radmehrian

Desperate times
Israeli actions have gotten way out of hand, even for their best friend to tolerate
By Jahanshah Javid

There's a difference
State vs. individual terrorism
By Lev Grinberg

Martyrdom is for lesser men
The apparent flaw within Palestinian polity is their inability to perceive the ground realities
By Iqbal Latif

The great insult
Islam and Iranian National Self-Esteem
By Omid Parsi

Berkeley phase?
Berkeley women of color silent no more
By Shadi Rahimi

Civil parade of faiths
Terrorism has no face or nationality
By Shahla Samii

Patriotism and bigotry
Far too much of the latter since September 11
By Koupal Davoudi

Hard to point fingers
Where there is hate, there is a reason
By Ali Khalili

Moral credibility
Palestinians would do well to try a nonviolent strategy
By Lee Howard Hodges

In other words
Persian origins of Anglo-Saxon words
By Sharon Turner

Axis of excess
Are we at the edge of a global civil war among civilizations?
By Majid Tehranian

Placing the onus
Of victims and perpetrators
By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar

Largely a myth
Gandhi's nonviolent strategy
By Lawrence Reza Eshraghi

Victimology
It is not America's moral responsibility to create or foster "free societies" in the Muslim world. This is the responsibility of Muslims themselves
By Lee Howard Hodges

Monkey wrench
The IRI has once again succeeded in playing the loosing hand, with Iranian national interest as its usual first victim
By Shahriar Zangeneh

Tazaade goftaar va kerdaar
Shamsolvaezin: Contradictions
By Maral Karimi

Republic bee republic
I detest all republicans: communistis, socialists and democrats
By Amir

Democracy vs. Anarchy
Being a monarchist or a republican does not exempt you from the human race
By Cyrus Kadivar

Rock and no roll
Insisting on contentious issues does not bring unity
By Setareh Sabety

Anonymous guesswork
We should not lower our voice
By Saeed Ganji

Made in Russia
Another piece of crap
By Sepehr Haddad

Rolls Royce vs. Gaari
Flying unreliable Russian aircraft
By Mahyar Etminan

A lot to be said
Crucial days of the revolution
Interview by Fariba Amini

Once bitten
Enough slogans; we heard them all during the revolution
By Amir Mehdi Noorbakhsh

The ultra-motive
To attract foreign tourism and investment.
By Bahram Nassehi

Iran is no Afghanistan
Iran and the US should listen to the voice of reason
By Hooshang Amirahmadi

Keeping an open mind
Monarchy, republic, or secular democracy
By Guive Mirfendereski

Minus mom & monarchy
I prefer a secular republic, but Pahlavi can play a pivotal role
By Yek Irandoost

What happened?
Why did the Googoosh generation turn fundamentalist?
Asghar Massombagi

Child to killer
Reasons behind idolization of destructiveness
By Fatima Farideh Nedjat

Just another show
Allow President Bush to do his job
By Bageh Torsh

Attack from within
Dissident political theology in contemporary Iran
By Mahmoud Sadri

Fifth time a charm?
Why test the monarchy again after four failures?
By Kazem Alamdari

Cat in a bag
At the start of the 24th year of the Iranian Revolution
By Naghmeh Sohrabi

Pursuit of happiness
Iran and the American Revolution
By Fereydoun Hoveyda

Longing for liberty
Then AND now
By Setareh Sabety

Bohraane sarmaayedaari
A Marxist perspective
By Fedaii Khalq guerrillas

Of kings and cylinders
Nothing among Iranians is ever as it seems
By Guive Mirfendereski

Bushiranians
"Duh, who do we support if America bombs Iran?"
By Peyvand Khorsandi

Please reconsider
U.S. mindset bears almost no resemblance to the Iran of today
By Alan Hale

I just felt the urge
I can't say if many Americans agree with me, but
By Dave Marshall

Yes. "Axis of Evil"
Let's call it what it is
By Ali Sarshar

Give me a break
When countries act like schoolyard bullies
By Sepehr Haddad

Not our friend
Iran's oppressive autocracy cannot be America's ally
By Ramin Ahmadi

It starts with us
No one will give us democracy
By Saeed Ganji

Still alive
Varieties of religious reform in Iran
By Ahmad Sadri

How do we rebuild?
The only true way to fight this is with ideas
By Al Bahmani

Man... some people
... don't even know the meaning of SHAME
By Faz Rasti

Royal blue vs. the rainbow
We don't need HIM to save us
By Naghmeh Sohrabi

Iran next?
U.S. military attack would prolong the reign of Iran's despotic rulers
By Shahriar Zangeneh

Dummies for democracy
Stop criticizing. Propose alternative solutions
By Xerxes Darius

All are not equal
In the practical world, creating an "aghazadeh" is a human social behavior
By Abdol Hamid Sheybani

Look at the evidence
Prophet Muhammad and women's rights
By Persia Lover

Stay away from courtiers
If you want to be regarded as a democrat, act like one
By Setareh Sabety

All about freedom
... the Pahlavi State was
By Mihandoust

Shah bee Shah
When you think "monarchy", "freedom" is not the first thing that comes to mind
By Jahanshah Javid

Watching the watcher
Monitor has put the human rights movement in Iran at risk
By Ramin Ahmadi and Joanne Cossitt

I will watch his every move
Reza Pahlavi must throw away the old and start afresh
By Mehdi Amini

What could lie ahead
Go for it and bring about change
By Shahla Samii

Don't ask, don't tell
When does silence become collaboration?
By Setareh Sabety

Breaking the stalemate
Desperate times require revolutionary initiatives
By Hamid Zangeneh

Gheirat
The war with Iraq was not Khomeini's fault
By Nima Kasraie

All choked up
From Ground Zero to Iranian arms shipmenmts
By Guive Mirfendereski

I feel better now
After writing how I feel about Iranians abroad
By Mehrdad Pishehgar

Vision 2002
Historical forces at work
By Majid Tehranian

Ship of fools
Questions on arms shipments to the Palestinians Authority
By Rasool Nafisi

I'm an optimist
Life is beautiful because people survived the holocaust
By A. Shahmolki

We all want to smell roses
What we learned from 2001
By Fariba Amini

Killing history
Not enough if we internalize insults to our history
By Jamshid Charmchi

Divergence of beliefs
Iran, in the aftermath of September 11
By: Ali R. Rabi

IRAN
Man yek javaane Irani hastam
I am young Iranian
By Galony

IRAN
Daarandegi o baraazandegi
4,000 new Mercedes Benzs for Iran's police
By Behboud

MEDIA
Illusion overdose
Iranian TV stations
By Leila Farjami

GLOBE
Good idea
Why global civilization?
By Majid Tehranian

MIDDLE EAST
Open your eyes
High time for Muslims to reject once antiquated clerics and leaders
By Fereydoun Hoveyda

STATE
Party's over
Islamic Republic - the great 'national-socialist' experiment in the Middle East
By Hossein Bagher Zadeh

FUNDAMENTALISM
Too many to count
Similarities between Khamenei and Bush
By Farhad Radmehrian

MIDDLE EAST
Why do you blow yourselves up?
I haven't blown myself up. Not yet anyway.
By Saghi (Sasha) Michaelis
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AMERICA
A strange kind of freedom
Biggest threat to liberty in the US: Jewish and Christian fundamentalism
By Rober Fisk

MONARCHY
Can we say "Who needs Norooz?"
Believing in a "lost cause"?
By Reza Bayegan

STATE
Give this republic a chance
I will
By Guive Mirfendereski

ANNIVERSARY
Tic tic tic
The timer is ticking for the Islamic Republic
By Shahriar Zangeneh

RIGHTS
Heechee kam nadaaran
When are we going to recognize Bahais?
By Jahanshah Javid

MIDDLE EAST
Too beautiful?
A free and prosperous Palestinian state?
By Fereydoun Hoveyda

MEDIA
Don't ask, don't write
How the media spin works in favor of Israel
By John Mohammadi

CASPIAN
Strategic adjustments
Export options for Caspian energy
By Alex Vatanka

REGIONAL
The Triad
Russia-Iran-China
By R. Ebrahimi

COMMUNITY
Collective action
Opposing unfair treatment
By Hazhir Rahmandad and Mehdi Yahyanejad

IRAN
Horrendous trends
Imminent social explosion
By Vahid Isabeigi

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