Updates November 2005 >>> Updates archive >>> This month heritage Radio Farda: Deputy Energy Minister says controversial Sivand Dam flooding postponed for a year nukes BBC: Iran-EU talks 'within two weeks' not in our back yard CS Monitor: Controversy grows in Europe over CIA jails go google go CS Monitor: Google's open skies raise cries akbar ganji * Foreign Press Association Media 2005 Award * UK Foreign Secretary on jailed journalist photographs from iraq Kouross Esmaeli: Greetings without flowers watch out BBC: Shimon Peres quits Labour to back Ariel Sharon heeh New Iranian flag [and in iranian media] LA Times: U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press nukes Reuters: Iran signal needed before new talks with EU: Germany Guardian: Neither Bush nor Blair is in a position to take a high moral line on Iran's nuclear programme god is back GodAndLord.blogspot.com here & there * Hadi Khorsandi in Berkeley (14 pix) * Halloween in Toronto (31 pix) anyway * Video: Iranian woman rams into Iranian bakery * Job opportunity at Iran Air * Extra-terrestrial seyyed, doctor & darvish new face BBC: Woman has first face transplant quiz Yummy art prison protest Radio Farda: Three more prisoners join hunger strike at Rajaie Shahr prison mamooriate elahi Enameh: Emam Zaman cartoons Kohansal * Emam Reza dog speaks out * Ahmadinejad brightens UN Iraj * Bush: Leaving Iraq when Iraqis tsnad up * Rejecting terrorists in Iraq Mahmoud * Before Julia Robers, there was Sepideh baleh! AP: Iran Seeks to Master Space Technology shekanjeh policy Washington Post: CIA Director Defends Detention Policy thursday Iranian Feminists Tribune: AIDS awareness gathering in Tehran heritage SavePasargad.com: Contribute art, poetry, articles... about Iran's heritage quiz Maadar-e foulad-zereh iranians of the day * Firouzeh Nahavandi: President of Brussels Institute of Sociology * Shiva Bagheri: Dancing since 9 * Karen Ostad: Lovell's law firm * Darius Danesh: London's West End * Atoosa Rubenstein: Forever Seventeen * Davar Rahmat Abolghassem Bakhtiar: Tehran businessman * Nozlou Hosseinpour: Most beautiful, clever, kind & considerate (2 pix) * Hossein Alizadeh: With love from Holland * Jooya Khodabakhsh: Fine young man * Ava: Mountain girl student protest BBC Persian: What's behind the recent increase in student protests? beekhiyal BBC: McCartney attacks China over cat & dog fur quiz The man and his pen music Back for more: Dutch Darius is better known as "Mc BNW" good luck US Iraq ambassador to discuss Iraq with Iran * Reuters * Radio Farda qeshm quake Reuters: Relief workers bring help to Iran quake survivors anyway * Video: Happy birthday, goozoo * Video: Ahmadinejad's New York fairy tale * Animal fruits and vegetables (7 pix) nostalgia Video: Fereydoun Farrokhzad's TV show in Iran nice iranoldies.com saddam trial BBC: Saddam trial reopens; hears first witness saddam war Video: War siren as Iraq lauches war on Iran open source CS Monitor: Portland benefits from high-tech companies with 'open source' philosophy women Pantea Bahrami: Documentary about women in Iranian jails distortion Ali Nasri: Child street show becomes "punishment for stealing bread" tehran university ISNA: Students protest against new head Ayatollah Amid Zanjani heritage NY Times: A Rush to Excavate Ancient Iranian Sites cartoons Saman * Ahmadinejad evolution * Serial killer or intelligent design? glaring omission Shargh: The life and death of Dr. Kazem Sami (No mention of Ahmadinejad who's been rumored to have been involved in the assassination) quake Eight killed in Qeshm quake in Persian Gulf * ISNA * BBC lawyer in jail BBC Persian: 180 lawyers demand the release of Abdolfattah Soltani, lawyer who has represented Akbar Ganji and Zahra Kazemi kaare engelisaast IranianUK.com one bully to another AP: Ahmadinejad Says Bush Should be Charged for War Crimes soccer fans FootballMedia.net insult to michael moore NY Times: Massoud Dehnamaki: A Revolutionary Channels His Inner Michael Moore father of graphic arts BBC Persian: Morteza Momayez has died jobs Search for occupations in the U.S. quiz Another flower ebrahim nabavi BBC Persian: Week in review clips Don't film girls playing badminton CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on the David Letterman sho more trouble Washington Post: Members of Congress Focus of Abramoff Investigation here & there * Milos Island, Greece (14 pix) -- Ali Douraghy * Autumn in wild Colorado (33 pix) -- Parviz Forghani * Autumn in California wine country (11 pix) -- A.S. Mostafanejad thanksgiving iranian.com's monthly unique visitors has surged from 118,000 in January 2005 to 575,000 last month. Thanks to all of you :o) nukes AFP: Uranium enrichment - new red line in Iranian nuclear showdown can't wait for the perfume Financial Times: Iran's president becomes unlikely fashion icon internet Deutsche Welle Persian: Who should be in charge of the internet? iranian AIDS project PGLO.org: Gathering anonymous information for research ah ah ah... BBC Persian: New head of Tehran University does not have a university degree ebrahim nabavi Rooz: Interview with Emam Reza's dog (scroll down to bottom of page) cartoons Eyeranian * Emam Reza dog: Ziarat ghabool Mahmoud * Upsidedown world * The kind tonbakee Radmehrian * Khamenei: I'm so special Kazem * Sky is the limit: New CIA prison nukes AP: EU Alleges Iran Possesses Nuclear Designs Reuters: Iran: A-bomb data available on Net BBC: EU makes fresh Iran nuclear move Reuters: Russian plan for Iran unites IAEA anyway * Video: Boro bacheh por roo * The miracle of make-up * Video: The girl at the bar * Video: Fighting terrorism with baseball bat * Video: When there's nothing to do at work * Video: Training how to fake a foul quiz What on earth minister of oil Guardian: Ahmadinejad faces crisis as MPs reject oil nominee BBC: Analysis: Iran president rebuffed team melli: top 20 BBC Persian: Iranian national football team's FIFA ranking jumps two to 19th women poets Miras Farhangi: Poetry by Iranian women in America to be published chaakeram BBC Persian: Deputy Revolutionary Guards Commander Brigadier Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr is now Deputy Interior Minister in Charge of Security blogger in spain Saman Ahmadi next! Ahmadinejad's third oil minister nominee vetoed * AFP * BBC Persian heritage SavePasargad.com: Majles committee says Sivand Dam flooding postponed minister of crap AFP: Iran cracks down on cinema, theater and newspapers considered to be un-Islamic slowly but surely Washington Post: US May Cut 3 Brigades in Iraq Early in 2006 goaaaaaal Ali Karmi: Bayern Munich powers into last sixteen (3 pix) quiz Cut! kurdistan Radio Farda: Jailed Sanandaj journalist sows his mouth in protest iranians of the day * Vali Siadat: Illinois Professor of the Year * Dariush: Best rapper in Holand (5 pix) * Sharmine Sharivar: Hooking up with Prince Albert II of Monaco? * Farah Pahlavi: With Alain Delon * Dario Margeli: New Orleans * Azadeh Ommanian: Drunk driver took her life the forouhars 7th anniversary of political murders * Radio Farda * Rooz * iran-emrooz banning critics CS Monitor: When US bars its door to foreign scholars soon CS Monitor: Iraqi leaders want US withdrawal timetable backward-forward BBC Persian: Abbas Kazemi's sociology of religious intellectuals in Iran nukes AFP: EU, Iran to meet in December on nuclear dispute: diplomat Kaveh L Afrasiabi: Iran's closing nuclear argument BBC: Iran's nuclear stand-off germany Der Spiegel: Whereas Schröder was a prima donna, Merkel is a black belt in judo self 2.0 Washington Post: Internet Users Put a Best Face Forward With Avatars get out, please AP: Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable zahra kazemi AFP: Iran judiciary pledges new probe into Kazemi killing belaahat Enameh: Ahmad Jannati's contempt for non-Muslims bread NaderDavoodi.com: Sangaki anyway * Badongo: Toying with Ahmadinejad * Video: Toys getting mixed up * Outsourcing Santa * Video: Don't drink and dance * Video: Greek god does Travolta & Micheal Jackson hardliner to terrify hardliners Telegraph: The rise of Professor 'Crocodile' the inhumanity... Human Rights Watch: Two More Executions for Homosexual Conduct in Iran quiz A in physics hotzone Kevin Sites and his team's mission is to cover every armed conflict in the world yaa-hoo Washington Post: Top Republican PR man pleads guilty to conspiracy big deal BBC: Israel's Sharon quits Likud party and forms centerist party Jerusalem Post: Sharon: Likud cannot give Israel hope academic freedom award MESA: Akbar Ganji receives Academic Freedom Award from Middle Eastern scholars -- English -- Persian time's a bitch Guardian: Time holds the key to change in Iran wait & see BBC: More time for Iran in nuclear row Reuters: EU, US defer UN action on Iran: diplomats who's the animal? Gooya: Non-muslims are animals grazing the earth and spreading corruption, says Ayatollah Jannati good Washington Post: Iraq War Debate Eclipses All Other Issues nukes AP: Iran Votes to Block Nuclear Inspections Reuters: Iran says no case for referral to UN Council AFP: Iran says military site off-limits to UN nuclear probe AFP: Iran says disclosing suspected bomb blueprint shows good faith mother & daughters * MehrangizKar.com * Lily Pourzand * Azadeh Pourzand quiz Beautiful machine feminine breeze Antje Beyen's ocumentary focusing on Iranian women artists choking game LA Times: Sasha Sepasi is dead, but why? nowhere near BBC Persian: The Economist ranks most & least democratic states in the Middle East khavaran cemetery Radio Farda: Graves of victims of mass political executions destroved allah o woff woff Sheep dog cries for Imam Reza cartoons Mahmoud * Shohreh's new CD (1) (2) (3) Mahdad * Ahmadinejad encourages Pahlavi take a break * Persian classical music: Koss o Sher No. 7 * Animation: Bush: I need some soldiers * I don't think he's going to make it... * Gentlemen prefer burkas * Video: Yes... yes... yes... * Video: Ostriches can rap, also * Redneck hunting dogs cruel & inhuman AP: U.N. Worries About Human Rights in Iran ebrahim nabavi BBC: The week in review remembered Zinat Javid * Favorite photo * Loving grandmother (7 pix) nukes BBC: Iran given 'nuclear weapon' data Reuters: Iran gives IAEA bomb part instructions power grab Guardian: Iran in turmoil as president's purge deepens out of control Washington Post: Three Bombings in Iraq Kill More Than 90 pezeshkzad BBC Persian: Iraj Pezeshkzad's new novel "Hafeze Naashenideh Pand" post 9/11 strategy Washington Post: CIA builds two-dozen joint international anti-terror facilities go get em Washington Post: New Grand Jury for CIA Leak Case more than image problem CS Monitor: Arab opinions of US: good news, bad news iranians of the day * Mona Tavakoli: Drummer for Raining Jane * Hossein Rezazadeh: World champion with his hero * Monika Jalili: Soprano * Asieh Namdar: CNN anchor * Caesar Dowlatshahi: A Persian in Toronto * Behshad Hastibakhsh: Vancouver political scientist * Farzaneh: Best friend in India right on Washington Post: Pro-Defense Democrat Calls for Immediate US Troop Withdrawal From Iraq appreciation PersianAcademyAwards.com broaden your world Re-Orient 2005: San Francisco festival of short plays placing the Middle East centerstage if... Fox news was around throughout history -- eyeranian.net world's strongest man Rezazadeh wins world heavy weight weightlifting title * IRNA * BBC Persian closed doors Iran's campaign to deny higher education to Bahais mommy joon raft I called Uncle Bahman to ask about his mother, my grandmother, Zinat Javid. She had suffered strokes and heart attacks in past two weeks. "Mommy Joon raft," he said. "20 daghigheh pish..." nukes AFP: US announces London meeting on Iran nuclear program Friday AP: Russia's Anger at Iran Over Nukes Growing good business parsguide.com: Iranian business directory in Dubai bad business BBC Persian: Tehran Stock Market director resigns rafsanjani on the offensive BBC Persian: Ahmadinejad deputy's reply to Rafsanjani ISNA: Rafsanjani warns Ahmadinejad on "disasterous policies" quiz Iran nuclear warhead inspection islamic feminism feminismeislamic.org fascinating animal Reuters: Iran president's religious views arouse interest anyway * Ghoochali goes wireless * True Love, or... * Imam Zaman's letter attached to chocolate ruth millington BBC: Bam earthquake rescuer honoured thanks Petition: Appreciation for reinstating Persia basketball diplomacy BBC: Basketball in the 'axis of evil' oops Washington Post: Woodward Apologizes for Withholding Knowledge of CIA Operative wmds BBC * US used white phosphorus in Iraq * UK ALSO used phosphorus in Iraq * White phosphorus use sparks chemical weapons debate 5th generation Launching "Nasle Panjom" heritage Dari Language Project united states of oil Washington Post: Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force 70's music & more * Saeed Dabiri: "Moosh o Gorbeh" * Emil Sayin: "Shahre Barfi" & more * Neli: "Yek Rooze Taze" & more * Dariush: "Hoshyaari" * Giti: "Dirooz Emrooz" * Betty: "Khonoeh Khaale Koodom Vare" & more * Vigen: "Khaastegaari" & more * Elahe Hamidi : "Rana Rana" & more * Roohparvar: "In Beh Un Dar" & more * Dynamik: "Nafasam Migireh" * Gita: "Zanbure Eshgh" * Sasan: "Boro Dooset Nadaaram" & more * Ebi: "Khoda Midaanad" (with Neli and Soli) * Banan: "Amad Amma" * Roohbakhsh: "Kabutare Beheshti" and more * Ravanbakhsh: "Javaani Kojaaee" & more * Shamaizadeh: "Shahre Barfi" & more * Parviz: "Aziztarin" here & there -- Persian Family Day in British Museum (18 pix) -- Hola from South America (5 pix) quiz For a prayer internet BBC: US retains hold of the internet french turn CS Monitor: After weeks of unrest, anti-immigrant stances are resounding haaletoon khoobeh? Reuters: Iranians hold candlelit vigil for late Fiat heir 2005 PEN award Akbar Ganji Radio Farda anyway * Progress: Circumcision with electro-cutter * Song: Persian beetarbiyati * Women spectators in parliament * Video: The longest political kiss * Video: Hot dog & fireworks * We have peaceful ... energy * New Tehran traffic sign * Meet the fuckers * Bush banner quiz Bazaar of bazaars the young iranians New Yorker: Laura Secor on Iran’s new generation of dissidents and the collapse of the nation’s reformist movement all true Harpers.org: Harper's Index for October 2005 not surprised BBC: Iraq detainees 'found starving' yeah... mishandled ;o) CS Monitor: From mishandled Iraq intelligence to an indictment in the White House good CS Monitor: Buy a hybrid car, save $3,150 in taxes extremism BBC Persian: More than 600 politicians and activists warn of dangerous extremism under Ahmadinejad oil ministry Reuters: Ahmadinejad presents new oil ministry nomine caviar BBC: Lean times for Iran caviar fishermen barikalla BBC: Khamenei backs Ahmadinejad miss world -- Ramona Amiri -- Vote for her no smoking gun Reuters: US atomic expert doubts report of Iran weapons work iranian studies award Dagmar A. Riedel, Talinn Grigor & Naghmeh Sohrabi cartoons Iraj * Double stabdard in killing inoocents * King Abdullah: Before & after * Bush: Cowboy hat * IRTV: More pro-Bush than Bush Mahmoud * The Rolling Pestoons Mahdad * Ahmadinejad bites Bush * Saddam & nuclear weapons * King Charles greeted in California Kazem * A star for every Mideast war Radmehrian * The Assefi Doctrine heritage Guardian: Farmers accused of plunder at ancient site the other scandal CS Monitor: Republicans beleaguered by alleged ties to indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff ganji AFP: Wife of jailed Iranian dissident hopes for change quiz Maximum time to... money AFP: Iran arbitration body approves foreign loans ebrahim nabavi BBC Persian: Week in review book LivingInHell.com nukes AP: Iran rjects uranium enrichment roposal heeh hee Musical: We promise not to make the bomb kaveh afrasiabi Asia Times: US drives a wedge between Russia, Iran deal? what deal? AFP: Rice denies report of US-European nuclear offer to Iran AP: Russia, EU, US Discuss Iran Nuke Dispute revolutionary music Alireza Assar's "Khaak-e Khoonin" not iranian Amir Peretz: Israeli Labor Party leader quiz Lion & bull toons