Updates February 2007 >>> Updates archive >>> Current month marg bar amrika :o) BBC: Iran positive on Iraq conference to be attended by the US lost & not found BBC: Nearly 40 people "missing after being held in secret CIA prisons" gotta love it Video: Iran's Michael Jackson abbas kiarostami MoMA: Extensive exhibition of his films in New York tormoz AFP: Put brakes on nuclear rhetoric, Ahmadinejad told batool wears prada BBC video: Iran allows live models on catwalk coincidence? AFP: Iran police abducted in deadly Pakistan border clash AFP: Iran threatens to pursue Kurdish rebels inside Iraq china syndrome BBC: Asian markets slide following the dip in global stocks people of the flame Video: Documentary on ancient "Fire Worshippers of Yazd" miracle NY Times: U.S. Officials to Meet With Iranians at Talks on Iraq BBC: US-Iran to attend key Iraq conference AP: Iran, Syria expected to join US at Baghdad talks next month all (military) options Video: Seymour Hersh on Pentagon plans to attack Iran quiz Driving them crazy strange BBC: Bee vanishing act baffles keepers :o) The Onion: Iranian Science Teachers May Be Enriching Students shame on men Human Rights Watch: Iran: Women on Trial for Peaceful Demonstration crying shame BBC: Bomb kills Iraqi football youths honorable NY Times: Iranian Scholars Denounce Conference That Denied Holocaust trita parsi NIAC: Will Surge Hurt US More Than Sanctions Hurt Iran? iranians of the day * Sepeed: Meow pride and joy * Rafi Pitts: I met him in Paris * Farhad Rachidi-Haeri: Blondel Medal * Mehran Bozorgnia: War correspondent wounded tiger AFP: Beware of US 'wounded tiger', Rafsanjani tells Iran economic penalties LA TImes: Smart sanctions vs. dumb bombs kiss and tell Radio Zamaneh: No French kiss ing for me -- Shahrnush Parsipur vahshia Reuters: Iranian thief has four fingers publicly amputated minority report Amnesty: Ethnic minorities facing new wave of human rights violations good Guardian: Ahmadinejad under fire in Iran for hardline nuclear stance BBC: Political problems mount for Ahmadinejad calling all eggheads NY Times: In Medieval Architecture, Signs of Advanced Math why you spent endless hours doing rasm in school Boston Globe: Science imitates art? velemoon koneen baba BBC: Jesus tomb found, says film-maker quiz Don't wait! lost in space CS Monitor: Iran's sputnik sanctions BBC: Diplomats meet for key Iran talks strategic shift BBC: US body 'to plan attacks on Iran' New Yorker: Is the new U.S. policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? -- Seymour Hersh too close for comfort BBC: Cheney in surprise Pakistan talks iranians of the day * Kami Asgar: Oscar nominee (2 pix) * Pirayeh Pourafar: Lian Ensemble founder * Mercedes T. Bass: New York philanthropist * Saba Homayoon: Canada-Iranian actor * Farrah Farahani: May God bless her * Shahrokh: God'd greatest gift space what? Iran fires 'first space rocket' * Reuters * BBC jesus christ AFP: Ahmadinejad talks to US Christians unbelievable LA Times: U.N. calls U.S. data on Iran's nuclear aims unreliable top 10 Chicago Tribune: 10 things you might not know about Iran that's democracy LA Times: Print ballots in Persian latest border trouble BBC: Iranian clashes 'kill 17 rebels' quiz Dream garden bloody hell Telegraph * American armada prepares to take on Iran * Israel ready for war (vast) majority view Washington Post Bill Richardson: Diplomacy, Not War, With Iran Jim Hoagland: Fighting Iran -- With Patience so what's new AFP: Iran vows crackdown on 'inappropriately' dressed women drinking buddies Video: Reza Arham Sadr in "Mast" torshi nakhori Video: Anis Moin in concert rasoole shoma Document: Know your Prophet Mohammad: Multiple-choice Guardian: Iranian MPs enraged over test accused of mocking Muhammad he would know BBC: UN envoy hits Israel 'apartheid' getting ugly AFP: Iran vows to press on as Cheney says 'all options still open' CS Monitor: Tougher sanctions against Iran are on the table bent out of shape LA Times: For some, Beverly Hills ballots went too Farsi re-defining "naamardi" HRW: Free Wife of Political Prisoner Seized on Street BBC Persian: Ahmad Batebi's wife arrested the good old days BBC: Advanced geometry of Islamic art abbas milani NY Times: What Scares Iran’s Mullahs? hossein derakhshan Guardian: Stop bullying Iran you're kidding! Guardian: US intelligence on Iran does not stand up, say Vienna sources patience Boston Globe: Nuclear poker with Iran common sense CS Monitor: The myth of Muslim support for terror loudspeaker Washington Post: VOA Shifting Resources to Audiences in Mideast... help wanted iranian.com: Drupal Advisor Wanted quiz Roofoozeh anyway * Video: Iran's Ya-Ali anti-tank missile * Priceless pose toons Saman * Grim reaper over-booked now what? BBC: IAEA report: Iran 'failed to meet UN deadline' the military will take care of it CS Monitor: Anti-American feelings at all time high in Muslim countries he would never lie BBC: No Iran strike plans, says Blair return of pragmatists? CS Monitor: Why US is now turning to diplomacy TIME: The U.S. Tries Quiet Diplomacy on Iran yeh chizi begoo keh begonjeh Guardian: Iran is a force for peace al-jazeera Iran to create women-only island * AFP * BBC Persian match point BBC: Wimbledon to pay women and men equal prize money anything else? BBC: US wants tougher Iran sanctions Reuters: U.N. atomic report may expose Iran to wider sanctions iranians of the day * Said Amin: Nuzizo co-founder * Sherwin Noorian: FarsiTube founder * Salman and Ehsan Ashrafi: Soul Nidus * Yasmin Crowther: The Saffron Kitchen author * Babak Zare: Wonderful guy in Houston * Silvia Seasholtz: Immature men! * Yahs Paydar: Arrival * Jami javid: Niece in Nice * Abe Rasoulian: Love you forever * Gholam Reza Ghassemi: Best memories tradition & modernity TIME photo essay: Faces of Iran -- Paolo Woods hendoostan AP: India bans atomic exports to Iran quiz Eternal rest take a break * Video: Meet The Press -- for idiots nuclear BBC: Iranians speak out chesh talaaee Daily Mail: 5,000 year old Iranian priestess found with golden eye worse than you think Washington Post: Going Nowhere Fast -- David Ignatius never ending story Radio Zamaneh: Iran publishers outline official censorship filtered women We4Change: Breaking filter barriers on Iranian women's rights site the man holding the bloody shirt Iran-HRA: Ahmad Bateni health warning after seizures cut and run as fast as you can BBC: UK to announce troop reduction in Iraq too little too late Guardian: Iran wants unconditional nuclear talks Reuters: Iran offers atomic assurances via talks gloom BBC: New tensions over Iran's nuclear plans Reuters: Iran dismisses force threat over nuclear program pesare shoja Hoder: I'll go back and fight -- if they attack mordegaan AFP: Key Iran clerical body begins new term quiz Skin sack toons Saman * Iraq taking orders from Iran Hajiagha * Heaven welcomes Anna Nicole * We're proud of Anna Nicole * >>> More Mahmoud * Rocky & Rambo Kazem * Love and war khodaa bedaademoon bereseh BBC: Ahmadinejad rejects calls to suspend uranium enrichment a day before a UN deadline runs out holy shit AFP: Second US aircraft carrier arrives near Iran BBC: US 'Iran attack plans' revealed untold consequences Boston Globe: Renunciation of reality -- H.D.S. Greenway no question Herland Tribune: Will the United States attack Iran? -- Hans Blix they're baaack LA Times: Remember Al Qaeda? thank you AP: Iran refugee free after years in Canada church excuse for war Guardian: Iran 'six months from mass uranium enrichment' in vain Guardian: Iran cracks down on web critics hoshdaar Iran-Emrooz: Threat of military confrontation is real, expat academics warn a country of contrasts Video: BBC 4 Documentary "Rageh Inside Iran" rapping hejab Video: Rap music on the state of hejab and women's liberation movement quiz Rising star babakht BBC: Iran hangs man for attack on bus bloody bold NY Times: Militants Attack U.S. Base in Iraq anyway * Find all your health needs in the Qoran * Video: Veteran of Shahre No * Video: Multi-lingual translator * Video: Dog football forever BBC: Iran nuclear plant may be delayed we're in trouble Guardian: Once George Bush has got hold of a bad idea he just can't let it go editorial Washington Post: U.S. pressure on Tehran is needed; military action is not. alternative energy AFP: Iran bars Greenpeace ship from entering waters security plan BBC: Baghdad car bombs leave 60 dead love is love Radio Zamaneh: Interview with an Iranian Lesbian jesus christ AP: 3 Assyrian Iranian women bludgeoned to death with a hammer in Chicago mamma mia Video: Italian TV on Iranian diplomat who saved Jews in World War II (no longer available!) doshman taraashi Washington Post: What Tehran Is Really Up To quiz She's no tar player did you check with your boss? AFP: US not seeking Iran showdown: Pentagon official vaaveylaa AFP: Nuclear energy Iran's 'future and destiny': Khamenei kurdish Amnesty: Fear of torture or ill treatment/ arbitrary arrest 2nd bomb BBC: Clashes reported in Zahedan after 2nd bomb blast ahde boogh JadidMedia: Images of Daily Life from 19th Century Iran anyway * Ghazvin Film Festival * Video: Cow Matrix * Video: Amazing mom without hands * Video: How the hell did it flip? * Video: New chair design quiz Jet blue won't hurt Berkeley: Can botanical exchanges between U.S. and Iran play peacemaking role? wonderful BBC: Trials for 'bionic' eye implants cool it BBC: US Democrats warn Bush on Iran more sanctions AFP: Japan freezes assets related to Iran Reuters: U.S., developing nations accept Iran aid cut plan jang Hoder: War over Radio Farda toons Kowsar * Rafsanjani: Ahmadinejad is just a kid! Saman * Stupid Cupid * Ready for another war? * Keeping America's attention after Anna Nicole Smith's death * Most asked Iranian question * Cause for going to war * Hisraeli Clinton kharabkari Reuters: U.N. Security Council condemns bus bombing in Iran iran syndrome Washington Post: Skepticism Over Iraq Haunts U.S. Iran Policy quiz Time's up carrots NIAC: Theorist Fukuyama Proposes Serious Iran Diplomatic Incentives azar nafisi LA Times: Fight Iran with a war of ideas waste of time BBC: UK troops help to seal off Basra confused cowboy Boston Globe: Bush's confusion on Iran in Iraq sooraakh moosh Guardian: Mahdi chiefs withdraw to Iran to lie low during security crackdown trial & terror HRW: Iran: End Executions After Unfair Trials get your story straight Guardian: Bush retreats on claim that leaders in Tehran are arming insurgents iran Video: Another perspective no authorization AP: Hillary Clinton warns Bush about action in Iran charb zabooni AP: Rafsanjani: Tehran seeks U.S. 'good will' pants on fire BBC: Bush maintains pressure on Iran take a wild guess Parade: The world’s worst dictators hell yeah CS Monitor: Is US prodding Iran to negotiate? damning BBC: EU endorses damning report on CIA quiz Temporary insanity guess who's lying NY Times: Disputes Emerge on Iran and Roadside Bombs bomb Reuters: 11 dead in Zahedan bus bombing al-faraar AP: Muqtada al-Sadr flees Iraq for Iran ignored Washington Post: 2003 Memo Says Iranian Leaders Backed Talks excellent wikiran.org anyway * How to use a toilet, in Arabic * Video: Fire fighters or fire spreaders? * Video: Weatherman scared by cockroaches * Audio: That cheating husband can go to hell * Video: Finding the perfect girl * Video: Bowling backwards! * Video: Horseplay can be deadly the wall Radio Divar * Latest broadcast * www.divar.ir on the wall PingMag: 1st generation Graffiti in Iran quiz Not Hafez's favorite place baleh BBC: N Korea agrees to disarmament steps laying low AFP: Iran keeping enrichment to low levels: FM now we're talkin Reuters: Iran says always ready for nuclear talks ABC video: Diane Sawyer interviews Ahmadinejad editorial NY Times: Iran and the Nameless Briefers SF Chronicle: Iran's 'fingerprints' more sanctions Washington Post: E.U. Nations to Impose Limited Sanctions on Iran tell your commander in chief Washington Post: U.S. General Says He Knows Nothing Tying Iran Leaders to Arms in Iraq laugh and cry and cry Video: Ahmadinezhad says 16-year old Iranain girl has discovered nuclear energy toons Ali * Najang: No war Iraj * Bad heart * Inside information * Erectile disfunction Mazloom * The bomb dilemma * 16-year-old nuclear scientist * Rope for Imam Zaman you could've fooled me Reuters: Bush tries to convince world no plans for Iran war eeno raast migeh BBC: Ahmadinejad rejects US claims democrats don't buy it either BBC: Democrats wary over Iran claims, urge caution not so revolutionary CS Monitor: Iranian foreign policy CS Monitor: Iran hits softer note over nukes young iranians know better Sunday Times: This is Iran, but not as you know it will they nuke iran? CounterPunch: Intelligence briefings to New York Times notch up tension drums of war BBC: US accuses Iran over Iraq bombs quiz Pray this guy won't be the next talks tamoom shod BBC: Iran says no end to uranium enrichment, but wants nuclear talks change of tone AP: Iran says no threat to Israel: Larijani parvandeh saazi NY Times: Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, U.S. Says Washington Post: Al-Qaeda Suspects Color White House Debate Over Iran target iran Guardian: US able to strike Iran in the spring hadi khorsandi Video: Bush & Blair democracy organize Flyer: Hands off Iran Yahoo! group stanford saturday Panel: Bloggers from Bay area who would discuss their experiences hearts Photo: Tehranis gearing up for Valentine's Day -- Sharif ya hossein BBC: Barack Obama formalises his bid for the White House ya zahra Washington Post: First Woman Chosen to Lead Harvard toons Hajiagha * Dead Anna Nicole Smith * Women: Islam and the West * Stop reading, make money * Religious ceremonies (1) (2) * Unlucky * Brainwashed * Gay troops in Afghanistan Mahmoud * Celebration * Before we go... Mazloom * Interview with a dead man * Vasectomy Kazem * Death in Italian football as close as you can fabricate BBC: How close is Iran to a nuclear bomb? fueling arms race BBC: Putin attacks 'very dangerous' US liberated iraq Video: Life in Basra and Baghdad anyway * Bekhaab keh maa bidaareem * Video: Rabbit attacks snake :o) confessions Washington Post: An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare digging for trouble BBC: Jerusalem 'tense' after clashes no help AP: IAEA halts aid on projects with Tehran Reuters: Iranian negotiator calls off Europe trip to discuss nuclear crisis neutered iranian of the day Jahanshah Javid: Vasectomy scary science Guardian: The brain scan that can read people's intentions spread the word Iranian History Forum quiz That's gay music with teeth Video: "Dandoun" by underground rock band, 2a stopping both sides Guardian: We must stop Bush bombing Iran, and stop Iran getting the bomb -- Timothy Garton Ash sleepwalking into war with iran Video: George Galloway's speech in UK Parliament gholdor baazi BBC: Iran to hit U.S. interests if attacked: Khamenei no military option Washington Post: The Iran Option That Isn't on the Table -- Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh cairo CS Monitor: There's virtually unanimous opposition to a US attack on Iran barikalla barbara NAIC: U.S. lawmaker introduces Iran diplomacy bill tahdeeg AFP: Rice grilled over allegations against Iran quiz Ostad virtual prison HRW: Iran: Activists Barred From Traveling Abroad loan sanctions Washington Posr: A New Tool for Diplomacy? that's better AFP: US and Iran help rebuild Lebanon's destroyed bridges peace & love What about this logo? Valentine's Day is near! -- Mehrdad Aref Adib anyway * Video: Taking the peef out of poof * If this isn't LOVE, I don't know what is * Who's the boss? * Free puppy * Video: Blind man WC * Video: Ahmadinejad: Raghs-e bonbast * Video: Poetry... boo hoo hoo :o) * Video: Crazy date * Video: Unexpected financial problems? * Video: Plasma TV delivers reality * Video: Ice skating -- in a car :o) * Men, women & mathematics ma enghelab nakardeem ta beh aghab bargardeem Video: March 8, 1979: International Women's Day demonstration in Tehran women will not be quiet NY Times: Challenging the Mullahs, One Signature at a Time death wish CS Monitor: Iran's weakened hard-liners crave a US attack -- Abbas Milani, Larry Diamond, and Michael McFaul will not fire first Kansas City Star: Evidence suggests Iran wouldn't pull trigger -- Justin Logan and Ted Galen Carpenter what economy USA Today: Iran's economic conditions deteriorate denial AFP: US: Iran diplomat kidnapping case in Iraqi hands ... yet BBC: No plans to attack Iran - Blair second thoughts Reuters: Olmert: Iran nuclear ambitions can be stopped without violence quiz Javaaheraat thank you Human Rights Watch: Seven Iranian Writers Receive Hellman/Hammett Grants toons Mazloom * Evoloution of squat * Aghajari prevented from leaving Iran 2500BC * Inflation... of the stomach * Mollaria * Internet friendship * No to death penalty * Why are they such assholes? tanks but no tanks Video: Comedian Bill Mahr on neocon think tanks kidnapped BBC: Iran envoy 'seized in Baghdad' NY Times: Iranian Diplomat Kidnapped in Baghdad by Iraqis With Official ID focus on interests, not positions Boston Globe: Getting to yes on Iran -- Mark Brzezinski and Ray Takeyh for now CS Monitor: US eases tone on Iran's role in Iraq pouring gas on fire Salon: Bush's Iran madness stopping gas LA Times: India steps onto tightrope as talks resume with Iran anne in isfahan Boston Globe: Iran's young and restless lost tapes Baztab: Remember the "rogue" security agent, Saeid Emami quiz Mooshak iranians of the day * Esfahani girls: Friendly and happy * Marta and Farshid: Husband & wife * Hamid Farrokhnezhad: Best Actor, Moscow * Mohsen Farrokhmanesh: Best Abadani friend * Mahtab Sadrameli: Excellent SF dentist * Kamran & Sohrab Amiri: Father & son * Pedram Moallemian: With Jackson Browne * Ali Shojania: With Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard (2 pix) you don't scare us Video: Ahmadinejad's close encounter with angry students mozaakereh :o) Video: Ghatebeh (Nozar Azadi) in a clip from "Italia Italia" sleaze ball Video: Rafsanjani denies failures with a straight face avoiding disaster LA Times: Congress must stop an attack on Iran -- Leonard Weiss and Larry Diamond how not to bluff a martyr CardPlayer: Drawing Red Lines in the Desert aslan eyne khiyaaleshoon neest Reuters: Iran installs 328 centrifuges at atomic site: source wake up Reuters: Military action against Iran disastrous consequences: Coalition BBC: Grassroots worries growing over Iran talk Guardian: The need to keep talking fabrication USA Today: Iran's role in Iraq met with skepticism murder they wrote Sunday Times: Iranian nuclear scientist ‘assassinated by Mossad’ kojaa? tashrif daashteh baashin AFP: Iran bans dissident academic from US trip quiz Issa kerry & khatami Video: "Future of the Middle East" senseless Mehrdad Aref-Abib's latest anti-war logo, war makes no sense. thank you BBC: US ex-generals reject Iran strike posturing & outright bluffing NY Times: Iran’s Boast on Uranium Enrichment Is Put to Test song & dance Photos: Sixth Iranian Festival in Miami (7 pix) -- Azam Nemati toons Mazloom * Baby killer * Donkey cart * United in war * Dead or alive * Mohammad loves Bush capital kabab MobysOnline.com containment NY Times * Chirac’s Iran Gaffe Reveals a Strategy * Iran Installs Equipment for Large-Scale Uranium Enrichment surge BBC: Baghdad market bomb kills more than 100 BBC: Elements of 'civil war' in Iraq disneyland BBC: Envoys visit Iran nuclear plant persia in mexico Reuters: Ancient Middle East fascinates Mexican museum goers no nukes, anywhere Nuclear-free Middle East logo by Pedram Moallemian do your part Petition: We Condemn Militant Threats Against Iran -- Sociologists Without Borders really really serious BBC: Humans blamed for climate change hard to believe Washington Post: U.S. Not Planning for War With Iran, Gates Says toons Mahmoud * Naneh Ghelyooni >>> Nany Angela * Baby James kids store * Chadori Catherine Zeta-Jones b.s. repeating itself South Park video: Weapons of mass paranoia quiz Hot & cold meanwhile Amnesty: Abbas Lisani- Prisoner of Conscience you're on your own, george Guardian: As US power fades, it can't find friends to take on Iran taxi zanooneh Guardian: Iranian taxi company breaks rank to enlist women cabbies doom MSNBC: Former U.S. security adviser warns of ‘head-on conflict’ with Iran gloom Washington Post: Iraq at Risk of Further Strife, Intelligence Report Warns natanz AFP: Iran has begun assembling centrifuges at Natanz site: diplomats batteries not included Reuters: U.S. says Oregon man sought missile parts for Iran >>> Updates archive >>> This month