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Siamack Baniameri

Girl Power

So picture this: you are a guy, walking down the street, minding your own business. All of a sudden, you notice a commotion. You walk

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Thank you, Apple

       To: Tim Cook, CEO Apple, Inc. 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 Dear Tim, I would like to take a moment to

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We are Persians… Hello!

The negative response of the Iranian-American community towards the reality show, Shahs of Sunset is noteworthy and entertaining. The Iranian-American community that has worked so

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Pissing on Taliban

Once again, the world was stunned by a YouTube video showing images of US Marines urinating on bodies of dead Taliban fighters. Many insincere politicians

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Nothing wrong with war!

It is a known fact that our country Iran has a large surplus of retards. Unlike real retards, these people do not suffer from impairment

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The Iranian art of lying

A friend was enthusiastically recounting his run-in with a police officer in a Los Angles freeway. It turns out that my friend was doing 90

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Gentle Giant?

About a week ago, Iranian strongman, Rouhullah Dadashi who was an icon in Iranian bodybuilding and strongman competitions, was attacked and stabbed to death by

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Give violence a chance!

Strangest things can happen in your local Middle Eastern market in America. I was pushing my shopping cart down the aisle while glancing at fast-moving

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Javad Nation

A peculiar specie called “Javad” lives in modern-day Iran. Javads move and hunt in large herds. Its mutation has spread through an entire population for

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Dog and Pony Show

With relentless pressure from the right and deterioration of once powerful green movement, Mousavi and Karroubi have been forced to outline their strategy. Finding themselves

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Why the Green Movement is doomed

Change, revolution, transformation, reform is a project. Like any project, it has to meet certain requirements to succeed. Every project has some common principles. The

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My personal green movement!

I got an email from a fella Twitter/Facebook warrior the other day, announcing that he had posted his “personal anti IRI demonstration” video on YouTube.

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Neda was no Martyr!

I was flipping channels the other night when I came across an interview with Reza Aslan who was predictably discussing the recent events in Iran.

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Facebook Revolution

I took a long drag from my cigarette and reluctantly listened to the dude as he tried to explain what was taking place in Iran. 

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Score

Something interesting happened in the city of Tehran on January 20th. For the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran an

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Stop it…

I was reading the other day that to protest the massacres of Palestinians in Gaza, a popular political blog community has asked its members to

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Seema (2)

PART 2 I met Seema at Bellagio on one of my frequent runs to the ATM machine. Being a lousy poker player and not knowing

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Got Depression?

My brother called the other day. I was a bit surprised. We don’t talk much. Life has been busy and our relationship has been reduced

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Once there was a legend…

My sixteen-year-old cousin Shawn has no notion or understanding of his father’s culture. Born to an American mother and Iranian father, Shawn is an all-American

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