You asked for it

In short, with these sanctions ---- along with others ---- we are striking at the heart of the Iranian government's ability to fund and develop its nuclear program. We're showing the Iranian government that its actions have consequences. And if it persists, the pressure will continue to mount, and its isolation will continue to deepen. There should be no doubt ---- the United States and the international community are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons>>>

Jews for War

One hoped that the neoconservatives would have disappeared after George W. Bush left office and the Iraq War they worked so hard to engineer proved to be a disaster. All those dead, nothing accomplished except the establishment of Iran as the main player in Iraq. But they are still around and still pushing for a war with Iran, which they want even more than the last one. Everywhere you look there's Elliot Abrams, Richard Perle, John Bolton, John Podhoretz, Douglas Feith, Danielle Pletka, The Washington Post editorial page, Frank Gaffney, Charles Krauthammer...>>>

خود گویی و خود خندی

با پیروزی انقلاب سال ۵۷ و سلطه روحانیت بر همه شئون کشور، دادگستری بیش از هر نهاد دیگری دستخوش تغییر شد و ماهیت آن دگرگون گردید. حاکمیت، امر قضا را مختص روحانیان می‌دانست و با تصفیه عمیقی که در این نهاد انجام داد قاضیان حرفه‌ای و مجرب را یک سره از کار برکنار کرد و جای آنان را به روحانیانی داد که کمترین آشنایی با نظام مدرن دادگستری نداشتند. روحانیت در واقع شکست خود در انقلاب مشروطه را جبران می‌کرد >>>

برگ چغندر

تنها یک روز بعد از نصب مجسمه، شایعات زیادی در شهر پیچید. قیمت همه زمین هائی که سمت دم اسب بود(debajo de la cola de caballo)، ناگهان سقوط کرد. بورس بازان و دلالان زمین شایع کردند که از ماتحت اسب بوهای نامطبوعی متصاعد می شود و همه منطقه زیر دم را مسموم میکند. ظرف تنها 48 ساعت بعد از نصب مجسمه واژه های زیادی وارد ادبیات زبان اسپانیائی شده و آهنگ های مستهجنی ورد زبان همه ساکنان محله بدنام شهر گردید. شهر ناگهان به دو منطقه مهم زیر دم و بالای چشم (منظور چشم اسب) تقسیم ش>>>

Honey

My brother had a girlfriend, the first real girlfriend he had ever had. They had met at the end of his first year of college. He showed me her picture. She was pretty, and everybody was happy for him. Just having her picture in his room made our whole house seem different. I didn't know if it made us more American, but it was exciting to think about. There was a lot happening on television with boyfriends and girlfriends, and it felt like some of that had come into our house>>>

Money

Do you remember
how we first met?
Not being clever
I was clueless, more or less,
of the provenance of things
or what became mine.
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To Badi

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انحراف از آغاز

جناب آقاى دكتر كديور، شما نيك مى‌دانيد وضعيت امروز ايران، بدون آنكه خواسته باشم نقش مردم و فرهنگ استبدادى را ناديده بگيرم، بدون هيچ ترديدى، خوب يا بد، محصول و منتجه سياست‌هاى آقاى خمينى است. آنچه امروز بر سر ملت ايران مى‌آيد، ارتباط مستقيم با انديشه فقهى و سياسى ايشان دارد. تجربه ولايت مطلقه فقيه كه تبلور تئورى آقاى خمينى است، هرچند كسانى را به قله قدرت و ثروت رسانده، اما نزد اكثريت ملت ايران آشكارا شكست خورده است.>>>

Sheerzan

For the last three decades Iranian women have borne a double burden. Not only do they suffer the oppression afflicted on all citizens of that country by a theocracy, but they also endure the extra humiliation of being women in an Islamic society. They are forced to cover themselves only so that men might not lose control and go astray; they are counted as only half a man when it comes to testifying in court, inheriting less than their borthers in the same family upon passing of the father>>>

Live Generation

I was only a boy in 1979, but the events that occurred during the overthrow of the Shah would shape how I was educated and would change all our lives almost overnight. When you ask those who lived through the Revolution what it was like, they often will tell you that one day the country was under the Shah’s rule, and the next day we lived under Islamic rule. All bets were off and it was a completely new game. I am often asked by people who are not from the Middle East how the Islamic regime could have taken power, and how they have stayed in power. The answer isn’t a simple one, but one that has many factors involved>>>

راههای طی شده (4)

پیشتازان تفاهم و گفتگوی بین ادیان چه کسانی بودند؟ می توان آرا آنان را در دو مقوله پلورالیسم مجرب و پلورالیسم مقدر خلاصه کرد. گروه اول چند گانگی دینی را در تجربه می دیدند وامکان تقلیل این تکثر مذهبی را به یک دین و آئین واحد بعید بلکه نا ممکن می یافتند. هرچند در عمل آنرا می پذیرفتندو به آن بها می دادند، در نظر توضیح و تفسیری عقلی یا دینی بر این تکثر نداشتند. نتیجه این بود که مقدسات و معتقدات دیگران را محترم می شمردند و از جدل و جدال دینی پرهیز می کردند>>>

Aftabehs vs. Toilet Paper

It is ironic to me that the recent political movement in Iran has been nicknamed the Green Revolution by the media. Yes, the same Iranians that invented everything from breathing air to toilet paper also invented environmentally friendly activities like recycling. In fact I have compiled a scientific list of 10 environmentally friendly activities that Iranians do naturally which proves not only that once again they are the best at everything but they are even the best for the environment>>>

و مشتی بنفشه رنگ وفا

میان باغ خاطره ام، سبزه زاری
لطیف
با یک بغل هستی
و مشتی بنفشه
رنگ وفا >>>