Sometimes you hear someone say:   "The only way for regime change in Iran, is to bomb the shit out of the Shi'ite regime, which is killing 200 people a day".   This was the logic US has used in many countries, most notably against Saddam in Iraq.   This is the sort of logic that impresses the hard n ...
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  Sept 3, Tehran: Atena Daemi, 26-year-old, an Iranian civil rights activist who has been held in Evin prison since October 2014 are at risk of losing her health due to medical care shortage, according to the news. She gradually losing her eyesight because of holding in isolation about 86 days wher ...
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Syriza failed to stop austerity in Greece. What can Popular Unity do differently?   by Stathis Kouvelakis      A   Greek election official prepares a polling station before the July 5 referendum.    When Alexis Tspiras resigned his premiership earlier this month and called for a snap election, it s ...
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President Obama has consistently asserted that the only alternative to the Iran nuclear agreement would be war. The problem is that Mr. Obama has never envisioned trying any other option to tackle the Iran dilemma to see if it works or not. He has never been curious to know how the majority of Iran ...
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The Iranian people inside Iran don't have freedom of information, or the ability to freely say what they think. Saying they have access to internet, text messaging, or smartphones, when that access is completely controlled and monitored by the government, is not free access. even if it were, expres ...
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I had no intention to review the book Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran authored by Nina Ansary because I thought it might be merely a rehash of an old story that has been the subject of many books published thus far. Almost all of these books are written by female authors in reacti ...
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Iran: Market Report Week Ending 30 August 2015   Some of the positive news from lots of people visiting business exhibition to new deals with Germans and Arabs has helped to buoy markets as well as the rise in crude oil.   We are now entering the top of the downward channel in the one month Tehran S ...
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O how your fingers drowse me/ Your breath falls around me like dew Your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears   I feel immerged from head to foot Delicious, enough…: Walt Whitman http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/so-long   Came the mighty Megissogwon/ Tall of stature, broad of shoulder Dark and terri ...
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  The agreement which was signed in July 2015 between P5 + 1 members and Iran’s representative will set a dangerous precedent for International laws and orders.   The requirements stated in the agreement go above and beyond the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) requirements.  Iran has been a ...
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  Definitions   1. The activities, images, and feelings experienced by the mind during sleep/ An event or condition that you hope for very much, although it is not likely to happenhttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dream?q=Dream 2. Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotion ...
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  Paris as a whole can be considered to be the Purgatory of Iranians, a place where the souls are wandering between the living and the dead, for thousands of Iranians have been exiled there, both during the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic Era. Sadegh Hedayat, Leila Pahlavi, and Bahram Aryana are some o ...
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Below is a brief letter which I sent to the Los Angeles Jewish Journal in response to three articles published in the August 14, 2015 issue, under the headline, “Local Iranian Community Fears Deal Has Hidden Dangers.”   In the August 14, 2015 issue of the Jewish Journal, your attempt to reflect the ...
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  Aug 26, Tehran:Arash Sadeghi, an Iranian student rights activist, was convicted to 15 years imprisonment at Branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court chaired by Judge Salavati, his wife Golrokh Ebrahimi Eirai was also sentenced to six years in prison.   Arash Sadeghi, the student who was suspe ...
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  The assumption that in order to disagree with the current Iran deal you have to offer up another one that is Good, is entirely wrong.   When you argue that something is Bad, that's your argument! Based on your opinion of what "Bad" is. You don't have to offer something better than Bad, to argue Ba ...
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Copeland, Cyrus, Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret, a Mother’s Heroism, and a Son’s Quest, Blue Rider Press, 2015.     This book tells the life story of the author, as he set out to discover the truth about his father, an American executive with Westinghouse, who was arrested in Iran for spying at t ...
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Iran: Market Report Week Ending 23 August 2015   Quite frankly, the economic news flow from Iran, has not changed that much. Just more people, saying how wonderful the situation will be, once the sanctions are lifted. Newspaper editors need to get a life. Really.   As usual, no one talks about the s ...
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I know Ayaan Hirsi Ali has many detractors who vehemently oppose her just because she has the courage to stick her neck out and tell it like it is. An informed opinion about her and her thinking cannot be reached without reading her books open-mindedly and attending to what she is fighting for. I j ...
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