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Wednesday, August 31, 2005


We (mother and daughter,) picked the rest of pumpkins today... I took these photos while Katrina's effects... are the new talk of town, the winds are blowing and the sky is hours shy of the heavy rain... ------- ...this afternoon while dressing the little girl to take her to the library... she says... but Maani... I am a princess.. I can't have trousers on... and I answer back... well even princess need warm cloths when it's cold and windy. ------- At the doctor's office 1
Dad's physician is telling dad about the necessity of increasing the dose in the medication... between answering, questioning, translating for dad and his doctor, and telling the little girl not to touch the infectious walls and answering... her curiosity triggered question.. on why we have ears... my eye balls fall off my face!
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

... the little girl is cooking/frying the red barberries with her mama!
(Chicken with red barberry and rice is a common Persian food. I cook the chicken (wash it before use) with salt, lemon juice and a bit of Saffron and one chopped onion (no frying.) When the chicken is done... I separate the chicken juice and use it for cooking the rice (wash the rice with cold water before use/for cooking I use a rice cooker...) I fry the dried (needs cleaning/soaking in cold water for a few min.) bar burry with one to two spoon of the recycled chicken juice and there you have my Persian cuisine recipe of the night! For the side dish... chop 1 raw onion, 1 tomato and 1/2 cucumber and mix it with fresh lime/lemon juice and one spoon olive oil! ... "I take no responsibility" if your food doesn't come out as... delicious as the one... my little girl helped me cook.)
----------- Talking to Mandana, a dear friend of mine, and discussing the current news... and her.. telling me of a movie based on the real events in South Africa.. I recalled the words of Yaakov Yitzhak, where he says.. What sort of God would that be who has only one way in which He can be served! I mean... are we that different from the rest of the world? Aren't there other god worshipers? ...and as Mandana pointed out.. will there come a day when the murderers face justice and forgiveness by apologizing to the victims' families? Can we rise to the South Africans "level of forgiving" but "not forgetting"? ... and Human Rights... coming before race or religion...
(... this is a blog and is where I write my opinions and I don't need a CNN executive producer or a Shargh journalist for my few liners news and views! Next time you want to send me hate mail or your mama's porn pics ... make sour... your IP is not the same one as your previously send... regular e-mail!)
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Tuesday, August 30, 2005
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Monday, August 29, 2005
با ماضی بعید سوی آینده می رویم
تف!
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Monday, August 29, 2005
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Sunday, August 28, 2005
قرار
با من بیا...
به گورستانی خواهیم رفت سنگها یی را برانداز می کنیم... و... گورنوشته هایی را خواهیم خواند
زیست روزهایی را می شماریم و... روز زیستهای خود را تخمین خواهیم زد
و در بازگشت... طنابی بر گردنی گذارده و برای دیکتاتورها کف خواهیم زد.
شیما کلباسی
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Sunday, August 28, 2005
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
در کانال ای بی سی آمریکا 20/20 برنامه ای درباره دراکولا ها داشت... وقت نکردم برنامه رو ببینیم که از محسنی اژه ای، وزیر اطلاعات جمهوری اسلامی هم... گذارشی تهیه کرده بودن یا نه! گفتم شاید جناب اژه ای... برای کسب اطلاعات ویژه به جای عیسی سحرخیز... اینبار مثلا گردن کلفت رفسنجانی رو گاز گرفته بوده باشه! ( لازم به تذکر است که اطلاعات مربوط به گاز گرفتنهای وزیر جدید جمهوری اسلامی ایران، برخلاف تصور آقای مسعود بهنود، کاملا بی نیاز از سفر اخیر و پربار خبری آقای حسین درخشان به ایران کسب شده است!)
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Saturday, August 27, 2005
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---------- Had the world been conceived just to praise God, there would be no fervor in glorifying God. Equip man with a sword, remove his infirmities, and see what he will be: a brave knight or a devious thief?
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Saturday, August 27, 2005
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Friday, August 26, 2005
تا سالیان سال فیلم "بدون دخترم هرگز" ضربه آشکار و پنهان به من و تین ایجرهای مهاجر و پناهنده ای مثل من زده بود... و هر جا می رفتم و هرجا که بودم و هرجا که بودم و هر جا که بودم و هر جا که بودم و هر جا که بودم... این فیلم نمایانگر زندگی من ایرانی بود... و چقدر رنج آور بود تمام سالهایی که فیلم "بدون دخترم هرگز" در یقلبی دختر ایرانی سرباز دانمارکی هم... به خوردم می رفت... آخ! اما با خودم می گفتم حتما پول و شهرت بین المللی زیادی برای هنرمندان ایرانی یک فیلم دوزاری داشته است که قبول کرده اند... من و تین ایجرهای زیادی را در آن سالها با خفت و رنج دیگری هم آشنا کنند... حالا فرزانه تاییدی هم به جمع وبلاگنویسان پیوسته است و من ممنونم که او آن فیلم لو باجت (کم هزینه) اما پر فروش را بازی کرد... زیرا که گرچه در همه جای دنیا زنان کتک خورده، طلاق گرفته و مادران فرزند از دست داده و سناریوهای مشابه آن فیلم پیدا می شوند... ولی ... نمی خواهم که در ایران من چنین موردی باشد... این فیلم فقط تصویر یک زن آمریکایی نبود... بلکه تصویر بسیاری از زنان ایرانیست که باید در پشت مهریه و قانونهای من درآوردی اداره ثبت احوال پنهان شوند ویا با خفت، رنجها و زخمها بسازند و بسوزند که مبادا فرزند دلبندشان را مرد یا خانواده همسر از ایشان نگیرد... چه بسا که... شاید فرزانه تاییدی هم مجبور شده بوده است تا مهریه خود را ببخشد تا بتواند در زندگی فرزندش نقش داشته باشد.... لینک از وبلاگ سرزمین آفتاب --------- Last year... on August 25th ... I blogged: "Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Years of living away from my birth country makes me struggle with constant fear of loss and born-again-exile. I am sure... I am not alone in this longing. Perhaps this is more of a luxurious feeling compared to what others may experience living under a dictator's regime, with hunger, in war zones or life as an immigrant/refugee in a Fascist -laws made look good- country (ex: Denmark.) Sometimes I can't even grieve over my mother's death when I think of people who are hanged at the age of 16, executed for their religious and political beliefs or are under house arrest.
I sit to write but the words come short. I need a language that can echo the ache, the pain, the hate, the misery, the loss, the need, the passion, the love, the lust, the hope, the desire and the dream.
Sheema Kalbasi" ------
There is no edge to my vast desert; There is no peace for my heart and my soul. The world is taken, from end to end, by image and form; Which of these images is mine? If you see a severed head on the way Rolling in the direction of the battlefied; Ask him, ask him concerning my secrets For, from him you hear my hidden mysteries. What if one ear could be found; Suited to understand the speech of my birds. What if one bird could fly, Who wore my ring of Solomon's secrets [around her neck]. What am I saying? when I know telling this tale Is beyond my limits and my ability is. How can I utter one word when each moment My perplexity is more perplexing.
Rumi
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اخیرا می بینم مشگل اساسی مردم ما که چه تلوزیونهای لوس آنجلسی و چه وبلاگنویسهای داخل و خارج از مرز پر گهر... توجه می کنن لباس احمدی نژاده! و اینکه خاتمی چقدر خوشگل و گوگولی مگول بود! چون دوران خاتمی در ایران اعدامهای خیابانی و دستگیریهای هجده تیر و آسیبهای اجتماعی اتفاق نیافتاده و نبوده ... وفقط حالا قیافه نحس یه جانی دیگه داره مارو عذاب می ده!! یه کشور حصبه و وبا زده با هزاران بیمار ایدزی... اعدام... سنگسار و تجاوز به به زندانیان... چرا نباید ... ظاهر و باطنش یکی باشه؟ لااقل این گروه جدید آخوند سفسته باز نیستن و ادعای رعایت حقوق بشر رو ندارن!
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Friday, August 26, 2005
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Thursday, August 25, 2005

گاه و بیگاه که فکرم با مشغولیات همیشگی ام به در و دیوار بودنم ... می کوبد ... و یادهایی که پاورچین می آیند ... تا با هزار بار شکستن آرامشم ... برای خود بودنی بسازند ... به تو فکر می کنم ... و در کنار تو ... و با تو بودن ...
دوستت دارم
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Thursday, August 25, 2005
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
"Akbar Ganji brought the world's attention to Iran's human right abuses."
Farideh Nicknazar ---------
"شايد ترس از قضاوت و سو استفاده بي پايان مردم هست كه جامعه ما را به سمت جامعه چند شخصيتي و مردماني پر از راز و رمز و زندگي هاي زير پرده تبديل كرده." بهمن کلباسی
"بايستی از خود آغازيد؛ در گفتن ريسک کرد و در مقابل، سطح تحمّل خويش را بالا برد." مجيد زهری------------ سایت انجمن فرهنگی پویشگران چند روز پیش به کوشش دکتر اسماعیل نوری علا و خانم شکوه میرزادگی راه اندازی شد .
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Wednesday, August 24, 2005
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

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... remembering... an almost forgotten... 19 year old... "me"...
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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Sunday, August 21, 2005
Manouchehr Mohammadi (still on hunger strike) has been taken to an unknown location.
منوچهر محمدی ...که هنوز در حال اعتصاب غذای خشک می باشد... به مکان نامعلومی منتقل شده است.
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Sunday, August 21, 2005
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Saturday, August 20, 2005
Good to know... the space shuttle of His Excellency Kofi Annan Secretary-General of... The United Nations... has landed on the planet earth and is now asking for the release of Akbar Ganji. There was a time...that I'd love nothing more but to work at the United Nations... when I finally did work at the U.N. in Islamabad/ Pakistan... I realized the organization is a royal Opera House! -----------
در این روزهای سخت ... کمی ذکر مصیبت حسین مظلوم خواندن هم بد نیست... خصوصا که به خط نستعلیق بهنودی باشد. ای لعنت بر یزید و اشک و فغان بر مظلومیت حسین شهید که ایثارگری اش زبانزد خاص و عام است و اگر این مظلوم به ایران سفر نمی کرد که ما هرگز نمی دانستیم که در درون ایران چه می گذرد... منت خدای عز وجل را... که شرافتم خریدنی نیست.
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Saturday, August 20, 2005
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Friday, August 19, 2005
عصبانی ام... آنقدر ... که می خواهم زمین و زمان رابه هم بریزم... که بشقابها و لیوانها را بشکنم و بعد بنشینم... گوشهایم را بگیرم... بازوانم را روی زانوانم بگذارم... و برای خودم داد بزنم... از دست این مردنها کلافه ام... از بی کسی و اینکه باید تمام سالهای نوجوانی و جوانی ام را دور از ایران... بگذرانم... اینکه پدر شوهرم... امروز... با همه ایرانی بودنش... در گورستانی دفن می شود که هیچ ایرانی... بر سنگ مزارش نخواهد آمد و هیچ کسی نخواهد دانست که مردی که در زیر این سنگ گور خوابیده است ... مردی بود که دلی مهربان داشت... که دوستش می داشتند و دوست می داشت... که من هم روزی دور از وطن خواهم مرد... و کسی نخواهد دانست که من هم... دوست می داشتم... ------ اکبر گنجی ...در هفتادمین روز اعتصاب غذا به عفونت خونی دچار شد ------ ما سايه ای داريم که همراه مان از مرزها گذشته است بی گذرنامه با چمدانی در دست که پر از رنجنامه ی ماست رها شدن از دست سايه خود در تبعيد آسان نيست! عسگر آهنين البته این شعر برای آدمهای بلیط به دست و قالیچه سلیمان - سوار که در خط تورنتو - تهران یا همون... کن - سلوقون خودمون کار می کنن معنی نداره... ------
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday.
-William Allen White
My father-in-law passed away this morning...
I am talking to my husband... the little girl is climbing up and down the sofa... next to me... and keeps pointing at her chest... asking why she doesn't have breasts like mine... why hers are small... like her dad... I try to concentrate on my husband who is grieving and sobbing over losing his father... when I hear P's laughter on the other end...
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Friday, August 19, 2005
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
When a person wakes up in the early hours of dawn, an angel proclaims, "Glorify the Lord, Most Holy!"
-The Prophet Muhammad
So... I wake up at three in the morning... to drive my hubby to the airport... with the little girl and my dad... dazing in and out and snoring in the backseat. After 20 minutes of driving... I ask P if he has his Green Card with him and he answers no! We drive back to take the GC... incase the airport security mistakes him for some one else! After all with such dark eyes and beautiful olive skin... we don't look like the Caucasian we officially are.... My father-in-law is in intensive care and our days have been full of anxiety, exhaustion and worries...
"Though a man live a thousand years, yet at his demise it seems to him as though he had lived but an hour."
- Zohar
... and for us too it seems those we love and lose have lived just an hour...
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"Since beginning his hunger strike on June 11, Mr. Ganji has emerged as a symbol for Iran's increasingly restless democratic opposition. In recent weeks, Kurdish leaders - currently engaged in their own uprisings in Iran's western provinces - have expressed solidarity with the jailed writer. Indeed, representatives of Iran's student organizations have told the Sun that Mr. Ganji's defiance and open letters calling for the supreme leader to step down have inspired the fight in many of Iran's activists who were demoralized after the ascendancy of former revolutionary guard intelligence commander, Mahmoud Amadinejad, to the presidency in June."
Eli Lake
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Wednesday, August 17, 2005
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Monday, August 15, 2005
The Hardliners in Iran are out of luck with the world and what they have come up with is exporting their software engineers... For the past few months I have been browsing/reading and studying the articles and blogs... those are dedicated to Reformists (Mosharekat Party.) Their fruit mart appears to be selling a lot of sweet-honey-taste-watermelons in the name of democracy... The reasons can be... one: the hardware engineers are not in demand... two: Regime's software engineers with the clean shaved faces and honey-love-me looks... spread the words of Clergies regime... much better! After all who doesn't want to blow kisses to the handsome Masoud Behnoud or drink coffee with Ebrahim Nabavi now that the moustache is gone... or even go fishing with the Paris Hilton of Iranian bloggers, Hossein Derakhshan! Even Moin and Khatami are more desirable than Ahmadinejad! Alas! A murderer Mullah is a murderer mullah and a representative and supporter of the Iranian government... is defending a fascist regime!
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Monday, August 15, 2005
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Sunday, August 14, 2005
"چند وقت پیش که برای انجام یه کار اداری به اهواز میرفتم . توی قطار با یه خونواده ی عرب همسفر شدم . یه مادر و پنج تا دختر ... یه عالمه راجع به حقوق زنان و سنت های عشیره ای و قتلهای ناموسی با هم بحث کردیم ، آخرش یکی از دخترا که بیست و پنج ساله بود و دو تا بچه داشت نتونست دوام بیاره و گفت که توی سال پنچاه و چهار چی به سر خالش اومده بود . توی اون سالها زمانیکه دخترک چهارده سال بیشتر نداشته به خاطر نگاه کردن و یا شایدم حرف زدن با پسر همسایه بالای پشت بوم به وسیله ی دستان مبارک پدر بزرگ با تبر قطعه قطعه میشه اون توی ماجرای دیگه شرح زن همسایشونو گفت و اینکه مردک بعد از بریدن سرش اونو خونین ومالین روی تلویزیون میذاره و بعد از خونه میاد بیرون همسایه ها رو خبر میکنه تا مردم جمع بشن و سر بریده ی زنش رو تماشا کنن . دختر از فجیع بودنه صحنه ی قتل میگفت... دختر هنوز بیست و پنج سالو تموم نکرده بود که سلاخی شدنه دو تا زن رو باچشم خودش دیده بود." برگرفته شده از وبلاگ دختران بینقاب--------------------------------------------------------------------------- روزی حکیمی به شاگردش گفت ...هرگاه به دیدن بیماری رفتی... چشم بینداز و بیبین که چه در گوشه و کنار خانه افتاده است تا مرض را نتیجه خوردن آن بدانی... شاگرد...برای معالجه بیماری رفت که درگوشه خانه اش...پوست خربزه افتاده بود... پس به بیمار گفت... چه نشسته ای در بستر بیماری ...که همانا بیماری تو از خوردن خر است... حال حکایات تحلیلی ... نازک قلمان مشارکتیست که یک جناح را از جناح دیگر تحت رژیم مردمکش ایران... جدا و حتی قابل اصلاح می دانند... اگر مسایل امنیتی اجازه می داد تا من هم حساب بانکی داشته باشم... شاید من هم به صف توابین می پیوستم... و از قول آیت العظمی هم ابیاتی اشگکی می نوشتم و خاتمی را متین الدوله فی العالم ایرانیه می خواندم!
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Sunday, August 14, 2005
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Friday, August 12, 2005
"A classified analysis by the U.S. intelligence community warned top Bush administration officials last spring that the theocratic reign of Iranian mullahs could be entrenched for years to come, NEWSWEEK has learned. This National Intelligence Estimate, issued by a unit of the new National Intelligence Director's office, reported that Iran is NOT in a prerevolutionary state and that near-term regime change appeared unlikely, say U.S. officials familiar with the report who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the material. (The National Intelligence Council, a committee of top analysts, produced the document at the same time that it sent out a second classified report about Iran's nuclear program.) The analysts also noted that Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was Tehran's mayor and a dark-horse presidential candidate at the time of the NIE's publication, might have a surprisingly strong following among poorer Iranians because of his reputation as an anticorruption campaigner. The office of intel czar John Negroponte had no comment on the top-secret document."
Newsweek
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Friday, August 12, 2005
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
 "There used to be a time when, you could just say a rhyme... And wouldn't have to worry about one of your people dyin"
Eminem
"یه وقتی بود که می تونستی شعری بگی و ترس نداشتی که باز یه هموطنت بمیره" امینم (خواننده رپ آمریکایی) روشنفکران، اندیشمندان، شاعران، نویسندگان، روزنامهنگاران، بلاگرها و گروههای سیاسی مسئولند و باید راهی برای نجات کشور از وضعیت فرسايشی موجود پیدا کنند. نوشتن نامه، امضا کردن طومار، گذاشتن لوگو و اینگونه کارهای دفاعی همواره توأم با خستگی و فرسودگی و تلف کردن انرژی است. چنین کارهایی را ادامه میدهيم اما معتقديم که روند مبارزه اينک شيوهی ديگری را میطلبد. بيست و شش سال گذشت و ما مدام داريم دفاع میکنيم که آدمی را از دست ندهيم. جمهوری اسلامی همه را به بازی گرفته، و همه مشغول اين مبارزهاند که يک روزنامهنگار کشته نشود، يک وکيل به اتهام جاسوسی در زندان نپوسد، يک زن سنگسار نگردد، و اين بازی تمامی ندارد. بيست و شش سال است که آدمها به جرم جنگ مسلحانه، بابيگری، جاسوسی، زنا، اهانت به اسلام، ايجاد تشويش اذهان عمومی، اهانت به رهبری، و هزاران جرم اينچنينی آزار میبينند و يا کشته میشوند، و ما قبل يا پس از حادثه واکنش نشان میدهيم. روشهای دفاعی نتیجه نمیدهد. ما ایمان و اعتقادمان بر اين است که بايد از جسدبازی فاصله بگيريم، بايد از کابوس آنها رويا بسازيم. ما میتوانيم با طرح موضوع و ايجاد فکر آنها را به موضع دفاعی و سلبی بکشانيم. ما فرهنگ و خبر و هنر توليد میکنيم، آنها اگر میتوانند هزينه کنند و جلو آن را بگيرند. میدانيم که نمیتوانند. ما با آخرين تکنيکها، با تمام امکانات رسانههای جهانی از در و ديوار به درون خانهمان، ايران راه پيدا میکنيم تا جنگيرها بفهمند که جامعه نيازمند رهايیست، که حق انسان اعدام و سنگسار و آويختن و شکنجه و شلاق نيست، که شأن انسان آزادی و برابری و عدالت اجتماعی است. اگر کسی فکر میکند سید علی خامنهای خداست و شاهرودی و مرتضوی برایش کار عزراییل را انجام میدهند و فقهای شورای نگهبان هم نگهبانان جهنم او هستند، خواهند دانست که يکبار زندگی میکنند، خواهند دانست که فريب اين متقلبان خدازده را نخواهند خورد. نگاه کنید به مجلس مملکت، به رییس جمهورش که بناست کشور را بر پایهی استخاره اداره کند، نگاه کنيد به هجوم چهار پنج سايت و وبلاگ تروريستی که آنها ادارهاش میکنند! باور کنيد از وحشت به این زوزه کشیدن روی آوردهاند. در اندازههای ايران و توان روشنفکرانش نيستند. از ترس و وحشت روزنامهنگاران و روشنفکران و دانشجویان را در زندان سرکوب میکنند که ادای قدرت را دربياورند. هر صدای معترضی را خاموش میکنند، اما نمیدانند که صدای اعتراض از خانهی خودشان، از فرزندشان، از نزديکترين فردشان در سينه مانده است. از ترس آدم میکشند و ناگاه میبينيم جسد چهرهای برجسته در کوچه و بازار پیدا میشود. آی آدمهای مسلمان، چپ، کمونیست، سلطنتطلب، کافر، بهايی، ارمنی، يهودی، زرتشتی، پیروان ادیان مختلف ... آهای ایرانی! نجات کشور در حرکت است و شرایط آن امروز فراهم شده. ما امضاکنندگان این نامه معتقديم که با ایجاد امید در مردم از این حالت انفعال و دفاعی خارج شويم و در گامهای نخست در حمايت از مردم زجرديدهی کردستان به ياریشان بشتابيم. آزادی بیقيد و شرط زندانيان سياسی حق ماست، و با يورش به تمامی احساس خبری، آنها را از تاريکخانهها بيرون میآوريم. ايران کشور ماست، و آزاد کردنش هزينه دارد. با تمام وجود برای آزادی ايران تلاش میکنيم، و با ايجاد کار فرهنگی و خبررسانی بهموقع و افشای نکبت، به زندگی نور میتابانيم. ايران نيازمند رهايی است، و ما ايرانیها نيازمند هماهنگی و يکپارچگی و فکرهای نو هستيم. حرکت را پرقدرت آغاز میکنيم. عزیرانی که علاقهمند به امضای نامه هستند لطفا در بخش کامنت و یا از طریق assada@gmail.com به اطلاع ما برسانید تا نام شما یا وبلاگتان به لیست اضافه شود.
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Thursday, August 11, 2005
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Jailed Women's Rights Activist Needs Your Help
Dr. Roya Toloui, a champion of the rights of Iran's Kurdish minority and of women was detained from her home in Sanandaj on August 2. She is reported to be facing charges of "disturbing the peace" and "acting against national security." Human Rights First is calling for her immediate and unconditional release from detention. Toloui's detention is consistent with a pattern of harassment and persecution that she and other human rights activists in Iran's Kurdish region have suffered in recent months in reprisal for their legitimate, peaceful activities in support of basic rights and freedoms.
There has been mounting unrest in Iran's Kurdish region since the presidential elections in late June, which saw the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a candidate closely identified with Iran's ruling clerical establishment. President Ahmadinejad is viewed as hostile to Kurdish aspirations for greater equality and respect for their distinct cultural and religious traditions. Roya Toloui is an outspoken critic of the policies of the Islamic Republic and its negative impact on the rights of women and religious and ethnic minorities. She and other human rights activists in Kordestan and West Azerbaijan provinces have been vocal in protesting a wave of repression unleashed on the region in recent weeks that has resulted in more than twenty deaths and hundreds of arrests of protesters. Regional magazines that reported on the unrest have been closed by the authorities, but information about continuing disturbances in the region continues to reach the outside world.
At this time of tension in Iran the role of independent human rights monitors is vital. Don't let the Iranian government commit human rights violations behind a cloak of secrecy. Please join Human Rights First in calling for the immediate release of Dr. Toloui and her colleagues.
Human Rights First
Click Here to Take Action ---------------------------
Everything and anything is concealable and conceivable in Iran!
A recent poll on Iranian Times shows 56% of voters want Iran to produce nuclear fuel. As I wrote on October 12,2003, the key point in this debate is that we are dealing with an irresponsible government in Iran. The international community and the Iranian people have every right to be concerned about nuclear ambitions of the regime. This includes not only military use of nuclear technology but also peaceful use such as power production. Personally I don't want to be living anywhere near nuclear power plants should it ever become operational because I seriously doubt that safety concerns keep mullahs and their contractors awake at night! And God help us if these people ever get their hands on nuclear trigger. In the event of air strikes, I don't think Mullahs can do much other than making some noise and throwing more people in jail to consolidate their rule.
Sheema Kalbasi -----------------------------
In A dying man's cry for freedom in Iran... Max Boot writes: "Ganji deserves to become as famous as Nelson Mandela, Andrei Sakharov, Vaclav Havel, Aung San Suu Kyi and other dissidents who put their lives on the line against injustice. Yet, while Ganji's mistreatment has been protested by the U.S. and by every major international human rights organization, the only U.S. newspaper regularly covering his ordeal is the tiny New York Sun. According to LexisNexis, there have been more than 1,000 media mentions in the last month of Natalee Holloway, the teenager who disappeared in Aruba, and fewer than 400 of Ganji."
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Wednesday, August 10, 2005
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
On September 10th... I will be in LA for an event cosponsored by PEN USA and UCLA (in the words of god's blogger shadow on earth: if you want to meet me contact me and I maybe generous enough to show you my broccoli covered teeth!)... now... I can't fit into any of my cloths and I can't stop munching... I am thinking... if there isn't a dress code... maybe I could attend in my baggy pants? Life is good but I am not! I am running out of tolerance budget toward insincerity... examples? The Iranian Reform Party (Mosharekat) and their representatives and supporters who repeatedly attempt to mislead and deceive by talking nonsense.
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Tuesday, August 09, 2005
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Monday, August 08, 2005
A Sufi master: "Which is better, courage or generosity?" The Sufi master replied, "Those who are generous, have no need for courage."
From the Gulistan of Sadi (the Persian poet)
Ibrahim Nabavi (The Iranian -whatever- writer,) in a recent article has admired Khatami so much so that you would think (god forbid) Khatami is the modern days' Christ... and was cut short when stopping the Iranians from rushing toward death!
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Monday, August 08, 2005
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Sunday, August 07, 2005
Sadly enough my favorite news anchor Peter Jennings died a few minuts ago. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- God is the Most Compassionate, the Merciful.
-Qur'an, An-Nisa, Surah 4:152
... and please while you are at it... check on the political prisioners in Iran...
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Sunday, August 07, 2005
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Saturday, August 06, 2005
The PBS poll shows 72% have said NO and only 27% have said yes to a re-establish diplomatic relations between U.S. and Iran.
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Saturday, August 06, 2005
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Friday, August 05, 2005
With their all -anti immigrant- stick and no carrot in hand ... the Europeans stand next to you (if not spitting at you) and demand you to change your very existence for what they think is the right way of living... When has Europe showed tolerance towards immigrants and refugees especially Muslims? When have their laws supported the ethnic groups? When have they treated the minorities as equals? I for one... after 10 years of living in Denmark and traveling to some 28 countries would never want to live in Europe ever again... and now the British MP is coming out of closet... only to announce publicly he is changing his party for a new one! The Nazi party! Good job MP Gerald Howarth! ------------- NITV (National Iranian Television) is perhaps the only Iranian LA based Persian TV station that is voicing the political prisoners in Iran... now they need their viewers' help to survive... you can send your financial supports to (818) 716 0000 or fax to (818) 716 0023. I am a new subscriber and even though I disagree with 45% of what Manouk Khodabakhshian says... I think he is one of Iran's top political analyzers. -------------- Roya Tolooi, who heads the Association of Kurdish Women for Peace, was arrested yesterday.
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Friday, August 05, 2005
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
In Youngbloods... Rachel Zabarkes Friedman writes: "Batebi believes the Bush administration has some good instincts when it comes to supporting Iran's political prisoners and the aspirations of the Iranian people generally. "President Bush has started this positive war, combating terrorism and theocracy and fanaticism. It is greatly appreciated by all the people inside the country, because of the repression we face." But he also has words of criticism for the administration, suggesting the U.S. hasn't been consistent enough in its policy toward Tehran. "Whenever the Iranian people or the government hears that the U.S. doesn’t have a plan or doesn't have a policy regarding regime change in Iran, this is like fresh blood in the veins of these mullahs." Tehran's support for the violence in Iraq, enabled by high oil prices, seems to have achieved its aim, he says, distracting Americans from the problems in Iran. And the ongoing nuclear negotiations between Europe and the Islamic republic have in his view been a boon to the mullahs, allowing them to buy time in power."
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در این مدت یکسال و نیمی که مامان فوت کرده روزهای من گاهی پر از التهاب و تب و تاب هستند و گاهی آرام... چند گام به جلو برمی دارم و یک قدم به عقب...این هفته ... هفته سختی داشتم ... اما این خبر خوب را که خواندم گفتم باز جای امیدواری برای ثبت جنایات جمهوری اسلامی هست ... اگر شما و یا فردی از اقوام شما در سالهای پس از انقلاب در ایران موردی که با مدرک همراه است دارد ... می تواند برای مرکز گردآوری و بررسی اسناد حقوق بشرایران بفرستد تا برای اصلاحات در آینده دموکراتیک ایران مورد استفاده قرار بگیرد. Since Maman has died I have been having my ups and downs. It is like recovering from an injury... but once in a while there are news... those can make you hopeful for the future... something like the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center IHRDC. It is essential for the future democratic transformation in Iran... contact them and submit your documents.
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Wednesday, August 03, 2005
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005
دختر کوچولو... کله سحر ... بیدار می کنه که بریم پایین. روی مبل پهلوی هم دراز می کشیم و اون کمی کارتون .. که خدا عمرشون بده ساعت چهار صبح هم هست... نگاه می کنه...
دختر: مانی؟ برام از اون چاجا که سیج داره می خری؟ من: چی؟ دختر: چاجا که سیج داره... بزرگشو برام می خری؟ من: مانی! فارسی حرف بزن من نمی فهمم چی میگی! دختر: چاج سیج می خوام. من: چاج سیج چیه دیگه! دختر: از اینا که اینجوری روی سرش میذارن. سیج داره ...تو مدرسه میاد. من: تاج؟ تاج که داری مانی ( کاشف به عمل میاد که سیج هم اسم همکلاسی تازه دختر کوچولو هست.) دختر: نه من مث سیج میخوام. مال من می افته!
یک ساعت بعد من... هنوز در حال چرت نسیه زدنم و اون تاج مقوایی به سر با لباس مهمونی-به قول خودش پرنسسی- وسط چمنها درحال شلنگ تخته انداختن و دنبال خیس کردن پدر بزرگ!
----------------- The judge in the trial of journalist Akbar Ganji, has been shot dead. -----------------
Ganji's Wife appeals to the World, to the United Nations, human rights groups, and other nations to pressure the government to release her husband.
Eli Lake
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posted by
Sheema Kalbasi : Tuesday, August 02, 2005
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