My friend sent these questions for me to answer on my blog!!

Favorite politician? Right now it is Al Gore
What are you listening to right now? Lauren Hill
What is your favorite meal of the day? Breakfast by far
If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Red
Last person you spoke to on the phone? My brother
How old are you today? 34
Favorite drink: Earl Grey tea
Favorite smell: Vanilla
What is your favorite sport to watch? Skiing
Have you ever dyed your hair? Yes
Pets? Not right now.
Favorite food? Indian cuisine
what was the last movie you watched? An Inconvenient Truth
Favorite book? Too many
Favorite day of the year? Everyday
What do you do to vent anger or revenge? Talk, Forgive
What was your favorite toy as a child? My kitchen dollhouse
What is your favorite fall or spring? Spring
Hugs or kisses? Hugs
Cherries or Blueberries? Cherries
How many states have you lived in? 3
How many countries have you lived in? 5
How many countries you have visited? 28
Favorite holiday? ah! Well!

  

 

اخبار روز: دو زن محکوم به مرگ به نامهای "ملک قربانی"، "محبت محمودی" در تماس با رئیس سازمان دفاع از حقوق بشر کردستان ضمن بیان وضعیت و سرنوشت مختوم به مرگ خود، خواهان توجه نهادها و سازمانهای حقوق بشری نسبت به سرنوشت خود شدند.

Malek Ghorbani and Mohabbat Mahmudi called on defenders of human rights all over the world to bring attention to their ordeal.

  

 

Newspaper editors arrested for putting a video about Ahmadinejad's VP online

رادیو فردا: ميثم زمان آبادی، مدير عامل و محمد زمرديان، سردبير سياسی سايت اينترنتی ايرانيوز، به دليل انتشار فيلمی از معاون محمود احمدی نژاد بازداشت شدند.

  

 

Bereft: While the scariest man in the world, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, chooses to peddle his inane drivel to Pope, a new study by Roger Stern, an economic geographer at Johns Hopkins University has published in this week's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the Islamic Republic could soon run out of oil to export. "Iran earns about $50 billion a year in oil exports. The decline is estimated at 10 to 12 percent annually. In less than five years, exports could be halved, and they could disappear by 2015, Stern predicted."

  

 

رادیو زمانه: شعبه 107 دادگاه عمومی رشت، آرش سيگارچی، سردبير پیشین روزنامه "گيلان امروز" را از اتهامات انتسابی، تبرئه و برای وی قرار موقوفی تعقيب صادر كرد.

Arash Sigarchi is free.

  

 

اخبار روز: ارتش آمریکا چهار ایرانی وایسته به حکومت را طی روزهای اخیر در عراق بازداشت کرده است. از میان این گروه، دو دیپلمات ایرانی آزاد شده اند اما دو مقام عالی رتبه نظامی ایران همچنان در بازداشت هستند

ISNA: "As the Iraqi President, Jalal Talebani notified in his statements, these diplomats were invited by the Iraqi state for cooperation and so the Iraqi state is responsible to release them. The occupiers must be questioned based on international rules," he added.
International Rules? Since when they care about international rules! Ah! Only selected rules that favor their actions!

  

 

Security Council approves Iran sanctions

nytimes: "The Security Council on Saturday unanimously passed a resolution intended to curb Iran's nuclear program, capping four months of negotiations over how severe and sweeping the sanctions should be."

ایران مورد تحریم قرار می گیرد.

  

 

Junoon is one of my favorite Pakistani bands. They usually use Sufi poetry in their songs. They are peace activists. Here is a documentary on them.

  

 

William O. Beeman: "A rising generation of young people and women will make the country more democratic and liberal than ever."

And don't we know that!

  

 

IranMania: "Iran is determined to fight the use of the false titles for Persian Gulf."

I don't know why they want to do it! They don't care about the Persian heritage, and history. Why not just give up the name like everything else human or historical!

  

 

Your hands aren't cloudy. You write with words of a different wealth. They are that bridge that I have had needed between me and everything new. (here)

  

 

Iranfocus: "Iranian authorities have hanged three men in the south-western city of Ahwaz. The latest hangings bring to at least 12 the number of officially-reported executions carried out this week." And Scotsman reports: "Another 11 Iranian Arabs are awaiting execution after being convicted in secret trials of involvement in a bombing spree."

  

 

I was working on my new collection and one of my old times favorite singers kept popping up in my head. Man! It's past ten years since I listened to Eros Ramazzotti?

  

 

Happy Birthday my love.

  

 

I will not write about you. I will write about ashes, nights, lights, days, the final inch before my feet give way to a wave. (here)

  

 

Let Us Not Forget the Innocent!


Reuters: "The resolution expressed the assembly's "serious concern" at Tehran's "harassment, intimidation and persecution" of human rights champions, interest groups, political opponents, religious dissenters, journalists, parliamentarians, students, clerics, academics, Internet bloggers and labor union members."

بی گناهان را فراموش نکنیم!
سازمان ملل در قطعنامه ای از تهدید و مجازات مدافعان حقوق بشر، مخالفان سیاسی، ناراضیان مذهبی، ژورنالیستها، نماینده های مجلس، روحانیان، دانشجوها و استادان دانشگاه، وبلاگ نویسان و اعضای اتحادیه های کارگری ابراز نگرانی کرده است.

  

 

You sit by the window. You are not tall, not short, and not unfriendly. You have half a smile. You have ordered orange juice, a pack of cigarettes you wont smoke, a cup of coffee for the girl who will not come to you. (here)

  

 

A letter signed by nearly five hundred Iranian students and political activists demonstrates their concern regarding the arbitrary detention and alleged torture of several prisoners in Evin prison.

اعتراض به نقض حقوق زندانیان در بند ۲۰۹ زندان اوین

اخبار روز: تنها چیزی که در ایران امروز آزاد است، آزادی بازداشت و سرکوب و آدم ربایی و ارعاب و سانسور است؛ در حالی که محکومیت‌های پیاپی جمهوری اسلامی در مورد نقض اصول اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر از سوی مجامع بین المللی هر روز ابعاد گسترده‌تری به خود می‌گیرد، دستگاه حاکم بی توجه به کلیه میثاق‌های بین‌المللی به تشدید فضای امنیتی و خفقان در جامعه پرداخته است. در طی ماههای گذشته تعداد زندانیان سیاسی در زندان‌های مختلف کشور روندی تصاعدی داشته است. از جمله بازداشتگاههای امنیتی موجود در زندان اوین که کاملا مستقل اداره شده و از قوانین سازمان زندانها پیروی نمی‌کند بند ۲۰۹زندان اوین است، بندی که در طی سالیان گذشته بسیاری از فعالین سیاسی، دانشجویی، زنان، کارگران طعم تلخ بازداشت در آنجا را تجربه کرده‌اند.

  

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday a new draft

U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran over its nuclear program largely met Moscow's concerns and could become the basis of a consensus decision.

  

 

I want to be your pilgrimage but you deny me your mecca! (here)

  

 

کمیته دانشجویی گزارشگران حقوق بشر: با وجود گذشت ۵ ماه از زمان بازداشت احمد باطبی، وی همچنان در روندی خلاف قانون در بازداشتگاه ۲۰۹ زندان اوین نگهداری میشود. در حالی که بر اساس قانون متهم میبایست ۲۴ ساعت پس از بازداشت تفهیم اتهام شود، احمد باطبی با وجود ادعای وزارت اطلاعات مبنی برعدم پرونده سازی جدید علیه وی، همچنان در بند امنیتی زندان اوین نگهداری میشود.

Student Committee of Human Right Reporters: After five months, Ahmad Batebi is still in Section 209 of Evin prison.

  

 

منیره برادران: امروز اما، در ایران دوره سکوت در برابر جنایت سنگسار سپری شده است. «نه» های گفته نشده حال به زبان در می آیند. مخالفت با حکم سنگسار به یک اقدام تبدیل شده و پیگیری هدف معینی را در دستور کار خود قرار داده است. هر امضا در پشتیبانی از «کمپین قانون بی سنگسار» پایان دان به بی تفاوتی است و چه خوش و امیدبخش، که زنان پیشگام این تلاشها و اقدامات هستند ...

  

 

For along time I thought I was an old scar or a giant hand. Now I know I have been in love... There is nothing intellectual about me. I am just me, a simple pleasure, a recipe to nourish your body and soul. (here)

  

 

If there is a name for exile then be it the shards of her reminiscence
laying broken among the ruins of his life, relics that if attempted
no longer could be pieced into a recognizable whole, instead swept
into the dustbin of the heart, washed by a momentary pause of sighs...

from the poem There sings no bird by Roger Humes

I went to get my mails and I found Roger's package in the box. He has send me his book, signed:

Sheema, Without you this book would have never been.

I am touched.

  

 

Larijani: Iran rejects new UN resolution in advance

The regime appeasers keep pushing for a marriage of interest between Iran and the United States but the regime keeps pushing back!

  

 

!فراخوان نظام

اخبار روز: روز جمعه سومین دوره ی انتخابات شوراهای اسلامی شهر و روستا همزمان با انتخابات مجلس خبرگان در سراسر ایران برگزار شد. همزمان با شروع انتخابات، تبلیغات صدا و سیمای جمهوری اسلامی و نیز سران حکومت، برای کشاندن مردم به پای صندوق های رای و افزودن بر تعداد آرایی که رای به «نظام» خوانده می شود، به حداکثر رسید ...

  

 

شهلا شرف: مجیز‌گویی نه تنها شخصیت مجیز‌شونده را به سرعت فاسد می‌کند، بلکه بی‌شک مانع از ارتقاء روانی و شخصیتی او نیز هم می‌شود. تملق، مجیز‌شونده را به این توهم وامی‌دارد، که آخرین پله‌های کمال را پشت سر نهاده و تمام قله‌های هنر را فتح کرده است. دیگرانی که به گروه ِ متملقین تعلق ندارند، مجبور به خودسانسوری می‌شوند، چون در صورت انگشت‌گذاشتن بر تملق‌هایی که معمولن هیچ ربطی به خرد یا ادبیات ندارند، یا متهم به نافهمی و حسادت و یا ترورشخصیتی می‌شوند. اتهام نافهمی را به وفور شاهد بودیم و هستیم.

  

 

You say nothing. I say nothing. My arms come out of the blouse. Your hands get smaller under the blanket. We each reach for the skin. (More here)

  

 

Today is the Esperanto day. What is Esperanto? Well I didn't know much until I was contacted by an Esperanto speaker... and a few of my poems got translated from English to Esperanto. Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international language. The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof first published the Unua Libro in 1887. The word itself means 'one who hopes'. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.

  

 

دختر کوچولو رو امروز عصر برده بودم بیرون. ژاکت سبز و شلوار کرم و کیف سیاه صورتی به دست خودش رو یک نگاهی کرد و لبهاش رو به هم کشید و گفت: اینها به هم نمی یان. شبیه باغچه شدم!

I took the little girl out tonight. She had her green jacket, cream trousers, and a black pink Cinderella handbag. She looked at herself in displease and said: These colors don’t go together. I look like a Garden Floor!

  

 

My other blog is ready (here)... It's going to be my second Silent Sensuality. I haven't decided on a name for the collection yet... but I like it already...

  

 

اخبار روز: سازمان دیده بان حقوق بشر امروز با صدور بیانیه ای اعلام کرد که قوه قضائیه ایران باید مقاماتی که مسئول دستگیری خودسرانه و شکنجه وبلاگ نویسان در سال ۱٣٨٣ می باشند را به پای میز محاکمه بیاورد، نه آنکه وبلاگ نویسان را به دلیل اظهار مسالمت آمیز عقایدشان محاکمه کند.

HRW: The right to free expression is enshrined in the Iranian constitution and in international human rights treaties ratified by Iran. Yet they violate international free-expression norms.

واقعا دردآور هست توی دنیایی که دانشگاههای استنفورد و ژاپن و اینور و اونور دارن روی نمونه های کهکشان سازی کار می کنند مردم ما آزادی بیان ندارن!

It is painful to see in a world where Andrei Linde is discussing inflationary universe, Iranians don't have the freedom of expression!

  

 

اخبار روز:اتحادیه اروپا روز چهارشنبه سیزدهم دسامبر، بازداشت مجدد منصور اسالو رییس هیات مدیره سندیکای کارگران شرکت واحد اتوبوسرانی تهران و حومه را محکوم کرد. اتحادیه اروپا در بیانیه خود از ایران خواست که به حق آزادی بیان و حق ایجاد تشکل های آزاد کارگری، احترام بگذارد. ریاست اتحادیه اروپا گفت بازداشت منصور اسالو رییس هیات مدیره سندیکای کارگران شرکت واحد اتوبوسرانی تهران و حومه، هیچ توجیه معتبر و قانونی ندارد.

  

 

I have started a blog with the intention of having a new Silent Sensuality. Once I have it under control... I will link to it.

  

 

Why do I say I want to know you! Why should it matter if I know you or not? I haven't cared before. Should I be concerned by my wanting to know? Should I treat it as my curiosity? an interest? a subject? an object? a title? a process? thoughts? desires?

  

 

Samira Mohyeddin: Iran Holocaust Conference Wrap-up

  

 

ایران امروز: حاجيه اسماعيلوند، زنی كه ٧ سال از جوانی اش را در زندان و در انتظار اجرای حكم سنگسار گذرانده است، تبرئه شد. قاضی دادگاه تجديد نظر ضمن كافی ندانستن دلايل دادگاه بدوی برای صدور حكم سنگسار، حكم برائت وی را صادر كرد.

Hajieh Esmailvand is free. She was to be stoned to death.

  

 

Tony Blair: There were "major, major problems" in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, but "all of this is now overshadowed by the issue of Iran".

ayyyy ya ya! The regime is late in its payments again?!!!

  

 

Necessity



I wear your perfume on my skin

Don't be unkind

Like wild flowers shy under the sun



Don't seek the truth,

I tell you none exists

Everything has an expiration date

Love, life, identity, even abnormality.



We are travelers,

Some of us just leave the suitcase at home

So that our hands won't suffer the weight of our guilt.



Sheema Kalbasi

  

 

racket-free: Happiness is heaven. And heaven is in your heart.

  

 

Unlimited Hypocrisy!


Veil is a limitation for men, not for women (via Kamangir)

  

 

Ahmadinejad's Speech

The university students at polytechnic institute cried out "Down with dictator" and in response the Iranian president called them U.S. agents!

اخبار روز: دانشجویان پلی تکنیک صبح دوشنبه با حضور در محل سخنرانی محمود احمدی نژاد در این دانشگاه، او را «هو» کردند و با فریاد «مرگ بر دیکتاتور» و «مرگ بر استبداد» چندین بار سخنرانی وی را قطع کردند. احمدی نژاد در پاسخ به دانشجویان گفت: افتخار دانشگاه در این بوده که همیشه دیکتاتور را در هر لباسی شناخته و سرکوب کرده است. امروز بدترین نوع دیکتاتوری در دنیا دیکتاتوری آمریکایی است که در لباس حقوق بشر جلوه کرده است! او دانشجوی معترضین را به آمریکآیی بودن متهم کرد و گفت که از بیگانه پول می گیرند!

  

 

Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall cease
to be never
Never was time when it was not; End and Beginning
are dream!
Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the
spirit for ever;
Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!


Bhagavad-Gita

  

 

Arash Sigarchi

The Spirit of Man: An Iranian blogger, Mr. Arash Sigarchi is now serving jail time for charges such as insulting the leader of the regime and espionage for the United States... etc. Arash is now diagnosed with Cancer and he is in dire need of assistance.

If you live anywhere but Canada and U.S., please go to his blog to donate for his surgery. If you live in the U.S. or Canada please go to Winston's blog.

درصورتیکه تمایل دارید در پرداخت هزینه جراحی آرش سیگاچی به وی کمک کنید می توانید به وبلاگ آرش رفته و به صورت حسابش مبلغ را واریز کنید. در صورتیکه در آمریکا و کانادا زندگی می کنید به وبلاگ وینستون رفته و از دکمه پی پل در سمت راست وبلاگ او استفاده کنید.

در صورتیکه درباره این مطلب سوالی دارید می توانید با آرش سیگارجی تماس بگیرید.

  

 

Maman, I miss you.

  

 

اخبار روز: در ۹ ماه گذشته حداقل ۷۲۰ نفر از فعالان سیاسی فرهنگی دستگیر شده اند، دستگیرشدگان بعد از دستگیری مورد ضرب و شتم قرار گرفته و به به سلول انفرادی و بازداشتگاهی نامعلوم منتقل شده اند، دادرسی ها اغلب بدون کارشناسی قضائی و حقوقی و مبتنی بر دیدگاه امنیتی و سیاسی انجام می گیرد

Iran: In the past nine months more than 720 activists have been arrested and taken away to undisclosed places.

  

 

Mom died tomorrow three years ago. Ah! Woman! Where are you?
سایه تو هنوزم پیداست توی اشکهام....

Everywhere


Ah! Mother! The young birds you fed

The milk you gave us

The names you called us in anger

The wheels you drove us to school

The rain you dressed us for

The music you played for us on our birthdays

The songs you sang us



Ah! Mother! The sense is gone.

Life is empty without you

The seven valleys of love is stripped of its garden

The fishermen's triumph is bones

And no one can wake father from his snores.

Sheema Kalbasi

مامان سه سال پیش فردا مرد.

همه جا

آه! مامان. پرنده های کوچیکی که بهشون دون می دادی... شیری که بهمون می دادی... وقتی ازمون عصبانی می شدی... ماشینی که باهش ما رو مدرسه می رسوندی... لباسی که موقع بارون تنمون می پوشوندی... آهنگی که تو تولد امون برامون می گذاشتی... آوازایی که واسمون می خوندی...

آه! مامان! حسی نمونده... زندگی بدون تو خالیه... هفت شهر عشق هم بدون باغ شده... ماهیگرها هم با تور بدون نعمت برمی گردن خونه هاشون...

و دیگه کسی نمی تونه بابا رو از خروپفهاش بیدار کنه!

  

 

استن از ماست!

نمی گذارم تاریخ مرا بنویسد
من تاریخ را می نویسم.

تو هم بنویس...
که نوشته باشیم
استن از ماست! نه، بودن!

پیش از مردن
پیش از نبودن

" از هیچ هست شدم
از هست نیست
دگر هیچ"



من، دست خط تو هستم
از هست به هست می روم
و باز هم.


شیما کلباسی

مادرم بر سنگ مزارش نوشت: از هیچ هست شدم/ از هست نیست/ و دگر هیچ

  

 

امروز برای بازی بیرون رفته بودیم و پسر بچه ای سر دختر کوچولو داد کشید و دختر کوچولو که خواهر و برادری ندارد که یاد گرفته باشد دعوا و جدل کند سریع به سمتم دوید و گریه ... به او گفتم: عزیزم شما می توانی یا به آن پسر بگویی اجازه ندارد سر شما داد بکشد یا بگویی جا برای بازی هر دوی شما هست و یا اینکه سرش داد بکشی... شما تکواندو هم می دانی و می توانی از خودت دفاع کنی. بعد از بازی هم از جلوی مغازه ویکتوریا سیکرت رد می شدیم و دختر کوچولو سوال کرد که می تواند سوتین بخرد؟ رفتیم داخل مغازه و با هم از فروشنده پرسیدیم دختر کوچولو از چند سالگی می تواند سوتین بپوشد. فروشنده پرسید: چند سالت است؟ و دختر کوچولو گفت: مارچ پنج ساله می شوم. فروشنده هم گفت: خیلی سوال خوبی کردی... فکر کنم هنوز چند سالی وقت داری.

In my opinion it is important to help your child learn she can stand up for herself from an early age. So today when we were out and some boy shouted at her... and she ran to me crying... I told her... when he (or anyone) shouts at you... tell him you don't appreciate him shouting, or tell him there is enough space for both of you to play or shout back... after all you know taekwondo! I also told her, she has to stand up for herself... anyway... later on when we were passing a Victoria Secret store, she asked if she can have a bra. We went in and asked one of the sales ladies. The lady asked the little girl: how old are you? The little girl replied: I will be five in March. The sales lady smiled and said: It is a very Good Question... well I think you have a few years before you will need one.

  

 

Ey Iran!

Every time Democrats have been in power... something catastrophic has happened to Iran... but now it turns out the regime is financing both the Democrats and the Conservatives! They have learned from the past... Shah financed Nixon... now they pay the decision makers in the West to stop everything from the sanction, the media coverage of Iranian regime destroying our historical pride (whatever that is!) and demands for Human Rights and equality.

As the song goes in Persian … Ah! Iran… a country that is full of gems (Ey Iran, ey Marz-e por Gohar!!)

  

 

Congressman wants to carry Koran

The Christian Science Monitor: At swearing in, congressman wants to carry Koran. Keith Ellison hasn't even started his new job, and he's already under fire.

کیت الیسون اولین نماینده مسلمان مجلس آمریکا می خواهد در مراسم سوگند، به جای انجیل از قرآن استفاده کند.

  

 

Why the U.S. government keeps pushing the Syrians next to the Iranian regime! There is a huge difference between the two regimes! Syria is not a democracy but it is secular and is not planning for to be a Nuke-Taliban power.

  

 

“You're not a Mozlim?”
“Not according to my Rabbi?”
“You have a Rabbi?”
“Yeah, I took him hostage.”

Peyvand Khorsandi

  

 

ادوارنيوز: تجمع بزرگ دانشجويی به مناسبت گراميداشت ۱۶ آذر روز دانشجو با عنوان «دانشگاه زنده است» پيرو فراخوان دفتر تحکيم وحدت در صحن دانشگاه تهران با حضور بيش از يکهزار نفر از دانشجويان برگزار شد.

Akhbar-rooz: Despite repressive measures by the Iranian regime more than 1000 university students protested aganist the oppression.

  

 

'There will be sanctions' on Iran

The powers making up the UN Security Council are agreed that "there will be sanctions" against Iran, though their extent is yet to be decided, France said, after a Paris meeting on Tehran's nuclear programme.

Meaning: We will see if the Iranian Regime will hand deliver the monthly allowance to our doors or we will have to go ahead with the sanction!

  

 

Boston.com: The Imams, who were returning from a religious conference, had prayed on their prayer rugs in the airport before the flight. After they boarded the flight, a passenger passed a note to a flight attendant. The men were taken off the airplane, handcuffed and questioned. "It was the worst moment in my life," Imam Shahin said.

I say to Imam Shahin: Imagine how that passenger felt! Thinking it was the Imams last prayer before a suicide mission!

  

 

You Are the Fairest of All



I have traveled this far to forget you

But I knock on the wood

I spill water for the bon voyage

And place raw eggs under the four wheels before I take my first drive


Ah! Iran! I have traveled so far to forget…


Within your stones lay the skulls of many

And the mortals fly everywhere

And the bricks thrown at the trains,

The bare feet running on the rails,

The mysteries of Imams and Saints

And mother-aborted babies are found next to the maze



Ah! Iran! What a fool I was to hide the sore,


The hole is in my heart.


You are the fairest of all.


Sheema Kalbasi

  

 

Pardon Me If I Have An Identity Crisis

My apologies for being the barefoot in your Chanel Designer Shop
Please accept me as the legs to your table
As the mammal from the Middle East
Or a crack in the wall

Pardon me if I have an identity crisis
My apologies for acting foolish
When you ask me for my nationality --
My home and neighborhood
Has disappeared with my travel case -–

Please think of me as your grandfather's clock --
One that was never fixed --
Or a purse you left behind

Ah! Don't make such a fuss! I said I am sorry!

Sheema kalbasi

  

 

Yahia Lababidi: "Literature under restrictive regimes has tended to develop a flair for allegory, confessing in code, or through the use of symbolism. Similarly, in repressive societies, means of indirect communication tend to thrive. Egyptians have a gift for this sort of thing. Past masters at innuendo, they deftly employ double meanings to get past the censors on stage and in life. Slyly they vent their sexual (and political) frustrations in jokes, songs, and video clips, that manage to hint at everything without really saying any thing."

  

 

Peyvand Khorsandi is in the U.S. for his stand up comedy nights.

  

 

کیانوش سنجری عضو جبهه متحد دانشجوی از تاریخ 16 مهرماه در بازداشت وزارت اطلاعات به سر می برد و از داشتن وکیل محروم بوده است

احمد باطبی هم اکنون در بند نیمه عمومی بازداشتگاه 209 در محل بسیار نامناسبی نگهداری میشود.

  

 

Blogosphere has a new blogger. As of today Michael Ledeen is blogging for Pajamas Media.

  

 

Iran: Two journalists detained, national weekly closed for “ethnic insult”

Reporters Without Borders: “The Iranian authorities have once again shown that repression is the only policy they know how to adopt towards the media,” the press freedom organisation said. “This harassment must stop. We call for the immediate release of Shirko Jahani and Hussein Saidpour.”
دو روزنامه نگار شيرکو جهاني و حسين سعيد پور دستگیر شدند

  

 

The terrorist sympathizers have started their campaign to force Lebanon's U.S.-backed government from office. Is Lebanon going to be a terrorist training farm again?!

  

 

Delara Darabi

A friend of mine sent this clip and asked me to post it on my blog. When Delara Darabi was seventeen her fiancée killed a rich elderly woman but she took the blame. Under the Islamic law and a regime that murders innocent humans I don't know how anyone can be the judge and the jury for such a case! Under the current regime of Iran, the underage are kept as inmates to be executed after their eighteenth birthday.

This is a very slow clip. Click on to watch Del Ara's drawings.

  

 

Islam the Fragile Religion
The case against Editor-in-Chief of "Sanat" newspaper Samir Huseynov and journalist Rafiq Taghi

Is a religion worth a human life? Is Islam so sacred that no one may question it? Who makes these rules? Why should Islam or any religion or ideology be worth a human life! These are just a few questions that came to my mind when reading about Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani's fatwa against Rafig Taghi, the Azeri Journalist and Editor-in-Chief of "Sanat" newspaper Samir Huseynov. I checked the Grand Ayatollah's website and this sentence jumped out: "We are from God and to Him we shall all return". Let's agree this is what we all believe in. What I like to know is who has given this Ayatollah the right to play God! Who says the political Islam is indisputable! This Ayatollah should be brought to justice in a non religious court and be sentenced for spreading hate and being the mastermind behind the murder plan.