Sunday, December 31, 2006

My friend sent these questions for me to answer on my blog: 1) What are you listening to right now? Lauren Hill 2) What is your favorite meal of the day? Breakfast by far 3) If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Red 4) Last person you spoke to on the phone? My brother 5) How old are you today? Thirty-Four 6) Favorite drink: Earl Grey tea 7) Favorite smell: Vanilla 8) What is your favorite sport to watch? Skiing 9) Have you ever dyed your hair? Yes 10) Pets? Not at present 11) Favorite food? Indian cuisine 12) hat was the last movie you watched? An Inconvenient Truth 13) Favorite book? Too many 14) Favorite day of the year? Everyday 15) What do you do to vent anger or revenge? Talk 16) What was your favorite toy as a child? My kitchen dollhouse 17) What is your favorite fall or spring? Spring 18) Hugs or kisses? Hugs 19) Cherries or Blueberries? Cherries 20) How many states have you lived in? So far three 21) How many countries have you lived in? Five 22) How many countries you have visited? Thirty 23) Favorite holiday? ah! Well!

Friday, December 29, 2006


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."

Monday, December 25, 2006



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!

Saturday, December 23, 2006

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."
رژیم 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."

Friday, December 22, 2006

The regime in Iran has hanged three men in Ahwaz. The latest hangings bring to at least 12 the number of officially-reported executions carried out this week. Another eleven Iranians are awaiting execution after being convicted in secret trials.

Thursday, December 21, 2006


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?
Judith Kerr: "We were allowed to take one toy each, and I decided on the dog."

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

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.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006


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.

Monday, December 18, 2006


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.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

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 sent me his book, signed: Sheema, Without you this book would have never been.

Friday, December 15, 2006

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!
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.

Thursday, December 14, 2006


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!


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!

Wednesday, December 13, 2006



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.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006


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?!!!

Monday, December 11, 2006

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!

Sunday, December 10, 2006


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.

Saturday, December 09, 2006



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.

Friday, December 08, 2006

In my opinion it is important to help your child learn she can stand up for herself from an early age. This afternoon when I had taken my little girl to the playground, a little boy shouted at her. She ran to me crying. I told her when anyone shouts at you, you tell them you don't appreciate them shouting, or tell them there is enough space for both of you to play or just shout back. I also told her, she has to stand up for herself. 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: how old are you? The little girl replied: I will be five. The sales lady smiled and said: It is a very good question. I think you have a few years before you need one.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

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

Peyvand Khorsandi

Wednesday, December 06, 2006



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!

Sunday, December 03, 2006

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.

Saturday, December 02, 2006


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.” 

Friday, December 01, 2006



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.