Oh, and we have four seasons!

I read these lines: "If the media told you about Iran’s achievemens everyday and didn’t hide them, your news would be full of Iranian news! Iranian girls are famous for being terrific. We have Persian rugs and Persian literature. Iranian culture is now westernized and only a little of the ancient culture has survived. According to statistics Tehran is the cheapest capital city in the world. There are many other things. How many pages would you need to describe a country? Iran has nearly all the industries and technologies found in ‘developed’ countries. Oh, and we have four seasons! We get a lot of snow and there are skating rinks! lol The list is endless, " and I think to myself what on eart? Is this for real? What about all the crimes the Iranian regime commites? This is just an example of such.
The words, “Enemy of Islam,” were found written on the leg of Dr. Masih Farhangi, a Bahá’í who was executed in Tehran on 24 June 1981 (Persecuting the Dead: short movie in Persian.)

And yes! how many pages we need to describe a country where stoning and public hanging, and selling Iranian girls to the neighboring countries are just a few we should take pride in. Oh, and we have four seasons!

  

 

Benazir Bhutto Assassinated


I lived in Pakistan when she was elected and sworn in for the first time in 1988 as the Prime Minister. Today Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi. Pakistan is a strange country as it is but add nuclear power, and religious fanatics running wild and the combination is scary. All in all the attack has rippled through the world's financial markets and oil prices are even higher. This means business is great for the Iranian regime and the oil weapon can't really be unleashed against them.

  

 

The Islamist war on Muslim women

The Boston Globe: "In Tehran, a father beheaded his 7-year-old daughter because he suspected that she had been raped; he said: I acted to defend my honor, fame, and dignity."

  

 

IRAN: Women Without Veils Must Die

AKI: A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.

  

 

Happy Birthday my love.

  

 

In a university environment we must allow people to speak their mind, to allow everyone to talk so that the truth is eventually revealed by all.
-- When regime's current President Ahmadinejad delivered his remarks at Columbia University



The left-wing student activists arrested by the security forces have been deprived of sleep for up to 72 hours, and beaten and tortured to the extend that they have been taken to the prison hospital frequently. Behrooz Karimizadeh, Peyman Piran, Bijan Sabagh, Behzad Bagheri, Anousheh Azadfar, Mehdi Gerayloo, Alnaz Jamshidi, Ehsan Azadfar, Nader Ahsani are among those.

  

 

Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies

There will be a discussion featuring author Barbara Slavin who wrote on U.S.-Iran relations entitled "Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation." Slavin had unparalleled access to high ranking officials, and she does is describing missed opportunities and ideological shortsightedness among leaders in both countries. Tomorrow her readers can listen in live via audio webcast here.

  

 

Food

I am constantly hungry. The doctor has said I shouldn’t eat after 7:00 p.m.. I have gained all too much weight and all this despite my constant vomiting. Right now I am so hungry that my head wants to burst. I don’t know what I want to eat but I open the refrigerator constantly and my brother who is visiting me from Europe keeps saying we should buy a glass door refrigerator. If you wonder about my weight gain here is my recent interview on Voice of America. The interview is about my literary works but my pregnant belly and my head were thinking about food.

  

 

IRAN: Human Rights Violations

The Iranian regime has arrested several university students in Azerbaijan, Iran. In addition Mansour Jeddi has been jailed on charges of champion against language discrimination in Iran and Ebrahim Dehghan has been sentenced to two years in prison on charges of action against national security.

  

 

Is it now four years since you have passed away?

I miss you mother.

  

 

Crackdown and Arrest of the Lefty University Students

The regime has targeted the lefty students who are one of the most potent critics of the regime in the universities. After being arrested some of them have disappeared and there is no credible information on their whereabouts.

  

 

The word ‘women’ is now replaced on Iranian state television by ‘family’, AKI reports, Jelveh Javaheri another active member of the feminist website Change for Equality, an initiative to collect a million signatures to end legislations that discriminate against women was arrested earlier today in Tehran, Iran, and Abelina Galustian, the Iranian painter of Armenian ethnicity rightfully says: "I still couldn't understand why they were all [still focusing on acting like virgins.] My reaction to this hypocrisy was communicated with the Veiled Series. It was a way of telling women to stop interrogating a woman's worth by the intactness of her hymen, as it only leads to daughters performing virginity and sons who only accept virgins (or at least they think they're getting virgins) for wives." Meanwile let us not forget it has been one week since a nineteen-year-old gang-raped victim from Saudi Arabia was ordered the penalty of 200 lashes because she was caught sitting in a car with a man who was not her relative,