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Posted by Elias D Caveman , at 10:42AM 10/10/08 :
Who would imagine the famous Bebe stores for the babes was founded by an Iranian dude back in 70's
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 09:37AM 10/10/08 :
Iran's rich history
Note: Iran's rich history 4:29There's more to Iran than political strife, as CNN's Asieh Namdar reports.
Posted by Elias D Caveman , at 07:49PM 10/08/08 :
Interview with the Iranian actress, Golshifte Farahani playing in Body of Lies with Leonardo Dicaprio
Posted by Anthony Shams, at 10:27PM 10/06/08 :
Souvenir Picture, the play تئاتر عکس يادگاري
Note: Iranian Play
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 05:24AM 10/02/08 :
FIRST IRANIAN FEMALE ADMIRAL: ARTEMIS
Note: INTRODUCTION: According to various texts, Iran possessed warships and the ships equipped with the weapons and materials used in war since the Achaemenid era (550-330 BC), and the evidences indicating the existence of those ships have been found in archeological investigations. It has been also documented that the Iranian Navy was very active during Achaemenid king Darius the Great (reigned 522-485 BC) and his son King Xerxes (in Persian: Khasha Yar Shah). During King Xerxes (reigned from 485-465 BC), for a short time the Iranian Navy was commanded by Artemis, a female admiral, around 480 BC. In this article, the name of Artemis, the life story of Artemis, her battles, her end, and a poetry referring to Artemis as the First Iranian Female Admiral will be studied and discussed.
Posted by raana41, at 10:27PM 10/01/08 :
Shahkar Bineshpajooh
Note: Shahkar Bineshpajooh, Persian poet, song writer and singer is singing in Spanish lyric as one of his creation with an Spanish singer who sings the same but in Persian lyrics. All accompanied with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 01:17PM 09/27/08 :
ANCIENT IRAN: A pictorial history for young readers ages 8 and up
Note: Discover the great civilizations of the Iranian plateau - from the"Burnt City"in Sistan & Baluchistan in eastern Iran (3000 BC) to the splendors of the Sasanian court in the city of Cteisphon in the 7th century.
Posted by darius , at 08:27AM 09/26/08 :
Aref (with English subtitles)
Note: Adopted African child speaks fluent Farsi - so lovely to hear!
Posted by Kimberley McKee, at 08:32AM 09/24/08 :
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Interview with Larry King Sept. 23, 2008
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 09:22AM 09/20/08 and by 1 others:
The lost lands of Iran / Persia
Note: Ossetia (pronounced /ɒˈsɛtɪə/[1] or /oʊˈsiːʃə/[2]; Ossetic: Ирыстон, Iryston; Russian: Осетия, Osetiya; Georgian: ოსეთი, Oset'i) is an ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians, an Iranian people who speak the Ossetian language (an Eastern Iranian language, Indo-European group of languages). The Ossetian-speaking area south to the main Caucasus ridge is recognized by most countries as within the borders of Georgia, but under the control of the Russian-backed de facto government of the Republic of South Ossetia. The northern portion of the region consists of the republic of North Ossetia-Alania within the Russian Federation.
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 04:48AM 09/20/08 :
Are we Iranians indebted to Pahlavi regime?
Note: This is an article from the Times Magazine of 1938 : No cNo country is more anxious to demonstrate its freedom than Iran, no ruler anywhere is more conscious of his dignity, more jealous of his sovereignty, than His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah-in-Shah ("King of Kings") of Iran. This week Iran's 60-year-old, 6-ft., grey-mustached King of Kings celebrates a coronation anniversary. Twelve years ago on April 5, the former Persian Cossack officer, born of middle-class landowners on the shores of the Caspian Sea, placed a specially-made crown of diamonds, emeralds and rubies on his own head. This week the monarch whom the elaborate-tongued Iranians often call "Most Lofty of Living Men," "Agent of Heaven in this World," "Brother of the Moon and Stars," will drive down Teheran's broad avenues, reflection of the glory of his reign, to famed Gulistan Palace.ountry is more anxious to demonstrate its freedom than Iran, no ruler anywhere is more conscious of his dignity, more jealous of his sovereignty, than His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah-in-Shah ("King of Kings") of Iran. This week Iran's 60-year-old, 6-ft., grey-mustached King of Kings celebrates a coronation anniversary. Twelve years ago on April 5, the former Persian Cossack officer, born of middle-class landowners on the shores of the Caspian Sea, placed a specially-made crown of diamonds, emeralds and rubies on his own head. This week the monarch whom the elaborate-tongued Iranians often call "Most Lofty of Living Men," "Agent of Heaven in this World," "Brother of the Moon and Stars," will drive down Teheran's broad avenues, reflection of the glory of his reign, to famed Gulistan Palace.
Posted by Anthony Shams, at 02:50AM 09/19/08 :
Persian Reality Check
Note: Here are100 examples of SOME (NOT ALL) Persians under magnifying glass & doing what they should not be doing. They are merely OBSERVATIONS meant to entertain you and make you think about what can we can improve about SOME (NOT ALL) Persians' actions. Thank You, ESLAM, the comic
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 05:01AM 09/16/08 and by 1 others:
Iranian Aryan National Front
Note: Iranian Aryan National Front
Posted by shiir, at 11:03PM 09/15/08 :
Coming Soon....The Stoning of Soraya M
Note: On Oct 31st, the movie "The Stoning of Soraya M." will be released in America. This powerful movie which is based on a real story from Iran, was produced through collaboration between Iranian and American writers, producers and talented actors from both countries. The list of actors and actresses include Jim Caviezel (the actor who played Jesus in the highly successful movie "Passion of Christ" by Mel Gibson), Shohreh Aghdashloo, Parviz Sayyad, Navid Negahban as well as the well known old, Ira
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 04:59AM 09/15/08 :
Writer Kasra Naji on Ahmadinejad's 'Secret History'
Note: This is not a detailed biography with ins and outs of Ahmadi-nejad's entire personal life story up to now, if you want to read a biography of Ahmadi-nejad you may have to wait until something like that is written some time in the future. However, if you want to be updated with a factual account of what is going on in Iran now, how the population are manipulated and who runs the Islamic Republic, reading this book is a must!- It is one of the best explanations I have read in English on what Islamic Republic elections are about and those in the West who are under some illusion that the Islamic Republic is a 'flourishing' democracy or a 'shining beacon' in the region, should study this book well. Kasra Naji explains how the high level meetings determine the election results before hand, even after all the candidates have been filtered through by the Guardian Council.The mysterious 6 million - and still growing in numbers - unexpired birth certificates of the deceased and how they are used to manipulate the outcome in important elections, the instructions to the baseej militia on which candidate is the favourite and what they should do to ensure the favourite wins. How all this vote manipulation ensures that a candidate scoring last in the opinion polls with only 2.8 percent of the vote, can suddenly take most of the votes and become the 'most popular president'! How the IRGC commanders and other bodies even at times, unwittingly acknowledge the role of the Baseej and the Revolutionary Guards in the election results! and yet some "Iran experts" suggest we should take democracy go its path and wait for Iranians to vote for a "reformist" president in the next elections :)-Most Iran news followers may by now know about Ahmadi-nejad's dellusions about representing the Shiite Messiah and his messianic mentors, but perhaps it may be unknown to them the role of philosophers like Ahmad Fardid, a disciple of Nazi linked Martin Heidegger, who have also influenced Ahmadi-nejad's thinking.Naji presents hard facts to the appeasers and those who think negotiating with the hardliners may bring fruits by giving numerous examples of the outcomes of such moves in the past. Like when Madeleine Albright officially apologised on behalf of the US for its role in the 1952 coup, to the very mullahs who took part in the downfall of Mossadegh, and how such apologetic gestures only resulted in her Islamic Republic counterpart wanting to sue the US now that they had admitted to their role :)) or how Islamic vigilantes attacked a bus full of US academics, keen to open a dialogue with the Islamic Republic, with sticks and stones :))-The tragedy of Ahmadi-nejad's mismanagement of Iran's economy and how all the petro-dollar wealth is wasted and misspent by a president who despises economics and economists, is also explained very clearly by Naji. I wish Naji would also have said how this is very much in line with Ayatollah Khomeini's infamous statement that 'economics belongs to the donkeys'.And for myself who am not a nuclear expert and have not had time to follow the nuclear issue of the Islamic Republic in much detail, Naji's chapter on Iran's Nuclear Quest was very useful too.Naji after all is not an exiled opposition, he has worked as a journalist in Iran for many years and is also the husband of BBC's former correspondent in Tehran, Frances Harrison, therefore he has been in an excellent position to understand the complexity and contradictions of the Islamic Republic and who runs Iran today beyond what is presented by the cleric's fancy shop windows to the outside world.I definitely recommend reading the book to all who want to be updated on Iran.Shortly after I read Kasra Naji's book, I came across a clip of him with Jon Snow in the frontline club. See: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1381682699&channel=301939273 Watch how the pompous ex-Trot, Jon Snow, a son of a clergyman himself and a university drop out and a beneficiary of nepotism in journalism, tries to sound all knowing but gets some very basic news facts wrong. For example he says Ahmadi-nejad was the only non cleric candidate, Naji reminds him that was not the case. At another point, Jon Snow claims the root of the problem is that the US has never accepted the Islamic Revolution as a fact and come to terms with it, then he goes on about the Europeans and the British who in contrast have come to terms with the Islamic revolution and as he rants on, he realises himself that also hasn't got anyone anywhere! Most ridiculous Snow statement however is his suggestion that the US should carpet bomb Iran with laptops to overthrow the Iranian government! Hmm, what about the slow speed of the internet, the huge cost, the filtering of the sites etc. all mentioned in Naji's book. Watching the clip I wondered at times if Snow had even read Naji's book?!
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Posted by Elias D Caveman , at 10:42AM 10/10/08 :Who would imagine the famous Bebe stores for the babes was founded by an Iranian dude back in 70's
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 09:37AM 10/10/08 :Iran's rich history
Note: Iran's rich history 4:29There's more to Iran than political strife, as CNN's Asieh Namdar reports.
Posted by Elias D Caveman , at 07:49PM 10/08/08 :Interview with the Iranian actress, Golshifte Farahani playing in Body of Lies with Leonardo Dicaprio
Posted by Anthony Shams, at 10:27PM 10/06/08 :Souvenir Picture, the play تئاتر عکس يادگاري
Note: Iranian Play
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 05:24AM 10/02/08 :FIRST IRANIAN FEMALE ADMIRAL: ARTEMIS
Note: INTRODUCTION: According to various texts, Iran possessed warships and the ships equipped with the weapons and materials used in war since the Achaemenid era (550-330 BC), and the evidences indicating the existence of those ships have been found in archeological investigations. It has been also documented that the Iranian Navy was very active during Achaemenid king Darius the Great (reigned 522-485 BC) and his son King Xerxes (in Persian: Khasha Yar Shah). During King Xerxes (reigned from 485-465 BC), for a short time the Iranian Navy was commanded by Artemis, a female admiral, around 480 BC. In this article, the name of Artemis, the life story of Artemis, her battles, her end, and a poetry referring to Artemis as the First Iranian Female Admiral will be studied and discussed.
Posted by raana41, at 10:27PM 10/01/08 :Shahkar Bineshpajooh
Note: Shahkar Bineshpajooh, Persian poet, song writer and singer is singing in Spanish lyric as one of his creation with an Spanish singer who sings the same but in Persian lyrics. All accompanied with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 01:17PM 09/27/08 :ANCIENT IRAN: A pictorial history for young readers ages 8 and up
Note: Discover the great civilizations of the Iranian plateau - from the"Burnt City"in Sistan & Baluchistan in eastern Iran (3000 BC) to the splendors of the Sasanian court in the city of Cteisphon in the 7th century.
Posted by darius , at 08:27AM 09/26/08 :Aref (with English subtitles)
Note: Adopted African child speaks fluent Farsi - so lovely to hear!
Posted by Kimberley McKee, at 08:32AM 09/24/08 :Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Interview with Larry King Sept. 23, 2008
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 09:22AM 09/20/08 and by 1 others:The lost lands of Iran / Persia
Note: Ossetia (pronounced /ɒˈsɛtɪə/[1] or /oʊˈsiːʃə/[2]; Ossetic: Ирыстон, Iryston; Russian: Осетия, Osetiya; Georgian: ოსეთი, Oset'i) is an ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians, an Iranian people who speak the Ossetian language (an Eastern Iranian language, Indo-European group of languages). The Ossetian-speaking area south to the main Caucasus ridge is recognized by most countries as within the borders of Georgia, but under the control of the Russian-backed de facto government of the Republic of South Ossetia. The northern portion of the region consists of the republic of North Ossetia-Alania within the Russian Federation.
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 04:48AM 09/20/08 :Are we Iranians indebted to Pahlavi regime?
Note: This is an article from the Times Magazine of 1938 : No cNo country is more anxious to demonstrate its freedom than Iran, no ruler anywhere is more conscious of his dignity, more jealous of his sovereignty, than His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah-in-Shah ("King of Kings") of Iran. This week Iran's 60-year-old, 6-ft., grey-mustached King of Kings celebrates a coronation anniversary. Twelve years ago on April 5, the former Persian Cossack officer, born of middle-class landowners on the shores of the Caspian Sea, placed a specially-made crown of diamonds, emeralds and rubies on his own head. This week the monarch whom the elaborate-tongued Iranians often call "Most Lofty of Living Men," "Agent of Heaven in this World," "Brother of the Moon and Stars," will drive down Teheran's broad avenues, reflection of the glory of his reign, to famed Gulistan Palace.ountry is more anxious to demonstrate its freedom than Iran, no ruler anywhere is more conscious of his dignity, more jealous of his sovereignty, than His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah-in-Shah ("King of Kings") of Iran. This week Iran's 60-year-old, 6-ft., grey-mustached King of Kings celebrates a coronation anniversary. Twelve years ago on April 5, the former Persian Cossack officer, born of middle-class landowners on the shores of the Caspian Sea, placed a specially-made crown of diamonds, emeralds and rubies on his own head. This week the monarch whom the elaborate-tongued Iranians often call "Most Lofty of Living Men," "Agent of Heaven in this World," "Brother of the Moon and Stars," will drive down Teheran's broad avenues, reflection of the glory of his reign, to famed Gulistan Palace.
Posted by Anthony Shams, at 02:50AM 09/19/08 :Persian Reality Check
Note: Here are100 examples of SOME (NOT ALL) Persians under magnifying glass & doing what they should not be doing. They are merely OBSERVATIONS meant to entertain you and make you think about what can we can improve about SOME (NOT ALL) Persians' actions. Thank You, ESLAM, the comic
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 05:01AM 09/16/08 and by 1 others:Iranian Aryan National Front
Note: Iranian Aryan National Front
Posted by shiir, at 11:03PM 09/15/08 :Coming Soon....The Stoning of Soraya M
Note: On Oct 31st, the movie "The Stoning of Soraya M." will be released in America. This powerful movie which is based on a real story from Iran, was produced through collaboration between Iranian and American writers, producers and talented actors from both countries. The list of actors and actresses include Jim Caviezel (the actor who played Jesus in the highly successful movie "Passion of Christ" by Mel Gibson), Shohreh Aghdashloo, Parviz Sayyad, Navid Negahban as well as the well known old, Ira
Posted by BAHRAMERAD, at 04:59AM 09/15/08 :Writer Kasra Naji on Ahmadinejad's 'Secret History'
Note: This is not a detailed biography with ins and outs of Ahmadi-nejad's entire personal life story up to now, if you want to read a biography of Ahmadi-nejad you may have to wait until something like that is written some time in the future. However, if you want to be updated with a factual account of what is going on in Iran now, how the population are manipulated and who runs the Islamic Republic, reading this book is a must!- It is one of the best explanations I have read in English on what Islamic Republic elections are about and those in the West who are under some illusion that the Islamic Republic is a 'flourishing' democracy or a 'shining beacon' in the region, should study this book well. Kasra Naji explains how the high level meetings determine the election results before hand, even after all the candidates have been filtered through by the Guardian Council.The mysterious 6 million - and still growing in numbers - unexpired birth certificates of the deceased and how they are used to manipulate the outcome in important elections, the instructions to the baseej militia on which candidate is the favourite and what they should do to ensure the favourite wins. How all this vote manipulation ensures that a candidate scoring last in the opinion polls with only 2.8 percent of the vote, can suddenly take most of the votes and become the 'most popular president'! How the IRGC commanders and other bodies even at times, unwittingly acknowledge the role of the Baseej and the Revolutionary Guards in the election results! and yet some "Iran experts" suggest we should take democracy go its path and wait for Iranians to vote for a "reformist" president in the next elections :)-Most Iran news followers may by now know about Ahmadi-nejad's dellusions about representing the Shiite Messiah and his messianic mentors, but perhaps it may be unknown to them the role of philosophers like Ahmad Fardid, a disciple of Nazi linked Martin Heidegger, who have also influenced Ahmadi-nejad's thinking.Naji presents hard facts to the appeasers and those who think negotiating with the hardliners may bring fruits by giving numerous examples of the outcomes of such moves in the past. Like when Madeleine Albright officially apologised on behalf of the US for its role in the 1952 coup, to the very mullahs who took part in the downfall of Mossadegh, and how such apologetic gestures only resulted in her Islamic Republic counterpart wanting to sue the US now that they had admitted to their role :)) or how Islamic vigilantes attacked a bus full of US academics, keen to open a dialogue with the Islamic Republic, with sticks and stones :))-The tragedy of Ahmadi-nejad's mismanagement of Iran's economy and how all the petro-dollar wealth is wasted and misspent by a president who despises economics and economists, is also explained very clearly by Naji. I wish Naji would also have said how this is very much in line with Ayatollah Khomeini's infamous statement that 'economics belongs to the donkeys'.And for myself who am not a nuclear expert and have not had time to follow the nuclear issue of the Islamic Republic in much detail, Naji's chapter on Iran's Nuclear Quest was very useful too.Naji after all is not an exiled opposition, he has worked as a journalist in Iran for many years and is also the husband of BBC's former correspondent in Tehran, Frances Harrison, therefore he has been in an excellent position to understand the complexity and contradictions of the Islamic Republic and who runs Iran today beyond what is presented by the cleric's fancy shop windows to the outside world.I definitely recommend reading the book to all who want to be updated on Iran.Shortly after I read Kasra Naji's book, I came across a clip of him with Jon Snow in the frontline club. See: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1381682699&channel=301939273 Watch how the pompous ex-Trot, Jon Snow, a son of a clergyman himself and a university drop out and a beneficiary of nepotism in journalism, tries to sound all knowing but gets some very basic news facts wrong. For example he says Ahmadi-nejad was the only non cleric candidate, Naji reminds him that was not the case. At another point, Jon Snow claims the root of the problem is that the US has never accepted the Islamic Revolution as a fact and come to terms with it, then he goes on about the Europeans and the British who in contrast have come to terms with the Islamic revolution and as he rants on, he realises himself that also hasn't got anyone anywhere! Most ridiculous Snow statement however is his suggestion that the US should carpet bomb Iran with laptops to overthrow the Iranian government! Hmm, what about the slow speed of the internet, the huge cost, the filtering of the sites etc. all mentioned in Naji's book. Watching the clip I wondered at times if Snow had even read Naji's book?!
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