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From Iran today, to Mr. Obama, on the passage of health care reform: Dear mr president, my friend (my chosen president) i congratulate you for passage of health care bill / thank you for a tremendous hard work that you did. without your hardest work this was not possible/ thank you, thank you. (i am [...]

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From Iran today: March 16, 2010 Shiraz is ALIVE!!!! This is the BEST Chaharshanbeh Soori I have ever experienced! Our city was alive tonight with the sounds of music, laughter and fireworks! And even though it is illegal now to build bonfires on the roads, people were building fires in the joobes (open drains) and [...]

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From Iran today: March 15, 2010 Warnings against celebrating the fire festivities My son reported that at school a 25 year-old Basiji came and spoke with the kids about the dangers of celebrating Chaharshanbeh Soori – the fires and fireworks. He said the guy made the kids feel bad about celebrating. Another kid I spoke [...]

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From Iran today: March 14, 2010 Let me Explain Chahar Shanbeh Soori takes place the Wednesday eve before the Iranian new year, or No Ruz. I don’t know how Zoroastrians celebrate it, but the rest of us Iranians usually get together with friends, party, light off firecrackers and light up numerous bonfires that we then [...]

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From Iran today: March 11, 2010 What do we do with all the graffiti? Cities around Iran try to do a bit of spring cleaning and get their cities beautified in preparation for all the No Ruz travelers this time of year. Our cities really do put on a fresh face. It’s great. However, this [...]

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From Iran today: March 8, 2010 Chahar Shanbeh Soori is Getting Close – Let’s stamp it out! I drove my parents to the airport today. They will be in the U.S. for over a month. Lucky them! They get to breathe freely for awhile! On our way to the airport we drove along the Dry [...]

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From Iran today: March 3, 2010 Not Much Going On, But A lot Going On A second person I am personally aware of, who was imprisoned for 2 years around 1367, was summoned for questioning.  The two who were questioned were asked to fill in a lot of personal information on a form including who [...]

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From Iran today: February 11, 2010 Drive to Tehran On our drive to Tehran for the long weekend I tried to SMS a friend who lives there. There was no texting capability. As we entered the city around 11:30 at night there was not a single sign of security anywhere to be seen. I guess [...]

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From Iran today: February 1, 2010 Haven’t Written for a LONG Time It’s been a long time since I have written. Sometimes it just doesn’t seem worth it. Change will take its time. Cycles of life and governance move at their own pace. Can we puny little humans really do anything to change our situation [...]

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From Iran today: January 9, 2010 What’s Happening? The Internet is slow and sporadic EVERYDAY. BBC Persian and VOA are cut off all day except for before 9am when the jamming office workers are not at work yet it seems (at least for us). In some areas the jamming technology does not work. They keep [...]

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