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From Iran Today: Thank you Mr. President

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged green movement, Health Care Reform, Iran, Obama on March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

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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March 15, 2010 Warnings against celebrating the fire festivities

Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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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March 14, 2010 Let me Explain

Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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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March 11, 2010 What do we do with all the graffiti?

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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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March 8, 2010 Chahar Shanbeh Soori is Getting Close – Let’s stamp it out!

Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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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22 Bahman “Unhappy New Year”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 22 Bahman, green movement, Iran on February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Well written analysis on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (written by NIAC) below. My aunt summed up her reaction to the protests on that day by saying: “It wasn’t as big as we had hoped, but it was a step forward.”

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2/8/2010

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Iran, Kurdish dance on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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2/6/2010

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aipac, Iran, Leiberman, sanctions, Senate, White House on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

How can the U.S. forget and snub the Iranian civil rights movement? Apparently senate passed a resolution for harsh sanctions that would affect the people of Iran. This realization, that the world may not help the people of Iran, that the world may actually want to see Ahmadinejad remain in power in some twisted way, [...]

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