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: Thank you Mr. President
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged green movement, Health Care Reform, Iran, Obama on March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Saadi on gooze (passing gas) and the human condition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fart, Gooze, hope, Iran, Obama, Saadi, Shiraz on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A friend and Saadi scholar sent me the following translation today: “A noble man had some gas in his stomach. He could not hold it any longer, so he let it out. He said, ‘Friends, what just took place was out of my control; I did not mean to do it. Grant me this sin. It [...]
Nobel Peace Prize: Americans be happy — IT IS FOR YOU, NOT YOUR PRESIDENT!
Posted in Emotional Impact - how we are surviving, Events Outside Iran, tagged iran election, Iran uprising, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama on October 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Overjoyed about Obama peace prize. People are up in arms about what he hasn’t done. But, exactly. What he hasn’t done is remarkable. Obama refuses to engage in the extremist posturing game. In fact, at a loss for a sufficient enemy, Ahmadinejad still invokes Bush during his speeches to rile the crowd. By not providing [...]
9/25/2009 –it hits the fan
Posted in Events Outside Iran, tagged 9/25/2009, Ahmadinejad, Cars, Environment, GA Summit, Global Warming, green, New York, NPR, Obama, oppression, Petroleum, sanctions on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today the world buzzes with reports of a secret nuclear site somehow unearthed in Iran (I haven’t heard how exactly this unfolded quite yet), and the dilemma: how to “punish” a country that is already knee deep in sanctions? An NPR piece summarized the following problem: even with the current multilateral sanctions on Iran, Iran’s GDP is estimated to [...]
8/6/2009 What you can and should do
Posted in Emotional Impact - how we are surviving, Events Outside Iran, tagged Ahmadinejad, birth certificate, extremism, fanaticism, forward, freedom, global community, global movement, hope, Iran, Obama, Obama birthers, reason, right wing, sarah palin, Separation of Church and State, togetherness on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have received letters from people who want to help Iranians in their struggle. But they are overwhelmed the complexity of the situation, and by not knowing what could possibly help. Here is the answer: work hard to make yourself and the country that you live in accountable to the moral standards you wish [...]
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