http://blogsbyiranians.com/ Best of Iranian Blogs in English en-us hoder@hoder.com Copyright 2007 2007-06-21T18:34:48 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/index.php/?p=619 32134@http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/index.php/?p=619 2007-06-21T18:34:48-05:00 http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/index.php/?p=618 32013@http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/index.php/?p=618 2007-06-17T17:08:39-05:00 http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/06/blame-of-crime-again.html Khamenei's regime is muddying the waters, but they could catch the big fish only if we lose our sense of justice and reality. 31930@http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/06/blame-of-crime-again.html 2007-06-15T18:03:42-05:00 http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/06/rationale-of-tyranny.html Survival is why tyrannies like the Islamic Republic do what they do and propaganda is how. This adds to, not diminish, the dangers of their propaganda. 31101@http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/06/rationale-of-tyranny.html 2007-06-05T05:43:46-05:00 http://mrbehi.blogs.com/i/2007/06/pings_in_prison.html Iranian government is going to use new technology for filtering 31045@http://mrbehi.blogs.com/i/2007/06/pings_in_prison.html 2007-06-03T19:06:29-05:00 http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/05/wish-come-true.html The anti-neocon agenda is behind every thought of the Left. 30904@http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/05/wish-come-true.html 2007-05-31T04:29:16-05:00 http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/05/targeted-arrests-scare-tactic.html Why should they arrest people who try to portray a good image of Iran abroad? The reason is simple once we view the Islamic Republic as the tyranny whose foremost objective is to prolong itself: Scare tactic. 30846@http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/05/targeted-arrests-scare-tactic.html 2007-05-29T18:32:15-05:00 http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/index.php/?p=615 30809@http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/index.php/?p=615 2007-05-28T15:10:11-05:00 http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/05/hostages-in-their-own-land.html Iran's government has a long record of imprisoning its own citizens on bogus charges. Mr. Derakhshan is morally accountable for knowingly spreading the lie that this is not true. 30676@http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/05/hostages-in-their-own-land.html 2007-05-25T04:52:43-05:00 http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/index.php/?p=614 30665@http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/index.php/?p=614 2007-05-24T19:16:49-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/the-jewish-equation/ 30629@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/the-jewish-equation/ 2007-05-24T00:04:34-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/ahmadinejad-does-not-want-to-nuke-israel/ That’s right. Despite what we keep hearing in the media incessantly, Ahmadinejad is not aiming for the destruction of Israel. Ahmadinajad’s “Israel must be wiped off the map,” is very likely to break quite a few records and be o... 30551@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/ahmadinejad-does-not-want-to-nuke-israel/ 2007-05-22T00:00:55-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/iran-and-us-will-negotiate/ It is oddly underreposrted that the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, has supported Iran-U.S. talks over Iraq. Even though this is meant to be about Iraq only, it is nevertheless the first high-level diplomatic encounter between Iran and the U.S. s... 30437@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/iran-and-us-will-negotiate/ 2007-05-16T23:52:49-05:00 http://freethoughts.org/archives/000837.php Ironically efforts to isolate the country have crowded out those who oppose an open economy in Iran. 30316@http://freethoughts.org/archives/000837.php 2007-05-13T20:08:40-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/on-islam-and-democracy/ There has been a never-ending debate about whether or not democracy would be compatible with Islam and vice versa. Many people have expressed their opinion on this. Lately, an Iranian band, Kiosk, have written a song calling religious democracy (i.e. ... 30143@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/on-islam-and-democracy/ 2007-05-08T23:00:25-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/europe-going-down-americas-path/ One could argue that if Sarkozy ran for presidency in the U.S. right now, he would be lucky to win a single state beyond Texas and Arizona! While Americans are trying hard to get themselves out of the quagmire that Bush and the Neo-Cons dragged them in... 30097@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/europe-going-down-americas-path/ 2007-05-07T23:44:15-05:00 http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/index.php/?p=611 WELL……THE DAY HAS COME. While inside france, no media outlet is allowed to give poll results until after the election has closed, there are always foreign news sources which give exit poll results. So here you will find Loopy, giving what ... 30036@http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/index.php/?p=611 2007-05-06T08:07:36-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/the-horrors-of-neo-liberal-imperialism/ I accidentally found this article by Robert Cooper, a senior advisor to Tony Blair, in which he calls for a new liberal imperialism that evokes the most horrid days of colonialism. This shows that the kind of ideas that inspired Joseph Conrad’s H... 29944@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/the-horrors-of-neo-liberal-imperialism/ 2007-05-04T00:19:26-05:00 http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/?p=610 29878@http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/?p=610 2007-05-02T09:34:41-05:00 http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/?p=609 29879@http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/?p=609 2007-05-02T09:34:41-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/bayrou-holds-a-candlelight-of-hope-in-france/ Francois Bayrou has announced that he will not endorse any of the two candidates the French presidential elections, has severely citicized Nicolas Sarkozy’s policies for concentrating power and undermining democracy in France, as well as Royal&#8... 29656@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/bayrou-holds-a-candlelight-of-hope-in-france/ 2007-04-25T13:58:21-05:00 http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/?p=608 29615@http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/?p=608 2007-04-24T11:33:55-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/fascist-ideas-alive-and-growing-in-france/ The results of the first round of French elections are out and Jean-Marie Le Pen has ostensibly been defeated. Yet, the man who finished first, did so by stealing Le Pen’s ideas and reselling them along with a much better image and a mighty appar... 29559@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/fascist-ideas-alive-and-growing-in-france/ 2007-04-22T23:51:17-05:00 http://blog.hamidreza.com/archives/2007/04/an_iranian_auth.php Yaghoub Yadali is an Iranian young author who has written a very good novel named “The behavior of unrest”. This book got some important prizes and was among the best novels of the year, 2 years ago. The story happens... 29540@http://blog.hamidreza.com/archives/2007/04/an_iranian_auth.php 2007-04-22T15:43:39-05:00 http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/04/novelist-put-in-jail.html Yaghoub Yad-Ali, an award-winning Iranian novelist, has been jailed on charges of "insulting ethnic groups and interfering with national security" related to two of his books published in 1998 and 2003. 29524@http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/04/novelist-put-in-jail.html 2007-04-21T22:51:49-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/miles-for-peace/ 29414@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/miles-for-peace/ 2007-04-18T23:57:02-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/the-brits-attempt-to-cover-up-the-mess/ The way Iran treated the 15 British sailors/marines who were in disputed waters with a clear mission, and their happy release has made Blair, Bush and the rest of the Cons in the West pretty mad. So mad, in fact, that they’re now trying to divert... 29173@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/the-brits-attempt-to-cover-up-the-mess/ 2007-04-10T23:38:59-05:00 http://www.persianstudents.org/archives/002399.html "Iran is in the news for all the wrong reasons, but what's it like to go on holiday there?" A short and interesting article from the Observer by Tony Wheeler who went on holidays to Iran.... 29119@http://www.persianstudents.org/archives/002399.html 2007-04-09T17:45:24-05:00 http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/?p=602 29041@http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/?p=602 2007-04-07T16:45:48-05:00 http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/04/gift-of-impudent-thief.html Mr. Ahmadinejad announced the marines are released "as a gift" to the British people. In the Islamic Republic's logic giving a gift is no different from returning stolen goods. This impudence is the essence of the Islamic Republic's existence. 29005@http://libiran.blogspot.com/2007/04/gift-of-impudent-thief.html 2007-04-06T18:42:52-05:00 http://blog.hamidreza.com/archives/2007/04/always_a_rat_is.php I really enjoyed watching ‘The Departed’. It’s a great movie and I’m really glad that Scorsese got his first Oscar prize for this movie. He has made a very entertaining thriller that can easily attract you. Scorsese knows how to... 28988@http://blog.hamidreza.com/archives/2007/04/always_a_rat_is.php 2007-04-06T15:18:56-05:00 http://freethoughts.org/archives/000835.php Many people commented on the suites the British crew members were wearing when they met Ahmadinejad. The history of the tailor profession after the revolution is a classic microeconomics example of demand and supply. 28987@http://freethoughts.org/archives/000835.php 2007-04-06T14:29:43-05:00 http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/?p=601 28958@http://zayyani.free.fr/blog/?p=601 2007-04-05T14:18:39-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/israel-says-it-could-live-with-a-nuclear-armed-iran/ Once again, Neocons and Co. seem to get it wrong. Israel has considered the possibility of coexistence with a nuclear-armed Iran, and they believe that it is plausible. Could such a “balance of terror” be established in the Middle East? Eph... 28914@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/israel-says-it-could-live-with-a-nuclear-armed-iran/ 2007-04-04T16:18:40-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/child-labor-and-the-wonders-of-persian-blogsphere/ Kouroush Ziabari, a 16-year old teenager from the city of Rasht in Iran, has been blogging in English for a while. In most of his posts he talk about his observations about the society in which he lives, showing what it’s like for a witty teenage... 28913@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/child-labor-and-the-wonders-of-persian-blogsphere/ 2007-04-04T10:40:46-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/the-brits-back-on-reason/ As Murray had mentioned two days ago, it seems that the Brits are backing their maritime border claims: At a working level, Whitehall is trying to get reality back into the British position, though this may get stomped on again by the spin doctors. One... 28842@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/the-brits-back-on-reason/ 2007-04-02T12:10:20-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/things-you-have-to-know-about-iran/ Opium and Saffron has a very important message for Americans in favor of war with Iran. He would like to tell them -That Ahmadinejad for all of his rhetoric only represents one of many circles of power in Iran - he does not have the same power as an A... 28818@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/things-you-have-to-know-about-iran/ 2007-04-01T22:08:33-05:00 http://www.persianstudents.org/archives/002390.html An interesting article in the Guardian by Terry Jones I found via Hoder's blog. I'll paste it here for you to enjoy. Meanwhile I'm hoping that this issue will be resolved quickly and our relations will get back to normal.... 28761@http://www.persianstudents.org/archives/002390.html 2007-03-31T16:00:51-05:00 http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/kidnapped-iranian-diplomats/ It’s been months since 5 Iranians diplomats were kidnapped by U.S. forces in Irbil, Iraq and several weeks since Ali Reza Asgari, a former Revolutionary Guards general, inconspicuously disappeared in Turkey, giving rise to rumors about a possible... 28730@http://persianperspective.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/kidnapped-iranian-diplomats/ 2007-03-30T16:09:28-05:00 http://www.persianstudents.org/archives/002388.html 28688@http://www.persianstudents.org/archives/002388.html 2007-03-29T15:17:23-05:00