by Sam Razi | Mar 22, 2010 | Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Enduring America) | March 22, 2010 Scott Lucas A reliable EA source passes on these insights from a well-placed contact: Today an Iranian friend called. According to him, the Government did effectively scare the people by killing and arresting them and relentlessly...
by Sam Razi | Mar 22, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General
(RFE/RL) | March 21, 2010 By Abbas Djavadi Maryam had invited her two daughters and their husbands and grandchildren for Norouz, the New Year’s feast, to her home in western Tehran when I called her on Saturday. It was after 9:02 p.m. when “tahvil,”...
by Sam Razi | Mar 21, 2010 | Featured, General
The following videos were filmed on March 20, during Persian New Year celebrations in Shiraz, at the Hafezieh shrine, dedicated to the famed and loved Persian poet, Hafez. Since Khamenei declared a fatwa against Chahar Shanbe Soori (the Iranian Fire Festival and start...
by Sam Razi | Mar 21, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Persian Umpire) | March 21, 2010 The Iranian regime’s hostility toward Chaharshanbe Souri is nothing new. For years after the revolution, as we were growing up in Tehran, we held the celebrations in fear. As we set our tumbleweeds on fire in our street and threw some...
by Sam Razi | Mar 21, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Business, Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Washington Post) | March 21, 2010 By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Foreign Service It might not seem that remarkable for a ragtag group of friends to come up with a computer game in a dusty back office. But the Iranian engineering students, programmers and fantasy...
