This blog came to life thanks to Hossein Derakhshan’s persistent pressure. “You should make a blog and write all these things”, he would say, when I would tell him about my takes on Iranian society, my travel experiences, etc. It didn’t came out exactly as he wished though, he wanted me to write in Persian. [...]
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We are in a tribunal which looks more like a huge amphitheater. Everyone is staring to the first row where all the criminals are seated. I don’t know anyone around me, but I feel that we all share the same anguish. It is cold. Although I can not hear very well but I try to [...]
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I am back from my pilates class. I ate a nice steak and pasta and I feel wonderful. Then suddenly I remember something dark in my thoughts, something that makes me sad and worried. I have a friend who is in jail as a political prisoner. I don’t even want to know how it is [...]
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This story is so ridiculous and sad that it cracks me up. I always wonder what the limits of freedom are. Does a free country mean you can do whatever you like? Say whatever pleases you? Dress (or not dress) whichever way you fancy? And if the answers is some obscure thing like “yes, as [...]
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In a sense earthquakes are the most evil of natural disasters, in few minutes all is gone and there is not a way of predicting its happening before hand. Close to my heart are the earthquakes of Spitak in Armenia, which is in a sense is similar to the current Sichuan earthquake in China. It [...]
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