IRAN

I had promised a reader and supporter of NIAC to write why I think an Iranian lobby is a must in the United States. My reasons are simple. With an impressive national history and being one of the power players in the Middle East, Iran must have a lobby in the U.S. but not in the hands of the current Iranian regime. What credentials of people like Trita Parsi are?! He and his organization are playing a dangerous game. Human rights are not to be bargain with.

  

 

Victimising Khatmai equals Khatmai into making!


The overseas extensions of Islamic Republic in the U.S. (Abbas Milani, Trita Parsi, and Hooshang Amirahmadi) should be very happy these days. With the next presidency nominee, and Khatami in the game to secure the U.S. and Iran talk, they should start blowing in their trumpets! Let us not forget it was Khatmai's presidency which led to the deaths of many students and the arrest of many more.

  

 

SEVEN VALLEYS OF LOVE


I was born on a November day 1972 in a room on the third floor of Hashtroudian hospital in Tehran, Iran, nine months after my mother was assured by my father that yes, she didn't have to be a stay-at-home mom, and could continue her independent busy working life style.
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I wake each morning to the lovely sound of my few-months-old baby and with a body not fully recovered from the shock of an emergency c-section, I get ready to feed the now-all-screaming-up apple-pie. Once I am finished feeding, changing the diaper, rinsing my hands, and putting my contacts in, I go to wake up my daughter who asks for more time to sleep and I reply no!

Of course, while all of the above is exciting I should stay with the original plan which was to announce the release of my latest book. It is a bilingual anthology of women poets from Middle Ages Persia to present day Iran. I have translated and edited poems by Iranian born women of different ethnic, social, and religious backgrounds whose life in many ways has been a journey.

It goes without saying that Seven Valleys of Love makes an excellent every day gift for all of your loved ones! To learn more please visit publication info here and to order you can go here. I started the translation of these poems after losing my mother to breast cancer. I chose to work through my grieving period. Some donations will proceed to a breast cancer research center in Connecticut and copies of this anthology have made their way to public and university libraries. I also like to thank Ms. Pouran Farrokhzad for giving me the permission to use and translate a selection of Persian poems from Zanan-e Hamisheh, a contemporary anthology in Persian.

  

 

IRAN

Women's Rights Activists, Nasrin Afzali and Nahid Jafari, are sentenced to six months in prison and 10 lashes by whip.

  

 

NIAC launches new logo, amended mission statement to reflect growth? Yes! We are well aware of that!

Hossein derakhshan: “National Endowment for Democracy (NED)has awarded three grants to NIAC since its creation in 2002," the same people "whose successful lobby group tries to convince the Americans that the Islamic Republic is here to stay and the U.S. eventually has to acknowledge the reality of this sovereign, democratic state..."
And anyone who as much as questions Trita Parsi or the pyramid complex is either a MKO supporter, a financed Orientalist, a separatist, or needs MFA to write!

  

 

Signposts to Elsewhere is a succulent, stunning collection of images and thoughts more well-lit than the old swinging torches of the lamplighters. I find myself pausing everywhere among these wisdoms, wondering why the world stumbles and staggers through such a dark and greedy time when there are people alive with such keen, caring insight. If Yahia Lababidi were in charge of a country, I would want to live there.” – Naomi Shihab Nye

  

 

Iran: Crimes Against Humanity

Three Bahaies are prisoner of the oppressive regime in Shiraz, Iran and nine others have received death threats in addition to a failed attempt to put one of them on fire. These latest news are just a few example of a regime that Hooshang Amirahmadi, Trita Parsi and their pet projects try to sell us in the West as human rights friendly government!

  

 

Trita Parsi's web and Mullahs' economic Mafia

Hassan Daioleslam: "The unavoidable end result may be a catastrophic war between Iran and the US. To prevent that war, we must stop the Iranian lobby and their American cohort enterprises. This is not the case of a smuggler helping a mullah get an airplane ride. This is a matter of national security and the interest of the Iranian and American people."

  

 

And Now for Educational Purposes!

In response to someone who believes 9/11 is an inside job and Fitna is more than a piece of propaganda! Unlike you I don't believe 9/11 was an inside job. It was an event orchestrated by preachers of a hateful ideology. Unfortunately the dominant discourse of Islam today shows no or little tolerance and respect for individual rights and freedoms. Even the criticism of the so called moderate Muslims against acts of violence has more to do with a pragmatic concern for Islam and the Muslim community as opposed to a fundamental belief in human dignity and intrinsic value of human life. It will do the Muslim community no good if all they know is to get offended, make up conspiracy theories, and threaten people to death for speaking up.