| Light morph is seeing
Who has lied to gain hate
Is losing the game.
Dark morph is watching
Who has quoted God’s word
Is quitting man’s love
and will fake women’s faith.  | | | | Beyond Pope and Lutter
Beside Moses, Jesus and Muhammad
Before God than ever
Merry Christmas to my Red-woods
To my Oak threes and fire-woods,
For an America that sings the height and the river | |
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Waterborne and sunlit
Landward and sky-high
Bears and warms,
We Unload fear and distill bravery.
When snowy solitude
Moves like bear, | | | | One by one
The beauties of earth are waking up
Steady and soft
All trees are rising up
Persian woman is nagging her face
Delightful, faithful and sinful
But with nonchalance | |
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And his dense is wondering.
If she renews his body
He could also sing
And more of new
Be his memory.
Love is making renewed | | | | Do you know “beyond” can be every where?
Do you feel “toward” can not be every where?
There or here, before or after
You want to be true, and become real on me.
Subconscious or overslept
You attempt to act consciously and be.
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| | TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians recited poetry, shared stories and ate fruits and nuts Saturday during all-night celebrations of the longest night of the year, a tradition going back thousands of years to when Zoroastrianism was the predominant religion of ancient Persia.For many Iranians, the celebration, known as Yalda, offers a link with ancient traditions as well as a chance to gather with family. | | | | We, the Iranians, celebrate October 29, the International Cyrus the Great Day, the day he issued humanity’s first declaration of human rights, as our National Day. This is a day that will remain and become eternal in our history.
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Passing through
A green corridor of songs,
After a summer rain,
Perhaps it was a feeling,
- Always being there,
But left forsaken as if for ever -,
Suddenly awakened me
In another childhood.
| | | | Passing through
A green corridor of songs,
After a summer rain,
Perhaps it was a feeling,
- Always being there,
But left forsaken as if for ever -,
Suddenly awakened me
In another childhood.... | |
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Many problems of the world can be solved by the application of science, so the most importance act of universities and schools is training scientists and educated peoples. Scientists should take heart at the crying need in the emerging information for scientifically educated problem solvers, able to integrate various fields of knowledge. In this case there would be huge loss if the educated peoples lose their right way due to the effect of untruth instead of the real science.
| | | | | International Committee to Save the Archeological Sites of Pasargad a non-profit, non-political entity, endorses the gathering of Iranian people worldwide to protest against any and all name changing of the Persian Gulf. Recently, Google Earth, arbitrarily, and without any consultation with the United Nations, added the fradulent name of “Arabian Gulf” to its authentic name, “the Persian Gulf” on their Google Earth search engine. International Committee to Save the Archeological Sites of Pasargad finds this to be outragous, unlawful, irresponsible and a violation of all historical and International laws | |
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|  At the invitation of Romero Britto, on Tuesday evening October 9th, Her Majesty Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi, attended as a guest of honor the opening of his new works at the Opera Gallery in Paris.
| | | | 26 October 2007, 7.30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London. A rap and pop concert by Iranian artists with music and words that are inspired by the writings of Jalal al-Din Rumi.Jalal al-Din Rumi's mystic poems have inspired musicians and artists of all genres throughout the world, arching over all culture, religion and language barriers reaching out and unifying millions of people of all ages.
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| | he etymology concerning the name Europe is much debated. One apprehension is that it derives from the Greek mythology where Europa (Greek Ευρώπη) was a Phoenician princess, famous for her beauty, captured by Zeus in the shape of a bull. She was brought to the island of Crete where she became the mother to Minos. | | | | n the Dashli building, Asko Parpola recognized a tripura such as have been described in the Vedic literature as the strongholds with three circular concentric walls of the Dasas or Asuras (Asura/Ahura worshippers), which Parpola himself has identified elsewhere as Iranian.
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|  Iran possesses an ancient culture that has endured and at times thrived through millennia of vicissitude and foreign invasions without losing its Iranian identity. Iranians within Iran and those in the diaspora continue to produce significant works of distinctive character in the fields of literature, music, painting and cinema.
| | | | | Pasargad and Bolaaghi gorge have only a last chance to survive before to be flooded by supplying water to Sivand Dam .These are not only a very important part of Persian Heritage, but also a cultural treasure belong to the whole humankind. | |
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| | Demonstrating one of the most civilized and cultured nations in history, to whose contributions world civilization is indebted, as savages, could not have been for lack of historical information or for lack of inter-cultural communication. There must have been other motives. From the business point of view, any well-made movie involving Iranians would have presented the same potentials for success or failure due to the wide publicity about Iran. | | | | | For many Iranians the cinematic movie ‘300’ may come as a shocking revelation. But to those of us who came up through America’s school system, the ‘Battle of Thermopylae,’ which is what the movie ‘300’ is based on, is as familiar as George Washington’s fabled “cherry tree” episode. | |
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| | LONDON, (CAIS) -- Today, a group of cultural heritage enthusiasts and NGOs gathered in front of Islamic Republic’s Parliament in Tehran to voice their objection to the flooding of Sivand Dam by the Islamic regime in Fars province once again. Protesters carried placards in support of saving historical sites, which are located in Bolaghi Valley behind the Sivand Dam and will submerge with inundation of the dam. | | | | 
Manuchehr Jamali´s writings cover a wide spectrum of subjects and ideas which are unfolding their outlines vis-à-vis a background of five thousand years or more of Iranian culture summed up by the author as “Farhang-e Simorghi” (Simorgh culture). | |
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|  Two days ago, on January 22, 2007, Islamic’s Republic of Iran’s (IRI) Minister of Energy announced his intention to begin flooding the Sivand Dam within a week. This Dam will flood the ancient archeological sites of Bolaghi Gorge and Pasargad Plains where the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great - the author of the first declaration of Human Rights in mankind's history - is situated. The date chosen for this act is coincided with the anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran and taking over the reigns of power 28 years ago. | | | | | Without exaggeration, our country is descending into a dark hole. The gravity and seriousness of the situation is unpredictable.Unlike the friends who still insist that Ahmadinejad’s coming to power was the cause of this descent, I believe that Iran’s current troubles began with the defeat of the reformists in the spring of 2007, when the public and political forces stayed silent in face of the wholesale shutting down of dozens of reformist publications. | |
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Reza Deghati, the internationally renowned photographer (Time, Newsweek, National Geographic) and founder of NGO Aina received the highest award in Journalism, the “Missouri Honor Medal”, at the Missouri school of Journalism (University of Columbia) in recognition of his lifelong contributions, through brilliant photojournalism, to justice and dignity for the world's citizens. | | | | | ICSASPP :Since the establishment of the International Committee to Save the Archeological Sites of Pasargad Plains less than two years ago, we have continuously read the news and reports of your exciting excavations and discoveries and have reflected on them in the Committee's site, as well as sending them to hundreds of interested people around the globe. | |
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| | According to Josefus Flavius (a Jewish historian from the first century) the name Jesus Christ can only be a pet name because Josefus tells of all important events and all famous persons in Judaea in the first century but he actually does not know of anyone named Jesus Christ.* It is therefore imperative to seek the real historical name of Jesus Christ. This is an important world enigma. | | | |  LONDON, (CAIS) -- A request was recently submitted to the office of Islamic Republic president by the Information Centre for Salvation of Ancient Heritage, requesting postponement of Sivand Dam inauguration to give archaeologists more time to save the historic remains of the Bolaghi Valley, an ancient site near the World Heritage Site of Pasargadae in Fars province.
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| LONDON, (CAIS) -- In a meeting held yesterday between authorities of Iran’s Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization (ICHTO), Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Road and Transportation, and Fars Governor Office regarding railway construction in the vicinity of the historic site of Naqsh-e Rostam, the Ministry was forced to change the railway path in order to protect the historical monuments from destruction.
| | | |  The people of Babylon, who, against the will of the gods had suffered a yoke unsuitable for them . . ., I offered relief from their exhaustion, and ended their servitude.” /Cyrus Cylinder:25-27 /(October 29, 539 BCE)
watch/ In Search of Cyrus The Great | |
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| | This is a foundation for users’ studies and also a source for people who will work in this field in the future,” Qaneifard told the Persian service of IRNA on Saturday.The dictionary contains 3500 Greek words with 98,000 Persian equivalents.“Maybe we should name this dictionary an introduction, whose reliability can be determined by linguists. However, this introduction gives a limited knowledge of the Greek and Persian languages,” Qaneifard noted | | | | On July 8, 2006, the Historical Museum of Palatinate in Speyer, Germany, will open its highly anticipated Splendor and Grandeur of the Great Kings - The Persian Empire exhibition to its visitors.
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| | According to the etymoliogists the name of the Russians derives from the Finnish name Ruotsi ( from the swedish word “rutscha” meaning slide or glide) or from the ancient Swedish roder (rodd=rowing). In this case the name of the Russians derives from the Swedish colonialists name in Russian (Gårdarike, meaning roughly “the realm of the gardens”). The mythical Slavic and Swedish name Rusalki (the comforting valkyria) and Rusla (valkyria participating in Ruslagen) gaurantees this theory | | | |  In Iranian (Persian) believes star or as it's called today planet Anahid/ Anahita/ Nahid (Venus) is flowing water's star and so Nahid`s temples have been made near rivers and water fountains. And also there is another character which as a result waters and its fountains and aqueducts belonged to her and she was supporter of them. The reason why in Iranian traditional believes water fountains were symbols of Anahid`s place and men can not go there is based on this believe.But one question arises here what has happened in nature that the believe of relation between water and rivers and Anahid`s star.In Iranian papers near Nahid star there is another name Ardevisurah in all AbanYasht in Avesta there are adulated .it has been called Ardevisura Anahid.in writer believes this name and character before became a name and symbol for water Izad Banou (goddess) was a name for a river and a star .Aredvy or Ardevisura was name of a river and Anahid name of a star and also a river's titular. | |
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| I give you my song, /Why lash and rope?//My songs,/The reminder of long years wandering /Are for you…/Just pick up your bayonet!/On the terrain, /Is a place for /me? /Something else for you/Each one is possible for/Have a chalet packed of books,/Have a quiet situate full of memoirs,/Have a petite field for me,/And a tiny /garden for you/There is not some where/Between us and sunflowers/Leave the lash!/Lay the spear and stab!
| | | | I give you my song, /Why lash and rope?/My songs,/The reminder of long years wandering /Are for you…/Just pick up your bayonet!/On the terrain, /Is a place for /me? /Something else for you//Each one is possible for/Have a chalet packed of books,Have a quiet situate full of memoirs,/Have a petite field for me,/And a tiny garden for you/There is not some where/Between us and sunflowers/Leave the lash!/Lay the spear and stab!
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|  The last night of the fall, the winter solstice, is celebrated in Iranian culture. It coincides with December 21 or 22 and is the longest night of the year. In Iran this night is called Shab-e yalda (Yalda night), which refers to the rebirth of the sun. Yalda is the longest night of the year. Ancient Iranians believed that in the end of this longest night, which they believed was evil, Darkness is defeated by Light (Sun) and days become longer. This celebration comes in the beginning of the Iranian month of Day, which was also the name of the pre-Zoroastrian creator god (deity). | | | | Yalda, a Syric word imported into the Persian language by the Syric Christians means birth (tavalud and melaad are from the same origin). It is a relatively recent arrival and it is refereed to the "Shab e Cheleh Festival" a celebration of Winter Solstice on December 21st. Forty days before the next major Persian festival "Jashn e Sadeh" this night has been celebrated in countless cultures for thousands of years. The ancient Roman festivals of Saturnalia (God of Agriculture, Saturn) and Sol Invicta (Sun God) are amongst the best known in the Western world.
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|  We, the undersigned, regretfully have to inform all the inhabitants of our planet earth that one of the greatest parts of the historical heritage of human race is on the verge of permanent extinction. The Islamic Republic of Iran has embarked on finalizing stages of construction of a dam in south of Iran that will ultimately drown the archeological sites of Pasargad and Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Achamenian Empire – a rich and complex site that, since its inception, has been considered by all writers of antiquity as one of the wonders of the ancient world and, thus, a part of the cultural heritage of the human race. | | | | 
Recently I went on my annual trip to Iran, but this this time instead of just hanging out at jomeh bazaar and the ever-trendy Milade Noor and Ghaem, I brought a camera with me to take pictures. So I created a fashion shoot (one of the first in a longwhile) using real Iranian beauties off the street and playing with archetypes | |
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The Islamic Republic of Iran, which holds in great contempt any non-Islamic belief or heritage, has embarked on destroying the archeological sites of Pasargad and Persepolis -- some of humanity's most prized cultural heritage. The heinous destruction of the two Buddha statues by Afghanistan's Taliban, pales in comparison to the present barbaric designs of the Islamic Republic.
| | | |  In the midst of the high Zagros Mountains a majestic fortress, which may be considered as significant as Arg-e Bam, stands tall to serve as a reminder of an ancient Iranian civilization dating back to thousands of years.
Unlike all other Iranian forts, which are located away from cities and in difficult mountainous terrain, Falak-ol-Aflak Fortress is situated on a hillock, which is an archaeological site, at an altitude of 40 meters in the center of the city of Khorramabad, Lorestan province, according to Iran Daily.
Khorramabad River runs along the eastern and southern sides of the fort serving as a fortification like a moat. | |
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|  British Museum started the Ancient Iran exhibition from yesterday. Today we managed to set up a desk outside the Museum's main gate and in just under three hours collected more than 600 signatures, calling for a stop to the building of Sivand dam which threatens to flood more than 100 archaeological sites including Cyrus' tomb in Pasargard.
| | | | | We, the undersigned, regretfully have to inform all the inhabitants of our planet earth that one of the greatest parts of the historical heritage of human race is on the verge of permanent extinction. The Islamic Republic of Iran has embarked on the finalizing stages of a dam construction in south of Iran that will ultimately drown the archeological sites of Pasargad and Persepolice, the ancient capital of the Archimedean Empire | |
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|  The Islamic regime is to submerge part of Iran's past in a shameful historical cleansing, in order to avoid facing more nationalistic problems with future generations. The construction of a very controversial dam project is near completion and soon, the tomb of "Cyrus the Great" and "Persepolis" would be submerged under water. | | | | 
There are several national festivities that have existed since ancient Iran one of tem is Tirgan. The festival of Tirgan is observed on the early July, when the hot weather of summer usually occurs in the northern hemisphere and when Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, is in conjunction with the sun in the summer. | |
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| Television viewers around the world witnessed the looting of priceless antiquities from Iraq’s national museum.
It was presumed the same thing happened to Afghanistan’s historical treasures when that country’s national museum was reduced to a roofless, derelict building during the war against Soviet occupation and subsequent Taliban rule.
But archaelogists were puzzled by the fact that most of the precious objects from the Kabul museum failed to show up in Western auction houses. The museum had gained notoriety for its collection of more than 21,000 primarily gold objects of the Bactrian culture recovered in 1978 at Tilya Tepe (Mountain of Gold) by Russian archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi. As word of the horde of gold ornaments spread, Sarianidi rushed the treasure trove to the Afghan capital for safety. | | | | | Paarsi or Persian was the language of the Paarsa people who ruled Iran between 550 - 330 BCE. It belongs to what scholars call the Indo-Iranian group of languages. It became the language of the Persian Empire and was widely spoken in the ancient days ranging from the borders of India in the east, Russian in the north, the southern shores of the Persian Gulf to Egypt and the Mediterranean in the west. | |
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|  Archaeologists at a dig on a farm in western Iran have uncovered a skeleton with a solid gold mask in a bronze coffin in what could be the first of a fresh wave of Parthian-era discoveries.
"This finding is without precedence in our province," said the head of the Lorestan cultural heritage organization, Sirous Ebrahimi. | | | |  NPR Morning Edition, March 21, 2005
This is the second day of Nowruz, the Persian New Year -- and over the weekend, a quartet of Iran's greatest classical musicians wrapped up their tour of North America.
At home in Iran, these performers are superstars, and for Iranians living in the United States, it was a rare chance to see the group called the Masters of Persian Music.
The Iranian expatriate community came out in force to see these masters perform at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The lyrics to the songs are really poems -- some very old, dating back hundreds of years. | |
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|  This month, Jews from across Iran will pray at a shrine in Hamadan, in northwestern Iran, dedicated to the heroes of the Purim story. They will likely be met upon arrival by Muslims and Christians, who pray year-round at the unusual shrine. The building follows the architecture of emamzadeh ("Islamic shrine"), but has walls adorned with Hebrew inscriptions describing Esther and Mordechai's origins. In fact, it might come as a surprise to learn that the story of Purim has resonance for all Iranians.
Not only was Esther a Jewish queen, but, as the wife of King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I), she also continues to be revered as a Persian queen and, thus, an icon of national Iranian history. Though her original name, Hadassah, means "hidden" in Hebrew, she is known as Esther. Scholar and writer Haideh Sahim explains that "Esther" is derived from the Persian word astaar, meaning "star." It is believed that Esther and Mordecai were buried in the shrine at Hamadan, originally called Hegmataneh, in the fifth century B.C.E. | | | |  Mahmud Kianush, Iranian poet, writer, literary critic, and translator, was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1934. He studied at the Teachers Training College and Tehran University and has a BA in English language and literature. He published his first poems and short stories at the age of 16, while still in secondary school. So far, he has published 12 books of poetry, 9 books of short stories and novels, 12 books of poems and stories for children, several books of literary criticism, and more than 20 books of translations including works by John Steinbeck, D.H. Lawrence, Eugene O' Neill and others. | |
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|  The fall of the Assyrian empire came with surprising suddenness. The Medes and the Babylonians, who cooperated in defeating Assyria, divided the Asiatic domain of the Assyrians between them. (Egypt had meanwhile liberated itself.)
The Medes first appeared on the historical scene around the 9th century BC, when they were mentioned in contemporary Assyrian texts. They were an Indo-European tribe who, like the Persians had entered western Iran at some earlier and as yet undetermined date. Very little of their artistry has survived, apart from a few rock tombs, some funerary reliefs and some pottery. | | | |  the Iranian Plateau did not experience the rise of urban, literate civilization in the late 4th and early 3rd millennia on the Mesopotamian pattern but the lowland Khuzestan did. It was the Elamite Civilization. Geographically, Elam included more than Khuzestan; it was a combination of the lowlands and the immediate highland areas to the north and east. Elamite strength was based on an ability to hold these various areas together under a coordinated government that permitted the maximum interchange of the natural resources unique to each region. Traditionally this was done through a federated governmental structure. | |
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|  For eleven seconds on Tuesday morning February 22, 2005, the ground shook in southern Iran as a 6.4-magnitude earthquake rattled the mountainous area near the town of Zarand. According to news reports, more than 500 people have been killed, and tens of thousands of people have been affected in dozens of scattered villages, many of which were almost completely destroyed. This image shows the topography around the town of Zarand, in the Kerman region to the west of the Lut Desert. Two lines of mountains run southeastward through the scene, separated by a broad valley, through which the Shur Ab River flows. The approximate location of the earthquake’s epicenter is marked with a red dot near image center. The highest elevations in the scene (white) are found on the summit of Kuhpayeh Mountain, near the right center edge. | | | | | Scientists have warned that Tehran could be next in line because of its location in a high-risk fault zone. | |
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| | Some of the world's greatest man-made treasures are increasingly threatened by war, tourism and consumerism, the television historian Dan Cruickshank says. | | | | | Russian geologist, specialist for geophysical devices Henry Silanov founded a photo studio, in which one can see the collection of 80 unusual photographs - aliens, paranormal activities, people from the past eras | |
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| | TheEncyclopædia Iranica is a multi-disciplinary reference work and research tool designed to record the facts of Iranian history and civilization. In fact, it is the only precisely documented reference work on the lands, life, culture and history of all Iranian peoples and their interaction with other societies | | | | | Dr. Naderi is the head of Mars Exploration Program at JPL. The program consists of a chain of scientifically and technologically interrelated projects with one or more spacecraft launched to Mars every 26 months. In summer of 2000 he helped to architect this program and has responsibility for its end-to-end implementation. During his tenure three successful missions have orbited or landed on Mars. Dr. Naderi is also the Director for the Solar System Exploration Programs and chairs JPL?s Strategic Management Council. | |
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The Heat: Iran's Political Landscape
