همه می گن انتخابات و ... من هنوز مطمئن به رای دادن نیستم. تا این ساعت در هیچ انتخابات ریاست جمهوری رای ندادم. زمان سر و صداهای خاتمی رای ندادم چون برام اون همه هیجان و شعار غیر قابل هضم بود. بپذیرید یا نه ملتی هستیم که بی فکر و بی منطق شلوغ می کنیم. انقده همه خاتمی رو گذاشتن رو سرشون که بعد کلی ناامید شدن و کلی متلک بهش بستند. بعد از دو دوره خاتمی این ور آبیا گفتن انتخابات تحریم و احمدی نژاد اومد رو کار حالا دور شده دور موسوی. تو پاچه من یکی که نمیره. این لیست کاندیداها خنده داره. رضایی، کروبی، موسوی و احمدی نژاد. چهار تا تحفه که لیاقت هیچ چی رو ندارن. از اون بدتر حمایت کنده هاشونه.موسوی هم از طرف رفسنجانی حمایت می شه هم خاتمی !!! چه جوری یه مرتبه خاتمی و رفسنجانی هم کاسه شدند؟
شعارهای تبلیغاتی فقط حرف از روابط با خارج می زنه. ملتم فکر می کن آخ جون الآن با اومدن موسوی همگی کالیفرنیا نشین می شیم.

می گن حضورمون در انتخابات بهمون حق اعتراض می ده. من از همین الان اعتراض دارم این ۴ تا کاندید که به زودی دوتاشون به نفع موسوی می رن کنار جای اعتراض دارن. از کی تا حالا رضایی صلاحیت دار شده؟ دکتر سحابی می گه دموکراسی یاد گرفتنیه قبول ولی أیا موسوی یاد گرفته توی کمپینش از تمام ملت بابت کشتارهای دهه شصت عذر خواهی کنه؟ چرا اینایی که راه یاد گرفتن دموکراسی رو یک کلمه حرف از اشتباهاتشون نمی زنن تا من نوعی هم شفاف فکر کنم. من با انتقام مخالفم ولی دلم می خواد ببینم به اشتباهاتشون واقفن.

هیچ کدوم از این اقایون توانایی بهبود وضع اقتصادی رو ندارن. اون سیستم انقدر خرابه که به این سادگی قابل بازسازی نیست. قسمتیش دولته قسمتیش ماییم و قسمتیش هم سیاست کل دنیا.

من دلم می خواد رای بدم اونم سفید و جایی این رایهای سفید به عنوان عدم موافقتم با کاندیداها درج بشه.

متن بی حوصله و بدون سر و تهه حال درست فکر کردن هم بعد از چند روز یا به عبارتی هفته های مریضی و استرس نیست. می دونم هم که کلی دشمن برای خودم تراشیدم ولی سر حرف خودم هستم که این کاندیداها یکی از یکی نالایقترن.

تنها دلخوشیم اینه که یه ماه پیش پای تلفن بهم گفت امروز با بابات حرف تو رو می زدیم گفتیم بی دردسرترین بچه مونی

حالا که دیگه فرقی نمی کنه چون هیچ کدوممون نمی شناسه

هی می گن زهره بچه نمی خوای؟ می گم نه چه فایده که ادم حرص بچه هاشو بخوره و اونا یه سر دیگه دنیا باشن.
یکیشون که من باشم برای اینکه از فکرش فرار کنه روزی ۱۳ ساعت کار می کنه قهقهه می زنه و توی جیم ورزش می کنه از زنگ تلفن متنفره و جواب نمی ده ادم به این قویی از تلفن می ترسه
تنها جایی که غر می زنه اینجاست اخه اینجا خلوتشه کسی هم ازش خبر نداره
چقدر دلش می خواد جرات این و داشت که فردا بگه من می رم ایران به گور بابای پروژه هاتون کرده یاشایدم موند و با خاطره های خوبش زندگی کرد

هنوز هم فکر می کنم سروش آدم باشعوریه

دکتر عبدالکريم سروش در مصاحبه با روز:
بعضی فقیهان ما فرقی با طالبان ندارند

با تشکر از کامران بابت لینک

تصور کنین اگه این و میشد در مورد ایران نوشت چه محشری می شد. خودم حاضر بودم مقاله شو بنویسم. و خدا می دونه چه لیست بلند بالایی می شد.

Delara Darabi: 'Oh mother, I can see the noose'

Her Paintings

With New Software, Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors

Jailed Iranian AIDS doctors lose court appeal

Published online 22 April 2009 | Nature 458, 958 (2009) | doi:10.1038/458958d

A court in Iran has rejected an appeal by the two Iranian HIV researchers charged with collaborating with the United States to overthrow the government.

Physicians Kamiar Alaei and his brother Arash Alaei were sentenced to prison terms of three and six years, respectively, in December 2008 (see Nature 457, 517; 2009). The court rejected their appeal on 18 March but the news became public only last week.

The brothers' trial and convictions have been widely condemned by human-rights groups. Their lawyer, Masoud Shafie, intends to make a final appeal by 7 May to Iran's judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi.

A 'Global Day of Action' in support of the Alaeis will be held on 12 May and is likely to include vigils at Iranian embassies worldwide.

اگر حتی شکی در زمینه دستگری حسین درخشان وجود داشت با این خبر از بین رفت

بعضی وقتها از اینکه ایرونیم به شدت خجالت می کشم.

هر کی که موافقمون نباشه یا بر وفق مرادمون حرف نزنه باید از صحنه روزگار حذف بشه . مهم نیست کی سر کاره این توی مغز همه مونه ولی همه مون که به قدرت نمی رسیم.

هییییی دل غافل

Iranian president triggers racism conference walkout

Irans Präsident nutzt Uno-Gipfel zu Israel-Hetze

بیش از یک ساله که نمی تونم بنویسم مهم نیست چه زبانی دست به قلم نمی ره مهم نیست موضوع چی باشه.

در ضمن یک تذکر منظورمم فقط و فقط ایرونیهای ارجمنده. تو رو سر جد هر کی دوست دارین اگه با یه ایرونی دیگه مثل من ارتباطی ندارین و سالی یه بار فقط اگه کار دارین سراغش و می گیرین وقتی زهره می گه دارم می رم ننه من غریبم بازی در نیارین که وای دلمون تنگ می شه و این حرفها خصوصا وقتی زهره با چهره عاقل اندر سفیه نگاتون می کنه چرا انقدر تظاهر می کنیم؟ از اون مردک رییس جمهورمون گرفته تا خود خودمون

Former Iranian President, Khatami, to visit La Trobe

درسته خیلی وقته حرفی نزدم یا شایدم نخواستم بزنم ولی سال نو رو باید تبریک گفت. هنوز دلم نیومده در اینجا رو کامل ببندم. هنوز دلم می خواد دوباره برگردم و هر شب بنویسم. به زودی از استرالیا می رم شاید بهانه ای باشه برای نوشتن اونم از نوع دیگه.فعلا سال نو مبارک امیدوارم همه مون سال خوبی داشته باشیم.

A man walks along an avenue wearing a woman's headscarf in Tehran March 8, 2009. Shirt reads (Down with patriarchy, in show of support of women's right in Iran) REUTERS/Stringer
(IRAN SOCIETY)

Published online 20 February 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.115
Updated online: 26 February 2009

News: Briefing

Iran's nuclear plans
Do a satellite launch and a tonne of enriched uranium add up to an arsenal?

Geoff Brumfiel


Iran would need to purifiy its uranium-235 further to build weapons.PunchstockAccording to the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report, released yesterday, Iran has produced around a tonne of low-enriched uranium. That number was well above the United Nations' nuclear watchdog's estimate of 660 kilograms in November 2008. Nature News examines the implications.

Where did all that extra uranium come from?
Iran says that it produced 171 kilograms of the material between November 2008 and January 2009. The rest, around 179 kilograms, appears to have been discovered during the IAEA's annual inventory of materials at Iran's uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz. The origin of the material is "a little bit of a mystery", says Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. He believes that the Iranians may have misreported their production in earlier statements to the nuclear watchdog – although whether this was accidental or intentional is unknown.

I've heard that all you need is about 25 kilograms of uranium to build a bomb. Could Iran build an arsenal of nuclear weapons?
No. To build a bomb requires around 25 kilograms of a very specific isotope of uranium known as uranium-235. The naturally occurring uranium is only 0.7% uranium-235, and the process of enrichment purifies it so that it can be used in a reactor or a nuclear bomb.

Bomb-grade uranium is around 90% pure uranium-235, while reactor-grade material is typically just 3-5%. Iran has enriched its uranium to 3.49% according to the IAEA. That's pure enough to use in reactors, which is Iran's stated reason for enriching its uranium, but the concentration is still well below what you'd need for a bomb.

So what's all the fuss?
Technically, if Iran has 1000 kilograms of 3.5% enriched uranium, then it could obtain about 35 kilograms of pure uranium-235. In other words, Iran has got enough uranium-235 to build a bomb.

But first it needs to further purify its uranium-235. Iranian engineers could do that the same way that they made their 3.5% uranium, by passing their material through a cascade of spinning centrifuges that separates the isotopes from the heavier, and more common, uranium-238. In fact, enriching to about 5% is "most of the work", according Lewis.

The fear now is that Iran might be able to initiate a crash programme that could give them a weapon in a matter of a month or two.

Iran also launched its first satellite into orbit on 2 February – is that related to all this?
Initial reports suggested that the rocket used, known as a Safir-2, was a beefed-up version of a simple type of Soviet-era missile known as a scud, with a small, third stage on top. But observations by amateur astronomers now suggest that it was actually a more powerful two-stage rocket.

A rocket capable of carrying a satellite can also carry a warhead, so Iran's scientific achievement has military implications. But while the Safir-2 could get a 25-kilogram satellite into orbit, it would have a much tougher time delivering a half-tonne "gun-type" uranium warhead of the sort the country could produce with its centrifuges, according to David Wright at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Safir-2 would only be able to carry such a weapon perhaps 2,000 to 3,000 kilometres. "To really get longer range they have to go back and design a whole new missile," he says.

So what does this all mean?
"I think this information is only Earth-shattering if people have an outdated view of the world," Lewis says. The Iranians have already demonstrated the ability to produce rockets and uranium. The latest advances are no more significant than previous improvements, and it will be some time before the Iranians get a true nuclear capability — if that is what they're after.

Still, he adds that "time is running out". He believes that the international community must work with Iran to create a regime of inspections that can verify their activities while building trust between it and other nations.

Updated:
Iran claims to have successfully tested its 1000 MW nuclear plant at Bushehr yesterday using lead fuel rods. The reactor is expected to be fully operational later this year.


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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accesses no more than a few warheads. Iran would be melted in reprisal for nuking a Western ally. A rich target sits 20,300 km straight up: US GPS orbits. US military operations involving navigation or targeting are inert absent GPS. Watch for booster development and some *very* dirty bombs.

20 Feb, 2009 Posted by: "Uncle Al" Schwartz Obviously I don't want that Iran makes the bomb. However, its danger is instrumentally magnified: Tehran could never stike, since retaliation would melt it (Israel has 5 nuclear armed undestroyable submarines). What is true is that Iran could no longer be attacked! In order to prevent Tehran form making the bomb, one has to negotiate, not bomb it, and accept Iran in the international community as any other State. On the other hand, Brazil has already carried through the enrichment process, and nobody has protested!

23 Feb, 2009 Posted by: Angelo Baracca Lewis is underestimating the importance of those developments. They are more than just additions to that countries national prestige. they are indicative of a future nuclear bomb building capability that may be a few years away.

24 Feb, 2009 Posted by: neil farbstein despite the obvious that it would be insane to bamb countries that have retaliatory nuclear capability, there is still the possibility that extremists will go through with a crazy option.

24 Feb, 2009 Posted by: neil farbstein "China got the bomb, but have no fears, They can't wipe us out for at least five years." --Tom Lehrer, c. 1967

24 Feb, 2009 Posted by: Michael Maxwell The most effective application would not be a direct bombing via rocket or "dirty" bomb but an EMP from just off shore from any freighter. Small yield only is necessary with a short flght and no time to react. Down goes the grid. rm

24 Feb, 2009 Posted by: robert matheny Technological discussions on this topic seem absurd. Any committed (I use that word in several senses) user can produce a very nasty dirty nuclear device easily. The one and only reliable solution to such problems is to ban the bomb. And to implement that ban. In this instance, that can only be acheived through a normallisation of political relations with Iran. "Extremists" are us: some years back Curtis LeMay wanted to "bomb the commies back into the stone age" - and McCain's rewrite of "Barbara Ann" continues the refrain. One can hardly criticise a proselytizing theocracy for "extremism" - it's their state-of-the-art. Would they be more or less extreme, I wonder, than a nation that has thousands of hydrogen bombs ready to go?

25 Feb, 2009 Posted by: simon goodman

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یا رب این شمع دل افروز ز کاشانه کیست
جان ما سوخت بپرسید که جانانه کیسـت
حالیا خانـه برانداز دل و دین من اسـت
تا در آغوش که می‌خسبد و همخانه کیست
باده لعـل لـبـش کز لب من دور مـباد
راح روح کـه و پیمان ده پیمانـه کیسـت
دولـت صحـبـت آن شمع سعادت پرتو
بازپرسید خدا را که بـه پروانـه کیسـت
می‌دهد هر کسش افسونی و معلوم نشد
کـه دل نازک او مایل افسانـه کیسـت
یا رب آن شاهوش ماه رخ زهره جـبین
در یکـتای کـه و گوهر یک دانه کیسـت
گـفـتـم آه از دل دیوانه حافـظ بی تو
زیر لب خنده زنان گفت که دیوانه کیسـت