Observer

During Kouchner’s visit to Lebanon, he talked about Clotilde Reiss, the French citizen who is arrested in Iran with espionage accusation. Kouchner said: “Do you think my country would be so naive and shorthanded as to send a 23-year-old woman to spy in Iran? That’s stupid, it’s not possible.” Well, Monsieur Kouchner, although we all [...]

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In my last post, I talked about the documentary that BBC has produced about Iran. Today, I found another one which is also quite interesting, even more than the one from BBC. This new one is produced by Arte TV (in French language) and is done by a French reporter who has traveled to Iran [...]

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Among different videos that I have found on the internet about Iran, the series that Sadegh Saba from BBC Persian has produced, seems to be a very good source for those who would like to know the country through traveling to its different places. As I am from Shiraz, the city located in the southern [...]

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If you have an interest in middle east and you would like to know a bit more about the country which because of its nuclear activities, is the topic of lot of political negotiations these days, then you should not miss the documentary that BBC has produced about Iran. The program is divided into three [...]

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This is something I suggested to some of my friends on Facebook few months ago as their profile had been indexed by Google at that time. In other words, anyone who would search their names in Google would see their FB profiles (the preview of course). I don’t know how well you are aware of [...]

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Guardian has looked into the keynote speeches at the Democrat National Convention to see what words have been mentioned the most. Here you can see the statistics of Barack Obama’s, Bill Clinton’s, and Joe Biden’s speeches. Although Republicans accuse Democrats of not putting America first in their plans, it’s interesting to see that the words [...]

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There have been a lot of blog posts and news about Ahmad Batebi, the way he fled Iran, reasons, and facts. I am not going to comment on any of those discussions. He has been spending the best time of his life in prison for 8 years and I believe that it is totally his [...]

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A surprising thing for me when watching American news channels is to see that the smallest event in United States will affect the coverage of much important news happening in the world. I am not even talking about the presidential primaries that these days have become the top news in major American news networks like [...]

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A few years ago, in friendlier times, the Senator and I talked about the Cuban missile crisis. At a crucial moment, John F. Kennedy received two messages from the Soviets — one bellicose, one accommodating. He chose to ignore the bellicose message and very likely saved the world. “You probably would’ve chosen the wrong message,” [...]

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In the world where the definition of “illiteracy” has changed from “not knowing how to read or write” to “not knowing how to work with a computer”, the idea of being able to provide every kid in the world with a computer would be amazing. This is what came into the mind of Mary Lou [...]

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