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2006

Feb, 18: Little secrets of Oriental Love;
"A 20/40/60+ year old Single/ Divorced/ Married Bisexual/ Gay/ Straight White/ Black/ Hispanic Man/ Woman/ Other is Looking for Romance/ Friendship/ Committed Relationship etc"; This certainly is one of thousands of ads in any given personals web site. Taking the chance that the other person comes out older, uglier, balder, fatter ...>>

Feb, 5: Eleventh Commandment: You Shall Not Drink
Drinking wine is said to be forbidden by the Islamic law as opposed to Christianity. But why? If the latter is also a divine religion and Christ is one of the greatest prophets of God. During the famous last supper why did he serve wine as a drink instead of milk or water? ...>>

Jan, 30: Press Freedom of Iran - A Review:
Comparing press freedom in Iran with France or US is not easy. It's somehow like comparing peer with beer. The paper media in the US for instance methodically distance themselves from the streamline visual media in order to get the lazy remainder of immigrants to "buy and read" instead of "watch for free"..>>

Jan, 24: Buck Fush, Juck Chirac:
The real players in the events that change the world remain unknown most of the time. The forces that assassinated J.F.Kennedy to reach their goals, may bribe another US president such as Clinton in a case like that of the Oval Office...>>

Jan, 17: Killer of Iranian Housewives:
These were ordinary housewives in Tehran that opened their doors to strangers who pretended to be interested in purchasing their houses. They did not have a clue that the well-dressed, educated couple have one notorious intention:..>>

Jan, 11: Kevin's view of Iran:
The way Iranians see themselves is very different from the way we look in the eye of an outsider. Specially due to the western attitude that see Middle Easterners as underdeveloped and inferior...>>

Dec, 27: God, Bush, Homeland Security
In Persian "Khoda, Shah, Mihan" meaning God, King, Homeland had been the dominant motto of the Persian empire and following dynasties ruling Iran for at least 25 centuries before the revolution in 1979...>>

Dec, 26: 1.Bam 2.Tsunami 3.???
What the heck is the relation between Bam and Sumatra? On Dec, 26, 2003 an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 literally wiped the ancient city of Bam off the map. The magnificent Citadel of Bam...>>

Dec, 25: Smile. You're on Camera!
Maybe you just made someone happy by giving a gift to a loved one. Maybe you donated something to a charity. Or just the opposite, you have committed a sin. That may not be considered a crime where you live...>>

Dec, 24: Merry Christmas:
Merry Christmas to the world from Iran. Once again people are celebrating the birthday of Jesus Christ after 2005 years. In Iran, because of the Muslim majority...>>

Dec, 21: On a night called YALDA:
Tonight is the night of the victory of the light. In Iran it's called the Yalda night. According to the Iranian solar calendar, tomorrow is the first day of the month of "DAY"...>>

Dec, 20: World Trade Center II:
Four years after 2 passenger airplanes hit the twin towers of the world trade center in New York, Osama Bin Laden is still mysteriously on the loose. This charismatic man that changed the world in the 21st century is being safeguarded successfully for probably other occasions...>>

Dec, 19: The Iranian Sheinstein;
Ladies and Gentlemen! Meet the Iranian Einstein, Madame Sheinstein! A broad observation of street billboards, posters, books and reviews depicts the fact that the Iranian nations is very obsessed with Albert Einstein ...>>

Dec, 18: Where are Tehran's Eagles gone?
It takes some time for us to realize the price we're paying for industrialization. Just a decade ago Golden Eagles used to fly over the skies of Tehran. These eagles have long deserted this city for good. ..>>

Dec, 17: Ahmadinejad's a shining star:
Remarks made by President Ahmadinejad have been echoing in the news and media worldwide. The EU, white house, and Israel's axis of dumbest...>>

Dec, 14: Ahmadinejad vs. Pamela Anderson!
The memoirs of a prostitute have become a bestseller, selling 30,000 copies in Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world! This makes us think if some nations of the world are drowning into labyrinths of sin without any one to help them out...>>

Dec, 13: IRAN catches US offside :
Probably one of the main things that make Iranians somehow advantageous is Persian that gives us access to gates of time. Inside many millenniums of history, reading works of great philosophers, historians, poets and other great artists of their own time in their own language is a great merit...>>

Dec, 12: Globalization or Polarization:
President Bush recently authorized the US ambassador to Iraq in order to start talks to Iranians regarding border security. This shows a tendency to a major shift in the US policy regarding Iran...>>

Dec, 11: Revival of the Iranian music (2):What we call the classical music of Iran which is performed by great artists such as Shajarian & Son, with all due respect does not really appeal to a great audience...>>
Dec, 10: Revival of the Iranian music (1); What's the place of the Iranian music in the world? Nowhere would be the most proper answer. For the simple reason that there is no definition of the Iranian music yet. ...>>

Dec, 7: Tehran is SHUT DOWN;
It's not winter yet in Iran. It's a beautiful sunny day in Tehran. But the sun is hiding behind clouds of smoke. It's the end of the story for Tehran. ...>>

Dec, 6: Plane crash sets ablaze building in Tehran;
A military airplane crashed into a building in the southern Tehran on it's ...>>

Dec, 5: NEED FOR UNICEF ;
Fouman.com has always been carrying the blue UNICEF logo on it's front page since ...>>

Dec, 4: Organized Crime in Iran ;
Is Mr. Ahmadinejad really devoted to Mahdi? Will he fight organized crime in Iran? "Crime in Iran" must be a title referring to some very dark pages in the Iranian contemporary history...>>

Dec, 3: The Jungle Book of Iran ;
One of the controversial figures in Iran's modern history is Mirza Kouchak Khan, known as the Warlord of Jungle. Yoonos, the son of Mirza Bozorg was born in 1880 in Rasht ...>>

Nov, 30: Real Persian Cats Bite ;
People of the world have very strange anticipation about Iran and Iranians. The way we see ourselves may be quite different from our image in the mirror. ..>>

Nov, 29: Looking up prostitution (2) ; What's the role of poverty in this phenomenon? For the Iranian women, there ...>>
Nov, 28: Looking up prostitution (1) ; he spoken Persian language is much different from it's written version. Probably ... >>

Nov, 27: Why are lies getting bigger?
While screening news on Iran on a daily basis, it's amazing to notice that nearly half of all news related to Iran are made up. t ...>>

Nov, 26: Iran warns England about human rights abuse
Voila! It's not the other way around! Iran is accusing the European Union countries of human rights violations. The English ambassador to Tehran has been recalled ...>>

Nov, 23: The X-Generation of IRAN (1); Take it; Colorful pills of all kind for almost freē! X-Generation is here...>>
Nov, 22: The X-Generation of IRAN (2); In the past issue we discussed briefly the use of amphetamine in cases ...>>
Nov, 21: The X-Generation of IRAN (3); What's X? It's very hard to remember when all the fuss about Iran's secret ...>>

Nov, 20: It's the final A-Countdown! ; Only 4 days left to the IAEA meeting on the Iran's nuclear issue and the international scene is heating up again with some serious questions. ...>>

Nov, 19: Iran's last tango with Russians; There's just less than a week from the IAEA board meeting on Nov, 24 to decide on Iran's possible referral to the UN security council. However the general atmosphere in the world is quite against Iran ...>>

Nov, 17: Rise in cases of AIDS in Iran ; "AIDS is real, AIDS is everywhere." , reads one of the signs in a clinic in Iran.A member of the commission of Health and Hygiene of the parliament said that there are 100,000 people in Iran who are HIV positive..>>

Nov, 16: Rise in exports of Technical Services; Iran has marked a remarkable rise in the exports of technical and engineering services. Normally, when an Iranian school kid is asked "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Most common answers are doctor or engineer...>>

Nov, 15: Once upon a time in America ; A teenager from the new generation would believe that Iran and US have had hostile relationships forever. But it is not true. There were certainly times when these two countries were even partners in some international scenes of diplomacy. ...>>

Nov, 13: Is FILTERING or CENSORING ethical? ; It may not be a national sign of pride that Iranians have limited access to the internet and restricting web sites does not seem to obey a certain pattern.... >>

Nov, 14: Buckle up Iran; Sticks & Statistics ; Q. How come Iraqis used WMD on Kurds and Iranians but US led coalition ...>>
Nov, 12: Buckle up Iran-The Background ; It's been less than a week since a law enforcing one front seat passenger ...>>

Nov, 11: The East Side Story of Birjand ; A short glance at the map of Iran shows that the country is much less developed ...>>

Nov, 6: Perspolis / Piroozi, 2 different worlds : After the Islamic revolution in 1979, the public anger towards monarchy was so tense that every thing that had a sign of kingdom was doomed to go. Streets, Squares, and parks, even some cities were renamed and what a pity some buildings, monuments and artworks were destroyed...>>

Nov, 5: Russians break nuke deadlock over Iran: Less than a century ago in the heat of the World War I, Iran came under attack from south by the English army, from East by the Ottomans and from north by Russians while Germans were weakening the central government from inside...>>

Nov, 2: Iranians' Top Anti-American songs: Today, on the anniversary of the student's day, the spirit of Iran's revolution is reviving from under the ashes after 26 years when people started chanting "Independence, Freedom, Islamic Republic". Many things have changed since then...>>

Nov, 1: Iranian chicks are healthy: Knock on wood! There is not even single reported case of bird flu in Iran. It looks like a miracle that despite it's geographical location, international and local experts did not find any case of bird flu in Iran. ..>>

October, 2005

Oct, 31: Latin American movies in Iran :The Iranian film industry has been on a downfall for two years. Cliché is one of the first impressions you get when watching new movies. Sponsorship is another pain...>>

Oct, 29: Same Jews killed Jesus too: Nobody can deny that the Zionist lobby has a great grip on almost all western countries. And there's no doubt about national debt as the main reason for the prime and foreign ministers and parliamentarians of such nations to raise their "oink oink" ...>>

Oct, 28: The Search Engine Fuss
Still considering Windows as an application built on DOS rather than an Operating System, you can imagine from which part of computing history I may come. First there was Yahoo as the monopoly...>>

Oct, 27: Wiping Israel off the map : It just took 20 minutes to wipe the blot off the map. Ladies and Gentlemen; The new map of the Middle East!

Oct, 26: Tehran gets high on smoke
An early winter has arrived in most parts of Iran Thickening the thick layer of smoke that had already covered the city of Tehran. Air pollution is a phenomenon that creates varieties of problems for the residents of big cities...>>

Oct, 9: Playing the old English Game 2
Oct, 8: 10.7 million Iranian students get milk
Oct, 6: A sneak of working Iranian Women
Oct, 5: Holy Ramadan in Tehran
Oct, 4: 1.2 million Iranian addicts
Oct, 3: A rise in Gross National Product of Iran
Oct, 2: Why does Ramadan start late in Iran?
Oct, 1: Losing our human identity

Oct, 23: Iran returns the Kuwaiti sword
Saddam's army invaded Kuwait in 1991. This tiny Persian Gulf State which is also one of the richest countries in the world was soon occupied by the Iraqi army. The Baathist army started plundering and looting the country...>>

Oct, 22: Iranian Public TV sequels
Every Ramadan Iranians enjoy some family stories which attract viewers to TV sets right after Eftar (breaking the fast). Some of these satirical shows have become very popular again. Below is a preview of what is on Iranian TV in Ramadan...>>

Oct, 19: Iran's US style anti-corruption blitz
It seems like not too many high ranking authorities had taken the Supreme Leader seriously when he asked the government to establish measures to counter corruption two years ago. Unfortunately bribing officials have become such a common practice that ordinary people are getting used to...>>

Oct, 20: Korean Eyes for Iranian Teeth
After the recent IAEA resolution against Iran, there was a good lesson to learn for the Iranian authorities by just looking at the list of the countries voting against Iran (In alphabetical order : Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada,...>>

Oct, 18: Resuming the Cold Anglo War
After the collapse of the Berlin Wall & disintegration of the Soviet Union people of the world were expecting a different world of peace and compromise...>>

Oct, 17: British finger in Iran bombings
One way or the other the old colonialist fox has become involved in a bloody bombing killing 5 at a mall in southern Iranian city of Ahvaz, the capital of the oil rich province of Khouzestan. Knowing that in Ramadan Muslims usually stop all fights...>>

Oct, 11: Iran's Hezbollah in America
According to ISNA, the speaker of Hezbollah (Hizbullah) of Iran announced that arrangements have been made for the new TV channel called Khabeer. Meanwhile negotiations are taking place to reach a deal with satellite service providers...>>

Oct, 10: Understanding the Iranian Capital Market
Iran has a closed economy where state is a key player in economic activities and things in the market do not happen according to open market economic rules. In fact state has developed mechanism that act upon shortfalls of the market...>>

September, 2005