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I.R.A.N.

No Monarchy, No Theocracy!

About Me



I R A N I A N . R E B E L . A L L I A N C E . N E T W O R K

This network was initially created in response to the lack of interest among the Iranian diaspora, specifically the youth, concerning the support and solidarity of the internal struggle for Democracy inside Iran. Due to recent and continued aggression by the United States, this network has taken on a new role as Info Shop. Our concern is dialogue rooted in news and opinions not heard in the corporate media.

In hopes to create discourse resulting in action, we welcome all people who have a desire for Iran to flourish as a Democracy to defend the rights of all Iran's religious and ethnic groups, the youth, academicians, women, and political opposition groups.

<[i>disclaimer: this site has numerous operators of both genders to
represent a balance of cooperation and perspective]

::another IRAN is possible::

DEATH TO DESPOTISM!

My Interests



I'd like to meet:



Rebel Alliance
Connected to 1888 Alliance Members.

Dariush

Refused

Black Sabbath

FARS FUNK

Omid

Damian Marley

Sara Rahbar

J DILLA

Fearless Iranians From Hell

Jeremy Sole

ePistrophik Peach Sound.

Ali Baba

dublab

saul williams

Asa Soltan Rahmati

Flying Lotus

.aßsent.

MARK OF THE BEAST

Beirut

The Corporation

Save Darfur Coalition

RESTITUTION PRESS

mear

Atari Teenage Riot

Solidarity Movement

Movies:

NEWS & INFORMATION

Television:


Iranian Students News Agency
"The Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) is a news organization run by Iranian university students. Established on November 4, 1999 in order to report on news from Iranian universities it now covers a variety of national and international topics.[1] Editors and correspondents are themselves students in a variety of subjects, many of them are volunteers (nearly 1000). The ISNA is considered by Western media to be one of the most independent and moderate media organizations in Iran, and is often quoted."
DemocracyNow!
"Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 500 stations in North America."
Stop Iran War
"All Americans want to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and interfering on the ground inside Iraq. Yet President Bush’s saber rattling gives the US little additional leverage to engage and dissuade Iran, and, more than likely, simply accelerates a dangerous slide into war. The United States can do better than this."
Kaveh Golestan
"Golestan was a 51 year-old Pulitzer Prize winning cameraman internationally renowned photojournalist who worked for the BBC's Tehran bureau. He died on April 02 2003 while on assignment in Kifri, Northern Iraq when he stepped on a landmine."
Alternative Radio
"Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and on short-wave on Radio for Peace International. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media."
Current TV
"From a house party in Tehran to rescue efforts in the Ninth Ward, viewer-submitted video is streaming to Current TV. It's a network about what's going on, in your voice and from your point of view."
Mahmoud Farshchian
"Master Farshchian has achieved a distinctive style and created a school of his own in painting. His themes are cultivated from classic poetry, literature, the Koran, Christian and Jewish Holy books, as well as his own deep imagination. His most outstanding works are based on human affections and moods, which appear most effectively in graceful faces and figures."
Hakim Bey
"Peter Lamborn Wilson is a political writer, essayist, and poet, perhaps best known for first proposing the idea of the Temporary Autonomous Zone. He sometimes writes under the name Hakim Bey. He spent two years in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and seven years in Iran (where he was affiliated with the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy), leaving during the Islamic Revolution. In the 1980s, his ideas evolved from a kind of Gunonist neo-tradionalism to a synthesis of anarchism and situationism with heterodox sufism and neo-Paganism, describing his ideas as "anarchist ontology" or "immediatism"."
IRAN News Journal
"A great source for Iranian news and culture."
Nader Khalili
"Nader Khalili, California architect/author is the world renowned Iranian-American Earth Architecture teacher and innovator of the Geltaftan Earth-and-Fire System known as Ceramic Houses, and of the Superblock construction system. Khalili received his philosophy and architectural education in Iran, Turkey, and the United States."
Abbas Milani
"Abbas Milani is Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. In addition, Dr. Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is U.S./Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues."
Ralph Nader
"Ralph Nader is a Lebanese American activist lawyer who opposes the power of large corporations and has worked for decades on environmental, consumer rights, and pro-democracy issues. Nader has also been a strong critic of recent American foreign policy, which he views as corporatist, imperialist, and contrary to fundamental values of democracy and human rights."
Z Mag IranWatch

"Very extensive .. progressive magazine and community of alternative news, opinions, discussion forums, and resources."
National Iranian American Council
"NIAC believes that Iranian-Americans have the ability to play a key role in American civil society with the same levels of success and professionalism that they have played in American economic, academic, technological and scientific life. Our job is to, through education, help Iranian-Americans to get more involved in US politics, media and civic life."
Nothing Is Sacred
"Founded in July 1995, Iranian.com is the largest .. community for Iranians residing in North America. With more than 660,000 unique visitors and nearly 6 million page views per month."
We Are You
"BIDOUN was created as a platform for ideas and an open forum for exchange, dialogue and opinions about arts and culture from the Middle East. BIDOUN's primary goal is to bring together cultural expressions from a vast and nuanced region. BIDOUN also addresses some of the widespread misconceptions about the region and its Diaspora by inciting readers to take a fresh look at the Middle East and its peoples, too often presented as one-dimensional or stagnant."
Howard Zinn
"Howard Zinn is a historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.He is perhaps best known for A People's History of the United States, which presents American history through the eyes of those he feels are outside of the political and economic establishment."
AK Press
"AK Press is a worker run book publisher and distributor organized around anarchist principles. All decision-making, including which titles we distribute and what we publish, is made collectively. Our goal is to make available radical books and other materials, titles that are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the world."
Iranian Studies Group at MIT
"The Iranian Studies Group at MIT (ISG) is a non-partisan, non-profit, academic organization with the aim of promoting Iranian civil society through conducting research on issues related to Iranian native and expatriate societies. Our research projects focus on the cultural, social, economic, and political development of the Iranian society."
Graphic Iran
"The ancient country of Iran (Persia) and its old culture offer some of the earliest traces in graphic design and art. Today, museums all over the world contain many examples of early Persian graphic designs on metal or clay vessels, seals, ceramic tiles, plaster carvings, carpets, silks and other clothes. Some examples of this ancient art enjoy a worldwide reputation, and designs on carpets or tiles, miniature paintings, calligraphy and book illustrations are instantly recognizable as "Persian"."
Reza Abedini
"Reza Abedini is a prominent Iranian (Persian) designer and a professor of graphic design and visual culture at Tehran University. Abedini is one of the most famous graphics designer in Iran because of his modern Persian Typography. He combined modern and traditional themes in his unique style. Reza Abedini has won dozen of national and international design awards."
Amnesty International
"AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards."
Iranian Workers
"In defense of the labour movement in Iran."
Iraq for Sale
"Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. All bonus scenes and clips HIGHLY RECOMMENDED."
Stop Stoning
"The objective of this campaign is to change the Islamic Penal Code of Iran such that stoning will never again be issued as a sentence or practiced as a punishment. "
Persepolis
"Persepolis is a French-language graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi that describes her childhood in Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution. The title is a reference to the historical town of Persepolis."
CLICK HERE TO WATCH
"The movie’s getting lukewarm reviews, but the opening credits for The Kingdom function as an effective prologue to the film. Examining the history of U.S. involvement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
Digital Gravel
"The Opposition produces important, message-based goods at extremely affordable prices in the interest of spreading awareness about the issues, not collecting profits
. Any and all profits will be re-invested into the creation of posters, stickers and other material to continue spreading the good word."
CLICK HERE TO WATCH
"The Shock Doctrine directed by Jonás Cuarón and based on the book of the same name by Naomi Klein. The supporting-role animated sequences are by London design and animation studio Foreign Office."
FOLLY OF ATTACKING IRAN
"Together, we can push our elected leaders to support real talks with Iran without pre-conditions – and to oppose a military attack."

My Blog

Folly of Attacking Iran: Lessons from History

FOLLY OF ATTACKING IRAN"Together, we can push our elected leaders to support real talks with Iran without pre-conditions  and to oppose a military attack."...
Posted by I.R.A.N. on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:48:00 PST

The Next Generation of Iran

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Posted by I.R.A.N. on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:04:00 PST

Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions

Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questionshttp://www.farsnews.com/English/newstext.php?nn=860 6300370::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::...
Posted by I.R.A.N. on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:37:00 PST

TOMATO UNREST IN IRAN

TOMATO UNREST IN IRANOn the foreign stage, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made a reputation on combative rhetoric. At home...his reputation hinges on...tomatoes?Produced by: Kouross Esmaeli...
Posted by I.R.A.N. on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:13:00 PST

What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico? - by NOAM CHOMSKY

What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?Putting the Iran Crisis in Contextby Noam Chomskyhttp://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/342/.. .
Posted by I.R.A.N. on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:49:00 PST

BBC Documentary on Iran: RAGEH IN IRAN

Rageh Omaar embarks on a unique journey inside what he describes as one of the most misunderstood countries in the world, looking at the country through the eyes of people rarely heard - ordinary Iran...
Posted by I.R.A.N. on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:00:00 PST

AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH AKBAR GANJI

LISTEN TO AUDIOOR VISIT MOTHERJONESProfessional background: Akbar Ganji is considered Iran's leading investigative journalist. He is also the author of the best-selling book Dungeon of Ghosts, a coll...
Posted by I.R.A.N. on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:07:00 PST

A Predator Becomes More Dangerous When Wounded

A Predator Becomes More Dangerous When Woundedby Noam Chomsky; The Guardian UK; March 10, 2007Washington's escalation of threats against Iran is driven by a determination to secure control of the regi...
Posted by I.R.A.N. on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:05:00 PST

US initially provided Iran nuclear know-how

Some may also wonder how Iran managed to get the ability to develop nuclear facilities in the first place. It would be sensible to perhaps assume that after the fall of the Soviet Union nuclear techno...
Posted by I.R.A.N. on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:08:00 PST

Iranian Dissident AKBAR GANJI

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006"We Don't Want War" - Leading Iranian Dissident and Former Political Prisoner Akbar GanjiListen to Segment Show mp3 Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Help Printer-fri...
Posted by I.R.A.N. on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:15:00 PST