Lies, dishonesty, inaccuracy, corruption, falsifications, and deceptions have caused great pain in our Iranian lives during past decades. Evidently the quality of life back home has been directly impacted by the obvious lies told by those in power. Our sense of integrity is insulted when authorities keep telling lies about the truth, power struggles, and…
Category: Resistance to Change
Change for democracy has it’s own price; Human suffering could be prevented.
God is Great
Metaphors in our Iranian culture and our daily life have multiple affiliations. Currently, our people in Iran are struggling in the darkest time of the history. People chant “allah-akbar or god is great,” a mantra that besides its religious connotations attracts hope in a frightening, unsafe, and hopeless time. In a time when people are…
Global day of action for Iran
July 25, 2009 was the day for action for Iran. Around the world, Iranians and non Iranians attended rallies to support the movement for freedom and democracy in Iran. This day was about telling the world what humanity stands for. Over two kilometer of a green scroll in Paris was a phenomenon to be proud…
Making sense of what is happening in Iran
UNSEC 1674: RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT POPULATIONS FROM GENOCIDE & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY… WHAT IS GENOCIDE? The 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such: • …
SILENT SCREAM 4 IRAN
Thirty years later: our young generation takes their destiny into their hands. For all of us who marched the streets of Tehran and other cites back in 1979, now flash backs of memories are hard to cope with. Here in Vancouver, B.C.: A group of young, intelligent, caring, and brilliant Iranians have come together to…