The cleric regime had nuclear mishab and claimed inocent lives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRHU4cqa2ao
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Soudavar Memorial Lecture Series
Following the success of the first four series on 'The Idea of Iran', the London Middle East Institute, SOAS (LMEI) and the British Museum with the support of the Soudavar Memorial Foundation are pleased to announce the fifth series of lectures, which will be held as a one day symposium. Contributions by seven eminent scholars will cover aspects of the early Isamic period in Iran. Please see details below and the attached programme.
The Idea of Iran:
the early Islamic period
Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Date: Saturday 2 February 2008
Time: 9.55am-4.30pm (Registration from 8.45am)
Admission: £15.00; conc. (OAPs & LMEI Affiliates) £10.00; Students free (to include lunch and refreshments).
Enquiries & Bookings: Vincenzo Paci: E vp6@soas.ac.uk; T 020 7898 4490; F 020 7898 4329
Keynote Speaker:
Iranian Identity after Conversion to Islam
Professor Ehsan Yarshater, Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University
Speakers:
Why is Iran not an Arab Country
Professor Hugh N Kennedy, Professor of Arabic, SOAS
The Persistent Older Heritage in the Mediaeval Iranian Lands
Professor C. Edmund Bosworth, Former Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Manchester and Honorary Professor, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Social and Economic Life in Early Islamic Iran
Professor Richard W. Bulliet, Professor of Middle Eastern History, Columbia University
Quiddities, algorisms, oranges—Iran in Islamic science and beyond
Professor Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Professor in Islamic Studies, University of Tübingen
The Cross and the Lotus: An Armenian Miscellany
Professor James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University
What happened to the Sasanian hunt in Islamic art?
Professor Robert Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh
Cheques should be made payable to the ‘London Middle East Institute’
Please note that although you will be able to register on the day itself from 8.45am onwards we are unable to guarantee that seats will be available and advise that in order to secure a place you register in advance.
London Middle East InstituteM110School of Oriental & African StudiesRussell SquareLondonWC1H 0XG
E-mail: vp6@soas.ac.ukTel. No: 0207 898 4490Fax: 0207 898 4329Web: www.lmei.soas.ac.uk
The Idea of Iran: the early Islamic period
The fifth in the series ‘The Idea of Iran’ will be held as a one day symposium at which contributions by seven eminent scholars will cover aspects of the early Islamic period. Both the London Middle East Institute, SOAS and the British Museum remain indebted to the Soudavar Memorial Foundation for its continued support without which the series would not be possible.
9.30 Registration
9.55 Welcoming remarks
10.00-10.45 Speaker 1 - Keynote
Iranian Identity after Conversion to Islam
Professor Ehsan Yarshater, Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University.
Islam, like Zoroastrianism, is a religion that concerns itself not only with the spiritual aspects of life, but embraces and legislates for all other aspects of life. Therefore, conversion to Islam brought profound changes, social, cultural or otherwise, in Iranian society. One could easily expect that Persia, fully occupied and ruled by the Arabs for at least 200 years after the Arab conquest, would change its identity from Persian to Arab as all other countries in the Middle East and North Africa such as Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, each of which were heirs to brilliant ancient civilizations. But this did not happen. Persia while adopting the Islamic religion kept its Persian identity, primarily through tenaciously sticking to its language and thereby to the canons of its distinct culture. Three hundred years after the Arab invasion, the poet Ferdowsi crystallized the Iranian true sentiment with regard to the Persian identity in his immortal Shahnameh, a reminder to Persians of their long and glorious history, their splendid kings, their outstanding warriors, and the great nation that the Iranians had been. His work became symbolic of a dichotomy that characterizes Persian history. The question is why Persia proved an exception to the norm?
10.45-11.30 Speaker 2
Why is Iran not an Arab Country
Professor Hugh N. Kennedy, Professor of Arabic, SOAS, London.
This paper discusses the reasons for the survival of the cultural and political identity of Iran through the Muslim conquests of the 7th century. A contrast will be drawn with Syria and Egypt where the pre-Islamic culture was marginalised and the pre-Arabic languages effectively disappeared from common use. It will show how "Iranianness" survived both in the semi-independent principalities which survived the conquests and among the officials and bureaucrats of the Islamic caliphate. It will finish by considering the Shahnameh as a sign of the emergence of New Persian as a language of high culture.
11.30-12.00 Coffee
12.00-12.45 Speaker 3
The Persistent Older Heritage in the Mediaeval Iranian Lands
Professor C. Edmund Bosworth, Former Professor of Arabic Studies University of Manchester and Honorary Professor, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studie, University of Exeter.
Continuity of tradition with the pre-Islamic past can be traced in governmental attitudes and practices and, in some instances, a continuity of personnel from Zoroastrian past to Islamic present in the post-conquest period (i.e. after the 7th century A.D.). Despite a tradition amongst Muslim rigorists that “Islam cancels the past”, there was in several Iranian ruling lines an attempt to establish links, real or imagined, with the pre-Islamic past. Thus the Samanids of Transoxania and Khurasan, sprung from the dehqan class, had a genealogy provided for them that went back to the father of the Sasanid-period emperor Bahram Chubin; various petty dynasties of the Caspian coastlands and the Elburz mountains interior, themselves comparatively late Islamised, traced their roots back, with considerable plausibility here, to local pre-Islamic families; eulogists of the Daylami Buyids connected them with the Sasanid ruling institution; even a power in as late as the 12th-13th centuries, the Ghurids, coming from an obscure and backwards part of central Afghanistan, managed to find roots in the past of the heroic, legendary, national Iranian past.
12.45-1.30 Speaker 4
Social and Economic Life in Early Islamic Iran
Professor Richard W. Bulliet, Professor of Middle Eastern History, Columbia University.
The three-and-a-half centuries that followed the Arab conquests of the 7th century C.E. witnessed profound changes in the social and economic circumstances of the region that is today circumscribed by the boundaries of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Conversion to Islam is the most obvious of these changes, but conversion was directly linked to economic changes and to urbanization. Economically, the growth of a cotton industry gave Iran for the first time in history a major export product. This presentation will describe the evidence for a cotton boom in early Islamic Iran and show how it was linked to the spread of Islam, the growth of cities, and a cultural efflorescence that made Iran the most important region of the Islamic caliphate. It will also show how this economic dynamism waned in the eleventh century, partly due to climatic deterioration, leading within a century to a significant shrinkage in Iran’s economic and cultural importance.
1.30-2.15 Lunch
2.15- 3.00 Speaker 5
Quiddities, algorisms, oranges—Iran in Islamic science and beyond
Professor Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Professor in Islamic Studies, University of Tübingen.
In the course of a few centuries, a pluriethic and plurireligious civilization of extraordinary vibrancy developed under the aegis of, initially, Arabian Islam in the vast swath of territories encompassing Western Asia and North Africa. Not the least achievement of this civilization was the pursuit of science and learning beyond any utilitarian consideration and shared among all religious, linguistic and ethnic segments of population. Thus it is of little wonder that the people of Iran, one of the most numerous constituent groups among caliphal subjects, were notably involved in related activities as well. Indeed, several of the most prominent figures of a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to, medicine and auxiliary fields, mathematics and astronomy, philosophy, and even Arabic grammar, hailed from Iran. Some of them became household words even beyond the boundaries of their own cilivilization. Names that spring to mind include Sibawayh, al-Khwarizmi, Rhazes, Haly Abbas, Avicenna, al-Biruni, to mention but a few, and where applicable, in their medieval Latin form. In the presentation here to be introduced, these and numerous others will be situated in their respective cultural and disciplinal context, not omitting the subsequent reception of Islamic learning in the Latin West.
3.00-3.45 Speaker 6
The Cross and the Lotus: An Armenian Miscellany
Professor James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University.
The medieval Armenian collection of didactic tales and precepts, Zroyc' plnje k'alak'i, "Tale of the City of Brass", which exists in MSS and in numerous printed editions even down to recent years, includes such Persian and Islamic material as the counsels of Anushirvan and the legend of King Bahlul, as well as the Wisdom of Ahiqar and local hagiographies. In various respects the book's organization, literary form, and unifying themes suggest a close analogy to the Buddhist Saddharmapundarika sutra (Lotus Sutra of the Good Law). This text in its turn reflects the conventions of storytelling and aesthetics of Iranian Central Asia.
3.45-4.30Speaker 7
What happened to the Sasanian hunt in Islamic art?
Professor Robert Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh.
The lecture focuses on a textile which can be shown to be no later than the early 9th century and which re-uses a familiar theme of Sasanian court art - the royal hunter. It is a test case of the many ways in which early Islamic artists copied, grappled with, misunderstood and popularised the Sasanian heritage. Analysis will reveal how the original meaning is gradually lost as the image shrinks in size, is duplicated or even quadrupled, acquires extra detail or suffers crucial iconographic degradations. A similar process of transition can be demonstrated in other media, such as metalwork and pottery, but costly textiles travelled across wider distances and with greater ease; hence echoes of this theme can be found as far afield as China and Western Europe. Such textiles document the busy afterlife of Sasanian themes in the most unexpected guises.
4.30 Closing remarks
4.35 Tea
the early Islamic period
Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Date: Saturday 2 February 2008
Time: 9.55am-4.30pm (Registration from 8.45am)
Admission: £15.00; conc. (OAPs & LMEI Affiliates) £10.00; Students free (to include lunch and refreshments).
Enquiries & Bookings: Vincenzo Paci: E vp6@soas.ac.uk; T 020 7898 4490; F 020 7898 4329
Keynote Speaker:
Iranian Identity after Conversion to Islam
Professor Ehsan Yarshater, Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University
Speakers:
Why is Iran not an Arab Country
Professor Hugh N Kennedy, Professor of Arabic, SOAS
The Persistent Older Heritage in the Mediaeval Iranian Lands
Professor C. Edmund Bosworth, Former Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Manchester and Honorary Professor, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Social and Economic Life in Early Islamic Iran
Professor Richard W. Bulliet, Professor of Middle Eastern History, Columbia University
Quiddities, algorisms, oranges—Iran in Islamic science and beyond
Professor Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Professor in Islamic Studies, University of Tübingen
The Cross and the Lotus: An Armenian Miscellany
Professor James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University
What happened to the Sasanian hunt in Islamic art?
Professor Robert Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh
Cheques should be made payable to the ‘London Middle East Institute’
Please note that although you will be able to register on the day itself from 8.45am onwards we are unable to guarantee that seats will be available and advise that in order to secure a place you register in advance.
London Middle East InstituteM110School of Oriental & African StudiesRussell SquareLondonWC1H 0XG
E-mail: vp6@soas.ac.ukTel. No: 0207 898 4490Fax: 0207 898 4329Web: www.lmei.soas.ac.uk
The Idea of Iran: the early Islamic period
The fifth in the series ‘The Idea of Iran’ will be held as a one day symposium at which contributions by seven eminent scholars will cover aspects of the early Islamic period. Both the London Middle East Institute, SOAS and the British Museum remain indebted to the Soudavar Memorial Foundation for its continued support without which the series would not be possible.
9.30 Registration
9.55 Welcoming remarks
10.00-10.45 Speaker 1 - Keynote
Iranian Identity after Conversion to Islam
Professor Ehsan Yarshater, Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University.
Islam, like Zoroastrianism, is a religion that concerns itself not only with the spiritual aspects of life, but embraces and legislates for all other aspects of life. Therefore, conversion to Islam brought profound changes, social, cultural or otherwise, in Iranian society. One could easily expect that Persia, fully occupied and ruled by the Arabs for at least 200 years after the Arab conquest, would change its identity from Persian to Arab as all other countries in the Middle East and North Africa such as Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, each of which were heirs to brilliant ancient civilizations. But this did not happen. Persia while adopting the Islamic religion kept its Persian identity, primarily through tenaciously sticking to its language and thereby to the canons of its distinct culture. Three hundred years after the Arab invasion, the poet Ferdowsi crystallized the Iranian true sentiment with regard to the Persian identity in his immortal Shahnameh, a reminder to Persians of their long and glorious history, their splendid kings, their outstanding warriors, and the great nation that the Iranians had been. His work became symbolic of a dichotomy that characterizes Persian history. The question is why Persia proved an exception to the norm?
10.45-11.30 Speaker 2
Why is Iran not an Arab Country
Professor Hugh N. Kennedy, Professor of Arabic, SOAS, London.
This paper discusses the reasons for the survival of the cultural and political identity of Iran through the Muslim conquests of the 7th century. A contrast will be drawn with Syria and Egypt where the pre-Islamic culture was marginalised and the pre-Arabic languages effectively disappeared from common use. It will show how "Iranianness" survived both in the semi-independent principalities which survived the conquests and among the officials and bureaucrats of the Islamic caliphate. It will finish by considering the Shahnameh as a sign of the emergence of New Persian as a language of high culture.
11.30-12.00 Coffee
12.00-12.45 Speaker 3
The Persistent Older Heritage in the Mediaeval Iranian Lands
Professor C. Edmund Bosworth, Former Professor of Arabic Studies University of Manchester and Honorary Professor, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studie, University of Exeter.
Continuity of tradition with the pre-Islamic past can be traced in governmental attitudes and practices and, in some instances, a continuity of personnel from Zoroastrian past to Islamic present in the post-conquest period (i.e. after the 7th century A.D.). Despite a tradition amongst Muslim rigorists that “Islam cancels the past”, there was in several Iranian ruling lines an attempt to establish links, real or imagined, with the pre-Islamic past. Thus the Samanids of Transoxania and Khurasan, sprung from the dehqan class, had a genealogy provided for them that went back to the father of the Sasanid-period emperor Bahram Chubin; various petty dynasties of the Caspian coastlands and the Elburz mountains interior, themselves comparatively late Islamised, traced their roots back, with considerable plausibility here, to local pre-Islamic families; eulogists of the Daylami Buyids connected them with the Sasanid ruling institution; even a power in as late as the 12th-13th centuries, the Ghurids, coming from an obscure and backwards part of central Afghanistan, managed to find roots in the past of the heroic, legendary, national Iranian past.
12.45-1.30 Speaker 4
Social and Economic Life in Early Islamic Iran
Professor Richard W. Bulliet, Professor of Middle Eastern History, Columbia University.
The three-and-a-half centuries that followed the Arab conquests of the 7th century C.E. witnessed profound changes in the social and economic circumstances of the region that is today circumscribed by the boundaries of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Conversion to Islam is the most obvious of these changes, but conversion was directly linked to economic changes and to urbanization. Economically, the growth of a cotton industry gave Iran for the first time in history a major export product. This presentation will describe the evidence for a cotton boom in early Islamic Iran and show how it was linked to the spread of Islam, the growth of cities, and a cultural efflorescence that made Iran the most important region of the Islamic caliphate. It will also show how this economic dynamism waned in the eleventh century, partly due to climatic deterioration, leading within a century to a significant shrinkage in Iran’s economic and cultural importance.
1.30-2.15 Lunch
2.15- 3.00 Speaker 5
Quiddities, algorisms, oranges—Iran in Islamic science and beyond
Professor Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Professor in Islamic Studies, University of Tübingen.
In the course of a few centuries, a pluriethic and plurireligious civilization of extraordinary vibrancy developed under the aegis of, initially, Arabian Islam in the vast swath of territories encompassing Western Asia and North Africa. Not the least achievement of this civilization was the pursuit of science and learning beyond any utilitarian consideration and shared among all religious, linguistic and ethnic segments of population. Thus it is of little wonder that the people of Iran, one of the most numerous constituent groups among caliphal subjects, were notably involved in related activities as well. Indeed, several of the most prominent figures of a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to, medicine and auxiliary fields, mathematics and astronomy, philosophy, and even Arabic grammar, hailed from Iran. Some of them became household words even beyond the boundaries of their own cilivilization. Names that spring to mind include Sibawayh, al-Khwarizmi, Rhazes, Haly Abbas, Avicenna, al-Biruni, to mention but a few, and where applicable, in their medieval Latin form. In the presentation here to be introduced, these and numerous others will be situated in their respective cultural and disciplinal context, not omitting the subsequent reception of Islamic learning in the Latin West.
3.00-3.45 Speaker 6
The Cross and the Lotus: An Armenian Miscellany
Professor James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University.
The medieval Armenian collection of didactic tales and precepts, Zroyc' plnje k'alak'i, "Tale of the City of Brass", which exists in MSS and in numerous printed editions even down to recent years, includes such Persian and Islamic material as the counsels of Anushirvan and the legend of King Bahlul, as well as the Wisdom of Ahiqar and local hagiographies. In various respects the book's organization, literary form, and unifying themes suggest a close analogy to the Buddhist Saddharmapundarika sutra (Lotus Sutra of the Good Law). This text in its turn reflects the conventions of storytelling and aesthetics of Iranian Central Asia.
3.45-4.30Speaker 7
What happened to the Sasanian hunt in Islamic art?
Professor Robert Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh.
The lecture focuses on a textile which can be shown to be no later than the early 9th century and which re-uses a familiar theme of Sasanian court art - the royal hunter. It is a test case of the many ways in which early Islamic artists copied, grappled with, misunderstood and popularised the Sasanian heritage. Analysis will reveal how the original meaning is gradually lost as the image shrinks in size, is duplicated or even quadrupled, acquires extra detail or suffers crucial iconographic degradations. A similar process of transition can be demonstrated in other media, such as metalwork and pottery, but costly textiles travelled across wider distances and with greater ease; hence echoes of this theme can be found as far afield as China and Western Europe. Such textiles document the busy afterlife of Sasanian themes in the most unexpected guises.
4.30 Closing remarks
4.35 Tea
Russian Archaeologists Discover Remains of 2500-Year-Old Advanced Civilization in Kyrgyz Mountains
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/January2008/02-01-archaeologists.htm
LONDON, (CAIS) -- Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civilization, possibly Iranian at the bottom of Lake Issyk Kul in the Kyrgyz mountains in Russia.
Achaemenid Tablet Translation Remains Unpublished Due to Lack of Funding
LONDON, (CAIS) -- The translation of 2586 clay Achaemenid tablets has remained unpublished due to lack of government funding.
The tablets, written in cuneiform, were discovered along with a great number of other inscriptions at Persepolis in 1933 by the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute.
Many of the tablets and tablet fragments were loaned to the university’s Oriental Institute in 1937 for study purposes.
The tablets, written in cuneiform, were discovered along with a great number of other inscriptions at Persepolis in 1933 by the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute.
Many of the tablets and tablet fragments were loaned to the university’s Oriental Institute in 1937 for study purposes.
Farming Threatening Sasanian Eyvan-e Karkheh
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/January2008/02-01.htm
LONDON, (CAIS) -- The Sasanian dynastic era city of Eyvan-e Karkheh, in southwestern Iran, is in danger of destruction by the agricultural activities of the Islamic Azad University.
Over recent years, the site has been turned into a reserve for scientific research by the university’s agriculture students, the Persian service of CHN reported on Monday.
Over recent years, the site has been turned into a reserve for scientific research by the university’s agriculture students, the Persian service of CHN reported on Monday.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Crown Prince Reza PAHLAVI's Message on the Assassination of Mrs. Benazir Bhutto
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
I was extremely saddened to learn of the brutal assassination of Mrs. Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan and the leader of country’s “People’s Party”.Benazir Bhutto sacrificed her life in defending democracy and secularism while standing firmly against religious extremism in her country. Her commitment to democratic principles and values as well as her bravery are both unforgettable and worthy of immense praise.It is my wish to offer my heartfelt condolences for this enormous loss to all defenders of democracy and secularism in the Islamic world, the honorable people of Pakistan and specially to Mrs. Bhutto’s mother and husband, Begum Nosrat Bhutto and Mr. Asif Ali Zardary.Reza Pahlavi
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto (IPA: [beːnəziːr bɦʊʈːoː]; English IPA: /ˈbɛ.nə.zɪɚ ˈbuː.toʊ/;[1] June 21, 1953, – December 27, 2007) was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan affiliated to the Socialist International. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having been twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Bhutto was the eldest child of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a Pakistani of Sindhi descent and Shia Muslim by faith, and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, a Pakistani of Iranian-Kurdish descent, of similarly Shia Muslim by faith. Her paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, who came to Larkana Sindh before partition from his native town of Bhatto Kalan, which was situated in the Indian state of Haryana.
Bhutto was sworn in for the first time in 1988 at the age of 35, but was removed from office 20 months later under the order of then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of alleged corruption. In 1993 Bhutto was re-elected but was again removed in 1996 on similar charges, this time by President Farooq Leghari. Bhutto went into self-imposed exile in Dubai in 1998.
Bhutto returned to Pakistan on 18 October 2007, after reaching an understanding with President Pervez Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn. She was assassinated on December 27, 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before scheduled elections where she was a leading opposition candidate.
Bhutto was the eldest child of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a Pakistani of Sindhi descent and Shia Muslim by faith, and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, a Pakistani of Iranian-Kurdish descent, of similarly Shia Muslim by faith. Her paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, who came to Larkana Sindh before partition from his native town of Bhatto Kalan, which was situated in the Indian state of Haryana.
Bhutto was sworn in for the first time in 1988 at the age of 35, but was removed from office 20 months later under the order of then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on grounds of alleged corruption. In 1993 Bhutto was re-elected but was again removed in 1996 on similar charges, this time by President Farooq Leghari. Bhutto went into self-imposed exile in Dubai in 1998.
Bhutto returned to Pakistan on 18 October 2007, after reaching an understanding with President Pervez Musharraf by which she was granted amnesty and all corruption charges were withdrawn. She was assassinated on December 27, 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, two weeks before scheduled elections where she was a leading opposition candidate.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Who Are We? Who Are The Iranians?
Our God is Iran.
Our religion is Iran.
Our Religious Conviction is knowledge and wisdom.Our Great Prophet, philosopher and teacher is Zoroaster, (Zartosht,
-Zarathushtra). (1).
Our Philosophy is based on Zoroaster's teachings,Good Thoughts, Good
-Words, and Good Deeds.
Our Faith is logic.
Our Cross is the Zoroastrian symbol, Faravahar. (2).Our Language is Persian, Farsi.
Our Love is the Iranian Culture and music.
Our only other Prophet is King of Kings, Cyrus the Great. (3).
Our Apostle is Iran's great poet, Ferdowsi. (4).
Our Holy Banner is the Derafsh Kaaviyaani. (5).
Our Holy Book is the Shahnameh, (The Epic of the Kings by Ferdowsi).
Our Commandments are inscribed on King Cyrus's clay cylinder. (6).
Our Mecca is The ruins of Persepolise. (7).
Our Holy shrines are at Pasargade as well as other historical landmarks
-such as Bistune, Naqshe-Rostam & the grave of the last Shahanshah
-Aryamehr in Cairo, Egypt. (8).Our 11 Imaams are Jamshid, Fereydon, Dariush, Khashayar, Ardeshir,
-Shapour, Khosrow-Parviz, Anushirvan, Bahram Goor, Yaqoub-Leyss
-Saffarid, and Reza Shah The Great. (9).
Our 12th Imaam is the late Shahanshah Aryamehr the Great. (10).
Our great historical martyrs of the first Arab invasion are Ario-Barzan,
-Firooze Nahavandi, Bahman-e Jaazoyeh, Baabake Khoramdin,
-Behzaade Hamedaani, Roozbahane Khoraasani, Banu Kisia, Rostam-e
-Farokhzaad, Yazdegerd, and Mardaviz Zeyari.
Our most recent martyrs of the second Anglo-Arab invasion of 1979,are,
-General Badre'ei, General Rahimi, General Khosrodad, General Ali
-Neshat, General Biglari, General Voshmgir, General Jahanbaani,
-General Amin-Afshaar, General Biglari, General Nassiri, General
- Mohagheghi, General Paakravaan, Dr. Aameli-e Tehrani, Abbaass
-Khalat-Bari, Dr. Fereydoon Farrokhzad, Madam Parsa, Senator Ali
-Dashti and many thousands more.
Our Jerusalem is Taagh-e Kasraa &Tisphone.
Our Judas was Salman Farsi, who befriended the Mohammed of Arabia.
Our Anti-God, Anti-Christ, Anti-Iran, Anti-Human is Mohammed of Arabia.
Our devil is Allah.
Our Satans were Mohammed and his 12 Imaams.
Our Hell is Islam.
Our book of disgraced lies is Quran.
Our Ashura, (dooms day) is the lost battle of Ghadesiyeh.Our number one Iran hater was The British bulldozer Mad Khomeini. (11).
Our Demons are the British backed pro-Arab Mullahs.
Our number one enemy is Britain.
Our Angels are the Iranian freedom advocates and the students.
Our national days are Norooz, Tirgan, Mehregan, Abangah, Esfandgah,
-Shabe-Cheleh, Sadeh, Sizdeh-Bedar, Charshanbeh-Soori.
Our national day of mourning's are February 11th, 1979, July 26th & July
-27th.
Our proud symbol is the Shahyaad monument in Tehran.Our Temple is our own heart.
Our Sermon is our proud history and kingship.
Our hope is peace and liberty for Iran.
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(1), Zarathushtra (Zoroaster). The Ancient Prophet of Persia.
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(2), FARAVAHAR, The winged Symbol of Zoroastrianism.
Iran's holy cross and only religious symbol.
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(3) Sir Cyrus The Great, King of Kings.
Founder of the Persian Empire. 590 BC to 529 BC
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(4), Hakim Abu’l-Qassem Ferdowsi, ( 940 A.D).
The creator of the great book of poems, Epic of the Kings. (Shah-naameh).
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(5), Derafsh-e Kaaviyaani.
The legendary Royal standard of Great Persia. (224-651 BC) .
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(6), The Cylinder of Cyrus the Great.
This is an artifact consisting of a declaration issued by
the Emperor Cyrus of Persia inscribed in Babylonian.
It is now kept in the British Museum in London.
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(7), The Ruins of Persepolise.
Founded by King Darius The Great in 518 B.C.,
Persepolise was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire.
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(8) Mecca to millions, Cairo, Egypt.
The Empress Farah Pahlavi at the tomb of the late Shahanshah
Aryamehr. The resting place for one of Iran's greatest kings.
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(9) H.I.M. Reza Shah The Great Founder of Pahlavi Dynasty.
The father of modern Iran. Born: March 16, 1878, Died: July 26,1944).
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(10), H.I.M. Shahanshah Aryamehr.
(Born: October 16, 1919, Died: July 27, 1980).
The architect of modern Iran and the thorn in the eyes of the British.
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(11). The British Bulldozer and the Jimmy Carter's most
favourite Iran hater, Mad Ruhollah Hindi-Khomeini.
The destroyer of free, progressive and prosperous Iran.
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More new features than ever
Our religion is Iran.
Our Religious Conviction is knowledge and wisdom.Our Great Prophet, philosopher and teacher is Zoroaster, (Zartosht,
-Zarathushtra). (1).
Our Philosophy is based on Zoroaster's teachings,Good Thoughts, Good
-Words, and Good Deeds.
Our Faith is logic.
Our Cross is the Zoroastrian symbol, Faravahar. (2).Our Language is Persian, Farsi.
Our Love is the Iranian Culture and music.
Our only other Prophet is King of Kings, Cyrus the Great. (3).
Our Apostle is Iran's great poet, Ferdowsi. (4).
Our Holy Banner is the Derafsh Kaaviyaani. (5).
Our Holy Book is the Shahnameh, (The Epic of the Kings by Ferdowsi).
Our Commandments are inscribed on King Cyrus's clay cylinder. (6).
Our Mecca is The ruins of Persepolise. (7).
Our Holy shrines are at Pasargade as well as other historical landmarks
-such as Bistune, Naqshe-Rostam & the grave of the last Shahanshah
-Aryamehr in Cairo, Egypt. (8).Our 11 Imaams are Jamshid, Fereydon, Dariush, Khashayar, Ardeshir,
-Shapour, Khosrow-Parviz, Anushirvan, Bahram Goor, Yaqoub-Leyss
-Saffarid, and Reza Shah The Great. (9).
Our 12th Imaam is the late Shahanshah Aryamehr the Great. (10).
Our great historical martyrs of the first Arab invasion are Ario-Barzan,
-Firooze Nahavandi, Bahman-e Jaazoyeh, Baabake Khoramdin,
-Behzaade Hamedaani, Roozbahane Khoraasani, Banu Kisia, Rostam-e
-Farokhzaad, Yazdegerd, and Mardaviz Zeyari.
Our most recent martyrs of the second Anglo-Arab invasion of 1979,are,
-General Badre'ei, General Rahimi, General Khosrodad, General Ali
-Neshat, General Biglari, General Voshmgir, General Jahanbaani,
-General Amin-Afshaar, General Biglari, General Nassiri, General
- Mohagheghi, General Paakravaan, Dr. Aameli-e Tehrani, Abbaass
-Khalat-Bari, Dr. Fereydoon Farrokhzad, Madam Parsa, Senator Ali
-Dashti and many thousands more.
Our Jerusalem is Taagh-e Kasraa &Tisphone.
Our Judas was Salman Farsi, who befriended the Mohammed of Arabia.
Our Anti-God, Anti-Christ, Anti-Iran, Anti-Human is Mohammed of Arabia.
Our devil is Allah.
Our Satans were Mohammed and his 12 Imaams.
Our Hell is Islam.
Our book of disgraced lies is Quran.
Our Ashura, (dooms day) is the lost battle of Ghadesiyeh.Our number one Iran hater was The British bulldozer Mad Khomeini. (11).
Our Demons are the British backed pro-Arab Mullahs.
Our number one enemy is Britain.
Our Angels are the Iranian freedom advocates and the students.
Our national days are Norooz, Tirgan, Mehregan, Abangah, Esfandgah,
-Shabe-Cheleh, Sadeh, Sizdeh-Bedar, Charshanbeh-Soori.
Our national day of mourning's are February 11th, 1979, July 26th & July
-27th.
Our proud symbol is the Shahyaad monument in Tehran.Our Temple is our own heart.
Our Sermon is our proud history and kingship.
Our hope is peace and liberty for Iran.
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(1), Zarathushtra (Zoroaster). The Ancient Prophet of Persia.
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(2), FARAVAHAR, The winged Symbol of Zoroastrianism.
Iran's holy cross and only religious symbol.
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(3) Sir Cyrus The Great, King of Kings.
Founder of the Persian Empire. 590 BC to 529 BC
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(4), Hakim Abu’l-Qassem Ferdowsi, ( 940 A.D).
The creator of the great book of poems, Epic of the Kings. (Shah-naameh).
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(5), Derafsh-e Kaaviyaani.
The legendary Royal standard of Great Persia. (224-651 BC) .
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(6), The Cylinder of Cyrus the Great.
This is an artifact consisting of a declaration issued by
the Emperor Cyrus of Persia inscribed in Babylonian.
It is now kept in the British Museum in London.
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(7), The Ruins of Persepolise.
Founded by King Darius The Great in 518 B.C.,
Persepolise was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire.
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(8) Mecca to millions, Cairo, Egypt.
The Empress Farah Pahlavi at the tomb of the late Shahanshah
Aryamehr. The resting place for one of Iran's greatest kings.
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(9) H.I.M. Reza Shah The Great Founder of Pahlavi Dynasty.
The father of modern Iran. Born: March 16, 1878, Died: July 26,1944).
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(10), H.I.M. Shahanshah Aryamehr.
(Born: October 16, 1919, Died: July 27, 1980).
The architect of modern Iran and the thorn in the eyes of the British.
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(11). The British Bulldozer and the Jimmy Carter's most
favourite Iran hater, Mad Ruhollah Hindi-Khomeini.
The destroyer of free, progressive and prosperous Iran.
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Movie review on “Hostage”
This is a movie base on true story, and characters and plot is slightly alter to protect identity of victims, and accused person.
This is a movie about one young Albanian man that he goes to Greece to make better life for himself. He was embroiled in illegal arm deal on street level. He has an affair with his wife’s boss, and she becomes pregnant from him. The boss became of current situation of his wife, and having connection in police system was able to arrest him and imprison him.
When he was in police custody, he was physically abused by authority. He returns to his homeland, and asked for hand of a girl, and her parents decline to accept his offer because girl’s father says that this young man does not have money to merry his daughter and plus he is physically abused. He returns to Greece, and hijacked a bus, and asked from Greece for 10,000.00 EURO currency, and Greece did pay that amount of money and escort him to his homeland.
Eventually, Albanian authority killed him in the bus, and kidnapped individuals were released from him.
This is a great romance movie to watch, and how this hostage taker was a human and was not some kind of cold and callus person. It is worth watch in it.
This is a movie about one young Albanian man that he goes to Greece to make better life for himself. He was embroiled in illegal arm deal on street level. He has an affair with his wife’s boss, and she becomes pregnant from him. The boss became of current situation of his wife, and having connection in police system was able to arrest him and imprison him.
When he was in police custody, he was physically abused by authority. He returns to his homeland, and asked for hand of a girl, and her parents decline to accept his offer because girl’s father says that this young man does not have money to merry his daughter and plus he is physically abused. He returns to Greece, and hijacked a bus, and asked from Greece for 10,000.00 EURO currency, and Greece did pay that amount of money and escort him to his homeland.
Eventually, Albanian authority killed him in the bus, and kidnapped individuals were released from him.
This is a great romance movie to watch, and how this hostage taker was a human and was not some kind of cold and callus person. It is worth watch in it.
Movie review on “Fratricide”
There is a movie about Turkish people are fleeing their homeland and seeking refuge status in Germany.
This story begins when one young man is leaving his village and is trying to settle in Germany. There was another young character that he left home because he was Kurd, and his family was killed by Turkish army.
There was another character that he was working as a pimp, and was brother of one of character.
When they were in Germany, they were working hard to make ends meet by working as a hair dresser in a washroom, and there was a turn of event when one young Turkish person with his pit ball dog began to harass above character in the subway. The above characters left the train, and one character responded to that young Turkish person with dog with abusive language.
Eventually, they met each other in street, and Turkish person with dog pulled his knife and wanted to sever the other guy’s ear, and in this time, the pimp character decided to defend his brother, and pulled his knife and slashed the guy’s belly with knife, and his intestine felt out of his body and his dog ate the intestine.
Eventually, blood revenge took place which is common practice in Turkey, and story end in bitter taste for viewers that these young people went to Germany to make better life for themselves and end up dying.
This is a great movie to watch with family, and get a first hand experience that what a refuge person goes through in their life.
This story begins when one young man is leaving his village and is trying to settle in Germany. There was another young character that he left home because he was Kurd, and his family was killed by Turkish army.
There was another character that he was working as a pimp, and was brother of one of character.
When they were in Germany, they were working hard to make ends meet by working as a hair dresser in a washroom, and there was a turn of event when one young Turkish person with his pit ball dog began to harass above character in the subway. The above characters left the train, and one character responded to that young Turkish person with dog with abusive language.
Eventually, they met each other in street, and Turkish person with dog pulled his knife and wanted to sever the other guy’s ear, and in this time, the pimp character decided to defend his brother, and pulled his knife and slashed the guy’s belly with knife, and his intestine felt out of his body and his dog ate the intestine.
Eventually, blood revenge took place which is common practice in Turkey, and story end in bitter taste for viewers that these young people went to Germany to make better life for themselves and end up dying.
This is a great movie to watch with family, and get a first hand experience that what a refuge person goes through in their life.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Iranian Jews find new homes in Israel
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/25/israel.iranianexodus.ap/index.html?eref=rss_world
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Greeted by joyous relatives and a crowd of reporters, about 40 Iranian Jews landed in Israel on Tuesday, leaving behind their lives in the Islamic republic for new homes in the Jewish state.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Greeted by joyous relatives and a crowd of reporters, about 40 Iranian Jews landed in Israel on Tuesday, leaving behind their lives in the Islamic republic for new homes in the Jewish state.
Discovery of 57 Historical and Pre-Historical Settlements in Ramiyan
LONDON, (CAIS) -- Mohammad Mehdi Borhani, director of archaeological research team in Ramiyan announced the news of discovery of 57 historical and pre-historical settlements and mounds in this area by his team.
According to Borhani, his team discovered these sites while they were working on the new Archaeological Map of Iran.
According to Borhani, his team discovered these sites while they were working on the new Archaeological Map of Iran.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Archaeological Nightmare Transpires at Susa Castle
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/December2007/25-12.htm
LONDON, (CAIS) -- About 90,000 historical artefacts are being stored in appalling conditions in the underground storerooms of Susa Castle which is located in Shush, near the ancient sites of Susa in Khuzestan Province.
LONDON, (CAIS) -- About 90,000 historical artefacts are being stored in appalling conditions in the underground storerooms of Susa Castle which is located in Shush, near the ancient sites of Susa in Khuzestan Province.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Iran Wins Battle Against London Barakat Gallery in Jiroft's Smuggled Artefacts
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/December2007/22-12-iran.htm
LONDON, (CAIS) -- A London appeal court made a ruling on Friday that the city’s Barakat Gallery must return 18 artefacts smuggled from the ancient site of Jiroft in southern Iran.
LONDON, (CAIS) -- A London appeal court made a ruling on Friday that the city’s Barakat Gallery must return 18 artefacts smuggled from the ancient site of Jiroft in southern Iran.
Darius the Great' Palace in Bolaghi Valley Had Ash Timber Ceiling
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/December2007/22-12.htm
LONDON, (CAIS) -- Studies have recently determined that the ceiling of the palace denoted to Darius the Great in the Bolaghi Valley had been constructed from ash timber.
The research has been carried out by a U.S. centre for archaeological studies, Mohammad-Taqi Ataii, director of the Iranian archaeological team working in the valley on the Darius palace, told the Persian service of CHN on Saturday.
The research has been carried out by a U.S. centre for archaeological studies, Mohammad-Taqi Ataii, director of the Iranian archaeological team working in the valley on the Darius palace, told the Persian service of CHN on Saturday.
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