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Gas Prices and the Presidency – An MSM Fictional Production

Iran AdLib - February 27, 2012 28

If the GOP wants to cry about gas prices being high because of President Obama, they need to declare that they want the US government to nationalize the oil industry.

The Sad Legacy of the “War on Terror” Pt. 1

Iran ADONAI - November 26, 2011 12

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no...

Middle East Update

Iran Khirad - June 27, 2011 1018

Join me to check in on daily developments in the Arab Uprisings and add your own content. You can also find me under the Twitter feed to the right for future navigation.

“How am I Doing?”

Iran KQµårk 死神 - April 6, 2010 6

Ed Koch when he was Mayor Koch use to ask that very question to New Yorkers walking down the streets of New York quite...

No, not that Green Day!

Iran Khirad - April 4, 2010 24

I. History of Nowruz Imagine it’s the fifth century before the Common Era, on a plain bejeweled with a magnificent palace complex and flowing gardens,...

Victims of High Expectations

Iran Khirad - March 3, 2010 18

February 1, 1979. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fourteen year exile was finally coming to an end. From Neauphle-le-Château where he had spent only a few...

Keeping the Fire Burning

Iran Khirad - February 10, 2010 36

The last month in Iran has been full of little clues and a few intrigues. I will try to pare them down. This update...

Iran president Ahmadinejad accepts nuclear deal terms

Iran KQµårk 死神 - February 3, 2010 59

OK how did our crack media outlets miss out on this story I found on BBC news? Like usual our media is obsessed with the...

New Blood

Iran Khirad - December 29, 2009 35

Ashura 1388 - December 27, 2009, begins over 1,300 years ago. During the three year reign of Yazid I (680-683 CE) of the Ummayad...

A Nation’s Redemption Story

Iran Khirad - December 22, 2009 42

30 Azar 1388 - December 21, 2009. The epicenter of the clerical establishment of Iran, the city of Qom, about a hundred miles southwest...

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