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,...
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...
The last month in Iran has been full of little clues and a few intrigues. I will try to pare them down. This update...
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...
Huffy is doing it again. Any good news that does not fit their narrative must be instantly spun to the negative.
Case in point a...
As a veteran of one war, I can see similarities in how we are conducting this war. We're really doing nothing different that what...
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...
The American people still support the president's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan even if they do not support the war. My take...
30 Azar 1388 - December 21, 2009. The epicenter of the clerical establishment of Iran, the city of Qom, about a hundred miles southwest...
The military, for a number of years, had a draft. It was done away with in the 1970s and there has been an all...
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