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Untrustworthy Bear

As an Iranian, I happen to have a good sense of Russian opportunistic foreign policy. Combined with maximum aggression when they have clear military advantage, Russian empire always has taken full advantage of each crisis. Invading Iran twice in 19th century, occupying Finland, Ukraine & Czechoslovakia during WWII, the fact that they were allies with Hitler, and now Georgia situation all are just a handful of historic examples of aggressive Russian foreign policy.


The white tsar, Red Tsar & now the FSB Tsar, all of them are absolutely terrifying tyrants that just cannot be trusted. With USA ignoring each & every single international law by invading Iraq, how can anyone argue against Russia? What would happen if Russia tries to annex parts of Georgia? Putin's administration, a mixture of FSB and militaristic ambitions, is out of control. The bear is cornered and a new era of cold war has already been started. Russia & China are the dangers of 21 century. The behavior of Russia & China when it comes to Iran, Georgia, Tibet, and Darfur... shows that these countries cannot be trusted.



But there is still hope: American troops in Romania, Missile shield in Poland & Czech republic, membership of WTO & G8, and the most important of all pushing NATO further to the east are some of the pressure points available to deal with Russia. The bear should be contained otherwise we all would be in trouble

Newsweek: The Star Students Of The Islamic Republic

In 2003, administrators at Stanford University's Electrical Engineering Department were startled when a group of foreign students aced the notoriously difficult Ph.D. entrance exam, getting some of the highest scores ever. That the whiz kids weren't American wasn't odd; students from Asia and elsewhere excel in U.S. programs. The surprising thing, say Stanford administrators, is that the majority came from one country and one school: Sharif University of Science and Technology in Iran.

Stanford has become a favorite destination of Sharif grads. Bruce A. Wooley, a former chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, has said that's because Sharif now has one of the best undergraduate electrical-engineering programs in the world. That's no small praise given its competition: MIT, Caltech and Stanford in the United States, Tsinghua in China and Cambridge in Britain.

Sharif's reputation highlights how while Iran makes headlines for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's incendiary remarks and its nuclear showdown with the United States, Iranian students are developing an international reputation as science superstars. Stanford's administrators aren't the only ones to notice. Universities across Canada and Australia, where visa restrictions are lower, report a big boom in the Iranian recruits; Canada has seen its total number of Iranian students grow 240 percent since 1985, while Australian press reports point to a fivefold increase over the past five years, to nearly 1,500...[Read more at Newsweek website]

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p.s: Where the hell is my university on the list: Iran University of Science & Technology! Some of the finest brains of Iran has been screwed up by IUST! (like mine :D)

Fact: Iranian universities are nowhere on the list of top 500 universities in the world. I think this is a bit fishy!

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Muuuuuuuuuuuugabe

Zimbabwe: A dictator clinging to power, torture, political assassinations, sham of election… all and all as we call it back at home: "Tuesdays"

Last week a journalist/blogger was hanged in Zahedan prison on charges of “supporting terrorism”. 2 doctors who were running the most successful HIV AIDS clinic in Middle East and had been praised by health organizations were sent to jail because they were “plotting to topple the regime”, I suppose it’s because Islamic Republic and HIV AIDS have a lot in common. 4 kids under 18 have been executed so far this year. New laws currently being discussed in Iranian "Parliament" would make it possible for a security panel (not a court) to set up semi-martial courts and punish bloggers because of "Disturbing public peace of mind" or in other words “blowing the whistle ” and just another law to make polygamy legal.


Where is the world media? What the hell are they doing? The world's media has ignored Iran's human rights record for good part of past 7 years. It's only getting worse. All they care about is nukes. Why does MDC gets so much media attention but nobody knows about Iranian opposition? I'm so pissed off...

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