HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO ALL LOVERS IN THE WORLD

And hier is a link to a sweet animation(with music) http://dura.cell.free.fr/home/swf/lovelovelove.swf

The Letter of Jewish comunity in Iran to Ahmadinejad

This is a part of Letter which I tried to translate from the Tehran Jewish Comitee
The Jewish community of Iran is worried about what in Iranian media is happening and mentioning that holocaust was only a myth.
Is it not possible to make a small research and read the "Mein Kampf" from Hitler again?
And see what was mentioned as the base for Nazis was erasing the Jewish and gypsy race
Mr President there is no doubt more than 50 millions People were died in Second World War, what is the importance if there had been 6 millions or one millions Jews among them!!!
Holocaust is not a myth as general Massacre of saddam in Halabache (killing the Kurds) the massacre of Palestinians and Lebanones in Sabra and Shatila by Sharon, and massacre of Moslem in Balkan by Serbian and what happens today in Afghanistan and Iraq are also not a myth!

Sorry Darling! Some stones were thrown to windows of your embassy today!

What a long time I did not write any thing here, some how I was busy with our trips to Iran and Spain, on the other hand am so busy with lots of plan and projects, but I think the most important factor Which I could not write any thing was that I am so fed up with all these stupid stories about nuclear quarrel between Iran and Europe and America, I do not want to comment it again what is my point of view is written in one of my last years posts ( U ), and the thing is I do not believe or support the new president of Iran I am only worried about my country my relatives, my friends and my people.

And today I heard the news about the attacks to Austrian embassy and eventual Austrian culture institute, which made me upset und somehow ashamed of behaviour of group of demonstrants who threw stones to embassy and broke the windows (However they were only 400 of 12000000 of Tehran Population!)
I felt so bad about it I know the building and even the kind employees and the culture institute is where I have been learning Germany for four years I have so many sweet memories about that.
So when Walter called me I felt so ashamed and apologized him because of the unacceptable and wild behaviour of demonstrants, remembered few years ago when Heider won in Austria some Students wore as Protest T-shirt with the message " sorry ,I did not vote for him!" And I asked myself if I was living still in Austria should I than also have worn a T-shirt "Sorry I did not threw any stones!!!!!!!"
But actually what do you expect from normal people when the leader are such idiots, and unfortunately they are all so narrow-minded, what is happening how could you compare khatamie or Clinton or even Schröder to their horrible substitute, Ahmadinejad, Bush, Merkel ...
Where has in our todays world tolerant and respect been left? There should be a press freedom but not at the price hurting the others feeling which is against the base of democracy your freedom is limited where you could hurt somebody so the Muslims, Christ and Jews should learn when they can not love each other at least try to understand the other point of view and definitely respect each others belief and feelings.
So in my point of view the Muslims should not any more worry and discuss about the existence of holocaust because by this mean they hurt the feeling of the people who have suffered during the second war, on the hand the Christs and Jews should respect what is holy for the Muslims and do not make fun of it.
And at the best case all these three religions followers should take some lessons from more peaceful religions like Buddhismus and zarathustra and at last do not forget it is not important what kind of religion you have but being a human!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Domino

From nik ahanng-Kosar

The Forgotten empire of Persia

As today Walter wanted to participate in 42.2 km Cross Country Walk Marathon in Blackwater(I learned later he won the first place). I decided to spend the day in the British Museum which has currently an Exhibition about ancient Persia: " The forgotten Empire"

The exhibition was a selection of precious objects from the National Museum of Iran, the Persepolis Museum and the Louvre, and British Museum itself.
It was funny because the only objects I was not familiar with were the objects from the Iranian Museum.
The exhibition was really busy, what I liked mostly was the reason why the exhibition was made: I read somewhere that this conflict between West and East has existed since 2500 years and because the Greek have written the history there was always a misjudgement about Iran. This exhibition should help give the West another image of Persia(Iran) than as an evil axis!
The Persian empire which lasted from the middle of the 500s BC until the defeat of Darius III by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, the Persian empire ruled a vast portion of the then-known world from the Nile to the Indus. It connected the Mediterranean with modern Afghanistan. Rich beyond dreams, powerful beyond dispute, the great kings ruled from their mighty palaces at Susa and Persepolis, tolerating the religions and cultures of subject peoples and harvesting the creativity of near eastern civilisation that had already, before they came along, invented writing and urban life.
Looking to the casts of Persepolis found it funny to have still the genes of wavy hair after 2500 years! Guess they didn't have a hairiron like me!!!

Photo Prize

Martyn Colbeck, from the UK, took this stunning and evocative image of elephants on his birthday. Mount Kilimanjaro is more than 25 miles away. This moment of magic wins Martyn the Nature In Black And White category.
Look at other winners´photo at: BBC news

George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq'

This was the title of the article in today's Guardian UK newspaper:
George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month.
Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did."
Mr Bush went on: "And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East'. And, by God, I'm gonna do it."!!!!!!!

Paeez

It's a long time since my last post in August, in middle of September I travelled for a week to Austria, my sister Nasim wanted to move from Graz to Vienna, so there were lots of work to do, and I helped her a little with packing, meanwhile I made a short trip to Leoben and visited Tina and Gregor (who are expecting to have a baby very soon!)in their new spacious flat with a nice view to the River "Mur" and there I had a nice chat and tasty dinner( which I forgot to ask about salmon's recipe!) with them for a couple of hours.
At the weekend Walter joined me and after helping Nasim & Richard by moving and visiting "Rafaela" the new Baby of my sister in law Sigrid, we used to opportunity being in Austria and spend the rest of the time being in spa and relaxing , coming back to London we took Nasim with us and Richard came few days later , on Saturday I met my friend Aude who is a real art fan and came to London from Paris only because of the exhibition of Frida Kahlo in Tate Modern.So we met at exhibition and I was really surprised after 3 months of exhibition , It was a long queue for buying ticket.
Everybody was touched by looking to the paintings and works of Frida, there were a lots of pain which were pictured with colour and canvas and you could feel it by looking to it!
At the end Aude gave me a souvenir from exhibition a Frida Kahlo mug for my mug collection!
And then we had a coffee with some sympathic friend of Aude.
The next day we took Nasim and Richard to visit Oxford which they liked it very much, by our way we visited the big hobby craft shop and Nasim bought lots of thing for preparing their wedding in June, meanwhile Walter visited the PC world shop next to the hobby shop , and we ended buying a new computer without planning it, however the old one was really old and somehow broken!

Tin Tin in Tehran

from Zartosht Soltani

Early man goes shopping

Banksy is known as a Graffiti artist who hangs his art in famous museum and galleries in London and New York.
Fake prehistoric rock art of a caveman with a shopping trolley has been hung on the walls of the British Museum for three days without being noticed!
His Work on gaza wall were also very impressive, Banksy who has been criticised as an as an irresponsible prankster, risked the bullets of the Israeli security services to stencil nine paintings on to the Palestinian side of Israel's separation wall. They included pictures of children digging a hole, breaking through the wall, and another of a ladder apparently going up the wall and over to the other side. Look Uk Guardian for the pictures and more details!

Norway And Denmark

One month before we got married, Walter, Nasim and me went to Sweden, we loved it so much that we decided to discover Scandinavia further, a year later we went to Helsinki in Finland, and this year we made it to Norway and Denmark.
We flew with Ryanair to Haugesund, and discovered the beautiful nature of Haugeland with its magical landscape - lakes covered with water lilies and hills covered with fragrant wild flowers and snow roses. However, after being shocked by seeing a poisonous rare adder ("Kreuzotter") next to my foot I thought that too much nature is obviously also not so nice!:)
After that we made our way with a bus to a small neat port (Skudeshaven). There we took a ferry and made our way to Stavanger, a small nice city, where we visited the Petroleum Museum. The building was built as a platform, and it was really interesting inside!
From Stavanger we flew with a Norwegian airline in about one hour to Oslo. Walter arranged before that we could stay at Grand Hotel which was a very luxury hotel and situated just in the centre! In this hotel also the nobel prize winners usually stay when they come to Oslo to receive their prices.
I liked Oslo very much, you could see everywhere modern art especially many modern statues.
Another thing that we noticed: There were more small children in Norway and especially in Oslo than in any other capital city I have visted before.
After two days we went further with a big Ferry to Hirtshals in Denmark. The ferry was more and less like a cruiseliner because of it's facilities like big restaurants and bars, swimming pool and night shows!
In Hirtshals we stayed for two nights, the beach was so fantastic and beautiful, I never saw before such a fine white sand, but the weather was a little cool to swim however Walter swam a bit, we walked around and visited the biggest aquarium in Europe there with some cute seals!:)
From Hirtshals we took a train to Aarhus, the second larges town of Denmark where we went to an open air Vikings museum and after that we had a meal in a Vikings restaurant (Walhalla) with a nordic buffet (really good and tasty). We flew back from Aarhus to London and we liked Denmark so much that maybe next year we will go there again!

Good bye Mr. President

Photo from Iran newspaper
As Today is the last day of your 8 years presidency, wanted to tell how I as many other Iranian were Proud that you were our president, however many people think you did not achieved what they expected and criticize you, but in my point of view what is changed during these 8 years is enormous specially by culture and art aspect, with your smile and peaceful attitude, your bright thoughts and your intelligent diplomacy you achieved a lot at International stage.
It is really sad that your time is finished and the thought of your replacer makes it even more difficult!
Thank you for every thing which you have done!

QUEUE

Photo from Jim Rider

DESPRATION AFTER ELECTION

There is a general depressive silence in the space after election, you can feel it even at web, many of weblogs are not updated since then.
I thought as many others there is competition between reformism Dr.Moein and fundamentalist Rafsanjani, any way it won't be so bad.
Neither of us thought the conservative could stand at the peak of power again, those grey years after revolution could repeat again, where happiness and laughing were forbidden, where bright colours as red yellow orange, pink were defined as slutty and were forbidden, where dance and music was forbidden.
where young girls were obligated to wear the darkest and ugliest uniform in the world.
Where speaking about love, being in love and making love was extremely forbidden.
Our young generation , our woman, our writers and journalist fought for along time to get back partially of what which was taken from them.
what happened that we went back again, they speak of cheating in result, however it is happened I believe it, I am so tired and fed up with all dirty bloody politic, what should we do now? Take one Look at traffic system and streets in Tehran to know how liable is this new Mr president ex major, however Tehran had once a very good major who made the city look beautiful, he begun from south part of Tehran ( where is the poor part ) made many parks, culture centres, planted every where beautiful flowers and painted all ugly old buildings after all these work where he ended was not the chair of president but he was put in jail!
I do not think that judging by appearance is right but looking at Iranian president and looking to US president I am afraid that our planet will be soon turned to the planet of apes!!

Paris

For nearly a week we were in Paris mainly because of Air Show which our company had also a stand there,but as our Hotel was situated in centre of town near Notre Dome , we (or mostly I) managed to do easily a lot of sight seeing, we climbed the Eiffel Tower, were at Jardine du Luxemburg and dined with my dear friend Aude,
I shopped at champs-Elysees ,went to Louvre and because of time deficiency looked mostly the Iranian Partthere, remembering what my history teacher at high school said " The most important precious part of Perspolis is not in Iran but in Louvre!" And she was right!
I visited also the Pompidou centre the museum of modern art, I was impressed by the extra ordinary shape of building but honestly I found the most artwork there only hideous and ugly , only a few works looked impressive, but generally the parisians are very tasteful and artistic and that is what you can see in every aspect of general every day life!
The Air Show was also interesting but maybe in my point of view was not very good organized.
At our way back to England , there was a traffic jam(mainly in Air Show area and Paris) that we could not reach our ferry and waited almost 2 hours there for the next one, we were at at 2:30 am at home!

Sean Penn in Tehran

Hollywood actor Sean Penn, adopting the role of a journalist, scribbled in his notebook .(from Reuters)

Iran followed Japan into the 2006 World Cup after a solitary goal

(Photo from BBC)
Thank you guys that you made us happy and proud!
But most of the all compliments to that group of Iranian girls and women who bravely succeed to break the antiwoman law and enter to the football stadium(In Iran women are not permitted into football areas as the government considers stadiums could be an UNHEALTHY environment for them.)

Azadi square in Tehran and freedom chain by fans of Dr.moin the president candidate!

To vote or not to vote?

As the the Iraninan president election gets closer, there is a big concern for Iranians to get involve in election or not, the group who doesn't want to get involve in election argue mostly that in the system of government of Iran the president has not enough power to perform the desired reforms towards democracy, in the past 8 years of presidency of Khatami most of the young generation who elected him with great expectation where disappointed, however the sweet smile of khatami changed a little the image of Iran in world as the International press described him as mullah with friendly face, but he didn't have enough power to make structural Changes toward democracy, there are stills many political prisoner's in Iran and still many writers and journalist and even webloggers are sent to the prison because of statement of their belief,economically in spite of Iran's big oil reservoir and fortune ,there are still many problems with inflation and unemployment.
But in spite of every thing and against all great odds in my point of view when we don't participate in fate of our country we will not be able to change anything, we should accept the changes would be graduate and needs its time, it is easy and fast to destroy but constructing and making progress is more difficult and slowly.
and as far as I am concerned it is important not to let the conservatives take the power again and win.
On the otherhand the situation did get better in compare to the past and the Iran today is not the same which I left in 1996 , at that time I was a young girl whose basic right and freedom was taken away, and I am not sure if I have had lived in today's Iran I would have immigrated to Europe!

Life is beating of earth in our hearts*

I am looking to find you and tell you something interesting that I just read about, and like the most of the time find you standing near the kitchen's window , looking to the our small garden,
waiting for another thin but powerful sprouts to come out from dark & hard earth,
waiting for another bud to forget modesty & shyness and open as a beautiful flower,
waiting for a little playful bird to eat the grain and seed which you prepared,
and waiting for Fefeli the baby squirrel to come and eat the fruit which you put there.
You love all these moments and I love the purity and tenderness of your soul!