who is coward and who is criminal ?

Withdrawing and handing back the power by British forces from Basra ( in south Iraq ) to Iraqi police force was mentioned by Al-Qaida 2nd top leader as a sign of their power. But Basra is where nearly every one belongs to other types of Islam ( Shia Isalam ) but not the type Al-Qaida believes in, which makes their announcement more than funny !!!

Al-Qaida, has announced withdrawing of British soldiers from Basra and handing the power to Iraqi police in Basra is a sign of rebels power in Iraq which sounds like a big joke as Al-Qaida NEVER had power in south Iraq and IF they had some activities, they didn't use it to kill Americans or British soldiers but to kill Iraqi Shia Muslims ( which they don't like ) !!!

Handing back of power is the result of co-operation and peaceful ways of handling problems with Americans and British forces there not the result of stupid ways of Al-Qaida which acts like coward in their way of fighting ( Terrorist attacks ) and kill even simple civilians beside soldiers. Violence was never the solution to solve problems and negotiation have always worked ...

Lets hope for a better world full of Peace and Friendship and Unity of the whole world of ours out of poverty and war.

Shahab,

Damn Media War on Youtube

Damn it !!! Every single time I go to that damn Youtube website I am pretty damn sure I will spend next 1 hour there being pushed from one video to the other !!!
Today I started the damn Youtube with a new damn type of pizza which was a combination of Pizza and one Iranian traditional food and I ended up watching videos showing Iranian military power !!! DAMN MEDIA WAR MAN !!!

No matter how powerful Iranian or American military is, the result of a possible war is awful for the whole region and the world ... Iranian response to the attack can make massive destruction around the region Iran has influence. While the world economy would suffer a very big shock and on top of all there will be a lot of people who will die INNOCENT !!! Those who had nothing to do with this conflict ...

The result of a war is big tragedy that just radical conservatives on both sides wish for it ...

Preventing attacks ...

Sometimes people are weird and strange, sometimes we are weird and strange !!! No one is perfect but maybe sometimes it is important to be at least a little bit normal and polite. Some people choose being rude to attack others before being attacked from them to just make them enough afraid not to even think about attacking them.

This sounds very familiar as U.S. foreign and defense policy is based on this and I believe that's why people don't like American way of doing things :-P I don't know about how Americans figure things out but I don't like people that attack others to feel safe. It's not good and you end up just ALONE at last or very damn strange ...

Radio, Over ...

L ast week I quited radio ... Lately I barely had time to make programs or better say good ones. I was careless ... I didn't have time at all and it reflect in the shows as well. I quited not to bring down the quality with my mistakes :-)

But I think I would write here that I should thank a person called "Vita Melinauskaite" for teaching me a lot during the time I was working there with her. I learnt quite a lot from her from my daily behaviors to how to make programs and ... She is a good friend, a good director, sometimes very tough but kind and responsible over what she should take care of ... I quarreled with her a lot in this period about things which mostly I found she was right and sometimes she was not but anyway ...

I think at the end, I just should say loud : Thank you vita for everything you did for me, from life lessons to Radio lessons, and I am sorry for all the mistakes I made as a beginner and a friend :-)


With highest regards to Vita.

Shahab.

Boil it man, boil it before drinking !!!

I waked up late this morning ! As usual for late wakings, I missed the first class ... No surprise !!! But the surprise just popped up when before doing anything, like washing my teeth or eating breakfast, I sat at my desk to check my email :

DON'T DRINK WATER BEFORE BOILING IT FOR 3 MINUTES !!!


What the hell was this one ? well the message was short & clear ... They had found some parasite in Oslo's water and now they were using every possible way to alarm and inform people about it. I hadn't watched the news from the night before but I got the alarming email from my university administration ... Well the system alarmed perfect, at least for me. Even my strange neighbor tried to warn me about it.

But as there is always a problem for careless people, when I got back home from university I totally forgot about the whole parasite thing and drank a glass of water from tap !!! DAMN ! whatever I even didnt bother myself to read about it in the newspapers and I found out at night from another neighbor that we were supposed to even wash our dishes with boiled water !!! Very good, I didn't do that as well ... I AM JUST WAITING FOR THE SYMPTOMS TO GO TO DOCTOR :-D

They should think of something soon I guess ... This parasite and bacteria pumping up suddenly in city waters in Norway is not a new thing, last year it happened in Bergen and now in Oslo and god knows where it is going to come up again till they start to care more about the filtration of water as they lack layers in filtration circles here in Norway. The idea that the water from nature is clean and good doesn't work for a big city, Norwegians better change their idea about it faster or they are going to face severe problems. Newspapers are going to write severe critiques about the department that should care about this case and I think someone will loose his seat.

No decent thing in centeral part of axis of Evil !!!

Sometimes I do wonder how blind someone can be ?!

The famous London - Sydney got stuck in Tehran because of their technical difficulties as they should change their bus ... All okay up to here and it is not non of my buisiness that how bad the services of this long tur is BUT what made me write these lines is that I read a message from one of the passangers of this long tur from Tehran.
She wrote to her mother back in UK that : "We are currently stuck in this hell hole waiting for a replacement bus as ours is no longer roadworthy, but where on earth are they going get anything decent in Iran? Mutiny is in the air and everyone is so angry it's unbelievable. The only food supplies we've been able to buy since Istanbul is from petrol stations."

I have no idea what kind of bus they use but we produce so many different types of bus in Iran. Maybe they just need to open their eyes a little bit more !!! I remind to the company and this lady that you are in a country which is a biggest car producer in whole middle east. I guess there is no food supply as well in Iran which they never stopped by to buy something like very different types of Iranian made potato chips, snacks, cakes, delicious dishes ... There is something wrong with this trip ...

World Children Day - Iran, Tehran

Turkısh Döner

Merhaba.

I write from Turkey. From Antalya, a city beside meditranıan sea, on the northern coast and with a very typıcal mıddle eastern but not Iranıan type of nature.

Actually maybe ıt ıs non sence to call ıt not Iranıan but mıddle eastern because you can face more and less thıs nature ın southern parts of Iran but not Northern Iran (where I am from). Type of trees and the way they decorate their praks are different. Maybe something like Arabic countires. I dont feel so much home because of nature but it doesn't mean that ıt ıs not great and I completley enjoy this nature. I love ıt, I should say. Nature ıs cool and the weather ıs warm around +30 degrees celsius degree. But I feel so much home at the same time as the poeple are exactly like Iranıans. The way boys and gırls dress up and try to be fancy. But wıth one dıfference that ın Iran ı guess gırls try to be more fancy than boys but here boys look more updated with fashıon.

They speak turkısh, we have such a language ( not exactly the same but somethıng very sımilar to Turkish called Azerı whıch ıs my fathers mother language and because of hıs lazyness to speak ıt at home I just know some sentences, nothıng more ).
But as culturally Iran and Turkey share alot of thıngs I understand more and less and can sometimes speak Turkısh wıth them. They have quite alot Persian words as well or Arabic words. The food ıs quıte the same with small differences in herbs and people are frıendly. I kınd of feel home here ... So cool ...

Today I trıed turkısh Hamam and message, more than great :-) We have this type of bathrooms in Iran as well ... My grandfather in a village owned one of these big bathrooms. I even remember these types( not exactly this type but public bath with rooms that you could lock yourself inside and take your bath alone :-D not with everyone being able to see you ) when I was a small kid but it is along time that I havent seen them around in capital anymore or at least I dont know where they are. They were popular when the houses did not have their own bathroom ... Whatever it was a good idea to keep it I guess ... Turks are earning good moeny over it. I payed 300 Norwegian kroner for two types of messages.

I think I wıll wrıte more after flyıng to Norway. Now I am wrıtıng from an ınternet cafe...

Oops ... before I finish I should mention their beers are SOOOOO GREAT :-D

Gülagüla ...

Şahab

Abizaid: World Could Abide Nuclear Iran ...

The Associated Press: Abizaid: World Could Abide Nuclear Iran

I read this news the first time in Norwegian in VG, I was kind of shocked but really even if Iran would turn into a nuclear power that can't be that bad that Americans and Israelis advertise it. I mean ofcourse those who have power in Iran know that if they bomb Israel, Israel sure will bomb them back !!! So, even if there would be a nuclear bomb there ( which is not and officials has announced thousands of times that it is not on Iranian nuclear program to build up a nuclear bomb ), it will be just for defensing our borders as countries around us are armed with these damn weapons one by one. Israel, Turkey ( NATO ), Pakistan, India, Russia, ...

Whatever, I can't write without taking sides but I just hope things work out without a big damn war ... I hate it ... The whole middle east will burn if Americans attack and poor people in Iran, Israel and Lebanon and Palestine if Israel attacks Iran. Half of the Middle east will burn so bad.

Today there was another news on breaking newses and it was another threat this time from Iranian part :
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The deputy commander of Iran's air force said Wednesday that plans have been drawn up to bomb Israel if the Jewish state attacks Iran, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.

This is the original text from Iranian News Agency, Fars :

Iran Plans Retaliatory Air Strikes on Israel TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian air force commander said his troops have prepared operational plans to retaliate against Israel's possible air strikes on the Islamic Republic.

"Israel's rhetoric about air strike (on Iran) is just psychological warfare, because this regime does not have the power to launch air strikes on Iran. Israel is not capable of posing a serious threat to Iran because it does not have the actual power and capabilities needed," Air force lieutenant commander for operations General Mohammad Alavi told FNA here on Wednesday.

He reminded that Israel is within the range of Iranian missiles while "we can also attack them by our fighter planes and respond to their possible air strikes," although Israel is unlikely to launch a strike on Iran.

The General warned that the Iranian air force is not boasting, and said, "Such a plan is not just a hollow threat and we do everything on the basis of correct and precise planning and we have gained the needed readiness. Thus, Israel should give up foolishness."

He further dismissed enemies' propaganda about blitzkriegs on specific Iranian targets, and said, "We have gained the required preparedness to confront different plans and strategies and we do not allow their fighters to launch such easy attacks on our country as they allege."

The senior commander assured that enemy air force will lose average 30% of its fighters during any possible blitzkrieg on Iran.

He said that Iranian air force has distributed its RADAR sites according to a special pattern that it can pick up any belligerent move on the screen immediately.

"A majority of our blind points have been covered and all flying objects are under our control. Our air defense plans are also of variety and use such special tactics that have placed us in a unique position," he continued.

The General said that all the country's borders are controlled by Iranian RADAR systems and other electronic equipment 24-hour a day, adding that alien troops in the region are well informed of the said capabilities of the Iranian army.

He said Iran monitors all activities round the clock and would provide immediate response to any air intrusions.

The General further dismissed some recent reports that Iran is not equipped with the needed capabilities to counter Cruise Missiles, and said, "We have gained the required preparedness to confront these missiles, we have studied their performance and volume and range of fire and we have the needed systems to confront them."

"Children of the army are ready to respond to any enemy attack, irrespective of the number of missiles and fighters used by the enemy," he continued.
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And yet another threat from Iran, this time Iranian defense minister :

DM: Iran to Give Various Responses to US Threats TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- In clear reaction to the recent statements by the US Secretary that Washington has different options on the table for confronting Tehran, Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said his country is also ready to give various responses to such threats.

Speaking to reporters on the threshold of the 'Week of Holy Defense' - marking the start of the Iraqi imposed war on Iran - here on Wednesday, General Najjar said, "We too believe that diplomatic means and agreements with the (International Atomic Energy) Agency set the best track and option for resolving Iran's nuclear issue."

"But the economic option which means the path of sanctions lacks efficiency and has already failed," he said in response to Rumsfeld who had stressed that the United States seeks to confront Iran through diplomatic and economic means while it also has other options available.

"As regards repetition of this statement that the US is also considering other options, I should say that we also have a variety of options and responses to these threats and options that we will use according to the conditions and whenever required," the minister added.

Meantime, Najjar said that the new US Secretary of Defense seems to enjoy more rationality in comparison with his hawkish and warmongering predecessor.
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When both sides are just threating each other, I just hope this damn conflict wouldn't end up in military conflict. Poor all those innocent people who might die in the middle of the hell that might be created all around middle east.

Iran & Egypt ... Friends, Enemies, Friends, Enemies, ... Now what ?

Iran and Egypt can be called super powers of the Middle east beside Saudi Arabia. The others, with full respect, are more and less followers. This being a type of follower has divided Middle east in two parts, The Shiite Side and The Sunni Side.

• The Shiite side is consist of these countries leaded by Iran : Iran, Iraq( used to be on the other side under Saddam dictatorship but has recently changed position as with elections Shiite got more power in Parliament), Syria, Lebanon(Should be counted on both list, as some groups have more interests toward Egypt and Saudi Arabia), Palestine(Giza, under rule of Hamas Group ).

• The Sunni side which has so many countries on its list and is mostly leaded by two powerful countries on this side Egypt and Saudi Arabia : Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordon, Kuwait, Yemen, Bahrain, U.A.E, Oman, Lebanon(Should be counted on both list, as some groups have more interests toward Iran and Syria), Palestine (West bank, under the rule of Fatah Group ) ...

Right or Wrong, less or more, this division exist in todays middle east politic and with all differences and conflicts, these people call eachother brothers when it comes to public meetings and ofcourse has full political relationship. But, there is a exception !!! IRAN & EGYPT ! Two years after Iranian 1979 revolution against the Monarchy system in Iran, Iran officially cut all ties with Egypt. This move was a response to the 1978 Camp David Accords. In 1981 Egypt supported Saddam in war against Iran and the relation got worse and worse. Late 2003, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami met with the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Geneva. Khatami openly invited Mubarak to Iran, but Mubarak refused to make such a trip or normalize relations until Iran changes the street name in Tehran (In 1981, Iran symbolically dedicated a street to Khaled Islambouli, Sadat's assassin). Recently Iran signaled toward Egypt agian, with president Ahmadinejad saying in his press conference in Dubai that he would open Iranian embassy once again in Egypt in 24 hours if Egyptians want to have political relation with Iran. But actually there was nearly no or very few weak words from Egyptian part.
But suddenly few days ago News agencies reported about an Iranian official visiting Egypt, with no official news coverage, to negotiate about a near meeting between Iranian and Egyptian foreign minsters. As usual things happens behind the curtains and usually they work out back there but not in front of media ! Anyway, now Tehran officially hasn't commented this act at all but Egyptians confirmed the news officially. The funny part is both sides claiming unofficially that they have not asked for negotiation but the other part has asked for it !!!

No matter what has happened, this is a good news for both countries and both sides that two super powers in Middle east who has deep influence in their side, sit at a table and negotiate. Negotiation is always a good idea, no matter who is sitting on the other side.

Source used : Wikipedia
P.S. : The title reflects Iran and Egypt relation in last 100 years

The story of life, Number 2 !!!

Life is a process of learning ... What we learn is not always easy for us but it is very important that we stand, listen carefully, judge criticisms without prejudice and ACCEPT our faults at the end ...

If I manage to do this process then I guess I can call myself a grown up person or at least ...

There is a poem in Iranian culture saying :

From the cradle till the grave, look for science ...

The photo below showing Dr. Hesabi at his last hour of his life. He was the real sample of this Iranian poem ... Iranians are all born and raised with Iranian culture ... Bad or Good, we are Iranians, sons and daughters of huge Iranian literature ... We live with poems and our ancestors stories, which build up Iranian culture and literature ...

My shots

See more photos: Shahab photos on TrekEarth

The story of life ...

Some days are good, some days are bad ...

Whatever, I got this photo or painting or whatever from a friend ... It is life, probably everyone experience it in this way, More or Less ...

Are you a Persian or a Kurd ?

Probably every Iranian has heard this NON FAMILIAR question OUT of Iran ! It is very rare to hear such a thing in Iran. I mean, if I translate this question word to word to Persian language, then the answer might be yes or no as the person might have come from Fars province or not and no matter what the answer is, there is a big misunderstanding for both the one who asks or the one who answers. Because the one who answerers has thought if the question was that he was from a special province in Iran which had nothing to do with Persian being but we know that the one who asked meant something totally different !!!!

In Iranians daily conversations, you might hear people asking where you are from in Iran ( probably as you hear it inside Iran and you are talking in Persian and we don't so many immigrants in Iran, the question means where in Iran you are from which has nothing to do with your ethnicity but the place you come from ), but it would never mean that which tribe you are from ? Actually people don't belong to tribes back there or at least most of them but provinces or cities.

As you can see in world map, Iran is like a bridge which connects east and west. From long ago this land has been the cradle of the old Silk road from which used to start from China to Europe and Africa. This cradle was always a good place for new people from all around the world to come and settle down for commerce or lifetime. That's why we have nearly every type of people in Iran. From blonde hairs to light brown, dark brown and Black at the end, we even have BLACK Iranians who might be more Iranian than me who is a white with black hair. IN ONE WORD, WE ARE MIXED !!! Ethnicity which can connect you to a tribe is dead back there cause of mass mixture between different people. We can always claim that we have roots to old Iranians but I, as an Iranian have no proof to show that I have pure Persian, Median or Parthian( Different Iranian tribes who migrated to Iran more than 3000 years ago ) blood !!! Even claiming that I am pure Persian can be a very big joke! Who knows whose grandmother were not forced to get married to a Greek, Mongol, Turk or other invaders !!! As Iran was a bridge and most of our enemies would like to control this bridge.

Being a Persian is a kind of pride for all the people who live in Iran and call themselves Iranian. It is not just for the ones who speak Persian or something but for all the people in that piece of land and the pride is for all Iranians. Even from the old days we used to call our selves Iranians not Persians ( The Greek were calling us Persians ) or Iranian kingdom not Persian kingdom and it totally is against what Greek called us and contain all of the people who live in Iran. Iran in word means The land which belongs to Aryans ( Indo Europeans ). This name exactly includes KURDS !!! Because actually they were one of the three main Aryan tribes ( Medians ) and they were even the first tribe who created the first Iranian empire in worlds history under the name of Median Kingdom, which afterwards with some changes in the kings became huge Persian empire ( as Greeks called it that ) and it was nonsense because even the founder of this huge kingdom, "Cyrus the great" was a mixed born child from both tribes ( Medians ( Kurds ) & Persians ) !!!

With all the problems that we have inside Iran, we should just take care of one thing and it is that nothing should break up what our ancestors dealed together to keep this land as one unit under Iran name.

Iran should stay Iran, no matter what happens ...

As our old poet said what he had heard from his ancestors :

IF THERE IS NO IRAN, BETTER NOT TO LIVE ( 935. A.D. )

Fint dag !

Got the ticket(not that cheap anyway but I miss my cousin so much), things are not going that bad( I mean the complicated ones :-D ), have cooked today for my friends and they liked it ... I am in good mood then :-)

Yeah why not ... Today things were cool :-D Going to sleep hope to have nice dreams as well ! :-D

Hvorfor ikke da ? :-D

Shahab,

Officially TiErEd ...

If this page is officially me then I am kind of officially tiered. Yeah kind of tiered of the life. Maybe that's why I worked whole summer with no break and right afterwards continued my studies ...

Anyway soon I am going to turkey for a week so I think it would be quite nice to rest a little bit after tiering summer and I would get to see my cousin who I haven't seen him for more than one year. It would be cool I guess but still I am kind of officially tiered of the whole story of life its self and it is not just because of work and other stuffs ... Should confess I don't understand girls much :-(

Kind of depressed I guess ...

Whatever ...

This is officially Shahab.

How things work out for them ?!

I feel mixed up ,,, Confused ... really busy up there in my mind ... Oh well there are some practical things which are so complicated ...

One of these very special things are GIRLS !!! Very hard to read their mind or to predict their next move !!! It just gives me a headache to analyze them and it is very hard for such a conservative person like me whose every move should be safe.

Actually I have no idea what i am writing but I am sure about one thing and it is that I have a headache now :-D

Before sleeping bullshits of the day ...

Shahab ...

UiO, Linux and informatics !!! :-D

The school started today, as always at first it's a little bit hard but hopefully there would be no problem and I hope I get used to it soon.

Now I am happy with my language abilities as I was totally understanding what the teacher was talking about in informatics pre-courses that I went to for checking my language abilities and today I was at the first informatics class in university of Oslo. But still I was afraid to take a course called Philosophy in this semester as I thought Philosophy is hard enough to be read in your mother language, how can I make it to understand and explain it in my third language which I know I am not THAT good at it ... Okay some people might say ARE YOU KIDDING THAT YOU ARE NOT NATIVE HERE ??? but still It's a big trouble to read Philosophy in Norwegian ...

It was not that interesting as I knew all about these things but still was useful as here they work mostly with Linux but in Iran focus was mostly on Windows.

I have installed Fedora 7 on my laptop. Actually it is kind of hard to communicate with Linux and it took me more than one week to set up the internet network which I had in my student town in my Linux but luckily I had windows beside so there was not that much problem ;-)

Good luck to me :-D

Shahab

How much does the life coast ?

*Ever thinking of committing suicide ?
**Why ? for what ?
*For not passing an exam ?
Are you kidding ?!?!? what kind of exam can worth a whole life !!!?!?!

Now let me tell you the story ... a real story ...

Two days ago I was talking to a cousin in Iran and suddenly he asked my brother if I know about a cousin who is called "Suraya" ? I said No, what is wrong with her ? He continued that yeah she had committed suicide after not being able to pass the university entrance exam this year. He said that she got the result and after the shock of not passing the exam took around 50 tablets of his dead father at the same time and FINISHED !!!! They couldn't help her in hospital either ... So easy ... She passed away ...

I don't know what the hell has happened there and I am not going to judge her family over it because I have no idea what she has been through but I know something about the society I come from.

Back there in Iran getting in to university and continuing your studies till higher education means every thing. There is no way that you are not called a looser if you don't have at least a bachelor !!! We even have now an expression back there that says : "Nowadays even if you kick a donkey, it will turn back to you and say I have a bachelor, what the hell are you doing ?"

Higher education influence your whole life there in Iran ... from your girl friend till your marriage, income or what ever you can think of and on top of all your social class ... So you can imagine everyone is just can't live without a higher education and passing this damn exam becomes harder and harder ( 235 questions from 7 different fields of science in 250 minutes ) and nowadays every year more than one million young Iranian participate in this exam and the chance to get in good universities or even the simple ones is not that high. It needs one whole or even more years of JUST studying and training to get ready for the test.

There has been lots of people ( specially girls ) who ended up in the hospitals during the exam because of high stress pressure. So these youngs who are trying to pass this exam are like being through a test of life, that shows how much ability they have to face real life and pressure. Plus these youngs have this idea in mind the whole time that if they fail this test their future may get ruined ...

With all these stupid theories around this damn exam, extra pressure from family, friends and others can easily drive someone to do something crazy ... As my cousin did and it coast her life ... A beautiful girl died just because she misunderstood the story of LIFE ...

God bless her ...

You may look at the photos below to feel the atmosphere ...

Shahab,

You feel the answering sheet

You sit there in the middle ... POOR YOU ...

Sometimes you need to help your brain to keep working after hours ...

Some people are maybe enough relaxed to spend enough time to get their own style even at such an exam ;-)

Families waiting for participants to come out ...

Some are more than relaxed ...

Need extera pencil ? :-D

Sometimes a simple watch doesn't help, you need to take care of time with a BIG ONE ;-)

More families around ...

Worried Number 2 ...

Everyday it comes damn freaking news about middle east ... Today American foreign and defense minsters had a round trip which ended in ... for making new contracts with Arabs states around Persian gulf and Israel to counter influences from Iran, Syria, and regional militant groups. Iran reacted to all these things with one word from Iran's foreign minstery speaker man. He said, We just believe Americans are trying to ruin good relations between countries and plant fear in middle east to sell more weapons in the region.

I just don't feel well about all the stuffs that are going on there in that part of world which my home country lies there as well ... It seems like both sides prefer to stand in front of each other and don't like to sit at the tables like civilized people and talk things out and when they actually sit at a table they begin making fusses and blaming each other for all the things that are happening in that damn bloody part of the world ...

It wont work out like this ... But it is very possible that something very awful happens there before anything changes in the power of both sides ... I hope both sides wouldn't act like kids and listen to the ones who believe more in diplomatic solutions and less in military conflicts.

But actually at the same time some positive signals are being sent from Iran as well. Today UAEA inspectors visited Arak nuclear reactor but still I really am worried ...


Very worried Shahab,

The story of fifth columns !!! :-D

Guess what ? I am reading and learning Java programming language from a SAMS fast track learning book and they have some interesting hints !!!!!!!!! during learning Java. This one was very awesome :-D

Why does the term "fifth column" refer to traitors, and what are the other four columns?

The term was coined by Gen. Emilio Mola Vidal during the Spanish Civil War.

As four Nationalist army columns approached Madrid in 1936, Vidal claimed that secret sympathizers within the city would serve as a "fifth column" helping to topple the Republican government.

The term, along with "fifth columnist," now describes anyone working covertly against an existing government from within.

International Physics Olympiads in Iran, Esphahan

This years International Physics Olympiads is held in Iran, in the city of Esphahan. 76 countries participate in this international event in Esphahan, Iran.

See the photos :

Starting Celebration

Visiting the most beautiful city of Iran, Esphahan

At Exam

Worried ...

Today I got some photos from a journey of my best friend to the most beautiful city of Iran, Esfahan. I am really worried what is going to happen in my country ... Will Americans bomb Iran ? I am really worried about this city which Iranian nuclear program is built near there as well ... Will sanctions turn my country to a poor piece of land ? I am worried, about my country, about my friends, about the whole things ...

I really don't like this situation :-(

Mehdi, my best friend ...
We grew up together and we are like brothers :-)

A view of Naqshe Jahan sq. in the heart of Esfahan

Shahab ...

Norwegian language, Mission accomplished !

Yep, I passed Norwegian level III exam and now I am finished with studying Norwegian for my bachelor studies. It was hard but I did it. I got C and it was not a very good grade after all but still not bad. Now I can talk Norwegian and nearly every single person get surprised that how good I can speak the language with good accent in 11 months.

Well I guess I have a good talent at learning languages. I am going to study Arabic next semester in University of Oslo beside my studies at informatics field and I hope I might start with Chinese as my best friend here in Norway is Chinese. I need language and knowledges to be able to become a politician in future. What my royal goal is ... :-)

Dress !!!

This year's pre-summer crackdown on what the Iranian authorities think is un-Islamic dress is much harsher than in previous years. But as the last years actions have shown when most of the people are wearing in this UN-ISLAMIC way, then no one can do anything about it. I don't think Iranian government wouln't know that these atmospheres in Tehran might make people more stressful but it wont last forever and those Tehrani girls ( Capital girls, oh my goodness, very tough ... ) wont bow infront of anyone ... There are better usage for all these money and energy which is wasting over this useless plan !

Whatever the hidden and unhidden goals of this plan can be, I want to discuss one of the results of these actions among the youth population of Iran. As I remember I never got a comment from anyone about my clothes but everytime I saw such behaviours from police or university gaurds, I would really feel sad and down and suddenly it would come to my mind where the hell is here that you even can't wear what you want ???!!!
These useless behaviours are the main cause that young nobles leave the country ... They are sick of all those SHOULDs and SHOULDN'Ts that when they have the opportunity to leave the country with their very good characters from university or their top researchs, they wouldn't even doubt it ...

I have just one word to say with the Islamic government in my country, Whatever you want to do, you need Iranian people. Don't make them run away from their own being and serve another land with their wisdom. It doesn't matter what clothes we are in, the most beautiful thing is that everyone would be in the outfit they like, not the one we make them to wear. If my generation is not wearing what you like, its your fault because we were raised up in Islamic republic of Iran not Kingdom of Iran. So lets deal together to build the country like no other has even done. For this goal we need patiance, understanding and respect.

Have a look @ what people believes form inside Iran at BBC :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/6596363.stm