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		<title>Mourning after 1400 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago was the beginning of the month of Mah-Haram. It&#8217;s a month of mourning for Shia (Shiite) Muslims. Actually it&#8217;s two months, after Mah-Haram is Mah-Safar. Yes two whole months of mourning. Who died? Hossein. Imam Hossein. Grandson of Mohammad, prophet of Islam. Basically Hossein, along with many of his family members [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parisainiran.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2271104&amp;post=106&amp;subd=parisainiran&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Small Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a joke that goes &#8220;how do you know you&#8217;re Persian? After dinner there is a fight to the death in the kitchen between the women over who will wash the dishes while the men sit on their asses and wait for their tea.&#8221; Well my friends, this is indeed how it goes down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parisainiran.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2271104&amp;post=92&amp;subd=parisainiran&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Persian Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what is the latest trend in Persian music? You would have never guessed. It’s rap. But the rappers themselves do not present the typical image of this genre. They’re not quite gangsta. They all seem to be skinny little 21 year olds with excessive amounts of gel in their hair and lots of trendy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parisainiran.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2271104&amp;post=88&amp;subd=parisainiran&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skiing Finally!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember my skiing vacation got canceled because of the bad weather? (no I still have not got my 350 odd dollars back!). Well the opportunity came up to go on a skiing day trip. I went with my dad, two of his friends and Mahsa. We headed to Tochal &#8211; just at the edge of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parisainiran.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2271104&amp;post=77&amp;subd=parisainiran&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Paykan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a strange change in the landscape in Tehran that I notice. Two years ago the streets were overflowing with Paykans. Every second car was a Paykan. They stood out too because they look like they’ve been teleported straight out of 1969. But now, maybe every 10th car is a Paykan.   Yes, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parisainiran.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2271104&amp;post=67&amp;subd=parisainiran&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really have not been keeping up with the news while over here&#8230; it seems everyone just watches satellite TV (I&#8217;m totally up to date on Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Polish and American pop music). But I hear there are new sanctions against Iran (probably from late last year). The result for everyday people living in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parisainiran.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2271104&amp;post=65&amp;subd=parisainiran&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snowed In</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had planned a ski trip for my family with my mum&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s family. 3 days and 2 nights in the slopes of Dizzin (the best slopes in Iran). I had even shouted everyone hotel accommodation. We were going to stay in a little cabin right at the foot of the slopes. The day before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parisainiran.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2271104&amp;post=64&amp;subd=parisainiran&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year Everyone!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so we don&#8217;t celebrate Christmas here, and also the calender is completely different so we celebrate the new year in March.  What did I do new year&#8217;s eve (which was also my birthday eve)? I was in bed, sick   My whole family went to a party (we had 5 parties in one week!) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parisainiran.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2271104&amp;post=60&amp;subd=parisainiran&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not So Scary Movie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the movies this week and watched this Persian film that was in the horror genre. Whoever asked  me what I watched, and I told them it was a scary movie, looked surprised and asked me if it was a Persian movie. Why? Censorship is not just for sex and women&#8217;s hair, it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parisainiran.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2271104&amp;post=37&amp;subd=parisainiran&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Petrol Problems</title>
		<link>http://parisainiran.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/petrol-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran has the 3rd largest oil reserves in the world (after Saudi Arabia and Iraq). Iranians have long enjoyed very cheap petrol prices. They pay around 10cents a litre. But petrol in Tehran has now become rationed. Each car receives a petrol card you swipe at the pump that entitles you to 100 litres per [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parisainiran.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2271104&amp;post=36&amp;subd=parisainiran&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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