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		<title>History, Deception, and Repression: Khamenei&#8217;s Grand Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[History, Deception, and Repression: Khamenei&#8217;s Grand Strategy Abstract: This paper seeks to explain the three primary strategies used by the Islamic Republic of Iran to consolidate power and silence opposition: (1) using a religio-historical narrative to defame opposition leaders, (2) promoting a revisionist history to create external threats to the regime, and (3) censorship and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=duranparsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6988972&amp;post=312&amp;subd=duranparsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: Foreign Policy &amp; Khamenei&#8217;s Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran: Foreign Policy &#38; Khamenei&#8217;s Power Abstract: This paper tests the theory that there is a direct link between Iran’s foreign policy and Ayatollah Khamenei’s domestic power using an analysis of both foreign and domestic politics during the three post-Khomeini presidents: Rafsanjani, Khatami, and Ahmadinejad. This analysis shows that there is a direct link between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=duranparsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6988972&amp;post=309&amp;subd=duranparsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suggested Changes to U.S. Grand Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suggested Changes to U.S. Grand Strategy Dealing with Proliferation through Neo-Isolationism &#160; North Korea’s unpredictability, Pakistan’s domestic instability, and Iran’s increasingly aggressive push to weaponize its nuclear program all pose significant concerns for U.S. security interests both at home and abroad. All three states, but especially Iran threaten to spur nuclear proliferation more quickly than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=duranparsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6988972&amp;post=303&amp;subd=duranparsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[let's watch together ocean currents drag our feet slowly down, and out into sea it's easy to resist to feel your feet claw their way into cool, wet sand welcomes you holds tightly like your grandfather's last hug when your father asks "do you know why he hugs you like that" even though you do, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=duranparsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6988972&amp;post=299&amp;subd=duranparsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the sky sees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the mist brought by rain and asphalt rises, warm summer sun hungry children cradling below wet newspaper sheets hungry eyes ribs poke shyly outward, reaching hands outstetched "i don't have anything" a crystal clear sky doesn't notice the world below the mist vision-obscuring i keep walking we keep walking<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=duranparsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6988972&amp;post=297&amp;subd=duranparsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outlook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[sometimes i can't touch my toes so then i think and then i can i look outside, sometimes when i can't think do you? imagine seeing some person, looking back up and into you because he can't think too funny that act of looking out i don't get why it works but sometimes, it doesn't [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=duranparsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6988972&amp;post=295&amp;subd=duranparsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We met on a very typical Sunday morning eating Chinese food</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 07:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[is it normal for a first date for a guy and a girl to be at a gay club or a glass of wine at a seedy Chinese restauraunt at 1:00AM (just a typical Saturday(Sunday morning) night) i couldn't think of a more auspicious beginning and here we are after seven months your smile on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=duranparsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6988972&amp;post=292&amp;subd=duranparsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s an ode to dirty hipsters, who I don&#8217;t dislike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i don&#8217;t dislike hipsters you can consider it something of a motherly disapproval my index fingers moving in a *tsk tsk* it isn&#8217;t the greasy unwashed hair the thick glasses the flannel or ripped up chucks the general lethargy grates me that avowed sense of the importance of their tiny games their little projects we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=duranparsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6988972&amp;post=274&amp;subd=duranparsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finger Sprain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i am never more conscious than when i think of the persistent pain residing in the middle finger of my left hand in those moments when, made acutely aware a sharp prick flows dissipating on my fingertip i become aware of myself that i am human, and actually feel even if it&#8217;s only sometimes is this strangely comforting? or is it the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=duranparsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6988972&amp;post=271&amp;subd=duranparsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lightness</title>
		<link>http://duranparsi.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/lightness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[for BK We met at 2 A.M. on a Sunday morning, my eyes and legs weary from the journey. The after midnight chill of my breath spread slowly on the glass separating us. My fingers drew the word ‘Hi.’ She showed me her smile. She said she was almost off work; (she was a slave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=duranparsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6988972&amp;post=267&amp;subd=duranparsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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