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		<title>Doubled Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qazvin-Rasht highway]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are back at the grind and vacation is over, but not without its share of adventure. We just cannot get away from that in Iran, no matter how hard we try, be it a simple trip to the passport office, or one for vacation.
I went up to a remote village in Gilan for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Selection 88]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chaharshanbe Souri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Iranian regime’s hostility toward Chaharshanbe Souri is nothing new. For years after the revolution, as we were growing up in Tehran, we held the celebrations in fear.  As we set our tumbleweeds on fire in our street and threw some firecrackers around, we expected the Basij or the Komiteh – security forces who patrolled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Steps of Evin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[22 Bahman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If anyone had told me a year ago that by this time I would be spending my days in front of Evin waiting for the release of a friend who had been arrested on the anniversary of the revolution for having a green wristband in his pocket, I would have kindly asked them to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Selection 88]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[22 Bahman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[protests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever walked among an army of Wargs, Easterlings, Goblins, Trolls, Orcs and their kin, the Uruk-Hai? That is how the battle of 22 Bahman played out for us. We spent a short time walking quietly past legions of government goons as they growled, grunted and drooled, until they took one of us in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All In</title>
		<link>http://www.persianumpire.com/2010/02/09/all-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Selection 88]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[22 Bahman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demonstrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t remember being as freaked out as I am now before any other demonstration. Caffeine and Nicotine are my best friends these days. Part of the reason is the unpredictability of 22 Bahman, in terms of turnout on both sides, the regime’s reaction, and the outcome. I have a small window for talking about [...]]]></description>
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