Kourosh Ziabari - Atlantic Free Press: In our outlandish and bizarre era where the mogul warmongers are bombarding the innocent children and women, corporation media are planning to overthrow the popular and independent governments in developing countries and the excess of financial crisis is harming thousands of people worldwide, the most valuable thing that one can do is to find ways for upraising mutual understandings, friendships, cognations and stable peaces.

Finding shortcuts to escape from the brawls and tumults in the quarrelsome and chaotic world of 21st century is not actually an easy-to-do job, but would be an effective idea to highlight similarities and emphasize amiabilities so as to get rid of hostilities which are surrounding us increasingly.

Iran and South Korea are the notable examples of two close continental allies which are both among the developing countries with flourishing economies and bright prospect of joining to the throng of developed countries.

Giving prominence to such cordial relations that have never been flawed despite of the treacherous strives of inimical forces behind the scenes, could be exemplary and inspiring for the other nations that have already engaged in close relationships with other neighbors or friends; relations which are constructive for the two sides, moreover non-threatening for the other nations.

Historically, Islamic Republic of Iran has been a major ally of Eastern Asian countries. It still is. And it has particularly boosted its economic, scientific and cultural ties with South Korea, as an influential regional power in the past years.

Iran, as a giant Persian Gulf energy producer, counts on Korea as a main destination for its oil and gas exports. The two sides have also shown an eagerness to participate in each other’s industrial projects.

The current figure of bilateral transactions between Iran and Korea stands on $9 Billion, which has been anticipated to exceed $10 billion within the next months.

Furthermore, cultural relations between two countries are increasingly being expanded as a source of mutual interest, as the recently held “Glory of Persia” exhibition in Seoul reveals.

Iran has also signed several contracts with Korean TV stations to translate and broadcast the popular Korean TV series “Jewel in the Palace,” the most predominant of popular foreign TV series in Iran. Lee Young Ae has said she was honored to have such multitudinous fans in Iran.

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Media Left - Kourosh Ziabari: Nowadays, you hear the name of Iran for the most catastrophic reasons in the global media headlines. Nuclear weapons, terrorism, mass destruction, violation of human rights, abduction of freedom activists etc. Such hostile approach for the coverage of Iran news which has been taking by the corporation media since long times ago would easily sequence to an international pessimism toward the people of Iran, the culture of Iran and the history of Iran. That’s why, Iran is somehow interpreted as the most misrepresented, misunderstood country in the world that is being distorted by image despite of its richness of civilization.

Speaking to an American scholar of Persian Culture who has devoted almost 15 years of his lifetime to studying the furthest angels and brinks of Persian culture and Iranian lifestyle is worth reading at least once for it gives a clarified and impartial viewpoint of Iran, what the outgoing President of US calls the “Axis of Evil”.

James Russell is a world-distinguished figure, a well-known name for those interested in Persian culture, Persian civilization and Iranian studies. He is a Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the a former Associate Professor of Ancient Iranian studies at Columbia University while teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem priorly.

At the time being, Professor James Russell of the Harvard University is writing a book on a medieval Armenian collection of tales whose source he believes to be the Buddhist Lotus Sutra, an important scripture written by and for the Silk Road peoples, most of whom spoke Iranian languages.

I conducted an interview with Prof. James Russell with the aim of learning more about the viewpoints of an American university professor about Iran, the misrepresented and misinterpreted country that you can not discover the truths about, unless you travel and sense it face-to-face.

In the brief debate, we talked about various topics such as the life of Persian poet Mowlana, the customs and rituals of Iranian people, the history of Persian Gulf and the richness of Persian literature.

I invite you to come with us to walk you through the corridors of 7500 years history of Greater Persia; certainly you would learn more things, knowing not before!

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Persian Carpet, the most attractive rug in the world

Populist America - Kourosh Ziabari: Nowadays, Iran is promoting itself as an emerging power of politics, economy and culture which modifies the global equations directly a great deal.

Intrinsically, a new surging power would not be favorable for the western states who are seeking international dominance and hegemony perpetually, so there must be ways to get rid of this new-born power or hamper it down anyway.

With the extending amount of Iran’s exports in mind as the world’s 3rd largest oil supplier, and regarding the excessive augment of national GDP in the country which surpasses the GDP value of countries such as Portugal, Czech Republic, Israel, Ireland, Finland, Ukraine, Croatia, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Luxemburg - the American statesmen and their close allies might tell themselves that China and Japan are sufficient for Asia to be the continental giants; so a new pole i.e. Iran is totally additional and unwelcome…choking it is more rational rather than allowing it traverse all of the stages of progress and development.

In such intricate circumstances, the nuclear dossier would be the best pretext of pressuring and lobbying to isolate Iran by disguising that the country is pursuing the mass destruction weapons and atomic bombs; a deceptive and compelling story which intimidates the public opinions and confutes them to shun Iran, otherwise there would not be any subterfuge for picking a quarrel with Tehran.

Obviously economical and financial competitions are the main reasons of US and western powers crippling the nuclear case of Iran, otherwise they know better than all of us that Iran has not the goal of developing nuclear weapons and never had been before.

The ex-presidents Reagan and Carter both confessed publicly that the main depositors of atomic arsenals are the neighbor countries of Iran who produce mass destruction materials under absolute corroboration without being any restricted or demanded to dismantle.

US and European cronies though, test-fired all of their “soft missiles” toward Iran and its people during the past few years by imposing bunches of sanctions, cautioning against nuclear strike and funding the terrorist groups inside the soil of country to spread violence and instability in the oil-rich Iran and fulfill their desired conclusion which is the relinquishment of Tehran from achieving nuclear technology.

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Thanks to the almighty God, some of my articles, online activities and blog posts have attained international popularity and feedback in non-English media during the past months and been translated in various languages such as Italian, French, Deutsch, Spanish and some non-Latin dialects.

Intrinsically, it would be a great favor for any journalist and blogger, and in a general term, for any content-producer (including painters, filmmakers, musicians, academicians etc) to find his works attracted the global community, and I feel in such a way, too; thus I collected some of the translations of my works in non-English media which are listed below. I will keep them in my history and always refer to them as the first sparks of my global appearance!

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Kourosh Ziabari dice que es ha enviado una carta abierta al sitio Corbis. El blogger escribe que el sitio mencionó que Molavi es un poeta turco. El lugar de nacimiento de este honorable poeta está localizado en Irán y todos sus poemas escritos en Persa. Así pues, sin ningún lugar a dudas, Molavi es un poeta Persa. (Spanish, Global Voices About my protests to the distortion of Mevlana’s nationality by Corbis. Mevlana is the national poet of Iran who had been introduced as Turkish by Corbis almost the last year)

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Kourosh Ziabari habla acerca de la importancia de las miniaturas, la pintura y la arquitectura persa. El blogger también deja un enlace al gran pintor iraní, Mahmoud Farshchian, donde podemos observar sus grandiosas pinturas. (Spanish, Global Voices, about my English article on Master Mahmoud Farshchian, the master of Persian miniature and painting)

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Le blogueur iranien Kourosh Ziabari [anglais] a écrit une lettre à Yahoo ”La messagerie électronique Yahoo mail a récemment enlevé l’Iran de la liste des pays sur sa page d’inscription!Nous trouvons contraire à l’éthique professionnelle de nier l’existence d’un pays et de violer les droits humains pour quelque raison que ce soit, y compris des soi-disant tensions politiques entre états et gouvernements. Nous demandons donc à Yahoo de remettre l’Iran dans sa liste”. (French, Global Voices), about the well-known Yahoo Mail project)

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Kourosh Ziabari souhaite voir plus d’exactitude historique dans les films :
Je veux juste demander ce qui se serait produit si tous les réalisateurs, producteurs, écrivains et artistes n’essayaient pas d’omettre les réalités historiques et ne choisissaient pas que ce qu’ils veulent parmi les pages de l’histoire ? Je veux demander ce qui serait arrivé si le film 300 montrait la vraie et sûre image de la guerre de Thermopylae entre la Perse et la Grèce ? (French, Global Voices, about my criticism on 300 the movie)
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MediaLeft - Kourosh Ziabari: “It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.”

Among the noisy hollers of jubilant, excited swarms who had been gathered in Chicago to celebrate the official announcement of President-elect Barack Obama’s victory in competition with the old-hand Sen. John McCain during a 21 month campaign for the 2008 US Presidential elections, yells of “Yes, we can” by the excited, hopeful Americans raised the expectations for a defining – at least – four years epoch of repose and tranquility under a moderate, pacifist 47-year old who is said to be going to alleviate the flames of hostility and animosity blazed by the warmonger ex-President Bush worldwide.

Almost everyday during the past 8 years while the republican George Walker Bush was holding office in the White House, you could probably hear up-to-date, breaking news regarding a raid by the US Air Forces or military troops on diverse parts of the world, one after another; so far the sacrificed victims are Rwanda, Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq who experienced the catastrophic situation of their territorial integrity being violated, while the others such as Belarus, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Venezuela, China, Russia, North Korea and Iran underwent the worst types of soft-strikes: financial embargo and psychological war.

Perhaps, that was an inseparable division of Bush’s foreign policy to cut the mutual ties off with the entire world – except the Western Europe – to meet the ambitions of Israel and accomplish an ideological mission to expand the global Judaism; however the mission – which is not clearly determined that whether is accomplished yet or not - cost a lot for the people of the White House and the nation of America, as well.

In other words, the US government dwindled or incised its relations with bunches of countries rashly, under the incumbency of President Bush; countries which he assumed as tiny, terrorist, unimportant or hostile. Meanwhile, he boosted the connections with a confined number of countries including UK, France, Germany and Israel as major allies to continue preserving the tyrannical stance of USA toward the rest of world.

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Quoting from MediaLeft: Born in 1991, Kourosh Ziabari is a freelance journalist and writer, the author of book “7+1″, a collection of his interviews with 7 contemporary Iranian authors and a contributing writer for magazines of Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, South Korea, Belgium, Germany, UK and the US. He is Persian and lives in Rasht, in Northern Iran.