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6 Dec 2025 1 minute read 8 comments Melina Mehr $0.68
Kish Marathon Mocks Iran’s Morality Police: 2,000 Women Run Free in “Hijab-Optional” Race”On Friday, December 5, 2025, more than 5,000 runners — including roughly 2,000 women who openly ditched the compulsory hijab — turned the upscale resort island...
5 Dec 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr $0.13
whole plan was to head up into the forested mountains… but... Another weekend rolled around, and I’d originally planned to spend it all to myself, just me and the mountains. These days, the hills are breathtaking—the trees have exploded into gr...
3 Dec 2025 2 minute read 7 comments Melina Mehr $0.32
A Glance at Iranian Female Singers Persecuted or Imprisoned for Their Art Under the Islamic Republic. As Iranian women’s voices of defiance against religious fanaticism grow louder, and more refuse to bow to the regime’s compulsory hijab and suff...
3 Dec 2025 36 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked $0.16
At the turning of the fifth to the fourth centuries BC, over a thousand miles from Greece, ten-thousand Greek mercenaries employed by a Persian general found themselves stranded deep inside Persia, in what is now modern-day Iraq. The ensuing escape s...
2 Dec 2025 1 minute read 12 comments Melina Mehr $0.38
Live like there is no tomorrow I mean we all have heard the expression, right? but we never do, because we don't have to. There are always the tomorrows waiting tomorrow! We put money aside for emergencies. We delay stuff that are not emergency an...
30 Nov 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr $0.11
Iran’s Silent Killer: 161 Lives Lost Every Day to Poisonous Air Yes, you read that right – 161 people die daily in Iran because of air pollution. Citizens are now calling their country “Iran’s A...
30 Nov 2025 4 minute read 4 comments Investigator515 $0.13
In just a few decades, we went from magnetic tape to the cassette, before moving to the Compact Disc and eventually, fully digital and streamable media. And while these iterations provide huge benefits around things like storage capacity or quality,...
30 Nov 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515 $0.14
A single coin paid to a 14-year-old boy would expose a Soviet spy. In the aftermath of WW2, the stage had been set for some serious spying. In a world still reeling from the social and economic aftermath of total war, the presence of nuclear weapons...
29 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr $0.22
Some days are good, some not so much, and some make up for all the pain of the bad ones. This time, I decided to write about a good day. When we were kids, the essay topic called “How did you spend your summer?” always gave me a headache. My famil...
27 Nov 2025 3 minute read 1 comment Learn With Hatty $0.12
Most of us grow up with the idea that Thanksgiving started with one perfect meal in Plymouth in 1621, but the real story is much wider and messier. Long before the Pilgrims, Europeans in North America were already holding religious “thanksgivings” to...
