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  • President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that the West, meaning the United States and Britain, still want to frame their relationship with Iran as one of arbab and nokar, or master and servant.

    Why Iran won’t bow to foreign pressure Steven E. Levingston 2010

  • Despite what some analysts insist, psychoanalyzing the Supreme Leader of Iran from thousands of miles away and proclaiming that he believes the foundation of his rule and the survival of the regime is dependent on anti-Americanism, the reality is that neither the Supreme Leader nor any other Iranian leader, conservative, pragmatist or Green, really believes that -- not unless America really does aspire to be the arbab of Iran.

    Why Iran won’t bow to foreign pressure Steven E. Levingston 2010

  • Biden-Reed bath are the same wacko's arbab ahmad toronto

    Biden calls Bush comments 'bulls**t' 2008

  • I think McCain should begin realizing this or his chances to become the next president will diminish greatly. arbab ahmad toronto

    Pelosi blasts, McCain defends Bush comments 2008

  • The village arbab and his gifts, Bibi jo and her aching hip and endless gossiping, and, of course, Mullah Faizullah.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • And so there was Gul Daman's leader, the village arbab, Habib Khan, a small-headed, bearded man with a large belly who came by once a month or so, tailed by a servant, who carried a chicken, sometimes a pot of kichiri rice, or a basket of dyed eggs, for Mariam.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

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