Welcome to the “Followers of the Leader” Social Networking Site Looks like his excellency the octopus was on to something! Tabnak [the site affiliated with "pragmatic conservative" and presidential nominee Mohsen Rezaie] reports that the first “social networking site dedicated to the lovers of the supreme leader” has been launched. You can check it out here (the [...]
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By now, the world cup has come and gone and the real victor, aside from Spain and Coca Cola … was Paul the Octopus. I’m sure you’ve all heard and read extensively on Paul, so I will not waste your time talking about this awesome Octopus. What I do want to talk about is the awesome [...]
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Mohammad Nourizad is a writer, producer and journalist. He began his work for IRIB with the late Morteza Avini’s Revayateh Fath [Tales of Resistance] – a documentary series on the Iran-Iraq war. Prior to the election, he wrote for the hardline newspaper Keyhan, but what made him a household name was his support of the [...]
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Mohammad Nourizad is a writer, producer and journalist. He began his work for IRIB with the late Morteza Avini’s Revayateh Fath [Tales of Resistance] – a documentary series on the Iran-Iraq war. Prior to the election, he wrote for the hardline newspaper Keyhan, but what made him a household name was his support of the [...]
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Emad Bahavar [1979] is a political activist, writer and the head of “Supporters of Khatami and Mousavi” in the 2009 presidential campaign. He was arrested shortly after the election, and released after two months. He was detained once more, four days ago. And released yesterday. His recent article in Roozonline, “The destination, was to begin [...]
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Emad Bahavar [1979] is a political activist, writer and the head of “Supporters of Khatami and Mousavi” in the 2009 presidential campaign. He was arrested shortly after the election, and released after two months. He was detained once more, two days ago. His recent article in Roozonline, “The destination was to begin the journey” was [...]
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AyandehNews is owned and written by sources close to Mohsen Rezaie, the current head of the Expediency Council and once the head of the IRGC during the war. They have proven to be a good source of “inside” information and as far as I can recall, they’ve hardly ever posted unreliable articles. Thus, this one [...]
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Tourjan is a weblog maintained by two clerics-in-training in Qom. This is their latest post. ———————- If we are not well aware of the intricacies of Qom, we’d find it hard to believe that a wide spectrum of Iran’s political and religious beliefs are situated in one street, only one hundred and sixty meters long. [...]
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Ahmad Zeydabadi is a reformist journalist and political analyst. He has been in prison since June 13th – just one day after the election. His wife and lawyer have had no word of him in the past 43 days. Today, once again, his wife went to Evin prison but was not able to see him. [...]
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You may remember that a while ago, Mohsen Rezaie, the other conservative candidate and the secretary of the Expediency Council suggested that an “independent council” be formed to overlook elections – instead of having it in government hands as it is now. [one such council could possibly be the Expediency Council itself, although Rezaie did [...]
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It is 4:25 a.m. I have been up all night and I am terrified. The sermon should begin soon. Press TV is the only Iranian channel showing it live. Weird that the regular Persian channels are not. [correction: IRINN, the news network was broadcasting it live as well.] ————– He’s telling a story about Imam [...]
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The leader will be leading the Friday prayer tomorrow. From Bahman Agha. For 24 years I lived in a house which was close to the University of Tehran, and so I’m fairly well aware of Friday prayer rituals. From what I remember, the leader always led one of the prayers during the first three weeks [...]
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