Posted in Heroes on May 31st, 2011 5 Comments »
Ezatollah Sahabi died today, 81. 81 years of uncompromising integrity, sincerity and honor. It was 81+ years too soon. We mourn the loss of pop stars, politicians and ayatollahs. Isn’t it weird that the true heroes, the ones whose life makes ours just a tad better or bearable, bid us farewell in the absence of [...]
Posted in Digory Kirke, Serious A** Kicking, Sidewalk Lyrics on May 20th, 2011 4 Comments »
“Game of Thrones” is a new HBO series airing on Sundays (whooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaa, 52 hours to go!!!) A medieval fantasy drama based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. The story is set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, where “summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime” and chronicles the [...]
Posted in Digory Kirke on Feb 28th, 2011 7 Comments »
The painter is lost … Somewhere in Tehran’s murky, uncharted underground. It’s not the first time that we lose people to the underground. It will certainly not be the last. But because of him, and because of them, to slavery we will never return. “Just as the earth can never die, neither will those who [...]
Posted in Digory Kirke, Letters, The Illusionist on Feb 16th, 2011 7 Comments »
I posted Mousavi’s statement yesterday, so I thought I should post this too. I personally assumed that Mousavi had prepared this statement beforehand, but Ehsan Soltani‘s blog offers some legitimate concerns. A translation of his post follows: ——————— Three of Mousavi’s closest allies have cast doubt on the statement that was released yesterday. It is [...]
Posted in Digory Kirke on Feb 15th, 2011 18 Comments »
Mir Hossein Mousavi has just released a statement on the protests of 25 Bahman [February 14th]. The translation follows: (Please also see: Casting Doubt on Mousavi’s Statement) To the noble people of Iran: Respect and greetings to you all. Your glorious demonstration on 25 Bahman is a great achievement for the nation and for the [...]
Posted in Heroes, Revolution! on Feb 11th, 2011 No Comments »
I’m not sure that Muntadhar al-Zaidi knew what he was doing the moment he threw those shoes at George Bush. Symbolically or otherwise, he’s helped usher in a new wave of non-violent protest and resistance unprecedented in the Middle East. Read the New Yorker’s Jenna Krajeski’s accounts of Cairo in the past 24 hours: “The [...]
Posted in Gestapo, Heroes, Islamic Nazis of Iran, Letters, Serious A** Kicking, Translation on Aug 21st, 2010 14 Comments »
I have written of Mohammad Nourizad before. He was once again taken to prison (“called” to go to prison, as is customary these days), for writing a sixth, and according to him, final, letter to the leader. Here I have translated an interview he did before heading to Evin. This interview was published on his [...]
Posted in Gestapo, Heroes, Islamic Nazis of Iran on Aug 6th, 2010 2 Comments »
The Iran Participation Front has released a statement asking supporters of prisoners to go on hunger strike this Saturday “in solidarity with the political prisoners in Evin who are currently on hunger strike.” Jila Baniyaghoub, the wife of Bahman Ahmadi who is one of the prisoners currently on hunger strike in Evin said in an interview that when Ahmadi was [...]
Posted in Digory Kirke, Hideous Freak of Nature, Iran-Iraq War, Save the Middle East from bloodthirsty Douchebags on Jul 30th, 2010 18 Comments »
Mousavi in parliament. The banners behind him say: “jangh, jangh ta pirouzi” [war, war until victory] And “dirouz Khoramshah, emrou Karbala” [Yesterday (we freed Iranian) Khoramshahr. Today, (we capture Iraqi) Karbala]. ———————————— The Iran-Iraq war began on September 22nd, 1980 when formations of Iraqi MiG-23s and MiG21s attacked Iran’s air bases at Mehrabad and Doshen-Tappen (both near [...]
Posted in Heroes, Hideous Freak of Nature, Islamic Nazis of Iran, Prince John on Jun 4th, 2010 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Heroes, Islamic Nazis of Iran, It's five minutes to midnight on May 18th, 2010 10 Comments »
Not much good news coming out of Iran … It gets worse and worse. And just when you think it couldn’t get worse, it gets even worse. Sometimes I think the mere fact that we’re a country still where people breathe and live and study … is a divine miracle, as I’m sure many Iranians [...]
Posted in Digory Kirke, LMAO, Nincompoops on May 11th, 2010 3 Comments »
According to RajaNews, the pro-government news site, “unknown sources” in the province of Esfahan have released a video game titled “War with sedition leaders” where war planes get to shoot Mousavi, Karoubi and Khatami running on the ground. The partners in crime, in turn, get to shoot at the airplanes with guns … I’d say [...]
Posted in Alfred Pennyworth, Iranian Rose Garden, People with brains on May 3rd, 2010 16 Comments »
I was meaning to write about Mohammad Bahman Beigi ever since I wrote the post on The New School. How ironic that he passed away this week, and Iranian blogistan is abuzz with the news of his death … and his life. Kalemeh writes of this departure: It was exactly a year ago when Mir [...]
Posted in Digory Kirke, Meet and Greet, Translation on Apr 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Mousavi met with the heads of the Iranian Religious-Nationalist Front. Not only was this meeting welcoming (the Religious-Nationalist Front has been banned for nearly the entire duration of the past 31 years and is considered outside the traditional “Khodi” (accepted) ranks of Iranian politics even by many reformers). But I liked his talk as well, especially [...]
Posted in Alfred Pennyworth, Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Heroes on Apr 12th, 2010 10 Comments »
Ezatollah Sahabi is the 80 year old head of Iran’s Nationalist-Religious political alliance. He has spent years in prison, in both the pre and post revolution eras, and here he reflects on the state of prisons in Iran and laments all the young lives who are unjustly and mercilessly forced into a life of imprisonment. [...]
Posted in Heroes on Apr 8th, 2010 No Comments »
Karoubi visiting the home of Feizollah Arabsorkhi – who is on leave from prison. Arabsorkhi is the man standing to the left of Karoubi, wearing the light blue shirt. The girl in front of him is Sajedeh, who wrote this moving letter to her father months ago.
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Heroes, Islamic Nazis of Iran on Apr 4th, 2010 5 Comments »
Remember Sourena Hashemi? He is the student whose father was a war veteran and wrote this touching letter after his son was imprisoned. Sourena was released today after more than 3 months in prison, while there is still no word from his friend Alireza Firouzi – they were arrested together. I was very surprised to [...]