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 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 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 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 Digory Kirke, GREEN, Norouz on Mar 16th, 2010 8 Comments »
. .. And oh what a year it has been. Looking back, I’m sure many of us are grateful Mousavi never became president. In less than a year, he has risen to a place where no president in our recent history ever has, and garnered the respect of millions of Iranians. This is not undying [...]
Posted in Digory Kirke, Memories on Mar 2nd, 2010 5 Comments »
Here is a Soroush cover, dating back to November 20th, 1982 featuring an article/interview with Mir Hossein Mousavi. I can’t believe it, I wasn’t even born then! The issue features an interview with Mousavi, and articles about his first year in office. Soroush is the offial IRIB [Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting] magazine. My dear, [...]
Posted in Digory Kirke, Letters, Nincompoops on Feb 27th, 2010 2 Comments »
Mir Hossein Mousavi was interviewed by Kalemeh today. Khordaad88 is working on the translatin of the complete interview, and it will be released in the next few hours. I love how he mentions the changing of the green in the Iranian flag in Ahmadinejad’s recent speeches. Here are parts of the interview: ———————————————— . . [...]
Posted in 22 Bahman, Digory Kirke, Interview, Khordaad88 on Feb 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
The headline of Ettelaa-at newspaper in 1979: “The Shah Left” … (no he didn’t). ——————— The complete English text of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s interview with Kalemeh is now on Khordaad88
Posted in Digory Kirke, Interview, Khordaad88 on Feb 2nd, 2010 19 Comments »
Update1: Question II is now complete. The second half (from where I have indicated) was completed by Khordaad88. As I mentioned, I will have the full link here once the whole interview is done. ——————————– Mousavi gave the website Kalemeh a great interview. My friends at Khordaad88 will have the full interview ready by later [...]