Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, LMAO, Nincompoops, pissed off on Apr 23rd, 2010 11 Comments »
Entrance to the school of engineering at the University of Tehran.
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You may all know of boobquake by now (which has 100,000 participants on facebook), but not many have heard of Fanni Pleasure Island.
ٍEarlier in the week, the students at the School of Engineering at the University of Tehran were confronted with a huge poster erected [...]
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 Dictateur Sanguinaire, Letters, Prince John, Serious A** Kicking, Translation on Apr 21st, 2010 6 Comments »
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 opposition [...]
Posted in Iranian Movies, Islamic Nazis of Iran, Nincompoops on Apr 20th, 2010 8 Comments »
Yesterday, the Cultural Ministry’s cinematic division released their policy document for the new year, outlining their goals (every movie in Iran must obtain a permit from the ministry).
The top “subject priorities” for the new year are ( meaning these are topics which will get easier permits and funding):
Koranic and religious meanings
The prophet and his family
The occultation [...]
Posted in F*ck Big Media, Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, IRIB, Interview, Iran-Iraq War, Nincompoops on Apr 19th, 2010 6 Comments »
“National Media”
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Even though this clip may be considered slapstick comedy, I was rather intrigued by it.
Especially because I had recently seen this:
[h/t Neo-Resitance]
The first clip is a piece on IRIB2 – about Iran’s “cyber army” and how, since some blogs and the internet have been used towards “soft warfare” to topple the IRI, a group [...]
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.
He [...]
Posted in Ahmadionomics, Snowball and Squealer, The Illusionist on Apr 12th, 2010 17 Comments »
“Varzeshe Sobh-gahi” (morning exercise) has been promoted more and more in the past few years. It has been more heavily emphasized by state media outlets, which air a number of morning exercise programs (which as far I know, weren’t aired at least up until the early 90’s).
As far as phys ed classes go in schools, [...]
Posted in Beautiful Music, WEEK>EN:D on Apr 9th, 2010 4 Comments »
Sepideh Raees Sadat is a newcomer to the world of classical Iranian music – a dwindling enterprise IMHO, with very little new talent – aside from those getting piggybacks from their dads. Her vocals aren’t very strong, but this is one of my old favorites.
Posted in Kids, People with brains, Sidewalk Lyrics, madreseh on Apr 9th, 2010 18 Comments »
Here’s some news that has been all over Iranian Blogistan for the past few days – you’ve most likely seen it if you are a regular visitor there.
Gonbad Kavoos is a beautiful town in the North of Iran – province of Golestan. Kherad [Wisdom] Elementary School is a school for a group of ashayer (nomadic [...]
Posted in Ahmadionomics, Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Islamic Nazis of Iran on Apr 8th, 2010 4 Comments »
… wasn’t this pretty.
The Music Club at Sharif University held their annual concert in the days leading to the Iranian New Year – mid March. This concert was held with complete approval from authorities, and near the end, the students read a poem dedicated to their friends and classmates who are currently in prison.
… They [...]
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 Another Murder, Islamic Nazis of Iran, grim reaper on Apr 6th, 2010 4 Comments »
Three professors have been removed from their positions in the past 24 hours:
Morteza Mardiha, a professor of philosophy at Alameh Tabatabie University.
And Alireza Beheshti and Ghorban Behzadian-Nejad have also been suspended from their teaching positions at Tarbiat Modarres University. At the helm of Tarbiat Modarres right now is Farhad Daneshjou – the brother of Kamran [...]
Posted in Machiavellianism, Meet and Greet, Norouz on Apr 5th, 2010 7 Comments »
The delegates of the coalition of reformist parties – the Imam Khomeini Line – met with Mir Hossein Mousavi and Rafsanjani today. The Rafsanjani visit is translated below (crossposted at Khordaad88). The Mousavi visit will follow soon on Khordaad88.
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In continuing their new year visits, the delegates of the coalition of reformist parties, the [...]
Posted in Sidewalk Lyrics on Apr 5th, 2010 12 Comments »
Sorority sister Peggy Pat Hennessy ironing her party dress for an engagement party that evening w. her stockings & underwear hanging above to dry in the basement of the Kappa Alpha Theta house on the campus at the Univ. of Kansas. (1939 – photo from LIFE)
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It always strikes me as so odd that for a [...]
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 see Sourena in [...]
Posted in Democrafascism, Norouz, Sidewalk Lyrics, Sizdah Bedar, madreseh on Apr 1st, 2010 18 Comments »
I wrote about Sizdah Bedar earlier.
Literally, ‘Sizdah Bedar’ translates to “getting rid of the thirteenth” or, “get out [outside] on the thirteenth”. It is the 13th day of the new year, and the last day of the celebrations. The point is to be “outside” with family, in nature, in parks, near rivers, flowing water. And, [...]
Posted in Democrafascism, F*ck Big Media, It's five minutes to midnight, Palestine on Apr 1st, 2010 11 Comments »
Students sitting beside the name of their classmates who were killed during the Israeli assault on Gaza
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In this blog, I focus on Iran – however, that doesn’t mean that I’m ignorant or oblivious to what is going on in the rest of the world, especially in our neighboring countries, and Israel-Palestine.
I don’t buy the arguments [...]