Babak Zamanian, a student at Amir Kabir University, one of the most politically active institutions in Tehran, is on crutches in this earlier photo (New York Times) because of a beating by supporters of President Ahmadinejad.
Last week he was arrested by the regime because of the interviews he gave to radio stations that broadcast outside […]
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Posted in Report on Apr 30th, 2007 2 Comments »
When the British sailors incident happened, many British and American people who didn’t trust their governments started asking, “well, maybe Iranians are telling the truth?” This was very disturbing for me, who as an Iranian, knew the Islamic Republic regime and their never ending lies.
Lies by Islamic Republic founder, Khomeini, and those other power hungry […]
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Posted in Links on Apr 29th, 2007 No Comments »
World execution numbers fall (but rise in Iran!)
Mark Tran, Guardian Unlimited. April 27
Number of people executed in Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Pakistan rises despite overall decline, Amnesty international says.
Mobile messaging gets filtered in Iran
Fars News Agency, April 27
Number of ministries agree to filter the mobile Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) which can include […]
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Posted in Sex in Iran, Video on Apr 28th, 2007 5 Comments »
While Iranian women are being subjected to the summer hijab crackdown by the Islamic Republic police for not following the strict hejab, Pari Esfandiari, founder of the Irandokht community website has published an interesting article in this month’s Playboy magazine. It centers around the story of the sex video tape that allegedly shows the Iranian […]
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Let’s face it, people can be very ignorant. That’s why much of the anti-war coalition, especially in the Iranian part - the so called CASMII (Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran) - have put all their focus on stopping any future war and have not said much on actually what to do with […]
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Posted in Israel on Apr 23rd, 2007 7 Comments »
Ever since Khomeini was taken up as “Marja” (source of imitation, religious authority) and before the Islamic Revolution, he had always called Israel the enemy of Islam.
One of the reasons for this hate could have well been the fact that the Shah of Iran was one if not the first of national leaders to recognise […]
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It’s always interesting to observe the opinion of someone who is a well known defender of the Islamic Republic (IR), now boasting about his defense of the IR in a conference at the Aspen Institute in Berlin.
Hossein Derakhshan (Hoder) - who has lost much face since the days when he got famous for popularising blogging […]
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Posted in Blogs and blogging on Apr 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
To start blogging.
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