Posted in Amir Kabir University, ISA, Report, Student activism on May 12th, 2007 13 Comments »
These are six of the seven student activists from Amir Kabir University currently in solitary confinement at the 209 branch of Evin prison. Their crime is simply protesting against the dictatorial police state of the country, or as the fundamentalist regime puts it, “threat to national security”, more like a threat to their very […]
Posted in Exporting Islamic Revolution, Gender apartheid, Harasat forces, Iranian women, Report, Second Cultural Revolution, Women Rights movement on May 11th, 2007 6 Comments »
It is not just the slutty hijab that bothers Islamic Republic. They have banned western haircut, ties, sugar and sugar cubes and imported tea.
Could this be the reason why this unidentified man torched himself outside Ahmadinejad’s office?
How about the Harasat, the security/moral police on university campuses across the country? They don’t just harass […]
Posted in Amir Kabir University, ISA, News, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activism on May 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
The ISA student activist body elections came to an end yesterday with more interruptions from the university security officers who banned even the ISA’s Secretary Tabatabi from entering the university and stopped a planned press conference from taking place on the campus regarding the elections.
Yesterday also the university security officers lead by a man […]
Posted in Amir Kabir University, Basijis, ISA, News, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activism on May 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
The first day of the elections for the student activist body ISA finally took place today, and as speculated, there were many clashes between the voting students and Basiji revolutionary guard “students” who tried to interrupt the elections.
The AKU Students Union who had asked for a chance to organise an event on the recent […]
Posted in Music, Video on May 6th, 2007 4 Comments »
The Iranian rock/blues band Kiosk have created this wonderfully fresh music with some funny and some indeed depressing hints about the Islamic Republic government and the current problems people face in the Iranian society. The song is called Eshgh-e Sorat (love for speed).
Posted in Exporting Islamic Revolution, Islamic Republic agents and apologists on May 5th, 2007 6 Comments »
Look what the “Institute for War and Peace Reporting” (IWPR) supporters of democracy and human rights, with the help of Hoder (Hossein Derakhshan) have created!
The project proudly claims:
Most importantly, Mianeh will fully respect and support the identity, national sovereignty and the constitution of the Islamic Republic throughout: our editorial policy is built on the belief […]
Posted in Amir Kabir University, Basijis, ISA, News, Report, Second Cultural Revolution, Student activism on May 4th, 2007 4 Comments »
The run up to the elections of the student activist Islamic Student Association (ISA) some of it which I had covered earlier has developed in to crisis.
Student activist Babak Zamanian (pictures to the right), who is a committee member of ISA, was arrested on Saturday 21st of April while he was on his way to […]
Posted in Report, Video, Workers Movement on May 3rd, 2007 4 Comments »
There were a number of protests by the workers across the country on the International Workers’ Day (Rooze Kargar). Maryam Namazie has a great report on what happened. I have made a video report of what happened in Tehran, with images I got from the media. Hope you like it! It’s my first video so […]
Posted in Blogging in Iran, Censorship in Iran on May 3rd, 2007 6 Comments »
Today is the World Press Freedom Day, not surprisingly it is not a day that is officially celebrated in Iran! The journalists are reportedly more and more censored in Iran and it’s got to the point that even the bloggers such as Kianoosh Sanjari who took the responsibility of reporting events are experiencing solitary confinement […]
Posted in Anti-War campaigners, CASMII, Exporting Islamic Revolution, Islamic Republic agents and apologists on May 1st, 2007 11 Comments »
As reported by Potkin and Aryamehr, Professor Abbas Edalat, founder of CASMII which I wrote about a few days ago is giving a lecture titled “Mutual Respect: The Paradigm Shift Required to Resolve - The Iran-US Standoff” tomorrow at Trinity College, in Cambridge.
According to CASMII’s website this man, who is known for supporting the […]
