The ISA student activist body at Tehran Allameh Tabatabaei University reports that the university has now gone as far as creating their own fake ISA body and has started to use the ISA logo with it!
University has reportedly put up huge banners around the university, honouring the “martyrs” of the Islamic Republic, using the […]
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This time it is not Hollywood who is threatening the Iranian interest in the film business.
It is the Islamic Republic embassy in Thailand:
The Bangkok International Film Festival has dropped the Cannes prize-winning animated movie “Persepolis,” which had been skedded as the new-look fest’s opening movie. Tuesday move followed a request from the Iranian Embassy in […]
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Section209 blog reports that:
There were people from the television here near the Amir-Abbad petrol station recording a programme. They interviewed this nice clean shaved guy who was about 50 years old. After the interview was finished, the guy who was interviewed got in to the car with the TV crew and they drove away!!
As they […]
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Riots have broken out hours after the government introduced a new system to put a limit on how much petrol drivers can buy.
Although Iran has the world’s second largest reserves of conventional crude oil, it imports 40% of it’s petrol due to lack of investment in to the refinery industry.
More pictures here.
Update: It looks like […]
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Yesterday the four members who are left from the Central Committee for the AmirKabir Polytechnic University ISA activist body were doing a sit in protest for their imprisoned classmates at the university when Rouzbahani, the head of the cultural affairs, came up to them and threatened them by saying that “Your efforts are against the […]
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So I finally found the time to sit and write about meeting Fakhravar when he was here for a week or two in London, where he spent his time wisely meeting with number of ex-pats, students, policy makers, human rights organisations, etc.
Siavash has always been a controversial figure. Since his escape from Iran and arrival […]
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Former reformist President Khatami has caused great outrage in Iran between the Mullah community since a video footage of him showing him shaking hands with some woman in Italy was uploaded on to the video sharing site youtube. Physical contact with a women who is not related to a man is prohibited under Islamic Republic’s […]
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Farsad, 26, and Farnam, 24, met in a gay chat room last winter. After corresponding they moved in together to start life as a couple, in disguise but together. They invited small group of their friends to celebrate this union. Just fifteen minutes after the party began, the police broke into their house and arrested […]
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Posted in City boy blog on Jun 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Sorry the site has been down for the last few days, I am in the process of moving it to a new host..
The last few days have been very exciting as Fakhravar was here in London..
I am in the process of sorting out some things and start writing again. In the mean time if […]
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This is an appeal by bloggers against the detention of 9 Iranian students from the Amir Kabir Polytechnic University in Tehran who are been kept and repeatedly tortured at the notorious Evin prison:
Dr. Keyvan Ansari - Alumni Association of Iran, since September 18 (2006)
Ahmad Ghassaban - Editor of Sahar, since May 3
Maghdad Khalilpur […]
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