Kamangir (Archer)

About six years ago, Akbar Ganji was sentenced to six years in jail because of what he wrote in some articles in those days’ newspapers. There, he attacked how the non-democratic portions of the Islamic Republic rule and survive. Now, all those newspapers are banned and the new president’s central goal seems to be “reaching [...]

“A figure of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a rocket, about to be caught by a United Nations’ net is seen on a carnival float during the traditional carnival parade in Dusseldorf, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 27, 2006. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) ” (see).

Ahmadinejad went to the stadium where the national soccer team were exercising, yesterday. Although, his visit was not announced before, the spectators welcomed him with slogans like “nuclear energy is our obvious right” (see).

When I started to work on my Ph.D. I quit an important part of my life. Actually, I am not seeing Lenna any more (see her in the image in the right). Lenna (more commonly known as Lena) is a sample image very frequently used in image processing literature. Open an issue of IEEE Transaction [...]

 
Gunmen destroyed a shrine in Iraq. Then, some Iranian guys gathered in front of the Britain embassy and burned US flag.

People are collecting signatures to ask Google to acknowledge Norouz (see). Norouz, means new day, is the celebration of the first day of spring, March 21st in Iran (see).

We open the page. There are no comments. Then, I click on the webstat icon. Azadeh asks “what is the number of visitors?” “There should be a mistake; it is showing something above six hundred!” Soon, we realize that actually a huge number of people have visited the comment about possible rule of Iranian Intelligence [...]

He is either talking the first thing which gets into his mind or is fully aware of the consequences of threatening US, Britain, and Israel in current situation. The supreme commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary guards, known in Iran as Sepah, Major General Rahim Safavi should have no doubt that when he talks about “striking [...]

Less than twelve years ago a blast in this shrine, located in Iran, happened. A terrorist organization first claimed the responsibility, but then footprints of Iranian intelligence was found. the whole story was never fully surfaced.
Imam Reza (see) is the eighth Imam in Shia Islam and his shrine is located in Mashhad (see), the [...]

 Who ever attacked the holy tombs in Iraq was quite aware that it could result in a civil war. The blast destroyed one of twenty most important places for Shia Muslims. However, the tomb had no meaning for Sunni Muslims, and they even blame Shias for “worshiping” people, not God. The attack was deliberately designed [...]

To my opinion, The Islamic Republic regime is made up of a set of people who are sincerely working for an ideal aim of themselves without having necessary knowledge. In this framework, talking about democracy is a joke. Furthermore, responsibility is a out of context. I remember the son of one of Ahmadinejad’s ministers saying [...]

Dariush Zahedi and Ali Ezzatyar believe that the way to defeat Ahmadinejad is not through fighting, but through a “face-saving mechanism to allow it to master, under appropriate international supervision, the nuclear fuel cycle”(see). I think this is what both sides have agreed upon. In this theory, US helps moderate Iranian politicians to overcome Ahmadinejadism. [...]

Elham Afrootan talked to the media (see). She rejected any trial to suicide and condemned “propaganda of foreign media”. She also apologized for the article and told that she has found it in the internet. She talked about her devotion to Imam Khomeini and rejected the news that she has been treated bad. She says [...]

Less than twelve years ago a blast in this shrine, located in Iran, happenned. A terrorist organization first claimed the responsibility, but then footprints of Iranian intelligence was found. the whole story was never fully surfaced.
Imam Reza (see) is the eighth Imam in Shia Islam and his shrine is located in Mashhad (see), the capital [...]

Protestors in front of the Italian embassy in Tehran. This time there was no damage.

Islamic Republic style of kissing. The original image is from here (see). Here, some Persian text is removed. Thanks to Nazi for sending the link. Kissers’ names are given here:
Rafsanjani
An Iraqi Shia Cleric - Karrobi
Ahmadinejad kissing Khameneii - Khameneii kissing Khomeini
Hizbollah guy kissing Khameneii - A woman kissing Khameneii
Ahmadinejad hugging Mesbah
Ahmadinejad - Rafsanjani
Karrobi - [...]

Freedom Square, one of the largest squares in Tehran.
Right to my face, he goes “can I take a photocopy of my assignment?” He continues “I want to be able to show the original one to somebody else”. He describes more as he says “I want to make sure that you are objective, Are you?”
He made [...]

Ambassadors of the countries around the Indian ocean met Ahmadinejad. These two pictures show Ahmadinejad greeting two ambassadors. If I was not an Iranian, I would conclude that the Islamic Republic regime has very serious relationships with the country whose ambassador is this warmly greeted by Ahmadinejad (see the first picture). Then, obviously, I would [...]

Facade is an interactive game with fantastic ability to communicate with the player (see). The concept of the game is about trying to resolve problems between Grace and Trip, a seriously-troubled couple. The game starts when you get invited to their house. You can move around with arrow keys and use objects with mouse. For [...]

A church in Karimkhan st., Tehran, Iran.

“We should try to cool down the situation. We do not support any violence,” Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said during a visit to Brussels. But he also cautioned that freedom of expression must be exercised with full respect of other people’s values and beliefs. Mottaki said he has contacted European foreign ministers as well [...]

“Nobody can remove a country from the map. This is a misunderstanding in Europe of what our president mentioned,” Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran’s foreign minister, told a news conference, speaking in English, after addressing the European Parliament. Mottaki also acknowledged the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany, despite Ahmadinejad saying in [...]

Eight candidates ran in the last presidential election in Iran. Except for Moein who was Khatami’s minister of science (see) and Karrobi who was the speaker of parliament (see), the rest were close to the right. It was a surprise that the right was unable to agree on a single candidate. Hence, Larijani, Ghalibaf and [...]

THIS POST CONTAINS AN ADULT JOKE WHICH MAY BE INSULTING TO SOME IRANIANS.
I do apologize.
We, Iranians, have a serious sense of humor, and that’s nothing bad. Unfortunately, I can not translate a Persian joke. Because understanding one of them needs a peer understanding of Iranian culture and different ethnic groups in it. Assume this, “a [...]

They have not understood that we are living in the era of information. Or maybe, they think that if they filter BBC in Iran, then they can control the flow of information. The problem, though, is that we are neither living behind the closed walls of the Islamic Republic propaganda system, nor they have a [...]