Kamangir (Archer)

Unsafe Nuclear Workers

Kamangir | April 21, 2006 | Category Iran

In the surface we see the Iranian administration doing their best to reach to nuclear technology before the world stop them forever. For them, this is the game of life and death. Either they afford to become a nuclear power or they are history. However, in beneath, there are engineers and workers that stay overnight fixing this machine and planning to build that one. These people are the actual wealth of the administration in this gamble. However, I do not think Ahmadinejad would announce in the national television, “I regret to inform the nation that we had a radioactive leak last night”. I guess the only thing is to turn that yellow cake into Uranium and then to let the world know. Ali (see) points at a photograph (see above) taken from Iranian nuclear industries and published in Shargh daily newspaper (see). He compares the loose surgical gloves of the men standing besides a pot of yellow cake with the standard equipment used in the world (see below). He does not draw any conclusions but reminds us of the anniversary of Chernobyl (see).

Tehran

Kamangir | April 21, 2006 | Category Iran

Thanks to the same peaks that make Tehran a very polluted city, Tehranis can have a good time climbing up.

Personal bushiness of Murder

Kamangir | April 21, 2006 | Category Iran

Saeed Hanaii killed sixteen prostitutes before he was executed in 2001. There were doubts that he was helped by hands from inside the administration.

Islamic Republic Police has announced new plans to stop the non-Islamic behaviors in the streets. Carrying an animal or having worn no socks are reportedly amongst the criminal acts for which a girl may be arrested (see). Basically, this is the good side of the coin.
Like any other huge metropolitan area, there are places in and around Tehran in which not very decent people are living. With the increasing poverty even a traditional society like Iran suffers from the problem of prostitution. However, unlike other countries, working girls do not have the obvious access to free condoms there.
Having a religious administration for which a girl seeking customers in the streets is nothing but devil himself, it is not strange to see people executing “God’s will” as a personal business. The story begins with Basij, the Islamic Republic’s militia. Being a Basiji, means a member of Basij, you are among the elite part of the nation, as seen through the eyes of the administration. A Basiji’s responsibilities include attending every demonstration and shouting “Death to Some Country” when the national television announces to do so. Also, in some occasions you would be guarding in the streets, stopping cars and searching them for alcohol and satellite dishes, devil’s instruments. You may even be asked to face people partying in the streets for that national, but not Islamic, event or the students striking against an administration’s move. The problem happens when these powerful pets of the administration get inspired by it’s theories and leave the slow bureaucracy (see). For example, Saeed Hajjarian, former president Khatami’s top advisor, was assassinated by a similar group.
In September 2001, when Saeed Hanaii got arrested at last, he had killed sixteen prostitutes. He was a very religious man with a wife whom was very seriously attending praying sessions outside their house. Using her weekly absence, Saeed rode his old motorcycle looking for working women in the streets of Mashhad, a religious city in eastern north of Iran. The forensic investigation proved that he had never had any sexual contact with the women. His method was to strangle them and then to leave them in the streets. He was also so determined that he would be among the first people gathering around the scene. Actually, police found out that he frequently helped them carry corpsepose to the Ambulance. When he was sentenced to death there were rumors that some top clerics do not think he deserves such a sever punishment. Interestingly, one of his charges was carrying a “faked” Basij card. He was executed and is now history. But, many details of his actions are missing. For example, he had had access to the official information about the prostitutes (through Basij?). Also, the actual conduct of the crimes were not clear, he was not a strong man and could have not very easily carried the corpses by himself. When the hardliner state-run newspapers published articles partially supporting his actions, people started to think the whole story was not exactly the one declared in the court. Remembering similar events in the past and connecting that to the “faked” Basij card you might think some people took administration’s words seriously (see).
Just after the administration announced plans to arrest “indecent” girls in the streets, six stabbed corpses were found in Tehran (see). Police is talking about similarities between the cases. When ministry of justice stated to reporters that “stopping immodesty does not need judicial authorization” people remembered last week’s protest against immodesty where it was announced “God’s people (in Islamic Republic literature means people devoted to Islamic Republic, Persian: حزب الله) can not stand what is polluting the country’s cities”.