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Tehrani Transportation

Kamangir | July 29, 2006 | Category Iran

This picture does not show some toys. With the increasing traffic intensity motorcycles have become a very good means of transportation in Tehran, encapsulating price and speed at once. Another importance of a motorcycle is that its driver is not very much limited by the funny laws of traffic, at least in Tehran.

“Iranian officials, even further than Israelis”

Kamangir | July 29, 2006 | Category Iran

This is the non-literal translation of a short comment in a right website (see). By this sentence the author means the Iranian officials are worse than Israelis. The piece continues with reporting that the students who left Tehran for Lebanon have been stopped in the Iranian border “because of top officials’ order”. It seems that some people have thought the glorious ceremony of Iranians rushing to Lebanon to help Hezbollah was anything more than propaganda. Unfortunately it seems that, as it was anticipated, at the end of day the Lebanese are those who pay the price of all this.

A member of parliament shows a Hezbollah flag to his colleagues. These flags decorated the Iranian parliament for a day (see).

A Friend

Kamangir | July 29, 2006 | Category Iran

Hugo Chavez is in Tehran (see) and has had a meeting with the Supreme Leader (see). He is also to be granted the most prestigious Iranian government’s medal of honor (see). Probably, Iranians are a bit too welcoming for a two-night stand or maybe not; we need friends for the time of war. And I am not quite convinced what type of help can come from a president who was recently almost overthrown by a coup.