Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for September 30th, 2006

Islamic Sexy Fashion

By Kamangir • Sep 30th, 2006 • Category: Iran

Ahmadinejad attended the celebration for the beginning of the academic year. As always, it began with reciting Quran, I guess, which was followed by Ahmadinejad’s speech. The interesting part, and the contradicting one, for me is when elite students are recognized and presented with gifts. Fars gives a set of moderate pictures (see). Only one [...]



Cloned Sheep, or Cool Ayatollahs

By Kamangir • Sep 30th, 2006 • Category: Iran

The second cloned sheep was born in Iran. It seems that the clergy is quite comfortable with this type of scientific “fooling around” with God’s power.



Nuclear Ayatollah, Khomeini and Atomic Bomb

By Kamangir • Sep 30th, 2006 • Category: Iran

See here (see) for details about Khomeini’s letter in which he advocates for accepting the UN resolution which ended the war with Iraq. BBC reported that Khomeini has mentioned “Atomic Weapons” there in the list of the equipments asked for by the commanders. Though, all Iranian sources published the letter with “…” at the end [...]