Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for February 12th, 2007

Zionist’s (Tasty) Chocolate

By Kamangir • Feb 12th, 2007 • Category: Iran

Basij members protested in front of Nestle branch in Tehran. The text reads “Nestle Chocolate, Zionists’ Bullets”. I’m wondering if the kid hates the “bullets” that much.
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Math vs. The Islamic Republic

By Kamangir • Feb 12th, 2007 • Category: Iran

This is from Shekkar.

Is street rallying a proper alternative for a referendum?
It has become customary to the Islamic Republic leaders to call rallies, held under different names, as referendums which empower the regime. It has also become customary that these popular movements are always portrayed as unimportant by western journalists and politicians. After all, none [...]



The “Peace Maker”

By Kamangir • Feb 12th, 2007 • Category: Iran

I do have Iranian friends here in Canada who are able to write down the Middle East crisis as a single-variable easy-to-solve mathematical problem. Then, the solution to that “problem” would be as easy as President Ahmadinejad “formulates” it; “wipe them off the map”.
My research field is devising and solving optimization problems in telecommunications. In [...]