Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for February 19th, 2007

Right Before the Big Game

By Kamangir • Feb 19th, 2007 • Category: Iran

Sepah started a new drill, as anticipated by the insiders about a month ago. Is this the last maneuver, before the big game? Here is a footage broadcast from the national television.



The Holy Stain

By Kamangir • Feb 19th, 2007 • Category: Iran

I am just copying and pasting, and translating, a post.

The day after Ashura, this year, people “realized” that the water stain on a wall resembled Abbas, Imam Hossain’s uncle [if I am right]. They rushed to be blessed by it.

For the information of those who might find no connection between this and the IR, I [...]



The “Republic”

By Kamangir • Feb 19th, 2007 • Category: Iran

One of the suspects of Zahedan blasts was executed. Khosn Agha writes,

Name: Nasrollah Shanbhe Zehi (نصرالله شنبه‌‏زهی).
Date of Committing the Crime: 14 February 2007.
End of the Investigations: 15 February 2007 (less than 24 hours after arrest).
End of Trial and Issue of the Verdict: Unknown (probably it was an “order”).
Date of Announcing the Verdict: Unknown.
Date [...]



Iranian Gays and Their Share of Oppression

By Kamangir • Feb 19th, 2007 • Category: Iran

Frankly, I find it irritating and disgusting when I have to say sentences which even seem to resemble pro-IR ideas. Having said that, not all “amazingly” horrible news which pour out of Iran are factual.
I am not a gay and I have never had a friend publicly admitted to be gay. However, I have lived [...]