Kamangir (Archer)

On The Holocaust(-Denial) Conference

Kamangir | February 27, 2007 | Category Iran

An open letter by a group of Iranian academics, writers, and artists regarding the Tehran Conference on Holocaust Denial

Over the past year or so a number of official and unofficial public statements have been made in Iran denying the genocide of Jews during the Second World War. The culmination of this trend was the widely publicized, so called “International Holocaust Conference”, held in Tehran in December 2006. Given the serious moral and practical implications of this trend, we, a group of Iranian academics, intellectuals, writers and artists, find it imperative to take a public stance on this issue.

Back to the Old Habit, Or Cutting Off Fingers

Kamangir | February 27, 2007 | Category Iran

If you, and frankly I, thought that cutting off hands was something for the past, we were dead wrong. See these,

1- Fars reports that the “commission for stopping electricity cable theft” in Shiraz decided to “cut off cable thieves’ hands in public”.

2- IRNA reports that four fingers of F. Hosseini, 46-year-old male, were cut off in public, yesterday 3pm in Kermanshah. He was convicted for breaking into 22 safes.