Kamangir (Archer)

“Death to UK”
1- I am not a fan of football but I know that much that when the two top teams, Esteghlal and Perspolis, play together, it is the big event. This time, the Islamic Republic tried to borrow some of that passion for its political agenda. So, as ISNA reports,

The spectators shouted “Death to [...]

I was talking to my dad over the phone, last night. I have learned to not to address my worries directly, because he would understandably think I am calling the heaven, i.e. Iran, a bad place. So, Azadeh asked him, “dad, what is all this news about the British sailors about?” “British sailors? Are they [...]

The Islamic Republic showed pictures of the GPS equipments captured from Britons. They claim that the devices show that the sailors were 500 meters inside Iran. UK, obviously, says the devices are tampered with. As the Iranian blogger Where points out, this is a lose-lose game for Iran.

Couple of Basij members protested in front of the Foreign Ministry demanding different fates for the detained British sailors. While some of them asked for their trial, others went direct to asking for execution. One person also reminded everyone of the similarities between this and the previous kidnapping of British sailors. More pictures here. [...]

A post from My Babbling Brain.

Exclusive to Al-Alam
I don’t know that much about the law to know if it is legal to broadcast pictures of the British war detainees. Also, I am not a news expert to know which one is more important, the condemnation of the footage or its broadcast. I know this much [...]

Update: Let me make myself clear. I don’t think it would make any difference if what they published as pictures of the GPS was in fact a plastic toy. Look at it as trying to be funny at the middle of the hell.

From eBay

From BBC.
Apparently, the GPS which the British officials used to prove the [...]

This is from Where.

Could it be Sillier Than This?

Imagine that the CNN shows the detained Iranian diplomats, and lets forget that they are members of the Quds Army and call anyone who holds a diplomatic passport a diplomat. Imagine that they say,

American brothers were very hospitable. We were not diplomats. In fact, we were [...]

When Israel and Lebanon got engaged in a full-scale war over the fate of two Israeli soldiers many asked the obvious question that was it worth of it? Now, apparently, the Islamic Republic is willing to destroy half the country for 500 meter of Iran being “invaded”. According to IRNA, the Iranian embassy in London [...]

The Islamic Republic aired footage of Faye Turney, the only female person among the fifteen captured British soldiers, praising the “Iranians” for their hospitality and friendliness. Ahmadinejad! You are the only person on earth who would really believe this crap! Who else would think of a British lady who has had to wear the scarf [...]

After the Islamic Republic denied the arrest of the British soldiers for a long time, now they are denying that the US is doing any military drill in the Persian Gulf. According to Mehr News Agency, Tangsiri, a top Sepah commander in the region stated “according to our observations in the recent days, the US [...]

As a Ph.D. student, my primary job is to carry out research and then to report on them. A quick way of reporting my results is through scientific conferences. That means leaving Canada for a country, mainly in Europe or the states. This is when my acquaintance with Ahmadinejad comes into play.
A few months [...]

Baztab quotes a member of the Parliament saying,

This is not the first time that when the interests of the UK are endangered, lobbies [inside the administration] push for actions towards their [UK's] satisfaction. This time, the Foreign Ministry does not have the right to back off. They must be determined to defend the logical and [...]

Today, I was looking everywhere for more information regarding the ongoing Iran-UK face-off. Checking different websites I found a link from a fellow Iranian mentioned here and there. The content of that post is simply pictures of a military compound east of Tehran, where some reports say the captured British navy personnel are being held. [...]

Alef, a right-wing website, published a piece titled “ten points about Resolution 1747″. There, the author first speculates that more resolutions are on the way, while he emphasizes that there is a long way till a total embargo on Iranian oil would be on the table. The piece follows with discussing how Islamic Republic’s friends, [...]

Just a quick reminder that I am rigorously following the news. Unfortunately, because of the New Year’s holidays, there is not much information in Persian sources. If you are interested to know how I feel, I think those who always sorrowed that the route to martyrdom got closed to them have started smiling as the [...]

Rajanew, a website very close to Ahmadinejad, writes,

While the diplomatic pressure from Iran on UK has balanced the media pressure from the West, we have received news that the government is very keen to keep the invader soldiers and to not to release them. A source in the government told our reporter that the captured [...]

Less than half an hour ago, IRNA reported that the Iranian Embassy in London has published a statement saying no independent or Iranian news source has yet verified the reports about the capture of 15 British soldiers. The embassy claimed to have heard the news from the deputy of the British Foreign Minister.

Another post from Mahjad,

The Terrifying Perspective
In the last days of the previous [Persian] year [which ended a few days ago], we had a discussion with  colleagues [in the newspaper] on how we should arrange our work in the new year given the political circumstances. In fact, less than a week passed and in the very [...]

According to IRNA, the naval maneuver “Sovereignty” began in the Persian Gulf. The engaged forces will drill jumping from helicopters and also subsurface operations. The ten-day event is said to be “an exhibition of weaponry built in Iran”. In another news, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps stated “if America starts a war [...]

The Supreme Leader began the first day of the new year talking to the crowd of people in Mashhad, one of the most religious cities of Iran. At the middle of his speech, after he took pride on the “achievements” of the Iranians, he mentioned,

All our activities have been legal, but if they tend to [...]

I suggest the Noble Prize Committee considers a new category specifically dedicated to Ahmadinejad. In his first speech, in the new Persian year, “pointing out that the enemies know that they can not make any harm to the Iranian nation, but try to make a fuss and push us back and interrupt the development of [...]

It is no secret that whenever I tried to talk to Lisa Goldman, the second sentence was the beginning of the end. But, anyway, can you not love a blogger who writes,

…the government appointed no less than two committees … to waste taxpayer’s money while they try to decide what we should call that deadly [...]

The Iranian bloggers have started the new year with a game about our wishes. Once nominated by a fellow blogger, you should write down five wishes and then invite (a few) other bloggers to the game. Thanks to Proshut, I am invited to the game too. So, here are my wishes,
1- I wish the war [...]

Norouz (means the new day, or the day to renew), the beginning of the Persian year, is due in two days. I started doing a New Year card and ended up with this (click to enlarge),

The handwritten text reads “Happy New Year 1386, Arash Kamangir”. The text at the middle is a part of the [...]

Family members of the missing Iranian general, Askari, gathered in front of the Turkish embassy in Tehran, marking the 105-th day of his disappearance. More pictures here.