Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for March 29th, 2007

The War of GPSs

By Kamangir • Mar 29th, 2007 • Category: Iran

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.



Basij: Execute Britons

By Kamangir • Mar 29th, 2007 • Category: 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. [...]



James Bond in the Persian Gulf

By Kamangir • Mar 29th, 2007 • Category: Iran

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 [...]



Evidence for a Face off on Sale for £89.99 on eBay (Updated)

By Kamangir • Mar 29th, 2007 • Category: Iran

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 [...]



Analogy: What if CNN Showed Iranian “Diplomats”?

By Kamangir • Mar 29th, 2007 • Category: Iran

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 [...]