Kamangir (Archer)

The No Smoking Day seems to be in March, but, for some reason, it was celebrated in Iran yesterday. Here, school boys and girls stone a big cigar. It is a bit violent, I know, but come on there are still places where they put a girl at the middle. More pictures here.

For the anniversary of Ayatollah’s Khomeini’s decease, June 3rd, Tehran’s two international airports will not carry any flights from 8 in the morning till noon. Reza Jafar Zadeh, the Public Relations’ head of the National Airways stated “This decision has been transferred to all national and international companies and they are responsible for avoiding [...]

Blogging is like making love; you enjoy doing it but keeping doing it would be fake and hurtful. I guess that is the main reason I have broken a record in not posting anything in four days. Frankly, not much is happening in Iran. The only good news is, Kamangir is now listed in Alexa. [...]

Horrible footage of Police brutality against low-level gang members. For background see this.

Please don’t mind the irrelevant Persian text on the screen.
Thanks to a tip from a friend I have never met.

[Persepolis], a black narration of a fake history with a hostile attitude towards the Islamic Republic of Iran, is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in the states. This Zionist company is managed by Steven Spielberg, a Jewish mostly known in Iran by his Zionist movie Schindler’s List.

This is how Kayhan, the ultra-right state-run newspaper, [...]

May 24th 1982, the Iranian army succeeded in taking back Khorramshahr, from the Iraqi army. The war with Iraq and its results are hugely disputable and are amongst the darkest points in the history of the Islamic Republic. The war itself is a horrible thing. Having said that, those who fought in the war where [...]

Tehran Police spokesman said today “The incident in 7 Tir Square will be investigated carefully”. He added “The officers were questioning a few improperly veiled women when an officer noticed that a young lady is capturing the scene using her cell phone. She was asked to come to a Police office for explaining her action. [...]

Update II: Police Issued a statement.

Video of Police beating a woman for her “improper” veil. The footage is aired on Voice of America (complete file). Watch the video on Youtube. For background see this and this. Direct link to the file. This is what is going on in there,

[What is] this country? [A woman to [...]

Update: New footage of Police violence against women (link).

Shocking scenes of Police Brutality against people arrested, and not tried, for illegal activities, including drugs, alcohol, and selling satellite dishes. These are pictures not published by official sources. Warning! Includes graphic scenes. See more here. Source.

Underground music and video producers have started a series of attacks through footage published in Youtube. These are a few of their works.

No More Lies begins with Ahmadinejad’s campaign-time speech in which he says “do you think our problem is what our daughters are wearing?” The footage then moves on to the scenes of Police [...]

Supreme Leader met with thousands of Basij members to tell them “Basij members cannot and must not forget the political issues”.

His words were followed by their endorsement.

Some shed a few tears.

And some only waved their hands.

The text reads “Leader! We are standing till the end! We are ready! Ready!”

At least one Basij member passed out.

Inside and Out has this Iranian banknote. The text reads “Democracy and freedom are our definite rights”. The blogger writes, “I think this is a very good method. When there is no way to distribute information, we can use such methods to inform people who do not have access to the Internet and satellite televisions.”

Ahmadinejad [...]

Update II: New footage of Police violence against women (link).
Update: Shocking scenes of Police Brutality against people arrested, and not tried, for illegal activities, including drugs, alcohol, and selling satellite dishes (link).

Masih has published these two pictures from the recent Police Brutality against “improper veiled” women in Iran.
The recent Police brutality against women, because of [...]

Update III: New footage of Police violence against women (link).
Update II: Shocking scenes of Police Brutality against people arrested, and not tried, for illegal activities, including drugs, alcohol, and selling satellite dishes (link).
Update:Rage in the Iranian blogosphere, more pictures are published.

According to a respectable women’s rights group, today, Sunday, both in the morning and later [...]

A Tehrani cab driver decorates his cab with a halter (source).

During a parliament session, in which the Minister of Education was being impeached, a few MPs accompanied by the Minister of Culture took off for saying their prayers. The minister succeeded in remaining in his position.

A “Don’t Park” sign close to a mosque in [...]

“No negotiation with the states, even regarding Iraq”
The Supreme Leader talked today for a group of clerics in the holy city of Mashhad. According to Kayhan he said,

Negotiation with the states is void, according to the logic. What the administration mentioned about negotiation was that they are not doing their job as occupiers and [...]

Ahmadinejad said “we are ready to start diplomatic communications with Egypt. If they show the green light, we will open our embassy there the same day”. A Balatarin user was inspired by this sentence to describe the above image as “Ahmadinejad: If they give us this much ground we will build our embassy before noon”. [...]

Apparently, thirty years ago, the Supreme Leader used to smoke.

Citizen journalism during flooding in Tabriz. Hat trip Haji Washington.

“Praying Machine” accepts coins and then prays for you. The sign reads “It doesn’t work”.

“[Owner of] This stone owes me some money”. According to the Iranian burial rituals, after the body is laid under ground, the area [...]

Transcript of a member of Basij has been published in the Internet and has caused rage among the youth. In Iran, to get into a bachelor’s program, all students take part in a very competitive exam. The administration, however, has always kept a percentage of the seats for whom they prefer. That includes Basij members [...]

Three policemen raped a street girl after they arrested her for immodesty and living in the streets. The three officers arrested her a month ago in Varamin, a southern suburb of Tehran, and raped her after they pulled her to a private house. The officers have confessed to raping the twenty-eight-year-old girl and are being [...]

“Mr President! Whom do you step on to go further?” This is the title a Balatarin user chose for this picture: a seriously injured former soldier is brought to Ahmadinejad’s speech.

Watchtower has fascinating pictures from censoring mannequins in the holy city of Qom using thick tape. He writes, “the only thing which is lacking is a wall to stop anyone who might want to take a look from beneath”.

English translation of a post by Jomhour.
Hello Mr. Wolf
In the recent twenty years and so, leaders of Iran have always rejected any negotiation with the US. Ayatollah Khomeini resembled the communication between Iran and America to the friendship between a sheep and a wolf. After him, Ayatollah Khamenei, in one of his most famous [...]

Eshrat Shaiegh, female MP from Tabriz, said, “some immodest women have no specific [bad] reason for being like that. However, some of them are paid for it. They are paid to walk in the streets and advocate for prostitution. Their cloths are so tight that you think they would be short of breath. Some others [...]

The chief commander of Traffic Police in Tehran told to Fars reporter, “since the beginning of the social security program [the new anti-immodesty program by Police], 2905 cars have been stopped and transferred into Police custody. From them, 1554 have been confiscated for playing loud music, 385 have been involved in harassing women, 423 have [...]