Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for July 16th, 2007

Ayatollahs Go Scientific

By Kamangir • Jul 16th, 2007 • Category: Iran, Islam, Islamic Republic

Ayatollah Khamenei, the leader, visited Rouyan, the Iranian cloning research facility. If you think he felt anything immoral was going on you are wrong. He actually enjoyed looking into microscopes and using a mouse, I guess for the first time in his life. Then, he gave a rather repeated and boring speech in which he [...]



The Nuclear Game Released

By Kamangir • Jul 16th, 2007 • Category: Iran, Islamic Republic, Israel, US

As mentioned before, the Islamic Republic had announced the development of a new computer game, in which the players will fight the US and Israel in Iraq and in Iran. For the full story of the game see here. The game was release today, bearing the fancy name “Special Operation 85″, probably referring to the [...]



A Confession Show for Esfandiari, Tajbakhsh and Jahanbegloo

By Kamangir • Jul 16th, 2007 • Category: Human Rights, Iran, Islamic Republic

The Islamic Republic television has just aired short pieces of a program titled “In the name of democracy”. The program features “confessions” made by Haleh Esfandiari, Kian Tajbakhsh and Ramin Jahanbegloo. BBC Persian has captured the footage. Here, you can watch the version uploaded to Youtube.

The sentences are as follows,
Tajbakhsh: To attack the Islamic world.
[Title [...]



Bad, but not that much!

By Kamangir • Jul 16th, 2007 • Category: Iran

It is no mystery that the Islamic Republic is pushing harder and harder for imposing their understanding of the decent way of clothing, and behavior. Having said that, the mainstream Iranian clothing does not include Burka. That is the female outfit in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and some other too religious/traditional places on earth, but, thanks [...]



A Fun Day, with Men Hanging on the Ropes

By Kamangir • Jul 16th, 2007 • Category: Human Rights, Iran, Islam, Islamic Republic

Question: Why have these happy people gathered here?
a) They are watching a game of soccer.
b) They are waiting to listen to Ahmadinejad’s speech.
c) They are just there doing nothing.
d) They are there to watch the Police hang a few people.
The million dollar answer is (d). This just happened in Tabriz, north-west of Iran. Do I [...]



Kamangir, not very good for kids…

By Kamangir • Jul 16th, 2007 • Category: Humour

With all my sorrows, I have to announce that Kamangir has been rated PG. I do apologize for any inconvenience this might cause. Having said that, the sole body responsible for this is the Islamic Republic. Because, this rating is assigned to Kamangir for the existence of such words as “stoning”, “rape” and “suicide”, all [...]