Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for July 18th, 2007

A Silly “Confession” Show

By Kamangir • Jul 18th, 2007 • Category: Human Rights, Iran, Islamic Republic

“In the name of democracy”
Frankly, I was looking for coup-planning or assassin-hiring in the Esfandiari-Tajbakhsh-Jahanbegloo show. The Islamic Republic television has published the text of their “confessions”. Either I have forgotten Persian or they really didn’t have much to say, rather than “we went to this conference” and “talked about that”. Is talking and shaking [...]



Titanic and Islamic Republic: How Hollywood will help a Candidate

By Kamangir • Jul 18th, 2007 • Category: Humour, Iran, Islam, Islamic Republic

It is no mystery that the Islamic Republic Islamizes movies before they are shown in the national television. That includes censoring “bad cloths” as well as turning prostitutes into bears. In another instance, the state-run Visual Media Institute, which is responsible for movies legally distributed in Iran, both Iranian and foreign, renamed “French Kiss” to [...]



Major Iranian Blogging Service Attacked by “Iraqi Hackers” (Updated III)

By Kamangir • Jul 18th, 2007 • Category: Iran

Persianblog.com, one of the largest Iranian blogging service providers (alexa) is hacked by a group who call themselves Iraqhack. A website with the same name, also mentioned in the hacked pages, confirms this. Persianblog is only one the handful of Iranian websites hacked by the group. The banner which showed up in one of the [...]