Kamangir (Archer)

The Supreme Leader just assigned/downgraded the IRGC commander as his adviser and chose a new commander for IRGC [Persian].

Using the title “Horrible Pictures of Christian Mournings”, the pro-Ahmadinejad website Rajanews has published [Persian] pictures of groups of Christians injuring themselves in mourning ceremonies. While the website seems to have forgotten that many Shias still practice self-injury in the event of Imam Hossein’s death, the fact that they have shown a topless woman is [...]

The Iranian photographer Ako Salemi has taken pictures of the car-racing queen of Iran. The Tehran-born Ph.D.-student has been driving since thirteen. She was recently banned from entering the stadium for the national competitions. She says this is normal to her and that she never knows if she will be allowed to take part in [...]

You might remember that Khatami was under huge fire from the conservatives after a video broke out showing him shaking hands with a lady in Italy and “sitting too close to her”. Now, a right-wing bloggers writes about a legal suite against him in the Clergy Court. The people behind the suite are “embarrassed of [...]

This is from the state-run newspaper Kayhan [Persian],

They Must be Expelled 
Radio Farda has quoted the International Bahai’i Society that “Government of Iran has expelled 128 Bahai’i students from universities”. Although, this news is not verified by the administration, and we don’t know whether or not it is correct, the expulsion of those who have openly [...]

A couple dancing in Shiraz, Iran, in the street. It is claimed that they were arrested afterwards.

Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s 688-page memoir was just confiscated and collected from all bookstores [Persian]. The reason is a quote in the page 173 of the book where Rafsanjani writes “an MP suggested quiting the slogan ‘Death to America and USSR’, I said, we have already made that decision and Imam [Khomeini] supports it as well. [...]

If you think only Ahmadinejad uses/abuses Islam for his political goals, I should say you are too optimistic. See how one of Ahmadinejad’s biggest critics, Ghodrat-Allah Ali Khani (قدرت الله علی خانی) the MP from Qazvin, took an oath that if Ahmadinejad won in the presidential elections, which he did, he would resign, which he [...]