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Beyonce Knowles Goes Islamic

Kamangir | September 2, 2007 | Category Humour, Iran, Islam, Islamic Republic

You probably used to see Beyonce Knowles in revealing clothes like the one shown below. Thanks to the Islamic Republic Television, you can now know the Beyonce who is pro-modesty.

The Iranian blogger Gelayeh has posted screen-shots taken from the Pink Panther movie the Islamic Republic has managed to “put together” [Persian].

In last picture, they have used the “zoom” technique, in which the actress’s face is zoomed into, to avoid showing the other “sinful” parts of the scene. Watch the piece here,

Related: Clean Translation

Nazi Mahdi rises up and is arrested

Kamangir | September 2, 2007 | Category Humour, Iran, Islam

The author of the Persian blog Gerash writes [Persian],

Right after the Friday Prayers, a person rushed to the front row while kept saying “I have a message, I have an important message”. Then, he rose his hands, as Nazis used to do, and said “I am Mahdi [the Islamic Messiah]“.

The man, who reportedly owns a perfume shop, was subsequently arrested by the Police.

Ayatollah: “I wish I was a Chick”

Kamangir | September 2, 2007 | Category Humour, Iran, Islam, Islamic Republic

Watch a short part of Ayatollah Mojtahedi’s speech, in which he wishes he was a chick.

The chicks I see in the parks and in the streets, with tight clothes and a university degree, they take them … [for sex]… Four cabs fight over the chick. No cab stops for a clergyman…I wish I was a chick. I would have more customers. Cabs would stop for me….I am not joking.

Public Execution in Iran

Kamangir | September 2, 2007 | Category Human Rights, Iran, Islamic Republic

A man named “Amir Hossein” (امیرحسین) was executed in public in front of the courthouse in Gharchak (قرچک). He was charged with murdering the court’s judge. See more (graphic) pictures in the photoblog.

Do check Serendip’s comments for a review of the history of the Islamic Republic in execution of political opponents: one and two.