Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for September 5th, 2007

Clerics do know Other Stuff

By Kamangir • Sep 5th, 2007 • Category: Humour, Iran, Islam, Islamic Republic

See, this is our fault. This is what we have made ourself to think of the clerics. That they only know how to do the turban and say funny stuff, if they are not involved in Jihad at the moment.
The fact is, they do know other stuff as well. See this guy as an example. [...]



Dogs should Socialize, too

By Kamangir • Sep 5th, 2007 • Category: Humour, Iran

The Red Crescent deployed their search and rescue dogs to Tehran. Fortunately, this time it was not because an accident had happened. The dogs were sent out to “socialize”. Apparently, the experts in helping out the injured were not very good at communicating with people who are not in immediate danger. The dogs also had [...]



Twins!

By Kamangir • Sep 5th, 2007 • Category: Humour, Iran

Twins’ ceremony in Tabriz, Iran. And yes, they had to make this freaking ghost scene to praise the national-religious stuff. More pictures in the Photoblog.



Execution Fever

By Kamangir • Sep 5th, 2007 • Category: Human Rights, Iran, Islam, Islamic Republic

Shiraz General Prosecutor announced that four men were hanged today. The public execution was carried out on the charges of drug trafficking. “Surveys show that sever punishment has had important effect on providing social safety and wellness”, he claimed [Persian]. Persian BBC quotes the national television that seventeen more were executed in public in Khorasan [...]