Kamangir (Archer)

Six years ago today, Salman Jariri (سلمان جریری) [Persian] started writing the first Persian blog. Since then, tens of thousands of other Iranians have started writing in their blogs about everything, from how they have been thinking last night to the recent political development.
This is a “Happy Birthday!” to Salman and a “Happy Seventh Year!” [...]

Ladies should not get very intimate with men in public, that’s a trivial rule in the Sharia. This very “obvious” rule has a few exceptions, though. For example, the former reformist president Khatami was under heavy artillery fire when he “sat too close to a lady in Italy”. At the same time, Ahmadinejad managed to [...]

A few days ago, a rather strange news was carried in many news outlets, that five nuclear bombs have been mistakenly loaded on a B-52 and have been flown over the US for a few hours,
..the US Air Force sent five nuclear-armed cruise missiles into US air space without realising. Fortunately, 3½ hours later, [...]

Following the nuclear computer game, the state-run national television announced the start of the production of Fattaneh, a soap opera which is about events happening surrounding Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Interestingly, the opening ceremony was held in the National Nuclear Energy Institute, whose Public Relations Head stated “We have to start spreading the nuclear culture [...]

Following the cartoon which “depicted Iran as a sewer and the Iranians as cockroaches”, the first round was inspired by anger and sense of humiliation. The second round, however, is one of more deliberation. I should say, compared to similar cases in the past, including what happened over the movie The 300, the reaction has [...]