Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for September 15th, 2007

Silent Arrests in Tehran

By Kamangir • Sep 15th, 2007 • Category: Human Rights, Iran, Islamic Republic

The Student Committee of Human Rights Reporters reports that the Islamic Republic is arresting activists in silence. Reportedly, Abbas Khorsandi (عباس خرسندی), Mansour Faraji (منصور فرجی) and four others were arrested on Sunday. Furthermore, a human rights activist, with the name of Sepideh Pour Aghaii (سپیده پورآقایی), was arrested after Police raid into her house, [...]


Numbers vs. Reality

By Kamangir • Sep 15th, 2007 • Category: Human Rights, Iran, Islamic Republic

The National Youth Organization recently published interesting numbers, they claimed to have gathered in a scientific poll. Apparently,
83% of Iranian youth are proud of their Iranian nationality and more than 96% prefer Iran to other countries, when it comes to picking the place to live. Also, 84% of Iranian youth think they have a clear [...]


Lady Windows

By Kamangir • Sep 15th, 2007 • Category: Humour, Iran

Ali Shirazi has taken this picture in Tehran [Persian]. Apparently, someone loves Windows.


Ahmadinejad, the Populist

By Kamangir • Sep 15th, 2007 • Category: Humour, Iran, Islamic Republic

Imagine that you are the president of a country on the verge of war, mainly because of your own rhetoric. What do you have no time for at all? If you are Ahmadinejad, you have plenty of time posing for photographer as “you break your fast with orphans”. That is what Ahmadinejad did. The news [...]


Hand-Kissing Republic

By Kamangir • Sep 15th, 2007 • Category: Iran, Islamic Republic

The boy is happily sniffing the leader’s scarf. Look at the happy faces in the background, among them is sitting the Minister of Culture
 
Can you imagine a true republic in the twenty-first-century, in which the head of the regime lets photographers take his pictures while people are kissing his hand? And what is he doing, [...]