Kamangir (Archer)

Minoudar (مینودر), a weekly magazine published in Qazvin province, was outlawed recently. According to the Iranian blogger Alikhani [Persian], the only reason mentioned yet is this hair salon ad, carried in an issue published two years ago. The actual reason, however, might be the magazine’s criticism of the governor of Qazvin for assigning his wife [...]

My idea for this Halloween was massively rejected by Azadeh and another friend, for being “silly, nerdy, and not funny at all”. Therefore, with apologies to those who have already seen this last year, in “The Bogeyman, Or Ahmadinejad Pumpkin for Halloween“, I post last year’s Halloween pictures again.
It all started with a “smiling” picture [...]

The news was circulating the Persian media [Persian] and now has been announced by Amnesty International as a call for urgent action. Please link to the story and inform others. This has to be stopped.
Child offender Makwan Moloudzadeh, an Iranian Kurd, is believed to be at risk of imminent execution. He has reportedly been [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfA-sKVWUAc

“They brutally attack and slaughter mothers and children, all, at once. There is no creature more horrible that these people”. This was how a guest on a TV show on the state-run Channel 3 was introducing the Israelis to the spectators when the studio experienced a blackout. Accidentally, the microphones were not lost and the [...]

Alef, a web site which represents a major group of conservatives in the Parliament, mentioned to be run by a top-ranking MP, published a piece about Kamangir yesterday [Persian]. In the report, the author writes,
A blogger claims that Fars News and Press TV have assigned false sentences to the Norwegian Foreign Minister [referring to: [...]

You might know that I was following strange claims on Islamic Republic’s Press TV, also mentioned in Persian in Fars News [Persian] and IRNA [Persian]. The claim is that the Norwegian Foreign Minister has urged the West “to look at their nuke arsenal”, rather than pressuring Iran to dismantle its nuclear program.
I managed to contact [...]

Islamic Republic’s Press TV published a report today claiming that the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store has apparently criticized the West for focusing too much on Iran and “forgetting their own nuclear arsenal”.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store has urged the West to dismantle their nuclear arsenals instead of exerting pressure on Iran.
During an [...]

IRGC’s Basij just performed a 10,000 drill, named “Sovereign Iran”, in the deserts of central Iran [Persian]. Looking at the pictures taken at the event, and also following the news [Persian], this was a preparation for urban warfare. While the official news claim that Basij is preparing for “probable infiltration of the enemy to Iranian [...]

The Supreme Leader today attended the graduation ceremony of Sattari Military University [Persian]. There, they had prepared a “show” for him, through which soldiers with colored outfits visualized a sword piercing through an American flag which strangely enough had a Swastika on it.
I call this brilliant minds doing their best to offend others.
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The Persian people have had many festivities during the year, from which only Norooz, the celebration of the new year, and a few others have managed to survive. This year, University of Manitoba Iranian Students’ Association (UMISA) held a fantastic celebration for Mehregan, what some of us tend to call the Persian Thanksgiving. See more [...]

Having a desk next to an office printer may be as bad as sitting next to someone who’s smoking, scientist says - CBC

This is a comment I recently wrote for The Manitoban, the University of Manitoba students’ newspaper. I should thank Michael Silicz, the editor of The Manitoban, for all his help.
An Iranian cure for an Iranian problem
The inevitable regime change in Iran and how Canada and the world can help
For a country with a double-digit [...]

Two very good Winnipegger friends Julienne and Simon, and I chatted a few days ago in Tom Horton’s about Persian blogosphere. Some of the things we talked about is mentioned in the article “The power and pitfalls of ‘citizen journalism’“, by Julienne Isaacs, with files from Simon Charles, published in the University of Winnipeg Student [...]

I spoke over the phone with the bright and well-informed Canadian journalist Terry Galvin. An excerpt of our discussion has been mentioned in his new article “What Iranian Dissidents Need, and why they deserve more from North America’s left.”
In the United States, a debate is raging over whether dissidents in Iran should accept U.S. State [...]

Zahra Bani Ameri (زهرا بنی عامری), a twenty-seven-year-old medical student, committed suicide in a prison in Hamedan Province, after she was arrested by the Sharia Police.
Zahra was ranked 26 among hundreds of thousands of student who took the test to become a medical student, after she graduated the high school. At the time of the [...]

The commander of the artillery unit in the IRGC stated [Persian] “On the first minute of any attack, 11,000 rockets and bullets will be fired at the designated hostile targets”. He added, “The first bullet will hit the 50-meter vicinity of the target. The fire control system utilized in Iran is unique in the world”. [...]

Former Mossad chief on Ahmadinejad: “Had he not existed, we would have had to create him. He is doing great things for us“, through Roman.

Iranian girls marched in a park in Tehran to celebrate a day without poverty. They held banners with pictures of the UN and also “Stand up, Speak out” slogans. For more pictures please refer to the photoblog.

You might be familiar with the concept of Tabarok, the act of touching holy places with your hands in order to get the blessing. Muslims, mostly Shias, do that in shrines and many other holy places. The people in the picture above are touching the footsteps of the Supreme Leader, according to some accounts. These [...]

Iran was ranked 166 (or 162?) in the Annual Worldwide Freedom of Press by the RSF, among 168 countries. The cartoon is by Nikahang Kowsar [Persian].

To Compete, Iranian State TV Adapts, through Aelia
State TV, which had a monopoly on viewership until satellite channels began to draw more viewers beginning in the early 1990s, has been trying to win back its audience for several years. One result: a spate of mini-series that depict love stories between characters who are not necessarily [...]

You might remember that the former reformist president Khatami was under harsh criticism by the conservatives for having shaken hands with an uncovered lady in Italy and then sitting close to her (in which occasion we also talked about the proper hand-kissing method utilized on the Supreme Leader). At the time, many clerics asked for [...]

Petition to free Ayatollah Boroujerdi, through Gateway Pundit.

It is again that time of the year. October 17th 2004, in an attempt to write essays for the upcoming TOEFL exam, I started writing a blog titled “Kamangir” in blogspot with the secretive address kmgr.blogspot.com. If by any chance you like to know about the history of this blog, please refer to the Archeology [...]

Iranians’ share  of the resources in the Caspian Sea. Source: The Sail, [Persian].
Putin’s visit to Tehran has made many Iranians worried that the regime may be planning to get the support of Russians for their nuclear ambitions even if that costs forgetting Iran’s rights to the Caspian Sea. The cartoon is from The Sail [Persian].