Kamangir (Archer)

Ashura in Lebanon

Do you remember Makwan Moloudzadeh, who was to be executed for a homosexual act which he allegedly committed when he was 13 (see: Boy to be executed for Underage Homosexual Act, Take Ation!)? He was executed recently despite the controversy surrounding the witnesses against him (Reuters).

Kids learn Quran in two-and-half-hour sessions. Pictures taken by the Iranian blogger, Heidariam [Persian].
This is especially for our friend here Roman. Is this kid able to choose for himself what he is going to do with his belief system? More pictures in the photoblog.

Qadr Nights are virtually the most important nights of the year for Muslims and occur on the holy month of Ramadan. During these nights, Muslims attend special ceremonies in mosques and spend the night reciting the Quran and other Islamic books.
As always, kids are taken to these deeply religious events. to my understanding, religion is [...]

This is just horrible.
Link from Serendip.

September 22, 1980, Iranian schools were opening shortly when the Iraqi army started its offensive. It took eight years before Iranians and Iraqis stopped the war each side related to old grudges. These days, schools are opening again. Let’s hope the killing fever does not start this time. The picture shows Iranians’ rush to bookstores [...]

A vital part of blogging is being honest, to my understanding. That is the reason for posting these pictures here, although I am aware of their graphic content and the fact that this is embarrassing for any Iranian, if not any human being.
The story started this way, I was chatting with a South African friend [...]

On December 2003, early in the morning, a 6.6-Richter earthquake destroyed Bam, a historic city in Kerman province. Four years after the devastation, survivors still have to struggle with harsh conditions. Baztab has recently published a set of pictures (one, two) which show the horrible living conditions for those who survived the quake. This is [...]

While using adult women’s picture on the front page will cause trouble for magazines, little girls’ are tolerated [Persian].
Update: The title is from Gateway Pundit.

The video of a little boy smoking opium. The conversation in the footage is as follows,
Cameraman: What are doing my son?
Boy: I’m getting high.
Cameraman: You are getting high?
Boy: I’m getting high.
Cameraman: High five!
Jomhour uses the title, “He is going to be executed tomorrow” for this video.

An Iranian bookstore’s efforts for selling the last Harry Potter book in Tehran, exactly in time with the other parts of the world, outraged the ultra-right state-run newspaper Kayhan,
One of the questionable events of this week was the sale of the last Harry Potter book in a bookstore in the north of Tehran [the wealthier [...]

Sina Paimard’s execution is postponed. The juvenile was sent back to prison with an order from the head of the Judiciary. His family is given one week to resolve  their issues with the victim’s family.
For the background see here.

Sina Paimard will be executed tomorrow morning. His lawyer describes the circumstances under which he has committed murder. Reportedly, when he was sixteen and half, in a quarrel in a park in Tehran, he killed a local drug dealer. A year and half later he was taken to the gallows, where he asked for [...]