Kamangir (Archer)

Lisa Goldman may be sentenced to jail for her trip to Lebanon on her Canadian passport (more on her blog).

Iran: the anti-democracy - Akbar Ganji
The Islamic Republic of Iran is master of the double standard. For instance, the regime believes it has the right to establish political groups in other countries, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Iraqi Islamic Supreme Council and a number of groups in Afghanistan. It openly supports Hamas to the tune [...]

For and against Chavez - Antony Loewenstein
The Amir Taheri Story - Mother Jones Blog
Amir Taheri is one of the strangest ingredients in America’s media soup. There may not be anyone else who simply makes things up as regularly as he does, with so few consequences.

French-Iranian filmmaker Mehrnoushe Solouki came to Tehran to shoot a documentary about the burial rites of Iran’s religious minorities. Unfortunately for her, she stumbled upon a massive gravesite of opposition opponents slaughtered by the regime in 1988. Follow the story in Gateway Pundit.

The Great Uncircumcision Debate and The Backlash Against Circumcision, to cut or not to cut, this is the problem.
The Islamic Republic abuses children for their politics.

Rising Voices Seeks Micro-Grant Proposals for Blog Outreach - Deadline: November 30th.
Sleep-walking to war - Great piece by Iason Athanasiadis,
A few nights ago, a high-level former official in the Clinton administration predicted to me a strike on Iran by March next year. In her Harvard speech, Dergham concurred, adding that “the logic of it would [...]

Translation business booming - terrorists’ languages most lucrative, link through Iason.
These days… the big money is in translating Arabic, Pashto and Farsi - especially tapes, Web sites and other communications from suspected bad guys.

Read Ardeshir Arian’s roundup of recent student unrests in Tehran at Pajamas Media.

I do recommend watching this short documentary about a lady driver in Iran.

Not a coincidence at all, as JSinger also pointed out, that Haartez carried a similar report today about Nabila, the first Muslim female to drive a bus in Israel. Actually, the Iranian-Israeli blogger Kamran [Persian] posted a link to the Iranian video on [...]

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

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.

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 [...]

Petition to free Ayatollah Boroujerdi, through Gateway Pundit.

Are U.S. troops being force-fed Christianity? - Christian Science Monitor, link through Iason.

Problematic Brothers: Iranian Reaction to Chavez and Ahmadinejad - Nasrin Alavi
Meanwhile, in Iran - By Eli Lake, link through Frieda

Saddam asked Bush for $1bn to go into exile - Daily Mail
19,000 insurgents killed in Iraq since ‘03 - USA Today
1% View Holocaust as Myth, 1% See Iran & US as Allies - Rasmussen Reports
Tom Cruise building ‘£5m bunker to protect against alien attack’

Link through Matthew

Ahmadinejad meets “good Jews”, link through Aelia.
Soaring Inflation Rate Overshadowed by Petrol Rationing, from English Baztab. Link through Ella.
More about the bulldozed over Bahai’i cemetery, through Esra’a.

Hizbollah is awake and hates the Baha’is
The IRI’s campaign against Baha’is continues
Baha’is in Iran (documents)

Was John Paul II Euthanized?
Five hundred years of arrogation, through Serendip.
Studying the Islamic Republic from [...]

Putting Pressure On Iran, from The Onoin.

Nuclear Turban, from Le Monde.
This post will be updated through the day.

Lisa has moved to her new domain. Read “On the Face” if you like to hear a gentle Canadian voice out of the Middle East, and especially Israel.
Ahmadinejad on 60 Minutes: “I will not push to visit Ground Zero“. Link through Frieda.

If you, like me, enjoy watching Starz Bunny’s parodies of famous movies, enjoy “The Grudge“. These guys are doing a fantastic job.
Tory’s take on democracy in Iran: “Dirty, Cheating, Lying Democracy“. Her point of view is twice as important because she has lived in Iran for a long time.
This is why chatting over the Internet [...]

JPost: Dozens died in Syrian-Iranian chemical weapons experiment’
“Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane’s Magazine report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria.” Link through Freida.