Kamangir (Archer)

Knowing Ahmadinejad’s love of photoshop, his calls for Israel to be wiped off the map may indeed be only a matter of playing around with Photoshop, than actually sending nuclear missiles down the path (the missiles might end up being painted paper as well).
So, this is how Ahmadinejad will annihilate the Jewish state, according to [...]

On September 2005, Azadeh and I boarded a plane at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport and traveled all around the globe before we landed in Winnipeg. It is fair to say that the land we started rebuilding our life on belongs to the people now politely referred to as the “aboriginals”. There is no need to look [...]

“Are you sure the Islamic Republic/Ahmadinejad have asked for Israel to be wiped off the map?” This is the question I have been asked by so many people over the course of the last few years. While I became more and more concerned why so many people kept asking the same question, I kept [...]

“The ceremony will focus on designating rewards for the assassination of three Israeli top officials”. This is how the close-to-state website Farda describes an event to be held in Tehran. The three officials are Ehud Barack, Meir Dagan, and Amos Yadlin. The amount will be awarded for the “revolutionary execution” of these three individuals. The [...]

I talked to Ido Hartogsohn of the Israeli website Nana last month, about the Persian blogosphere and how its members manage to communicate with Israeli fellows despite all the tensions between the two countries. The piece was originally published in Hebrew, but Lisa Goldman has been kind enough to translate the whole piece in English. [...]

“Executing” the US and Israel

A Song for Mahmoud

Do you think there is any chance for any professional news source to mistake a photoshopped image for a real one? Well, if it is Press TV, the answer is yes.
To see how the “Nuclear Energy is our Definite Right” on the left was changed to “Iran Loves Jews” on the right, in a satirical [...]

“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 [...]

-Jews have not been enjoying total freedom but Iranians have never chased them down in the streets. In fact, Jews have been very active in the financial sector in Iran.
-Many Arabian governments hate Iran, because of religious differences and also because of the still active idea about Arabian superiority. I was once asked by a [...]

The last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan was designated as “The International Qods Day” by Ayatollah Khomeini. This year, it will be Friday October 5th and the state-run media have started encouraging people to show a high turnout by posting pictures of the struggles between Israeli soldiers and the Palestinians [Persian]. In a [...]

This is mainly for the attention of people like Roman Kalik who deceive us all into thinking that the Islamic Republic wants to harm Israel in any way. Look at this picture (source). This is solid proof that what Ahmadinejad wants to be annihilated is “Esrail”, and not Israel. To the best information of Google, [...]

Happy Rosh Hashanah to all Jewish friends, especially to Antony, Lisa, Tori, Kamran, Carl, “Raccoon” and “The Israeli Blogger” (did I miss anyone?).
Happy Ramadan to all Muslim friends, especially to Azadeh, Esra’a and all the Iranian friends, including Hossein, Fereshteh, Majid, Faezeh and others in Winnipeg.
Frankly, this is not fair. Agnostics have nothing to receive [...]

Following the issue about the cartoon in The Columbus Dispatch I did a quick research on the cartoons published in the state-run newspaper Kayhan whose head is appointed by the Supreme Leader. The result? See it for yourself,

US is the Nazi Germany.
Jews are fat and always hold a gun.
Arabs are fat and are America’s defecation.
Jews [...]

The former IRGC leader and the new adviser to the Supreme Leader, Safavi, is now acting as the front row of the Islamic Republic rhetoric. A few days ago he said, “There are 200,000 vulnerable American forces in the region and we have information about all their bases” [Persian]. Today, the Islamic Republic official newspaper [...]

Apparently, Israelis have liked the Iranian movie Cafe Transit. That is enough for the ultra-right state-run newspaper Kayhan to complain, “The full support of the Zionists, whose hostility towards Iranians and Iran is well-known to everyone showed that … [this movie should have never been sent to the 2006 Oscars]“. Then, the newspaper asks how [...]

Last night, a big party was thrown for the the IRGC (Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corp) day (also see A Lonely Birthday for a Terrorist Organization (IRGC)) at the 12,000 people Freedom Stadium in Tehran. Other participants of the party were a group of Lebanese Jihadists and their families. That turned the ceremony to a celebration [...]

The Supreme Leader’s representative in the Islamic Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran’s second army which might be designated as a terrorist group soon, congratulated its personnel for the national day of IRGC members. Today is the anniversary of Imam Hossein’s birthday, also called the day for IRGC members. Ali Saedi stated [Persian],
You IRGC [...]

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 [...]

As mentioned before, the Islamic Republic had announced the development of a new computer game, in which the players will fight the US and Israel in Iraq and in Iran. For the full story of the game see here. The game was release today, bearing the fancy name “Special Operation 85″, probably referring to the [...]

Lisa Goldman’s brave trip to Lebanon was not left unnoticed by the Islamic Republic News Agency. IRNA uses the title “Israeli reporter live from Beirut” and writes,
Lisa Goldman walked in different locations in the capital city of Lebanon and sent live pictures to an Israeli news channel. In some of the her pictures, banners [...]

This is from Roozna,
The first nuclear computer game will be released next week. The game includes eight stages and the main character enters different countries in different stages. This 3D game is about Dr Saeed Koosha and his wife, Mariam. They are both Iranian nuclear scientists who are arrested by American soldiers during their [...]

This is a snapshot of the weekly publication Ya-Lasarat, published by the Islamic Republic Hizballah. The title on top of the picture reads “Religious Beliefs, the Reason for Abuse and Expulsion of another Iranian from America”. The picture, which the fundamentalist journal thinks belongs to a “good Muslim”, because of the beard, is no one [...]