Kamangir (Archer)

Similar to the worldwide blogosphere, or maybe even much deeper and more faster, the Persian blogosphere is adopting the new tools and is mastering the new technique, in order to increase the efficiency and to enhance the quality of the content in the Persian blogosphere. In a piece just published in Gozaar, I go through [...]

Will you be surprised if I tell you that the picture they used for the front page of the state-run ultra-right newspaper Kayhan was in fact two years old?

Front Page of Kayhan, July 10th, 2008, “Iran fires 2000-Km Missile, Israel: We are not going to start a fight with Iran”

Picture published on November 2006

The Two [...]

It was in the news that,
A council employee in Japan has been punished after officials discovered he had logged more than 780,000 hits on porn websites at work in nine months (BBC).
BBC also adds that, “At his peak, the worker was looking at almost 10,000 pages a day” and Reuters reports that he has [...]

Three years ago, around these days, Masih Alinejad was banned from entering the Parliament [Persian]. At the time, Alinejad worked as the parliamentary correspondent for ILNA, a media source close to the reformists. When she published reports that indicated that contrary to their claims of “living an ordinary life”, the MPs do enjoy a [...]

Camels do not run on nukes. That, alone, is sufficient to prove that the Iranian theology is pursuing nuclear bombs.

This is the article I wrote for the joke version of The Manitoban, the University of Manitoba students’ newspaper.

A very up-to-date PressTV Anchor

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. [...]

In a piece titled “The reality of the recent confrontation (?) of the Iranian boats with Americans vessels” (Question mark used by the source), the state-controlled website Tabnak seems to claim that the speedboats which apparently threatened to explode American warships were in fact American, or at least definitely not Iranian. The piece reads [Persian],
Tabnak [...]

Starting last month, I have been working on a project which I have titled “KiBeKi“, or “What’s up?” in English. The project aims at developing a software robot which would crawl inside the Persian blogosphere in order to generate the connectivity graph of this dynamic place as well as to extract other information.
At this moment, [...]

You might remember this post: MP’s Website attacks Kamangir. Since then I have been in contact with one of the editors of the Pajamas Media. We have been working on a piece which is now posted with the title “It’s Rough Out There In the Iranian Blogosphere“.
I copy the text here for archival purposes.
It’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]