It’s been such a long time that I don’t know where to begin. How to break the ice before I tell you what’s been going on… In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful… No…that doesn’t work for me. How about we start with a joke? I was sitting at home one afternoon, around [...]
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We are back at the grind and vacation is over, but not without its share of adventure. We just cannot get away from that in Iran, no matter how hard we try, be it a simple trip to the passport office, or one for vacation. I went up to a remote village in Gilan for [...]
The Iranian regime’s hostility toward Chaharshanbe Souri is nothing new. For years after the revolution, as we were growing up in Tehran, we held the celebrations in fear. As we set our tumbleweeds on fire in our street and threw some firecrackers around, we expected the Basij or the Komiteh – security forces who patrolled [...]
If anyone had told me a year ago that by this time I would be spending my days in front of Evin waiting for the release of a friend who had been arrested on the anniversary of the revolution for having a green wristband in his pocket, I would have kindly asked them to go [...]
A Cheeky Mistake
October 6, 2010 in Reports by P. Umpire
Seems like I’m a bit late, but I’ll post even if it’s just for providing a larger picture. As I read on Farce News the night before that an article on France 24 – about Ahmadinejad’s recent speech at the UN – had drawn 2.2 billion comments, I thought “kudos”. Kudos, not to Ahmadinejad because [...]