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 a [...]
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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 [...]
It has been quite a while, I know, but I had to allocate the past month to catching up with some aspects of life that were neglected after the elections. Remember, no news is good news, and thanks for asking.
After a good four months of stasis at work, it was time to get back into [...]
Ever since Qods Day, we are having difficulties with internet connections, mostly because the proxy services are either unstable or not working at all. I can’t say if this is affecting everyone, but people I’ve checked with are all complaining. The two better options we had were VPN and TOR, simply because we know how [...]
It’s hard not to get political these days. Tehran has just ended a week so electrifying, that some are saying the excitement didn’t reach such levels even during Khatami’s first elections campaign . Indeed we may owe this to those earlier days during which people had only started to test the boundaries of public expression [...]