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 [...]
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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 [...]
Printed on the wall of Shahid Golavar Student Camp, somewhere up north by the Caspian sea, there’s this quote from Imam Ali, Shi’ites’ first Imam. Now there are many such instances of Islamic propaganda on public display in this country. In a few cases, one would like to see some money put in some mouths [...]
Ran into this gem recently. It’s a yearly publication by the Association of Public Relations Specialists of Iran. PR is generally understood as a propaganda tool in Iran, especially by the government, and hence is among the industries that require a special permit from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. But we don’t want [...]