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 [...]
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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 [...]
On March 28, 2009, between the hours of 8:30 and 9:30, I didn’t vote. Did I? Maybe I did. No, I don’t think I did. I remember…I returned from a trip. That’s right. I got home at about 8:30. It was dark, I was tired, I flipped the switch. I went to the kitchen and [...]
Finally, after almost a month I heard back from Bluehost. Better late than never, especially if it’s excellent news. I had written a letter to Matt Heaton asking for help in getting information regarding Bluehost’s decision to shut out people in sanctioned countries from their hosting service (here’s the post), and he finally answered. To [...]
Well… I was afraid of this happening and I got shut out by my host. But finally I’m back up and running after ten days. I received the pink slip from Bluehost on February 21st and was among the many that went down when they decided to pull the plug on sites owned by people [...]