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 [...]
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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 [...]
So, I leave town for a few days and upon returning I find that Hugo “Jesus” Chavez has been sneaking around wheeling and dealing with his equivalent, Mahmoud “Mahdi” Ahmadinejad, in my backyard. It seems like Chavez too has gone bananas and converted to Hojjatiyeh. Beware Venezuelans! We already had a spokesperson for Mahdi and [...]
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 [...]