To whom it may concern, Over the past three weeks, the “YouTube” and “Facebook” websites have been intermittently available to internet users in Iran. On the day I noticed this problem, I was greatly saddened over the matter but thought that perhaps my ISP had made an error in their filtering systems’ configurations, despite the [...]
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I wanted to congratulate you, Mr. Obama, on your inauguration, and especially to thank you for what you did last night. I left my apartment at around 7:30 to get to one of the many Obama parties I was invited to. I had selected this particular party because the host had a reliable satellite connection [...]
Last winter, in early December, an announcement was made over the media that reminded me of a very important event in childhood: Schools were closed. Back in the old days, growing up in Tehran, we would sometimes get enough snow so that the city had no choice but to let us free for a day [...]
This is a notice to employees of “Pars Special Economic Energy Zone Organization”, sent out a couple of months ago. It specifically addresses those who work in the “Herasat” division – Herasat is the “Conservation” division, responsible for safeguarding Islamic values. It’s roughly saying the following: “Following previous discussions with single employees regarding establishing a [...]
I have to go check this out. Apparently, everyone has been stumped for two years as to how to get the crane out! Makes you wonder whether we’ve learned anything from 1400 years of building these things.