Over the months, I have learned to restrain my disdain for Kayhan and try to enjoy their version of dim investigative comedy. I hope that in the future we can keep Kayhan and its talents under new management, and of course as an officially Onionesque outlet, so everyone can enjoy their great writing.
This week started [...]
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There is nothing like the smell of tear gas in the morning. Today, when we caught the first whiff of tear gas at 10:30 AM, a tense atmosphere had already settled on Enghelab Avenue. Judging the numbers though, we knew if people could meet up at Enghelab and march, the day would be like 25 [...]
If last night’s hacking of Twitter was the doing of our Cyber Imbeciles, then I apologize to Twitter users and administrators for the inconvenience. You were caught in the middle of our feud and I hope you understand they are very upset and don’t know how to behave.
We’ll rein them in soon and what we [...]
It has been a long time and I would like to ignore the reasons for it and go straight to a belated post on 16 Azar:
We started to roam around Tehran University at about 4 PM, looking for some action, but the protests were confined to university campuses. The atmosphere was tense, as if the [...]
A late post due to the usual post-protest internet jams.
Wednesday 13 Aban
A strange sentiment crept in me today. A man in his late fifties was beaten by a group of people a meter away from me, and I enjoyed it. While I neither had the urge to join in, nor the time to think about [...]