Selection 88

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It Will

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 [...]

Nausea

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 [...]

Under The Influence

“Green 13 Aban” The same, but after a genius only traced the green with white in an attempt to erase it. The night before a protest is an anxious one, and most of the restlessness is over one question: will they be there? There are long stretches of time between protests now and getting cold [...]

Fear Factor

I wanted to mention the report by worldpublicopinion.org when it was first published but didn’t get a chance. Since it was referred to by Mr. Marandi  – considered by many here to be on the academic front of the mouthpiece industry  – in a CNN discussion on Sunday, it might be a good time to [...]

I See You

A number of people have recently been asking me how much of what goes on in the outside is seen inside Iran. If you have not heard from me directly, please consider this post as your reply. This is a difficult question but I will attempt to answer it as best I can: we see [...]

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