Since the start of the protests, the absence of slogans on the walls of Tehran was distressing to me. I expected them to materialize en masse since the early days of the unrests, but they only showed on a small scale, one here, another there. I kept thinking perhaps we were too busy attending rallies [...]
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Friday Prayers, the scene for this week’s assembly of protesters, was crammed. How many showed at the event at and around Tehran University is impossible to determine. On a normal day, the area inside and around the university takes in about fifty to a hundred thousand people, but yesterday’s ceremony, the first for many – [...]
Thursday, Tir 18. Did we take to the streets? Yes we did, and I was surprised at the turnout. The days where hundreds of thousands or millions gather to demonstrate are over, at least for now, but still, given the circumstances – the sudden declaration of a long weekend holiday to drive people out of [...]
I’ll try to be quick, and on my way soon. A kind of mass paranoia is setting in. People are opening their cell phones and taking the batteries out when getting together and talking, for fear of being heard by government agents. As we descend further into darkness, following the almost complete media blackout, and [...]
We are living in two countries. First is the one turned on its head, its citizens bearing witness to massive unrest, anger and dejection, running about, helter-skelter, voicing their fury while avoiding sticks and slugs. They retreat into darkness, tired and beaten, in silence and gloom, only to appear again on rooftops screaming at the [...]