Our typical routine has been completely turned upside down over the past few days. Mine and almost everyone I know, almost everyone I meet. After breakfast I get on the internet to look for what, where, and when. I read the news, check some blogs, watch some pictures from the day before, and start checking [...]
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Mr. Mousavi, the principle challenger to Ahmadinejad has called the results of this election “wizardry”. But if this is not a coup then I don’t know what is. The thing about a coup is that when it comes, it’s hard to believe, even if you’ve fancied the idea in detail beforehand. Suddenly all those nearly [...]
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 [...]
Thought of revisiting the old doc and updating it a bit – just article 3 though. Good news: we’re almost done. Hopefully there won’t be many revisions in the future. If you like to see the whole document you can go to the following: http://mellat.majlis.ir/CONSTITUTION/ENGLISH.HTM http://mellat.majlis.ir/CONSTITUTION/PERSIAN.HTM Article 3 [State Goals] In order to attain the [...]
I don’t know who these people are, or where they’ve set up shop. I’m assuming they’re not here. There wouldn’t be a need for English here. They’re probably taking advantage of a distant democratic world out there. Azadary means “mourning”. In this particular case, this is a ritual that Shi’ites perform, especially in the month [...]