Tehran is a city floating on sewage, literally. In the absence of an interconnected sewerage network, we have been building our homes on wells specially dug for our discards. They are natural septic tanks, in which wastewater seeps into the soil and who cares what happens to the rest. In fact, the same is true [...]
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I dislike Those. It is hard enough to remain optimistic nowadays, and Those is already creeping back, bringing with it a lapse into passivity; an expectation for matters to fall into place of their own accord, absolving responsibility. Every way I turn, I only notice the fire of the recent weeks receding inside Iranians. Perhaps [...]
This is issue #2636 of “Kayhan Bacheha” (Children’s Kayhan) published after the elections, and titled “Hello Mr. President”. I didn’t get a chance to grumble about it, but today seems to be a good occasion. An order was issued to close Kayhan (the daily) on Thursday. The euphoric reception of the news was muffled, audible [...]
How ironic! Iran is becoming the most transparent regime in the world. Websites and papers are filling with accusations, counter-accusations, exposés, calls for arrests, and sometimes vulgarity. We owe a big part of this to Ahmadinejad who started the trend in his televised debates a couple of months back. He named names and accused the [...]
88/4/3 – Quoting informed sources: “In a ruthless act, by hiring a thug and paying him a sum, BBC’s Tehran correspondent who has recently left Iran, was looking to have a person killed for his documentary. The film of the shooting of a young girl named Neda Agha Soltan appearing in the various news outlets [...]