If you have been following the news from the restless Iranian political scene over the past week, you must be as entertained as I am. If not: Ahmadinejad nominated Mr. Rahim-Mashaie, a figure frowned upon even by the hardliners and the Supreme Leader in the past, as his vice president, and created a row among [...]
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Although about a month old, I ran into this gem recently. It seems like I, and many like me, have been in error now that some things in the aftermath of the elections are finally coming to light. According to Mr. Taeb, head of the Baseej resistance force, who seems to have quite a grasp [...]
Mrs. Thatcher called in the middle of the night. She was very excited, and from among her half eaten words, I understood that I was to join some meeting. “Now?” I asked her. She said yes. I was in Tehran, and given the circumstances, even if I dared to pack and go to the airport [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]