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 [...]
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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 [...]
“Did you guys see the second round?” “No, I refuse. (Deleted expletive)!” “I saw some of it.” “After 30 years this is what we have to show for a regime. (Deleted expletive)!” “I completely bought it. Taking photographs and emailing them to ‘friends’. Who do the French think they’re kidding?” “What a circus!…(Deleted expletive)! The [...]
In the beginning, the empire made one mistake: it assumed that people are fools. Following this has been a domino effect that led to a chain of mistakes that the state, in its desperation to hold on to power, has committed on a daily basis throughout the post-election period. Ignoring the issue of election fraud [...]
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 [...]