Stories about Iran from May, 2007
Iran:Why we need journals and Journalists?
Arash Hassannia writes[Fa] in Hanouz that journalism is very sick in Iran.The blogger adds a few ordinary employees in Supreme National Security Council can take decision about what journalists should not write in their journals.The blogger says writing about teachers’ and workers’ strikes has become an unforgivable sin.Arash adds even...
Iran:An Amazing Photo from Iran
An amazing photo from Hozrmozgan, a province in the south of Iran.
Iran:Violence against Women Goes On
According to[Fa] Kanoune Zanan,Iranian police continues its crackdown on women’s dress and there is a new victim.A young woman was beaten by police in Tehran. A citizen could take a few photos of her.People could make her got rid of the security forces who wanted to force her in their...
Iran:Babak Zamanian, a Student Activist in Danger
According to Inja va Aknoun[Fa],Babak Zamanian,a student activist from Amir Kabir University in Tehran,is in danger in prison. He was arrested about three weeks ago and he has heart problems.
Iran:Woman Activist is out of Jail
Zeynabeh Peyambarzadeh,journalist and woman activist is out of jail. She is a member of the “One Million Signatures Campaign Demanding an End to Discriminatory Laws against Women.”
Iran:No Lawyer for Haleh Esfandyari
In Free Haleh blog we read that two days ago Nobel Laureate lawyer Shirin Ebadi had agreed to defend Haleh but the latest news is that Iranian authorities are denying Ebadi’s request to represent Haleh – and denying access to Haleh in prison. Dr. Haleh Esfandiari is the Director of...
Iran:News in Photos
Kamanagir has published several photos about daily “life” in Iran or recent events.You can see a Tehrani cab driver decorates his cab with a halter or you csn discover Iranian police is seriously pursuing an anti-gang program in Tehran. The program is followed by punishment in the streets, including marching...
Iran:Graffitis in Tehran
Petit has published several photos of grafittis in Tehran.The blogger says they look like New York ones!
Morocco: Free Haleh Estandiari
Moroccan blogger Laila Lalami calls for the signing of a petition to free Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari, the director of the Middle East Programme at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, was detained in Iran on December 30.
Kurdistance: The Honor Killing of Dua
This may seem like old news....but it isn't. Even though the tragic honor killing of a young girl in Northern Iraq/Southern Kurdistan took place in early April, sometimes the meaning of these sad stories take a while to surface. There are conflicting reports about how 17-year-old Dua died, some say that she was lynched, some stoned to death, others say both. What we do know was that Dua was a young girl in love, who left her Yezidi faith to live her life with a man that she loved. She was brave and idealistic; and she died horribly because of it. A mob of Yezidi men dragged her into the street, tore her clothes to shame her, and then the mob killed her...the final blow being a large rock taken to her head. And someone filmed this horror, which is floating around the internet somewhere if you truly wish to see it. What is important, is that this tragedy not only is sad in the individual sense of this girl's death, it is also sad in what it signifies for a culture and society eager to change, but unable to, as the Kurdish bloggers point out.
Iran: Police Officer Kicks Woman
Iranian authorities are fighting against women on at least two fronts. On one side, women activists protesting for equal rights are sent to prison and persecuted. On the other side, Iranian police officers continue with a nationwide crackdown aimed at making women abide by Iran's Islamic dress code. Although the...
Iran:Ahmadinejad,Worker and a Bitter Joke
Leonlog says[Fa] once Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,Iranian president, was visiting a factory where a worker told him that there is a long distance between her home and factory and employer does not pay for workers’ transport.According to the blogger,Ahmadinejad told her a bitter joke ” do you want we bring factory close...
Iran:New journal becomes a success story
According to[Fa] Akbar Montajabi,blogger and journalist,Ham Mihan, a new journal,in its first days of publication has become a success stroy.This new journal can be considered a non conservative and pro reformist journal.Shargh,another pro reform journal gets permission to get republished.
Iran:Head of a leading blog provider was arrested
Mohammad Ali Abtahi, former vice president and blogger, says[Fa] that Mehdi Torabi,a top manager of Persian Blog,a leading persian blog provider,was arrested a few days ago.Abtahi said we have not understood the reason of his detention.He adds Persian blog provides services for more than 170,000 active blogs.
Iran:Free Haleh Esfandiari
Dr. Haleh Esfandiari is the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. She is a 67-year-old Iranian-American who came to the US over 25 years ago.In early May, Dr. Esfandiari received a call from the ministry suggesting she “cooperate” (i.e.,...
Iran:Free Places for Lebanese Publishers
Ghomar Asheghnaeh[Fa] has published several interesting photos of International Book Fair in Tehran. The blogger says some Lebanese publishers were offered free places by Iranian authorities.He adds in this Book Fair there were no place to sit down or rest.
Iran:Life is Insecure
Ester,an Iran based blogger, wrote in MidEast Youth that “the [Iranian] law is invasive and vague, which is why it is so easy to break. As one friend says, “The law is so arbitrary that you can become an activist quite by accident.” The very ease of breaking the law...
Interview with Pendar Yousefi: Blogger, Designer and Google Bomber
Pendar Yousefi is a blogger, designer, cartoonist and Google bomber. He has always been very creative in his designs and ideas and his works have been displayed in several magazines. We see here one of his designs: Xerxes King in an American comisc style. I recently interviewed Pendar about his blog Lego Fish, his various projects, and Iranian blogs.
Iraq: A Second Adhamiya Wall
A second wall is being built around Adhamiya, in Baghdad, Iraq, announces Iraqi blogger Ladybird. “This is a dream comes true to the Iranians, Ahdamiya right now and in this unusual circumstances is the last hold for the Sunnis in Baghdad Rasafa half , all this problems in Ahdamiya because...
Iran:Prisoner of Tehran
ZaneIrani writes about a new book:Prisoner of Tehran.The blogger talks about the story:”Marina Nemat was arrested on January 15, 1982, at about nine o'clock at night. She was sixteen. A prison guard named Ali had fallen in love with Nemat and used his father's connection to the Ayatollah to commute...
Iran:Calls to Execute the Father of Animation in Iran
According to Azarmehr, Baseej pressure groups have called for the 70 year old Nooredin Zarrin-kelk , the father of animation in Iran, to be executed. Zarrin-kelk is accused of having ridiculed a female student's chador, the head to toe Islamic cover, after she drew an angel with no hair. The...
