Fred Petrossian · December, 2006

Latest posts by Fred Petrossian from December, 2006

Student Protest, Election and USA-Iran Talks

  11 December 2006

According to the mainstream media and bloggers thousands of Iranian students demonstrated on the 6th of December in different Iranian universities around the country. The main slogan was “University is Alive”. University students and academics have gone through a very difficult time since last year. During this period some student...

Iran:A history behind a Pulitzer winner Photo

  5 December 2006

Kamangir writes about Iranian photographer Jahangir Razmi who took 70 pictures of an execution in Kurdistan on Aug. 27, 1979. One picture won the Pulitzer Prize.The blogger adds It was, however, awarded to an unnamed photographer – the only anonymous recipient in the 90-year history of the award.On his blog...

Iran:Prisoner of Colour

  4 December 2006

Pouya has presented on his blog, paintings of Derlara Darabi, a 20 year old girl, who has been in prison since she was 17. She was sentenced to death for confessing to a murder. Although she later stated her confession was false,this was not accepted by court.

Afghan Whispers:Marshall Plan,Drought and Herat

  2 December 2006

What Happened to Marshall Plan? Sanjar explains why a Marshall Plan for his country did not achieve its objectives. The blogger writes After the establishment of President Karzai’s government in Afghanistan there was talk of the need for implementation of a plan much like the Marshall Plan for post Second...

Iran:Blogs and Sites should be registered

  1 December 2006

Alpar has given a link to what he calls ridiculous law about sites and blogs. According to the new law [Fa], all sites and blogs should be registered in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.Sites and blogs will have no right to publish anything against Leader,Islamic regime and even...

Iran:Lurs protest against Cartoon

  1 December 2006

According to lorblog,several Lur students protested against a cartoon [Fa] which had been published in several magazines.According to the blogger,the cartoon made fun of Lur's traditional cloth.The blogger gave a link to several photos of student demonstartion in Khorramabad.