Editor: Myself

iranian website about women in english

Women in Iran is one of the most rare website running from inside Iran which provides English translation for its Farsi content as well.

rushdie not alone

Salman Rushdie: "In Iran, you don't even have to have cheeky thoughts about the prophet to be worthy of being killed." (NYTimes Registration required)

porn revenge

Rejected by a young girl, young geek made fake porn photos from her and spreaded them on the Net, along with her contact info. Her mother died because of that and she stopped going out, fearing of nagative re-actions of people. She brought him to trial.

another well-known author, journalist in Persian blogosphere

Behrouz Turani, a well-known iranian author, journalist has started blogging. He now lives in London.

iranian female bloggers meeting

Iranian female bloggers had a meeting yesterday in Tehran. They seem to have been a great time together, meeting each other by person. Unfortunately there is no report of the meeting in English, but I can quote from one of them: "Before, I used to chat only with boys, but now I mostly read other girl's weblogs."

death of "down with america" slogan in iran

Time's Azadeh Moaveni: "Victoria's Secret Tehran [which is a fake franchise, but the goods are authentic] is just the raciest manifestation of the growing popularity of American products in Iran. While elsewhere in the Middle East consumers are boycotting American goods to protest U.S. foreign policy, Iranians can't get enough of them. Coca-Cola's exports to Iran have increased nearly threefold this year. Toy stores are struggling to keep up with the growing demand for Barbie dolls."

help us, don't help our enemies please

Donald Rumsfeld's recent comments on Iran, has been his most true comment since Bush administration took power. (He said that U.S does not want to attack to Iran, for Iranian people will overthrow current Islamic regime soon.) But the fact is that any sort of these comments, especially those that trying to sympathize with reformists or ordinary people, could be abused by hard-liners. They are in a bad political situation and they seek a way to prove their opponents reformists (i.e. President Khatami and his allies) are being backed by U.S. (In leader's latest speech, he accuses reformists of trying to destroy the current regime, as U.S wishes)
For God's sake, don't comment on Iran like that if you really don't want hard-liners get out of their biggest crisis ever after Islamic revolution in 1979. Maybe that's why left wing of Bush admin. (Powell etc.) don't comment much about Iran.

Anniversary

Next week on Nov. 5, we celebrate the first anniversary of Persian blogging movement. Estimates show that there are about 10,000 Persian weblogs out there. They have all been made during the last year.