Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Western countries of stealing rain and plotting to cause drought in Iran by using high tech equipment to drain the clouds of raindrops. Unfortunately for him, a few moments after making this startling startling claim at the inauguration of a dam, it started to rain. Now I suppose he will claim he is being specifically …
NIMBY
The establishment in Iran came out in support of the recent Egyptian and Tunisian protests, describing them as an ‘Islamic awakening’ inspired by the Islamic Revolution. However, similar protests and opposition rallies in its own backyard are being described as ‘political moves’ and are being dealt with quite severely according to many reports.
Iran attacks octopus
Apparently, Paul the ‘psychic’ octopus is responsible for spreading western propaganda and superstition and is a symbol of decadence, decay and all that is wrong with the western world. That is according to the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the leader of a country that aspires to human perfection and bases itself upon the love of all sacred values. Whatever …
The Twitter Devolution
At the time of the unrest in Iran last year and the protests on the streets, much was said about the influence of social media site Twitter in events and the reporting of incidents. Many tweeters changed their base address to Tehran to try and confuse the authorities and the amount of information coming out of Iran was prodigious. But …
Is there anything the Chinese won’t counterfeit?
There was uproar in Iran the other day when Israeli oranges were found to be on sale in the country despite a ban on commercial dealings between the two states. One irate official even apparently went so far as to accuse the opposition of a ‘citrus plot’. However, it now turns out that the offending citrus fruit, marketed as ‘Jaffa …
An eye-for-an-eye
An Iranian woman, living in Spain, has welcomed the ruling of the courts in Tehran to award her ‘eye-for-an-eye’ justice against her assailant. In 2004, Ameneh Bahrami was blinded and badly disfigured after a man threw acid in her face because she rejected his proposal of marriage.
New Iranian car for women
When I saw the headline: ‘Iran unveils plan for women’s car’, my first and immediate vision was a nuclear powered vehicle with a curtain across the windscreen with a slit at the top. Nothing so dramatic, however. The Iranians are apparently planning to produce a vehicle especially for women with features which will include automatic transmission, parking and navigation aids …