Tag: Iran
The 47 Republican senators who last week went behind the government’s back to send a letter to Iran’s leadership did not commit treason, but they sure did something really, really dumb. The letter was an attempt to frighten their sworn enemy from entering a critical nuclear deal with the U.S. by warning Iranian leadership that […]
Dir. Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is gearing up for a European film festivals. The latest Farsi-language French-subtitled trailer is above. In case you too are beautifully lost, here’s its campy description from Sundance: Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, […]
It turns out Iran and small-town Colorado aren’t entirely different. According to the Associated Press, Iranian newspaper Etemad daily is reporting that students in the middle-eastern country may be taught to hunt drones in school. General Ali Fazli, acting commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’s Basij militia, said the anti-drone classes will be taught as a part of […]
City of Sound had self-produced and self-published a beautiful looking book featuring the work of fifteen young Iranian photographers, documenting the “interior life” of Iran. Not only does the photojournalistic book serve as counterpoint to the generalized, if not demonized media narrative surrounding Tehran and its people, it looks to be full of intimate, insightful […]
Iranian citizens are being assigned special government-issued email addresses, which Communications Minister Mohammad Hassan Nami says “must be used for electronic communication with government agencies” so “government interactions with the people will take place electronically.” Though 75% of Iranian citizens use the internet, they experience seemingly deliberately slow connection speeds, “obscenity” filters, various blocks, inability The relatively […]
Being shot into outer space seems to be the new fad for 2013. Coco Brown, a porn star, announced her intent to voyage into outer space in 2014 as part of a private Dutch expedition. A couple days later, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, claimed that he will volunteer as the first person sent into […]
