THE EYERANIANS

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the town of Iraan, on the way to the Big Bend National Park. Iraan is a small oil town in west Texas with population of 1200.  

August 23, 2008: the Iranian government hanged a man convicted of murder in the northeastern town of Bojnourd, a press report said. The man, only identified as Ali, was executed in a prison in North Khorasan province for killing his friend in 2005, the reformist Etemad newspaper said. (Sources: 7 Days, 24/08/2008) August 25, 2008: [...]

Associated Press is reporting that Abie Nathan, the Iranian born Israeli peace activist has died in Tel Aviv’s Ichilov hospital. In a 1996 interview with The Associated Press, Nathan said that during one of his prison hunger strikes, he was certain he was going to die. He bought a grave and a tombstone. When asked [...]

rooz – Nader Irani In an unprecedented measure, the Iranian judiciary froze a joint bank account that had been opened by three of the country’s most prominent movie directors and actors with the purpose of collecting money to pay the “Diye” (i.e. blood money) set for a man currently on the death row. The three [...]

Thats title of a recent Newsweek article about Iranian students. Forget Harvard—one of the world’s best undergraduate colleges is in Iran. By Afshin Molavi | NEWSWEEK   Published Aug 9, 2008 Aug. 18-25, 2008 issue In 2003, administrators at Stanford University‘s Electrical Engineering Department were startled when a group of foreign students aced the notoriously difficult [...]

On May Day this year in Iran, two brave women – Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi – participated in open celebrations of the international workers’ holiday. The regime considers this to be a crime and the women were arrested. They have just been sentenced to 15 lashes apiece, as well as four months in prison. [...]

Source: Charlotte Observer 

Michael Phelps’ diet – which involves ingesting 4,000 calories every time he sits down for a meal – resembles that of a reckless overeater rather than an Olympian. Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase “Breakfast of Champions” by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried [...]

Critical Mass is a monthly celebration of bicycles and other nonpolluting means of transportation by people exercising their right to the road. New York City’s first Critical Mass was in 1993. Below is video of the recent Critical Mass bike ride in New York. Note how much the police reports are different from what was [...]

“…Yaghoub Mehrnahad was executed on the morning of August 4, 2008, in Zahedan Central Prison. His only crime was the expression of his thoughts and his efforts to promote basic human rights to the deprived people of Baluchistan. His voice will never be silenced. We Iranian bloggers will put down our pens during a one [...]