From Iran today: Friday, September 18, 2009 Driving Through the Gauntlet: We left the village today, Qods Day, on our way back to the city. As we were leaving the city the Qods Day demonstrators were dispersing and returning home. Among the crowds were a number of boys in karate classes, all dressed in their [...]
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9/30/09 Today’s letter from Iran: Driving through the gauntlet
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Iran, First Hand Accounts from Shiraz, First Hand Accounts from Tehran, tagged Basij, Children, dress code, family, Iran update, Karate Class, morality police, mother, Ninja, Qod's day, Ramadan, religious school, school, summer recess, swine flu, women on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Short Tehran Update
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, tagged Iran update, police brutality, police intimidation on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Iran today: The mood here is strange, some depression, people will walk next week but they have warned that they will kill every one.
Short Tehran Letter, 9/8/2009
Posted in Emotional Impact - how we are surviving, First Hand Accounts from Tehran, tagged diaspora, family, hope, Iran update, love, togetherness on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a colorful and dramatic year to be had, as years go by the more amalgated and intertwined the world becomes and i feel each thing that we do a long distance away, even a word we say echoes on the other side.
It has been a very energetic year in deed and i have a feeling that the coming year will deliver the fruit.
7/28/2009 We are all one? I walked in the wrong march.
Posted in Events Outside Iran, First Hand Accounts from Tehran, tagged 2009, Evin Prison, flag wars, global community, global movement, green, green movement, hope, Iranian flag, July 25, monarchists, Mothers, Mousavi, Pahlavi, protests, solidarity, Street Tazohorat, toddlers, Torture, United4Iran, US Flag on July 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I pushed myself to be part of the solution to things that bothered me. Like, why do Iranian-Americans seem to have only two things to say during rallies? “Free Iran” and “United Nations, Iran needs you attention.” Actually, make that “United Eh-nations, Iran e-needs eh-your attensheyn.”
7/25/09 second airplane crash in 2 wks
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, tagged 17 dead, Airplane, Airplane crash, civil society, Iran, Iran update, management, sanctions, solution on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At some point, things just have to be managed. Regardless of the ideology of the manager, they just need to be managed. This is not okay. This is mismanagement, a global neglect of the Iranian people. The government creating such crazy brain-drain, and the world community deluding itself on the benefits of sanctions. We cannot [...]
7/20/09 Iran Update
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, tagged hope, Khatami, refurendum on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Former President Khatami calls for a refurendum on whether Ahmadinejad is the true president, with a neutral body to oversee the vote. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534002,00.html
7/17/2009 Hoping to influence you brave tweeters: No more Marg Bar
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, Uncategorized, tagged hope, life, Street Tazohorat, tazohorat, tehran update, twitter on July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Twitter is on fire right now. It is almost time for Friday prayer and people are gathering near the university, people all over the world are posting on twitter. If you are in Iran now, or at a rally, please: Do not shout Marg Bar [death to]! Be the future we want! Be life! Here [...]
7/16/09 Dust Wave
Posted in First Hand Accounts from Tehran, tagged breath, depression, dust storm, Iran air quality, Iraqq, restless, tehran times, tehran update, Youth on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Youth expressing boredom, restlessness, stuck inside the home because of a huge dust wave as well as worry for their safety outside.
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