by Sam Razi | Mar 21, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Business, Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Washington Post) | March 21, 2010 By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Foreign Service It might not seem that remarkable for a ragtag group of friends to come up with a computer game in a dusty back office. But the Iranian engineering students, programmers and fantasy...
by Sam Razi | Mar 21, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General, Must Read
(Mianeh) | March 19, 2010 Jafar Farshian They’re at the heart of resistance to the regime – but that doesn’t stop them from having fun. After a brief period of retreat from the outside world following the months of post- election protests, many middle-class...
by Sam Razi | Mar 17, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, From the Web, General
(CNN) | March 17, 2010 Reza Sayah Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Iranians marked a holiday that leads up to the Persian new year under the watchful eyes of police Tuesday night after the Islamic republic’s supreme leader tried to discourage the celebrations....
by Sam Razi | Mar 17, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Exclusive, Featured, General, Human Rights, Live, Must Read
This post contains video from Iran allegedly taken during the Nowruz Festival of Fire called Chahar Shanbe Soori. These videos are uploaded to the Internet after being filmed by people in the streets, most often with cell-phone video recorders. While I believe they...
by Sam Razi | Mar 17, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(BBC) | March 17, 2010 Iranian police say they have arrested 50 people during clashes between opposition supporters and police in Tehran during a new year festival. The Feast of Fire comes on the eve of the Persian new year, but religious leaders had told Iranians...
by Sam Razi | Mar 15, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(Huffington Post) | March 15, 2010 By Sahar Sepehri Traditional pre-Islamic celebration could be occasion for opposition protests. Iranian officials are warning the opposition not to turn an ancient fire festival this week into a protest against the government. The...
