Iranian Madness

I just stumbled into a great article that contains the testimony of a British-Greek journalist, Iason Athanasiadis, who got to spend some time in the dreaded Evin prison, of which most of the political dissidents have been a guest at some point in time.
His recounts of blindfolded interrogations, slaps and dark rooms without a bed [...]

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Chi non conosce Persepolis, il libro autobiografico a fumetti dell’autrice iraniana Marjane Satrapi?
Grazie all’ottima rivista Internazionale, possiamo leggere l’opinione dell’autrice in un articolo che spiega, tra le altre cose, la ragione che spinge gli iraniani a protestare, e ci fa pensare che la rivolta iraniana non abbia esaurito i suoi colpi.

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While Mirhossein Mousavi, having all but disappeared from the scene, is rumoured to be starting his own political party, we can only marvel at the masterpiece of diplomacy that the Iranian establishment have managed to achieve.
After centuries, if not millennia, of disagreement, tempered only partially by World War II and the common Nazi German [...]

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